Lies My Teacher Told Me

That's actually the title of a book I have been spending my late-night hours reading. The secondary title is "Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" Fortunately I haven't read that much American History textbook (only 2 during the sophomore year!)

I guess the criticism about history books being biased is nothing new. Otherwise we won't have this old saying: "victors wrote the history. Losers don't" The irony is that I picked up this book right when the Japanese government's selection of distorted history textbook is causing a lot of controversy.

You may say the critics are biased too. In any case, this is something we all should know and is always true: there are many sides to every story. Don't make up your mind just because you've heard one side of it.