To understand the bias of the textbooks, once must notice that the majority of textbooks are written by white Europeans. Loewen states numerous times through his book Lies My Teacher Told Me that the main reason the textbooks are bias is because our people wrote them. Therefore, the reason a majority of good developments are traceable to Europe is because we, as the people, want to make ourselves appear good. To elaborate, in a class discussion we brought up the topic that the authors of textbooks correct what happens in history; this statements explained means, “textbooks that are "factually correct" may also be communicating very selective values and moral judgments. This form of bias is subtler than is bias resulting from inaccurate facts, but it can still be very powerful” (socialstudies.org). Americans gain the ability to alter textbooks