It never fails to amaze me that every time I think this world cannot get any stranger, somehow it always manages to do just that. This time it is nursery rhymes that have been banned from schools in India for being, get this... unpatriotic! I mean what the fuck?? This is the sort of news that when I hear it, I have to check the date to make sure that it isn't April 1st somehow. But nope, this is the honest truth.
As detailed in this article on the BBC News website, the Indian government has banned the teaching of british nursery rhymes in schools because it wants children to learn Indian rhymes to "infuse patriotism and reduce Western influence on children". I thought we had it bad in this country with politically correct jobsworth assholes who come up with bright ideas like abolishing Sports Day at schools because "it is unfair to make the children compete". Bollocks is it unfair to make them compete, life is competition after all. They will have to compete for everything they ever get (or almost everything anyway), so they might as well get used too it.
Without competition there is no ambition, no drive to exceed and excel. There is just complacency and averages. But seriously, banning nursery rhymes is just ridiculous. It's not like the kids aren't going to recite them out of school anyway. Also this reducing Western influence is a load of crap. There are 1 BILLION Indian people. All put together, the entire populations of the European Union, USA and Canada come to less than that, and they're worried about our effect on their culture?
Just another sign (as if one was needed) that this world is going to hell in a handbasket!
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