Give Me Some Credit Too

Submitted by David Ryan (United States), Jun 17, 2021 at 14:45

About the same time, 1971, I saw that 4th grade social studies (Advanced Program) had gone to hell when they tried to tell me in a comparative workbook that the American suburbs, Cossack collective farms and Australian Aboriginal grass shacks were just cultural choices and implied that anyone in the latter two with half a brain and half a chance wouldn't flee to the first one.

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