If books/text-books are the most potent tools to create individuals that it wants for a culture, looking at which culture teaches what also gives a shortcut to access the culture's motives.
When a culture teaches that Hitler killed millions (and does not highlight at all those who supported/encouraged/carried out each small step in the process) or that Dyer killed in Jaliyawala (and does not mention in same breath who actually fired the bullets), it trains future children to carry out unimaginable atrocities without any guilt, because they would be 'just doing their jobs'. Such culture would easily create societies where people getting money from the system (employees) can be given a small supari (incentive or just an order) to violate body sovereignty of weaker people they have access to and this news can proudly be published in newspaper. They can then proceed to do their job.
On the other hand, Our culture teaches us about the history where Valiyo was clearly told by even his own family that sin belongs to whose hands has done the sin. as a consequence, he changed his course and became Valmiki Rishi; and by teaching this the culture would create more Rishies and stop most others from at least sliding to criminality.
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