> they really don't care

Is this true? What if you're a successful drug dealer/weapons smuggler and you reported an income of $20 million? Will they turn a blind eye as long as you file your taxes?

I think its easy to forget just how enormous the cultural influence of the US is. I live in the country next door so we obviously get it big time. But there's no escaping it anywhere in the world. Seems like almost everywhere you go, people know at least something about US history. Its kind of crazy.

The Barbary Slave trade was thought to have peaked at 1.25 million… the transatlantic slave trade at 15 million.

But asking people to report on their illegal income is a form of self incrimination isnt it?

What's dowsing?

The IRS wants their cut, they always want their cut

In general though they don't send the feds after you because laws vary and its a question of what you did and what juridiction and they really don't care. The 5th amendment also protects you from having to say what you did to get that income.

But they can use failure to report illegal income as a way to get organized crime leaders like Al Capone. Some people clearly have significant income coming in yet only a small official income statement filed, the IRS wants their percentage off the rest of that pie

The law is you must report ALL income regardless of source, otherwise you're breaking the law.

Yes, the govt wants their cut. You make money, they get their piece of it and you have to follow the law like everyone else

I think the reason number two is probably the main one. Thanks.

I now see the difference between "mainstream" history and "pop" history.

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I think this is the most important reason. Thanks. I am not in the US and it is strange to me that in my country we do not talk about enslaving of our ancestors like it is talked about in the US

Greece. My great grand parents were hunted even when they were going to get water. Many of their relatives were caught and sold in the empire.

My country and my people would have turned differently if their ancestors did not live in fear of being kidnapped. There is quite a lot of emotional abuse that was being passed down to generations because of the actions of the ottoman empire.

A cousin of mine told me about one of his grandparents who was kidnapped from his own home, while his family was watching. He fought back and was killed by the muslims who wanted to capture him

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Sure. But like I said, much pop history comes out of North America where it is felt much more than the Barbary Slave Trade.

The Primary reason is because the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the resulting institution of racial slavery had a profound and dramatic effect on the governments, cultures, institutions, and people of the Americas that continue to this day. If your media is coming from the point of view of people in North and South America, then the Trans-Atlantic slave trade is much more relevant.

> The Atlantic Slave Trade lead to hundreds of years of societal impact that is still very much present today.

The Barbary Slave Trade lead to hundreds of years of societal impact that is still very much present today in parts of Europe

What country? When? How big is your country? What are the lasting cultural impacts?

barbary slave trade has had an impact on millions of people in my country yet no one talks about it nowadays

FYI, I'm not autistic and typically have a pretty dry sense of humor, and I still had no clue that was a joke.

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Define mainstream history.

The Barbary Slave Trade is absolutelty discussed in mainstream history. Just not pop history (i.e the History channel).

The Atlantic Slave Trade is likely more talked about because its impact is felt more in the present day, especially in North America where much pop history programming comes from. The Atlantic Slave Trade lead to hundreds of years of societal impact that is still very much present today.

Also: great word.

Mainstream history tends to skim over anything before 1500, and most things after 1500 that don't have direct noticeable impacts on the modern day.

The atlantic slave trade has directly and memorably impacted the families of a solid 50% of my country's population (America having an enormous influence on popular culture and education). People to this day, en masse, try to pretend it was a good thing. It is clear that education has been insufficient.

The Atlantic Slave Trade has a more direct effect on US history and present than the Barbary Slave Trade, and the American education system and American discourse in general tends to focus on things that most affect Americans rather than things that affect other parts of the world.

You might like the documentary "Paris is Burning." It goes into the history of vogueing and the NYC ballroom culture.

If you get a book on "fluid dynamics" it covers liquids and gasses, which follow many of the same engineering principles. The major exception is the compressibility of gasses.