Echoes of Albion: How the "Nation of Immigrants" Myth is Erasing Anglo Roots in America and Australia, By Charles Taylor (Florida)
Flickering in theimages of American Thinker's November 2025 dispatch, a clarion rings out: America, that fabled "shining city upon a hill," teeters on the brink not from external siege, but from the slow poison of unchecked diversity and immigration. "Diversity is where nations go to die;" the piece quotes Mark Steyn, a barb that slices through the platitudes of our multicultural catechism. The thesis is unsparing: what was once a republic forged by descendants of pre-Revolutionary Europeans and Africans, staunch in the ways of liberty, enterprise, and self-governance, now imports waves from third-world enclaves alien to those virtues, swelling the ranks of crime-ridden streets, homeless encampments, and a welfare state that fattens dependency while starving the soul. This isn't enrichment; it's erasure. And here's the rub, as the Bard might say: the siren song of "nation of immigrants" rings true today, perhaps, but rewind a mere few decades, and it's a lie peddled to anesthetise the loss of our true founding stock. America and Australia, twin heirs to the British crown's restless ambition, were not blank-slate melting pots but Anglo outposts, built on English law, language, and lineage, now fading fast under replacement immigration's tide. If we nationalists do not reclaim this heritage, the last best hope for Western man will dissolve into a babel of borrowed grievances.
Let's dispense with the myth first, for it is the opiate of the displaced. Yes, America (and Australia too) is a "nation of immigrants" — in 2025, with 45 million foreign-born souls comprising 13.7% of the populace, per Census whispers, and net migration flooding the gates like the Rio Grande in monsoon. Australia mirrors it: 30% born overseas, the highest in the OECD, a polyglot patchwork stitched from every corner of the globe. But this is the snapshot of now, not then. Peel back to 1960: America's foreign-born share languished at 5.4%, mostly European holdovers from the Ellis Island crest. Australia? Under the White Australia Policy — unapologetically Anglo-centric till its 1973 euthanasia — immigrants were 10% at most, overwhelmingly British, Irish, and kin from the Dominions. These were not rootless cosmopolitans but cultural colonists: English-speakers who planted Magna Carta's seeds in New World soil, who built institutions echoing Westminster and common law, not some utopian tabula rasa.
The institutions scream it: America's Constitution, cribbed from Locke and Montesquieu via English Enlightenment; Australia's federation, a federated echo of the Mother of Parliaments, complete with a Governor-General nodding to the Crown. Language? The King's English, unyielding, Shakespeare in the schools, Burke in the courts, not diluted by pidgins or apologies for "colonial" cadences. Even the accents lingered: the drawl of Dixie, the laconic twang of the Outback, both laced with Lancashire burrs and Cockney clips. This was no accident; it was inheritance. As the American Thinker laments, even in the 1990s, most U.S. citizens traced roots to pre-1776 arrivals, Europeans hardy enough to cross the Atlantic for freedom, not handouts. Australia's "Ten Pound Poms" of the 1950s-60s — working-class Brits lured by cheap fares — swelled Sydney and Melbourne with fish-and-chip shops and cricket pitches, not falafel stands and Friday prayers. The "last best hope" was British to its marrow: Protestant work ethic, habeas corpus, trial by jury — these weren't imported widgets but blood-deep reflexes.
But that was before the deluge, the "replacement immigration" that swapped kith for the unknown. America's Hart-Celler Act of 1965 cracked the dam, flooding the land with non-European streams; by 2025, Hispanics at 19%, Asians at 6%, and Muslims swelling to 1.5% (with projections to 2.1% by 2050, per Pew). Australia ditched White Australia for multiculturalism in the '70s, chasing cheap labour from Vietnam, India, China. Now, Indians outnumber Brits in new arrivals, with 2023-24 net migration hitting 400,000, mostly non-Anglo. The shift? Cataclysmic. Where once 80% of Americans identified as white and Protestant in 1960, it's 57% white alone today, with "non-Hispanic white" dipping below majority by 2045. Australia's Anglo-Celtic core? From 80% in 1971 to 52% in 2021, per ABS data; Melbourne's a Mandarin murmur, Perth's a Punjabi pulse. Institutions buckle: English-only ballots erode in California; Sharia councils shadow Sydney suburbs; affirmative action twists merit into a relic, echoing the Thinker's cry that we're breeding "bigger government and smaller citizens."
This isn't organic evolution; it's engineered obsolescence. The "melting pot" of yore demanded assimilation — learn the language, salute the flag, shed the old world's feuds. Now? Parallel societies flourish: Dearborn's Dearbornistan, Lakemba's little Lahore, where loyalty bends toward caliphate dreams over constitutional oaths. Crime follows: America's urban charnel houses, San Francisco's zombie hordes, Chicago's 700+ annual murders, trace spikes to unvetted inflows, per FBI stats. Australia's knife epidemics in Sydney's west, gang rapes — echoes of grooming scandals that polite society ignores. Dependency blooms: 60% of recent migrants on welfare in Oz, per CIS reports; America's remittances siphon $80 billion south yearly, draining the dynamo. And the language? Fractured — bilingual signage as "inclusion," but really a surrender, turning "E pluribus unum" into "out of many, a muddle."
From a conservative nationalist lens, this is treason by stealth: elites peddling "diversity" as virtue while their gated enclaves stay lily-white. The Thinker nails the binary: immigrants or citizens? Choose the former, and the nation "won't exist much longer." Australia, that sunburnt bastion of mateship and monarchy, faces the same: a PM who genuflects to Beijing while native sons queue for Centrelink. The British origin, that indomitable thread of rule of law, free markets, and frontier grit, is "fast going,"drowned in the multicultural morass. The "flower of our youth has wilted," the piece mourns, the liberty ship adrift in a sea of sloth and strife.
Yet despair is for the defeated; reclamation is our creed. Echo the Thinker's call: refuse the narrative. Get local — school boards, town halls — wrest control from the swamp-dwellers. Demand assimilation: English mandates, civic oaths, pauses on inflows till the queue clears. Prioritise the kin: points for Anglo-descended skilled migrants, not the world's ballast. Revive the canon: teach the Mayflower and the First Fleet, not as sins but as sagas. And truth-tell, consequences be damned, it's the "existential threat" to the liars, the freer for the rest.
America and Australia were not born immigrants; they were begotten British, baptised in the blood of pioneers who tamed wilderness with wit and will. The replacement tide rises, but dikes can be built. Rescue the last best hope — not as a bazaar for the globe's castoffs, but as a bulwark for the West's waning flame. The Anglo echo fades; let us amplify it, before silence swallows all!
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