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And when you bring into that culture thousands or millions of people from other cultures who see their own cultures as superior, then that host culture really is in big trouble.

Lastly, when those new arrivals refuse to integrate, but instead spend their time warring against the host culture, declaring it to be evil and in need of replacement, then you know that culture is finished. We are now of course living through all this in the West. Places like England and Europe are in advanced stages of this self-immolation.

And overwhelmingly it has been brought about by allowing millions of Muslims into the West who have no desire to fit in, but instead are doing all they can to see the host countries being turned into Islamic hellholes, just like the ones they left.

Two American writers who have often spoken about such matters can here be briefly quoted. Thomas Sowell put it this way: “What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.”

And Mark Steyn said that multiculturalism “is a cult of tolerance in which you demonstrate your sensitivity to other cultures by being almost totally insensitive to your own.” And again: “Multiculturalism was the West’s last belief system. Its final set of values accorded all values equal value. Which is to say that it had no values—for, if all values have equal value, what’s the point?”

Consider Angela Merkel who was Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She allowed millions of migrants to come in, mainly from Muslim nations. But after some years of doing this, even she began to realise that the multi-culti experiment had been a big mistake. As I wrote in October of 2010:

Germany is a nation of 82 million people, including around 4 million Muslims, mostly from Turkey. The trouble is, for the most part they never did integrate very well. Indeed, many did not want to. And trouble has been brewing there for quite some time.

Thus Merkel declared on the weekend that multiculturalism has been one monumental failure. This is how the newsagency Reuters covered the story: “Germany’s attempt to create a multicultural society has ‘utterly failed,’ Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, adding fuel to a debate over immigration and Islam polarising her conservative camp.

“Speaking to a meeting of young members of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Merkel said allowing people of different cultural backgrounds to live side by side without integrating had not worked in a country that is home to some four million Muslims. ‘This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed,’ Merkel told the meeting in Potsdam, south of Berlin. 

The problem is, plenty of sensible and sane voices had been warning about this before, during and after all this out of control immigration was allowed to occur. In this regard let me feature two English greats who have both departed. They certainly sounded the alarm back then.