Dick Lamm's Essay I Have A Plan To Destroy America

hunker down. We act like turtles. The effect of diversity is worse than had been imagined. And it’s not just we don’t trust people who are not like us”. Another critic Dick Lamm wrote in his essay “I Have a Plan to Destroy America”, “Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other-that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent”. Keeping aside these views of the critics, there is no denying of the fact that in the present day society ambivalence of different cultures is the need of the society. Only one thing we need to keep in mind is imbibing the best of other cultures and also retaining the best of indigenous culture. This aspect of assimilating and retaining the best from within cultures can be made possible by their interaction in multicultural society will lead to a richer cultural environment. Eventually, multiculturalism is living of the different races and cultures together in a harmonious way …show more content…
In botanical terms, hybridity refers to the genetic combination of one or two species to produce a third species having characteristics of both the species as Robert Young observes hybrid is “the offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar” (6). But during the last decade or so, the term has been used for contradicting the domination of Western identity politics by many theorists and now it is also used in relation to the culture. It is not only a subject of intellectual inquiry but also a critical tool through which cultures and identities are analyzed. It can be defined as a mode that ensures survival and renewal of multicultural conditions as defined by A. De Toro who calls hybridity “a paradigm, a condition of our time” (11). Thus, we can say, it is the meeting and mixing of the two cultures in one area where one influences the other and mirrors the modern society very