• aceshigh@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I wonder if history books will have screen shots of shitter and shitheads social media posts.

  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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    America won’t have schools in 20 years. If they did, reports would be authored by Chatbots. The rest of the world will have moved on to a world without USA.

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    Oh please, schools barely made it past WW1 in history classes even when I was in school. They do a quick jump to the civil rights movement and then speed run through everything post 70s during that post-test period a few weeks before summer starts and everyone already knows if they’ve graduated

    • My partner and I are only just learning the details of the War of 1812 now that we’re in our 30s. Virtually everyone we’ve asked agrees that they were never taught much about it in school. It was maybe a page max, and we grew up in NY state.

      Now that we’re researching it and learning Canada’s side of it, it’s eye opening as to why we were never taught about it.

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          Tbf, I took a semester on Canadian History, and well, there’s not a lot there. It’s American history-lite. Like one of your big battles had like 30 casualties.

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            Quantifying history by how bloody the battles were is the most American thing I’ve heard in a while.

            There were trade wars. The history of the Hudson’s Bay Company and North West Trading is bloody as hell. They shaped the country. No one really knows how many people died in their skirmishes. They built forts that still stand today, and they’re why a lot of towns/areas are called Fort(name.)

            Louis Riel is a fascinating figure, like a tricksy, bloody, charming asshole who literally beheaded a diplomatic envoy. He, himself, was beheaded. The whole history of the Metis people is fascinating.

            The Acadians and their connection to the Cajuns (a condensed slang of Acadian. Cadian. Cajian…) is pretty neat. It’s a whole other French culture most Canadians don’t even know about.

            Not to mention all the whitewashed history of indigenous peoples, their histories and cultures. Indigenous leader’s push for justice reform, based on their cultures and needs, is changing the way the justice system works in Canada, and influencing the world.

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    It started with Monica’s dress.

    The idea that people were shocked by Bill Clinton was nonsensical. LBJ and Kennedy did far worse, and the ‘gentleman’s agreement’ kept it all quiet. The GOP knew that they were going to give the children of America a back door* sex education, and they didn’t care.

    *I knew it was going to sound awful but I decided why not?

  • Tempus Fugit@midwest.social
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    I truly believe we are nearing the end of the American experiment. Best of luck navigating out of all of this. I wish things were different.