So many Americans have a complete lack of fundamental history education, it makes me rage.
I'm 31 now, and my whole life I've been astounded by people who have never even heard of the Soviet Union or the cold war.
>>Be me, year 2000, at parent's house >>Open 1993 Britannica 'U' volume to look something up >>Grill sees USSR... "That's not a real country!" >>Grill's favorite movie is Dr. Strangelove
MIND BLOWN
>>On Date this afternoon >>Watching Game of Thrones, have Warsaw Pact map as desktop background atm >>"user, what be Soviet"
>>Hanging with friends watching Spartacus >>"user, Rome existed around 300 years ago, right?"
I hate to admit it, but American education must really be awful. This shit kills me
>American education must really be awful The education was there, they just didn't pay attention to any of it.
Michael Green
Kek when I was in elementary school I got yelled at because apparently it was my fault that the other kids knew who Hitler was. And no, I didn't tell people he was a cool guy or anything edgy like that.
David Richardson
I was always on the honor roll, but i don't remember ever getting far enough in the book to reach anyhting past WWII
Cooper Cruz
We are jelous of Americans about that you dont need to study History and English,and instead of these you can study more pracitical sicence,math classes. I calm down and think again,dunno why we have to study the history of savage,smelly primitive humans. And in here historical lessons tend to make students just memolize "In 894,Japanese stopped to send a misson to China" or something about fragmentaly truth.
Dylan Ortiz
this honestly, had the exact same experience. I even took AP history and my teacher that was supposed to teach us Civil War to modern day only spent the whole time talking about industrialization, the Lindbergh baby, and then the social life of the 50's. That's it. Nothing about, you know, the Soviet Union or any conflicts America was involved with throughout the world that are actually relevant to our understanding of current events.
Grayson Collins
I think i had an ok math and science education but my history education was non existent
Joseph Ortiz
I remember most of the 80's and when the berlin wall fell.
I remember when the globes had to be replaced for 4 years in a row.
Lincoln Jones
Same here. I still say "Czechoslovakia" out of habit.
Justin Watson
yea. that and yugoslavia
Cooper Murphy
Most women are superficial animals fit moslty for house work. They are more concerned with house decorations than cosmic events. Just give up and stick your dick in their stupid mouth.
t. someone who is married
Connor Davis
I really like history when I can see how people have pretty much always been the same in some ways.
Sebastian Rogers
>people have pretty much always been the same in some ways. lol nope
James Peterson
it's much easier to close your ears when your wife can't open her eyes xiao xi lukok
Wyatt Johnson
Kek ask em if they also believe all Africans live in mud huts.
Michael Morris
I'm 30 and remember learning about all of that.
Sounds like you hang out with shitty people.
Justin Brooks
Education is easily accessible if you actually apply yourself in high school. I took all AP classes and learned quite a bit, I even got college credit for some of them.
Had to take a basic government class with normies though and felt horrible for the teacher. He was really into history and tried to explain everything but no one cared. Seriously.
No one, ESPECIALLY GIRLS, want to fucking learn here. Assuming they go to college they will study marketing or nursing and pride themselves on how "smart" they are when they graduate. They will not know shit about the world but will "make it" in America. It frustrates me to know that total fucking retards can do this.
Wyatt Fisher
This is why so many Americans have no comprehension of our history, and always think we're "saving the day" when we go to war.
No context
Michael Moore
>>Majority of Africa >>completely uncivilized
pick two.
Julian Sanders
For some retarded reason, schools in America prioritize state's historys in primary school instead of global history.
I shit you not, I didn't have a world history class until the 7th grade.
Eli Martinez
Here it just focuses on goofy shit, and the founding tenants of our country, Greek and Roman civilization, and anything post-industrial revolution is pretty much glossed over.
Didn't go into depth on anything really until college
Angel Hill
What kind of history can shitty flyover states even have?
>so we killed off a bunch of natives, built a few cities and named our state after the natives we killed >the end
Lucas Lewis
It's because public schools are run by each individual state. So blowhard state politicians always push to have some bullshit like "California history" included in the curriculum. Not every state does this but many of them do.
Luke Adams
But they aren't all just bushmen.
Camden Mitchell
That's because we skip history in favor of 6 Trillion™ and slavery courses
Gavin Jones
>Take Norwegian history >Completely skip over everything between 1300-1800 >Ignore WHY getting a arch Diocese seat was important as fuck back in 1200 >Then ignore how Danish industrialsation and lack of thereof impacted the country in the 1600s >Then ignore everything on the continent except Napolic wars
Leo Fisher
Are you sure you're American? I'm guessing you didn't pay much attention in class
Ahahaha. How is reading revisionism history? Manpower was literally the most expandable resource, until unions, no child mortality and democratization following the industrial revolution.
Joseph Long
Where do you retards live that you see all these people that don't know what the Soviet Union is?
Maybe its just because you surround yourself with retards. Ever think of that?
Jose Allen
This
It feels like 80% of what we focused on in WW2 was fucking holocaust bullshit
And I don't even think we learned hardly anything about WW1
Chase Gutierrez
I'm pretty sure it's the same deal everywhere. The majority of people, even "educated" people, and especially women here have no conception of global history at all. I have exactly three friends with whom I can sit around and discuss, say, the war of the League of Cambrai, or the decline of the Byzantine Empire, or the Union of Aragon and Castile, or the Russo-Japanese war, or any other happening from more than a couple of decades ago. My theory is that the shitty scope of history education in general is a sort of light propaganda. It definitely is here; we're taught that the war in Angola was a loss for the Apartheid government, which it was, but also that the battle of Cuito Canavale was won by the Cubans and FAPLA. This was an offensive action by the FAPLA, which resulted in them being pushed back a ridiculous distance in complete disarray, to the town after which the battle is named. Casualties for FAPLA/Cuba where over 10 000 Casualties for South Africa/UNITA were over 3000 The total amount of South African military personnel killed in the entire battle: 42 >42 >A gread vigdory for gommunism
This is literally what they teach here, anything that anyone the ANC supported did is shown through rose tinted, reality-warping goggles.
Noah Nguyen
Also this, we didn't get taught about a single battle in WWII, only the holocaust. People literally don't know what D-day was. WWI is part of the grade 7 syllabus I think, meaning it's basically up to the individual primary schools to decide what goes in. Which ends up being absolutely nothing except "these people fought these people, and Germany lost, and a lot of people died."
Ryder Wilson
In Russia in 90's History was delicious clusterfuck of old Soviet and new Russian textbooks, and teachers who sometimes had opposite opinions on early 1900 fun times. This is when we learned to not believe anyone.
Carter Johnson
If you pay attention to 70's, 80's and 90's movies, Soviet is very rarely ever mentioned. The Russian is some times mentioned, but never The Bolsheviks. Nor is The Slavs ever mentioned, even if Soviet 95% of slav population after Warsaw pact.
So basically: 1. No education 2. Movies don't actually reference anything
