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- From: downsj@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (jason downs)
- Newsgroups: or.politics
- Subject: Re: educational system (was: Re: new initiative)
- Message-ID: <1jokjsINNgi6@leela.CS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:08:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: leela.1jokjsINNgi6
- References: <1jdh9qINN1br@leela.CS.ORST.EDU> <C12LvD.Cq5@slipknot.rain.com> <1jgderINNjv1@leela.CS.ORST.EDU> <C17CCL.HwB@slipknot.rain.com>
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- In article <C17CCL.HwB@slipknot.rain.com>,
- robert@slipknot.rain.com.UUCP (Robert Reed) writes:
- >It's very simple. Prejudicial treatment stems mostly from fear, and fear from
- >ignorance. Eliminate the ignorance by revealing cultural accomplishments and
- >history, and you can simultaneously build self-confidence and trust between the
- >categories of people you define. It's a lot easier to be nonjudgemental about
- >someone you trust. It's a lot harder to be prejudiced against someone you know
- >and understand.
-
- the same thing would accomplished, and manage to cause many more "good"
- things to happen, if different ethnic cultures were _not_ focused upon. rather,
- american culture should be taught. that, far more generalized, background
- would not point out the differences between races, but rather how all races
- have contributed a single culture within this country... and that would in
- the end make the subjects of such education feel much more equal - they'd
- be americans, not jewish-americans, not african-americans, not whatever.
-
- the country, and in turn, the society within the coutry would be become
- stronger, not increasingly fragmented.
-
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