Comment by Dobbs
16 years ago
I may be the exception or not but we spent a fairly large chunk of time talking about it in middle school.
That would be within the last 6-8 years if you are curious.
16 years ago
I may be the exception or not but we spent a fairly large chunk of time talking about it in middle school.
That would be within the last 6-8 years if you are curious.
On the West coast it's pretty common to know a Japanese American family who had a family member, still living, in an internment camp. It's usually not the first thing that gets talked about. It's very real history.
I was in middle school three decades before you, and we did not. Glad to hear that it has changed.
The further something gets in the past, the less direct impact it has on current people, so the less need for hushing up there is.
Unfortunately, that window in the middle is when the talking really needs to happen and when the most revisionism can occur.
We touched on it in middle school as well, in that we all read Farewell to Manzanar, but it never came up again during my schooling. Its a sad part of our history that deserves more attention.
6-8 years would be just post-9/11, so I guess some teachers finally remembered it could be relevant.
Looks like the pre-9/11 folks didn't hear about it so much.