History. Exciting tales of warriors and scholars, kings and peasants; and oppressors and the oppressed. Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing explores the idea that history is not as inclusive as it may initially seem, even when the other half of the story is realized, it is still incomplete. The cliche “history is written by the victors” holds true, in the modern world historical bias has been the catalyst for conflict and schisms in society, because of this a truthful and complete lense on a situation is near impossible to get. The four pillars of the National honors society, scholarship, service, leadership, and character, perfectly fit into Gyasi’s ideas.
It took me 10 years of education to learn a single thing about the rich history of China. An economic, technological, and cultural powerhouse for as long as man could till
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How could the US education system fail to teach its students world history in its world history classes? One would think that the diversity of this great nation would be represented in the curriculum, but this simply isn’t true. Because in the United States the Western Europeans are deemed the “victors” of history. This is because the founders of the US hailed from these lands and at one point, Europeans had colonized nearly every continent on this earth. Because of this, American students are being taught ignorance indirectly, European culture is superior because that's the only culture they know is “important enough” to be taught in schools. But through scholarship and leadership this implicit bias taught in schools can be eliminated. With scholarship comes the inherit love for learning, a passion to widen one’s horizons. This passion drives students, in this case, to learn world history, even if this particular story isn’t your own, or your ancestors. Scholarship is what drove me to take advanced history. Which vastly broadened my horizons, but also made me feel disgusted at the way history nearly every civilization to exist. I realized this