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No one that I know of in Europe gets taught this

• scbrg 2y ago
  Swede here. Both the American an the French revolution were taught when I went to school in the ninth and tenth decades of the twentieth century. As GP points out, they're both fairly significant events that had side effects relevant even to us up here. I would be extremely surprised if Sweden was unique among European nations in this regard.
• kzrdude 2y ago
  Why not learn it anyway. Broader 'bildung' is a lifelong pursuit.
  • bowsamic 2y ago
    I’m from working class England and that’s absolutely not the culture for us. Education is considered superfluous unless it makes you money
    • kzrdude 2y ago
      Right, and I'm from a (partly) academic family. I guess it's a culture/class thing too.
• dboreham 2y ago
  I grew up in Scotland. We studied American History in school. In fact we didn't study English History, except as it pertained to Scottish History, so to this day I'm hazy on Magna Carta, turbulent priests and so on.
  • bowsamic 2y ago
    I’m glad to be proven wrong. I’m English btw. We learnt nothing about America but we learnt everything about King Henry VIII