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underbear1 · Dec 10, 2005, 02:23 pm

I'm in my early 50's and when they taught me History, it was ONLY history as seen through western europe timeline of events, (if your culture was outside that framework, you didn't exist.) Since then there has been an attempt to show other Nations and cultures developing along with western Europe, which I find much more realistic and unbiased. It also gives children not of European descent, a sense of their culture's rich hertiage, and needed role models. The way they taught me History was the DISHONEST version, not the current one. When I took Native American History, and Women's Studies in college, it showed me all the things they convienently LEFT OUT of the homogenised version of history I was given. By and large the contributions of women and gays, (even if they were western European) also weren't taught 40 years ago.

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underbear1 BANNED Posts: 2,630	I'm in my early 50's and when they taught me History, it was ONLY history as seen through western europe timeline of events, (if your culture was outside that framework, you didn't exist.) Since then there has been an attempt to show other Nations and cultures developing along with western Europe, which I find much more realistic and unbiased. It also gives children not of European descent, a sense of their culture's rich hertiage, and needed role models. The way they taught me History was the DISHONEST version, not the current one. When I took Native American History, and Women's Studies in college, it showed me all the things they convienently LEFT OUT of the homogenised version of history I was given. By and large the contributions of women and gays, (even if they were western European) also weren't taught 40 years ago. Last edited by underbear1; Dec 10, 2005 at 02:27 pm.