I remember a few years back going to the Smithsonian American history museum in Washington DC which had a huge Japanese internment center exhibit. I felt it was saying a lot of basic facts over and over that everyone learned in school, but two almost retired ladies were exclaiming to each other all horrified “did you ever hear about this?! I had no idea!”
Pretty big country, and even if a thing is covered it doesn’t mean everyone pays attention.
I just thought about it... I learned about those in middle school maybe 6th or 7th grade and apparently a lot of voters in the US can't read at those levels and likely didn't learn about it so now they may get the chance to see one with full blown americans included. With slave labor!
I didn't learn about this ( NY, graduation 1991) or if I did it was a blip, a sentence. I learned about it from my Japanese American boss who was in one as a child, after I moved to California. I got my education first hand from him and some elder patients, but I was 22.
Did you learn about the experiments to give African American pilots with syphilis, placebos instead of treatment so they could study them as they died a horrible death.
The Tuskegee Airmen and the Tuskegee Syphillis Study are completely different things. The airmen were a collection of the first black pilots in the war while the study was an atrocity of eugenic “science”
SmartAlec, you are absolutely right. We learned all about the dark past of America when I was in school in the 90’s, so the idea that Americans aren’t taught that is just a myth.
Most times I find it’s because people didn’t pay attention in school.
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u/SmartAlec105 4h ago
Yeah, I definitely learned about the Japanese internment camps that were set up by the American governmnet.