The Obama Administration Looking For Even More Ways To Divide Americans
Jun 9, 2016 08:58:04 #
This is obama's America and is just more proof that he will go to any lengths to divide Americans. We are a country of immigrants for sure, but what has always made that work in the past was assimilation. Now the hussein obama administration, that administration that does not give one wit about America's greatness and exceptionalism is advising immigrants to NOT assimilate. Yet another concrete example that hussein obama is intent on dividing Americans and destroying this once great country.
From Mike Gonzalez
Obama Looks To Cement Ethnic Divides With Language Mandate
June 8, 2016
The Obama administration seems to live in a parallel reality, oblivious to the racial animus that has become the hallmark of late-stage Obama and to the ethnic strife that wreaks havoc on the rest of the world. Inside its own Platonic cave, the thinking is: Over half the world is polyglot, so why not us?
Its latest policy statement, issued jointly late last week by the departments of Education and Health and Human Services, advises states to instruct early childhood students in home languages different from English, and to help them retain separate cultural attachments.
The administration warns that “not recognizing children’s cultures and languages as assets” may be hurting them with school work. “Over half the world’s population is estimated to be bilingual or multilingual,” the statement lectures almost plaintively.
The answer is to celebrate and preserve the differences of dual language learners, or children who speak a different language at home.
The policy statement calls for a range of practices, from creating curricula and educational systems that “support children’s home language development,” to urging states to hire more teachers who “speak the language and/or share the cultural background of children who are DLLs [dual language learners] in the community.”
States must move with alacrity because these children will soon make up a “sizable proportion of the workforce” and their linguistic and cultural assets will be needed in an “evolving global economy.”
“The growing diversity of our nation’s children requires that we shift the status quo,” says the statement, in order to “build a future workforce that is rich in diversity, heritage, cultural tradition, and language.”
Tolerance and respect are not sufficient—early childhood programs must “embrace and celebrate their diversity.”
If this last bit of compulsive affirmation finally perks up your ears, it should. So should hearing for the umpteenth time about this administration’s zest for shifting the status quo.
In a Heritage Foundation issue brief published this week, I argue that policy statements of this sort raise generalized concerns because they may be deemed coercive and intrusive into areas of primary state and local jurisdiction.
The administration has no authority under the federal statutes governing education, such as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the implementing regulations, to require bilingual education or retention of “cultural assets.”
But the problems with this policy approach are much more fundamental. Speaking a second, third, or more foreign languages is indubitably a bonus for an individual, but it is far less clear that societal bilingualism or multilingualism helps cohesion or economic success.
The administration disregards a whole field of academic research that finds a high correlation between ethnic stratification and conflict.
One of the papers, by Alberto Alesina and others at Harvard, considered the gold standard study in the field of ethnic fractionalization, finds that countries with high linguistic and ethnic divisions have many societal dysfunctions.
Well before Harvard, the ancients (or if you’re a believer, a Higher Authority) drew a distinction between individual wisdom (which Proverbs 8:11 rightly says is “better than rubies”) and fracturing societal linguistically, which was the punishment for the hubristic planners of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:7—“let us go down and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech”).
If Harvard studies or Revealed Truth don’t convince you, here’s what liberals have said on the matter.
More than a century ago, John Stuart Mill warned that:
Free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities. Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of representative government, cannot exist. The influences which form opinions and decide political acts are different in the different sections of the country.
And closer still to our time, the historian and eminent public intellectual Arthur Schlesinger, also a liberal, asked in 1991, “In the century darkly ahead, civilization faces a critical question: What is it that holds a nation together?”
A few questions later, Schlesinger answered himself: “If separatist tendencies go on unchecked, the result can only be the fragmentation, resegregation, and tribalization of American life.”
This is why American leaders from the time of the founding, in recognition that it was even then a land with a high number of immigrants, have pursued an approach that is actually more inclusive than what the administration proposes today: It encouraged the foreign born to feel as though they were natives. They knew that a polity needs a single language.
America has seen higher rates of foreign born and of globalization, and its leaders had hitherto stuck to their desire for E Pluribus Unum.
This administration, always seeking in haste to “shift the status quo,” is only too happy to overlook the carnage that divisions between so many Hutus and Tutsis, Serbs and Croats and Pashtuns and Hazaras have created.
