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>These stories don’t get told anymore, and it shows in the mindset of Americans today.
Have you ACTUALLY seen a western movie? They're constantly about how horrid living back in the day was, but they were capable of being somewhat comical yet inspire a certain level of pride in it's audience, Clint Eastwood was a badass american hero braving the fucking wastelands per say. Our heroes are no longer humans, they are superheroes that represent certain ideals spread around by our current culture, the X-men are like actually just disabled people duuude. The stories don't need to be boring or rehashed, they can be accurate and cruel but need to be humane and showcase a somewhat enduring theme of your 'American cultural values' like how the basic western hero is a lonely independent man who's crafty and snarky but makes up his own rules or whatever. Im italian so im not one to dictate what american values are, im just very obsessed with their history and culture is all.
>This is a falsehood. Some Chinese elites do study in the West, but not all, or even a majority.
A ton of prestigious universities such as Harvard and Cambridge are closing their doors and discriminating agains't chinese students. To claim it's not a issue the west cares about is preposterous.
>History is the core of the problem. Americans and Europeans are taught to hate and detest their own past.
Again, not american, but here in Europe people are taught to be more critical of their past, in fact I wish we were more. In our textbooks we constantly got told how the italian government slipped up and got careless countless times yet our population still votes for pro-government policies from both the left and right leaning parties. Germans always sat down like fucking dogs any time the state told them to do something yet the german education system has to tell them the problem with nazism was some inner racism and not post war spite or trust in populist politicians. We shouls focus on less petty things like sexism or racism or if some old ruler cheated on his wife and study the ACTUAL core issues that plague a country's history. I don't demand a censorship of unproud or negative feedback, I just want it to go to actual important issues and put these ideas on the right track. Venerating the dead is as useless and needless as hating them, specially since they are no longer around to hear our praise or call their slaves niggers, they don't care. What we need to do is realise where we went right and where we went wrong to further our nation's progress, dwelling on the past is for stagnant nations, no wonder so many pre colombian tribes and societies venerate the dead so damn much. They are still humans.

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Well history has certainly taken quite an interesting turn since this book hasn’t it