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<blockquote data-quote="wawazat" data-source="post: 3666124" data-attributes="member: 35603"><p>One of my strongest memories is walking through Fort Breendonk in Belgium when I was 14. They had managed to recover a large amount of charcoal art done by the people that were held there and it was heartbreaking seeing the despair depicted in the sketches. I was a pretty typical teenager when it came to looking at old stuff, but that experience captured my attention and had a very strong impact on the way I view the world.</p><p></p><p>As a part of that trip, we also started each morning with a history class taught by a Belgian teacher on what we were going to see that day. It became very apparent the history taught in any given country will have some bias towards making that country look great. I never heard anything critical about the US (Belgians as a whole are incredibly grateful and welcoming of Americans), but the perspective was very different from anything I had learned prior to that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wawazat, post: 3666124, member: 35603"] One of my strongest memories is walking through Fort Breendonk in Belgium when I was 14. They had managed to recover a large amount of charcoal art done by the people that were held there and it was heartbreaking seeing the despair depicted in the sketches. I was a pretty typical teenager when it came to looking at old stuff, but that experience captured my attention and had a very strong impact on the way I view the world. As a part of that trip, we also started each morning with a history class taught by a Belgian teacher on what we were going to see that day. It became very apparent the history taught in any given country will have some bias towards making that country look great. I never heard anything critical about the US (Belgians as a whole are incredibly grateful and welcoming of Americans), but the perspective was very different from anything I had learned prior to that. [/QUOTE]
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