Toward a Shared Identity

Another thought-provoking essay, this time on diversity, from Daniel Henninger, WSJ, via RCP. One interesting paragraph:

Here, too, Robert Putnam has a possible assimilation model. Hold onto your hat. It's Christian evangelical megachurches. "In many large evangelical congregations," he writes, "the participants constituted the largest thoroughly integrated gatherings we have ever witnessed." This, too, is an inconvenient truth. They do it with low entry barriers to the church and by offering lots of little groups to join inside the larger "shared identity" of the church. A Harvard prof finds good in evangelical megachurches. Send this man a suit of body armor!

Background on this from John Leo, CityJournal.

UPDATE: A few related articles on the limits of diversity and the liberal god multiculturalism:

Taxi Jihad in Vancouver

No Chips for You

No Lunch for You

Cleansing the ACLU

Earlier related posts: Forging an American Identity, Multiculti Trojan Horse