We have quite a few natives in Alaska. When they live in an area where there are jobs, (not in some bush village) vast majority are very decent, respectable people. Still natives do not think like say white people. Many cultural differences; some good (sharing, respect for the land, ect) and some bad (rampant alcoholism/drug abuse, child abuse ect). Not uncommon to see sexual child abuse rates of 60-70% in bush villages, as strange as it may seem, it is cultural in nature; been practiced for hundreds of years. Now not all natives are child abusers, but its way off the scale in comparison to whites. It also continues from generation to generation; very prevalent in some families as it is learned and sad to say culturally accepted.
I confronted the father about this aspect of their culture and he became very somber and did not have any good answers; as deep inside he also knew the truth.
The point is we often paint a biased picture of other cultures from either our culture's value system (which is human nature) or to achieve a social/political end (thank you politicians, we elect them and they set the standards) When the latter occurs how does that benefit anyone in America?
The children will only injest it if you are not helping them with their homework. Go over every little bit of it each night with them. You owe it to them, if you think things at the school are getting out of hand, drag the kids out of it and school them yourself.
My dear, I am a 45-year old Mexican American and I am appalled at this multicultural deconstruction of my nation.
Monday was Columbus Day, but as I had predicted, no mention was made in my daughter's school. And it is a fact that you would get the impression that America is 80% black and hispanic. My question is: Why do European-American school principals and teachers so energetically pass on this fictional view of America? I've often felt that I would subvert the curriculum every chance I got with things like facts, truths, Western civilization, and the Judeo-Christian God.
The final straw was when this same reader featured an Aesop's fable with a little bio on Aesop at the end of it, in which I discovered, to my surprise, that Aesop was an African storyteller. And all these years (preceding the PC era) I was led to believe that he was a Greek.
Now we're homeschooling and never going back.
Multiculturalism is a disease.
What's really sad is that these representations may not be that far off in many parts of the US. At my school (San Diego State), there are far more "minorities" than whites. This is true of almost any school or workplace nowdays, thanks to "equal opportunity" programs.
Equal opportunity = more freebies to anyone who is not white.
Equal opportunity = discrimination against whites.
I have found very few scholarships available to low-middle class white males, even with a 3.9 GPA. I have to work to pay for school. Because I work, I have to pay taxes. My tax dollars are being given to any non-white person that asks for it, regardless of their performance. I am essentially working to pay for my schooling and theirs as well. Those who are getting a free ride on my taxes do not pay into the system at all.
Something stinks about "equal opportunity".
(And see Destroying Cultural Continuity and The Battle Over Patterns Of Personal Identification.
William Flax
It's funny how I misspelled write. I proofread the article, and I did not pick up on the error. However, when you're very tired you're prone to mistakes.
For example, I recently subbed a class, and part of the daily schedule was for the students to attend an assembly in the school cafeteria. So, I took the students down to the cafeteria for their "Character" Assembly.
Upon arriving, I thought, "Hey, maybe this is a good thing". Afterall, displayed on cards throughout the cafeteria were the words, "Respect", "Responsibility", etc. I must say, though, they did have words such as "Tolerance" and "Compassion" up. Howeve, despite it making me a little wary, it didn't make me suspect it too much.
As the third grade students began to start their performance (they were the ones involved in the "character assembly", I quickly realized that it was merely another attempt to force Leftist idealism and PC dogma onto the young children of America. For example, the children started singing about "behavior". The students were saying, "you can't tell me what to do. I dictate my own behavior. I control my own thoughts. You have no right to tell me what to do." The point is, there wasn't a distinction made between parents and bad people. It gave the children the opinion that they don't have to do or say anything anyone says, including their parents.
Later on in the assembly, I realized that the performance was taking on a humanism nature. For example, the children started singing, "I dictate what I believe. What I know is fact, etc." Thus, in general it was saying that there are no absolutes. Fact is what you believe in your mind. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I saw a group of teachers over in the corner conversating, and I could only wonder what they were talking about.
There were many other examples of Leftist brainwashing, and if you were all there, you'd catch onto it rather fast. However, elementary school children are very vulnerable, and they soak up everything rather quickly. The socialist elite is seeking to brainwashing our children to their atheistic/multiculturalist/diversity ways. If only more parents knew what their children were being exposed to. The indoctrination is deep into the performances, textbooks, magazines, school curriculum, etc. It's a terrible thing, and I try to set the children straight about the truth.
Also, I have a sophomore and a 7th grader. In each of their History classes, they have only recently moved from the study of "Native Americans" (a misnomer for Indians) to the study of colonial America. In the case of my 7th grader, the "Native American" unit was a REVIEW of 5th and 6th grade social(ist)studies, so they've had this sufficiently beaten into them for three years now. My sophomore has been in school for so long (since mid-Aug) that his report card was mailed yesterday. That means, an entire quarter in American History was devoted to the study of "Native Americans". I'm so glad we're paying $5,600.00 a year for his education, I could cry.
State-run indocrination centers, posing as "schools," are a scourge on America. They have turned several generations of our children into uncritical adherents of the nanny state and devotees of cultural Marxism.
We need an all-private school system. Government should be kept out of education -- for reasons that by now are all too obvious.