U.S. History Has Plenty of Good and Bad. Here's How to See Both. - WSJ - 0 views
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I believe that most of us are willing to broaden our understanding of our country’s history to look at both the best and the worst. But we often can’t—not for intellectual reasons but because of unrecognized psychological ones. Understanding those psychological roadblocks is a formidable challenge. But it’s crucial to do so if we want to get past them.
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Let’s begin with the four reasons our minds sometimes make it hard to have a more honest, nuanced view of our history.
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First, our minds tend to play down our wrongdoing from the past.
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