tbh this is also the way Chinese history is taught in China, where everything <1911 is 'ancient' or 'feudal' and the vast differences between the empires are papered over https://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1204024545432211458 …
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Chinese kids also aren't taught to critically read sources, except occasionally through a *very* crude Marxist framework. So the model of the past written by underemployed Confucian scholars is taken for granted.
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you get about as accurate a picture of the past from the people who wrote the histories as you would of modern America from reading blue tick Twitter.
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History is written by the dorks the winners hire!
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