Minorities seek history class changes

Associated Press ^ | 08/20/06 | Erin Texeira

[Interesting Times]

Are we ever going to write history through a prism of facts instead of personal/ethnic agendas? (Not in my lifetime...)

Nice post.

[x]

This is more about pride and power than about what's been taught in the schools. When groups get large enough, powerful enough, and organized enough, they start to flex their muscles and make demands. I doubt they really have that much to object to in current textbooks. It's the fanfares and banners that the activists want.

[lentulusgracchus]

Green helmets and red diapers.

Wonder what color the helmets are, if you scratch the paint?

I suppose you noticed that TIME/Newsbleak have launched Hillary this week.

[lentulusgracchus]

Ooo! Good one!

[SuziQ]

This is only true if there is a crappy history teacher. A good one will cover ALL of America's history, not just that written by WASPS.

[sit-rep]

lol...

[lentulusgracchus]

Latinos are really no different than any other ethnic group that has immigrated in large numbers.....

They are different in this, that most of them weren't even here 20 years ago, many of them not until last Wednesday week, and that many of them cling tenaciously to their Mexican citizenship and matriculas and wave the Mexican flag on U.S. soil while rallying around that repugnant monument in Los Angeles, the one that says "it was better before they came" -- as if the guy who wrote that slur would know!!

[4CJ]

I suppose you noticed that TIME/Newsbleak have launched Hillary this week.

It was inevitable.

[IronJack]

Well, I'm of German extraction, the largest ethnic group in the country. We don't have OUR own museum either. Nor do we have our own national holiday, classes taught in our own language, or signs printed in a language we can understand.

Oh, wait, yes we do. We have Independence Day, our classes are taught in English, and most signs are printed in that language too.

See, I may be of German extraction, but I'm not a German. I am an American. I was born here. I have lived here all my life. Three generations ago, my ancestors got off the boat and adopted this culture. So any museum dedicated to my heritage would have to be first and foremost, American.

[AlligatorEyes]

Well said.

[sphinx]

Seriously, why not a museum in DC for this.

Absolutely. And on the Mall, too. There is still all that wasted green space down the center. We won't rest until the entire Mall is covered. An indoor Mall!!! What an idea....

[maine-iac7]

You ask: "Where in North America were the Scots 250 years before Jamestown?"

Have fun ;o)

http://www.tartanday.gov.uk/henry.html

http://www3.sympatico.ca/robert.sewell/sinclair.html

http://www.robertsewell.ca/sinclair.html
Also, you might find interesting all the information and books now in print about the Knights Templar, Sinclair and Oak Island - (some listed below - if you are a history/mystery buff, these are for you) For some reason, the following Amazon links aren't coming through right, but you can copy/paste them - separating the 3 different 'http's' or just go to Amazon and search for "Knights Templar Oak Island" - there are several new books in print)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0892817100/104-3339855-2189520?v=glance&n=283155
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0892811854/ref=pd_sim_b_4/104-3339855-2189520?ie=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592282792/ref=reg_hu-wl_item-added/104-3339855-2189520?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
(side note: Oak Island as has been closed to the public for a dozen years - with only one weekend last year and one this year when the public was allowed access. I just returned from Oak Island - met the new owners)

[maine-iac7]

Amen!!!

[seamusnh]

Agreed. My post was done in jest. The only museum we need is the Smithsonian museum of American History - http://americanhistory.si.edu/ I took the family there last year and it was great. This year we visited Gettysburg and the Civil War Museum. Very well done also...

[Myrddin]

I traveled to Wales to sift the microfilm and paper records at the National Library in Aberystwyth. The records are pretty good back to about 1754. Prior to that time the Welsh employed a patronymic naming method that required the name of the house and 4 generations of male ancestry. Getting that stuff requires crawling through parish registers written in Welsh and making physical visits to cemeteries to read data off head stones. It's no piece of cake.

[Old Professer]

Martians; had to have been Martians.

[Ready4Freddy]

And the anti-immigration crowd thinks that our immigrants don't learn our language... ;>)

They spoke Catalan, not Spanish, although their descendents speak exclusively English now (its been over 400 years!).