Hazel Praise Aqua contrasts Ghana civic education with U.S.
Hazel Praise Aqua says she learned Ghanaian civic education from grade one to grade nine. She says U.S. students often lack historical and political context, leaving professors to teach basics in college.
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So with what he said, like people not being educated, I really agree with that because I grew up in Ghana.
And from grade one to grade nine, we have something called civic education, where we learn about the history of Ghana, the big six and how they fought for independence against colonial rule and everything.
But then when I came here as a political science student, I tried to have these conversations with other people and they don't even know what America's history is or the whole political context about it.
And that really confused me because I'm like, didn't they teach you guys anything at all?
But then they are now learning.
And it makes things hard for our professors, too, because they talk about stuff expecting the students that are from here to know.
And they don't even know that.
And me, I had to do all these research to, like, be able to talk about it.
And I'm the only one that knows everything because they haven't taught the other people.
Because they don't even want to encourage them to try to learn.
They're just, like...
Take it or leave it.
So people here, I feel like their political context is based on their parents or their professors or what social media is telling them is right or wrong.