Why Americans don't know nothing about history relativity?

Question

When we discuss some history they seem to have the only true in the Americans books, forgetting that there is another side of the coin in every history chapter that they fail to acknowledge and address !!!
why is that?
it is a plan vwry well execute by years of disrupt history education establish by the gov. to brainwash the American population so they can be manipulate and direct to a false nationalism that create chaos around the world??
think for yourself and do not stick with the first book ,keep researching and then use your brain to get a fair conclution without let the nationalism beast that leaves in you take control of your thoughts!!!

Answer 1

I certainly hope that you were not educated in the American school system as your writing skills, sentence contruction and spelling are atrocious. Every country is guilty of educating their children from a nationalistic point of view. It's not just in History classes either. For instance, children in Middle Eastern nations are taught to hate Jews and Westerners from early on. Additionally, the "chaos around the world" (by the way, proper English only uses one question mark, not two) created by our country does not stem from "false nationalism". Our foreign policies are a far more complex issue than that.
Might I suggest two things: find a psychologist to deal with your anger issues and try to learn to write English so that you can express your ideas logically and with more articulation.

Answer 2

There are a lot of generalizations and myths being offered here.
American teachers won't feed there students lies and myths,most of the history that has been misinterpreted by Americans will have come from those with little interest in the subject and get there ideas from Hollywood .All H-wood blockbusters are primarily aimed at an American audience so they will have a pro-American message,and the lead character will be an American while the villains will either be foreign or have some mental or physical flaw.Thus giving the idea that all Americans believe they never lose wars ,they saved Europe in WW1 and WW2 .And so on .Although these ppl exist ,they do not represent the whole of the US.
The other myth is that only the winners write history.Giving the idea that all history is about war which is not true.neither is it true that all war history is written by winners.
I recommend you go to the UK to see how they study history.They record and discuss events in a very 'matter of fact way'with no jingoism no matter what the event or the outcome.

Answer 3

There is one problem with your thinking. I've lived, and gone to school in both Canada and the USA and history classes do lean towards that countries history. Living in your country you want to know what your countries history is so you learn that country's history, why, because there is so much history it can never be adequately taught in school, any school.

I've studied just WW2, specifically the Pacific theater and even after a quarter century of learning there is always new things to learn.

so to give students a basic 'knowledge' of history there is a lot left out, no matter where you learn there is never enough time to learn it all so things have to be left out. Then add this 'Political Correctness' BS and it takes even more out or distorts things even more and makes things worse.

A lot of times its not the students or even teachers at fault, but other 'concerned' people who limit what is taught in the classroom.

Answer 4

As a History Major, I have to say you are out of your F***ing mind. There is no brain washing going on. Where is the brain washing? That we won the revoluionairy war? the civil war? WW I and WW II? 6 million Jews were extremiated by Nazi Germany? You give an example of a flase fact taught in school. You can't because it's not ture. You are one of these crazy conspiracy theory people. Just like the idiots that think that America was behind the September 11th attacks.

Answer 5

I agree. Children in school aren't encouraged to read other books so they never see other sides of the story. While it keep us patriotic, sometimes we sound like fools and that should change. but you have to admit, the same is true for schools across the world, irrespective of nationality.

I also think that being isolated from most of the world by the two large oceans on either side has something to do with it. We tend to think that the rest of the world doesn't affect us directly so we shouldn't care. That is no longer true, and with modern globalization things are changing a lot.

PS. I am shocked by your latest edit. Did you "think for yourself" before you made such wild accusations? What makes you think the government personally chooses the books we read? What do you REALLY know about us and our history learning? By your question it seems you are not American.
I have gone to school in other countries too and have not noticed anything so different in the American Schools that other countries don't do.
Also it is kinda hard to brainwash someone when you stand for freedom.

Answer 6

What you are referring to is actually common to just about all countries in the world. Japanese history books, for example, completely ignore the atrocities they committed during WWII. Chinese history ignores the 30+ million people that starved to death during the great leap forward. Australian history puts little to no emphasis of the treatment of Aborigines, such as forced sterilization and forcing Aborigine children to leave their families and live with white Australians.

Americans are also guilty of this, but to say it only happens with Americans is completely incorrect. I would like to see if you could find any country that does not white wash its history in some way.

Answer 7

Someone once said that history is written by the winning side. Every historical source is going to be biased in some way or another, as everyone has an opinion. People, and nations, want to make themselves look good, so no one is going to freely admit to an embarassing, or gruesome, historical event. The Egyptians did not record their defeats - this is why they seem to be such great warriors. In the same way, Americans aren't going to go into depth about persecution of the Native Americans, same as the Germans probably don't teach about the holocaust.

People write history to make themselves look good, it's just how it's always been.

Answer 8

You write in broad, sweeping generalities without even once offering an example to support your assertions. The "government" in this country has no control over the teaching of history. Each local community hires its teachers and approves the curriculum. Thus your conspiracy theory is nonsense, and your unsupported claims are equally useless.

Chow!!

Answer 9

I think the problem is that starting in elementary school we are given History books with all kinds of information that we must study and learn and get tested on to pass each grade. The teaches and the school district make the decision on which history book to use for each class level. Parents never get a say.
"Who decides that this information is correct and accurate?"
Students are forced to learn all this history (American history, European History, World History) and get good grades in order to graduate. So when you starts kids at 6 yrs old telling them the same thing year after year and forcing them to learn it, it takes hold and carries throughout life. It is only questioned after you graduate High School and move on to college. You are then able to decipher the information and search it out for fact.

History is important. And it is most important to have accurate facts. But the information in these texts is only as good as the Historian who wrote it.

Answer 10

I could not agree with you more. I moved here year 1997, and to this day, my parents tell me that nearly everything I learn in my history classes is bullshit. It's hard to believe them sometimes, so I assume it may just be a generation gap, and things are different. They try to explain that what I am learning is false, and totally different from what they learned as little kids. History is not supposed to change... it is supposed to remain the same around the world, but apparently, this is starting not to happen, I think.