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Originally Posted by denphone
Are events like the Holocaust taught in school?.
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It was for me. With some depth too.
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
11 million Chinese civilians were murdered by the Japanese in horrifically similar ways to the Nazis and they never get a mention, the Japanese even tried to erase it from their children's school books recently. Up to 2 million German mainly women and children died when the east was ethnically cleansed at the end of the war to, it's okay though, those children were Nazis
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Japanese actions in China and elsewhere in Asia do get mentioned sometimes but a lot less. I think it's natural that people know a lot more about historical events in their own cultures than others though. We were involved a lot more in the European front and are more closely connected in terms of culture and history to Europe than Asia.
In the same way people in the street around the UK are much more likely to name a historic French monarch, or an infamous European battle, than they are to name a Japanese emperor.