British Prime Minister David Cameron horrified European elites when he recently proclaimed that multiculturalism has failed. The idea that all culturess are equal and that they can live happily side by side in one country is false. It just doesn’t work.

Certainly millennia of human civilization should be proof enough. But there are plenty of modern examples. Look at Iraq. Only a brutal dictatorship could prevent the explosive clash of Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish cultures. Once the dictatorship was gone, well, look what has happened.

And Prime Minister Cameron knows all too well that Britain can no longer ignore the danger of growing and competing cultures within its own borders-cultures that threaten British institutions and British national identity. This is especially relevant in Europe today because of the difficulty of assimilating Muslim immigrants.

The underlying reason for this is that culture reflects beliefs of the people. In fact, cultures are formed by those beliefs. For a society to survive it has to have one culture-a culture that enjoys the participation and contributions of all of its peoples.

Look at the United States. Our national motto is “e pluribus unum,” or “out of many, one.” Multiculturalism fails because it denies the need for the “one,” for unity, and in our case, for a shared commitment to the American creed: “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

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