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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (48579)8/3/1999 11:48:00 AM
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This may be changing; I certainly hope so.

History (or, if it can be differentiated--which is a good subject for an evening's discussion over good coffee after a superb homecooked dinner--our understanding of history) is always changing. But sometimes I think we need to ask whether the "clarification" or "correction" of myths is always a good thing. Is a closer approach to objective truth always better than retaining societal myths? I think myth is a powerful, valuable, and unifying force for a culture. I, too, was taught in school about the American liberation of the Phillipines from the evil Spaniards and our bringing the blessings of Yankee-style freedom to the backward peoples of the South Pacific. It may not have been completey accurate from the Filipinos point of view (!), but do I, and more important does our culture, really benefit from the destruction of the myth?
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