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[–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

If you were to ask my teachers, American history goes revolutionary war, then nothing happens for awhile, then the civil war, then nothing happens for awhile, then WW1 had to happen so that we could have ourselves a WORLD WAR TWO! The four years that make up 9/10ths of American history. And then the Japanese signed the surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri and then stuff I-the boomer history teacher-personally remember so it legally can't be history.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It's so great that the US single handedly won the only war that ever happened in Asia. Good thing there hasn't been any major conflict on that side of the world since then.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's kinda clear how the curriculum was designed, after all according to this class Japan was only discovered in 1939. Russia pops in an out of existence, Korea and Vietnam are fictional and Africa is where Egypt is.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I feel like it's a bit unfair to single out America as being the only country who heavily skews their own nations history, or just completely bullshits their impacts on other nations.....

    Britain aint exactly being very clear about what the East India Trading Company was doing. Or the British Raj for that matter.

    Japan still teaches WW2 history in the vaguest of terms without admitting any wrongdoing. Unit 731 is not apart of those lessons.

    Not saying any of this is justified, just that nearly every nation does it. Everyone's the hero of their own story.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Well and going back to my original point, US history class at least for me ended at 1946, when the UN UN-nazi'd the world forever after having defeated Charlie Chaplain. And I think it's because much after that and the generations that were (and still fucking are god dammit) in control of curricula personally remember those events and thus refuse to label them as "history." Because my 70 year lifespan is basically now, so if kids these days don't remember the Tet Offensive that's they're own fault, god fuck 'em.

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