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Originally Posted by Halx
If you also want to get an idea about how much influence the government has on what is written in books, take a look at the new elementry school text books; you'll find an odd Orwellian feel about them, as if the color of the language we speak has been drained from the text to conform with politically correct standards. That's the government's work.
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Another good point...Here in Korea, there is a great deal of discussion on how the Japanese have advocated changing their school books to reflect a "kinder gentler" outlook on the Japanese occupation of Korea. The Korean's are outraged as it seems to downplay their perception of the horrible attrocities like rape and murder that occured under Japanese rule.
Its all relative to the observer. This is true on both the larger social scale and the individual scale...hence Halx's position that the only thing that really matters is what
you think about a particular experience. I couldn't agree more.