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My two-cents:
While technology and emerging nations make the world smaller, and America easier to access and attack, we weaken our children and teach them it's acceptable to cry, quit, and make excuses for it all. What we should be doing is having things like kickboxing as optional extracurricular activities, increasing the difficulty of academic endeavors to match those of contemporary European and Asian countries, and teaching children that incompetance is unacceptable, no matter the excuse.
This includes breaking down quota systems and such: in other nations with equal or greater minority populations, minorities perform at, on average, the same level as everyone else. American minorities have been brainwashed into believing that they're stupid, and thus we have masses sitting around waiting for the leg-up they "need". What people should realize is that the majority of any race is stupid, and that effort makes up a great deal of the difference when striving to perform and excel. When given no excuse, people rise to the occasion.
I suppose I'm in semi-rant mode. In summation, this country would be a lot better off, for a lot longer, if we weren't destroying our foundation, letting other nations dictate our foreign policy, and teaching our children that failure is OK, because it's more important not to hurt anyone's feelings or make anyone uncomfortable.
If this trend continues, my only hope is that some foreign kids will come over, and kick our kids' asses up and down the street a few times, both physically and cognitively. Perhaps that will open some eyes, if only those of our children.
My two-cents:
While technology and emerging nations make the world smaller, and America easier to access and attack, we weaken our children and teach them it's acceptable to cry, quit, and make excuses for it all. What we should be doing is having things like kickboxing as optional extracurricular activities, increasing the difficulty of academic endeavors to match those of contemporary European and Asian countries, and teaching children that incompetance is unacceptable, no matter the excuse.
This includes breaking down quota systems and such: in other nations with equal or greater minority populations, minorities perform at, on average, the same level as everyone else. American minorities have been brainwashed into believing that they're stupid, and thus we have masses sitting around waiting for the leg-up they "need". What people should realize is that the majority of any race is stupid, and that effort makes up a great deal of the difference when striving to perform and excel. When given no excuse, people rise to the occasion.
I suppose I'm in semi-rant mode. In summation, this country would be a lot better off, for a lot longer, if we weren't destroying our foundation, letting other nations dictate our foreign policy, and teaching our children that failure is OK, because it's more important not to hurt anyone's feelings or make anyone uncomfortable.
If this trend continues, my only hope is that some foreign kids will come over, and kick our kids' asses up and down the street a few times, both physically and cognitively. Perhaps that will open some eyes, if only those of our children.
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