Why do people say America has no history?

Question

What about the Native Americans?

Answer 1

Who said America has no history? Because I want that person to explain to me what I just spent a year studying in AP US History...

Answer 2

the USA only has a history dating back to the end of the revolutionary war because thats when the UAS became a country as we know it today, but america as a continent has a history as well as any other continent on this planet, the problem with american history ( not USA history) is that is was not documented or recorded in any way except from maybe a few snippets that was left behind or handed down through generations of native americans

Answer 3

The idea is that America as it is today has not been around for very long, and as a result really has no history to speak of.

The Native Americans have been around a long time, but they were essentially and advance stone age society with little if any recorded history. Sure, they have a past, but until it's recorded and can be communicated to others it's hard to define it as history.

Answer 4

America does have a history, but it is only a little over two hundred years old. America has been around for hundreds of years, but most of the history was destroyed because people did not like the Native Americans just like they did not like the blacks. Most people say that because America is one of the youngest countries. Most European countries have been around for over five hundred years. Other countries in Asia like China have been around for over eight hundred years.

Answer 5

Because they're culture snobs. Just because the US (and that's what most people mean by "America) hasn't been around for 4 or 5 hundred years or more like most European countries, doesn't mean we don't have a history. And like you said, what about the "native Americans" or Indians as history has mis-labeled them? They were here long before the rest of us, and I'm sure they had a long and interesting history, but most of them didn't write it down, the the few who did had their records burned by Catholic priests who considered it the work of the devil. That's one of history's greatest tragedies. But the bottom line is, America DOES have a history, we just don't know much about it.

Answer 6

Jealousy - - - sarcasm - - - spite ---- actually more of a flippant remark, since history largely relies upon written record and much of what native aboriginals recorded was purposely destroyed, so both the Chinese and certain European Cultures cann 'sniff' and point out their thousand year plus heritage and disparge Americans. It is a lot like a twenty year veteran New York Firefighter telling a five year Firefighter "you ain't seen nothing you don't know nothing."

Peace....

Answer 7

that actually is a political issue and not scientific , but somehow its correct cause history is about people and places, america or usa has vanished the original habitant.. replaced them with new imigrants coming from all over the world with different histories , cultures and traditions ... the original culture , history and traditions gone or destroyed by the new comers ..

Answer 8

well its mostly because were so new a country.

We have very little externally built problems taht affected us. Most of our history is just taking what someone owned and building a country.

Alamo
Revelotuion
War of 1812

thats about it.

So without any real problems and being only 200 years old, we are babies compared to most countrries.

Answer 9

This is mostly made by people who see the United States has fared much better than them economically and so must justify their superiority by another means. The simplest being referring to things that happenned hundreds or thousands of years ago.

Answer 10

Who ?