Blog 8

I believe that American public schools should not have the authority to teach "American" values in schools. This is because I believe that values come from experiences that a person can connect to. Since each student comes from a different background, they can't possibly have the same experiences. Without the same experiences, values will differ as well. For example, from the two sources from indian perspective, showed that one was ripped from her home and her family. She longed to be with them, but she was forced to behave like someone she was not. The other source stated that he was forced to do things he didn't understand. They weren't able to understand the reason why they were being taken. Their experiences did not explain beyond their own lives. Therefore they were not able to express the same values as the Americans that they were taken by. Overall, American schools should not teach values in public schools because the experience of one type of people cannot be used as a representative of all people.