How much of anti-Americanism is due to demographic changes worldwide?
We read in the press about France’s high Muslim population, as well as large Muslim immigration in Britain, Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia, Italy and elsewhere. Most of this immigration is non-assimilative and the Koran refers to gaining power through demographic changes. Hanson: The U.S., far better than Europe, assimilates immigrants for reasons that go back to our very founding. Thus in two or three generations Arab-Americans in Detroit are far more likely not to speak Arabic nor to see themselves as Muslims first and Americans second than is true in a class-bound, aristocratic, and former colonial Europe. But demography is a problem as a postmodern West shrinks, convinced the good life is too precious to waste on diapers and 3 AM feedings. If there is a clash of civilizations it lies in this domain the West acculturates and buries others with its extravagant menu of freedom and affluence, whether in the elevated sense of computers, classical music, and free literature or in the cras
