In Mortal Danger, by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R, CO): on Civil Rights

Hyphenated-Americans balkanize our society

I am concerned that we are doing things that will pull us apart and separate us into exclusionary groups both as individuals and as enemies. Some people say that America’s diversity is strength. While there are positive aspects of diversity, there are times when diversity is emphasized to the extreme and becomes a negative and divisive factor. When we are pulled apart and divided along ethnic lines--as opposed to ideological lines--I fear we are causing long-term damage to our society.

Cult of multiculturalism destructive to western civilization

The cult has been transformed from a rather benign philosophy of teaching an appreciation and a tolerance of differences to a malignant one that degrades and debases our uniquely American culture as well as Western civilization in general. It teaches our children that there is no value to who we are and what our country has accomplished--except that WHATEVER we’ve done has been bad or has had a negative impact on the world.

We’re diversifying to death; promote AMERICAN culture

Oddly, while we seem uninterested in requiring immigrants to assimilate, we are going out of our way to require our own citizens to undergo “cultural diversity training” so we can better “understand” immigrant cultures. Instead of requiring immigrants to assimilate into our culture, we have required our own citizens to assimilate foreign cultures at the expense of our own.

I’m not asking immigrants to leave their ethnicity at our borders. What I am saying us we, as Americans, have to demand immigrants do what they supposedly came here to do: become Americans!

The very first thing we must do is recognize our uniquely American culture--language, religious freedom, values, beliefs--and promote them above all others.