Alphax wrote:
Christopher Mahan wrote:
How do you explain to somebody that Toyota != Toyota Motor Corporation when their level of expertise is limited to US High School education level?
Is it true that in the US, students are not taught anything about other countries?
No, it is not true. It is true that US education tends to be quite heavy on American history, with a lesser focus on European history, and still less on the history of say, China or Africa.
<POV> If I had to criticize the way history is taught in the US, it is not that students are not taught _anything_ about other countries, but rather than they are taught about other countries in a way that tends to suggest that other countries are out there somewhere, but don't have a lot of importance for us except that sometimes they start to fight with each other and we have to go make them stop. </POV>
--Jimbo