How is the Abomb taught in Japan ?

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Dracowrath

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CleverCover said:
Dracowrath said:
CleverCover said:
Dracowrath said:
"Lememba kids, neva taunt amelica, they no kidding when they say 'We have big bomb!'"
I know you're trying to be funny and all...but they can't sound out the letter l because they don't have one, at least not without practice. It's actually an r for them.
Yes yes, we know, way to ruin the joke captain buzzkill.
If the joke had been, I dunno, funny, I wouldn't have said anything.
Just because you didn't find it funny doesnt mean nobody else on the planet would have.
 

mega48man

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Travis Higuet said:
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you bomb the test, we bomb you back, don't fuck up.

so what'd you find about vietnam being taught in america? if you found anything weird or strange, you heard wrong. in my school (in michigan, a blue(liberal) state as opposed to a red (conservative) state) we were taught that america was paranoid with communism so JFK had no choice (sarcasm) but to invade vietnam and help south vietnam fight back the invading communists/NVA(who had all ready taken over most of the country). he had good intentions about it and all, he was one of my favorite presidents nothing against him, but then he got dead, so LBJ (who was VP because no one wanted him to become president) became president and fucked everything up. he didn't realize that he'd be getting maaaaany american soliders including willam defoe killed for a reason a drug inspired hippie culture nation didn't understand because they were too young. so it was a loosing battle and johnson "vietnamized" the place (south vietnam troops were trained better and we GTFO'd). so pretty much iraq happened in the asian jungle.
I think its funny how according to you, in a blue state school, that the teachers tried desperately to absolve Kennedy (beloved of liberals historical reality notwithstanding) of any responsibility for going into Vietnam, and try to demonize Johnson, (I guess because he was from Texas?) even though Johnson was way more hardcore liberal than Kennedy. The truth was that Kennedy actually believed in the "domino theory", and he was proven right after we left South Vietnam. South Vietnam fell to the communists, along with Laos and Cambodia. Millions of people ended up being killed in Cambodia (in the name of the people of course). Just for the record, Kennedy also believed in lower taxes to boost business and employment. He is famously quoted as saying "A rising tide lifts all boats". (should be obvious, but today only right wing extremists believe that lol).
oh yeah, pretty much every president since truman believed in the domino theory (the truman doctrine). and you're probably right about the blue/red state thing, everyone with some kind of power in this fuckin country is on some political agenda. but JFK was my favorite because he had to make it through the cuban missile crisis which if he had failed, we all would of died like you ain't seen red dawn. plus, his quotes have inspired me to do better at the things i'm good at.
 

Kevon Huggins

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Leadfinger said:
I have taught in Japan in Japanese schools for about 15 years. I teach social studies at a Japanese university now. In Japanese history classes they almost exclusively focus on the bombings themselves and portray Japan as a victim country. The events leading up to the bombings such as the invasion of China and SE Asia, atrocities against civilians and POWS, "comfort women," Unit 731, the Pearl Harbor attack, etc. are completely ignored to such an extent that many young Japanese are not aware they happened at all.
Finally someone answered the question You deserve a huge pie
 

Owen Robertson

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Sleekit said:
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I wonder how the English discuss the IRA. Or how Germany teaches their history. Or how Canada teaches that we treated aboriginal (native, or indian to the ridiculously ignorant) peoples in the 19th century worse than America treated African-Americans in the 20th. Oh that's right. We pretend it never happened. Everyone's got skeletons in their closets, right?
I think you be surprised how the Germans teach their history. they teach it in depth, they don't gloss over it at all and are extremely hard on themselves.

as for the "English" (i assume you actually mean British) and the IRA it doesn't get taught as history yet because its living memory. you're talking to someone right now who had school friends die in "the troubles" and if you meant slightly further back (such as Michael Collins and all that) you can opt to cover it in high school i believe. then there's things like the Bloody Sunday Inquiry conducted at great expense 38 years after the event and i quote:
The results were published on 15 June 2010. British Prime Minister David Cameron addressed the House of Commons that afternoon where he acknowledged, among other things, that the paratroopers had fired the first shot, had fired on fleeing unarmed civilians, and shot and killed one man who was already wounded. He then apologised on behalf of the British Government
so no we don't "pretend it didn't happened". generally speaking we understand acknowledging history, even when its uncomfortable, is important in this country.
My bad. The "we" was referring to my commonwealth self. The Canadian history. We gloss over plenty of horrific details. And I did mean the Brtiish. Once again, my bad.