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发信人: gemini2012 (双子AB), 信区: USANews
标 题: 以史为鉴，diversity导致chaos
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Aug 25 10:01:40 2016, 美东)
Diversity: History's Pathway to Chaos
Victor Davis Hanson
Posted: Aug 25, 2016 12:01 AM
Emphasizing diversity has been the pitfall, not the strength, of nations
throughout history.
The Roman Empire worked as long as Iberians, Greeks, Jews, Gauls and myriad
other African, Asian and European communities spoke Latin, cherished habeas
corpus and saw being Roman as preferable to identifying with their own
particular tribe. By the fifth century, diversity had won out but would soon
prove a fatal liability.
Rome disintegrated when it became unable to assimilate new influxes of
northern European tribes. Newcomers had no intention of giving up their
Gothic, Hunnish or Vandal identities.
The propaganda of history's multicultural empires -- the Ottoman, the
Russian, the Austro-Hungarian, the British and the Soviet -- was never the
strength of their diversity. To avoid chaos, their governments bragged about
the religious, ideological or royal advantages of unity, not diversity.
Nor did more modern quagmires like Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Rwanda or
Yugoslavia boast that they were "diverse." Instead, their strongman leaders
naturally claimed that they shared an all-encompassing commonality.
When such coerced harmony failed, these nations suffered the even worse
consequences of diversity, as tribes and sects turned murderously upon each
other.
For some reason, contemporary America believes that it can reject its
uniquely successful melting pot to embrace a historically dangerous and
discredited salad-bowl separatism.
Is there any evidence from the past that institutionalizing sects and ethnic
grievances would ensure a nation's security, prosperity and freedom?
America's melting pot is history's sole exception of E pluribus unum
inclusivity: a successful multiracial society bound by a common culture,
language and values. But this is a historic aberration with a future that is
now in doubt.
Some students attending California's Claremont College openly demand
roommates of the same race. Racially segregated "safe spaces" are fixtures
on college campuses.
We speak casually of bloc voting on the basis of skin color -- as if a
lockstep Asian, Latino, black or white vote is a good thing.
We are reverting to the nihilism of the old Confederacy. The South's "one-
drop rule" has often been copied to assure employers or universities that
one qualifies as a minority.
Some public figures have sought to play up or invent diversity advantages.
Sometimes, as in the cases of Elizabeth Warren, Rachel Dolezal and Ward
Churchill, the result is farce.
Given our racial fixations, we may soon have to undergo computer scans of
our skin colors to rank competing claims of grievance.
How does one mete out the relative reparations for various atrocities of the
past, such as slavery, the Holocaust, the American Indian wars, the Asian
or Catholic exclusion laws, indentured servitude, or the mid-18th-century
belief that the Irish were not quite human?
Sanctuary cities, in the manner of 1850s Richmond or Charleston invoking
nullification, now openly declare themselves immune from federal law. Does
that defiance ensure every city the right to ignore whatever federal laws it
finds inconvenient, from the filing of 1040s to voting laws?
http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2016/08/25/diversity-historys-pathway-to-chaos-n2209576
发信人: gemini2012 (双子AB), 信区: USANews
标 题: 以史为鉴，diversity导致chaos
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Aug 25 10:01:40 2016, 美东)
Diversity: History's Pathway to Chaos
Victor Davis Hanson
Posted: Aug 25, 2016 12:01 AM
Emphasizing diversity has been the pitfall, not the strength, of nations
throughout history.
The Roman Empire worked as long as Iberians, Greeks, Jews, Gauls and myriad
other African, Asian and European communities spoke Latin, cherished habeas
corpus and saw being Roman as preferable to identifying with their own
particular tribe. By the fifth century, diversity had won out but would soon
prove a fatal liability.
Rome disintegrated when it became unable to assimilate new influxes of
northern European tribes. Newcomers had no intention of giving up their
Gothic, Hunnish or Vandal identities.
The propaganda of history's multicultural empires -- the Ottoman, the
Russian, the Austro-Hungarian, the British and the Soviet -- was never the
strength of their diversity. To avoid chaos, their governments bragged about
the religious, ideological or royal advantages of unity, not diversity.
Nor did more modern quagmires like Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Rwanda or
Yugoslavia boast that they were "diverse." Instead, their strongman leaders
naturally claimed that they shared an all-encompassing commonality.
When such coerced harmony failed, these nations suffered the even worse
consequences of diversity, as tribes and sects turned murderously upon each
other.
For some reason, contemporary America believes that it can reject its
uniquely successful melting pot to embrace a historically dangerous and
discredited salad-bowl separatism.
Is there any evidence from the past that institutionalizing sects and ethnic
grievances would ensure a nation's security, prosperity and freedom?
America's melting pot is history's sole exception of E pluribus unum
inclusivity: a successful multiracial society bound by a common culture,
language and values. But this is a historic aberration with a future that is
now in doubt.
Some students attending California's Claremont College openly demand
roommates of the same race. Racially segregated "safe spaces" are fixtures
on college campuses.
We speak casually of bloc voting on the basis of skin color -- as if a
lockstep Asian, Latino, black or white vote is a good thing.
We are reverting to the nihilism of the old Confederacy. The South's "one-
drop rule" has often been copied to assure employers or universities that
one qualifies as a minority.
Some public figures have sought to play up or invent diversity advantages.
Sometimes, as in the cases of Elizabeth Warren, Rachel Dolezal and Ward
Churchill, the result is farce.
Given our racial fixations, we may soon have to undergo computer scans of
our skin colors to rank competing claims of grievance.
How does one mete out the relative reparations for various atrocities of the
past, such as slavery, the Holocaust, the American Indian wars, the Asian
or Catholic exclusion laws, indentured servitude, or the mid-18th-century
belief that the Irish were not quite human?
Sanctuary cities, in the manner of 1850s Richmond or Charleston invoking
nullification, now openly declare themselves immune from federal law. Does
that defiance ensure every city the right to ignore whatever federal laws it
finds inconvenient, from the filing of 1040s to voting laws?
http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2016/08/25/diversity-historys-pathway-to-chaos-n2209576
