wolthera replied to your post “Every other American’s US and World history classes must have really...”
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, that’s 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 we’re interested in history, we need to try reading books from other countries and do outside reading, or take foreign history classes in college.
Still, I’ve seen a lot of tumblr posts saying “The American school system never tells you about THIS in history!” 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 didn’t know that stuff.
I’m not sure if my teachers happened to be really good, if everyone else’s teachers never talk about things outside of the core curriculum, or if people just don’t pay attention in class. I’m pretty sure your history classes didn’t care about every single historical figure in American history because you aren’t American, so I don’t get why I’m seeing Americans get mad that they didn’t learn about specific figures in China in their World History classes. There are Chinese History classes that focus specifically on China.
