Diversity

Arab Christians assimilate well into American culture.  Immigrants from most other nations and ethnicities, who are Christian also assimilate well.  Most other immigrants who continue to practice their native religions assimilate well.   They are normally well educated, they are smart, they have a great sense of humor and are hospitable.  If they are Christian, their religion gives them a bridge to Christian America.  If they are Hindu, Buddhist or other religions, they bridge the gap with their humanity, intelligence and humor. 

Assimilation is not ethnic or racial, it’s cultural.  Whoever moves to America will find it difficult unless they can assimilate.  Moslems who want to live in America, but wish to adhere to their faith to the point that they must separate themselves from us, will always feel separated.

Diversity doesn’t always work. 

Pakistan was created by the British, because the Moslems and Hindus couldn’t stop fighting over control of India.  Diversity ruined the Scandinavian countries as Moslems moved in and didn’t assimilate.  The same happened in England, France and much of Europe.  In Europe, their welfare states and political correctness did them in.  Their immigrants move directly into government subsidized housing in major capital cities with high cost of living and high unemployment.  This was neither smart nor kind.  Way too many non-assimilating Moslems occupy the ghettos of Europe’s largest cities.

Moslems

Very strict Moslems who only want their daughters to marry other Moslems or they are honor-bound to kill them would have been better off settling in a totally Moslem country.  Moslems who believe non-Moslems are infidels who must be converted or killed will find life short in America.

Some devout Moslem families will survive in America.  They must remain insular.  This works fairly well for Orthodox Jews.  Other Jews chose Reformed or less strict congregations, in part, to better assimilate.

Latino Americans

There is a divide in the Latino Americans.  Mexicans bear the brunt, being associated with illegal immigrants who do tend to form sub-culture communities in America, for some, because of their illegal status. We have appreciated their intelligence, diligence and skill as they built most of our structures over the past 20 years. 

Other Latinos haven’t had that much trouble.  They are from all the other South American Latino countries and territories.       

Black Americans

Angry black Americans are not eve liked by their families, but either are angry white Americans.  The smartest people I ever met or worked with were black.  Too many black Americans remain disenfranchised and unprepared.  I would like to send them all to private church-based schools, close to home, with proactive teachers.  That suggests the urgency for vouchers. 

The Disenfranchised

Runaway adolescents, whether rebellious or abused, sociopaths, who blame everyone but themselves, criminals and psychopaths going through the revolving doors of our prisons, deranged individuals who eventually murder innocent people and the alcoholic and drug addicted,  come in all shapes, sizes and colors.

The Unprepared

Those who are not the best spouses, not the best parents, not the best providers, not the best employees, not the best students and are incapable of self-support come in all shapes, sizes and colors.

Real Diversity

The divide exists between the disenfranchised and unprepared and the rest of us Americans.  Families and churches have always been the primary groups capable of saving those in trouble, when they are ready to be saved.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader