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Originally Posted by Brother_Karl
Am I the only one who is concerned that criticisms of the Allies are never taught in schools?
Japanese Detainment Camps are never mentioned, for example.
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Somehow I think we adults are somehow of the impression that our kids aren't learning this stuff just because they aren't telling us about it. I know for a fact that my kids learned about the Japanese internment camps, the Holocaust, American atrocities in the Philippines in the Spanish American War (and its dubious beginnings), the Gulf of Tonkin, Stalin's purges, etc.
Maybe it's just because our schools are relatively good, but I, for one, am quite impressed with their quality. They have served my kids extremely well. In a way, I think it has to do with parental interest in history spurring curiosity in these areas among kids. My kids have all taken AP American and World history courses and have learned a great deal more about history than many of the adults who bitch about the perceived instructional shortcomings in the schools.
That said, American schoolchildren are far more aware of and educated about the Holocaust that the other 20th century genocides of similar or greater magnitude (Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot in Cambodia, Turkish Armenian ...)