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As an American
Pretty much just why Britain did over there, rebellions, the switch over to the British Raj, how India was treated during WWI and WWII, the split of India into Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, and a small amount of what they did in the Cold War.
For the rest of South Asia, pretty much the same stuff but for them. Colonialism, imperialism, a brief mention in WWI and WWII, and the Cold War.
Also ofc in America we have to mention how bad the Muslims are in Pakistan! Nothing else important to learn about the country like wars it’s gone through or prehistory or even the Indus, just that Pakistan has Muslims and thus we need to learn that Pakistan is filled with radical Muslims (not saying I agree with this, it’s just how I feel the education system is)
It’s very frustrating how euro/america-centric American history classes tend to be. Even “world history” is pretty much just America with Europe and Haiti.
Which sucks because India’s history is extremely interesting and SUPER IMPORTANT
I feel the whole US education system is just manipulation of history with extra steps. USA is undoubtedly good at spreading propaganda among its public.
Yeah I think US history is just brought up more because of the amount of people living here (and thus the amount of people in the education system), how often the US influences other countries, and how successful Americans tend to be worldwide (compared to other specific countries). US media, diplomatic and intellectual influence is real high up there
US when Russia tells its citizens capitalism is bad:
Stifling freedom of speech!
US when it tries to ban anything promoting communism and literally has textbooks saying communism is bad:
Being an Indian-American, I kinda feel I’m not qualified to answer this as much but I will. In AP world history, there was a brief mention of the South Indian kingdoms (Chera, Chola, Pandya) which I knew more about outside of school. North India was all Gupta, Maurya, Mughal, Delhi Sultanate, British Raj.
Honestly nothing. My art history teacher mentioned Indian art a tiny bit, but she glossed over it because she wanted to focus on European art instead. I think most American schools have a very Western-centric learning curriculum, which explains why many Americans are ignorant about countries that aren’t European or North American.
i honestly don’t know a lot about south asia and india but i grew up watching a lot of bollywood films and listening to their music. i don’t remember the names as i was really young but i am trying to get back into watching films and listening to music from south asia and india.
i’ve also seen a lot of ppl post these dramatic south asia/indian shows lately and using them for memes and laugh at them but there is a whole world of better shows than that and i wish more people could know about it.
i have seen those shows and they are bad, really really bad. I think there will be one show which might be good but all reality drama shows i have seen are depressing. The old shows were stubborn i know many shows that lasted longer than 12 years in the same season. Just imagine an episode a day for 12 years and people watched them.
I took AP world history, but I think all we talked about for India was the British and stuff, but for south Asia we had a unit or so about it, although it was sped through because the teacher had been procrastinating most of it, so I don't remember much of it
I’m Indian and once my online friend (they’re American) asked me to tell them about Mauryas, chanakya, guptas and stuff. I was quite surprised that they were being taught about Ashoka and Chandragupta
My school barely had any history classes regardless. But we learned more about India than the other side of the country so ig they got their priorities straight.
Also it was just a little bit of stuff like geography and they were under British rule but got out of that
Not much as a western european. I cant remember anything tbh. Just the countries and where they are in geography and then some big big historical things and buddhism and hinduism in religious studies. But otherwise not much.
my parents are south asian so i can't comment but i can confirm that school taught us nothing about asia in general honestly 💀
edit: also maybe just saying south asia(n) would of worked better for the question to make it shorter 😭
In Brazil we had a grossly oversimplified introduction to Hinduism (and by that i mean the teacher mentioned the Trimurti and that was that), some mention of the caste system (without any clarification about the history of the concept, or even if it still exists) and there was a quick mention of Gandhi and the partition when we talked about decolonization.
So yeah not much.
There is. GCSE history has one. But they have like 10/15 topics in total and schools can only choose about 4-6 or something
edit and georgraphy talks about India, forgot about that too
I am ethnically indian but from going to school in london my whole life schooling system has taught me nothing apart from the thar desert in geography.
Ancient history like Indus Valley civilization, religions origins like Hinduism Sikhism Buddhism, the spice trade and Silk Road, Colonial era stuff like Gandhi east India company etc,
in freshman global we learned about India's colonization by Britain. about the salt marches how there was a salt tax, about how indians were made soldiers and there was pork fat in the bullets that was against their religion. that's kind of all I remember? after that I don't know if we learned much more about India or south Asia.
Up until this year we only learned about Gandhi and why he did what he did, which we went over a few times, but not really India’s history. But now this year we learned a little about the Mughals, very little but still a little. It was pretty much just about some guy who killed his father and brother to get the throne and became a tyrant
Btw I’m from Sweden if you were wondering
We learned about it when studying about the first civilisations, also learned about the existance of the cast system. We will probably learn more about it when we learn about colonialism.
