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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Propaganda

What they said is a line from a song we are made to sing as children. They don't really teach us about life in other countries, we have to do that ourselves if we happen to be curious.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You were made to sing that song? Gross!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yep. From kindergarten to 6th grade we had to sing that along with a myriad of other similar songs. By the time I was around 13 I started to realize how weird it is and I began questioning everything I had ever been taught. Growing up, my parents made me go to a Catholic school every Wednesday evening so I had been taught lots of incorrect and distorted information. Eventually I began skipping class and I would walk around town and do whatever and that is the first time I actually felt free.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's normal for young children to have a music class, usually this is primarily a 'fun' class and includes a lot of chorus singing.

This was one of the songs sung in the class when I was a kid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Propaganda plus having the intellectual capacity of a middle schooler while being assumed to be a reasonable person