Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: i didn't realize many forther swere such a pakc of communists and capitalims haters Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:42:43 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <032889cc-7d58-4553-8b1e-edff4bf860c6@googlegroups.com> <6177913c-776f-460c-925d-7b57a9de02b7@googlegroups.com> <5ce170f0-6a83-4b17-b9c5-7e9291c2a8b8@googlegroups.com> <3897f848-100f-461f-b721-cbe6a0589d76@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:27260 On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 07:29:38 -0500, Ilya Tarasov wrote: > When my son becomes tired because of his lessons, I always have an > effective, but slightly non-pedagogical method. I ask him, does he > really wants to be like americans? He is always take offense and returns > back to lessons. He don't want to be fat, non-wise and relying on the > money only... :) So, you're teaching him intolerance of people who are different from him in arbitrary and trivial ways. That's like a "pot calling the kettle black"... How is teaching nationalism to a child any different from teaching him racism or anti-semitism? Are you teaching him Ukrainians or Georgians are bad too, but Russians aren't? Are you teaching him Christians or Jews are good but atheists are bad too? Or, perhaps, you're teaching him the opposite of those? These are ways to justify discrimination against and mistreatment of a large group of other people. If you teach your son Americans are bad, it only takes acceptance of a slight variation of that belief for him to embrace other forms of intolerance such as racism, eugenics, slavery, anti-semitism, etc. Rod Pemberton