Thinking Critically, Challenging Cultural Myths" challenges us to think critically. Telling us to be prepared for the vastly differences in high school and college. Columbo challenges us to put ourselves in an El Salvadoran person's place as he reads the title of a book "Rereading America" and reminds us that The United States is not the only country in North America and it is the arrogance of we in the United States who take it for granted that it is the only country in North America. Something of which I can say with pride that I am not guilty. The fact that people do not know what North America includes is evidence of the dubious quality of our education system.
Columbo's example of cultural myths was very profound in "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethk. Which to today's generation, and probably rightfully so sounds like a perverted, abusive situation, turns out to me to be quite a sweet memory a boy has of his father. It took some critical thinking on my part to get over the afore mentioned.