American Pasttime

[Antioch]

I just saw a preview for a movie that caught my attention. It's called American Pasttime. It is set during WW2 and is the first movie that I've ever seen to even indicate that WE TOO had detention camps. Yes, we american's locked up the Japs just like the Nazis locked up the Jews...we just didn't gas them all and neglect them as bad.

I always loved how history books skated over this important fact when teaching about the second world war and the holocost. We always like to paint ourselves without sin in our history books, don't we.

I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Antioch

[Rincewind]

I dunno, we certainly learned about that in history class. Of course, one of our teachers was half-Japanese and his grandfather was in the camps (he took the opportunity of a captive audience to try to get some converts ) but I don't think it's a forgotten item of history, for the most part.

[Antioch]

Marsha used to teach this period in history...it wasn't even a side note. I was really surprised. Then again, there were alot of things in that history book that surprised me, like how it jumped around so much. I was even confused by it and it was supposed to be for 6th graders.

[Dmitri]

Yea, I certainly learned about that era in history class in high school and junior high. Granted, my teacher played devil's advocate and supported the detention camps for the day... just to get us to argue the philosphical points. It was in the texts just like the Trail of Tears, American Imperialism in the late 1800s and early 1900s, CoIntelPro, etc.

But maybe not all texts reference it depending on age or affilitation, just a possibility...