Posted: Jun 24, 2021 10:47 am
Animavore wrote:From an Irish, and I'm sure from other ex-colonialist perspectives, yeah, history, as taught by Britain, is quite biased and distorted. They parade their conquests like triumphs while down-playing the suffering. I've spoken to a number of British people who didn't know anything about what went down in Ireland until after school (don't know if this has changed) when they read it themselves,
Indeed. Having grown up in the UK as an Irish person, even in a politically aware family, a lot of it came as a shock to me, and I had some idea of what to expect.