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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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.

shanewells11d 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.