Jesus Christ, even as an archaeology major, this was maybe true for the top academics in their field from like 1930-1970, but only in ancient history, never experts in contemporary or recent history and culture. These days, the majority of top academic experts in their respective fields are indigenous. That being said, that does occasionally lead to bad interpretations of data in areas attempting to establish national ethnicity (a great example of this is in Bulgarian, where digs have been known to be routinely fudged to establish earlier and earlier Bulgar occupation even though no one in academia outside of Bulgaria agrees with that interpretation), but regardless, I guarantee you that the average native knows more about their local history than your average randomly sampled whitey.
On an individual level I'm sure top academic historians know more history than the average joe. But this guy is arguing that white people as a whole know more about Africa (because they wrote some stuff!) than they do.
Hexbears really think that 1) everyone in Burgerland lives in :mcmansion: and 2) people living in :mcmansion: have no brains inside their skulls. just none.
Jesus Christ, even as an archaeology major, this was maybe true for the top academics in their field from like 1930-1970, but only in ancient history, never experts in contemporary or recent history and culture. These days, the majority of top academic experts in their respective fields are indigenous. That being said, that does occasionally lead to bad interpretations of data in areas attempting to establish national ethnicity (a great example of this is in Bulgarian, where digs have been known to be routinely fudged to establish earlier and earlier Bulgar occupation even though no one in academia outside of Bulgaria agrees with that interpretation), but regardless, I guarantee you that the average native knows more about their local history than your average randomly sampled whitey.
On an individual level I'm sure top academic historians know more history than the average joe. But this guy is arguing that white people as a whole know more about Africa (because they wrote some stuff!) than they do.
they really think that 1) everyone in africa lives in mud huts and 2) people living in mud huts have no brains inside their skulls. just none.
demons.
If we’re not self-critical and we’re unwilling to let others sanity-check us, we could end up bigoted too. It requires vigilance.
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I'm less of a cheeseburger and more of an 18 piece hot wings meal
Americans like to eat burger 🍔
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Or they just make shit up from whole cloth and populate it with... oh now wait. Even Wakanda still had spearmen. Incredible.
philip of macedon was bulgarian :arm-L: 🇧🇬 :arm-R: