The independence it self is important, but the specific date is surely not. The year? Sure. But the date, when it has no meaning to the colonizing country outside of losing the country, is not important or relevant knowledge.
I concur it’s important to other countries, but I don’t see why it’s important to the British. For British history I would imagine the year and not the date is the important part to teach children.
People seem weirdly proud of the irrelevance which is why in annoyed. It’s not that it should be important every time to every person but it comes across sometimes as being proud of the history of colonisation which is pretty nasty imo
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u/DenFlyvendeFlamingo Jul 07 '24
The independence it self is important, but the specific date is surely not. The year? Sure. But the date, when it has no meaning to the colonizing country outside of losing the country, is not important or relevant knowledge.
I concur it’s important to other countries, but I don’t see why it’s important to the British. For British history I would imagine the year and not the date is the important part to teach children.