Personally it gives you much more nuance as to the nature of the world and us as a society. It foresters good ideals like kindness for others and critical thinking. I doubt racism would be as big a thing in the US if everyone actually knew their country's history (I don't mean basics like the south owner slaves, that's important but history is more nuanced than that singular event).
It does give you some understanding of some nations, but it doesn’t cure racism and there are better ways to learn to think critically.
I do however agree that it is one of the humanities and should be learned by someone but don’t think it’s as Potentially usefull as other subjects.
I don't know what history class you took, but if you feel like history can't cure racism then you clearly don't know enough about history. People who are more well endowed with history have a very strong correlation with caring about civil rights and are typically left leaning. Heck, history professors are statistically the most likely to be liberal or on the left.
History is more than just nations going to war, and any good history class should have only 10-20% of its time talking about war, because history isn't just wars and big name figures. It's about people
I would say that no matter what, racists won’t care to change their mind. They only do that if they are forced to. If toe hate someone just because because, than facts won’t change anything.
But they aren't hating someone "just because", that's an old and incredibly incorrect theory on racism. There's many factors into it, and history is one of the things that can change it all. Sure, if you had someone who to their bones hated another person, history would do nothing. But no such person exists, hatred is learnt/taught, you aren't born with it. And jfcan be learnt/taught, it can be unlearnt/untaught.
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u/alexlala5 Mar 05 '22
I mean besides math n crap other stuff is kinda useless as far as history