Through history courses taken in high school and in college, it has been noted that there is a lot of focus on Western European history. This is even true in classes that are meant to focus on world history. It was always assumed that this was because of whitewashing history courses. Although whitewashing is probably a large reason Chinese history is not a primary focus in American world history courses, this chapter showed how much China attempted to keep foreign culture out of its borders. Through banning Christianity and attempting to isolate the culture in the 1500s,it makes more sense now as to why there may be fewer accounts of the impact of Asian history. Maybe today there less focus because of these attempts of isolation.

However, this is not to say Chinese culture did not impact history. Clearly, there was technology and techniques,like firearms and other machines, that made their way into European culture and are still used in present day. Asian cultures were extremely advanced throughout history in areas like technology and education. This chapter did provide alternate ideas as to why there may be more of a western focus in world history classes, however it did not fully answer the question, and this is just the experience of one single student.

Reading through this information makes people wonder if other people have found Asian history to be glossed over in world history courses, or if this is something unique to my own education. If so, do others feel this is because of times of isolation or because of America/Western European’s curriculum development. Discuss

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Posted on May 26, 2016Author TutorCategories Question, Questions