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Indeed, Filipinos are a big part of the US military, and someone's worried about Filipino nurses being a security threat? Hahaha.

https://news.mit.edu/2020/philippines-us-military-alliance-0...

But I'm not sure how well the history of the US in the Philippines is taught even in gen-ed college history classes, let alone, say, high school. One of those topics I think most folks learn about either through personal interest, or as part of a history or politics major in college, apart from maybe a passing mention when covering the tail end of 19th century US history, or maybe a low-context entry in coverage of WWII. I guess it's not as bad as mistaking Puerto Ricans for "foreigners", at least.




> history of the US in the Philippines is taught even in gen-ed college history classes, let alone, say, high school

Depends on the state. I grew up in California, so Asian American history is extremely prominent since 1st grade.


Ah. Plains state here. Maybe that’s to California as Native American history was to us. That, the “age of exploration”, western expansion, very bad revolutionary war history, and the “cradle of civilization” (Mesopotamia) must, collectively, have represented 95% of all our time spent on history, K-6.




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