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shockthemonkey posted...

Youre demonstrating the need for Black History Month

Solar_Crimson posted...

And you're showing us why we need Black history month.

Guys, I'm not American. The only American history I was taught in school was the American Revolution and the Civil War. Don't expect me to know every tidbit of American history. It's not relevant for me. Just like how I'm not expecting you to know anything about, say, the Seventeen Provinces and the Eighty Years' War, or who William the Silent was.

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These topics seem more relevant for History Channel documentaries than actual history class. Again, I don't know how American history classes operate, but over here, it was divided into blocks covering historical periods that really didn't go into much detail. Like for World War 2, we were taught what led up to the war, how it started, the general flow of the war, some major battles, and the big names involved like Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Eisenhower etc. We definitely didn't go into specific batallions because there wasn't enough time and it wasn't that relevant in the larger scheme of things. And as for George Washington Carver, inventors generally weren't covered in my history classes unless their inventions were heavily tied into the specific historical period. For instance, I definitely recall the inventor of the guillotine being mentioned during classes about the French Revolution. Or the inventor of the steam engine during the Industrial Revolution.