(August 14, 2013 at 6:40 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: You're naively assuming that they want to learn from past mistakes, or even see them as mistakes. Available evidence suggests that this is not the case.
Why am I naiv? I guess there is simply a cultural difference here. I live in a country in which the dreamish concept of a "glorious past" is considered to be a scam used by the most vial and thugish criminals in politics.
Learning from the past is part of our culture, especialy since our past is almoust completly filled with very horrific events.
So I would have guessed that in the southern states of the US, something as racialy based discrimination, which is today frauned uppon by the entire world, is seen as a very dark and horrific chapter of the past. At least in the state institutions because I am aware that the population sees things differently.
