"Imperial Consciousness"

Allan Wall writes at the View From the Right (Wall has a series of articles on Mexico and immigration at Vdare, and here is his website):

You really got it right when you wrote:

But this is a result of the imperial consciousness I keep talking about. We really think (without putting it explicitly as I am doing here) that America is the only real polity on earth. All other polities are really just incomplete appendages of America, which haven't yet realized their "true" identity and destiny as appendages and members of the one true polity.

A corollary of said consciousness is that, since all other polities are simply "incomplete appendages of America," it follows that all their residents are simply incomplete Americans. Thus we have no right to stop their immigrating to the U.S. to become full-fledged Americans.

So this imperial consciousness, ironically, leads to the emptying out of a particular American identity and the ultimate extinction of America. If everybody's an American, then the term is meaningless.

I came to a similar conclusion, triggered by a 1950s French Bohemian dance skit with Arabic music on Saturday Night Live, that the colonization of France led to French imperialism - bigger than even Napoleon could have imagined, where turning Arabs into Frenchmen became the overriding mission. But Arab Muslims would have none of it. They were not about to give up their culture and religion, but were happy to take what the French had to give.

I wrote, about the SNL skit which cluelessly revels in this one-way "cultural exchange":

SNL is reproducing the French New Wave of the 1950s and 1960s in this act, replete with berets and juke boxes. Yet, Miley gyrates anachronistically to music (1) infused with Arabic rhythm and melody, which had no place in the French popular culture of that era.

But SNL's writers are partly correct. The first of a large wave of Muslim Arabs inundated France in the mid-1950s and 1960s, as French leaders needed their labor to help build up the French economy. This evolved into an acculturation process, to make them as "French" as possible to complete the colonization mission. The ensuing decades saw masses of these North Africans arriving in France even after their economical usefulness had expired. To make matters worse, acculturation didn't work, either in France or back in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and elsewhere. Immigrants wanted the comforts and luxuries they could acquire in France, but they were not so willing to give up their culture and religion.

Arab immigration into France started in the 1950s, and continued unabated for several decades. Now, France has to deal with a large and permanent population of virulent, anti-French, anti-Christian, anti-West Arab Muslims, with Mohammed's sword as their guiding hand.