[MelfinaPan]

I'm not sure if it's a case of racism or not as far as the music mockery goes. I don't deem my parents as racist. They just don't understand why I listen to music in a language that I don't speak fluently (hence I don't understand the lyrics). To me it's no different than when my father listens to church hymns or opera sung in Italian, etc. He doesn't understand Latin or Italian, but he listens to it anyway for the memories and the feelings he gets from it. Same for me...

Let me make it clear that I am an American citizen and I'm not anti-American by any stretch of the imagination. In my opinion, I think racism on the part of older Americans has a lot to do with the way history is taught to them as children. It was taught in a super nationalistic kind of way where America could do no wrong and other sides of the story were never really explored. Sure they talked a lot about Pearl Harbor and the bomb drops on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. However, they didn't talk much about the camps that Japanese Americans were forced to go to nor did they question the ramifications of dropping those bombs and how it affected future generations of Japanese citizens who still suffer from the aftermath physically and emotionally. There's nothing wrong with Nationalism. It's fine to have an "America's the Best" mentality. You find that kind of nationalism in every country, but students should be presented with the facts from all sides. It's only more recently that chapters in American history books show more than one point of view. Phew...ramble, ramble...