Should we rewrite history textbooks to be more patriotic?

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Beat Covid, Avoid Republicans

We already do that.

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- DancesWithWolves
  
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- Army Veteran
  
  And the party that is doing it is imploding.
www.bible-reviews.com

Hulk is right. We should rewrite history textbooks to be more uncompromisingly honest and unbiased. *** That being said: in fact a considerable movement in that direction has happened since I was in school. But there's plenty of room for further improvement.

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- DancesWithWolves
  
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- Army Veteran
  
  This "movement" that you speak of...does it involve destroying historical monuments? Or do you speak of CRT and the non-gender movement? Which one of these would you consider "honest and unbiased"?
- www.bible-reviews.com
  
  1465: read the question. Then: read my answer. It's a movement toward history books being "more uncompromisingly honest and unbiased". FOR EXAMPLE: just look at the typical 1960s American history textbook treatment of Native Americans, slavery, the Hamilton-Burr duel, the Japanese-American War (no longer so-named), or the Cold War, and compare it to modern textbooks. Yes, we have the modern problem of "political correctness", but IMO we had worse problems with the bias of school history textbooks back in the 60s.
Army Veteran

You mean like "sweep the bad things under the rug"? Or perhaps make up a narrative that favors one political party over all others? Maybe you mean a history book that has no place for freedom of speech if documented facts are recorded that oppose the blissful narrative you propose? You can't change the past. If you try to erase it, you'll have no lessons to learn from. Without learning from our mistakes, we make the same mistakes over again. You're not talking about a history book - you're talking about a revolving door.

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- DancesWithWolves
  
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11stevo73

Do you mean more lies? Patriotism the idea that you are better than someone because you were born in a better country ? What happened to telling the trueth?

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Jenny The Great ⭐

Rewriting history to favor one ideology over another is a dangerous game.

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- DancesWithWolves
  
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