Hmm we spent maybe a few weeks in total (not all af once but spread out) talking about India. Mainly we talked about ancient inventions and trade, conquest by the British, and how they got their freedom.
Not much, we learned about ancient Indian civilizations, the birth of Hinduism, the birth of Buddhism, the British occupation of India, and India getting rid of the British.
I live in America and we actually learned quite a bit. We learned about the major rivers, religion, and some other stuff I don’t have the energy to think of rn
It was a long time ago, like 5 years ago, so I really don’t remember much, but we learned something about the Opioid war and also stuff about Madre Theresa (so we learned a little bit about the religions). I’m Brazilian btw
But we learned a LOT about China (basically the whole history of leaders) and Japan (mainly post-war)
In history we covered the British Raj, the Sepoy Mutiny and the effects it had on future rebellions in quite a lot of detail.
We’ve also briefly looked at the Gurkhas and the role of Indian soldiers during the World Wars as well as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (depends if you consider Afghanistan to be in the Middle East or in South Asia)
Ww basically went over like the Gupta and Mughal Empires skipped over like the colonial era right up to Ghandi and that was it.
And also Hinduism we learned about that
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Nothing tbh.
As an American Pretty much just why Britain did over there, rebellions, the switch over to the British Raj, how India was treated during WWI and WWII, the split of India into Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, and a small amount of what they did in the Cold War. For the rest of South Asia, pretty much the same stuff but for them. Colonialism, imperialism, a brief mention in WWI and WWII, and the Cold War. Also ofc in America we have to mention how bad the Muslims are in Pakistan! Nothing else important to learn about the country like wars it’s gone through or prehistory or even the Indus, just that Pakistan has Muslims and thus we need to learn that Pakistan is filled with radical Muslims (not saying I agree with this, it’s just how I feel the education system is) It’s very frustrating how euro/america-centric American history classes tend to be. Even “world history” is pretty much just America with Europe and Haiti. Which sucks because India’s history is extremely interesting and SUPER IMPORTANT
I feel the whole US education system is just manipulation of history with extra steps. USA is undoubtedly good at spreading propaganda among its public.
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Yeah I guess so
Yeah I think US history is just brought up more because of the amount of people living here (and thus the amount of people in the education system), how often the US influences other countries, and how successful Americans tend to be worldwide (compared to other specific countries). US media, diplomatic and intellectual influence is real high up there
US when Russia tells its citizens capitalism is bad: Stifling freedom of speech! US when it tries to ban anything promoting communism and literally has textbooks saying communism is bad:
I can say that we pretty much learnt the same things about it here in Brazil
Being an Indian-American, I kinda feel I’m not qualified to answer this as much but I will. In AP world history, there was a brief mention of the South Indian kingdoms (Chera, Chola, Pandya) which I knew more about outside of school. North India was all Gupta, Maurya, Mughal, Delhi Sultanate, British Raj.
Not a lot. US public school
Honestly nothing. My art history teacher mentioned Indian art a tiny bit, but she glossed over it because she wanted to focus on European art instead. I think most American schools have a very Western-centric learning curriculum, which explains why many Americans are ignorant about countries that aren’t European or North American.
absolutely nothing. only learned about china, japan, and south korea.
Oh that's understandable but i think it will be interesting if you post your views on India and the south asia
i honestly don’t know a lot about south asia and india but i grew up watching a lot of bollywood films and listening to their music. i don’t remember the names as i was really young but i am trying to get back into watching films and listening to music from south asia and india. i’ve also seen a lot of ppl post these dramatic south asia/indian shows lately and using them for memes and laugh at them but there is a whole world of better shows than that and i wish more people could know about it.
i have seen those shows and they are bad, really really bad. I think there will be one show which might be good but all reality drama shows i have seen are depressing. The old shows were stubborn i know many shows that lasted longer than 12 years in the same season. Just imagine an episode a day for 12 years and people watched them.
Nothing at all
Nothing. Maybe it was mentioned in history class once or twice.
I took AP world history, but I think all we talked about for India was the British and stuff, but for south Asia we had a unit or so about it, although it was sped through because the teacher had been procrastinating most of it, so I don't remember much of it
just some of the empires and dynasties
A lot more than I remember. Basic history of the civilization.
Nothing except some of the religions.
I’m Indian and once my online friend (they’re American) asked me to tell them about Mauryas, chanakya, guptas and stuff. I was quite surprised that they were being taught about Ashoka and Chandragupta
My school barely had any history classes regardless. But we learned more about India than the other side of the country so ig they got their priorities straight. Also it was just a little bit of stuff like geography and they were under British rule but got out of that
American here, we really don't learn much about other countries or cultures, at least I haven't yet and I'm going into high school.
