[lbo-talk] Japan schools to teach patriotism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun May 20 06:05:14 PDT 2007


On May 20, 2007, at 8:45 AM, Michael Smith wrote:


> On Sunday 20 May 2007 07:48, uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
>
>> Opposition members of parliament protested against the bill,
>> warning that
>> it could spread nationalism.
>
> Au contraire. The surest way to discourage something is to get the
> schools
> pushing it.

In the early 20th century, our elite decided they could assimilate all the troublesome offspring of the immigrants into the American way through the schools. It worked pretty well. If people were as rebellious as you seem to think, wouldn't we have more iconoclasts than we do?

Doug



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