I get sick of reading this.

1. Why does knowledge need to be spoon fed? Go to Amazon and I can point you to hundreds of books written in the last few years about the British Empire and many of them by British historians teaching about the British Empire. Everyone knows about the British Empire.
2. For people who don't know of or discuss the British Empire, can you explain why it's referenced across many Brexit articles and appears as a rhetorical stick to beat Brexiters over the head with in nearly every comment thread on The Guardian?
3. Every country is the same way. Nobody wants to hear anyone talking their country down. The only difference with the west is it's filled with people eager to leverage their country's barbaric history (and every country has one) to influence politics in the present; and such people always ignore all of the positives. Anytime I read the British Empire referenced it is always about the negatives and rarely mentions any of the world changing inventions and advancements made during the period.
4. I agree that knowledge of history is at an all time low and this seems to be a problem across the west. Then again, most peoples' basic political knowledge is also terrible (e.g. 50% of college graduates don't know the term length of Representatives or Senators and 60% don't know how the constitution is amended).
   1. The crazy part is these people are highly engaged in the political process but only seem to engage on an emotional level rather than an intellectual one.
   2. Another reason why our knowledge of history is so poor is because the very notion of "truth" has been beaten into submission in the last few decades by postmodernists, and everything historical is filtered through the prism of identity. For example, one professor gave a history exam to successive cohorts over 11 years. From one cohort he found 29 out of 32 students knew that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves but only 3 out of 32 knew he had been President.
   3. This again comes down to academics' insistence that there are no truths, or whatever truths of the day are accepted are merely a consequence of power i.e. they aren't objectively true, and that everything is socially constructed (including "truth"). The power that they identity in the modern day is "white men" and every meta narrative (e.g capitalism, Christianity, masculinity, etc.) created by "white men" must be deconstructed and disassembled.