We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.