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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
So...the government should throw its' citizens out into the big big world? Kinda like a parent sending the kids out to play? "Why don't you kids go to Nepal, and climb a mountain, or something?"
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No, ideally something more like a Peace Corps experience, but doesn't have to be in a developing country. Or hell, just study abroad for a semester. Something with a goal, with structure... whatever it takes to get them out and open their eyes to the wide world.
Heck, I'd even be happy with teaching anthropology at the high school level, but they don't offer it. ANYthing that exposes kids, in a structured way, to a world outside of their own. ALL high schools should require volunteering in other communities, not just the Honor Societies and other ass-kissing organizations (I say that as someone who was president of my HS's honor society). People just get so damn locked down into their own little worlds, their own languages, their own classes and ethnicities and religions. I want to see that change.