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I think I know why the Americans think they are the only ones who have freedom. They have no clue what that word means.
By the way, I'm aware that's not true for all Americans, but the GOP idiots for sure don't have a single clue.
You're precisely right. I'm assuming you're not American.
I grew up in rural America. Teachers told us things like the middle east hated us because we are free. It wasn't until I was already in high school when schools complied and acknowledged the bad shit Christopher Columbus did but certainly not to the full extent. They would tell us about how bad all these other countries are and how great we are. We were taught about slavery but it was taught like racism was just over and there were definitely no lingering stink from that. They taught us the civil rights movement like it already happened and now we are the perfect country and minorities are well protected now :) even though once a bunch of Mexican kids, including me, got pulled into a room in 5th grade just for a teacher to tell us how we all looked like trouble makers. We were literally just sitting the commons waiting for classes to start. We weren't even all grouped together. They rounded us together. I didn't understand what I did wrong. Why was I being scolded for what I looked like? It wasn't until years later I realized we were all Mexican in that room. I was too young to even consider that at the time.
We have to have these discussions and do our own research to see through it all.
Sorry for the unsolicited trauma dump btw but I figure it's probably good to have that reality of America put out. I should say I grew up in extremely small towns. Like smaller towns than most country singers sing about lol