Know your history The question is: why is not that history taught at school in a country that calls itself "free" and "democratic"? That applies to other countries, too, whether French, British, Belgian ... colonial history, Islamic slave trade history, or Japanese and Chinese history, and modern American imperialist history. "It's no surprise that it's still possible to avoid a complete history in favour of a prettier picture of the antebellum South throughout Charleston.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51