Barack Obama’s Hawaii vacation should remind him that the divisive “multiculturalism” touted by his liberal colleagues is a fraud, with no connection to American realities. While the new president’s native state boasts a white population of only 24 percent, neither visitors nor natives could mistake its inescapably American identity.

Hawaiians follow American sports and entertainment, serve proudly in the U.S. military, participate enthusiastically in politics, and bear far more resemblance to mainlanders than to their old-country cousins in Asia or Polynesia. Far from living in separated ethnic enclaves, Hawaiians mingle and intermarry-more than a third of all new weddings on the island state are inter-racial. As Barack Obama’s own background attests, multi-ethnic doesn’t mean multi-cultural, and American values have nothing to do with skin color. We should affirm proud Americanism and the importance of assimilation, not the folly of race-based “diversity”.