(11-06-2020 18:34 )Stemmw Wrote:  I enjoy reading your posts Southsidestu, you always make some interesting and well reasoned points. I agree with you when you say Colonial powers like Britain and U.S. should educate their population like Rwanda and Germany (with Naziism).

I'd be interested to know, as someone who didn't come through the the British education system, if the gory details of British history are actually fully explored in your school text books. I would assume not, as an example there was of an episode of "Victoria" from last year I believe in which the storyline revolved around the famine in Ireland. I remember some of the social media reaction from British people and how they seemed completely unaware, for the most part, of what happened and the subsequent role Britain played in the starvation and mass emigration of Irish people, in spite of the fact that there was plenty of food being produced in Ireland at the time, it was just being taken and delivered to the rest of the empire around the world. Seemed like this issue and similar issues might be airbrushed out of your history syllabus as many people commenting online were saying they probably should have read about this whilst they were in school.

I imagine it would be tough to read about your own gory history when it comes to issues like the famine, colonialism, slavery etc. but definitely necessary, it's the sort of stuff people need to be informed of.

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