Manhood, Manners & Morality - America"s Biggest Challenge
Beyond our economic woes, theaters of war throes, and our failed foreign policy that shows we cannot see past our nose; ironically America's biggest challenge is cultivating manhood, manners, and morality at home.
The hip-hop culture and ghetto craze sweeping American media and the entertainment industry is dumbing down our children, depleting our vocabulary, and devouring our manners.
Our citizens curse incessantly and are so selfishly impatient with one another that they often fail to be polite and show common decency in daily interactions.
The result is our children are becoming equally profane and vile, disrespecting their teachers, cursing in class, and often are incapable of properly addressing an educator or employer.
Hence wise employers and companies go afar beyond our own borders to find employees for customer service jobs, knowing full well our own people are too often incapable of manifesting any social graces or patience over a telephone conversation with a disgruntled customer.
Immigration in America is also part of the problem, as we have opened our borders allowing uneducated people to flood in.
While I love and embrace everybody as a world traveler and worldwide speaker, from a national perspective I must acknowledge and recognize that unless immigrants respectfully integrate they will cause a further brain drain on the national overall intelligence and social demeanor.
Thankfully many immigrants from India, Pakistan, China and throughout Asia are extremely intelligent and actually enhance America's overall intelligence and competitive standing in the world.
Mexicans are extremely respectful and hardworking people, who I highly admire and deeply appreciate.
Yet as an educator, when I walk through American schools and hear cursing throughout the hallways; when I see mug shots of criminals in corrections facilities wearing President Obama t-shirts: I immediately realize something is desperately missing from the national equation and is devastatingly wrong in our country.
Our auto industry has already been outdone by the Japanese and Germans.
Now our customer service jobs are being shipped abroad.
Manufacturing in China is beating us in price competitiveness and Wal Mart is thriving by selling China's cheap manufactured goods to us.
The new world order is upon us economically.
Multi-national companies no longer need us when they seek to hire new employees.
If we remain merely consumers, eventually more sectors of our economy will go bankrupt.
Yet what concerns me the most is the lack of manhood among men who shun their responsibilities at home with their families.
The depletion of social graces and basic manners, when people fail to address and interact with one another respectfully and disregard human dignity altogether, is great cause for concern.
Lastly, the decaying of morality when corporate CEOs and crooks on Wall Street and in Washington betray the public trust and prefer profitability over personal integrity.
America's biggest challenge is not Iraq, nor Al-Qaeda, but cultivating manhood, manners, and morality.
It has been said, "Yes, we can!" Yet unless our President, politicians, principals, and priests step up and speak up America shall further decline and be a new third-world country in the globe.
The hip-hop culture and ghetto craze sweeping American media and the entertainment industry is dumbing down our children, depleting our vocabulary, and devouring our manners.
Our citizens curse incessantly and are so selfishly impatient with one another that they often fail to be polite and show common decency in daily interactions.
The result is our children are becoming equally profane and vile, disrespecting their teachers, cursing in class, and often are incapable of properly addressing an educator or employer.
Hence wise employers and companies go afar beyond our own borders to find employees for customer service jobs, knowing full well our own people are too often incapable of manifesting any social graces or patience over a telephone conversation with a disgruntled customer.
Immigration in America is also part of the problem, as we have opened our borders allowing uneducated people to flood in.
While I love and embrace everybody as a world traveler and worldwide speaker, from a national perspective I must acknowledge and recognize that unless immigrants respectfully integrate they will cause a further brain drain on the national overall intelligence and social demeanor.
Thankfully many immigrants from India, Pakistan, China and throughout Asia are extremely intelligent and actually enhance America's overall intelligence and competitive standing in the world.
Mexicans are extremely respectful and hardworking people, who I highly admire and deeply appreciate.
Yet as an educator, when I walk through American schools and hear cursing throughout the hallways; when I see mug shots of criminals in corrections facilities wearing President Obama t-shirts: I immediately realize something is desperately missing from the national equation and is devastatingly wrong in our country.
Our auto industry has already been outdone by the Japanese and Germans.
Now our customer service jobs are being shipped abroad.
Manufacturing in China is beating us in price competitiveness and Wal Mart is thriving by selling China's cheap manufactured goods to us.
The new world order is upon us economically.
Multi-national companies no longer need us when they seek to hire new employees.
If we remain merely consumers, eventually more sectors of our economy will go bankrupt.
Yet what concerns me the most is the lack of manhood among men who shun their responsibilities at home with their families.
The depletion of social graces and basic manners, when people fail to address and interact with one another respectfully and disregard human dignity altogether, is great cause for concern.
Lastly, the decaying of morality when corporate CEOs and crooks on Wall Street and in Washington betray the public trust and prefer profitability over personal integrity.
America's biggest challenge is not Iraq, nor Al-Qaeda, but cultivating manhood, manners, and morality.
It has been said, "Yes, we can!" Yet unless our President, politicians, principals, and priests step up and speak up America shall further decline and be a new third-world country in the globe.