Of course in US schools, the genocide of the indigenous inhabitants is usually whitewashed; the curriculum sort of leaves you with the impression that North America was some vast, sparsely-populated land the white folks were just looking for some "elbow room". But the European colonial period, here that's usually just colored blobs on the map. I'm curious as to how this is taught in European classrooms. Any sort of reflection at all on how evil this was?
It's not. That the British empire existed, and that India was part of it, was about the extent of our education about our colonial past. We watched Zulu in one class too.
Edit: that being said, in our final year we did modern history and studied the events leading up to 9/11. We even read Osama Bin Laden's statement about why he did it; We must have touched upon the Balfour declaration, but we didn't cover the Coup we sponsored in Iraq or how that lead to the rise of Saddam, or how we sponsored the Shah and gave both sides weapons during the Iran-Iraq war, or the Gulf war (as far as I can remember). This was 10 years ago mind you, so I'm stetching my memory a bit.