As experts have noted, assimilation is breaking down due to sustained high rates of immigration from Third World countries. Two other reasons are causing a halt to assimilation. One is an unexpected consequence of U.S. civil rights policy. These legal privileges were supposed to be temporary and, therefore, no lasting threat to equality in law. Getting rid of these temporary privileges is proving to be a massive struggle that may be lost.
Many American elites support differential group rights as a way of achieving equality of result.
The combination of civil rights and immigration policies has created a situation in which millions of immigrants, none of whom are victims of alleged past discrimination in the United States, find themselves privileged over native-born white Americans. A caste society is gradually emerging in which white Americans are second-class citizens. A country whose civil rights and immigration policies have produced a nation of adversaries with differential group rights and no common culture, and whose foreign policy is eliminating its ability to project power, will not continue to be a major player on the world scene. A Chinese warlord looking ahead 30 years could easily conclude that the United States will not be an obstacle. Would you like to see them add this columnist to their newspaper.