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As an Englishman who goes to the US a lot one of the things I have noticed
is the gaps in the education and the things that US children are not taught
or told about. For example when I went to primary school (7 to 11 years) we
were taught all the American Indian tribes, where they came from
geographically, who was friends with whom and generally about their
lifestyle. I haven't met a single American who was taught it at school
You have now.
which, to me, seems absurd. It seems that all americans know about the
pilgrim fathers which in terms of the whole picture was a fairly
insignificant event.
In what way? Seems like with just about everything, the first ones are
the ones that get the glory.
This is not a dig at American education because I am sure the same applies
to me, it's just that I can't see my gaps unless someone points them out to
me.
Duh. You can't know what you don't know. Nobody can.
As for being taught about native Americans, well, I remember being
taught about them in school. Not necessarily about all the tribes but
about some of the more common ones, such as Navajo and some of the
others in the western U.S. There are too many, so the emphasis was on
the ones that were here in California, especially the ones that were
involved with the Spanish Missions. Gabrieleno, Chumash, Ohlone, Miwuk,
just to name a few.
There could be more than one reason why the kids aren't taught more, one
being that they were treated shamefully. When I was in H.S. our history
teacher went to the library at UCLA, I believe it was, and checked out
old books from the mid 1800s and read selected paragraphs to us in
class. It showed now adversarial the situation was back then, with
settlers afraid they might get scalped by a 'savage'.
Anyway, that's enough of that, I said it just to prove that I've been
taught something, not to get any response from others, and I wouldn't
want anyone to reply thinking they would start an argument. This thread
has deteriorated to way past the point of the original topic that I
started. Damn, that really sucks.
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