Wednesday, September. 14, 1C33
Daily Ncbrsskcn
Two years to I had an chmcntary
education c!as3 that required ma to
assist teachers at various erode levcl3
Li a local elementary schocl As Presi
dent's Day dre w near, the school build
ing reverberated with patriots. Vdn
dersartners, like B:ty Roes before
Cliriotoplier
them, fashioned UJ3. fJe3 that would
stir the heart of any red whiteandhiue
blooded American. , '
The children ssng soiijts about lov
ing the best country on Earth, which
God had blessed as His very own, then
listened to a record which sought to
teach them the greatness cf their
nation with glorious hymns cf battles
won and sons of praise for fallen
heroes.
"Remember the Alamo!" the record
clamored, and Teddy and his Rough
Riders charge up Son Juan IlilL
"Ah, what a great and mighty coun
try America must be," I thought, "to
have conquered in so many crusades.".
- Rubbish '
What are we teaching our children?
Nationalism, patriotism, ethnocentrism
.and a wonderful "My country is great
because it can blow everyone else away"
attitude. Those beliefs and that atti
tude perpetuate feverent pride in state
and army, end fuel an acute paranoia
of foreign peoples and ideas, thus
strengthening the which prevent
world peace.
Thb condition, of course, is not
peculiar to the United States. Children
all over the world are indoctrinated
with the "Chosen People" status of
their society and the dhine ri,;ht cf
their nation. They grow up believing
that they are different from people
who live across an ocean or over a
mountain from them, and that the
people over there want to take what is
rightfully theirs.. So they arm them
selves and prepare to kill
Such beliefs were probably neces
sary for survival at one time, when
food was scarce and competition for it
was hish. Now, however, we have
enough food, clothing shelter and land
for all the inhabitants of our planet, so
that survival need no longer be a ques
tion. Yet we continue killing each other.
We are all humans, regardless of
race, religion or geographic location of
birth. Our self-perpetuating militaris
tic nationalism and ethnocentric para
noia threaten not only our individual
survival, but the very existence of our
species. .
. No longer should we raise our child
ren to love only their flag and the guns
that purportedly preserve it. No longer
should we teach them that a flag gives
them the divine right to take another's
life. . ,
For your own sake, ask not what you
can do for your country, but what you
can do for your fellow man.
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