frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 months agoWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?message-squaremessage-square46linkfedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11message-squareWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 months agomessage-square46linkfedilink
minus-squarespicy pancake@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoanything that implies they’ve only learned European and US history (e.g. discounting the global technological contributions of Asia and Africa)
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoI have one for this! I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?” I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF) She said George Washington!
minus-squaresous-merde@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoIn France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoVariolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoIn the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoOkay I’ll bite. So the asian-african industrial revolution?
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoThe Haya in Tanzania were making steel 2000-2300 years ago
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoCool. Seriously! But if it didn’t change history (did they even genocide??! /s ) then we won’t learn it in base school I guess.
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoI don’t really understand either of your questions. Is there something you are trying to ask?
anything that implies they’ve only learned European and US history (e.g. discounting the global technological contributions of Asia and Africa)
I have one for this!
I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?”
I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)
She said George Washington!
In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
Variolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
Okay I’ll bite. So the asian-african industrial revolution?
The Haya in Tanzania were making steel 2000-2300 years ago
Cool. Seriously!
But if it didn’t change history (did they even genocide??! /s ) then we won’t learn it in base school I guess.
I don’t really understand either of your questions. Is there something you are trying to ask?