As promised, I am rebooting interviews under the title of the Real Resistance Podcast. First up is Professor Lawrence Mead. He is an expert on poverty and culture and has written a book about the need to assimilate immigrants (legal or otherwise), or American Culture could perish.
The book is titled Burdens of Freedom -Culture Differences and American Power.
Burdens of Freedom presents a new and radical interpretation of America and its challenges. The United States is an individualist society where most people seek to realize personal goals and values out in the world. This unusual, inner-driven culture was the chief reason why first Europe, then Britain, and finally America came to lead the world. But today, our deepest problems derive from groups and nations that reflect the more passive, deferential temperament of the non-West. The long-term poor and many immigrants have difficulties assimilating in America mainly because they are less inner-driven than the norm. Abroad, the United States faces challenges from Asia, which is collective-minded, and also from many poorly-governed countries in the developing world. The chief threat to American leadership is no longer foreign rivals like China but the decay of individualism within our own society.
Professor Mead also hosts the Poverty and Culture Podcast, and he volunteered to sit down for a chat about Immigration and culture.