Remembering the holocaust, the World War II one, is a central focus of "a good education" today. At the same time, our own genocide against the natives who beat us to the North American continent, from Columbus and other explorers to the 19th century and beyond, do not receive such major focus in the education of our children. The lesson appears to be: the other guy's atrocities are remembered more than our own. Human nature, I suppose. But poor history. Our own history can be found, thank the gods, but you have to go looking for it. It isn't front and center in the schools.
What would a country be like that actually owned up to its mistakes rather than revising them into something, well, heroic?
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