Cultural Migration: Left of Center View America doesn’t really respect or “get” artists. Not surprising, the Puritans that founded the nation weren’t exactly know for their creative flair. But they did respect success. Success was God’s way of showing favor, a value we as a nation carry forward today. Nobody asks if American music, art or literature is any good, we’re just concerned with how many units it’s sold. Europeans on the other hand tend to discuss the craft itself, not just its marketability or practical applications. So how is it that for the last 60 years or so America has dominated the world stage in almost every aspect of creative culture? Easy, we import it and then claim the good stuff as our own. But that trend may well end soon. During the oppression eras, foreign creative types would flock to the United States for the freedom to express themselves. We let them work as janitors and dishwashers during the day and then left them alone to be creative during their free time. If they were good enough at their craft we would support their impoverished existence by allowing them the privilege of teaching our children, or in some cases ourselves, for a little less that what we’d pay them to mow our lawns. So basically artists are just below gardeners on the social scale. That is unless they make it big, in which case they become royalty. Every year American culture holds up one or two artistic folks and covers them with money and praise. The rest of the creative community saw this and agreed to perform for peanuts and a free domestic beer. But now, now other countries are starting to appreciate, respect and in a move completely foreign to the American government even support their artists, and not just financially but culturally as well. Those wasteful foreigners, building community youth centers giving their kids instruments and instruction. Our law enforcement unions would never stand for that, what with the reduced crime rates, no gangs and such, once again they’re trying to take our jobs away. Why teach our kids to be painters and poets and we might end up like those pansy Norwegians what with the drinking and the getting along, almost not needing to build prisons at all. Their cities take pride in their opera the way we do our football programs. It’s crazy. And it’s going to get worse. We try to screen immigrants to only allow those with something to contribute to our society into the country. By contribute we mean only those with a marketable skill, computer programmers, medical professionals, agricultural workers. We let in a couple of professors, but they pretty much just analyze creative people and their works, they don’t really add to the pile. So where will we be in ten years, when all our colleges are full of foreign math students with 4.5 GPAs in engineering whose only bad grade came because they did their physics homework in Drama class. We take great national pride in the accomplishments of our various artists, but offer them no foundation or support. It is too late, now that art, drama and music has for the most part been expelled from our public school systems, the only chance we have of raising children who both indulge in and appreciate the arts is to allow others to educate them and us. Think of it as an IS96 for the soul. Kyle Pesonen - Staff Writer | E-mail Comments on this column. Got a liberal viewpoint? We want to know what you think. Next week's subject: Gangs, Importing Criminals Send in your view from the Left to be our featured Left of Center View for the week. Click here to submit your article. Last Week's View from the Left: Tariffs and Fair Trade Previous Weeks Views from the Left: Open Borders and the American Worker ICE Raids Detain Thousands of Innocent People Political Activism and Illegal Immigration Integrating Other Cultures Into the American Dream Employing Undocumented Workers Bilingual Education The Minutemen Driver's Licenses For Undocumented Immigrants Open Borders Sanctuary Cities Common Sense Laws Rise & Fall Outsourcing & Insourcing English Amnesty vs. Reality Defining Immigration |
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