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Don't Germans get taught about American exceptionalism in schools or something like that? That's so cool from an academic POV.
I didn't get taught that. Unless you count a school exchange and witnessing it firsthand... Although it didn't strike me as too bad back then (90s, Atlanta), the country was still kind of likeable and cool back then. Before I started learning more about history and before obnoxious 'muricans started being everywhere.
Yeah, it was probably at some particular schools. I forget where I read it, tbh. Still, it'd make a great addition to any curriculum, and not just about the USA but about any country that uses unusual propaganda to steer its population a certain way.
Except that nowadays rightwing populists everywhere would fight such a curriculum with teeth and nails. We need a general education about smartphone / social media usage & algorithms, but by the time kids are old enough to follow such a class, their brains are already mush :(