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This book looks very promising. I'll be keeping an eye on reviews to decide if I'll purchase.
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Well, not sure how interesting it would be to read for me, because unlike american education, ours(european) is pretty true... 
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(10-16-2013 04:36 AM)LedoS Wrote: Well, not sure how interesting it would be to read for me, because unlike american education, ours(european) is pretty true...
I'd be willing to bet that at that the very least your country's history classes have their fair share of obvious propaganda as well.
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I've heard that the Germans will edit textbooks to be somewhat anti-turk(either playing down certain events, or making them sound like the bad guys) from people I know who've come from there.
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Japanese textbooks are quite infamous for playing down the war crimes committed by the Japanese side in World War II.
Also, I've noticed that American textbooks tend to be very careful with the invasions of American Indian nations. I'm not sure if there are books which call events like the Trail of Tears a "genocide" or "eradication". Andrew Jackson was pretty much the US version of Hitler.
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US textbooks also seem to neglect mentioning that before Pearl Harbor(a supposedly undeserved attack), the US embargoed trade to Japan and nearly sent the country into a downward spiral by choking them of vital resources(thus the anti-american sentiment and explosive rise of the already-existing psychotic nationalism)
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And such embargos came when things were really getting funky in East and Southeast Asia.
I'm certain though that most Americans would just think Japan was just bombing Pearl Harbor for the fuck of it. In reality, that makes no sense. Japan was too busy sending its own army all around Asia. Plus, fighting the US would have been something completely different.
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In reality, the Japanese actually asked the US to stop aiding China. The US then said "Ha. No." and embargoed Japan. Japan relied heavily on American oil and petroleum products, and steel, for their war. So when the resources were cut off, they really suffered a big hit and were the first to raise their fists and lead the chanting "FUCK AMERICA!"(which would then become adopted by Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Iran and all the commies down south).
So Pearl Harbor happens because the US kicked Japan in the balls.
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(10-16-2013 05:20 AM)|55555| Wrote: (10-16-2013 04:36 AM)LedoS Wrote: Well, not sure how interesting it would be to read for me, because unlike american education, ours(european) is pretty true...
I'd be willing to bet that at that the very least your country's history classes have their fair share of obvious propaganda as well.
I can't say much about it because I do not believe nor know history from different sources, but it is enough for me that there was absolutely no mention of Tesla... And I am not even in his fanclub.
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