Why?

I think stereotypes are so widely known throughout our country due to its past. Mainly because of the slavery that we as a country had. For so long, whites were looked upon as a "supreme race" as every other race was seriously looked down on. Since, the whites looked at everyone as a lower level, they began giving the other races names because of their hatred to anyone who was not white, and classifying them a horrid things (that's obviously weren't necessarily true to the race as a whole). That seed had been planted and never really stopped growing causing these bad traits of the other races to been so known and said often.

The Truth

No, I do not think we should change the way we teach younger students about the history of the United States. I think it would truly take the fun out of learning about the history of it, as long as they are learning the basics then it is fine. As they get older, old enough to comprehend what the real underlying truth is, then that is when the truth should be spoken to them.

The events happened, negative or not.

No I do not think countries should leave pieces of their history out, even if they are negative,while documenting the stories. I think that it is important to allow the people of the country to know EVERYTHING that has happened, this is important so history may not repeat itself. For example, if a country lost a war, as embarrassing as that is, it is important to document everything that happened so that in the future if the country were to be in a war again they may take different steps or a different approach to attacking the enemy to prevent another loss from occurring. It is also important to allow the negatives to be written in the history books so we may look at it as "wow, that was a really cruel thing for our country to have done" and realize maybe how much our society has changed for the better, or maybe not even changed at all but to motivate the current citizens to better themselves and the country.