ethnocentrism...it's not just for adults

A Simpsons' episode that I recently had the pleasure of viewing features Homer sporting the following t-shirt (the episode featurues the family travelling to Brazil - yes, I'm jealous):


Smart satire, surely. But it turns out it's not so easy to differentiate satire from right-wing reality:


And if that's not bone-chilling enough for you, you can show your imperialist stripes with this gem (or, more accurately, you can turn your unsuspecting daughter or son into an unwitting propaganda tool, given that this is the infant/toddler version....the fact that such an item even exists should be enough to give pause to Genghis Khan):