To:    vanessa@bbc.co.uk (Vanessa Feltz Show, BBC Radio London)
Re:    
A call for desegregation as Britain adopts America's "melting pot" ideology
Date:  Thursday 12 September 06

 
In response to Vanessa Feltz call for responses to the suggestion that measures be taken to "desegregate" London's schools.
 
At a racially and culturally mixed school, what you have is a hot "melting pot" which will accelerate the dissolution and disappearance of racial and cultural differences in the larger "melting pot" of multi-racial/multi-cultural society that is now London.
 
If that is what you want, desegregation is a great idea. But not everyone does. Some of us, at least, want to retain and cultivate our own racial, cultural and historical differences and identities. We do not want to dissolve into the melting pot of a concocted and thoroughly superficial sense of "Britishness" so that government, the media  and other vested interests can continue to manipulate and exploit us. If you will excuse my oversimplification; it is much more complicated, I know, and far less clear cut than just being a matter of "us" and "them".
 
At the moment, those amongst the native population who don't want it are kept quiet by the fear of being accused of "racism" - a subtle and remarkably effective form or tyranny that one would hardly have thought possible in our supposedly so enlightened, free and democratic times.
 
The idea (or rather, ideology) of the "melting pot" of multi-racial/multi-cultural society has been imported, like so much else, from America, where conditions are very different to Europe. The original American "melting pot" was of European immigrants (Englishmen, Frenchmen, Irishmen, Germans, Italians, Jews, Poles, Russians etc.) and it worked very well (notwithstanding the loss of much linguistic and cultural diversity), because ethnically they were all very similar (barely distinguishable) and shared a great deal of European history and culture, including the Judeo-Christian religion. The same "melting pot" ideology was then applied to all immigrants, as well as to the "native American" population, irrespective of their ethnic, cultural and historical backgrounds, and, after a civil war and civil rights struggle, to African Americans as well.
 
However, with African Americans the American "melting pot" manifestly does not work (although officially no one will admit it), not least, because the majority of European Americans (and I suspect, Asian Americans too) don't want it to. Why? Not principally, as we are supposed to believe, because they are racists (some may be, but not the vast majority), but because mixing undermines the racial, cultural and historical identity that European Americans feel amongst themselves and with their relatives and ancestors in Europe.
 
If this sense of identity amongst European (or any other ethnic group of) Americans were allowed to develop and express itself, publicly at least, it would undermine national identity and unity, and with them, the American state and all the power structures and vested interests associated with it. So, despite its existence and importance, if a sense of European ethnic identity raises its head in public it is condemned as "racism". The myth of a common, overarching, ethnically irrelevant American identity is insisted upon, and woe betide anyone who dares question it.
 
The fundamental contradictions and failings (I call it MADNESS) of the "melting pot" are denied or ignored in the interests of "national unity" and those who profit from it, particularly in politics and the media, but also in business and the military. And with the media on board, it is very difficult indeed to oppose. Anyone who does is simply dismissed as a "racist".
 
Insanely, Western Europe (i.e. its political leaders and public opinion makers, driven by their economies' need for cheap labour, the harebrained, Christian/Marxist ideology of universalism, and perhaps the desire to occupy an imagined or politically opportune "moral high ground") has chosen, yet again, to follow America's example, allowing (often inviting) millions of immigrants into their already overpopulated countries for the purpose of creating a multi-racial/multi-cultural melting pot. Such MADNESS beggars belief, especially on the scale it has now reached in cities like London, but like other "insanities of normality" it goes, not unnoticed, but unrecognised for the madness it is, as we wrestle with and attempt to deny or rationalize the dire consequences as they press upon us more and more.

Referring to ethnic Europeans, as some do, as "stupid white men" is a bit of an understatement. We are dumb beyond belief - so maybe it is just as well if we do disappear into the melting pot of mixed racial and cultural homogeneity. But I cannot help feeling desparately sad at the thought and of losing that incredible diversity of native European peoples (even and including European Americans and Australians) to which I myself belong and with which I identify, not with ALL, but with a very large part of my heart.

 
 
 
 
 



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