I'm an eastern european, and I have a hard time still grasping why the americans are so ignorant about the rest of the world. Can somebody tell me what is the main focus of american education system at all, like, what are they teaching on a compulsory basis over there?
I am asking this because I sometimes go to cuckchan boards outside of Holla Forums (difficult to do since Holla Forums and their anti-intellectual bullshit really seems to flow over to other boards as well) and I am met with complete ignorance and even hostility towards learning about anything outside of US. I see so many americans who claim to be experts on immigrant situation in Germany, UK politics or the Ukraine situation (usually claiming that Putin is a based white nationalist destroying evil jewish NATO-aligned ukrainians or some shit) but it's not common at all to see other way around.
This is something I am curious about. I know that private schools/colleges in US are probably top-tier, but like 80% of the people still probably have gone through public school/community college or something like that.
To clarify, I am not particularly hostile against americans, but american stupidity and complete ignorance against learning and relying on stereotypes is tiring and annoying me. Say what you will about eastern europe being backwards but even in my country, this kind of ignorance about the outside world compared to american levels is kind of rare.
A lot of public schools are purposely built to be pressure cookers of stress and social shark tnanks as to produce criminals. It's called the school to prison pipeline. It's a legacy of our chattel slavery past. Anytime minorities or black people pry some basic human right from the reactionary American majority, a bunch of impediments are thrown up in the blind spots of said groups. I went to private school for middle school and public schools for high school and the difference is like night and day. Switching to a democratic school model would solve a lot of this.
Gabriel Jenkins
Is this just an aspect to modern education or is there something american-specific to it?
Is that email a reference to american mass media?
Isaac Morris
it's like most other things in America, it's all about money. Public schools vary enormously from one to the next, and one area to the next, and one state to the next. If you're born in a poor area you'll likely go to an underfunded public school that has to handle a lot of problem students, while if you're born in a rich area you'll go to a good school. Same with US healthcare really. If you got a lot of money you can get excellent healthcare in the US. If you don't have money, you get shitty healthcare or none.
Private schools aren't any better. You get what you pay for of course. If you got a lot of money you can get a great private school that's better than the public's in your area. But when they try to replace public with private these wind up doing no better, and sometimes worse.
American views of world politics is shaped as much by the media culture, which really doesn't care about other places unless the US is involved somehow. And usually the media only gives the US government view. So you get people who adopt either that view or a reaction to it, grounded in the same premises but taking the opposite view.
Eli Sullivan
The American specific aspect to it is our slavery and Jim Crow past. A lot of white people still hate the idea of competitively educated black and brown people. So they put all the minorities in poorly funded schools, get them used to surveillance and brutal policing, then when these maladjusted minority children become adults they get into trouble and go to jail, where porky and the state can still make money off of them. There was a story in Mississippi where they where in school police officers were arresting black students and sending them to jail for infractions as mild as talking back. I
Austin Wood
Let me put it to you this way. If you see a young polish child go at a school that was nicer than the one you got educated in, or is a nice school at all, does a feeling of anger begin to well up inside of you? Well for the average American they get really mad if they see a black or brown American child going to a nice school. Also problems brought on by poverty are absolutely allowed to fester in these schools.
