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[-] Zink@programming.dev 21 points 3 weeks ago

USian here, and totally agree. The willful ignorance is stunning to behold.

But help me with my potential ignorance here - is this meme also suggesting that ordinary citizens of other developed countries know about these things? Do high school history and social studies classes have a day or a week that discuss US imperialism & shady dealings of recent decades?

My impression has always been that people in other countries read about this awful shit in the same places I do online, and that the differences in mainstream knowledge are about much more basic stuff like coal and climate change being bad while healthcare is good.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago

Do high school history and social studies classes have a day or a week that discuss US imperialism & shady dealings of recent decades?

No, that's the entire curriculum. Kinda impossible not to properly discuss a country's hystory without mentioning the US when the US has been fucking with it

[-] owsei@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

Which country?

In Brazil there have been several pretty important meddlings, but at most the schools say that there where "several parties involved"

Like our dictatorship, where I'd only learnt "other countries incentivized the coup"

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

I've heard from many south american comrades, that their school systems have memory-holed this entire historical period of anti-communist massacres. Only now with the pink tide in some of these countries, is there any chance of liberals getting educated about their past.