The politics of multiculturalism pose an existential threat to western civilization

Multiculturalism threatens the very notion of what America is supposed to be. The term melting pot is often used to describe America and in fact was a term that was used just at the beginning of America's independance. The tradition and notion of melting pot was a part of America's culltural identity and tradition. J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur wrote in 1782: "whence came all these people? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes... What, then, is the American, this new man? He is either an European or the descendant of an European; hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. . . . The Americans were once scattered all over Europe; here they are incorporated into one of the finest systems of population which has ever appeared." https://en.wikipedia.org...We have an element in our society who is looking to disrupt our national identity, who wishes to take the melting pot philosophy that is so great and binds us together and replace it with a sald bowl philosophy. A melting pot culture allows us to be accepting of each other rather then mere tolerance as multiculturalism would have us According to google define, this is what the word civilization means: "the society, culture, and way of life of a particular area." https://www.google.com...We know this is the correct definition because it is the only one that mentions a specific area, and the debate title has the qualification "Western". If multiculturalism (Salad Bowl) movement is destroying the melting pot culture than, I have affirmed the resolution. Robert Putnam Recent studies have actually shown that multicultural communities are worse off than segregated communities.Here are excerpts from an article discussing the results of 1 such study."But a massive new study, based on detailed interviews of nearly 30,000 people across America, has concluded just the opposite. Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam -- famous for "Bowling Alone," his 2000 book on declining civic engagement -- has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings."http://www.boston.com...By further reading the article you'll see it discusses people hunkering down and being distrusting of their neighbors in multicultural communities. If multiculturalism is having this effect on people it is significantly altering (destroy their previous) way of life and it affirms the resolution. Putman's study alone is enough to also win me this debate.Cultural MarxismWe all know that Capitalism is good and communism is bad. We've seen it, with the rise of capitalist countries and the fall of communist ones most notably communist Russia. We can also look at the economic freedom index that ranks countries on economic freedom. The countries which are most capitalistic are at top, and the countries which have centralized communist style economies are at the bottom. The top includes the western countries mentioned in this debate while the bottom mentions communist countries like Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba and Iran. http://www.heritage.org...Even if we ignore the history of free economies vs controlled ones we can see that free ones excel while controlled ones failed taking society with it, by looking at the economic freedom index and seein the obvious correlation between free countries and wealth and controlled economies and poverty. The free countries are mostly Western countries, while the least free is non Western countries. If they assimilate they might take on our values of freeddom, but in a multicultural society they will keep their anti economic freedom values. The polls in Western countries bear this out as immigrants make it harder and harder for the party that is pro economic freedom in their respective countries harder to win public office. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com...So the sae values that destroyed the countries these people are running away from are being shoved down the throat of free societies, and the results are predictable. They always end up the same, whether it be the collapse of the USSR, Cuba, Venezuela or North Korea. If we create the same policies as them, we will see the same results. This is the actual intent of multi culturalism as well. Once marxism failed and destroyed other countries, marxists started theorizing as to why it didn't succeed. Common sense tells us it failed because the policies were horrible, but they ended up blaming it on the conservative christian element in Western societies and devised a strategy for attacking that culture. The plan mostly involved creating a multi cultural society to replace the melting pot. The plan was called the long march and the intellectual capital of this movement became known as the Frankfurt school, which churns out theories that soon get gobbled up by the media as well as academia which are sympathetic to them. According to theamericanthinker: "The primary goal of the Frankfurt School was to translate Marxism from economic terms into cultural terms. It would provide the ideas on which to base a new political theory of revoltuion based on culture, harnessing new oppressed groups for the faithless proletariat. Smashing religion, morals, It would also build a constituency among academics, who could build careers studying and writing about the new oppression. Toward this end, Marcuse-who favored polymorphous perversion-expanded the ranks of Gramsci's new proletariat by including homosexuals, lesbians, and transsexuals. Into this was spliced Lukacs radical sex education and cultural terrorism tactics. Gramsci's ‘long march' was added to the mix, and then all of this was wedded to Freudian psychoanalysis and psychological conditioning techniques. The end product was Cultural Marxism, now known in the West as multiculturalism." http://www.americanthinker.com...;We can see that not only does multiculturalism accidentally destroy Western Civilization, it does so intentionally. StormfrontAccording to one poster on stormfront: "In language chillingly reminiscent of modern multiculturalists (4), the Emperor Claudius (A.D. 41–54) argued for the admittance of Gauls into the senate. By 193 Rome was ruled by a North African, Septimius Severus, who had learned Latin as a foreign language and was overtly hostile to Romans and Italians. In the fourth century Christianity, imported from Asia, would become the official religion of the Roman Empire. Christianity, a proxy religion of Jewry, inverted the exclusivistic values of Judaism and was partly a symptom and partly a cause of the erosion of Roman and Greek national consciousness. The national cause in ancient Italy was lost. When Rome finally fell, it was the Jews, not Romans or Greeks, who would survive with a viable race-political programme." https://www.stormfront.org...We can see that multiculturalism has a history of destroying civilizations, Rome being the most notable.