Do you think ethnic studies are vital to understanding all events in history?

answers1: Yes. Because history of a different race or culture of the
same event gives you a different perspective. <br>
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I hate the kind of history taught in school were its all patriotic and
justifies its wrongs rather than examine them. <br>
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At least with ethnic studies you learn things that you'll never learn
in a regular history class (well, depending on the teacher that
is...). <br>
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I think it is important because it gives you the missing piece to the
puzzle to understanding an event.
answers2: In some ways yes, you have to have an understanding of the
culture of the people your learning about before you learn about how
people are in a specific situation. It also applies to specific
situation though, not in all events. It is also important to remember
to teach Ethnic Studies in a purely unbiased manor.
answers3: Yes. You dont understand the history unless you understand
the culture(s).
answers4: When learning about any specific race in history, ethnic
studies is useful because each has it's own history in how it
developed and created the society those people live in and by. <br>
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However, if you haven't studied ethnic studies and you go into history
that's okay too as history as a whole is really about the people
(seeing as they created everything they live be) thus being ethnic
studies. History at some degree is ethnic studies and vise versa.
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Is it vital? It depends on how your undertaking history. <br>
Yes, if you want to study history to a high intellectual level. <br>
No, if your just briefly learning about an aspect from history. <br>
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In gest to what I said previously, if you want to understand history,
ethnic studies will just splice and integrate within the subject as a
whole so separating History and ethnic studies is futile as the two
are really one.