Valmond is legitimately curious and reinforces the issue with westernized learning, the only history taught is very basic colonization and your home countries history. The problem is worldwide, if it isnt related to your country or white history in general, you need to perform extracurricular learning to get an understanding of actual history.
anything that implies they’ve only learned European and US history (e.g. discounting the global technological contributions of Asia and Africa)
I have one for this!
I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?”
I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)
She said George Washington!
In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
Variolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
Even I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing
Okay I’ll bite. So the asian-african industrial revolution?
The Haya in Tanzania were making steel 2000-2300 years ago
Cool. Seriously!
But if it didn’t change history (did they even genocide??! /s ) then we won’t learn it in base school I guess.
I don’t really understand either of your questions. Is there something you are trying to ask?
Valmond is legitimately curious and reinforces the issue with westernized learning, the only history taught is very basic colonization and your home countries history. The problem is worldwide, if it isnt related to your country or white history in general, you need to perform extracurricular learning to get an understanding of actual history.
You taught them something they didnt know
I explained why we don’t learn that in school. Don’t you understand what I’m saying? I’m not a native English speaker.