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It's too true.  I don't know the AP history curriculum, but 2nd graders used to spend an entire year studying Mali.  That's right.  Mali.  Not Greece or Italy or anywhere anything important ever happened, not the beginnings of civilization, not the origin of our own culture or language, not anyplace important today, but Mali.  It's just historical affirmative action.  Poor disadvantaged Mali is just as worthy of our attention as the great civilizations of the world.  The kids didn't of course learn about the problems of poverty and lack of education there, or about religious and ethnic conflict, but rather had to learn about traditional clothing and food and musical instruments, as though Mali is some center of culture and art.  Gag.[/quote]

I think that you would benefit from that second-grade curriculum. Mali actually was a center of culture and art, just like ancient Greece and ancient Rome were: http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/resources/mali/[/quote]

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