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American Style:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FfoQBTPY7gk<\/a>\n

We watched this with our youngest while back, and my older boys \u2013 having come in contact with modern educational standards \u2013 dropped their jaws. \u00a0We had it when they were little, but didn\u2019t watch it that much. \u00a0When we watched it this time, they said wow, did you really learn that Westward expansion was a good thing? \u00a0When they were in school, this was compared to\u00a0Lebensraum<\/em>. \u00a0Manifest Destiny? \u00a0That\u2019s like praising Mein Kampf<\/em>. \u00a0Did we really think it was good?<\/p>\n

Yeah, we did. \u00a0Not that we didn\u2019t admit to the bad. \u00a0I remember learning about the Trail of Tears all the way back in the mid-70s. \u00a0And we weren\u2019t the first to generation hear about it. \u00a0Same with slavery. \u00a0It isn\u2019t as if Americans thought slavery was an awesome chapter in our history before Roots<\/em>. \u00a0America has been wrestling with the more sordid\u00a0episodes in its history pretty much from the beginning<\/a>. \u00a0Heck, we even learned that Manifest Destiny wasn\u2019t all that and a bag of chips. \u00a0What makes it different today is that there is nothing but sheer condemnation. \u00a0 We were not a great nation with evil and injustice in its past, increasingly we are seen as an evil, racist nation with only the slightest hope of redeeming itself.<\/p>\n

It would be better if we learned American history the way we learn about Islam. \u00a0Their high school\u00a0World History book laid out the template. \u00a0Sure, the Islamic world launched invasions and conquests, indulged in a vibrant slave trade and even made multiple attempts at invading Europe. \u00a0But let\u2019s not dwell on the negatives (which the textbook didn\u2019t). \u00a0Those don\u2019t define Islam. \u00a0Most of the lesson was on the nuts and bolts, or on the positives. \u00a0Which is good. If only we applied that standard to US history, imagine how youngsters might\u00a0see things today.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"