Hello, kiddies.  I'm back.  Tonight's rant is about...well...us.  Do any of you remember the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States?  The one that starts, We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, blah, blah, blah?  Well, I believe it should read We the Pussies.  That's right.  Pussies.  After all, in no other nation on this planet do people whine, bitch, and complain more about what's said than we do.  Everybody crying about word choice, or attitude.  But the most egregious has to be the newest 'fad' of claiming that we are doing 'cultural appropriation'.  What that means is that we, as Americans, do not have the right to eat Mexican food, because we are not Mexican.  We do not have the right to wear kimonos, because we are not Japanese.  Even within our shores, we are committing 'cultural appropriation'.  Young white college kids have no right to listen to rap, r&b, or hip-hop because they aren't black.

Even more egregious is the idea that we aren't allowed, as white Americans, to eat Spanish food, or Japanese food, or Chinese food, because we are 'appropriating' their culture by eating their food.  We can't speak Spanish, or Japanese, or German, or French, because we are 'appropriating' their culture.  Never mind that, for a lot of us, we speak the other languages to get by in our jobs.  Social workers need to be multilingual.  Police officers need to be multilingual. Teachers need to be multilingual. Doctors and nurses need to be multilingual.  And, before you pussified people jump all over this, yes, those people who naturally speak those languages can get those jobs.  However, there aren't enough of them to fill the positions, based on availability, or education.  As well, they need to be able to speak and understand English.  They can't just service their own people; jobs just don't work that way.  Even translators need a college degree, and training to deal with the different types of people every day.  It's beyond ridiculous to expect people to 'keep to their own kind' while living in the same damn country.

If we hold to the separatist attitudes these 'do-gooders' are espousing, then how do you expect us to be able to learn about each other?  How do you expect us to be able to get along if we can't understand each other?  Is it 'culture appropriation' for those of other nationalities to speak English?  You can't have it both ways; if we are 'appropriating' their culture by wearing their clothes and speaking their language and eating their food, then, by the same token, they are 'appropriating' our culture by wearing our clothes, and speaking our language and eating our food.

The direction that all of this comes from is the pussified adults, raised by parents who were so very worried about little Johnny's self esteem that they insisted he get a trophy at the school competitions, just for showing up.  Participation trophies are the biggest sin against children than anything I've ever heard of.  How in god's name are they supposed to learn how to deal with life's realities if they have no idea what failure is?  Doing this encourages them to believe that they will always win.  And that is just not true.  They will fail about seventy percent of the time at what they try, or do.  Without the lessons of childhood, where they actually learn that the world isn't all sunshine and roses, they will fail at about ninety five percent of anything they try.  These are the kids that end up living at home when they're thirty five because the 'world is too hard'.  They don't go on to college, or if they do, they drop out because they flunked that final, fully expecting that they'd pass simply because they showed up.  These are the kids who deliver pizzas at age forty, because they aren't suited to, or capable of, anything else.

These kids never learn that the world is full of winners and losers.  And the losers are the ones who either don't try, or don't believe that they're losers to begin with.  They're the people who stand out in shopping center parking lots, and on street corners wearing brand spanking new clothes and begging for money.  They're the people who drive the latest SUVs and collect welfare checks.  They're the people who have been raised on the public dole and know of nothing else.  Fourth and fifth generation welfare recipients, who know nothing else and are capable of nothing else.  Kids who are raised with such a sense of entitlement that it makes me want to smash my fist into their faces, just to show them that the only thing they're entitled to is a swift kick in the ass.