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To: Dayuhan who wrote (48579)	8/3/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 108807

No, we were offered no statistics on fatality rates, that I recall. That there was some resistance was made clear...Look, my experience in two different school districts separated by almost 30 years belies your points. Although they were, I admit, in the same state, my wife, who is five years older than I and went to high- school in Kansas City, Missouri, was taught many of the same things. She acknowledges a deficit in non- Western courses, but notes that they started some a few years after she left.(I just messaged her to make sure)...It seems to me that you are simply irritable because a thesis which you believe, but which is highly controversial, is not being taught as fact in the schools. Sorry about that, but that is how it works. Sometimes, when young people are old enough to master the material, schools will "teach the controversy", but that is usually saved for Advanced Placement or college, and I think that is appropriate....

To: Dayuhan who wrote (48579)	8/3/1999 11:48:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

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?