From the Chinese perspective, the United States used to be a strong society that the Chinese respected when it was unicultural, defined by the centrality of Anglo-ÂProtestant culture at the core of American national identity aligned with the political ideology of liberalism, the rule of law, and free market capitalism. The Chinese see multiculturalism as a sickness that has overtaken the United States, and a component of U.S. decline.
National Cohesion and Cultural Identity
The idea that a society's strength depends on a shared unifying culture, and that multiculturalism may erode national identity and power.