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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
But that goes for everything, not just natives and slavery. Americans are woefully ignorant of history in general, not just the unpleasant stuff their government did. Take World War 2, a key part of America's patriotic past, lionized by conservatives as well as liberals, and a global event that happened within living memory.
And yet a quarter of American students couldn't identity who Hitler was. Most couldn't name the major combatants. Half couldn't identity when it ended.
Only half of Americans surveyed can even name the three branches of government.
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So basically you're making my point for me. The US whitewashes and tidies up our history, but we treat other nations'/regimes' crimes with full clarity, which was the original point being made.