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Originally Posted by Sirtel
As things stand now, you usually don't get any appreciation for the culture from the school literature lessons. Quite the contrary.
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One thing to keep in mind is that school experiences can be quite different from country to country (and really from school to school within a country).
I think over the last 20 or so years, perhaps more, in the US, the common culture thing has been de-emphasized in school as classics have fallen out of favor with the teaching establishment. Of course, over the same time period, actually teaching students to read, do math and actual history has fallen out of favor as well.