Chasm of ignorance too deep to bridge?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6535089.stm

"The first ethnic minority president of the National Union of Teachers has said ministers fuel racism by ordering schools to teach "British values".
London assistant head teacher Baljeet Ghale told the union's annual conference Britain did not have a monopoly on free speech and tolerance.
The move only fuelled the "shadow of racism" behind some notions of Britishness, she said.
A government spokesman dismissed her claims as "nonsense".
Ms Ghale, who came to England from Kenya at the age of eight, also criticised Labour's record on other education issues."

"At the NUT conference, in Harrogate, Ms Ghale said Education Secretary Alan Johnson had described the "values we hold very dear in Britain" as "free speech, tolerance, respect for the rule of law".
"Well, in what way, I'd like to know, are these values that are not held by the peoples of other countries?" she said. "

Patriotism is a simple, organic pride in the place of your birth, the place of your traditions, the place that you call home. Baljeet Ghale obviously does not feel patriotic. And guess what? She's at the head of the largest group of people who day in day out influence the children of Britain. The people who can repeat over and over to those children the mantra's of politically correct Britain-hatred and white people-hatred. How long can a country frantically trashing its own values and traditions and folk-ways maintain itself?

Oh, and by the way, Ms Ghale, the answer to your (extremely badly phrased) question about free speech, tolerance and respect for the rule of law is very few countries actually have them as opposed to paying them lip service. But then you'd need to have got outside your echo chamber of politically correct college friends and visited some other countries to find that out.

Can Britain really sustain this constant calling into question of its obvious virtues? Can people who are constantly told that they are racist, intolerant and intrinsically evil refrain from simply saying, 'OK, we are those things so we'll start behaving like we are'? At which point, Ms Ghale will probably find herself very quickly hung from the nearest lamppost, which is what happens when foreigners viciously insult their host countries in most parts of the world. I don't want to see a Britain like that. But to avoid it, this perpetual invoking of a grossly distorted spectre of Britain must be confronted and rebutted.