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HALF TRUTHS ANYON AND LOEWEN TOLD YOU
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... Loewen, author of “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” and Jean Anyon, author of “From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work,” agree. ... Both Anyon’s and Loewen’s articles are misleading because they leave out information pertaining to the positive aspects of the American way of life. ... Loewen expresses his disappointment in the American school system because he believes that the school system has failed to teach any real modern history America, he says, isn’t as much of a middle class nation as the textbooks make it seem. ... Loewen states, “The top one percent of our nation’s population controls forty percent of our wealth,”(212) and continues by saying, “America is rigged against the working class.”(213)
When Loewen says that when our textbooks “apply the phrases rags to riches or land of opportunity to the immigrant experience,” they make no mention of these being, “the exceptions not the rule”(209). While rags to riches may be a rarity in our country, and I will give Loewen that much, but land of opportunity? ...
Loewen compares the fairness of Americas economic system to that of Great Britain or Japan, “in the United States the richest fifth earns eleven times as much income as the poorest fifth… in Great Britain the ratio is 7 to 1, in Japan 4 to 1”(209). While they do seem fairer than us, while their rich are much closer to their poor, they don’t deal with half the things America deals with. ... “Japan is a country where women walk a half step behind their men and where being an "office lady" is just about the best job women can hope for.
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Title: HALF TRUTHS ANYON AND LOEWEN TOLD YOU
Words: 1346
Rating: None
Pages: 5.4
submitted by: translucentduck
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