I wasn't aware we lived in Mexico.

This just disgusts and angers me.

World Net Daily: Student who sat for Mexican Anthem rebuked---

A high-school senior who stayed seated during the playing of the Mexican National Anthem at a campus ceremony – fearing if he stood he might jeopardize his upcoming enlistment in the U.S. military – was reprimanded and sent to the school office.

The 17-year-old son of Robert Bedard of Elgin, Ill., a Chicago suburb, made the choice to stay seated during a ceremony honoring Mexican Independence Day at Larkin High School last month, the Daily Herald reported.

Bedard says his son was in the process of enlisting in the military and feared honoring another nation's anthem might jeopardize his status.

The boy's father, a lieutenant with the Elgin Fire Department, questioned how far cultural sensitivity has gone in his local schools.

"I am concerned that the Mexican Americans have unfairly monopolized the teaching of cultural awareness at this school," Bedard told the suburban paper. "At least that's the perspective of a parent. I'd love to be corrected."

According to the report, Latino students orchestrated an assembly for Mexican Independence Day, just as black students host an assembly commemorating black history month in February.

School board President Ken Kaczynski defended the celebration of different cultures.

"If we were teaching one culture's history over another, then we have an issue. But I don't think that's the case," Kaczynski said.

Last spring, a Larkin student wrote an essay lamenting the celebration of Mexican holidays in American schools, the Herald reported.

The teen faulted Mexican students, saying they shouldn't have lowered the American flag in favor of a Mexican flag on Sept. 16, 2004. School officials later said the American flag was raised again before class began.

"Of the ethnic groups at Larkin," Principal Richard Webb is quoted as saying, "the Hispanic group is growing at the most increased rate, and of that Hispanic group, the vast majority of students are Mexican-American."

"If they have an assembly, I would be happy if they will not try to force students to honor patriotic elements of another culture unless they also honor our flag, our anthem as well," Bedard said. "It's just respect for both cultures."

Excuse me! A "Mexican Independence Day" assembley? Do they celebrate our Independence Day? Do we celebrate June 14 as Bastille Day, in honor of France?

No, because Mexico is not the U.S. and the U.S. isn't France.

We most certainly do not lower our flag for the Mexican flag, on Sovereign American Soil.

I don't care how many Hispanics there are in the United States. There are a lot more Americans. And a good number of those Americans don't even care to honor their own country. Yet, they will honor Mexico.

Mexico is not our friend. If it isn't the constant stream of illegal Mexican aliens breaking into our country, bringing crime, disease, and demanding welfare and that we learn/use Spanish, then it is Vincente Fox and his corrupt regime stabbing us in the back over the War in Iraq and creating guides for their citizens to enter the U.S.

We owe them nothing, nothing at all. We shouldn't be celebrating Mexican Independence Day any more than we should celebrate Bastille Day or the like.

And, if we are going to have assemblies celebrating Hispanic history and assemblies celebrating black history, then why not have assemblies celebrating white history? It's only fair that we are all represented equally.

Don't we believe that "separate but equal is not equal"? By separating cultures and declining to celebrate all equally, you declare that some cultures are not equal to others. If all Hispanics have a certain culture, and all blacks have a certain culture, then do not all whites have a certain culture?

The answer is no. Perhaps there are overarching similarities and customs among groups, but we are all individuals. Shouldn't we just celebrate being Americans?

And in a country where the Pledge of Allegiance is found unconstitutional by rogue judges, and we constantly hear about Liberal outrage over the fact that students are forced to hear the Pledge, where is the outrage over this? Where is the outrage that a student was rebuked for not standing for the Mexican anthem? Why should he have to? If American students are no longer obliged to even stand in respect for their own national anthem, then why should American students be obliged to stand for anyone's anthem?

This is just another symptom in the Left's battle against America and all that it stands for. America, alone, is not allowed to be a proud, sovereign nation. Rather, we must open our borders to anyone and everyone, and adopt their cultures, rather than the other way around.

I will not give in to the Political Correctness that Liberals are pushing. I am proud to be an American. I will always stand for Our National Anthem. To do otherwise is a sign of disrespect for my country.

But I won't stand for the Mexican national anthem, nor the French. I don't live in Mexico or France.