[ SECRET POST #1840 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1840 ⌋


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Comments

[ariseishirou.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't judge them for it, hence my eye, not their eye ;p

A lot of Canadian students don't learn anything about their own history except the fur trade and the building of the building of the CPR. I'm consistently shocked when Americans remember the names of people in government who enacted shit, or the names of more than two or three presidents who lived before they were born.

[(Anonymous)]

I assume you're Canadian - I'm this anon here http://fandomsecrets.livejournal.com/825006.html?thread=516231854#t516231854 and I'm just curious, I don't suppose you had a similar experience at school at all?

I've been trying to figure out if my experience with that was an anomaly or the norm.

[ariseishirou.livejournal.com]

We didn't touch on the Pacific War at all in my high school, really. Just the European theatre. (Though in my school's defense, we did a surprisingly thorough job of the latter.) We learned about the bomb and that there was some Canadian involvement in the physics involved, but it was scarcely a paragraph long.

From the sounds of things though yours was funded by the Japan Foundation. As a Japanese language educator I have all kiiiiiinds of experience with their international cultural publicity campaigns. Yes, it is intentional, and very shrewd. China and India have similar international propaganda efforts but they are nowhere near as successful as the one the Japan Foundation runs - largely because for a while they were supported by the US to improve their image as partner in Asia to help fight the Reds. Now, not so much, but the effect lingers.

[followthemoth.livejournal.com]

I'm a history student so I soaked up everything like a sponge, but yeah, most of my peers in high school just didn't care and didn't listen.

The two things I remember we did the most were the Japanese internment camps, and the war of 1812. Especially the war of 1812. The history teacher was obssessed with that or something.

[relmneiko.livejournal.com]

Truth. And it's probably because I was in French immersion, but I swear I know more about French history than I do Canada.

I do think Canadian schools tend to like to hammer in Canadian atrocities, though - lots about oppressing the natives, expelling the Acadians, exploiting Chinese immigrants to build the railway, WWII Japanese internment camps. All I can remember about Canadian history is the awful stuff. I remember a hell of a lot of depressing educational fieldtrips, too - my hometown is near a bunch of former internment camps and one was turned into a museum. Yey fieldtrips.

[deciphre.livejournal.com]

We had to spend an entire unit on those residential schools for the natives, and another part on the internment camps for the Japanese.
Well, that was grade eleven. Sad part is that every single other year we learned about the fur trade and ~Canadian government~.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no, the horrors. How terrible that you had to learn about the atrocities your government committed against First Nations people.

[deciphre.livejournal.com]

Hm?
Actually, I found it really interesting, since history is one of my favourite units. I also think it's important to be aware of these things, so it's a good thing that these topics are in the curriculum now. Canada's no different than other countries in that it's done questionable things, and making oneself blind to that is idiotic.