If there is a cross that Indian Americans (along with Chinese and other Asians) have to bear in America, it is one of being a god damn model minority. Yet some conservatives are increasingly declaring Camp of Saints, a nativist dystopia penned by French novelist Jean Raspail, that depicts Indians as leprous and lecherous savages who’ll destroy Western civilization, as “prescient.”
But Raspail’s vile description of Indians is not the only thing that’s wrong with this book. Its fundamental premise—that fast-breeding non-Western races will obliterate Western civilization because liberalism has rendered the West defenseless against unarmed foreign “invaders”—is even more rotten, notes Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia.
So if conservatives want to raise worries about assimilation, she notes, they need to do so without referring to this odious tract. This book has nothing to do with assimilation and everything to do with maintaining Western racial and cultural purity, which is why it is a perennial cult classic among white supremacists.
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