randumb
 

why is it that in school we only learned about the countries that have (/had) important relationships with america?

maybe that was only my high school (or i wasn't paying attn)

but my god there's geography outside of american history

Yeah... I feel ya.

I still have problems looking at an unmarked map of the world and telling which countries are which... It's so hard to understand when you're a kid what will be important later...otherwise I would have pushed for taking AP History (the only way I would have learned about world geography and history). *sigh*

Re: randumb
 

Umm....does the word "ethnocentric" ring a bell?

Re: Re: randumb
 

obviously, that was my complaint.

do you have anything new to add? :(

I barely remember taking history in high school and didn't go near it in college so I have no idea what's going on with it these days.
I did some studying of world history and such on my own and have always been interested in maps so I got a decent education in geography and other countries without help from our local school board.

Re: Re: Re: randumb
 

Sure.......the statement "there's geography outside of american history" is pretty obvious also. There's plenty of geography outside of Women's Studies as well....that's why they have seperate classes for them.

yeah, i guess my complaint about american education was just a complaint and not a conversation starter

but i wasn't talking about a geography class - i was talking about high school education classes (be it in world history, geography, w/e) only teaching about countries that have important resources for the u.s. or who have earned their name in the chapter because of past crisis with the u.s.

i resign from this stagnation

i had a 7th grade geography teacher who DEMANDED we learn all the countries, capitals, rivers, lakes, seas! Every week we had a test. blank map we fill it in. it was HORRID...but now thanks to her when i hear news about some obscure place. i know where it was.


altho i was ticked when the USSR split -- i had all those names down!

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