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Survey: Students Are Ashamed Of Being American After College Education

Liberals will generally deny that 'higher education' schools are simply paid indoctrination camps. But, this survey provides some valuable insight.

College students are cultivating an increasingly pessimistic view of the United States and their futures as their national pride deteriorates in university classrooms across the nation, a newly published American College Student Freedom, Progress and Flourishing Survey confirms.

More than half of self-identified liberal students say they have developed a more negative view of the United States as a result of their higher education curriculum, while nearly one-third of students who identified as conservative shared their growing pessimism about America, according to the annual college student survey.

Political ideology significantly impacts students’ national pride.

While 52 percent of students say they are proud to be American, most of the patriotic students are conservative.

“A majority of conservative students (86 percent) are proud to be American compared to 38 percent of those who identify as liberal students and 59 percent of self-identified independents,” the survey notes.

Conservative students are significantly less inclined to accept the paradigm about American presented in the classroom. Eighty-one percent of liberal students say “college is giving them a more accurate picture of the U.S.” while “only 44 percent of conservative students” trust what they are being told about America.
kodiac · 22-25, M
I became ashamed the day biden took over.
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
So... What are these people being indoctrinated in? 😅

Are you being angry because after looking into things, not everyone says: "American is the greatest country in the world!"? Because that's not indoctrination, that's just reality.

Luckely, the person that you back up for leadership over the republican party wants to get rid of the so called "indoctrination" by actually openly admitting that he wants to indoctrinate people in school:

[quote][i]The only path to national unity is through our shared identity as Americans. That is why it is so urgent that we finally restore patriotic education to our schools. Under our leadership, the National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant to support the development of a [b]pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth[/b] about our nation’s great history.[/i]

- D. J. Trump, [i]september 17th 2020: White House History Conference[/i][/quote]
pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M
You brought it up, I was just commenting@Kwek00
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@softspokenman Well, the Canadians also burned down the white house at some point.

@pianoplayingsteve Yeah, so it wasn't "so what" for you Steve. You felt that it was an issue that needed to be put into the conversation.

[quote]@Kwek00 [b]the issue[/b] [i]isn’t ‘I’m unhappy that you won’t say America isn’t the greatest country in the world’, but rather[/i] [b]that they go for extreme in the opposite pretending that the US is hell on earth, whilst enjoying the benefits the country offers.[/b][/quote]

But if what I said convinced you that it isn't that important AND that this wasn't "the issue" of what this story was about. Then that's great. I'm glad we got there with just 1 reply this time. Glad to have you on board.
pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M
@Kwek00 oh I’m not on board, I’m just not that interested
Johnson212 · 61-69, M
It is all part of the race to the bottom caused by liberals. It started with the colleges but at least there some people making it to higher education had the sense to see through it, I know I did and dropped those classes taught by overly liberal teachers. But today you can hardly get away from it and you are deemed politically incorrect if you try.

What has really made the difference is the filtering down of indoctrination in our grade schools teaching things like critical race theory which is more about shaming kids for being white Americans than objective lessons from history and civics.
pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M
@SW-User we agree there. I sell wholesale. I only make a small amount and people get stuff cheap and I get to build up a bit of savings. But then our government decided to tax 20% on anything bought from overseas. On top of the 20% taxed when I sell. Wealth was literally being redistributed and people getting things they needed cheaper before this socialist tax came to save the day, it creates the very problem it pretends to solve, and then because items cost more and you have less because if socialism, you need more socialism to save the day yay. This could all literally be solved if people were willing to take responsibility for their finances. But they’d rather drag the whole nation down
SW-User
@pianoplayingsteve This really isn't about people who are unwilling to pay their own bills. It is really about rich politicians using the poor as an excuse to push their socialist agenda on us.
pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M
I’m glad that you agree that socialism is pushed by the rich to make them richer @SW-User
ViciDraco · 36-40, M
So you are telling me liberals go to college, get a more broad worldview and think: this country could do so much better!

Whereas conservatives go to college, deny reality and claim: America's the best no matter what facts are put before me!

And you somehow think the latter is preferable?
pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M
@ViciDraco well from what I’ve seen of the person I was responding to, if I’m going to comment on individual behavior I’ve observe,and their response is ‘you must be taking about group x! It’s actually group y!’ And then makes statements about how people like me apparently think, then I think they must be authoritarian to some degree
sweetcheekz · 22-25, F
@pianoplayingsteve you literally said "I know liberals that..." And based your argument around that. I'm not going to engage in discussion with people that are so disingenuous. It's pointless. You can't have any productive political discourse with someone who lies and only uses strawmans.
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DeluxedEdition · 26-30, F
why do you think it's the liberals who are the ones pushing college onto the youth?

the conservatives know that college isn't the only way to become successful while the liberal institutions lie and make all these claim that aren't true

they literally used to tell us we would be flipping burgers if we didn't go to college
Zonuss · 41-45, M
This survey means nothing. Change the demographics along with other factors it's a completely different story. You're a pessimistic troll with a chip on his shoulders. Maybe if you actually had more humanity in your heart your perspective would be different also.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@pianoplayingsteve Good observation!
Zonuss · 41-45, M
@pianoplayingsteve Its about learning the difference between fact and fiction. These stats that Bud posts are highly irrelevant and deeply flawed.
pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M
@Zonuss irrelevant? Irrelevant to what? The only thing relevant here is the topic of the post, and he made the post
graphite · 61-69, M
America: The supposed unjust racist hellhole that somehow is the #1 destination of immigrants worldwide, particularly immigrants of color, and where even people who profess to hate the country refuse to leave, even though they're free to do so.
So the institutions that bilk these students hundreds of thousands in cash teach them their student debt is America’s fault? 😂 Ain’t that rich!
Stopmakingsense · 56-60, F
True. My parents fully hated me and my father actually dumped me at 20. They claimed they were cheated by Amherst College, that I'd been trained in cultural Marxism and they no longer could stand to be around me.
Amherst was a far right wing private school, if anything, they tricked me into attending.
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Stopmakingsense Amherst is listed with the top 25 most political universities in the country.Amherst College’s student body reports 82% political affiliation. While largely liberal and progressive, right wing students make their presence felt with the College Republicans.

I think I would get along with your Dad.
Stopmakingsense · 56-60, F
@Budwick not forty years ago. It didn't divest from South Africa until after I went.
It wasn't really coeducational, either then. Sorry that this web can't guarantee you know more than I about my life! Googling is how you win?
4meAndyou · F
https://nypost.com/2021/06/22/washington-post-blasted-for-video-urging-white-accountability-groups/
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4meAndyou · F
@graphite Check out poo for brains...

https://similarworlds.com/18-Politics/3943478-Why-are-Republicans-so-bent-up-over-Critical-Race
Spotpot · 41-45, M
Was the study made when Trump was president.
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Budwick · 70-79, M
@Spotpot No, survey taken in 2021
SW-User
National pride is an illusion and not just for Americans.
pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M
-starts out in life with a healthy body and mind and supportive parents
-takes out $100,000 in loans to ‘study’ art because they actually don’t like studying but want the status of having a degree
-can’t get a job because most jobs require you actually know something
-makes no attempt to monetise what they do know, outside of faking it on social media
- ‘god I hate capitalism. I should be able to just have all my needs paid for like I did when I lived with mummy and daddy’
pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M
@SW-User that’s a good thing?
SW-User
@pianoplayingsteve It doesn't matter to me.
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