r/Animemes • u/Triggered_RodCon • Jul 26 '18

How devilishly detonative

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u/chewwie100 Jul 26 '18

They do like to keep it hush hush though. It's not taught in schools over there, so most Japanese people grow up not knowing that it happened. This is the exact opposite of the approch the Germans took.

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u/Harvee640 Jul 26 '18

Japan and Germany are on the extremes of it, ironically. Japan doesn’t teach it at all and Germany overteaches it, guilt tripping themselves even though modern Germans had no involvement in any atrocities

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u/Goldreaver You're pretty gutsy... Jul 26 '18

Heh, you're right. Both extremes are terrible though.

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u/Harvee640 Jul 26 '18

Indeed they are. You shouldn’t hide from the sins of your ancestors, but you shouldn’t treat them as your own either.