Conservatism & Multiculturalism
Conservatism is often associated with nostalgia. We are a nation of immigrants. Even our First Nation's people crossed the Bearing Sea/land bridge to North America. Our nation owes our rich culture to immigrants from around the world. In one respect all of our immigrants saw America as an opportunity the be free and free to carve a new stamp of culture and entrepreneurship that enabled America to be forward looking and not bound by centuries of "conserving' the cultures of the past. It is the mistaken "conservative" view of culture that has impeded the success of people not considered to be Americans that has left some cultures behind and unable to generate generational wealth. It's easy for the majority population to blame poverty on the people living in poverty. Only targeted groups in our population follow this pattern, while other immigrants continue to succeed and add to our economy (the richest in the world). "Conservatives" object to