How 9/11 forever changed me, or maybe I would have changed anyway.

[shabenanizer]

One month after the horrific 9/11 my job transferred to an east coast ivy-league university.  I was going stark raving mad in my new city whose “progressive liberalism”  finished in me what 19 pissy Arabs started.  I felt like Eve in Eden, ready to bite that serpent on the ass and get kicked out of the liberal utopia hell.

The relocation denied me

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[shabenanizer]

You are confusing culture with ethnic groups in your very old knee-jerk and thoroughly inaccurate Hilter analogy. Under the rules of multiculturalism that claims all cultures are right and should be protected, the Nazi culture would then be allowed to flourish and spread. Do you even know or understand the definition of multiculturalism and its implications? How about the slavery culture? That was wiped out during a little thing called the Civil War. Slavery is as old as human history but even you should agree that ending that culture was a very good thing, it helped save the American union and its civilization. Some cultures are bad, period, and it can’t be allowed to survive or else civilization is threatened. The Nazi culture was a very real threat to the modern world civilization and frankly, it need to die.

Another example on a smaller personal scale was Whoopi Goldberg’s defense of Michael Vick's involvement with dog fighting by saying it was part of his southern cultural upbringing. Even if it was true (insult to the southern culture), then that part of the culture needs to be destroyed because it is heinously cruel to dogs whom the American culture holds in high regards, in some cases higher than children. The Penn State University’s “Football First” culture has been called to question in how Sandusky could carry out his disgusting violation of innocent children for so long.

My school tuition were fortunately paid through scholarships and grants, what student loans I accrued were so minuscule that people laughed at it and said, “That’s not student debt, that’s an afternoon Christmas shopping spree”. But the school was an ill fit and I gave my parents the case of the runs when I transferred to a state university where professors ruthlessly challenged me intellectually instead of rote learning common in my old school. If you plan to pay for your kids’ tuition and if you want them to learn something, then community colleges and state universities are just as good. If you want your kids to have a leg up in the post-college job market, then the Ivy League brand could enable that.

There are plenty of students that perfected the “gentle art of sliding by”, but none more so than the Ivy League undergraduate academic culture populated by the creatively lazy gifted at working smarter instead of harder. You mentioned history, I'll refer to Douthat’s infamous article - unless you plan to be a historian, the history professors make no effort on your general education which should provide the foundation of any future doctors, bankers, lawyers, and diplomats. Not to mention the Philosophy department having mostly purged themselves of moralists, adding to the infamous Harvard Curriculum whose message is that redemption is unattainable or that it does not exist. It makes no distinction between “Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies” and “Tel Aviv: Urban Culture in Another Zion” and “Mass Culture in Nazi Germany” and “Reason and Faith in the West” in term of importance. The emphasis was on methodology, not material, on the approach to knowledge that is supposedly more valuable than mere facts about the past. Comprehending history as a form of inquiry and understanding was more important than learning about actual events. This is like me telling you to build a boat and giving you the manual, but you have never seen a boat and you haven’t even been given the wood or the tools to work with. I learned actual events of the American history in a state university.

[annielately]

That is a good point, that culture =/= ethnic group. I think many people (myself included) think of them synonymously so I was slightly taken aback by this post. But you've made a great point with your diplomatic reply to the rude comment above, and agree that the terrorist culture is evil. I also completely agree regarding rape culture.