To non-Americans: is American Slavery & Oppresion taught or briefly touched on in your countries?

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This whole Kai thing got me thinking about this...

 

I feel like the focal point of what high schoolers learn in US History high school classes is about Slavery which got me thinking about other countries....

 

Was it ever touched on?

 

 

Note: don't mind the badges.... I have no ulterior motives with this question as I am genuinely curious.

 

 

[Miekos]

For me, they have never taught me about it.

[SAUCY]

Our own history is barely touched on let alone the world. I remember watching exactly one documentary on the stolen aboriginal children and that's it...

[The Jack of Hearts]

Far too much time is spent on it here. We get it, "racism" is bad, now can we please talk about important things instead?

[Tadpole.]

nope.

We learnt french revolution, vietnam war, world war 1&2, Nazi rule and some other stuffs. Nothing much about slavery in America. I think it was only mentioned once or twice.

Heck, we even learnt about military coup in Chile, idk why never America....

[tay desu]

Nope, never. I don't think it was even mentioned, maybe in passing but that's about it.

[TMI]

US kids don't know the first thing about slavery. If you look at some other places, like the Caribbean, those children actually get a real education on it. Most students have a VERY shallow understanding of slavery. It's a bad part of the school system, but it is what it is. They should do better tbh. 

 

And if people were teaching the kids properly about slavery, some of us would actually know what colorism and racism is. 

[heethighs]

Nope not at all, we learn about our own country's conflicts. The Japanese Occupation was the main thing we were taught. I would suppose people from other countries weren't taught this either.

 

I did American History too, and no, slavery wasn't emphasized on much at all, but you kinda just learn about it as you grow older yknow. 

[High Fructose Yoongi Syrup]

not really

 

 

so most of the people here are ignorant about it

[Little Prince ☆]

nope our history is long enough as it is

[Nikki]

Why would you expect it to be taught in other countries, it's barely touched on it the US. Even Black History Month was skipped over most of the time. I didn't learn a lot about my own history until I went to college.

[NiXing]

Nope. 

[Elle Eaux Elle]

Yes

[lachesis]

no,never, i doubt it was even mentioned

[sofi]

Briefly touched

[abra]

Yes, a bit. In history and in English class too.

We learnt more about the civil right's movement and the role of slavery in the settlement of the Americas than the actual conditions of slaves in the US though.

[Good People]

I don't suppose that matters because we have the INTERNET 

[Iljin Prince]

Ummm.... why the fuck would they?

 

In Aus we've got our own black history.

 

 

Our own history is barely touched on let alone the world. I remember watching exactly one documentary on the stolen aboriginal children and that's it...

Not sure when or where you went to school but I had to learn the whole scope of Aboriginal history from Cpt. Cook all the way to the petrol sniffing present. Even in Uni we had a whole topic specialising on Aboriginals and we had to do an assignment on it with one of the criteria being "demonstration of indigenous sympathy". Worthless bullshit, if you ask me.

[DocumentaLy]

It would be better if people said what country they're from...

[Kai's wife]

This whole Kai thing got me thinking about this...

 

I feel like the focal point of what high schoolers learn in US History high school classes is about Slavery which got me thinking about other countries....

 

Was it ever touched on?

 

 

Note: don't mind the badges.... I have no ulterior motives with this question as I am genuinely curious.

 

 

That's because it's a big part of their history after all, their country was built on the sweat and tears of slaves it only makes sense they talk about it. But i don't think it's the focal point.

 

I'm French and yes it is taught there, i'm suprised it isn't in other places. Here we learn a bit about the history of every continent. Anyways it is important that such things in history like WW, Shoah, slavery, genocides are taught so the future generation don't do it again.

[Little Eight]

Our history lessons were pretty good tbh. We got the world wars, all the revolutions, american histories, and some really far back stuff. 

[pinkmonster]

Well it's a pretty known fact in general, but no we didn't touch this subject at all at school. I'm from Greece btw.

[desu]

Not really relevant to Australia.

[DocumentaLy]

Why would you expect it to be taught in other countries, it's barely touched on it the US. Even Black History Month was skipped over most of the time. I didn't learn a lot about my own history until I went to college.

 

I don't know where you went to school in the US but it was definitely taught where I went to school.

[Kyuliss]

Not at all. I think a lot of Americans assume it is. I know basically nothing about it.