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Originally Posted by DevilsSon
The guy who wrote it is American - they might not be taught anything like that in school at all given the racial divide that exists over there (assumption).
I agree with you Jim. There's only so much time and the World Wars are certainly the two most catastrophic events that have ever happened to humanity, and especially to Europe. Also - my grandparents were young adults when WWII happened. My parents grew up with the consequences and half of Europe is still affected by a certain Ribbentrop - Molotov Pact.
Yet when we are talking about millions of people being tortured, humiliated, starved, experimented on, and killed - the reason should be nothing but a footnote. We don't talk about it because those people were a different race and it happened quite a long way from our backyard. Also, there haven't been global voices equivalent to the one of, say, Elie Wiesel to make sure that people don't forget such atrocities. But it is what it is I guess, and I wouldn't know how it should be addressed differently...which is a bit of a sad state of affairs.
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I'm sure some of our American friends will be able to confirm or deny if American excesses (particularly with regards to the Manifest Destiny era) are taught but I would be very surprised if they didn't.
We might not always get it right and we might gloss over or not investigate certain parts of History as much as they should in the West but generally speaking, we're quite good at taking stock of our past and facing it, maybe not head on but certainly not sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting "lalalalalalalalala" like the Japanese like to do.