Your post reminded me of a book I was assigned in college on Japanese history.
The prof warned us that, while the writer had an excellent grasp of facts, the book was written in 1968 and had a huge axe to grind with China. She pointed us to a few paragraphs where he was actually arguing about whose cavemen were better and how that totally affected the present day culture, then asked us to be on the lookout for that kind of BS.
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Date: 2009-08-01 09:51 pm (UTC)The prof warned us that, while the writer had an excellent grasp of facts, the book was written in 1968 and had a huge axe to grind with China. She pointed us to a few paragraphs where he was actually arguing about whose cavemen were better and how that totally affected the present day culture, then asked us to be on the lookout for that kind of BS.