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[farla]

"Yeah, I picked the Cold War for debate because no one knows about it."

His friend nods. "Yeah."

"The Cold War?" I repeat incredulously. "The Cold War? You don't know anything about the Cold War?"

"It was, like, a nuclear arms race," says another boy dismissively. "Now if it was a Hot War or something, that'd be different. With actual fighting. But the Cold War wasn't even a real war."

"We sponsored wars in dozens of countries!" I shout. "We - you can't just - we sponsored wars in dozens of countries! Dozens of - I hate you people."

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[farla.livejournal.com]

Ah. That's the fault of your educational system. In our glorious school system, we stall about at the Industrial Revolution each year, although once we got up to the Civil War because the teacher skipped forward (People died. Then we won. The black people were happy. Nothing bad ever happened again.). This is the first year of history we've ever gotten into the reconstruction after the Civil War, let alone out of America.

^^ And we're AP History, meaning no one else in the whole school is learning this. Whee!