Diversity Is Replacing Patriotism

Melanie Phillips on Patriotism

September 14th, 2009

God Bless America. God Save The Queen. The Star Spangled Banner. Rule Britannia.

Those days are so over. It’s no longer à mode to teach children to be patriotic. Here in Canada we’re taught that our evil white ancestors came over and slaughtered a bunch of (savage) Injuns. In the USA, kids are taught more about the evils of American slavery than they are about America’s accomplishments. And that goes doubly for the United Kingdom, because their history goes so much further back.

Melanie Phillips addresses the lack of patriotism in our global village, and the multi-culti moral equivalence that our kids are taught in schools.

Once upon a time, loving your country enough that you were prepared to die for it was held to be the highest virtue.

Indeed, without patriotism there would be no one serving in the Armed Forces.

For the past 1,000 years, it has given the people of these islands the strength and courage to repel invaders and defeat the enemies of liberty.

Is it not extraordinary that such affection for your country should now be considered so objectionable that children should be told it is positively dangerous?

One teacher said that praising patriotism excluded non-British pupils.

Oh, do shut up. These people came to Britain. If they can’t hack it, they can get the hell back out.

The same lefty ideology that says every kid should get a medal no matter how inept he is, is the one that says we in the West should be ashamed of our accomplishments lest we make tribal backwaters feel bad about themselves.

But then, some of these teachers seemed unwilling to acknowledge the concept of citizenship at all, spouting idiotic nonsense instead about promoting ‘universal brotherhood’ or the need to ‘identify as humans’.

With no awareness of any irony (they probably don’t understand what that means either) some said promoting patriotism was a form of ‘brainwashing’.

So what, pray, is promoting ‘universal brotherhood’? Planet earth to teachers: make contact, please!

Where the hell is Joseph McCarthy when we need him?

Posted by: Right Girl