I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.