Quote Originally Posted by Hydrizzle
Just because all the death and destruction you learn about in school is from Europe, doesn't mean that's where it all happened. People all all colors and creeds have been killing each other ever since the dawn of civilization. Oh well, it's what you get for going to a government public school. Ignorance.
I never said that only white people have caused death and destruction, just that white people have killed more people in more places than any other race of people since the dawn of civilization. And really, I have no idea what you're talking about. Most high schools romanticize the western pioneers and western civilization in general, and choose to forget the country's ugly history of genocide. High schools dont teach about the Chinese Exclusion Act, and several other discriminatory measures in our nation's history. They never ever quote how our presidents felt about native americans or blacks. They didnt teach us that Reagan thought people with HIV should be barred from coming into this country. But you're right, unless you do some research of your own, you'll be ignorant.

Just as the Chinese demand that Japanese textbooks give a more accurate picture of Japanese atrocities during WWII, we should expect the same of our textbooks, which completely fail to give a multicultural perspective of our history.