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Post by Sergeant Dull on Sept 17, 2010 18:02:01 GMT 10
The only time USA popped up in my studies was in GCSE History when a tiny part of my coursework on terrorism was a case study on 9/11.
That is to say it was the least interesting part of the coursework because I remember nothing about it apart from the fact it was like the rest of the terrorist attacks that I studied.
But we got to watch funny videos of Bush.
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Post by Rhinoce Breakdancerus on Sept 17, 2010 23:41:25 GMT 10
what Man I haven't seen ANY outrage from radical sects over that. You australians project some kind of goddamn calming field. That's because the actions of one guy with maybe 12 followers in Florida helps confirm the stereotype that America is full of imperialistic infidels to a equally crazy terror group, who probably doesn't know Australia even exists. |
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Post by Geewoody on Sept 18, 2010 10:31:12 GMT 10
Hrrrm, not one passage cataloguing our path of mad ambition and appetites for destruction? Disappointing, but I guess its not a bad thing that outsiders are ignorant to it. On a side note, aren't a few of you SVers Brits? Maybe the American Revolution was a little too embarrassing for y'all to remember.  |
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Post by Rhinoce Breakdancerus on Sept 18, 2010 12:53:32 GMT 10
Britain owned a ridiculous amount of land and has a longer history than the US. So it makes sense that we don't get only a sentence in their textbooks.
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Post by I, Farmer on Sept 18, 2010 19:47:21 GMT 10
Maybe the American Revolution was a little too embarrassing for y'all to remember. Amazingly, it's just not something we cover (At least up to GCSE, but as far as I can tell not A-level either.) Pity, really, as I could see it being rather interesting. |
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Post by Sergeant Dull on Sept 19, 2010 2:10:48 GMT 10
Hrrrm, not one passage cataloguing our path of mad ambition and appetites for destruction? Disappointing, but I guess its not a bad thing that outsiders are ignorant to it. On a side note, aren't a few of you SVers Brits? Maybe the American Revolution was a little too embarrassing for y'all to remember. Most SVers are Brits. But I bet the Scots learn about THEIR history, the Eires about theirs, the Welsh of theirs, and the Engls of their own. Most of what I studied involved the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Black Death/Plague and funnily enough, Medicine, which was mostly Europe and some parts of Asia. Well I studied WW2 for a year but that was mostly stuff about advances on German territories and the crazy shizzle Hitler did. |
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Post by Sergeant Dull on Sept 19, 2010 2:11:38 GMT 10
BLARGH why isn't this pointless thread closed already? It's like someone is trying too hard to make a point to people that don't give a damn.
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Post by dynamicsonic on Sept 19, 2010 7:29:41 GMT 10
 I agree with Tron. Close this taco stand. |
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Post by iBishyT on Sept 20, 2010 2:54:08 GMT 10
Surprisingly, over here we learnt very little about England in our secondary school.
We learnt about the Sioux Indians, the Arab/Isreali war, and a little bit about medicine (which was mostly Greek).
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Post by Sergeant Dull on Sept 20, 2010 3:47:57 GMT 10
Surprisingly, over here we learnt very little about England in our secondary school. We learnt about the Sioux Indians, the Arab/Isreali war, and a little bit about medicine (which was mostly Greek). Oh man the stuff about the Sioux was KICKASS. Oh yeah one of my GCSE papers was on the American West. yknow the cool bit of american history |
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Post by Matt_TY on Sept 21, 2010 21:59:25 GMT 10
We didn't do America at all.
Apparently one of the VCE subjects available for schools here is History: Revolutions (which does the American one as well as the French and Russian ones), but that wasn't offered at my school, I took Australian History with a general course the year before that did the Russian Revolution anyway, and also the Nazis.
Yeah, yeah, topic diverted, I know. Were you really still talking that much about the dumb Pommie kid that got himself kicked out of Yankland? This is like the one active topic going on in GD.
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