{"id":12028,"date":"2009-12-09T05:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/09\/bilingual-education-and-the-lefts-diversity-fetish\/"},"modified":"2009-12-09T05:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:32:00","slug":"bilingual-education-and-the-lefts-diversity-fetish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/09\/bilingual-education-and-the-lefts-diversity-fetish\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilingual Education and the Left&#8217;s Diversity Fetish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"firstinpost\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">My mother was born near Rome and didn&#39;t come to the United States until she was ten years old. She quickly learned English, she became completely fluent, and she spoke without an accent. But I wonder what would have happened if there had been a bilingual education program in place in the New York schools and she had been forced to participate in it. I think the answer is obvious: she would have had more difficulty learning English and she would not have learned it as well as she did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"firstinpost\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">And that fact would have impeded her assimilation. So why is there any support for bilingual education? It is a foolish idea on the face of it, and it harms those it is supposed to help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"hidden\" style=\"display: block;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Liberals don&#39;t understand the importance of assimilation. If they did, they wouldn&#39;t support programs that work against it. How can there be <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=define%3A+comity\"><span style=\"color: #810081; font-family: Georgia;\">comity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"> without commonality? How can there be social harmony with groups who refuse to assimilate, refuse to become Americans, do not share our <em>classically<\/em> liberal values, and are here only to exploit the economic opportunities that our country provides?&#0160; Not to mention the jihadists that come here to destroy us, and are of course shown every consideration by the nimrods of the Left.&#0160; Do I need to give examples?&#0160; Not to anyone who has been following the news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"hidden\" style=\"display: block;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Now &#0160;<em>why<\/em> don&#39;t liberals understand the value of assimilation? 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She quickly learned English, she became completely fluent, and she spoke without an accent. But I wonder what would have happened if there had been a bilingual education program in place in the New York schools &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/09\/bilingual-education-and-the-lefts-diversity-fetish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bilingual Education and the Left&#8217;s Diversity Fetish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}