I have heard that history books have been changed because some of the historical events of the past show the terrible things that a nation did in the past.Should they be allowed to do this to books?
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jin jang
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The newspapers do it all of the time so I suppose why not with books!
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No. By altering the textbooks that is a flat out lie. How can we ever learn from our mistakes if we cover them up and lie about them? We need to accept our decisions and move on from them, not continue to make the same ones because no one is willing to accept responsibility.
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No. In the past we have made horrible decisions, such as the Spanish Inquisittion, Slavery, Nazi prisoner of war camps etc. By plastering over the past we do not learn from it. We cannot forget our past, no matter how horrible it is! We did what we did and hopefully the next generation will learn from our mistakes.
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thats absurd
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There are two ways to look at this: The winners write history. (or) If we don't remember history, we are condemed to repeat it. Both are true, and neither is good.
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I don't agree with the practice of it, but we have to be allowed to do it. Freedom of Speech. Freedom of the Press. History books are *ALWAYS* written after-the-fact and the story is always altered. It is not new. What is shocking is the types of changes that are being made nowadays and why. But, remember, too, that history is viewed through the lense of perspective. What we, as a society knew about, understood or believed in in the past can change, and so the slant the story is told with changes too.
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No, not to mention all the things they just happened to leave out.
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no its wrong ...Japan is a perfect example of this
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No. I really disagree with this practice.
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Should they be allowed, NO. Will they anyway, YES. This is similar to a question brought up in 'temporal mechanics' as part of my various physics courses, and was combined with questions of time travel to just hide and watch and document the past, without altering it, then return with the real truth about our history. Too often our history books were written by the victors of wars, and all traces of undesired information about the losers were destroyed along with the slaughter of the people who knew the details. Several times, in ancient Egypt, statues were smashed, images scraped off walls, and names stricken from all records, just so history would no longer include them.
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What many people do not realize is that most (like 95%) of the text books published in the US are written to appeal to Texas, the single largest buyer of text books in the country, and possibly the world. The cities, counties, and school boards in Texas have no say in the books used. The decision is made by the state government, which is known to be ultra-patriotic and highly conservative. Rather than print two editions of the same book (one for Texas, one for the rest of us) we get the homogenized and sanitized versions that were tailored for Texas. Sigh....
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Much of history is about wars and history is always written by the victors. Beyond that I have never found that history books in my country hide some of the appalling things that happened during colonial times.
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