Schools Are Teaching Your Children Lies
I remember back in the days when was in grade school, all the things I was taught, all of the history and science and mathematics I was taught, and now, as a college and mostly self-educated adult, I realize that much of what I was taught was not only WRONG, but flat-out racist. I think about all of the things, the inventions, the innovations, the explorations I was taught about and how I was told by my instructors and textbooks alike that almost all of these things were created, in some form or another, by white people.
As I got older, I slowly began to realize that, through my own independant learning, my formal education was guided with an undertone of not just racist ignorance, but government propaganda, the idea that Americans, Europeans, the whole Western World invented EVERYTHING, thus imprinting all American children with the notion that caucasians possessed a superior drive and intellect to all others. This misinformation did not occur to me at the time, even though the facts were taught to me at home since my birth. Only now as an adult do I understand and am really very angry about my one-sided, Christian, Euro-centric education, the education that was and is identical to the one that everyone else in this country has recieved since the modern education system was implemented.
What the hell am I talking about? I'm talking about how American children are falsely taught that the Bible was the world's first printed book. I'm talking about how we're taught that a whole roomful of Europeans invented astronomy, how caucasian doctors invented modern medicine, how the Egyptians invented paper, how the Greeks were the masters of the seas, how European tribes invented and perfected the use of various metals. This is all wrong. All of it. Every word of it. The fact is, white people invented NONE of these things. EVERYTHING that white people and their allies "invented," right up until about the 16th or 17th century, HAD ALREADY EXISTED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD FOR AT LEAST A THOUSAND YEARS.
That's right, the Chinese are, without question, history's most enduring and innovative culture, and for some reason, America's educational system ENTIRELY FAILS to recognize this. For example, this country's racist, Eurocentric system teaches that Johannes Gutenburg's Bible was the world's first printed book. BULLSHIT!!! The Chinese had invented printing and movable type at least 700 years before Gutenburg was even born. Hell, the Chinese were printing books and illustrations for at least 700 years before Gutenburg's GRANDFATHER was born, but nobody ever teaches you that in America, do they? Sure, you're taught that the Chinese had silk and porcelain, and then that becomes a child's entire take on Chinese civilization, smooth cloth and white ceramic dishes. I cannot even begin to tell you how much that pisses me off.
Other things pretty much all Americans associate with Europe, i.e. white people, that were invented by the Chinese : the crossbow, the water clock, cast iron, steel, the compass, pretty much you name it, the Chinese invented it and some white guy stole it and claimed he "invented" it. Americans are taught that Egyptians, and yes, until relatively recently Egypt was VERY MUCH a part of the Western World, invented paper. Bullshit. Egyptians were writing heiroglyphs on pounded out sheets of papyrus. Papyrus is NOT paper. The Chinese were making real, recognizable paper from bamboo pulp since at least the 2nd century, A.D. Americans are taught that the Greeks and Romans had the crossbow. Bullshit. What they had was called a Palintonon, which was just a big, rope or horse hair or sinew driven catapault. It vaguely resembles a crossbow in shape, but it was a complex mechanical device that hurled large stones with SHOCKINGLY poor accuracy. The Chinese crossbow was an ingeniously engineered weapon of deadly power and precision. They even had "repeating" crossbows, which, with the simple pull of a lever, fired and completely reloaded in a single motion. This weapon was the deadliest firepower on the planet until the advent of the firearm, which, of course, was not possible without ANOTHER Chinese invention, gunpowder.
Understand, Europe was a land of war, disease, and instability for FOREVER, and China has been, for the most part, an uninterrupted continuous civilization for over 10,000 years. That kind of staying power tends to lend itself to a lot of innovation and invention, almost ALL of which is NOT TAUGHT to your children. There are probably people ignorant enough to think that Ben Franklin invented the kite. Wrong! Chinese again. Americans are taught that the Greeks, and later the Vikings, were the rulers of the seas. Wrong! Until up to even 100 years ago, Europeans all used large, single-piece sails fixed at right angles to the hull, ensuring they could only go forward if the wind was behind them. The Chinese utilized pivoting sails which could drive them with the wind blowing in ANY direction since at least 200 years before Christ was (allegedly)born. The Chinese were exploring the seas thousands of years before Europeans even concieved of the notion of exploring the world beyond their natural borders. Who invented the clock? I was taught is was the Greeks. Wrong! The Chinese had been making and perfecting water clocks for thousands of years, in order to accurately document the findings of their astronomers. That's right, the Chinese had been ACCURATELY charting and tracking the stars for 5000 years before the Egyptians, Greeks, or anyone else was even CLOSE to figuring it out. Chinese astronomers could predict the movements of the stars to within a 20th of a degree a thousand years before Galileo invented his telescope.
The point of all this is that the information I have provided you with here is ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, regarding China and ALL of the ancient Eastern civilizations, which I and ALL OF YOU out there in America were simply not taught. The reasons for this, I can only assume, are the arrogance, the ignorance, and the plain ego of the Euro-Christian-Caucasian powers that control EVERYTHING in this country. I didn't mean to focus entirely on China, they're just a great example to prove my point, I could have easily replaced China with the scientific and mathematical innovations of the Arabs, but as you can clearly see, there is a WORLD'S worth of information that is being IGNORED by YOUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATORS, because THEY were taught the same racist Eurocentric bullshit. This is a vicious cycle that MUST be remedied if this country EVER hopes to compete with the educational systems of almost ANY modernized nation on the planet. YOUR children are being taught LIES, and the only people who can stop it are YOU.
