Ethnicity and our history

This quiz made me realize something very interesting about our history and how it is reflected. For the first two questions on naming white men and women, it came fairly easy. I was able to give names for each of the six centuries. When I searched famous people in history I got a large amount of hits that came up white men. The world has a past of being prejudice and this could be why it is east to research a person with a white ethnicity compared to one of Middle East. There could have been some very important names or paces that were of a different ethnicity that have been completely left out of the history books. Not only were ethnicities discredited against but so was a whole gender.
Women, I found it to be harder to name women on the quiz than men it didn’t seem to matter what ethnicity it was that women were harder answer then the men one reason that I came up with, was that women were not able to do the same things the men were suppose to do. Men made more money and were able to get better education and get put in the history books. The white women seemed to be the easiest and as I went down the line through the different ethnicities, the number of answers was getting less and less, even after taking the 1st quiz and going online to look up some people there was very few women names that came up.
The primary groups that were talked about in our American history books were white, black, or Native American. The white ethnicity discriminated against both the black and Native American ethnicity and made up a large portion of our history. The books that we read and discuss in our classes are based our the region that we live, since we live in the United States we get taught the events that happen in our country’s past. If you were to live in China your textbooks would have more information on the history of China and so on.
Some groups that don’t make up a large part of the history of the United States would be the Asian and the Middle Easterners. I think that they are left out of the history books because we most of the people that were immigrating to the United States were European and African American there wasn’t a large majority of the other groups in the United States at the time. Their impact on the history of the United States was very slim.
These quizzes that we took made me think about how much of the rest of the world’s history that I don’t know about. Some of the people that I was able to come up with on the quizzes were former presidents and their wife’s. Some inventors like the Wright brothers and Amelia Earhart. All these people were easy to remember because they made a large impact on our history. Who where some of the people that you came up with on your quizzes?