“As Paris Burns” reads the headline…
We have seen 13 straight nights of riots, burned cars, torched train stations and random acts of violence – including shooting at police officers.
There are lessons in the horrific French Riots, and we had better pay attention here in the United States, lest we eventually face the same sort of problem.
There are those who would claim that the French issues are due to “disaffected” youth, racism and poverty.
They’d only be half-right.
France, along with other nations in Europe, have opened their doors to anyone who wants to come in from Islamic areas – no matter what their social status, their ability to earn a living, or their desire to get off their duffs, get educated, and assimilate into French Culture.
Instead, what France and other nations have done is hope to “buy off” Islamic Radicals by allowing Islamic folks into their nations
who have no desire or intention of integrating into their society, instead allowing them to keep their language, culture, and social structures APART from the nation into which they are immigrating.This is a recipe for disaster.
All nations must defend their borders, language and culture. If they fail to do so, then you get exactly what is happening in France. Why? Because over time without the desire of immigrants to blend themselves into the language and culture of the nation to which they move you wind up with ethnic minorities who are unwilling to be a part of the economic and social structure of that nation.
This leads to the next generation born being raised in an environment of dependence and filled with hatred – both intentionally and unintentionally – as they see what they perceive as bias against them and those like them –
even though the root of the problem is that their parents have refused to assimilate into the culture of the nation to which they immigrated, and by doing so have harmed their children’s equality of opportunity.
The result is radically elevated levels of poverty and unemployment, resentment, and, ultimately, violence.
The United States has the beginnings of the same issues right here at home.
200 years ago, we were a nation almost entirely composed of immigrants. 100 years ago, we welcomed immigrants with open arms. Those immigrants, almost without fail, adapted by learning English, putting their nose the grindstone, and instead of forming enclaves of isolated people “just like them”, integrated into the nation and community.
Now, we have large groups of immigrants insisting on using their own language rather than English, forming into enclaves on “their” side of the tracks, and, increasingly, refusing to work hard on a personal level to integrate into society, instead demanding – and in many cases getting – government handouts.
We are nowhere near where France is today. But we could get there, if we’re not careful, and if this sort of thing happens here we will have only ourselves to blame for it, because we will have permitted unbridled immigration by people who have no commitment to be
Americans – not Mexicans (or Cubans, or any other nationality) living in America..
