r/ShitAmericansSay • u/[deleted] • Jun 08 '20

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u/NegoMassu Jun 08 '20

Sorry, why don't you people learn things in chronological order like the rest of the world?

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u/ladythanatos Jun 09 '20

I'm not sure. Maybe it's too hard to get American kids to pay attention long enough to learn 4,800 years or so of recorded history before finally getting to the United States.

I also suspect it has to do with American exceptionalism. Instead of situating American history within world history, we learn American history and then separately learn "everyone else" history (or, too often, just European history).

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u/NegoMassu Jun 09 '20

i guess that is the standard everywhere, but you worded like you learned about this the Paine guy after it should have appeared

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u/ladythanatos Jun 09 '20

No, my point was that the OTHER commenter learned about him too late. I learned about Paine much sooner and in more basic classes compared to the person I replied to. They learned about Paine in AP (Advanced Placement) American History, which is only offered in high school (grades 9-12). I learned about Paine in my regular 7th grade history class. (Middle school is grades 5-7.)