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What have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

anything that implies they've only learned European and US history (e.g. discounting the global technological contributions of Asia and Africa)

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I have one for this!

    I once asked someone "In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?"

    I thought she'd say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)

    She said George Washington!

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i'm hearing about Edward Jenner

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  • [–] -4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Okay I'll bite. So the asian-african industrial revolution?

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The Haya in Tanzania were making steel 2000-2300 years ago

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Cool. Seriously!

    But if it didn't change history (did they even genocide??! /s ) then we won't learn it in base school I guess.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I don't really understand either of your questions. Is there something you are trying to ask?

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    Valmond is legitimately curious and reinforces the issue with westernized learning, the only history taught is very basic colonization and your home countries history. The problem is worldwide, if it isnt related to your country or white history in general, you need to perform extracurricular learning to get an understanding of actual history.

    You taught them something they didnt know

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