“This is what happens when you import an ignorant class.”
WRONG!!
This is what happens when you NURTURE an ignorant class. The flood of European immigrants of the latter 1800s and early 1900s came to America to become AMERICANS.
Their culture was brought with them. Their traditions came with them. Their religion came with them. Cities, large and small had sections where the language was foreign as was the signs in businesses. Yet the “country” said to them, “YOU WILL BECOME AMERICANS.”
The children, Italian, German, Russian, Polish, Swedish and a melange of people from everywhere did indeed, in a generation become AMERICANS. They retained their history,foods, customs and religions but they retained them as AMERICANS.
The children in school were educated in ENGLISH, the language of the land. They were taught the history of the United States and taught to love the land. The children of lands that had been at war off and on for a thousand years got together and these immigrant boys and girls raised generations of AMERICANS. These newly minted AMERICANS went to and fought and won two world wars, and aided in building the greatest in history.
So, how are today’s youngsters “educated”? Teach them in a language other than the national tongue. Teach them to scorn the United Stats, its history, its traditions, its religions, and its very existence. The “education class” has become the most dangerous enemy of this country.
Rome went down, injured from within and the world entered the Dark Ages. History does indeed seem to repeat itself, doesn’t it? Whether you are “offended” or not, I don’t care, but GOD HELP THIS COUNTRY.
Interestingly, a good number of the immigrants and their descendants even fought against their fatherlands...they had become Americans first. The only groups which maintained a foreign allegiance seems to be the mid european socialists whom were more taken with their ideology then allegiance to any nation.
I have to agree. None of my grandparents ever went to high school. Both of my parents were homeless at one point in their youth. Both of my husband's parents were also homeless at one point in their youth. I'm pretty sure one of my grandfather's believed the moon was about five miles away from the earth.
Today I have a doctorate and I am successfully self employed. My husband has a B.S. and a good job. We have worked very hard, been dealt some bad luck, but we kept plowing through it. We never got any government assistance for anything, ever, and neither did our families. Our parents were all people who lived moral, mostly frugal lives, and were successfully middle class despite their roots.
Today I work with many people in the underclass. Some are hardworking and will be ok. Many live immoral lives and cause their own problems. Always with their hands out to the government. No reason to better themselves, no reason to bother learning anything.