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"Indoctrination," as Coles, states in his examination of ideology and nationalism in Nicaragua becomes the biggest, yet main argument whether or not he believes the children and people in Nicaragua were "brainwashed" into believing that Nicaragua is a great empire on the rise and that the United States was its foe in government affairs. While interviewing with several children of Nicaragua he quickly realizes that the children have been taught and rehearsed answers to questions that may come about in their lives. When Coles realizes this he is faced with the question, " Do American children, do my children, did I as a child, learn in a similar vein implicitly political stereotypic notions?" (30), he questions if government has influence on the school system in America the same way the government in Nicaragua does. In ways, it is safe to say that American children do learn the same as Nicaraguan children do. America is powerful, and that through struggles and many deaths, we as Americans became the best. In elementary school, the Pledge of Allegiance is taught and rehearsed on a daily basis. " ....and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all". This c