Spectator's Journal / This New Nation of Immigrants
Wattenberg, Ben J.
wards into socialism even as we shout free markets and free enterprise. It may be t h a t I have been somewhat unjust by devoting so much space to Wolfe's political life and ignoring his often...
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...From 1820 to 1960, of the legal immigrants to the United States, 82 percent came from Europe...
...Look at some immigration numbers from selected countries comparing the whole decade of the fifties with the first nine years of the seventies...
...And in the 1970s, only 18 percent...
...From Haiti, 4,000 to 50,000...
...All this means a g r e a t deal to America...
...It may be t h a t I have been somewhat unjust by devoting so much space to Wolfe's political life and ignoring his often amusing and scholarly chapters on Diego Rivera, on Wolfe's adventures in revolutiontorn Spain in 1937, his devotion to Hispanic literature and his Cervantes studies, or his early life as a Jewish boy growing up in Brooklyn...
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...lying to others is relatively an exception...
...Every day more so, we Americans are from everywhere...
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...The figure for the seventies is calculated to be 4.3 million...
...American birth rates have shrunk so low that we are "below replacement," as are most of the other advanced industrialized nations...
...That would not happen without immigration...
...From Cuba, 79,000 to 251,000 From Ecuador, 10,000 to 44,000...
...But there are no powerful and influential nations that are not populous...
...This can be a short-term pl~enomenon, if sometimes a painful and tragic one...
...The number of immigrants from India went from 2,000 to 143,000...
...It will be a different country in the decades to come...
...But l a t e r immigrants weren't from England...
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...Since Day One of the USA, we have had a " s p e c i a l rela_tionship" with the English...
...Yet 26 of his 40 chapters are wholly political in content, and understandably more compelling...
...A rising black consciousness in America has changed our policies in Africa...
...But in the late 1960s, only 34 p e r c e n t of our immigrants came from Europe...
...he arrival of immigrants to this nation in these last two centuries has been one of the wondrous stories of humankind_ It will probably work out fine as yee change from a folk that comes from many places to a folk that comes from most places...
...And consider foreign policy...
...Not only have the proportions changed, the amounts have changed...
...We are well on the way to becoming the first truly universalist nation...
...From China and Hong Kong, 26,000 to 205,000...
...The moral of Wolfe's story is that of a man who, born with a deep sense of humanism and ethics, ignored the meaning of his own c h a r a c t e r to promote what he was sure would be a paradise on earth, one without war and poverty...
...Beyond that the numbers were Very smallB demographic drops in the ethnic ocean...
...And so today, because we have so many GreekAmericans, we have a problem when we want to send arms to Turkey...
...From Vietnam, 3,000 to 132,000...
...And because we have so many Jews, we support Israel with more vigor than any other nation does...
...Estimating the illegals, also mostly from Latin America and Asia, the totals could easily be doubled...
...But we were not--not re_allyifrom "everywhere...
...Because so many Americans came from England and because so much of our culture was English...
...We took in 2.5 million legal immigrants in the fifties and 3.3 million in the sixties...
...That has changed...
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...All this may turn out to yield a change in the n a t u r e of our nation that can profoundly affect our attitudes, our foreign policy, our economy, our domestic tranquility, and, indeed, our manifest destiny...
...What he ignored for a time and, perhaps, even for too long, was that it is not possible to be a Communist or other kind--if there is any other kind--of totalitarian and not lie to oneself...
...From Mexico, 300,000 to 583,000...
...It means that if we keep it up we will continue to grow as a country for a long time...
...In addition, there were some sizable numbers of Americans of Mexican descent and smaller pockets of Japanese and Chinese...
...What will the Vietnamese want...
...Now this wishing.not-to-see what one does see, this wishing to see as one sees, is almost the first condition for all those whoare party in any sense: of necessity, the party man becomes the liar . . . . Tile mad of faith is not free to have any conscience at all for questions of "true" and "untrue": to have integrity on thL~: point would at once destroy him...
...California is receiving too many Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipinos-and they don't speak Spanish...
...From Korea, 6,000 to 236,000...
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...Our new immigrants, in short, are not from where our earlier immigrants were from--Europe and Africa...
...Then there is the potential problem that so many Mexicans in t h e American Southwest could in the f u t u r e a g i t a t e for an "American Quebec" with all the a t t e n d a n t problems of bilingualism and biculturalism...
...The number of Filipino immigrants went from 19,000 to 312,000...
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...For openers, though, you could take the Cubans, the Koreans, the Vietnamese, and the Chinese and have a p r e t t y good chorus of anti-Communists...
...we are unique in the world because we come from all over the world...
...Who knows...
...It can cause problems and solve problems...
...Nietzsche once wrote: The most common lie is that which one lies to oneself...
...Of course, all this gets the State Department fi)lks upset...
...And the Chinese...
...We were, a r e , and will be a nation of immigrants and their descendants (with the possible exception of the 0.6 p e r c e n t of our population who are American Indians...
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...It is alleged that "immigrants take jobs awayfrbm native Americans...
...But, on balance, hardworking people c r e a t e wealth and jobs, for themselves and for the nation in which they live...
...Cons i d e r a few numbers to gain a flavor of w h a t ' s happening...
...So, we will be growing when Europe, the Soviet Union, and Japan will be diminishing in population...
...They are from the other places--Latin America and Asia...
...Wattenberg's bi-monthly United Feature Syndicate column...
...italits in original] [ I S P E C T A T O R'S J O U R N A L THIS NEW NATION OF IMMIGRANTS by Ben J. Wattenberg P a r t of the American folk mythology has been: "We are a nation of immigrants...
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...Where we were from was Europe (voluntarily) and Africa (involuntarily...
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...Every immigrant group u l t i m a t e l y has a claim on American diplomacy...
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Vol. 15 • February 1982 • No. 2
