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For the "Books that Shaped America" list, I'm reading a history book for children originally written in the 1830s (most recent edition in the 1870s) and almost every time I go to check something against Wikipedia, its historicity is considered questionable. I'm also going to need a Northern European colonialist deprogramming after all the trash-talking (Africa as a whole has no history, everything but Christianity a "false religion," Southern Europeans are lazy because of the weather, Ethiopians hunt their countrymen for food, etc., etc.).
J: Whenever I get to the statement, "These people have no history that is worthy of being related here" in this book, it's inevitably the people I'd be most interested in hearing the history of.
Michael: Why do you hate white people, Jocelyn?
J: This time it's the Sami.
M: Wow. This is the first occasion in a long time when you read something that called people savages because they were *too* white.
Prejudiced book continues prejudiced: "I have now come to the most interesting country in Europe; the country where there is more comfort, more good sense, more thorough civilization, more true religion, than in any other place in Europe, Asia, or Africa." And that would be England.
"In these ancient times there was a strange set of men in Wales called bards. These sang songs and told stories about the brave deeds of the Welsh princes and heroes. These people loved to listen to these men, for their tales related to fierce wars and bloody battles, of which such rude nations are ever fond," says the book that is substantially comprised of what king fought which war when.
For the "Books that Shaped America" list, I'm reading a history book for children originally written in the 1830s (most recent edition in the 1870s) and almost every time I go to check something against Wikipedia, its historicity is considered questionable. I'm also going to need a Northern European colonialist deprogramming after all the trash-talking (Africa as a whole has no history, everything but Christianity a "false religion," Southern Europeans are lazy because of the weather, Ethiopians hunt their countrymen for food, etc., etc.).
J: Whenever I get to the statement, "These people have no history that is worthy of being related here" in this book, it's inevitably the people I'd be most interested in hearing the history of.
Michael: Why do you hate white people, Jocelyn?
J: This time it's the Sami.
M: Wow. This is the first occasion in a long time when you read something that called people savages because they were *too* white.
Prejudiced book continues prejudiced: "I have now come to the most interesting country in Europe; the country where there is more comfort, more good sense, more thorough civilization, more true religion, than in any other place in Europe, Asia, or Africa." And that would be England.
"In these ancient times there was a strange set of men in Wales called bards. These sang songs and told stories about the brave deeds of the Welsh princes and heroes. These people loved to listen to these men, for their tales related to fierce wars and bloody battles, of which such rude nations are ever fond," says the book that is substantially comprised of what king fought which war when.
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