Founding Myths Esssay

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Kathy A

 

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November 7, 2014

 

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Founding Myths: Stories that Hide Our Patriotic Past is filled with many historical happenings that people believe are true, and the actuality of what really happened as well. Ray Raphael, the author of the book, believes "there are three main reasons [why we cling to these myths], thoroughly intertwined: they give us a collective identity, they make good stories, and we think they are patriotic"5)...
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The fact that people would rather believe the myths rather than reality shows that we as Americans would much rather just go on believing that we are more patriotic than we actually are. In fact, "even if they [the myths] don't tell true history, these imaginings work as stories. Much of what we think of as ?history' is driven not by facts but by these narrative demands"(5)...
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