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| bhedo |
Posted
on 13-Oct-02 05:49 PM
Please read this racist article. Notice how he belittles Native Americans.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3782
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| sally |
Posted
on 13-Oct-02 07:30 PM
There are some legitimate points in this article, but they're lost among the writer's miscomprehension of multiculturalism and how it's really being taught. He does what a lot of far right-wing writers do, namely, set up a straw man and then knock it down.
It's like the complaints about the alleged radical legions of professors who supposedly forcefeed their views to helpless students who must spit it back on exams or fail. I'm sure there are cases, but it's not nearly as large an issue on campus as curmugeonly pundits imagine. The people who write this stuff for right-wing magazines can't possibly have been on a campus lately--except, maybe, to peruse course catalogue for the names of a few p.c.-sounding courses out of the thousands offered.
Anyway, Columbus Day disappearing? Not at my kid's school. That was the main theme in first grade this week.
And that's good, because it's part of American culture. And so is African-American history, and Native American history, and--given that this is a country of immigrants--so is the daura surwal and topi that my son gets to wear on International Day, when his friends wear kente cloth and Chinese pajamas and American cowboy hats.
Although I guess this writer would call that a divisive example of multiculturalism.
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| bhedo |
Posted
on 13-Oct-02 08:07 PM
You are right about the multiculturalism part. He also seems to have forgotten the fact that South Americans did HAVE their own civilization before the arrival of the Europeans. This noble savage stereotype disgusts me. Don't you think that without slavery and conquest of the Americas, Western civilization could not have reached the pinnacle it has reached today? Noteworthy paragraph:
Prior to 1492, what is now the United States was sparsely inhabited, unused, and undeveloped. The inhabitants were primarily hunter-gatherers, wandering across the land, living from hand-to-mouth and from day-to-day. There was virtually no change, no growth for thousands of years. With rare exception, life was nasty, brutish, and short: there was no wheel, no written language, no division of labor, little agriculture and scant permanent settlement; but there were endless, bloody wars. Whatever the problems it brought, the vilified Western culture also brought enormous, undreamed-of benefits, without which most of today's Indians would be infinitely poorer or not even alive.
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| do |
Posted
on 13-Oct-02 10:35 PM
Sally, your uppity amazes me.
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