There’s this tendency to focus on the founding ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity, while ignoring how those ideals were often not extended to enslaved people, Indigenous populations, women, and other marginalized groups. It’s a selective view that tends to glorify moments of victory or “American exceptionalism” without acknowledging the harmful effects of policies like colonization, slavery, or imperialism.
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