people will mock other countries for making hero stories about their glorious leaders, and then turn around and teach their kids that George Washington never told a lie and overemphasize every early president's role in every battle they were in
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Angel Brown
Jackson Edwards
the pilgrims thing is a post civil war thing so that the north didn't have to credit jamestown as being the first settlement
Bentley Walker
Except washington was fucking awesome. Watch this documentary
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Jason Kelly
I think the one about westward expansion is worse.
Ayden Scott
Lucas Sanchez
You know, prior to the 1950’s most Americans would point to figures like Johnny Appleseed, Dirty Dan Harris, Calamity Jane, and Captain Stormalong as the greatest American heroic figures.
The Cold War made America shift from mythologizing mundane people doing mundane things in extraordinary ways to war leaders and supreme commanders.
Justin Thomas
You think if the Confederates had been able to rally around a single Thanksgiving instead of all the states having their own now-forgotten ones, we’d be teaching the kids that the Mayflower was the birth of western civilization less?
John Sanders
This is true
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Lucas Bailey
nah, the south would have had to win the civil war for that to happen. The whole mayflower mythos was to make it so the North would be more important in the school system than the south
Owen Perry
The revolution was a conflict of the English Civil war that reignited in the new world, while remaining a cold war in the old. Likewise the civil war was a repeat of the same conflict, between Roundheads (the North) and Cavaliers (the South). The constant struggle since Henry VIII between high-church Anglicans and landed gentry against protestant parliamentarians and Whigs reasserted itself in the new world. Calvinist ministers and Virginian Cavaliers were never going to get along