Pledging Allegiance
Regarding the May 20 Youth Opinion (“For Every Hue And Accent, a Separate Compartment”): Reading the statements of those eight students was scary.
Six of the eight used the word nationality as a synonym for some form of group identification, racial or ethnic.
Has no one taught any of these students that, regardless of their individual differences, all American citizens share one nationality?
Isn’t the pledge of allegiance taught to students anymore? I recall such phrases as “One nation . . . indivisible.”
Bigotry and prejudice must be taught. Children aren’t born that way. Unfortunately, these eight students reflect what their teachers, family and formal educators alike, have taught them.
BETTY ROME
Culver City
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