This article quotes whiny French President and head surrender-monkey as saying that his country needs more “diversity” to quell the Muslim riots that have been going on in his country for three weeks now. Sorry. He’s wrong. It’s this absurd liberal quest for “diversity” that is causing his problems. When people move into a country and absolutely refuse to assimilate, you are headed for disaster. Those Muslims in France (and yes, the vast majority of the rioters are Muslim) don’t want to be French. They want a Muslim state inside France. No amount of coddling or government “action” is going to change that. Well, unless the police are allowed to start shooting the rioters. That might change things, but “dialog” and combating “discrimination” aren’t going to help.
We are rapidly moving towards the same problem here in America, although here the problem is Mexicans, not Muslims. I live in the South. We have ever-growing pockets of Mexicans who will not learn English if their lives depended on it. And why should they? We as a country are bending over backwards to accommodate them so they don’t have to. Government forms in Spanish, driver’s license tests in Spanish, restaurant menus in Spanish. This is America, dammit. We speak English here. The Congress is too gutless to pass a law mandating English as our official language (though the French, the heroes of the left, mandate French), and we are rapidly losing our national identity.
In times past, people came to this country for opportunity. They came to America and immediately started trying to assimilate. That meant learning English. It didn’t mean abandoning their culture and heritage. It simply meant trying to fit in to their new country. That doesn’t happen any more. We have people who have lived in this country for 20 years and still can’t/won’t speak a word of English. That’s despicable, not something to be “celebrated.”
Last Friday I visited a local government elementary school. As I was walking through the halls, I was greeted at one point by an enormous banner which read “Celebrate Diversity.” Gag me. The motto of this country is “e pluribus unum” which means “out of many, one.” The idea of America as a “melting pot” is all but lost. We are so wrapped up in “celebrating our differences,” so worried about “offending” anyone that no one is willing to say that we need to get back to having a national identity. And you need to learn English to be a part of that identity.
ABSOLUTELY!!! I could not agree with you more. I have been saying this for a long time. If you live in America, then LEARN THE LANGUAGE! Do NOT have government forms (drivers license, etc) in multiple languages. Do NOT have street signs designed for non-English speaking people. If you can’t read the signs, then don’t drive. And these new residents should not be handed all of the free money that they are. More help and benefits are given to foreigners than to our own people, the people that are paying the taxes that are being handed over to them.