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Of course, but did your world history classes talk about racism? I'd guess that was a theme in the classes about your own country's history, whichever country you happen to be from, but not really in world history.
You needed to be taught the basics of the two world wars, the concept of dark ages and renaissance, something about Roman empire probably, etc. And people from countries whose history doesn't include noteworthy amounts of racism have to learn about the same amount about their country as you had to learn about yours, and have about the same amount of teaching time left for teaching the same things about world history that were taught to you.
Oho, I would not have expected this comment to get downvoted. Anyone able to explain why? It's now received one upvote and two downvotes. What is wrong about the comment? When I'm as surprised about something as now, it's often a good chance to learn something!
Kinda, when the slave trade and the US civil war was covered. I don't remember how in-depth it was at the time. Was briefly covered in law classes too iirc.
We had white (by modern standards) slaves and white slaveowners. Nationality/ethnicity is more important, and the reason for most of the killings and hate and bigotry in the region.
In a sense it was a blessing, gave us a better class consciousness, and made me realize sooner how dumb the concept of a race is. Unless self-applied it's pointless at best, and at worst very harmful.