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People have to get over teaching "black" or "white" history or whatever other name it's given. I don't have to be Chinese to learn about the Chinese experience here or abroad or Chinese history. I couldn't tell you what it is like to live as a Chinese person in present everyday life, but this is not something that schools are there for; that is taught or discussed in the home because of the subtle, delicate, interpersonal nature of that shared experience which can't readily be put into a book and understood. School is to provide education. Math and science is color-blind (understanding 1 + 1 = 2 is an abstract concept that can be learned universally without any inherit bias existing in it). History and other subjects can be biased but the solution is not to create separate schools. The solution is to encourage discourse and academic rigor to get to the truth.
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