Do you think the American education teaches students what they need t know about other countries and cultures?

Answer 1

No. I always found that their bias was a bit skewed toward Americans. Hell, we still have Chris Columbus Day, and all he did was stumble accidentally upon some land and kill all the natives that lived there. We might as well have a Jeffrey Dahmer Day too. The only side of the story you get in American history is that of the United States. There is very little truth about the Korean War, the Cold War, or the Vietnam War, for example. Whenever a President made mistakes on a grand scale, history made it someone else's fault. Yeesh.

Answer 2

America pretty much sux at that. so i have to learn everything i really wanna know by myself. we do learn about other cultures but not as much as we should. for instance, i just found out that England is just 1 out of 4 countries that makes up great Britain/the UK. i always thought that England WAS Britain. and i thought Wales a city was in England. i'm 17 years old! i think i'm gonna move to the England and live there for a while so my future kids can be properly educated. well that's my plan unless the education system here changes! of course there are some teachers that try to enforce knowledge about the world on us, but i think we need to learn more. maybe then we can emerge from our ignorance, which is undoubtly in existance. for instance, all my friends and other people that i've asked don't think that Americans have accents. that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard because EVERY human being has an accent. lol!

Answer 3

Yeah, not so much. This guy I worked wih from Poland knew more cities in other states than did, and I was an Honor student.
We don't know ourselves, let alone how to get along in the world.
How the heck am I supposed to have a realistic political opinion based on this crap I'm spoon-fed?
NOW I gotta go and learn what they never taught me?
Um, you wonder why noone votes-
no one is educated enough to make a choice even if they showed up.
OK, very few of us.

Answer 4

Most school districts have multi-culturism in their curriculum, but it's certainly not enough. We parents have to shoulder that responsibility. We need to expose our kids to the world, not just our little world. Take them to a museum, read a book, visit the library, take them into Chinatown or Little Italy. Watch a movie about the slave trade or civil rights movement. We can't depend on the government to raise our kids. Exposure should be something that we do daily. It should be part of our lives, not just something we reserve for once or twice a year.

Answer 5

Of course not. It's scanned over and looked upon as "unimportant". Children are fed the same bull every year and look all astonished when they take a collegle history class and learn the real story. Teachers only teach what they're told to teach.

Answer 6

No. I think if the kids were learning the proper history of America it would be great already. These dimwits these days know NOTHING about America itself leave alone any other country. It is unfortunate because it is a very fascinating history too. One can only learn it at the University level. Oh well!

Answer 7

oh no we sure dont and if it is even basically taught they know what they do but not why.. did that make sense? I think it should be taught and the parents should teach children about diffrent cultures

Answer 8

again I must defer to abyssinia. She hit the nail on the head.

If all you have is a highschool education, then Im sorry to say you dont have much education at all.

Answer 9

No. The educational system is set up so no one wants to leave the states. "We are number one, everywhere else is scary, you got it good, You should stay here or you'll catch a desease."

Answer 10

Not based on what I read here. I doesn't seem to teach them much about how babies are made either.