America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (Hardcover)
Mark Steyn / Regnery Pub / 2006년 10월
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The author advocates politically incorrect measures regarding, in particular, concessions to Islam in the name of multiculturalism. When a terrorist explodes a skyscraper in your capital city, for example, the first reaction of your politicians is to visit one of the biggest mosques in the city and affirm that they don’t think the terror is related to Islam. Politicians in the western societies appear to be under an obsession they should not incite perverseness among Islamists. The author also warns of “womanization” of western politics, psychologically and even physically.

This has been exacerbated by ever lower fertility rates among western societies. As combined with much higher fertility rates among Islam populations, these demographic tendencies are having Western Europe supplanted by Islam populations. Western societies, who hardly checked Islam’s advancement in the 8th century, are now willing to hand over their strongholds.

This is one of the conservative standpoints about multiculturalism. The author is very tough and frankly admits he is a Republican. At the end of the book, he offers some suggestions to reverse current situations, to which I never want to agree. He, as a citizen of the West, may have felt obliged to save the western world being threatened by Islam. To Koreans the Islamist threats are not as severe as in the western societies. As the irreversible globalization develops much more, however, lots of Koreans might agree to the author’s cultural “conservatism.”


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