How Americans rewrite history

Political correct glory of ancestors | You can become famous for good deeds | Christmas kidnappers

The fact that school lessons of history are the best weapons of propaganda in the USA know no worse than in Russia. Children will grow up and will intuitively feel that one interpretation of history is correct, and the other is fundamentally wrong. After all, all decent people from childhood know that Mazepa is a traitor, and the Americans brazenly joined the Soviet victory in World War II. Perhaps in other countries they think somehow differently, but this is all-primitive propaganda for naive ones. We were told at school how everything was really. Therefore, in the United States, as in Russia, different political forces are very fond of sneaking that the state teaches children of improper history. True, American history lovers have one serious advantage over Russian. In Russia, you can discuss as much as you like - it will still be the way the Ministry of Education decides. But in the United States, almost everyone can affect schooling standards. For example, in Texas, residents choose 15 members of the State Education Council every 4 years, and they already decide what should be written in school textbooks. Such democracy does not always benefit the quality of education. For many years, dozens of scientific organizations have been outraged by the fact that the Texas Council does not allow the schools to teach an evolutionary theory normally, demanding from teachers to “indicate the weaknesses” of the long -proven laws of biology. But for Americans, democracy will be more important than scientific knowledge. If the majority of the state population through their chosen ones claim that the world was created 6 thousand years ago, then let the children learn the same. They also live in Texas.

The political correct glory of the ancestors

Having dealt with biology, the Texas Council for Education took up the humanities. During the next session, which began on March 10, the council participants will decide by what standards the next 10 years in state schools will be taught, economics, the foundations of state and law and other public disciplines. The decisions of Texas are closely monitored in other states, because Texas is the main legislator of the mod in American school education. This state is the largest buyer of school textbooks throughout the country, so publishers prefer to adapt to Texas standards. The main disputes are naturally around the story that is customary to teach in the United States not quite like in Russia. Instead of a series of rulers and glorious victories of domestic weapons in the States, they make the main emphasis on the American people themselves. It is not so important who was the president, the main thing is how the unique, rational and freedom -loving American nation developed. This is the basis with which all Americans agree. But then the contradictions begin. For conservative-mracobes, national history is a chronicle of the life of the God-bearing people. The White, Christian nation, which has been in the world for centuries the main guarantor of freedom, justice, individualism and true faith. Liberals of Liberals have no doubt in the uniqueness of the States, but they see in the history of the country the difficult and thorny path of the nation to universal equality and happiness, which continues now, although achievements are huge. Their history is an endless struggle for civil rights, and at the end - utopia of political correctness, where everyone flourishes, regardless of gender, race, nation and religion.

Good deeds can be glorified

Both the othersgathered to the Texas. Applications for a speech before the Council with wishes to school standards were submitted by117 activists . Another 14,000 people sent their thoughts about teaching the humanities in writing. After all, the current school program on history does not suit either liberals or conservatives. Conservatives insist that the history textbooks clearly indicate that it was the Divine Providence that retained the life of George Washington during the independence war. Also in school textbooks, the 1980s are ugly. We, the Americans, inspire that the end of the Cold War is the merit of Gorbachev. But we lived under Reagan and remember how everything was, so we will not let the socialists folve our children. Liberals reply that all generals and foreign tyrants must be thrown out of the program. Replace them with another portion of wrestlers for civilian rights of minorities. It is necessary to pay deserts to people who really contributed to the development of American society, and from the wars, even won, the common people were only worse. This is a disgrace that in the list of historical figures who must be mentioned in history textbooks, the majority still make up white men-Christians. There should be included, at least, one representative of each more or less large ethnic or religious community living in the United States. This list of personalities mandatory (see here ) perfectly reveals the American idea of ​​world history. All the ancient world and the Middle Ages account for only 3 people: Moses, Hammurabi and the Byzantine Emperor Justinian. Not a single Roman emperor is not even. In the new time, foreigners are becoming more, but they are all somehow connected with the United States. Napoleon sold Louisian to them, with the British King George III fought in the war for independence. American children also need to know that in World War II the United States fought against Hitler, Mussolini and Todzio, and allied with Stalin and Churchill. It is not necessary to get into such details as General de Gaulle or Gandhi. Of the Soviet figures there, in addition to Stalin, Gorbachev is also mentioned. Although there are quite a few European thinkers: of course, Karl Marx, also Russo, Montesquieu, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, etc. But there is a bunch of such people whose names are unlikely to seem to be familiar even the largest erudis. For example, Clara Barton is the founder of the American branch of the Red Cross. Caesar Chavez is an active fighter for farmers' rights. Barbara Jordan is the first black woman-speaker from Texas. Who needs world history in the form of a string of bloody wars and dictatorships? Better replace it with a chronicle of good deeds.

Christmas kidnappers

15 participants in the council on education, without sparing themselves, listen and discuss more and more new proposals. They already managed to do a lot. For example, they saved Christmas. One of the committees proposed to delete the mention of Christmas from the topic "Religious Holidays." For each religion, one holiday was supposed to be, and for Christianity they chose Easter. The Council has chosen this issue, took into account the wishes of the population and returned Christmas to the school curriculum. Also, after long disputes, it was possible to decide how the dates should be denoted in textbooks. The phrase “after the Nativity of Christ”, according to the liberals, sounds unstressing in relation to other religions. And conservatives refuse to approve the formulation of “our era”, as contrary to the religious traditions of the United States. Nobody will understand this foreign -speaking Tarabarshchina and will not be able to be offended on the Latin reduction of AD. But the hottest debates go around the names of historical figures who need to be included in the mandatory program, or vice versa, exclude from there. Despite the requests of the workers, the council managed to defend both the bloody General Eisenhower and Einstein's blasphemous. Moreover, the Council managed to expand the list of personalities mandatory to mention with the help of a truly Solomon decision that the conservatives and liberals liked. The Americans were included there, awarded the highest military award of the United States Medals of Honor, but with the mandatory indication of their national and sex. And this is only the beginning of the debate on history. But there is still an economy ahead.