Monday, July 20, 2020

Lessons Non-USA Students Learn About America


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the various lessons that non-USA students learned about America. As it turns out, a fair number of students actually aren't even tasked with learning that much about America. Apparently Columbus and MLK are common talking points as well. 

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Text - bulletbender911 • 21h In India, all they taught me about USA was "USA was discovered in search of India by Christopher Columbus" Reply 608

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Text - Rovanasa_Hill• 23h I went to school in Spain. In history class, the only US relaetd stuff we learned was the American Revolution, the Spanish-American war, ww1, ww2, and the cold war Reply 13.0k ...

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Text - Alexiofy • 22h German here: In history class the US is really only mentioned in context of the World Wars or the Cold War, and even then the focus is on their involvements with europe and Germany in particular. Apart from that, the "discovery" and maybe a footnote about the revolutionary war, the US barely appears (though i didn't further pursue history in my highschool years, so maybe more is taught there). In English class the civil rights movement and the american dream are popular the

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Text - Cube-1701 • 22h I'm in the UK. It was pretty much just Columbus and Martin Luther King. Reply 3.1k ...

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Text - evilcockney • 23h We read some American literature (of mice and men and to kill a mockingbird) but aside from that, America wasn't really mentioned in a particular class or anything. Reply 5.5k ...

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Text - Aussie-Nerd • 22h I didn't do history in 11 or 12, so really ground level shit. The US exists. Washington was this guy. They got independence from the UK. The Oregon Trail had all the dysentery. wW1,2, and Vietnam happened. JFK was a dude. Armstrong went on a "road" trip for a few days. Those cowboy and indian movies, those Indians were probably not treated super well. It wasn't, realistically, until the internet and facts on demand that my history knowledge increased. Now I know it was A

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Text - bbdbendan • 17h 1 Award Chinese mainlander here. A lot, though most of these were covered in very general terms. How much you needed to learn also depended on whether you choose arts&humanities or science for university entrance exam. My Chinese highschool education stopped after 10th grade so these are not all. But from my memories, we learned about Columbus' discovery, May Flower and Protestants, Boston Tea Party and the founding of US, American Civil War, and then the Great Depression

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Text - chacko96 • 23h About the revolution, MLK and how they fucked up in Vietnam. Reply 1.6k ...

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Text - Matrozi • 20h Honestly, not a lot. The 1776 revolution is like an intro to our massive chapter about the french revolution. And that's pretty much it ? I mean we learn about the world wars and the cold war but we never learnt about the civil war and stuff. Reply 206 ...

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Text - Theorist129 • 22h Canada here, eh. War of 1812, the fact that Lincoln considered invasion after the civil war, WWI and WII, Cold War. Reply 204 ...

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Text - DericDom • 23h This is what I remember, and it's a bit wordy but maybe you'd be interested. (From the Philippines here) 1. Manifest destiny (not a lot of discussion) 2. Spanish-American and eventual Philippine-American War: They promised us Independence and liberation from the Spanish to fight with them in the Spanish- American War. When the Philippines declared independence they fought a war to keep the Philippines (Filipino-American War) because they had 'purchased' us through the Treat

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Text - Grinsekatze0815 • 21h In history class we were taught the following (I'm german btw): Columbus discovering America and the first settlers • declaration of independence and civil war happend sometime (not many details, just that it existed) • ww2 and the cold war (although the focus was on Germany) and how they they supported the European economy with the marshall plan • vietnam war happend (no details, it's just mentioned) In English class we talked about: the electoral system that appare

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Text - obtrae • 21h 3 Awards Nothing. I'm South African, so most of our history is based on our own Apartheid issues and that's kind of cool to me. Most of my knowledge about American history have been learned through reading books, watching documentaries and watching South Park. It just seems like the US government makes decisions for the betterment of it's people, and in some instances that involves raping another country. It's like you have a US President that would do something fucked up, bu

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Text - possumman • 23h Almost nothing. We founded it, we left, you helped out in WW2 and MLK was a top bloke. That's about it. Reply 1 1.0k ...

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Text - ochilov • 18h I live in France and in history / geography class (which are taught by a single teacher). They mainly teach us about 3 things related to the USA : -The big battles of the USA during WW2: pearl Harbor, Midway, and June 6th 1944, total war, etc... -They also teach about the americanisation of the world (hard and soft power), globalisation, etc... -And the cold war / middle east era. And in english class we learn about more cultural and sometimes political stuff related either

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Text - -jesus_christ- • 18h I'm Irish and here we are taught about the civil war, their envolvement in ww2 and how they accepted immigration (like during the Irish diaspora) and the civil rights movements as well as the Vietnam war Reply 1 71 +

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Text - miner1512 • 21h From Taiwan/Republic of China Well,general geography and stuff sums-up,history about revolution and purchases here and there,numerous war mentioned in a paragraph or two from US civil war to Gulf war, Also stuff about how we're the allies in ww2,they aid us in the 1950s and 1960s. Oh,and cutting diplomatic ties with us,thanks Nixon/ Carter! Reply 1 67 ...

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Text - Pageh74 • 17h In brazil we commonly study what lead The US to become independent but not the war itself, ww1, ww2, the 29 crisis and what u guys did and do in middle east Reply 1 53 ...

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Text - 4. WW2: They held out for a few months with our Filipino Soldiers and were also in the Bataan Death March. Gen. McArthur made and kept a promise to return and liberate us and upon Japan's surrender they gave us Independence. (We were a Commonwealth at the time)** Fun Fact: July 4 is Filipino-American Friendship Day (aka [Philippine] Republic Day) TL;DR:** 1. Manifest Destiny 2. Fought us to make us a Colony (Territory) 3. Taught us English 4. Liberated us from Japan; finally gave us Indep

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Text - sebeed • 23h all i remember is them glossing over civil war, talking about how your slaves fled to Canada (every year we learned about the underground railroad, like we were hero's or snth), and how we took the white house and essentially beat your ass during the war of 1812. mind you they essentially glossed over anything horrible Canada ever did so like. propaganda much Reply 191 ...

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Text - abstlouis96 • 21h I went to an American international school and took world history for freshman and sophomore year. (But I did not choose American history in junior or senior year) We watched Saving Private Ryan and the Hunt for the Red October. That's all I remember. Later on I read about all the stuff the CIA did in Latin America and a podcast on Chiquita. As a Latino, that made my blood boil and totally changed my perception of the United States, corporations, and the CIA. Reply 1 97

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Text - _higgsboson_ • 20h The only two times that the United States appeared in our school books was the chapters we had on World War 1 and World War 2 and its Aftermath in history. We were taught about why the US entered into the war and that it emerged as the strongest political and financial power after each of the wars. Reply ...

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Text - fringey123321 • 15h England We learnt about America's role in ww2. We learnt about the prohibition, and immigration (melting pot) . We learnt about "discovering" America, and some things that happened from then until about the 1920's. So basically not as in detail as US schools. Americans, what did you learn about England in school? Reply 9 ...

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Text - Bluie_x • 16h Australian here: we use American material in our learning, e.g. read American literature, look at a few case studies from the US in geography, use US textbooks. We don't really learn anything about the US though. In history America is mentioned for passing in wwI, ww2, and the Cold War but certainly in core history the focus is on Australia's part in those wars. I didn't take elective history but I know they look at America more in that. In history and English we look at the

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Text - _Random_Reddit1 • 20h That they invaded my country. Make a guess where I live.

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