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Due to existing cultural biases and misconceptions, many left-handed children in the Western world were once forced to write with their right hand. Are there any examples in history of the opposite treatment i.e. left-handedness as venerable, desirable, etc. within a certain cultural period?

by /u/WiaXmsky in /r/AskHistorians

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