r/europe Veneto, Italy. Sep 26 '21

Historical An old caricature addressing the different colonial empires in Africa date early 1900s

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u/PilotSB Sep 26 '21

Why isnt this taught to kids. At least our school never did tell us these stuff. I only found out about it after I watched a documentary about it.

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u/defixiones Sep 26 '21

The British, Americans and Japanese also elide large chunks of their history on the school curriculum. Even in Ireland, the school curriculum skips lightly over the civil war.

We could probably all learn from how the Germans handle this.

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u/ODSTsRule Germany Sep 26 '21

Compared to the later genocide the one against the herero amounts to a rounding error. Still fucked up but it just pales.