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From your username, I'm guessing you were born in 1983; I was too. There's a huge variety in American education so it's possible our experiences were completely
by learc83 14y ago
From your username, I'm guessing you were born in 1983; I was too. There's a huge variety in American education so it's possible our experiences were completely different.
However, when I was in high school our textbooks were so concerned with political correctness that if anything they were overly focussed on diversity.
I took AP US history, World History, Asian History, and AP European History. The Average student only got one section of European history in the overall World History class.
>that white people invented absolutely everything and Europe is the only old world with history worth studying? Then again maybe it's changed in the past 15 years?
I find it very hard to believe (not impossible, just very unlikely) that you were actually taught that. More likely you just saw your history classes through your own biases.
- carguy1983 14y agoMaybe I should rephrase. We weren't taught that white people invented everything, it's just that everything we were taught about was invented by white Americans and Europeans. The other stuff, we never talked about who invented it. This even carried over into stuff like music classes - europeans invented everything. Except all the stuff that the Africans, middle easterners, and Asians invented, which kind of just exists. My school only offered AP Euro history and all the science AP courses, definitely not world or asian history. But you're kind of proving my point - how many people are AP students? Like 2-5%? Not a single time did I ever learn anything about Asian or middle eastern inventions. I didn't even learn that the numbers we use are Indian/Arabic until later. Or that Algebra came from the middle east. But sure as shit, I was taught that some white guy invented calculus though.