Even in industrialized allied nations like Belgium and Spain, or our northern neighbor Canada—which are high gross domestic product per capita societies with concomitant high levels of education, health, and other advantages—official bilingualism has pitted region against region, neighbor against neighbor.
Perhaps Congress can take a look at this new Tower of Babel and ask some questions.
From Mike Gonzalez
Obama Looks To Cement Ethnic Divides With Language Mandate
June 8, 2016
The Obama administration seems to live in a parallel reality, oblivious to the racial animus that has become the hallmark of late-stage Obama and to the ethnic strife that wreaks havoc on the rest of the world. Inside its own Platonic cave, the thinking is: Over half the world is polyglot, so why not us?
Its latest policy statement, issued jointly late last week by the departments of Education and Health and Human Services, advises states to instruct early childhood students in home languages different from English, and to help them retain separate cultural attachments.
The administration warns that “not recognizing children’s cultures and languages as assets” may be hurting them with school work. “Over half the world’s population is estimated to be bilingual or multilingual,” the statement lectures almost plaintively.
The answer is to celebrate and preserve the differences of dual language learners, or children who speak a different language at home.
The policy statement calls for a range of practices, from creating curricula and educational systems that “support children’s home language development,” to urging states to hire more teachers who “speak the language and/or share the cultural background of children who are DLLs [dual language learners] in the community.”
States must move with alacrity because these children will soon make up a “sizable proportion of the workforce” and their linguistic and cultural assets will be needed in an “evolving global economy.”
“The growing diversity of our nation’s children requires that we shift the status quo,” says the statement, in order to “build a future workforce that is rich in diversity, heritage, cultural tradition, and language.”
Tolerance and respect are not sufficient—early childhood programs must “embrace and celebrate their diversity.”
If this last bit of compulsive affirmation finally perks up your ears, it should. So should hearing for the umpteenth time about this administration’s zest for shifting the status quo.
In a Heritage Foundation issue brief published this week, I argue that policy statements of this sort raise generalized concerns because they may be deemed coercive and intrusive into areas of primary state and local jurisdiction.
The administration has no authority under the federal statutes governing education, such as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the implementing regulations, to require bilingual education or retention of “cultural assets.”
But the problems with this policy approach are much more fundamental. Speaking a second, third, or more foreign languages is indubitably a bonus for an individual, but it is far less clear that societal bilingualism or multilingualism helps cohesion or economic success.
The administration disregards a whole field of academic research that finds a high correlation between ethnic stratification and conflict.
One of the papers, by Alberto Alesina and others at Harvard, considered the gold standard study in the field of ethnic fractionalization, finds that countries with high linguistic and ethnic divisions have many societal dysfunctions.
Well before Harvard, the ancients (or if you’re a believer, a Higher Authority) drew a distinction between individual wisdom (which Proverbs 8:11 rightly says is “better than rubies”) and fracturing societal linguistically, which was the punishment for the hubristic planners of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:7—“let us go down and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech”).
If Harvard studies or Revealed Truth don’t convince you, here’s what liberals have said on the matter.
More than a century ago, John Stuart Mill warned that:
Free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities. Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of representative government, cannot exist. The influences which form opinions and decide political acts are different in the different sections of the country.
And closer still to our time, the historian and eminent public intellectual Arthur Schlesinger, also a liberal, asked in 1991, “In the century darkly ahead, civilization faces a critical question: What is it that holds a nation together?”
A few questions later, Schlesinger answered himself: “If separatist tendencies go on unchecked, the result can only be the fragmentation, resegregation, and tribalization of American life.”
This is why American leaders from the time of the founding, in recognition that it was even then a land with a high number of immigrants, have pursued an approach that is actually more inclusive than what the administration proposes today: It encouraged the foreign born to feel as though they were natives. They knew that a polity needs a single language.
America has seen higher rates of foreign born and of globalization, and its leaders had hitherto stuck to their desire for E Pluribus Unum.
This administration, always seeking in haste to “shift the status quo,” is only too happy to overlook the carnage that divisions between so many Hutus and Tutsis, Serbs and Croats and Pashtuns and Hazaras have created.
Even in industrialized allied nations like Belgium and Spain, or our northern neighbor Canada—which are high gross domestic product per capita societies with concomitant high levels of education, health, and other advantages—official bilingualism has pitted region against region, neighbor against neighbor.
