RE: You can't make this shit up....
September 28, 2016 at 6:26 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2016 at 6:32 pm by Regina.)
(September 28, 2016 at 3:59 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Sorry OP. Missed this one. European (and american) education -is- eurocentric. This much is hardly a revelation.
How much do you know about china, the middle east, or india (pre and post imperial in all cases?). Africa gets the same treatment.
Can we really be surprised, if we are in Europe and America though? I think this is one of those topics people are reaching on and making it more than it is. We learn about Western history in Western countries because that is the history with the biggest impact on us. I'm sure Chinese, Japanese and Indian schools are teaching their kids mostly local Asian history. Maybe we could have a bit more balance sure, but I wouldn't expect any school to have history curriculums that didn't mostly focus on local history specific to that region.
The information about other countries is out there as well. If you want to know about Chinese, Indian, Middle Eastern history etc etc you can go and research it. We're in the age of information where any education you want is a click away on the internet, and you can be selective about what you want to research. You can even do university courses where you specifically learn about a particular country or continent's history, so like I said these people complaining could very well have done that if it meant that much to them.
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