[MD] Evil "Multiculturalism" and Big Bad Hispanics

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Ian]
Cortez, Cortez, what a killer !

[Arlo]
Si, amigo.The funny thing is that opening sentence to the Preamble of 
the American Declaration of Independence is an homage to 
multiculturalism, as Pirsig points out in LILA.

"And yet, although Jefferson called this doctrine of social equality 
"self-evident," it is not at all self-evident. Scientific evidence 
and the social evidence of history indicate the opposite is 
self-evident. There is no "self-evidence" in European history that 
all men are created equal. There's no nation in Europe that doesn't 
trace its history to a time when it was "self-evident" that all men 
are created unequal. Jean Jacques Rousseau, who is sometimes given 
credit for this doctrine, certainly didn't get it from the history of 
Europe or Asia or Africa. He got it from the impact of the New World 
upon Europe and from contemplation of one particular kind of 
individual who lived in the New World, the person he called the 
"Noble Savage. The idea that "all men are created equal" is a gift to 
the world from the American Indian. Europeans who settled here only 
transmitted it as a doctrine that they sometimes followed and 
sometimes did not." (LILA)

Viva Multiculturalism!

Now I am going to go squeeze a lime into my Dos Equis Amber and wait 
for someone to tell me how my "individual liberty" is threatened or 
the collapse of America is imminent  as "our population becomes more 
Hispanic", and for the time being at least have one or two more 
slightly inappropriate thoughts about Salma Hayek.