No shit, I was taught till middle school that the natives made room for and welcomed the European immigrants. Then when we learned about the Trail of Tears I was like, what? A good state history teacher in 8th grade told us all the ugliness involving the origins of black americans, including stressing the Civil War being about slavery, and a good US history teacher in high school cleared up the rest of the internal white-washing, native relations and Japanese internment camps among them.
If not for those two, I'd have become an adult thinking the US did little wrong ever. Still had to undo "communism if fine in theory but bad in practice", "the USSR is evil", and "Japan had to be nuked" on my own though.
No shit, I was taught till middle school that the natives made room for and welcomed the European immigrants. Then when we learned about the Trail of Tears I was like, what? A good state history teacher in 8th grade told us all the ugliness involving the origins of black americans, including stressing the Civil War being about slavery, and a good US history teacher in high school cleared up the rest of the internal white-washing, native relations and Japanese internment camps among them.
If not for those two, I'd have become an adult thinking the US did little wrong ever. Still had to undo "communism if fine in theory but bad in practice", "the USSR is evil", and "Japan had to be nuked" on my own though.
Lol did you have to watch that "elbow room" video from schoolhouse rock? Real lebensraum shit