There's still a lot of sugar-coating in the US. Obviously we are nowhere near as a bad as China in this regard, but the US isn't utopia of truth. In school we

There's still a lot of sugar-coating in the US. Obviously we are nowhere near as a bad as China in this regard, but the US isn't utopia of truth. In school we are not taught that Christopher Columbus was a moron, tyrant, and slave trader nor did we cover the 1953 Iranian coup d'état. History texts in US schools tend to focus on things that portray the US in a favorable light.