- sirtommygunn
- Mar 7, 2013
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The American view of history is basically a story about how we've been the good guy underdogs fighting for freedom in a series of wars leading to the current day with not much else happening in between, so anything that contradicts that view tends to get people riled up. Wars that we started and genocides we've committed tend to get skimmed over if not left out entirely. The Spanish American war, for example, is ground down into a lesson about how yellow journalism is bad (but empire is so, so good). You'll get exactly one day in school about the Trail of Tears and nothing else about the efforts to wipe out Native Americans (though you'll get plenty of comments about how both sides were bad because the Natives also attacked Americans). Manifest Destiny is still treated as this glorious quest to control the land sea to shining sea and oh where'd all those Native Americans go well no time for that let's get into what you really came for: WORLD WARS! They're bad and lots of people died, but also they're extremely cool and we won both of them. The Germans did the worst thing ever and committed genocide, and that is something that goes against all of our values as freedom loving, compassionate Americans, and that's where all of world history ends.
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