Perhaps Congress can take a look at this new Tower of Babel and ask some questions.
Jun 9, 2016 09:07:33 #
America is not exceptional. Every country through the history thinking itself exceptional has crashed and burned. Pride goeth before the fall.
Jun 9, 2016 09:15:45 #
kymarto wrote:
America is not exceptional. Every country through the history thinking itself exceptional has crashed and burned. Pride goeth before the fall.
You are full of shit. America is and has been exceptional throughout it's brief history. There are countless examples as to why the United States is exceptional. Apparently you are to ignorant or stupid to recognize them.
Jun 9, 2016 10:09:38 #
SBW wrote:
You are full of shit. America is and has been exceptional throughout it's brief history. There are countless examples as to why the United States is exceptional. Apparently you are to ignorant or stupid to recognize them.
"Exceptional" in what way?
Jun 9, 2016 10:23:01 #
Kmgw9v wrote:
"Exceptional" in what way?
lets try...economically, productivity, militarily, gun rights...want more??? the last 7.5 years dont count...
Jun 9, 2016 10:38:40 #
wilpharm wrote:
lets try...economically, productivity, militarily, gun rights...want more??? the last 7.5 years dont count...
America was blessed with a raw continent--stolen from its owners--at a time when the industrial revolution was in full swing. Room to grow and raw materials in abundance were America's advantage, along with slave labor to exploit them. Now China is in a similar position and you can see America foundering.
Jun 9, 2016 10:44:37 #
SBW wrote:
You are full of shit. America is and has been exceptional throughout it's brief history. There are countless examples as to why the United States is exceptional. Apparently you are to ignorant or stupid to recognize them.
We aint anymore brutha.
We used to be, years of war. Shipping manufacturing overseas.
Crumbling infrastructure dumbing down of our education system
Putting people from other countries first take a good look a good long look.
Add to that the fact we no longer control our govt. which in reality we probably
never did. But its now an even more blatant f/u
Nah being exceptional stopped a while ago.
Jun 9, 2016 10:45:25 #
kymarto wrote:
America was blessed with a raw continent--stolen from its owners--at a time when the industrial revolution was in full swing. Room to grow and raw materials in abundance were America's advantage, along with slave labor to exploit them. Now China is in a similar position and you can see America foundering.
The sad part is we gave it to China.
We are still abundant in natural resources
Jun 9, 2016 11:22:44 #
soba1 wrote:
The sad part is we gave it to China.
We are still abundant in natural resources
We are still abundant in natural resources
China took it. They are hungry and are willing to work in a way we are not. They are building modern infrastructure from scratch--nothing to pay down. They are also driven by an authoritarian government over which they have no control. This is part of the normal cycle of the rise and fall of great powers. China's day of reckoning will come in the not-too-distant future.
The Germans and Japanese too thought they were exceptional. Look what happened there. That's also the line being fed to the Chinese to bolster nationalism and keep them working to the government's tune. These things always end badly, eventually.
Jun 9, 2016 11:26:08 #
kymarto wrote:
Now China is in a similar position and you can see America foundering.
America is floundering because of high corporate tax rates and 95 million Americans not in the workforce.
Jun 9, 2016 11:59:54 #
kymarto wrote:
China took it. They are hungry and are willing to ... (show quote)
It was us who sent all of our manufacturing over for the sake of greed.
They didn't come here and take a thing.
Jun 9, 2016 12:00:04 #
kymarto wrote:
America was blessed with a raw continent--stolen from its owners--at a time when the industrial revolution was in full swing. Room to grow and raw materials in abundance were America's advantage, along with slave labor to exploit them. Now China is in a similar position and you can see America foundering.
foundering, maybe, but still exceptional...try medical . for example...where would you rather be than in the USA to have a serious coronary event, accident, etc..
Jun 9, 2016 12:45:47 #
wilpharm wrote:
foundering, maybe, but still exceptional...try medical . for example...where would you rather be than in the USA to have a serious coronary event, accident, etc..
Why do they shoot u in China...........lol I couldn't help myself
Jun 9, 2016 12:48:43 #
soba1 wrote:
Why do they shoot u in China...........lol I couldn't help myself
WTF??? what you smokin today, soba???
Jun 9, 2016 12:59:56 #
wilpharm wrote:
WTF??? what you smokin today, soba???
Just making a funny..............sheesh lighten up
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