Below is the latest trailer for the new Assassins Creed game that is coming. I have never played the series but the original concept was interesting. I liked how the developers avoided the easy way of using World War 2 or Feudal Japan and use settings not normally used.

This game for those who don't know is set during the American War of Independence and the trailers are creating a lot of flak as some are saying Ubisoft are 'unbiased' when always showing the British as the 'bad-guys'. I don't care about that, I love my history and I feel what happened has happened.

So what's my problem with the trailer?

In the trailer is shows various English colonist proclaiming why they are fighting for independence. All of them are noble except for one, the child who says:

"When I refuse to learn the history of a country I'll never see."

I am sorry but that is ignorance at its worse. To learn another country's history is to understand their culture and where they come from and to refuse that is to create an dangerous precedence. What is more there was only 168 years of history since Jamestown was first colonised in 1607 so there is not much history of their own colonies to fill an entire tuition.

As someone who love's history and admires all countries culture and past, to shun any form of education and understanding unnerves me.