At least, as it pertains to the liberal arts and the humanities, what message have students gotten about their value? Have these students not been told from the time that they entered school that Western civilization is merely the study of whites enslaving non-whites and destroying non-European civilizations? What value has American history – or the history of all of Europe – as it has produced nothing but evil-or so they have been taught? I was raised to value my American citizenship and my cultural heritage. I doubt that any succeeding generation of American students has had the same experience.