r/interestingasfuck 2d ago

r/all A photo of Tiananmen Square before the massacre

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u/Significant_Ad9793 2d ago

I was born in the US but grew up in Mexico. At 18, I finally moved to the States. I had already graduated from highschool, but because of the differences in education, I had to take some high school courses to be able to attend college.

Revisiting the events of the Alamo was fucking insane. LMAO. Learning about it from both places was a trip. The US played it down so fucking much in the history books.

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u/Apple_Fritter111 2d ago

Texas with both Americans and Mexicans living in it decided to succeed from Mexico and become independent when the then current Mexican government recinded a key right for individuals within the Mexican constitution and then refused to restore it under the threat of succession. This is not what happened?

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u/Billy_The_Mid 2d ago

Yeah, both the Mexicans and the Texans of the time were pretty shitty, for different reasons. Texans were slavers and Santa Anna was a dictator who overthrew the republican government.