In school, even in 100 level US history at Uni, the “beginning of America” is like:

First it was a huge swath of land with a shit load of Indians on it. They lived in teepees, wore feathers on their heads, and used every part of the animals they hunted! Europeans came over, and put a swift end to that. In the 80s and early 90s at least, it was still presented as though they were the adversary somehow, and whites were only trying to “civilize” them. And we were all just like, oh ok.

Sometimes we would learn a little bit about the specific tribe(s) that the region we were in lived before we shuffled them off, but even then it was really reductive and not at all thorough.

Temporarily embarrassed billionaires

Wow you should talk about this for a living. That was perfect.

I had a nurse manager once who loudly shushed us, multiple times, every single day she was on site. At the nurses station, which was small, but like even if all of us are whispering it’s going to be audible. Her shushing loudly only contributed to both the noise level, and me quitting that job. She was even shushing doctors when they were conferring with one another and us nurses, like girl go back to your office. Kim, you were the worst.