As I got older, I slowly began to realize that, through my own independant learning, my formal education was guided with an undertone of not just racist ignorance, but government propaganda, the idea that Americans, Europeans, the whole Western World invented EVERYTHING, thus imprinting all American children with the notion that caucasians possessed a superior drive and intellect to all others. This misinformation did not occur to me at the time, even though the facts were taught to me at home since my birth. Only now as an adult do I understand and am really very angry about my one-sided, Christian, Euro-centric education, the education that was and is identical to the one that everyone else in this country has recieved since the modern education system was implemented.
What the hell am I talking about? I'm talking about how American children are falsely taught that the Bible was the world's first printed book. I'm talking about how we're taught that a whole roomful of Europeans invented astronomy, how caucasian doctors invented modern medicine, how the Egyptians invented paper, how the Greeks were the masters of the seas, how European tribes invented and perfected the use of various metals. This is all wrong. All of it. Every word of it. The fact is, white people invented NONE of these things. EVERYTHING that white people and their allies "invented," right up until about the 16th or 17th century, HAD ALREADY EXISTED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD FOR AT LEAST A THOUSAND YEARS.
That's right, the Chinese are, without question, history's most enduring and innovative culture, and for some reason, America's educational system ENTIRELY FAILS to recognize this. For example, this country's racist, Eurocentric system teaches that Johannes Gutenburg's Bible was the world's first printed book. BULLSHIT!!! The Chinese had invented printing and movable type at least 700 years before Gutenburg was even born. Hell, the Chinese were printing books and illustrations for at least 700 years before Gutenburg's GRANDFATHER was born, but nobody ever teaches you that in America, do they? Sure, you're taught that the Chinese had silk and porcelain, and then that becomes a child's entire take on Chinese civilization, smooth cloth and white ceramic dishes. I cannot even begin to tell you how much that pisses me off.
Other things pretty much all Americans associate with Europe, i.e. white people, that were invented by the Chinese : the crossbow, the water clock, cast iron, steel, the compass, pretty much you name it, the Chinese invented it and some white guy stole it and claimed he "invented" it. Americans are taught that Egyptians, and yes, until relatively recently Egypt was VERY MUCH a part of the Western World, invented paper. Bullshit. Egyptians were writing heiroglyphs on pounded out sheets of papyrus. Papyrus is NOT paper. The Chinese were making real, recognizable paper from bamboo pulp since at least the 2nd century, A.D. Americans are taught that the Greeks and Romans had the crossbow. Bullshit. What they had was called a Palintonon, which was just a big, rope or horse hair or sinew driven catapault. It vaguely resembles a crossbow in shape, but it was a complex mechanical device that hurled large stones with SHOCKINGLY poor accuracy. The Chinese crossbow was an ingeniously engineered weapon of deadly power and precision. They even had "repeating" crossbows, which, with the simple pull of a lever, fired and completely reloaded in a single motion. This weapon was the deadliest firepower on the planet until the advent of the firearm, which, of course, was not possible without ANOTHER Chinese invention, gunpowder.
Understand, Europe was a land of war, disease, and instability for FOREVER, and China has been, for the most part, an uninterrupted continuous civilization for over 10,000 years. That kind of staying power tends to lend itself to a lot of innovation and invention, almost ALL of which is NOT TAUGHT to your children. There are probably people ignorant enough to think that Ben Franklin invented the kite. Wrong! Chinese again. Americans are taught that the Greeks, and later the Vikings, were the rulers of the seas. Wrong! Until up to even 100 years ago, Europeans all used large, single-piece sails fixed at right angles to the hull, ensuring they could only go forward if the wind was behind them. The Chinese utilized pivoting sails which could drive them with the wind blowing in ANY direction since at least 200 years before Christ was (allegedly)born. The Chinese were exploring the seas thousands of years before Europeans even concieved of the notion of exploring the world beyond their natural borders. Who invented the clock? I was taught is was the Greeks. Wrong! The Chinese had been making and perfecting water clocks for thousands of years, in order to accurately document the findings of their astronomers. That's right, the Chinese had been ACCURATELY charting and tracking the stars for 5000 years before the Egyptians, Greeks, or anyone else was even CLOSE to figuring it out. Chinese astronomers could predict the movements of the stars to within a 20th of a degree a thousand years before Galileo invented his telescope.
The point of all this is that the information I have provided you with here is ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, regarding China and ALL of the ancient Eastern civilizations, which I and ALL OF YOU out there in America were simply not taught. The reasons for this, I can only assume, are the arrogance, the ignorance, and the plain ego of the Euro-Christian-Caucasian powers that control EVERYTHING in this country. I didn't mean to focus entirely on China, they're just a great example to prove my point, I could have easily replaced China with the scientific and mathematical innovations of the Arabs, but as you can clearly see, there is a WORLD'S worth of information that is being IGNORED by YOUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATORS, because THEY were taught the same racist Eurocentric bullshit. This is a vicious cycle that MUST be remedied if this country EVER hopes to compete with the educational systems of almost ANY modernized nation on the planet. YOUR children are being taught LIES, and the only people who can stop it are YOU.
posted by D at 31.5.05
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