US History sucks!

[Rainbowmum]

Why Australian history?
Let's see now , both countries were colonized by the Brits, Australia is still part of the Commonwealth.
While you guys became independent.

[Pix]

Schools work very hard to make history bland & boring. I think it's very interesting when it's uncensored and given with full context (and context makes it easier to remember), but most schools won't do that out of fear of political & parental groups...and I suspect that it's not just ruined to prevent controversy but to discourage kids from learning more themselves.

But true story, I caught a date being wrong in a history class because of an Iron Maiden song on Alexander the Great. The "teacher" (actually a coach given a teaching position to comply with Texas law) mocked me for it but I then found 3 library books (one from the school) that backed me on that which got me sent to the office (and I had to surrender the school library book which never found its way back to the shelf). When given a multiple choice test on it later one was on that date which included the date given in the incorrect answer book and the correct date. I chose the correct date and it was the only test question marked wrong for me.

[JisthenewK]

Haha! I just love Australia so much! I want to know about it, before visiting my family over there. I would also like to learn it, because all I have learned in school IS American history. I think Australian history would be more interesting, or at least a change.

[Zet]

Hehe why not learn Swedish history? How we liberated our selves from the Danes in the 15'hundreds and some decades later almost conquered all of Scandinavia and the Baltic's

If not, read about the Finnish winter wars, that's some fascinating stuff

Finnish [] Soviet
Soldiers 345 000 [] 995 000
Tanks 32 [] 2,514–6,541
Planes 114 [] 3,880

Total casualties and looses
70 000 [] 323 000

Yet the Finnish won, I bet they threw Nokia phones at them :biggrin:

[JisthenewK]

I would love to learn India's history, too! I just hate American history. It's all we're taught here! No wonder most Americans are confused when it comes to other countries and cultures.

[Hayden]

This is a hilarious overview of world history if you're interested.

[fenris]

Some knowledge about the Bush and Palin-Pilot

[Chase]

I love US history. Learning about the great thinker Thomas Paine and revolutionary genius Benjamin Franklin come to such beautiful testimonies on the nature of humans and nature despite living amongst dogmatism gives me hope that our species may one day reach total enlightenment.
Australian history will have it's dark areas when it comes to mistakes just Americas history. If you're an American you kinda have to learn US history. I mean, incoming immigrants who want citizenship have to.

[mihai]

the only part of historys i enjoyed wes general war eurpean and north africa got a B on the test.
but at the romanian history i got a F haha .So many names , so many battles ... romania is combined by 3 regions (moldavia, transilvania and basarabia) , imagine learning every battle with full detail and not mess them 3 regions togheter... I jsut fucked the test and got out with an F

[watkins]

US history is more complex than Australian although neither have a particularly large amount of history.