Reddit mentions of The Western Tradition, Vol. 2: From the Renaissance to the Present
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>they are being taught that Western Civilization itself is evil
As a quick empirical test, there is this: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=humanities&subcat=history&spec=europeanhistory
How many of these could be categorized as hostile, neutral, or friendly?
For example, "European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries" and "Nazi Germany and the Holocaust" obviously count as hostile.
"European Thought and Culture", based on Eugen Weber's http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0669394432 looks like something between neutral to friendly.
Of course, neutral to friendly means a book that paints a positive picture of the West because the west was generally more "progressive" in the rest! But of course this is the only positivity imaginable, I mean, praising the West for something reactionary is something that you could not find in popular books even 100-150 years ago. The only way it could be realistically expected to not tell kids to hate their ancestors is by telling them how "progressive" their ancestors used to be. This sucks, but this are the realities.
Similarly, "Victorian Literature and Culture" http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-481-victorian-literature-and-culture-spring-2003/ has an unmistakeably leftie smell, but does not come across as profoundly hostile.
"The Royal Family" http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-342-the-royal-family-fall-2003/ sounds very hostile, basically focusing on their failures only.
"Medieval Economic History In Comparative Perspective" http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-134j-medieval-economic-history-in-comparative-perspective-spring-2012/ sounds like something positively friendly, it suggests at doing things better than competing civilizations.
Then there are a lot of obvious ones. Praising post-Franco Spain etc.
In short, my quick experiment finds about 50-60% of hostility to our ancestors in a contemporary syllabus.
I don't think they could get away with 100%. Yet.