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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;I Like Trees, post: 287378, member: 10463&quot;]To sum up my response to what other people have said, in no particular relationship to how recently, or in what order it was said: Yes people in the States are more ignorant, as a whole, of the outside world. (Quick: What&#039;s the name of the President of Mexico and the Prime Minister of Canada? NO PEEKING!) Yes our schools and culture imply that we are always right.</p><p><br /></p><p>No Johnn, it is not cool if&nbsp; history and politics are not peoples things. Everyone on all continents needs to worry about history and politics. It is important that fewer people start dying (on all sides, in all countries) for silly reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>[edit]</p><p>Looking at all history through a lens doesn&#039;t help. Certain aspects which some may not find germane, may be really interesting to other. For example some people are totally, mind-boggling obsessed with the U.S. civil war or with 19th century rail travel. Which is cool, it&#039;s their thing. It&#039;s just a bad formula to base ones entire world-view solely around that one aspect.</p><p style="text-align: center">~</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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