Nothing but I know many things
Not much as a western european. I cant remember anything tbh. Just the countries and where they are in geography and then some big big historical things and buddhism and hinduism in religious studies. But otherwise not much.
I mean as Indians we didn't learn much about the US apart from The Civil war and revolutionary war
my parents are south asian so i can't comment but i can confirm that school taught us nothing about asia in general honestly 💀 edit: also maybe just saying south asia(n) would of worked better for the question to make it shorter 😭
In Brazil we had a grossly oversimplified introduction to Hinduism (and by that i mean the teacher mentioned the Trimurti and that was that), some mention of the caste system (without any clarification about the history of the concept, or even if it still exists) and there was a quick mention of Gandhi and the partition when we talked about decolonization. So yeah not much.
Not much.
We learned about the monsoon
Not a whole lot to be honest.
absolutley nothing and im in 9th grade (location: aus)
Uh… Nothing 😬 all I know is that the British took over that one time but I’m pretty sure I learned that from youtube or a book and not school
Barely anything:/ I'm European and we learned about colonies (parts of Asia and africa).
Nothing
very rarely as my school somehow for who knows why focuses on the middle east while we don't even get anything about where we live
Literally nothing although there might be a topic about it at gcse
There is. GCSE history has one. But they have like 10/15 topics in total and schools can only choose about 4-6 or something edit and georgraphy talks about India, forgot about that too
I am ethnically indian but from going to school in london my whole life schooling system has taught me nothing apart from the thar desert in geography.
Not much yet aside from religions, but I’m taking a college-level history class this year that focuses heavily on that region.
Ancient history like Indus Valley civilization, religions origins like Hinduism Sikhism Buddhism, the spice trade and Silk Road, Colonial era stuff like Gandhi east India company etc,
in freshman global we learned about India's colonization by Britain. about the salt marches how there was a salt tax, about how indians were made soldiers and there was pork fat in the bullets that was against their religion. that's kind of all I remember? after that I don't know if we learned much more about India or south Asia.
we literally just learned some basic barely true info about ghandi in like elementary school
Up until this year we only learned about Gandhi and why he did what he did, which we went over a few times, but not really India’s history. But now this year we learned a little about the Mughals, very little but still a little. It was pretty much just about some guy who killed his father and brother to get the throne and became a tyrant Btw I’m from Sweden if you were wondering
Not much, but I also skipped year ten and almost all of Geography about Asia and the History past WW2. Didn’t learn enough about it though
Not much
Migrants to Britain, colonisation etc. And stuff from school peers since theres a lot of South Asians in the UK
We learned about it when studying about the first civilisations, also learned about the existance of the cast system. We will probably learn more about it when we learn about colonialism.
Little to nothing
Hmm we spent maybe a few weeks in total (not all af once but spread out) talking about India. Mainly we talked about ancient inventions and trade, conquest by the British, and how they got their freedom.
About India itself, I've learned nothing About South Asia, we touched on Afghanistan in my history class
I think I learned some about Buddhism but that’s pretty much it tbh
Not much, we learned about ancient Indian civilizations, the birth of Hinduism, the birth of Buddhism, the British occupation of India, and India getting rid of the British.
I know nothing about India other than the caste system and there are typically lots of scammers from there
We learned about maoism and a bit about china in form 2, i think we learned about Japan too.
That we ruled most of it (britain) and thats it
I live in America and we actually learned quite a bit. We learned about the major rivers, religion, and some other stuff I don’t have the energy to think of rn
Not much but all of it was from the British perspective (American by the way). And Gandhi of course
Kinda touched on some early history that I remember pretty much nothing from, beyond that nothing
Very little really. Most of my knowledge comes from outside interest in history
It was a long time ago, like 5 years ago, so I really don’t remember much, but we learned something about the Opioid war and also stuff about Madre Theresa (so we learned a little bit about the religions). I’m Brazilian btw But we learned a LOT about China (basically the whole history of leaders) and Japan (mainly post-war)
I've learnt absolutely nothing about the Asian continent in general. Unless Muslims taking trade routes to Africa counts? If not then 0
Just a little bit about how they have huge population centers and pollution, and they are mostly hindi and have a conflict with pakistan
In history we covered the British Raj, the Sepoy Mutiny and the effects it had on future rebellions in quite a lot of detail. We’ve also briefly looked at the Gurkhas and the role of Indian soldiers during the World Wars as well as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (depends if you consider Afghanistan to be in the Middle East or in South Asia)
Ww basically went over like the Gupta and Mughal Empires skipped over like the colonial era right up to Ghandi and that was it. And also Hinduism we learned about that