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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

5mo

I wonder how far history classes go in other countries.

we only did up until the Spanish Civil War. I guess everything afterwards was considered too recent.

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

5mo

wait, no, I remember the iron curtain being mentioned in school. Italian blackshirts and Mussolini climbing to power too

but yeah, stuff in Spain? not beyond the civil war

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

5mo

okay, so, Spain doesn't do much modern history stuff, but from what I'm seeing we do study way older stuff

hell, I still remember being talked about the archeology stuff found in the... Trinchera del Ferrocarril? I think that was the place. Carthaginians being here and the Punic Wars definitely too.

Legitime Eigentümerin des Schlüssels „4“ @filmroellchen@chaos.social

5mo

@kitten i have a warped perspective on this because i took latin class, which includes quite a bit of ancient history, but regular history class basically moves past medieval times by 7th grade. the A-level education (last 2 years, for me it was 10th/11th grade) is exclusively post-ww2, which is also the timeframe you had to pick your final exam topic from; i.e. you are basically forced to do some kind of cold war topic. (i did the space race :>)

Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk@chaos.social

5mo

@kitten Countries don’t like to talk about the bad things they did, I guess, so little Franco?

My present home country excepted, but they do it so badly that 90% of Germans are incapable of acting normal around Jews and come off as super obsequious

Example: in the UK we learned about the roaring 20s in the US as context for the Wall Street crash, but ignored that Britain was already in recession for much of the 1920s (thanks in no small part to the economic policy of one Winston Churchill)

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

5mo

@dpk to be fair in the case of Spain it would be a bit underwhelming to explain.

"so, yeah, the rebels won, and during 35 years people got sent to work camps or sentenced to death if they dared challenging the regime. but like, no other country really cared about it so we were just kinda isolated and that's it. there were some guys wearing white hoods who kinda did try to do something about it, but they also did bad stuff and harmed people after the dictatorship ended, so we don't talk about that."