Different religon and cultral backgrounds benefit from homeschooling.

From a Christain point of view, many don’t like how the public schools are teaching thier children. They have no say in what gets said to thier children on sex and a variety of other things.

Things like thier 7 – 10 year old child coming home after practicing putting a condom on a cucumber without the parents knowledge.

Things like that upset parents when public schools take over the raising of hte child away from the values of the parents.

I don’t think they’re equal. But having homeschooling does help protect different cultures in our society, as opposed to having everyone go to the same school. People who want to raise their kids with their own values are able to do it easier.

CavalierX says “Multiculturalism: self-segregation. “

andrew says Like homeschooling. you’re getting it.

No. You do.

“You think homeschooling is multiculturalism?”

It can be a part of it. We allow people to school their kids their own way rather than, like france, for all kids to go to schools where they can’t wear headscarves, for instance.

That is a completely foolish statement of yours.

In the declining public schools some parents feel they can better teach their children than the public schools can, without influences of bullies, sexual encounters, moronic ad-libs to lesson plans that are not part of the school curriculum, just a teachers own philosophy.

If you equate homeschooling to segregation, then you probably do so with private schools also? Voucher program also equate to segregation?

What’s next…accusing people of being on a plantation?

You think homeschooling is multiculturalism? Please don’t strain your shoulder reaching for the comparison. We don’t have socialised medicine here to take care of you.

Like homeschooling. you’re getting it.

Multiculturalism: self-segregation.

The lines are fuzzy, but ‘different looks’ can be because of different dress as well as race.

“We are multicultural if we each have our own culture that we wish to project into our children. We are all as one (unicultural?) if we want our kids to be plain old Americans.”

And we’re the former, not the latter. We raise our kids how we want them growing up.

What if 20% live in inner cities and poverty while the rest live in suburbs?

Oh wait, you are saying multiculturalism is exemplified by people living in both urban and rural communities? I fail to see the correlation.

Yes. they are racists. That’s not multiculturalism. That’s unicultural. They have 1 view of frenchness, and one must yield to it. We don’t do that here.

I was under the impression that uniculturalism as defined by you meant one culture. Not one color. How does color enter into it?

I don’t think the test is ‘tell by looking.’ I think the test is do we consider them americans as well something else? As americans, even though they look different and have different customs? then we are multicultural.

No no no no no no no no no. Looks and culture are apples and oranges. What you are now describing as multiculturalism is really acceptance of different races. We are multicultural if we each have our own culture that we wish to project into our children. We are all as one (unicultural?) if we want our kids to be plain old Americans.

It’s clear that we have reached the end of useful debate. I hope you learned a few things. I certainly did! I had never heard the word ‘uniculturalism’ before, for example. Thanks for your time.

Uh. No. What if 20% live in inner cities and poverty while the rest live in suburbs?

“This sounds more like racism to me than anything else. France has bigger problems than I thought if what you say is true.”

Yes. they are racists. That’s not multiculturalism. That’s unicultural. They have 1 view of frenchness, and one must yield to it. We don’t do that here.

“Even with differences in appearance, can you tell by looking at Americans which ones are Philipino-American? Chinese-American? German-American? Horn of Africa-American? I don’t think you can because they are all just plain Americans now.”

I don’t think the test is ‘tell by looking.’ I think the test is do we consider them americans as well something else? As americans, even though they look different and have different customs? then we are multicultural.

A uniculturalist will make sure that all of french people as well as arab people meld into 1 thing. That’s not what we have in the US.

We used to have all people melded into one thing. All the chinatowns, little italy’s, and Germantowns in America added up to much less than a percent of our population even at their height. If that is what you are calling multiculturalism, then we are in total agreement. That setup works fine and peace can easily continue. But if 20% of Americans lived in chinatowns, 20% in little italy’s and the rest in other little somethings, we would be close to civil war or genocide of one of those groups. History shows this again and again. Multiculturalism is a great idea, it just doesn’t work.

When a tiny minority refuses to meld into the local culture, it is not a problem. As the size increases, so does the trouble.

Exactly. We are multi-cultural. But not france. France does not see a brown person as a frechman. But the US will see a brown american as an american, because we are multicultural.

This sounds more like racism to me than anything else. France has bigger problems than I thought if what you say is true.

I guess I am a uniculturalist. I strongly disagree with your statement that America hasn’t melded into one thing. Even with differences in appearance, can you tell by looking at Americans which ones are Philipino-American? Chinese-American? German-American? Horn of Africa-American? I don’t think you can because they are all just plain Americans now. I don’t subscribe to the idea that each culture should be embraced because no one culture is better than any other. If you are infatuated with your culture, don’t move to a place that has a different one. The result will be less pain and suffering for all involved.

It reminds me of that old Blue Oyster Cult song, “Godzilla!”.

History shows again and again
how countries get destroyed by the folly of multiculturalism.
Go go Godzilla!

Something like that. It’s been a while since I heard the song.

But the thing is they did not make an attempt at multiculturalism. They had a dictatorship, and then were let go. No formation of a multicultural society, rather they had the culture of Tito imposed on them, and then were let go from that, to descend into chaos.

“America’s successes when they had them were because the immigrants chose to be Americans instead of German-Americans, or English-Americans etc.”

Exactly. We are multi-cultural. But not france. France does not see a brown person as a frechman. But the US will see a brown american as an american, because we are multicultural.

“One country, one culture. Is that uniculturalism? I don’t know the word but if that describes it, I’m a uniculturalist.”

A uniculturalist will make sure that all of french people as well as arab people meld into 1 thing. That’s not what we have in the US. We have chinatowns and little italys. Not melding into some indistinguishable 1 culture.