美国人也搞文化自信教育
2023-01-26 07:48阅读：
Why does so much of Gen-Z hate America? Here's why we
can't give up on them
Young people must be educated about the miracle that is
America
Karol Markowicz By Karol Markowicz
What’s wrong with today’s youth?
In previous generations, the rebellious youth were always a topic
of consternation for the old folks. They don't listen! They drive
too fast and talk too loud. They wear funny clothes and don't
respect their teachers.
But something has changed in the last few years that should have
the older generations far more worried than they would have been in
the past.
A recent Morning Consult poll found that
only 16 percent of
Gen Z'ers are proud to live in the United States. Millennials were
only somewhat
saner at 36 percent.
These numbers should set off alarm bells. In the last ten years,
there has been a sharp decline in national pride. It is not an
accident. It's a deliberate attempt by the left to destroy American
patriotism and replace it with their ideology. In 2013, 85 percent
of Americans said 'extremely or very' proud to be American. Today
that number is 63 percent. It wasn't until 2016 that that number
ever dipped below 80 percent, sometimes being in the high 80s and
90s. That's a collapse.
This is not an accident. The indoctrination happening in our
schools have resulted in this kind of opinion among the
young.
The numbers show a complete lack of knowledge of the rest of the
world. What the kids are learning in school in the U.S. is that the
freest country in the history of humanity, the country that has set
the example for democracy and for freedom and has been a beacon of
hope to people all over the world is meh, not that great.
The kind of privilege that it takes to hold that opinion is
mind-boggling. It means this person was taught to believe that the
immense advantages that they have through the sheer luck of being
American are not that important. They do not know the struggle
people across the world still go through to be free or how
desperately people want to be Americans. The haters were taught to
take for granted the freedom and liberty that is their
birthright.
In the last few years the left has successfully taken over
curriculums in public schools across the country. They push the
idea that America is just not that great. They force the 1619
Project onto curriculums. They remove discussion of the founding
fathers or of American history in general. All education is geared
at the idea that America is a terrible place.
Aside from being wrong, it’s deeply myopic. The people who push
this idea think they are worldly. But worldliness involves knowing
something about other countries and not being so shortsighted about
your own. These are people born on third base and thinking they’ve
hit a triple.
Deep down, Americans are a very patriotic people. Yes, even the
young people. But they’ve gotten to where admitting it is not
permitted. Millennials and Generation Z are the first generations
raised with 'cancel culture,' and with that a forced conformity of
thought. To break with the pack, with your teachers, and say that
America isn’t just great but the greatest, is simply not allowed.
Wrongthink can lead to bad grades or harassment by their peers. It
will take some bravery for the young people to overcome what is
happening to them. And it will take standing up for ideas they know
to be true but have been told so long that they are not.
More than that, it will take the older generations doing more than
just tsk-tsking these kinds of numbers. They have to educate the
young people in their homes or in their lives about the miracle
that is the American experiment. The miracle needs maintaining, and
it needs a continued effort to ensure its success. Cancel culture
and the push of leftist conformity will be destroyed eventually.
The older generations have to be in the fight, and can’t just give
up on the youth to make that happen.
