Some Republicans place great emphasis on battling and removing "woke" culture. They think children in schools must be protected from learning about some of the horrors of slavery, or the mistreatment of native Americans or the effects of climate change or binary sexuality. As far as they are concerned, there is no need to dwell on such topics which cause resentment and unhappiness. Such topics must be swept under the carpet. Many nations, like the British, the Japanese, and the Argentinians have done the same, unfortunately. History is rewritten, sanitized or ignored. Sometimes, however, a country faces up squarely to its past. Young Germans are all required to watch films about the holocaust. Russia's youth, however, must not learn the truth about the horrors of the Stalin purges or the Gulag. President Sarmiento of Argentina in 1860 set about quietly exterminating indigenous and ex-slave populations and encouraging European immigration. It was a secret. The result? No black soccer players and the racism lingers on in the chants. Far from being "bad" or "woke," teaching new generations about all aspects of their country's past, good and bad, is actually positive in the long term. Hopefully, knowing about the mistakes of the past, helps us prevent them happening again.