The Left has embraced a doctrine known as “multiculturalism,” the idea that all cultures are created equal and no culture is better than another. But this isn’t true — Western culture is clearly the best culture to emulate.
Author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza explains in PragerU’s latest video that novelist Saul Bellow was accused of racism for having the temerity to state: “Find me the Tolstoy of the Zulus, or the Proust of the Papuans, and I would be happy to read him.” President Trump was also accused of racism for saying in July that Western civilization embraces principles like “the rule of law and protect the right to free speech and free expression.”
It’s simply absurd to argue that either statement was racist.
“Are values such as innovation, rule of law, free expression and women’s empowerment equally held across all cultures?” said D’Souza. “If all cultures are equal, how does one account for the fact that, for the last 500 years, it has been one culture — the culture of the West, and now of America — that has shaped the world?”
The Left claims that Western civilization was built on “oppression,” citing colonialism and slavery. However, D’Souza points out that neither is “uniquely Western”:
The British conquered India and ruled it for 300 years. But before the British, the Persians, the Mongols, the Muslims, and Alexander the Great had done exactly same thing — conquered large parts of India.
Indeed, the British were the sixth or seventh colonial invader to occupy India.
As for slavery, it has existed in every culture. It was prevalent in ancient China, in ancient India, in Greece and Rome, and in Africa. American Indians practiced slavery long before Columbus set foot here.
D’Souza argued that what makes the West unique is how it has eradicated slavery as well as embraced “democracy, capitalism, and science.” The West is a powerhouse because “of its ideas and institutions.”
As for America, it is “a multi-ethnic society,” not one based on multiculturalism.
“I’m an immigrant from India. My wife is an immigrant from Venezuela,” said D’Souza. “Despite our differences of ethnic background, we have both assimilated to the unique values of America — the values embodied in our Constitution and our laws. The pursuit of happiness. The American Dream.”
These unique values have to be preserved and can’t be watered down by the multiculturalists.
The full video can be seen below: