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(THE COLLEGE FIX) — For 11 years, Professor Duke Pesta gave quizzes to his students at the beginning of the school year to test their knowledge on basic facts about American history and Western culture.
The most surprising result from his 11-year experiment? Students’ overwhelming belief that slavery began in the United States and was almost exclusively an American phenomenon, he said.
“Most of my students could not tell me anything meaningful about slavery outside of America,” Pesta told The College Fix. “They are convinced that slavery was an American problem that more or less ended with the Civil War, and they are very fuzzy about the history of slavery prior to the Colonial era. Their entire education about slavery was confined to America.”
I got out of high school in the 70's and likely thought slavery was unique to the US, at the time. No doubt, the same could have been said of those coming out of school in the 60's, 50's, 40's........
Most students have never been are exposed to World History.
College needs to teach our known history of slavery dating back to biblical times when the Hebrew God outlined rules and codes for slaves including how and when to beat them.
I got out of high school in the 70's and likely thought slavery was unique to the US, at the time. No doubt, the same could have been said of those coming out of school in the 60's, 50's, 40's........
Most students have never been are exposed to World History.
I guess that annual broadcast of "The 10 Commandments" at Easter fails to tip off a lot of people.
The younger generation and the dummying down of America.
Betcha the same above mentioned students know Brad Pitts favorite color, Kim Kardashian's measurements etc.....
I have had more than one black colleague who believes whites murdered Malcolm X.
They always look so sad to learn he was killed by some Nation of Islam nuts with shotguns.
I was watching something a few years ago about Harper's Ferry and a black man on the show said he had always thought John Brown was black. That startled me a bit. The most intriguing part about the event was that a crazy (maybe, maybe not) white abolitionist tried to raise a black rebellion.
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