Dennis Prager Show - Dennis Speaks On How Our Culture is Deteriorating
Aired: 2021-06-26
Duration: 06:55


=== 50s Innocence vs. Twerking (02:12) ===

[00:00:00]  This has been a long time bumper.
[00:00:09]  We might retire it.
[00:00:11]  It's been a while.
[00:00:15]  You know what you should play for everybody at some point today?
[00:00:20]  Poetry in Motion.
[00:00:23]  It's a great 50s song about a guy talking about his girlfriend.
[00:00:27]  She is Poetry in Motion.
[00:00:31]  I'm telling you the innocence of 50s music.
[00:00:37]  versus the twerking of today is one way of seeing the deterioration of a culture.
[00:00:45]  Here it goes.
[00:01:03]  Here it goes.
[00:01:20]  Now, let me ask you all a question.
[00:01:22]  Am I idiosyncratic in finding this exceptionally happy music?
[00:01:26]  Right?
[00:01:27]  It's not idiosyncratic.
[00:01:28]  It's terrific.
[00:01:30]  Nothing I would change.
[00:01:41]  She doesn't need improvement.
[00:01:43]  I love it.
[00:01:44]  All right.
[00:01:45]  Just thought I'd share that with you, a little gift.
[00:01:54]  Classical music and 50s rock and roll, my two favorite genres.

=== Welcome Home, American? (04:57) ===

[00:01:58]  Not my only, there's some jazz like Take Five, which I consider Beethoven-esque in its greatness.
[00:02:05]  Back to this fascinating piece in The Atlantic by a man named Shadi Hamid.
[00:02:14]  Some of it thoughtful and some of it just...
[00:02:18]  The usual lines about the right.
[00:02:20]  But about America, he has interesting notions.
[00:02:24]  An American who moves to Germany, becomes fluent in German, etc., etc., etc., etc., is never really considered a German.
[00:02:33]  It's true about any European country.
[00:02:37]  But in America, if a German comes here, or for that matter, somebody from Japan, or somebody from Dahomey in West Africa, They're American.
[00:02:48]  We're unique.
[00:02:50]  We really believe you're American.
[00:02:52]  That's the point.
[00:02:53]  With this ethno-nationalism, blood-and-soil nonsense that this guy writes about, if he knew the truth about the right, he wouldn't be on the left.
[00:03:05]  But it's okay.
[00:03:06]  There is some important stuff here.
[00:03:11]  No one starts calling you German.
[00:03:14]  Many native-born Americans may live abroad for stretches, but few emigrate permanently.
[00:03:21]  Immigrants to America tend to become American.
[00:03:24]  Immigrants to other countries from America tend to stay American.
[00:03:30]  And he has a very touching little anecdote here.
[00:03:33]  The last time I came back to the United States after being abroad, the customs officer at Dulles Airport...
[00:03:40]  In Virginia, that's the Washington, D.C. big airport, glanced at my passport, looked at me and said, Welcome home.
[00:03:48]  Now, the guy, presumably with the name Shadi Hamid, looks Middle Eastern.
[00:03:52]  That's my assumption.
[00:03:54]  For my customs officer, it went without saying that the United States was my home.
[00:04:00]  That's correct.
[00:04:02]  It went without saying.
[00:04:04]  He wasn't white.
[00:04:06]  I'm not saying the officer.
[00:04:08]  I have no idea.
[00:04:09]  It doesn't matter.
[00:04:11]  Hamid wasn't.
[00:04:14]  In The Light of What We Know, a novel by the British Bangladeshi author Zia Haider Rahman, the protagonist, an enigmatic and troubled British citizen named Zafar, is envious of the narrator who is American.
[00:04:30]  Quote, If an immigration officer at Heathrow had ever said, Welcome home to me?
[00:04:37]  Zafar says, I would have given my life for England, for my country, there and then.
[00:04:43]  I could kill for an England like that.
[00:04:47]  That's right.
[00:04:48]  They don't say that to a person returning with a British passport.
[00:04:54]  Welcome home.
[00:04:56]  We do.
[00:04:59]  He makes another, oh yeah, yes, okay, there's a picture of that, so he does not look like a white man, correct.
[00:05:09]  But we don't care, because we're the least racist, we're the truly un-racist country in the world.
[00:05:18]  American is an American is an American.
[00:05:22]  The left is dividing us by race.
[00:05:25]  The left is evil.
[00:05:27]  Liberals can't...
[00:05:28]  Countenance that fact.
[00:05:30]  They still have to believe the right is.
[00:05:32]  Because they don't want to leave their comfort zone.
[00:05:37]  The left is destroying the last best hope of mankind.
[00:05:41]  Okay?
[00:05:42]  That's what they're doing.
[00:05:44]  That's what they want to do.
[00:05:45]  They think this country is a cesspool.
[00:05:47]  They think the West is a cesspool.
[00:05:50]  They're sick.
[00:05:51]  They're morally sick.
[00:05:53]  Welcome home, American.
[00:05:55]  Not welcome home, Swede.
[00:05:58]  Think of a black who has a Swedish passport.
[00:06:01]  Think that at Stockholm airport, they go, welcome home.
[00:06:06]  In fact, he writes here, notice we have the term un-American.
[00:06:11]  There's no term un-Swedish.
[00:06:13]  In fact, do you remember, I quoted this, the Swedish, former Swedish prime minister said, Swedish values?
[00:06:21]  What are Swedish values?
[00:06:25]  We're values-based.
[00:06:28]  Not ethnocentric based.
[00:06:34]  So that was some excerpts from that piece.
[00:06:40]  And I proceed to your calls here.
[00:06:48]  Veer, if that's your name, V-I-R, Beckley, West Virginia.
[00:06:54]  Hi.