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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (12 children)

The dark ages weren't dark. Humanity didn't just stop for 1000 years, you know?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Western history classes gracefully ignore things like the chinese empires, the golden ages in the arabic world (which oh so happened to be to be during the "dark ages" of Europe and saw science flourish there) and anything that happened on the american continent prior to colonialization (not like we know too much about it given the colonizers' rampages and targeted cultural destruction). Let alone African history, Indian, South-East Asia, Australia…

Same of course with religions. But watching that Martin Luther movie three times was definitely important I guess, cause it "changed the whole (!) world". I fucking hate all of this bullshit.

Sorry for the rant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Only thing I, as a European, know about MLK is that "I have a dream" speech and that he has something to do with rights for black people in America. My memory stops there.

Funny enough, in Catholic religion class I learned more interesting things about history than in history class itself. My teacher made sure we knew about other religions, how all of them are connected, how they developed, what some did while others went crusading, etc. Best teacher I’ve ever had.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I asked my teacher why we were so christianity-centric in the class, we literally never talked about things like Shintoism, Islam and more. She then loudly proclaimed to the class that I "wanted to have an extra (!) block about FOREIGN religions" (of course causing 90% of the class to scream at me - bullying was rampant there anyway). She then smiled at me in the most fucking dense way possible to basically say "see, nobody wants that" and from then on ignored all my protests and just left, ignorantly smiling like the idiot she was.

We proceeded to not learn anything about them, therefore the only influence we had (since it was the countryside) were the news talking about islamic terrorists.

Also same about MLK of course. He existed and he had a dream, end of history.

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