Americanize

Societal beliefs in a melting pot such as the United States, good or bad? What productiveness can come from having so many different people interacting with one another in a group of states that, sure have been filled with masses of different classes, ethnicities, and ideals, for generations upon generations, but even then each generation brings its own flair, its own ideology of how people should be and interact.

Is this why the U.S's educational system is failing its youth and even elders so poorly? Remaining with instilling beliefs and processes that ultimately are either archaic or so beyond past open minded for the new majorities and minorities that its just no longer worth investing in?

Maybe we should all just bring it back to having guardians teach and mold their children in terms of, etiquette, life skills, and social graces.

Families from all over do things differently. Ethnicities truly can be a huge determining factor in how children are raised to view others and the world. Sure, we all grow up and form our own standards, principles, and beliefs, but even then they are still found to be based in what our guardians and idols have taught us.

There is no true way to ensnare the entire populace of the world and have them interact completely in productive manners. Though if we were to snag a few from each and throw them in an arena together, Hunger Games style, I personally believe we'd see more comradery that murder, but I suppose that might be too positive of an outlook.

Regardless, the conglomerate that is the United States, has already "Americanized" so many different ethnicities that it cannot be possible to say that the United States is a melting pot anymore, can it?

If every ethnicity that comes through and integrates itself into the U.S's society, ultimately ends up becoming "Americanized" does that not mean America is just a large school for those who wish to add their beliefs, rituals, traditions, what have you, to the melting pot so that they too may have their own brand of "Americanized" persons?

Even then and though, America has proven time and time again to just be one really large joke to the rest of the world.

Americans being known for being lazy, obese, rude and ignorant is such a largely common trope that there are even quite a few generations who believe that themselves. So to me, it truly makes no sense as to why anyone would want to drop their name in the Goblet of Toxic waste that the world seems to view America as.

Living here for the entirety of my life so far, with a brief visit to Canada, has not particularly shown me that I should believe we're the greatest nation there is, but it has shown me that we have plenty of redeeming qualities. Although the media and masses do not seem to particularly focus or even acknowledge those on a regular bases, but regardless again, the actual nature of man itself is not inherently evil, bad or selfish. Personally, the people I have interacted with in my time living in America, has always shown me that we are pack animals. We might be pack animals that wish to ensure our own safety and happiness before strangers, but even then, one can not give from an empty cup, and you never truly know what another person is going through. So it's quite difficult to pinpoint or even make an assumption as to whether or not we're all as selfish as everyone seems to deem us as.

Just be kind, we can get through whatever we need to as long as respect and trust are running rampant. Even then though there's always going to be a fear that sings in the back of each individuals mind that brings forth doubt and distrust, but even then. Just be kind. Don't take another's life, don't try to be a hero or a vigilante, fight the world instead of each other, and maybe we can figure a solution out for actual problems, like global warming, the steady over consumption of non-renewable resources, world hunger, moose.

Just be kind, and together, we can take out the true enemy.

Moose.