U.S. Textbook: American Families Live in Cars
You are a child in school, learning about your own culture and
others. You open your textbook, and you see pictures of people living in
well-built stone cottages in Bolivia.
There are quaint little mud-brick homes in Mali.
And then you get to America.
There is the "typical” - according to your textbook - American family from
the city: poor, living in a car on the street, surrounded by burned-out
tenements and boarded-up buildings swathed in graffiti.
And where is this textbook being used? France? Saudi Arabia? Russia, maybe?
No sirree; that textbook - Arthur Dorros' "This Is My House" - is used in
elementary schools in New York City, right here in the U S of A.
"All the other countries are depicted well, but it portrays the city as
graffiti-covered, with burned-out buildings and a family living in a car," state
Sen. Martin Golden, R-Brooklyn, angrily told the New York Post.
Seventy percent of the population of Bolivia live below the poverty line, but
they are portrayed as living in relative luxury, compared to the American city
dweller.
And the post reports "the book is listed as a suitable text by the state
Education Department's curriculum for English as a Second Language."
Other images of American dwellings include an everyday suburban house and a
pueblo dwelling from the U.S. Southwest.
Dorros had the audacity to tell the Post: "If people look carefully, they'll
see I show a diversity of housing in each location."
Except the city.
No multimillion-dollar apartments, no luxury condos, no posh hotels. No
brownstones, no high-rises. Just filth and squalor.
And we wonder why some of our own citizens hate America. Apparently it’s
taught to them in our own schools, approved by our own school
boards.
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