A Thorn That Always Pricks

Ghaahhh!!!

You know when you're helping with you kid's assignment, and it's for Makabayan, and you see there a cleaned up/mocked up version of why Europeans sent expeditions to uncharted territory, and historians say there that they are seeking new discoveries or completing maps or something like that as if that's the only reason for it? And you wish you can just tear those pages off and to million pieces because it is not entirely true and reasons unwritten are the ones most important? And then you read there what your country learned from Spaniards...   AS IF these are the only reasons why your ancestors learn at all? They did not need to murder them, kill them, rape the women, teach them their cruel version of God and mutilate and burn everything that makes us who we are to the point that later generations say we are a country with no identity. Spaniards held us up for centuries. And we still could not shake off the lessons of corruption our government learned from their leeches. It's a thorn that will always prick until I die. And grr... I will never hear the end of it!