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Originally posted by melissa1988
Dude...textbooks DO leave stuff out...there's no possible way to include EVERYTHING, so they have to pick the most significant things and water down others to fit the material into one course...
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Well, of course things like a world history book is summarized to the extreme (yet they still weigh in over 1,000 pages o_O) but what they are wrongly saying is that they remove things which are negative towards the US, to make people more patriotic. That, of course, is not true. Patriotism comes from a appreciation and obligation to uphold the great things the founders of this country have done, and the great things people are doing. The need to protect our rights and our freedoms. At least, that is my case. I doubt it is something someone from another country can understand.