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Scenario

When community groups struggle with patriotic storytelling and historical truth-telling

Our community group started as a local history preservation society but since the protests two years ago we're constantly fighting about which stories to tell and whose version of patriotism gets to define our town's identity. Some of us want to address the harder truths about our local history and others feel like that's unpatriotic and divisive.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community is fracturing over whether authentic patriotism requires confronting difficult historical truths or protecting inspiring national narratives.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with National identity and patriotism examined?”

Peri

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