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?

  • DoubleShot [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    it is of course concluded that today, things have been settled and are different

    Haiti has asked France to pay back all that money they forced them to pay as compensation to slavers for losing their slaves i.e. buying their freedom, and France just said "nón!"

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      2 years ago

      Yup. Reading less biased historical sources later on was eye-opening for sure.