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Something I've noticed about some currently taught history curriculums is the lack of emphasis on the heroes and villians of history.
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This is because the prevailing view is that the individual is of little importance in history (and probably of little value for that matter). What they believe to be important are "broad, general events and the political, sociological, economic, and geographical forces which drove those events." The individuals are basically irrelevant because the situation created the individual that it needed. The "force" finds the individual it needs. If the person who historically did the deed was not there, then the "force" would have found somebody else who would have done the same thing.
Then you get to the little matter of how they don't really believe in heros or villians.
[ June 03, 2002: Message edited by: Kuruharan ]