Happy Disunited 4th of July
       
       Diversity or Narcissism?
                
  “The cult of ethnicity … rejects the unifying vision of individuals from all nations melted into a new  race. Its underlying philosophy is that America is a not a nation of individuals at all but a nation of groups, that ethnicity is the defining experience for Americans, that ethnic ties are permanent and indelible, and that division into ethnic communities establishes the basic structure of American society and the basic meaning of American History.
   “The ethnic interpretation of American history … reverse the theory of America as one people – the theory that has thus far managed to keep American society whole.
   “The multi ethnic dogma abandons historic purposes, replacing assimilation by fragmentation, integration by separatism. It belittles unum and glorifies pluribus.
   “Watching ethnic conflict tear one nation after another apart, one  cannot look with complacency at proposals to divide distinct and immutable ethnic and racial communities, each taught to cherish its own apartness from the rest. One wonders: Will the center hold? Or will the melting pot give way to the Tower of babel?”
    Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The Disuniting of America – Reflections on a Multicultural Society.