We shouldn’t be surprised that many U.S. students find the American story distant, hollow, or irrelevant, since their first serious encounter with America may have been a list of its failures.
In defense of the students, there is nothing inspiring about slavery, the forced removal of Native Americans from their traditional tribal lands, the Jim Crow era, or the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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