Monkey puppet meme looking away. Europeans watching the US weaken food and safety regulations.
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[โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

US history and World History are taught as two separate subjects. Ypu should know more of your own history than that of foreign nations because US history is more directly relevant to modern Americans lives than say the Crusades or the history of Denmark would be.

A lot of what you are complaining about is that the USA isn't as Eurocentric as you would hope they would be.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 9 months ago

    I'd say it is rather important to know where you are coming from. The people colonizing the USA did not appear out of thin air, but out of a complex group of nations with a wealth of backgrounds, which is completely lost if you don't learn enough about the world at large. And this is not about eurocentrism at all, since there are a lot of people out of African and Asian nations too.

    I also think it is not surprising that the average American doesn't know shit about the complicated development of the human race, which comes with a shocking ignorance towards ideas like humanism and why the founding fathers were so adamant about the separation of church and state, which is increasingly becoming lost in the USA (hint: it's because the founding fathers knew about all this stuff!).

    If you compress 10,000 years into a third of 250 years, this is what you get.

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