Lies My Teacher Told Me Chapter 3 -The Truth About Thanksgiving-

 In Kindergarden, I remember being assigned to come to school dressed as a Native American. As young as I was, I remember being jealous of the other blonde headed girls who were assigned to come as pilgrims. While I had to wear a paper bag around my body, they were allowed to wear black dresses.  At the time, I simply felt jealousy and nothing more but now that I think of it in retrospect, one word only comes to mind; 'racism.'
 After being educated in America for over three years, you would expect for people like me to be 'more American. ' However, the truth is, the more you stay there and learn there, the more distant you actually  feel from the American culture. You realize that you are different and will never truly become 'one of them,' the superior group of people. Before, I simply thought this was a personal matter, that I felt inferior to others because I personally preferred to be white, to have blue eyes and to have blonde hair. However, it was not that simple of a matter. It was to do with the education I had received and the culture that surrounded me. Starting with the matters Loewen discussed in chapter 3,  the American environment condescends and manipulates the people into driving this eurocentric world. It is certainly frightening to think that once America has created this world, they try to remove the horrible past they once walked in order to justify their present situations.
In page 82, Loewen writes 'Each textbook picks just one reason and presents it as a fact. ' My reaction to this was 'well of course it does.' No government would want textbooks bad-naming their own country or their past. What kind of government would want to create unpatriotic citizens? To simplify matters by blindfolding the people from the truth would be the easiest way out for them.
 This needs to be the premise of searching for a solution.