Name: Anonymous 2008-04-11 0:19
American schools tend to teach world history and civilization as the shortest path to America, from Greece to Rome to the Spanish in America to the reformation in Britain to founding the US. The rest of the world seems to be entirely ignored. Are other countries as self centered, or do some try to teach all world history?
It seems the lack of knowledge of certain countries leads to vast generalizations of history marked by only key events and nothing else (Russian history consists of the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism, Japanese history consists of the bombing of Pearl Harbor) and even misplacing entire time periods such as confusing medieval, crusades, renaissance and post renaissance england, or confusing the time periods of pre-Roman civilizations, to the point that Biblical history concerning lost middle eastern and mediterranean peoples is more well known due to sunday school teachings in church.
It seems the lack of knowledge of certain countries leads to vast generalizations of history marked by only key events and nothing else (Russian history consists of the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism, Japanese history consists of the bombing of Pearl Harbor) and even misplacing entire time periods such as confusing medieval, crusades, renaissance and post renaissance england, or confusing the time periods of pre-Roman civilizations, to the point that Biblical history concerning lost middle eastern and mediterranean peoples is more well known due to sunday school teachings in church.