Multi-Ethnicity Has Not Failed - Multi-Culturalism Has

Multi-Ethnicity Has Not Failed - Multi-Culturalism Has

America has always been a nation of immigrants—a multiethnic tapestry woven from people of every race, creed, and corner of the globe. This diversity of backgrounds, when united under a shared cultural foundation, has been one of the country’s greatest sources of vitality and renewal. What has historically made the American experiment work, however, is not the celebration of separate cultures existing side-by-side in perpetual autonomy, but the deliberate assimilation into a single, coherent national culture rooted in Judeo-Christian principles. The American culture.

A multiethnic society—people of different racial and ethnic origins living together as fellow citizens—is not only compatible with national success, it's often a marker of it.

The Roman Empire at its height was multiethnic. So were the peak years of the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and, most relevantly, the United States from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century. Waves of Irish, Italians, Germans, Poles, Jews, Chinese, Japanese, and others arrived speaking different languages and practicing different customs, yet they learned English, adopted American norms, and within a generation or two became indistinguishable from the existing citizenry in their core values and loyalties.

The result was not a bland homogeneity but a richer, more dynamic version of the same civilization. Italian-Americans kept their food and family traditions. Jewish-Americans retained a distinctive religious and intellectual heritage. African-Americans forged a profound musical and spiritual tradition out of unimaginable hardship.

Yet all of them saluted the same flag, obeyed the same laws, and understood themselves as part of a single national story whose moral vocabulary came from the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Enlightenment ideas those biblical foundations made possible.

Multiculturalism, by contrast, is the ideology that insists these separate cultures should be preserved indefinitely as parallel societies with equal public standing. It rejects the model of the melting pot in favor of a “salad bowl” or “mosaic” in which groups retain their distinct identities, languages, legal traditions, and even loyalties, even they are contrary to everything America is. Official multiculturalism—seen most clearly in Canada’s policy since 1971 and increasingly in American institutions—treats the host culture as merely one option among many, rather than the common property into which newcomers are invited.

The practical consequences are visible wherever the experiment has been tried at scale. Trust declines when people no longer share basic assumptions about right and wrong, authority, family, and the purpose of life. Crime rates, educational disparities, and political polarization rise when large groups do not accept the same rules of the game.

Parallel school systems, language balkanization, ethnic enclaves with their own unofficial courts, and identity-based political blocs are not signs of vibrant diversity; they are symptoms of a nation coming apart.

The culture that turned a continent of disjointed colonies into history’s most prosperous and free society was not generic “Western values” floating in the ether. It was a specific moral inheritance, the belief that every human being is created in the image of God and therefore possesses inalienable rights, that power must be restrained by law because man is fallen, that covenants—whether marriage, contract, or constitution—are sacred, that work, charity, and repentance are virtues, that objective truth exists and can be known through reason informed by revelation.

These ideas did not come from Confucius, the Qur’an, or secular utopianism. They came from Jerusalem and Athens, mediated through London and Philadelphia, and baptized in the revivals of the First and Second Great Awakenings. The abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, the civil-rights movement—all were argued in explicitly biblical terms by people who shared a common moral language. Even the secular left of the 20th century argued within a moral framework it inherited rather than invented.

When that common language is abandoned or relativized, the society has no shared basis for resolving disputes except raw power. Rights become preferences, laws become suggestions, and citizenship becomes a mere transaction rather than membership in a covenantal community.

A successful multiethnic America is not only possible, it is the America that already existed for most of our history. To this day millions of immigrants still seek a better life here.

The alternative—official multiculturalism—does not produce harmony. It produces Lebanon, Yugoslavia, or increasingly the nations of Western Europe, societies where ethnic and religious groups eye one another warily across widening divides, where public trust collapses, and where the state eventually resorts to coercion to keep the peace.

America can remain a beacon to the world precisely by remaining what it was meant to be: one nation, under God, indivisible—with liberty and justice for all who join it. The invitation is open to every race and people. The condition is simple and non-negotiable - become an American, heart and soul, in the civilization that made America worth joining in the first place. Or Don't Come!!!