Blog #15 Deconstructing America

This passage was pretty overwhelming and made me question some of my beliefs. I always thought that America was heading in the right direction by becoming more racially, ethnically, and religiously diverse, but according to Buchanan there are quite a few downsides to this.  The one that stood out most to me was the statement that "the greater the diversity, the greater the mistrust".  It's weird for me to think that in this day and age people only feel that they can truly trust those of their own race, I feel like that just disproves how far we have come and that we have been able to move past racism in the extreme sense that it used to be. And then what I found to be very interesting was the long list of all of the horrible events or laws in this country's past that all revolved around the subject of race. "Racial diversity has been the most polarizing issue among us" (469). The Civil War, Dred Scott, riots in L.A. about Rodney King, assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.; it was all about race. And Buchanan questions if whether opening up the United States to the whole world is a good idea because of how many issues this country has had regarding race. I sort of see his point but at the same time I disagree. I think it's good that we are becoming even more diverse and that no one race will be the majority. Yeah it'll take some getting used to, but eventually it could really benefit us and make us a more well rounded people.