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.MEXIFORNIA Victor Davis Hanson 112MEXIFORNIA Victor Davis Hanson 113miners and settlers against Indians, without suggesting that thesesins exemplified the entire American experience.We forget that sev-eral of the classic Westerns of that age—Katy Jurado complainingof prejudice in High Noon, the beleaguered Mexican villagers of TheMagnificent Seven, the sympathetic homesteaders of Shane, or the odi-ous and racist cattle baron in The Professionals—portrayed Mexicans,blacks and the poor as noble souls or as victims of unjust whiteracism.Given the current pessimism and national obsession withracism, sexism and oppression, it is easy now to ridicule as naïvethe former trust in American institutions and to suggest thatsuch recollections as those above are simply the biased nostalgiaof someone from the “dominant” culture.Yet the positive impactupon immigrants of the traditional education that sought to makeone from many was indisputable.Almost all of those from mysecond-grade class are today teachers, principals, business menand women, and government employees.If the purpose of suchan education system as the one that formed us was to turn outtrue Americans of every hue, and to instill in them a love of theircountry and a sense of personal possibility, then the evidence fortyyears later would say that it was an unquestionable success.In the tiny town of Selma, where we lived in the late 1950sand early 1960s, at the cutting edge of what would become atidal wave of Mexican immigration, we not only knew that ourcountry was different from others, but also understood why andhow it was clearly superior.And the confidence that sprang fromsuch knowledge, tested by criticism and supported with facts, gaveus the ability to counter the cheap anti-Americanism abroad, andhere at home to create a real sense of national harmony.Like mostother Americans we saw the McCarthy era, Jim Crow and thesexual chauvinism that affected the country in the early 1960s assymptoms of the imperfection of the human condition, but cur-able with work and patience.We were not tempted to believe thatthere were better answers in other systems elsewhere.None looked [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.MEXIFORNIA Victor Davis Hanson 112MEXIFORNIA Victor Davis Hanson 113miners and settlers against Indians, without suggesting that thesesins exemplified the entire American experience.We forget that sev-eral of the classic Westerns of that age—Katy Jurado complainingof prejudice in High Noon, the beleaguered Mexican villagers of TheMagnificent Seven, the sympathetic homesteaders of Shane, or the odi-ous and racist cattle baron in The Professionals—portrayed Mexicans,blacks and the poor as noble souls or as victims of unjust whiteracism.Given the current pessimism and national obsession withracism, sexism and oppression, it is easy now to ridicule as naïvethe former trust in American institutions and to suggest thatsuch recollections as those above are simply the biased nostalgiaof someone from the “dominant” culture.Yet the positive impactupon immigrants of the traditional education that sought to makeone from many was indisputable.Almost all of those from mysecond-grade class are today teachers, principals, business menand women, and government employees.If the purpose of suchan education system as the one that formed us was to turn outtrue Americans of every hue, and to instill in them a love of theircountry and a sense of personal possibility, then the evidence fortyyears later would say that it was an unquestionable success.In the tiny town of Selma, where we lived in the late 1950sand early 1960s, at the cutting edge of what would become atidal wave of Mexican immigration, we not only knew that ourcountry was different from others, but also understood why andhow it was clearly superior.And the confidence that sprang fromsuch knowledge, tested by criticism and supported with facts, gaveus the ability to counter the cheap anti-Americanism abroad, andhere at home to create a real sense of national harmony.Like mostother Americans we saw the McCarthy era, Jim Crow and thesexual chauvinism that affected the country in the early 1960s assymptoms of the imperfection of the human condition, but cur-able with work and patience.We were not tempted to believe thatthere were better answers in other systems elsewhere.None looked [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]