It amazes me what an isolationist mentality the average
American citizen has. When I look at
other countries around the world, many of them much more poor than America, I
see citizens that can speak at least two languages fluently and often three or
four by the time they are young adults. Yet
in America very few people are multi-lingual.
We even have politicians who voice the opinion that everyone in the
country should speak only English and that anyone who does not speak English
should be shunned and treated as somehow inferior. This mindset is even cheered by many citizens
and the whole concept is deemed to be patriotic. Many of these same people want to build a
wall to keep people out. Well, from
where I sit a wall seems more like a way of keeping people in than a way of
keeping people out. To me it seems a symbolic
way of keeping people trapped and uninformed about the rest of the world. A way of keeping everyone isolated while telling
them that we are the best at everything.
Don’t these same people remember the Berlin Wall? Wasn’t the, (so called,) evil communist
empire of China also partially surrounded by a wall? Surely they have seen the wall that keeps the people of North Korea separate from their brothers and sisters in South Korea and the rest of the world. Can these American citizens not connect the dots? This is a beautiful planet that we live on
folks and I embrace other cultures and people from all parts of the
world. I wish I spoke every language so
that I could communicate and learn from everyone. This isolationist mentality is just a form of control to keep the worker bees in line. It's a distraction from the more important issues that gives the peons something to rally around. Well I, for one, can
see through the propaganda. I can see
through the wall of cluelessness built to control the masses. Associating patriotism with isolation equals
ignorance and ignorance is nothing to be proud of. To me there is nothing worse than blind
patriotism. Give me something to be
proud of and I will be the loudest voice in the crowd. Try to
keep me uninformed and isolated and I will be equally as vocal for I can not
remain quiet in the face of attempted manipulation and brainwashing.
I’ll end this with a quote from Mr. Samuel Clemens, AKA Mark
Twain: “Travel
is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people
need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and
things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all
one's lifetime.”
