Why do Americans do "world history" in school while everyone else just does "history"?

answers1: to differentiate between world history vs state, or U.S. history
answers2: In my high school world history was a requirement for freshmans. <br>
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Like we had ot have <br>
world history <br>
the US history 1 <br>
Us history 2 <br>
then government and economics
answers3: World History is a discipline that looks at events and
trends in the world that have relevance to the entire world, not just,
for example, to American History.
answers4: It's to talk ourselves into believing that we actually care
about "world history". Sadly, we'd rather not talk about all those
"other countries". <br>
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Please don't ask us any geography questions either... we may fold
under pressure... or tell you that the capital of Russia is Cleveland.
answers5: Because the history of the world and American history are
not the same thing.
answers6: I went to school in Texas and these are the classes I had to
take: <br>
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History <br>
Texas History <br>
US History <br>
World History <br>
US Government
answers7: World history is given a serious backseat to American
history. And even that's a joke. <br>
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It's a [scary] trip. <br>
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Which is why Leno has enough material for several lifetimes worth of
"Tonight Show"s.
answers8: We Canadians have to take Canadian History. What's funny is
it still some-how revolves around American history. <br>
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Hmm.
answers9: oh sorry, i put the wrong class! i meant to talk about world
HISTORY i was thinking of world cultures! World history is events that
took place all over the world at same or different times. U.S. history
shows up very little within world history studies, hardly any. because
then U.S. history is a class all by itself, which should be taken the
year after you take world history. in our area here are the history
classes in high school (in order): <br>
-world cultures <br>
-world history <br>
-U.S. history <br>
-Gov. Econ. <br>
(btw, they add a tiny bit of U.S. history to world history so the kids
can see how it relates to our country and society, so it's not just
"junk" about other countries that has nothing to do with anything)
answers10: I totally agree with you!