Lawrence Auster

Lawrence Auster is the author of The Path to National Suicide: An Essay on Immigration and Multiculturalism and Huddled Cliches: Exposing the Fraudulent Arguments That Have Opened America’s Borders to the World. In the following viewpoint, Auster contends that mass immigration poses a significant threat to American culture. The influx of immigrants from non-Western nations is particularly dangerous, Auster writes, because the beliefs of these cultures often conflict with American values and customs. Moreover, Americans themselves contribute to the immigrant threat when they uphold the principle of nondiscrimination toward other cultures. Widely diverse cultures cannot coexist within the same borders, Auster maintains. Americans must come to see themselves as a distinct people and drastically reduce immigration if they wish to preserve their nation.

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1. In Auster’s view, what...