Our nation’s motto originally referred to the 13 states joining together, but it also points to the many strands of our population fusing into one people.
Multiculturalism is fundamentally anti-American because it is driven by the opposite impulse — to divide the American people into separate, legally defined and enforced tribes. Its motto would be Ex Uno Plures — Out of One, Many.
Let’s start with what multiculturalism isn’t. It’s not multiculturalism to celebrate the Lunar New Year or have spaghetti with seafood on Christmas Eve. Multiculturalism is not having a sweet-15 party — a quinceañera — for your daughter, or volunteering at the annual Scandinavian festival.
In a sprawling, open, and tolerant nation like ours, there’s plenty of room for private, voluntary subcultures, and not just those of immigrant origin, but also regional and religious subcultures, and those based on any number of shared interests. (Greetings, fellow Trekkies!)
Above the subcultures, there is an overarching common culture that Americans share, and preventing its development — or even reversing it — through government action is the defining characteristic of the ideology of multiculturalism.
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