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Here in the States if you say you are Athiest/Agnostic you are viewed as Evil... I thought the whole world was like that until recently...
The majority of kids in my school have no belief in God. I have a reputation for being knowledgable I guess. But for some reason they seem to regard me lower. I really don't know.
The curriculum endorses a lot of things. We had to read stories like "Gryphon", a short story which "brainwashes" the ill-informed student into thinking conservatism is an atrocity and ultimately viewing change as absolute necessity on the war against tradition. It's your average run of the mill book to change thinking, setting up the sympathetic characters accordingly and such. I feel the author may have been duped by his own characters though, seeing many sympathetic characters may be unsympathetic at heart. A victory for humanists everywhere for that literature to be in school.
We also read a story called "Blue(?)", relaying that being gay is fine. Which in much of the population's opinion it very well may be.
The schools are shaping the students in the way they think, to avoid ignorance of course, but may very well be creating a breeding ground for anti-christians. (I do expect a snappy remark from someone correlating ignorance to christianity.)
Furthermore many teachers state their opinions frequently from what I've seen, which may be the greatest cause in the sway of thinking. Many are a little reckless in what they impose onto their students.
What I am getting at is this:
A new generation is coming, one that will be radically different from the one now in the States.
Polarized to no chance of middle ground ever.
So take comfort in the fact that so the States will be like (according to your assumption of course) the rest of the world.
-peace