Education and Americanization

We all must go through a process in life starting from 5 to up to 40 years old, for some. That same thing we all dread waking up to. The thing we all realize we must need to live the “American dream”. School is the essence of all learning in our society today. Whether it is the most remedial classes or the most in depth classes that we must take to get a degree for a job, we must go through it for at least 8 years, but for most is more. Some even go to the extent of calling it an “assembly line” of Americans. The point being that we, as brainwashed Americans, must be mass-produced. As if to say that the teachers, or instructors, of classes are the producers of the thoughts and ideas. All this poses the question: Does education make it impossible for other ethnicities to come to our country and keep their culture? 

Even in the past 70 years of education there has been a difference. For example, when my father was in school mostly his parents taught him. His parents were not all knowing, but they knew their history, literature, and mathematics very well. Needless to say the school did have a part in his education. However, if the teacher or even his own parents were biased in any sort of fashion it was left to him to think for himself on the certain subject. Is this sort of learning so bad? Have parents in America become dumber due to the fact that they have become dependent on public education to teach for them?

I would be willing to say that parents have become dumber in America today. The reason I say this, is for the very fact that all parents trust the schooling process to teach all “ pertinent information”. So because of this trust the schooling “assembly line” every single student is exposed to the exact same information. For instance, when teaching history, it is coming from the point of view of an American. So now students have no idea how other cultures view differs from our own and in this then makes us close-minded. When other people from different cultures come to America they are angered and rejecting of our American culture because of this close-mindedness. Does this make Americans hypocritical, because we advocate a society where anything is possible except maintaining their culture?

I think not, this makes us patriotic. We don’t force people from other cultures to come to America, because of this fact if they are not forced to succumb to Americanization, it is by their choice. Those people have no right to be mad in any way. If they are, they can go back to their country, or, better yet, go to a different country where they must assimilate completely. America is set up where other ethnicities can prosper from their cultural differences. America is the best country for other cultures to come and maintain most of their culture. They will lose some of it, however. For example, in order to communicate they must lose their language and accept English. Other than this one example they can keep their whole culture.

In fact those people have the best opportunity in America. the reason being because they can think both like Americans,  and whatever ethnicity they are. So they can think outside the box, or just different than born and raised Americans. Because of this they are more valuable to our society for their ideas, politics, and input.

Americans are not hypocrites when it comes to keeping other’s ethnical/cultural traditions. If you believe it is then you are not American, you just live in America. You have not thought of the ideological advantage that minorities have over the majority.