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[-] WormFood@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

this isn't specifically a Japanese thing though, most American kids are taught that dropping both bombs was the only way to win the war, when this is still the subject of a lot of debate. for that matter, they probably aren't taught about how eugenics were effectively exported from America to Germany. I'm from the UK and I had to wait until I was reading history for fun to learn about most of the UK's colonial crimes. the way history is taught in schools is just a bit shit

[-] shield_gengar@sh.itjust.works 19 points 7 months ago

Wholeheartedly agree, history books are basically propaganda. Like, I it get if you don't want to get into the gory details of war, but if that's the case, why talk about murdering civilians at all.

Americans learn everything about the middle-eastern conflict from Sept. 11th, 2001 and on. They don't know anything of what happened before then, or why these evil bastards were so mad, etc.

[-] jve@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Americans learn everything about the middle-eastern conflict from Sept. 11th, 2001 and on.

Do they actually get anything about the “and on” bit in high school? Feels like the kind of thing they’d have to wait til uni for.

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