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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 417599" data-attributes="member: 4720">Agback, It wasn't a shot at you.&nbsp; I was making fun of my fellow Americans.As a group, we tend to pretend we know a LOT more about the world than we do, especially when it comes to history.That article from &quot;Atlantic Monthly&quot; is still shocking.&nbsp; I don't suppose it's on-line?&nbsp; I'd like to take a look.At any rate, the American school system is not of a piece.&nbsp; I got lucky in where my parents chose to live.&nbsp; So, while I'm not terribly well-informed about the history of many individual countries (outside of the ones I chose to look into myself), I think I got a solid overview of significant world events, and the &quot;local&quot; events that had a significant impact on the world stage.Still had to filter out the Amero-centrism, though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 417599, member: 4720"] Agback, It wasn't a shot at you. I was making fun of my fellow Americans. As a group, we tend to pretend we know a LOT more about the world than we do, especially when it comes to history. That article from "Atlantic Monthly" is still shocking. I don't suppose it's on-line? I'd like to take a look. At any rate, the American school system is not of a piece. I got lucky in where my parents chose to live. So, while I'm not terribly well-informed about the history of many individual countries (outside of the ones I chose to look into myself), I think I got a solid overview of significant world events, and the "local" events that had a significant impact on the world stage. Still had to filter out the Amero-centrism, though. ;) [/QUOTE]

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