wolthera replied to your post āEvery other Americanās US and World history classes must have really...ā
I think it's because a lot of people get a few topics that are important to understand their own culture, and the rest is skipped. I missed out on a lot of important bits of history as well, and I'm dutch...
Yes, thatās true. Grade schools and general World History classes kind of have to skip out on or gloss over some things in order to fit the course within a certain period of time. My teachers often tell us that if weāre interested in history, we need to try reading books from other countries and do outside reading, or take foreign history classes in college.
Still, Iāve seen a lot of tumblr posts saying āThe American school system never tells you about THIS in history!ā and I read through the post, and most of the things are stuff I remember my teachers mentioning (especially the Black History stuff. We always spend a lot of time on Black history in America), or I remember reading about in the text books. Then people get mad because they didnāt know that stuff.
Iām not sure if my teachers happened to be really good, if everyone elseās teachers never talk about things outside of the core curriculum, or if people just donāt pay attention in class. Iām pretty sure your history classes didnāt care about every single historical figure in American history because you arenāt American, so I donāt get why Iām seeing Americans get mad that they didnāt learn about specific figures in China in their World History classes. There are Chinese History classes that focus specifically on China.
















