Honest question: how do these people/the american education system explain the very british, totally anglo names of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Nevada, etc… ?
Like, isn’t taught at all? I mean, it is such a big thing, texas independency, massive overtake of mexican territory, and all that.
As a person who grew up in Am*rica, the genocidal imperial conquest is portrayed in a positive light - the atrocities are glossed over, and the narrative is that America “tamed” an “uninhabited” or “savage” wilderness. The war with Mexico is justified as “liberating” the white settlers in the area from supposed Mexican tyranny.
My history education in the west coast wasn’t as overtly spun to America’s favor llike that other reply but it was a simple “we did bad things to native americans, moving on to the next topic” sort of affair. They would have short sections that briefly hinted at the bad things we’ve done then follow up with page after page of people who sought to change that, various laws that have been passed to aid the people we’ve harmed, or efforts as a society/government to improve their situation (even if those efforts were essentially just lip service and did little to actually help).
It paints an impression that while they’re still in bad shape now, everything is changingbfor the better and that we just need more time to fully fix those issues. Or that it’s all history by now and we’re already making up/made up for our wrongs.
Honest question: how do these people/the american education system explain the very british, totally anglo names of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Nevada, etc… ?
Like, isn’t taught at all? I mean, it is such a big thing, texas independency, massive overtake of mexican territory, and all that.
As a person who grew up in Am*rica, the genocidal imperial conquest is portrayed in a positive light - the atrocities are glossed over, and the narrative is that America “tamed” an “uninhabited” or “savage” wilderness. The war with Mexico is justified as “liberating” the white settlers in the area from supposed Mexican tyranny.
they totally forget Mexico had abolished slavery by the time the US stole that land as well
Why do you think Texans were so mad they wanted to be independent?
Good book on this: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - not a nation of immigrants.
her “a native people’s history of the US” is also good
torrent link for epub
My history education in the west coast wasn’t as overtly spun to America’s favor llike that other reply but it was a simple “we did bad things to native americans, moving on to the next topic” sort of affair. They would have short sections that briefly hinted at the bad things we’ve done then follow up with page after page of people who sought to change that, various laws that have been passed to aid the people we’ve harmed, or efforts as a society/government to improve their situation (even if those efforts were essentially just lip service and did little to actually help).
It paints an impression that while they’re still in bad shape now, everything is changingbfor the better and that we just need more time to fully fix those issues. Or that it’s all history by now and we’re already making up/made up for our wrongs.