NOTHING TO APOLOGIZE FOR. THE TRUTH ABOUT WESTERN CIVILIZATION - Tecno-Libro

Western Civilization transformed the world through reason, freedom, progress, individualism, ingenuity, and the great experiment known as America. America is not all good, but we re losing what is good because we re afraid to claim it. As though somehow it s shameful to honor such an imperfect country. But the beauty of America is that we re founded on perfect ideals. And as short of those ideals as we sometimes fall, we never stop striving to attain them. That s what we need to honor. That s what we don t want to lose. Yes, we had slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation . We also had the Civil Rights Movement, possible only in Western culture because we value critical self-reflection and progress. Yes, we had rapacious capitalism, Robber Barons, and child labor . We also have capitalism that has lifted more people out of poverty than any other system ever invented. Yes, we had legal racism, sexis