THE DEATH OF THE WEST

The Death of the West by Patrick Buchanan

Abstract

This critical review of the book "The Death of West," purely highlights the main points discussed in this book by Buchanan. In this review I will discuss major multicultural and/or educational issues. I will discuss how history has changed our traditional concepts about civilisations and cultural conflicts. Additionally, the issues of migration and 9/11 are also explained by the author.

Introduction

In "The Death of the West," Buchanan calls readers to the barricades in order to mount a “cultural counterrevolution.” Rather sadly, however, he seems to accept his recent political defeat as proving the inevitability of everything he deplores. He settles by mourning our inevitable comeuppance. Pat Buchanan is comforting reading for liberals like this reviewer who are not so sure of our victory. Buchanan bases his book on birth-rate declines historically recorded and forecast by the UN. (Buchanan, 2002) These statistics show that all Europe (except for Muslim Albania), the United States, Russia, Japan, and the Antipodes do not give birth to replacements for citizens when they die. Buchanan claims that national success, even survival, depends on growing. Population declines lead to timidity, retreat, and eventual conquest by more thrusting peoples. (Buchanan, 2002)

Bold, powerful, and persuasive, "The Death of the West" details how a civilization, culture, and moral order are passing away and foresees a new world that has terrifying implications for our freedom, our faith, and the pre-eminence of American democracy. While considering towards the theme of "The Death of the West," we can say that the author gives us a summary of the "four clear and present dangers" that face America and the West. (Buchanan, 2002)

The first is a dying population. Second is the mass immigration of peoples of different colours, creeds, and cultures, changing the character of the West forever. The third is the rise to dominance of an anti-Western culture in the West, deeply hostile to its religions, traditions, and morality, which has already sundered the West. The fourth is the break-up of nations and the defection of ruling elites to a world government whose rise entails the end of nations. Let us consider these horribles in turn. (Buchanan, 2002)

Dying Population

This thesis has attracted most of the attention the book has received, though only two of ten chapters are devoted to it. In a world in which two generations have been raised to think of overpopulation as the greatest threat to human survival, the revelation that it is possible for societies to have too few children still has considerable novelty. (Buchanan, 2002) Nonetheless, it is true. The problem with the Social Security system, to take the most obvious example, is not federal fiscal practices or how the Trust Fund is invested; the problem is that there are fewer young people to support the growing percentage of old people. The implications go beyond the question of how the elderly are to be cared for, however. For a modern population to sustain itself, its women must produce ...