when it comes to africa for example i was taught that they're poor cause their land isn't harvestable or some bullshit like that, and then i find out as an adult it's actually cause western countries fucked the shit out of them and huh that makes a lot more sense
One thing that I didn't find out until a few years ago--I'm old--is that Latin America and Africa were deliberately excluded from the Marshall Plan development loans, and actually left talks over that, because why the fuck would they stay in them if the plan was "we're going to continue making sure your economy remains brutally extractive and what wealth it does produce leaves as capital flight". It was always made out to be that the Marshall Plan was just the US helping out the whole world etc. etc.