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July 2, 2007

Is Our Children Indoctrinating?

by AltHippo @ 4:23 pm. Filed under Jingoism, wingnuttia

This from one of the vociferous youngsters at the Nest of Republicans Oncrack:

I was at a roundtable last week on Americanization and an interesting issue came up. We were talking about how schools no longer do much of a job of patriotically Americanizing anyone, American kids or immigrant kids. I noted that limiting immigration was necessary in such an environment because, however poorly the schools are doing in this regard, American kids at least inherit a certain amount of American-ness from their parents, whereas immigrant parents are bringing their kids to school specifically to be Americanized. Linda Chavez disagreed, saying that the level of future immigration is irrelevant because, without rolling back multiculturalism and racialism in society in general and the schools in particular, the grandchildren of today’s Americans will be no more American than the grandchildren of today’s immigrants.

My question, and I don’t mean it sarcastically, is does anyone agree?

Just exactly what is Krikorian picturing when he laments the lack of “patriotically Americanizing” America’s youth? Would he like to have a designated “Americanizing” agent sit down with Mrs. Jenkins second grade class and explain that people who go to protests are dirty hippies that belong in jail? Perhaps they should hear the one about how anyone who criticizes, say, the systematic genocide of the American Indians, or the history of oppression of essentially everyone except for rich white males, hates America. And that the only way the liberals will ever take our guns away from us is over our cold dead Orwellian nightmare.

If there’s anything that threatens the “Americanizing” of our children, it’s the immigrants. The immigrants, you see, haven’t been indoctrinated into the America club. They would be bringing in new ideas, new customs. That’s not good.

How can we “Americanize” the kids in the midst of a non-domesticated influence?

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2 Responses to “Is Our Children Indoctrinating?”

  1. Jamelle Says:
    July 5th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    Don’t forget, I’m sure that “no more American” means “not white.”

  2. AltHippo Says:
    July 5th, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    Two days ago, that’s what I would have said. Michelle Malkin, who is Asian, substantially agrees with Krikorian in this NRO column.

    Her view is that immigrants must assimilate, observing: “We are not a nation of immigrants.”

    How that fits into her thinking about interning the Japanese, whether or not they had assimilated, I’m not sure.

    So, I’m guessing that Krikorian and Malkin believe that “Americanization” is about turning immigrants into loyal Bushies.

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