Friday, January 30, 2004
Why They Hate Us
A significant source of attitudes about the United States is foreign students who were educated here. According to the Institute for International Education, there were slightly over a half-million foreign students in 2002-2003. 34, 000 of these were from the Middle East.
The leading universities in foreign student enrollment were:
1 University of Southern California
2. New York University New York
3 Columbia University New York
4 Purdue University Main Campus West Lafayette
5 University of Texas at Austin Austin TX
6 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
7 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
8 Boston University Boston MA
9 University of Wisconsin - Madison
10 The Ohio State University Main Campus
11 University of California
12 University of Pennsylvania
13 Florida International University
14 University of Maryland College Park
15 Texas A&M University College Station
16 Penn State University Park Campus
17 SUNY at Buffalo
18 University of Florida
19 Houston Community College System
20 Indiana University at Bloomington
What will those students have been taught about American History and Politics?
They are likely to have been taught that the United States was founded on racism, expanded through genocide, maintained through political repression with a foreign policy of imperialism and belligerence, and an internal economic policy of class distinctions, oppression, and exploitation of workers
There are of course, other influences. For instance , Hollywood is a principal describer of America available abroad......
Well, perhaps it is understandable why they tend to hate us.
A significant source of attitudes about the United States is foreign students who were educated here. According to the Institute for International Education, there were slightly over a half-million foreign students in 2002-2003. 34, 000 of these were from the Middle East.
The leading universities in foreign student enrollment were:
1 University of Southern California
2. New York University New York
3 Columbia University New York
4 Purdue University Main Campus West Lafayette
5 University of Texas at Austin Austin TX
6 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
7 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
8 Boston University Boston MA
9 University of Wisconsin - Madison
10 The Ohio State University Main Campus
11 University of California
12 University of Pennsylvania
13 Florida International University
14 University of Maryland College Park
15 Texas A&M University College Station
16 Penn State University Park Campus
17 SUNY at Buffalo
18 University of Florida
19 Houston Community College System
20 Indiana University at Bloomington
What will those students have been taught about American History and Politics?
They are likely to have been taught that the United States was founded on racism, expanded through genocide, maintained through political repression with a foreign policy of imperialism and belligerence, and an internal economic policy of class distinctions, oppression, and exploitation of workers
There are of course, other influences. For instance , Hollywood is a principal describer of America available abroad......
Well, perhaps it is understandable why they tend to hate us.
