Comments on: The Misinformation in the United States https://contemporaryracism.org/137958/the-misinformation-in-the-united-states/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:26:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Fred https://contemporaryracism.org/137958/the-misinformation-in-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1178 Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:26:06 +0000 https://contemporaryracism.org/?p=137958#comment-1178 In reply to Riot Orellana.

We’re the only country that uses the word America in our name. It’s kind of hard to de-emphasize that in an honest way.

]]> By: Riot Orellana https://contemporaryracism.org/137958/the-misinformation-in-the-united-states/comment-page-1/#comment-1104 Fri, 08 Dec 2023 02:53:49 +0000 https://contemporaryracism.org/?p=137958#comment-1104 I think one thing the U.S. should emphasize in its teachings is that the U.S. is not all of America. I know this seems small but it would make a big difference. When you say America, people only think about the U.S. America is the continent. I think this would allow students from a younger age to stop centralizing the U.S. because by defining America as the U.S. we’ve created this othering of Latin American people who are also American. The U.S. has created a monopoly on the term America, and by including the full history of the Americas we could combat this monopoly and hopefully better educate people in the U.S. about all of American history.

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