Europe Should Read “Mexifornia” to Understand Migrant Dilemma

mexiforniaClassics professor Victor Davis Hanson has written books on ancient European history, but it isn’t always easy for most people to assess relevance to the contemporary setting.

     Trouble is that fewer readers are around.  Even schools and universities now have reading-based writing assignments that would once have been considered shallow and watered down. One-sided television news is a poor substitute for keeping oneself informed.

      Watching Europeans and Americans deal with the European migrant influx reminds us of how confused and helpless and frustrated our collective response has become.  Hanson’s Mexifornia: A State of Becoming (2003) discusses how unparalleled Mexican immigration is changing California almost beyond recognition with people whose identities don’t fit the “Ellis Island type” immigrants of the past.  Geography is the key. Hanson is more relevant than ever.

     Both Mexico and Syria are funnels for people from adjacent Third World nations who migrate northward in search of a better life.  The distance from Central America or the Middle East isn’t that far to the new Promised Land.  Back-and-forth contact between those in America or Europe and relatives back home is quite fluid.  There is little need to assimilate.

Unknown      Hanson points out that “A Mexican in California senses that if he fails to integrate into mainstream American society, there will always be thousands more newcomers like himself who will know almost nothing about the United States, and thus by sheer numbers join him in a viable expatriate culture.”

      In contrast, the Ellis Island immigrants were separated by thousands of miles of ocean, virtually cutting the Old World off from the New World.  Hanson says that “An Italian or a Jew knew that if he did not learn English and the American system, he was going to be left behind as his peers pressed ahead.”

      Muslims in Europe practice self-segregation just as other people do who must make-do as strangers and outsiders in the dominant culture.  Mexicans at least have a similar Christian heritage as Americans, but Muslim migrants bring an Islamic culture that isn’t even close.  Muslims are programmed in advance to reject the Satanic and secularized West, waiting for marriage contracts to be arranged by those back home.

     Hanson also finds that Americans and Europeans are welcoming immigrants for the wrong reason:  to avoid jobs that are too hard and demeaning.  “There are thousands of idle American teenagers at the mall every summer; others are lounging on the couch, while some are hard at work in computer camp,” he says.  “There is something deeply ingrained now in American character that Josh should not spend June and July in a chicken-packing plant.  Nor must Nicole be sewing casual wear between spring and fall semesters as a temporary seamstress in a garment sweat shop.”

      Liberals in Europe and America are actually making assimilation less likely because of increased class separation, almost rivaling the US plantation South.  Positive spins excuse bad behavior as a new form of moral toleration.  Not learning English is made easy by dual language initiatives. Aggressive attempts to maintain Mexican identity by immigrants with flags and other cultural symbols is welcomed as a wholesome boosting of self-esteem.

       Ironically, welfare programs keep immigrants dependent on federal government largesse even though the original work ethic is undermined.  The federal elite (the combined establishment of both parties) actually share a form of political symbiosis with the menial laboring class, with the Democratic Party currently enjoying almost unanimous blocks of protected voters.

         A sizable Fifth Column of disenfranchised citizens, however, means that the commonweal is unhealthy.  Let’s hope that the long run won’t hasten social disruption and violent revolution.
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