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Marked in Pgh on Thursday, November 19, 2009 6:41:20 PM
"Diversity is our strength", like all other liberal tripe, is dangerous and deadly. To prove we believe in diversity, we allowed an obvious budding terrorist like Hasan to become Major Terrorist Hasan and let him kill thirteen people, fourteen if you count the baby being carried by the one pregnant victim. All this because no one wanted to be accused of being against diversity. The fact Hasan considered himslf first a Muslim and a Palestinian then an American, even though he was born here, is a violation of the design of naturalization of foreign born citizens, who are supposed to relinquish any previous affilliation when they become American citizens, let alone one born here. We are first and foremost Americans, regardless where our ancestors came from. That includes the acceptance of a commonality of language and culture.
Language, in particular, can be inclusive or exclusive. I'm personally offended when I see the choice of English or Spanish when it's offered on the screen of any ATM I am using to take out good old fashion American cash from my checking account. But the liberals say it's only fair, because there are so many Hispanics in America.
If you want to know my opinion on this idiocy, read my posting on La Raza, a racist organization and on my definition of "Hispanic". If you want to drive a liberal nuts, ask the moron to define the term "Hispanic". They won't be able to do so without losing their mind; what little mind they have in the first place. The fact is, the different "nationalities" involved in the socialist short hand term of "Hispanic" encapsulates anyone from Spaniards to Dominicans to Brazilians to Chileans to Charo to Chavez to Reberto Clemente to Poncho Villa. "But there's so many of them," the lib will whine.
Let them gripe, nag, complain and pontificate. There are far more people of "German" descent in our country, including myself, and though I like to irk liberals by saying "It's good to be German", I know "German" or "Germanic" can encapsulate anyone from Germans to Austrians to German Swiss (like the Amish or Andrew Wyeth) to most Scandinavians (except Finns and Laps) to even those errant Anglos, Saxons and Jutes commonly called "English" today.
When my German ancestors came here to America, they came to escape Europe and eventually became Americans and even participated directly in creating the definition and reality of America.
It was the errant "English" who gave us our common official language of English, as well as English culture and English Common Law, which is the basis of our judicial system, and the English tradition of representative legislative government law with the House of Commons in Parliament.
Being the freest nation in the world and the largest English speaking nation in the world is not a coincidence. One follows the other. "The English" had a better system than the Germans, than the Hispanics, the French, the Swedes, the Dutch or any other colonizing power or group of immigrants who came to what is now America. America, in fact, is an Italian name, and by extension, a Latin name. The definition of "America" and "American" came from our mutual accomplishments in this new, English speaking nation. You can be anyone, from anywhere, but when you come to live in America, you become an American, and that includes speaking the common language of America, English.
Our Latin derived name also calls up the danger of diversity taken to its extremes. The anciant Romans never spoke "Roman", they spoke Latin, the common language among several small city-states in the central region called Latium in what is now Italy, though the name "Italy" is derived from the Greek. The Romans and the Sabines both spoke Latin, but it was the Romans who had a better system of organization and citizenship within their republic who were able to subjugate the other Latins (after appropriating the Sabine women) and everyone else in the area; then turned them all into Romans and went on to complete the conquests of the Roman Republic, which morphed into a Latin speaking empire. That is, until speaking Latin was no longer required to become a Roman citizen and Roman citizenship became meaningless with the imposition of the Roman Emperors.
The Roman Empire fell, eventually, because being a member of all the nationalities and languages within the Empire became more important than the citizens considering themselves Romans or in using the common tongue of Latin, besides the idiocy of the emperors.
Only the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the middle of the fifth century AD (not CE, not PC), but the Eastern Roman Empire survived. However, in the Eastern Roman Empire, Greek had deeper roots as the common language since the time of Alender the Great, Ptolemy and Alexander's other successors. So the Empire turned into the Greek speaking Byzantine Empire. The peoples of the Western Roman Empire broke down into tribal and regional groups, many speaking languages of the so-called Latin or Romance Languages (having nothing to do with Romance, but with deviations of the Roman's Latin language).
The irony now is, liberals are using our common English language to push the "diversity" of adopting one of those "Latin" languages (Spanish) as America's second language. If Latin wasn't good enough for staying the "common language" imposed upon the truly diverse Roman World; why should its derivative Spanish be successful as the imposed second language upon the largest English speaking nation in the world? English, with over 600,000 words, is the most inclusive and yet destinctive language in the world. It is the now the common, international language of the world. Spanish is second. Mandarine Chines is third, even though the Chinese Communist government is imposing its own bureaucratic Mandarine Chinese upon the other "Chinese Family Languages", like Cantonese or Hunan, or even unrelated languages like Tibetan in the largest country in the world by population. If diversity of language is not acceptable in an historically, linguistically diverse nation like Red China; why should we diversify into a second or third langauge in the historically, linguistically uniform English speaking nation of America?
It's all liberal double speak, double think. English language, English culture, English tradition, English Common and English Legislative Law and sense of freedom are our strength, not diversity. They are the very things that hold us together and alows to communicate and understand each other. This is America, not the Tower of Babel.