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That's not an honest question--you are being fatuous. Every culture suffers from this to a very large degree. It's easy to give examples drawn from parts of the
by psykotic 14y ago
That's not an honest question--you are being fatuous. Every culture suffers from this to a very large degree. It's easy to give examples drawn from parts of the world where printing presses predated European inventions. The traditionally taught dynastic histories of China go back thousands of years beyond where there is any credible archeological evidence of a civilization in continuity with later Han culture. Koreans are similarly taught that their civilization has a 5000-year history based on nothing other than latter-day textual sources to support the deeper part of its antiquity.
- ForrestN 14y agoThe fact that non-white cultures also distort their youths' understanding of history to their own benefit isn't a valid argument for Americans to continue to do so. And it isn't a valid argument against skepticism on the part of students.
- psykotic 14y agoClearly. The point is that this isn't some white thing. It's a universal flaw of human cultures that has resulted in much ignorance and atrocity throughout history.
- ForrestN 14y agoI don't think the parent claimed that it is "some white thing" in the sense that this phenomenon only applies to white cultures. Instead, he was referring to the topic of discussion here, namely an example of white culture perpetrating this mistake.