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Originally Posted by soopaman2 (Post 1935372)

I don't care what the Japanese did. Name me one country in history who has not skewed facts to suit them? Name me the perfect noble country who always told it like it was in textbooks, my textbooks in grade school history attempted to justify the internment camps we threw Japanese-Americans in. Then in the same breath stated how rascist and evil the Germans were.

IMHO we should care what the Japanese and everyone else did. Also I cannot agree with the comparison of the internment of Japanese Americans - wrong and awful it was - is in any way comparable to mass extermination. Strange thing though, my textbooks (in Canada) did say the internment was awful and wrong.

I would suggest though that history is being used by the various governments as a tool for the masses, they have their own agendas grounded in the present.

Oh I disagree the US will not back Japan in a crunch-after all if you're talking just jobs haven't Japanese corporations invested in factories in the US?

I think I understand where you're going with Iran and agree - this is more worrying.

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Originally Posted by joea (Post 1936237)

I would suggest though that history is being used by the various governments as a tool for the masses, they have their own agendas grounded in the present.

The very nature of history is that it has been filtered by someone and thus separated from the past. And school history...well, I'm interested in fighter planes too, but I'm not silly enough to assume that I could actually have an equal conversation with a real fighter pilot.