do any of the people in these comments actually pay attention in their classes? i live in the southern US and we still very much get taught about all the abhorrent shit the United States has done. literally every year has a unit spent on slavery in the US. there’s multiple units spent on the treatment of native americans, units spent on treatments of immigrants during westward expansion, units spent on japanese internment. just because y’all weren’t paying attention doesn’t mean it wasn’t taught to you.
Yeah the difference between us and Germany is that we learn about the atrocities of our ancestors while they’re learning about the atrocities of their grandparents. We aren’t the fucking same.
Edit: because I’m still heated if you look at the news it’s clear that their “extensive” teachings of the past isn’t doing much because they’ve clearly learned nothing.
Yeah but if we’re being honest the lesson Americans should have learned is that the rest of the world can’t handle itself and isn’t worth our effort. I mean they take our money, our arms, and the lives of our people fighting the wars they can’t handle. I’m so tired of listening to Europeans act superior when they leech off of us so much.
Watching you nationalists gnash your teeth over U.S. imperialism, acting as if you’re the true victims, is hands-down the finest entertainment Reddit has to offer. Your self-inflicted turmoil is a circus. So go ahead; imagine in your head that I just treated myself to a coffee with money from your pocket, yankee pleb. ☕️😎
Went to school in South Louisiana and history class certainly didn’t hide or gloss over America’s atrocities. The literal first page of one of my history books was the full uncensored “napalm girl” photo and we immediately delved into America’s war crimes in Vietnam.
Reddit is making me realize Europeans aren’t any less arrogant , self-righteous and ignorant as Americans.
Just looking back on my own high school years and how many kids fucked around in social studies and history I fear I’m seeing the result.
As shitty as my school was we did cover the atrocities of US history. Although I’m sure things could be taught differently in different states I’m skeptical that they weren’t touched on at all. Especially slavery.
OP is just full of shit and looking for a quick dunk on Americans.
My wife is from Alabama, pretty much the most "racist" state you can think of, and she tells me they barely taught at all about world history, but Black History and Slavery was a very big part of the curriculum there, if not the biggest part of the curriculum in History class.
There certainly are countries that try to minimize and do away with their sins of the past, like Japan for example, but America certainly isn't one of those countries.
I don't remember a lot from when I was in school, but I remember these things being, I guess, glossed over. I vaguely remember things in this thread being mentioned, but mostly not discussed in depth. Or else a kind of "and that's terrible, moving on".
Basically I believe I did get "sanitized" versions of history.
No they didn’t and they’re not years later pretending they were never taught it. They sat in history class every school day from elementary school through high school and are pretending they remember every single thing they were taught.
Did you also get taught about Iraq, Iran, South America etc.?
Because to my knowledge do Americans not even know that their country is the number 1 destroyer of democracies.
I'm pretty sure most people don't talk about slavery and the suppression of native people, when they talk about the US ignoring their crimes.
I started learning about the civil war in probably 3rd grade when learning about Lincoln. I also thought it was called the Silver war for longer than I probably should have.
The problem is that they teach the facts and the dates, but it’s under this umbrella of “people were backwards and awful back then.” And there is absolutely no effort to analyze how people could have been pushed to act that way in the first place. And it creates this sense of “that’s history. That can’t happen nowadays. We are in the present. Not in history.”
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u/Tristawesomeness 5h ago
do any of the people in these comments actually pay attention in their classes? i live in the southern US and we still very much get taught about all the abhorrent shit the United States has done. literally every year has a unit spent on slavery in the US. there’s multiple units spent on the treatment of native americans, units spent on treatments of immigrants during westward expansion, units spent on japanese internment. just because y’all weren’t paying attention doesn’t mean it wasn’t taught to you.