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?
Uh I think it was like 4 hours max attributed to it, switzerland didn't really have colonies so one session was about the slave trade and early colonialism. And the other was basically the scramble for Africa as a sort of prelude to ww1. The maximum it amounted to was "Slavery was a really widespread system and even though switzerland didn't have colonies that still financially participated and profited from it, given that you can't grow cacao in switzerland." and looking at the different african colonies and how each of them were administrated.