As these articles here and here says it, people nowadays seems to be afraid of the embarrassment of history and would rather deny than admit and do better. This phenomena seems to extend beyond the sociopolitical sphere into our private lives as well. If people are embarrassed about their cultural past, shouldn't they take the chance to educate people about the changes in their cultural practices rather than trying to sanitise history textbooks and deny the existence of unethical norms?
The past is a lesson for us to advance forward as a civillization, and to retreat to an Orwellian world where the past doens't exist is to invite the eternal return of human catastrophes. Every generation should be constantly educated on the tragic history of man to ensure that the ugly events never happen again. Before the Holocaust, no one knew that a government can organise a mass genocide of unimaginable scale and therefore went with it like lambs to the slaughter - in this modern day, genocides happen still because people have lost such memories or doubt that it could happen again. The truth is, it takes so very little action to start a war or a genocide. Despite the unfair verdict by the world on Bush's war against Iraq, no one could halt its progress. Go figure.
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