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My professor mentioned the 1980 Gwangju Uprising was barely covered in our textbook, just one paragraph. He said it's a huge deal in Korea but gets skipped over here.
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mark6766mo ago
Wow, that's a good point. I used to just assume our history books covered the big stuff, you know? But then I saw how they spent a whole chapter on the Cold War but barely a page on stuff the US did in South America. Makes you wonder what else gets left out because it's not a simple story.
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thompson.robin6mo ago
Man, my buddy took a Korean history class in college. His professor showed them a Korean textbook next to the one they were using. The Korean book had a whole section with photos about Gwangju. Their US book just had a single, vague line about "civil unrest." He said it felt like reading about two completely different countries. Really shows you what gets left on the cutting room floor.
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shanewells6mo ago
Sounds about right for US textbooks. They'll give you ten pages on the Boston Tea Party but a single paragraph on a major modern democracy movement. Guess it depends on whose history is more convenient to tell.
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