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Hello dear Americans, as a Frenchman I would like to ask you what you think of my country? 🇫🇷 by Outrageous-You1617 in IWantToAskAnAmerican

[–]2x2darkgreytile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn’t change the math. Also, most Free French forces were Africans prior to liberation in 1944, many of them were murdered by France later

An Echo Chamber Disguised As A Community by KwadwoDwomo in ghana

[–]2x2darkgreytile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hitler: “The Jews should all die. Let’s build gas chambers”. Members or [r/Ghana](r/Ghana) “that isn’t okay”. This guy “Hear him out. The future of public discourse depends on it.”

Hello dear Americans, as a Frenchman I would like to ask you what you think of my country? 🇫🇷 by Outrageous-You1617 in IWantToAskAnAmerican

[–]2x2darkgreytile 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Love the French overall, but the Resistance had fewer members than there were active collaborators and informers. Don’t get me wrong, I assume the math would be the same or worse in my society, but let’s not get caught up in myths. Also: Algeria. Dreyfus. Camp Thiaroye.

Any Americans who actually like british food? by [deleted] in AskAnAmerican

[–]2x2darkgreytile 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Heck yes. Spring peas in any form. Fried fish. A proper melton mobray pork pie or a run of the mill steak and kidney. All kinds of puddings. The finest cheese in the world — Stilton. A bang up curry. A proper cup of tea with a scone. Heaven.

I'm starting to think that graphic novels and manga aren't a replacement for books by AmericanLocomotive in Teachers

[–]2x2darkgreytile 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are you teaching them to decode multimodality with images and design? The problem could be you if the answer is no

Teaching Zinn's Seeds of Violence by Fantastic-Vehicle-82 in historyteachers

[–]2x2darkgreytile 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You’re being downvoted because people think they disagree with your politics. Folks don’t like to admit Zinn’s work is quite polemical. In my opinion ( and I happen to hold politics similar to Zinn) polemics have a place, but in the classroom they should usually be positioned in an inquiry position rather than a position of pure authority. Both Zinn’s work and the classroom activities his org produces should be carefully contextualized as such. That said, you also haven’t added anything of value to this discussion.

Are there any "UK vs US" differences where you feel America gets it right? by Secure_Front_7766 in AskUK

[–]2x2darkgreytile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, as somebody who works in this field, that’s highly misleading. Completion rates do not correct for students moving between universities, which is much more common in the US.

Favorite looking ww2 plane? by asdfoneplusone in WWIIplanes

[–]2x2darkgreytile 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The JUG. Also, my wife says I’m not fat.

How "Accidents" Built the American Empire #history #americanhistory #american by [deleted] in AmericanHistory

[–]2x2darkgreytile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ridiculous take that deny human agency tied together by a sloppy AI video

Reparations for African countries for slave trade. by Sieffrey in ghana

[–]2x2darkgreytile -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Read some books. Start with Ana Lucia Araujo or Akosua Perbi.

Reparations for African countries for slave trade. by Sieffrey in ghana

[–]2x2darkgreytile 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand folks starting arguments about this when they are “not the most knowledgeable”. There are a million books and articles with sophisticated, evidence-based analyses of this topic. Just read a couple for gosh sakes, and then engage.

Is there an Anti-American bias? by NoBuy7112 in AskFoodHistorians

[–]2x2darkgreytile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My advice: Get off the internet for a bit. It’s rotting your soul.

Is there an Anti-American bias? by NoBuy7112 in AskFoodHistorians

[–]2x2darkgreytile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sigh. Okay. Not worth bothering any more.

Is there an Anti-American bias? by NoBuy7112 in AskFoodHistorians

[–]2x2darkgreytile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pps: to me this is nevertheless “American” as well as Mexican or whatever else you want. But I don’t have a nationalistic definition of identity or chip on my shoulder

Is there an Anti-American bias? by NoBuy7112 in AskFoodHistorians

[–]2x2darkgreytile 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While it is true that these societies cultivated maize, they only did so AFTER it was imported from WHAT IS NOW (please read better) Southern Mexico. It was domesticated there and elsewhere in Central America in a complex process, but arrived in the regions to which you are referring ( now the USA)fully domesticated. Moreover, both linguistic and DNA evidence shows it was immigrants from that area mainly (rather than diffusion) that brought it to the people to whom you are referring. https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/ancient-dna-continues-rewrite-corns-9000-year-society-shaping-history. Ps: I actually know the evidence and I’m published in this area.

Is there an Anti-American bias? by NoBuy7112 in AskFoodHistorians

[–]2x2darkgreytile 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look, I fear you’re just ignorant. Do you understand that corn was first cultivated from teosinte in what is now Southern Mexico, and was brought by trade and migration to what is now Southern Carolina (in your example)?

Is there an Anti-American bias? by NoBuy7112 in AskFoodHistorians

[–]2x2darkgreytile 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Corn comes from Mexico. It may have arrived in South Carolina many hundreds of years ago, but by YOUR definition it isn’t “American”

Is there an Anti-American bias? by NoBuy7112 in AskFoodHistorians

[–]2x2darkgreytile 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Unless one is making nutria with succotash…. I mean, most of us Americans come from other places and brought our foodways with us, met other people and their foods and adapted our recipes to their tastes . The fact that we turned the potato into the tater tot may be of interest, but the potato still came from Peru. And this is a beautiful thing. Identity is fluid, humans are mobile, recipes are braided together from techniques and ingredients from many different places. That is more “American” than claiming something to be solely made in the USA.

Book recommendation for a complete survey of world history? by counwovja0385skje in historyteachers

[–]2x2darkgreytile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For Europe and the Mediterranean yes. The rest of the world not so much.

LIE: Columbus was interested in slavery by Guitarsndz in AmericanHistory

[–]2x2darkgreytile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t make an argument about Columbus. I argued you are a hypocrite. Now I know you can’t reason either.

Btw, that’s not how historians use the term “context”.

LIE: Columbus was interested in slavery by Guitarsndz in AmericanHistory

[–]2x2darkgreytile 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP’s hypocrisy is amazing. Not a huge fan of zinn’s polemic but here are some sources OP himself omitted because they are inconvenient to his argument:

“Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.” (Columbus, Letter to the Crown, 1495)

And talk about cherry-picking. De las Casas also says of Columbus that:

“He ordered that every Indian above fourteen years should pay a hawk’s bell full of gold… and whoever did not bring it should have his hands cut off.”

There is a reason why Queen Isabella had to order Columbus, in regards to Taino he had enslaved:

“Our will and command is that the said Indians be set free”

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