Why isn't the word "genocide" used when teaching about the early history of the United States?
141237
Because you have a bunch of idiotic, unintelligent radical pro-government racist Republicans writing our school textbooks. If you think that sounds harsh, that's your own opinion, but it is the truth.
784598
I can think of several things that may qualify, but upon closer examination I find evidence lacking for all of them.  Not counting some local or minor issue that may have been discussed in your class, consider Iraq?\n\nNo, we are not a colonial power exploiting another people.  Further, the people of Iraq are not culturally related to us, like we were to the British.  So bag that idea.\n\nWhat else? Elections?  Change of focus of power from Republican to Democrat?  No, there were no parties in Colonial America.  Not like we have them today.\n\nSorry I can't be more helpful.  Perhaps, Like I said, the question may be related to some topic covered in class that is not "general knowledge."  \n\nLots of teachers have their own agenda and even more ask questions that only make sense to them.  Some make a career out of making the obvious, obscure.
238178
Why isnt the Armenian Genocide by the Turks important to remember?
1090539
No NO NO--it was world war 1, and the TURKS WERE SURROUNDED and were at WAR with Armenians and Russians-----Turks lost thousands of troops AND civillians.  Genocide is when a group is killed sysematically by government order and IS not applicabe here at all.  War is war. Get it straight!
87750
Mostly in textbooks about history you don't see many blacks, so it's a way to bring their history forward.  But, I see no reason to not to integrate all races into history instead of specifying a month for anyone.  In the US we have seen the persecution of many races in and out of our country and this is a place where all of us should be recognized for our accomplishements equally.
177034
It makes me sick inside when I think of that subject. I actually had a very charismatic History Teacher, he informed us when our books were trying to brainwash us. What is truly sad is that white people didn't stop with the Indians. They oppressed many cultures. Don't worry though. Our time here on earth isn't judged in groups. We all face that alone.
184162
The word genocide means The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. Did Turks did it, No. Did Armenians die, Yes. But how and why? Many armenians died that is true; but it was just after they were done killing, raping and torturing Turkish and Kurdish people with the power they took from the Russians who invaded North east part of Ottoman Empire. After Russians were kicked out, the armenians who betrayed their own country were forced to live by government, but the other peoples who were murdered raped and tortured wanted their revenge and unleashed their wrath upon the leaving armenians; so it was not the government who did it, if anything they tried to protect the armenians. It was the other comman peoples who were also citizen of Ottoman Empire. so it is not genocide it is a civil war and armenians started it. There are still mass graveyards being found in the eastern Turkey that are done by renegade armenians of the time. In Turkey, people do SPEAK and ACCEPT that armenians died but it was not done by the government and also the regular people know that armenians asked for it. And if you look for the explanations of actual "HISTORIANS" they also accept that fact not the ones accepted by lobbied "politicians" of the world.
713625
Your question doesnt really make sense.\nDo you mean Australian aboriginal children?\nThey get taught the same as everyone else in their class, maybe you should be asking "What's in the syllabus about European History?"
621586
What about what the Native Americans did to the white man?!?!? Convincing those poor, hapless Euros to take over this seriously polluted land with all of these toxic pesticides and cow sh!t and those ugly cement housing developments everywhere?\nAnd THEN, when they didn't ALL die of diseases right off the bat and the early US government had to chase them all over hill and dale to murder rape, pillage and small pox 'em out of the rest of the place?  Really.  Why can't people just stand still for genocide once in awhile?  They're always trying so hard to defend their families and stuff.  Seems like it would be EXHAUSTING for the perpetrators.
419192
do your own homework.\nalso... you might get docked for not calling them native americans.
910866
Actually it's about the mass murder of native Americans by early settlers. \n\nTurkey anyone?
85715
While we don't want to "ban books" or "burn books" it should be established in schools that Nazi Germany did kill 12 million people in the concentration camps, and while the Nazi's burned books,  and we don't do that here in the West,  in modern society,  we still recognize that will some people have a right to be an @ss, they are wrong, and the established history is just that, an established history.\n\nLets present both sides.  The one side is a piece of sh*t, and the other side is a) hitler wanted it, and b) people went through it and saw it with their eyes.
589066
good question and reason we (older americans) are buying old history books for our grandkids....\n\nIMHO, because the "Politically Correct" is been taken to the extreme!  Instructors/writers want to re-write history - instead of remembering that we should LEARN from History (or past mistakes, from the good, bad and ugly).  It is a sad commentary on today.
1186569
Just exactly what is your point ?Are you saying that the newspapers and TV should mention everywhere where a large number of people were killed  whenever any one of them is mentioned.\n    Who would take time to read an article about Armenia if the newspaper had to give equal space to all other atrocities that happened all over the world through the ages.\n    Take the holocaust, for instance, if some new peice of information came up that you might want to read, should the newapaper be forced to hide it in a full review of all the other atrocities that have ever occured, to be sure one isn't getting too much exposure ?
182454
I am a Canadian living in the US and have done substitute teaching here.  I have found through my work and my wife's statements of what she learned, that there is very little world history taught through basic education here.  They do learn a bit about Canada and Mexico, but it seems, that if it doesn't relate directly to the US, it isn't that important.
29058
If you call occupation of territory settled by people and taking their land while denying them their rights or even treating them as humans civilized I guess the US must be the most barbarious civilization there is. People have been condemning the Nazis for trying to wipe out the Jews, well the Americans have suceeded even more by almost wiping out an entire nation of cultured people who were long settled in the continent with their own culture, law and government. So yes technically American Indians or more precisely the various tribes are the first people here and thus should be sovereign and even ruling the white man not vice versa as it is. They have more right to be called Americans than the rat tag bunch of colonials that arrived here and started a wave of slaughter and massacres such as the force eviction of tribes along the trail of tears, force evacuation and settlement of reservations, gifts of smallpox infested blankets in an effort in biological warfare, broken treaties and senseless wars and killings. Think about that.
959291
because they are programed from schools not to question what authorities teach them! Thanksgiving was originally a clebration of a massacure by the Pilgrams of Indian people! You wont find that in the history books, nor that Custer was tresppassing and in violation of the treaty of 1868 when he invaded a foregion country known as The Great Sioux Nation. So we dressed him up in a fine arrow shirt! I think he got the point! His body contrairy to popular belief was not left alone he was cut up in to pieces and scattered! He died at the hands of those he loved to kill, our women and children finished him off! Just a little known fact.