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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with you, OP. I am also a history major and often find my peers (without a liberal arts education) to be pretty inarticulate and not very thoughtful. There is a correlation between the demise of the humanities and the popularity of Colleen Hoover-type authors and books.[/quote]

Ditto! I was a history major. Too many Americans don't know any history. More foreigners know about America than Americans. If Americans weren't so ignorant, we would have never had Trump.[/quote]
? the majority of Americans don't have a college degree. They would've learned basic US history in HS.  Are you suggesting that everyone go to college and major in history?[/quote]

NP. One doesn’t have to major in history to have a little curiosity, or at least respect, for the field. If the prevailing attitude is indeed that someone whose kid wants to be a history teacher has failed as a parent (as a PP stated), or that learning about history is a waste of time, then we have a problem.

I think an even bigger problem, however, is that people all across the political spectrum act like they care deeply about history, but they just cherry pick the parts that suit them. [/quote]

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