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It's kinda clear how the curriculum was designed, after all according to this class Japan was only discovered in 1939. Russia pops in an out of existence, Korea and Vietnam are fictional and Africa is where Egypt is.
I feel like it's a bit unfair to single out America as being the only country who heavily skews their own nations history, or just completely bullshits their impacts on other nations.....
Britain aint exactly being very clear about what the East India Trading Company was doing. Or the British Raj for that matter.
Japan still teaches WW2 history in the vaguest of terms without admitting any wrongdoing. Unit 731 is not apart of those lessons.
Not saying any of this is justified, just that nearly every nation does it. Everyone's the hero of their own story.
Well and going back to my original point, US history class at least for me ended at 1946, when the UN UN-nazi'd the world forever after having defeated Charlie Chaplain. And I think it's because much after that and the generations that were (and still fucking are god dammit) in control of curricula personally remember those events and thus refuse to label them as "history." Because my 70 year lifespan is basically now, so if kids these days don't remember the Tet Offensive that's they're own fault, god fuck 'em.