Of course in US schools, the genocide of the indigenous inhabitants is usually whitewashed; the curriculum sort of leaves you with the impression that North America was some vast, sparsely-populated land the white folks were just looking for some "elbow room". But the European colonial period, here that's usually just colored blobs on the map. I'm curious as to how this is taught in European classrooms. Any sort of reflection at all on how evil this was?

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    we were taught about the slave trade but it's kind of hard to teach about all of Britains colonial past as well as convey the British history that is needed to understand British society

    also it's very much dependent on the school until you get to the nationally set history curiculum which when I did it was about nazi germany, soviet russia, and the pension and labour law changes of the early 20th century