How Can One Tolerate Portraying Past Colonialism as NOT Evil?
For many countries that have some colonial past, the national identity is often supplemented, and in many cases, defined by struggle for freedom and throwing off colonial rule. That of the US is a great example. The cherished principles of freedom is evidenced by the early rebels' personal sacrifices in battlefields against the British. And their struggles are epitomized as heroic in places like the lyrics of the national anthem. The US is often not the exception but the norm in post-colonial countries, many of which systematically link the idea of nation with pain of colonialism.