Reply #5: If Roberto really wants to wallow in the ugliness.... [View All]

He should read "No LOgo" by Naomi Klein, "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn, or almost any of Noam Chomsky's books on Foreign Policy.

I can't think of anything but standard-issue school history textbooks that tell Americans how great they are, that teach them to be arrogant, etc. I remember my own high school history book took an anti-labor stance regarding the Haymarket Riots, condemned Sacco and Vanzetti, glorified the Manifest Destiny theory, glossed over the Genocide of American Indians, shamelessly claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK all by himself, lionized Eli Whitney and Henry Ford, etc. And this was in the late 80's! Roberto should check out what the schools are teaching ninth-graders to understand the Amerian mind-set.