PAT BUCHANAN --WRONG! WATCH: Rod Dreher on NRO deflates Death Of The West . Dreher's main point is Pat seems to think Latin America isn't part of Western civilization, which it clearly is. What I found interesting in that article is Dreher adding Japan to the developed world, which it obviously is a part of. Unlike the rest of the developed world, Japan to my knowledge does not have much of a history of immigration, which is a large part of our American economic engine. Maybe the weirdo Japanese racial-purity ideals and the subsequent immigrant fear are another reason why they aren't getting out of recession anytime soon.

One more Dreher tidbit:

Still, France's birth rate remains below replacement level, and perhaps 10 percent of its population comes from African and Arab countries, whose migrants have relatively high birthrates (and, worrisomely, have proven strongly resistant to assimilation, even over two or three generations).

Do American African and Arab communities have a similar tendency to not assimilate? I never noticed one.