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I remember someone asked why the show couldn't be called "Big Sister" (lemmy.world)
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[-] slackassassin@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Studying Greek classics being used as an "America bad" is the biggest stretch, jfc. Not everything is a conspiracy. Take it down a notch.

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

That's not an "America Bad" thing, it's just fact? That's the explicit reason for the entire framing of western history in American classrooms. We start with Egypt, then the hand the torch over to the Greeks, then they hand the torch to the Romans, then the Dark Ages (spoooooky), then the Renaissance, the British Empire, and then the USA. It's one of our foundations for American Exceptionalism

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

I don't think your history experiences sound very typical. I didn't have anything about the Egyptians outside of pyramids in elementary school, very little Greek mythology, and then nothing about the Romans (beyond a bit about how they had good tech like aqueducts), dark ages (maybe a little about the plague and feudalism), or Renaissance. Did you go to a school with extra history requirements or something?

[-] slackassassin@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago

Sudying Greek history and mythology merely for the sake of propaganda and as a through line to exceptionalism is not a fact, no.

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