Yet, strangely, Germany seems to not have any statues celebrating its Nazis. It's almost like... statues aren't required to learn history.
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In Berlin I saw lots of statues and memorials... to the murdered Jewish people, to the murdered Roma people, to the crimes of the past.
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As I walk through Charlottesville, I see statues to revisionist white supremacist history. Sacagawea cowering behind Lewis and Clark...
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Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause... George Rogers Clark LITERALLY SUBJUGATING NATIVES. I'm gonna do a Fuck Your Statue Periscope tour...
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Unfortunately one thing that came short in my school education is German colonial history.
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Including the horrible genocide of the Herero and Nama people, which the government only recently even acknowledged as genocide.
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And still refuses to pay reparations for.
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<anecdotes about southern educational standards, esp for private schools>
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They know US history better than the stans, too.
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Wouldn't be sure about that. Only very little about the history of the Americas gets taught in German schools.
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they do incredibly better than Italians too. Your description of Charlottesville sounds quite similar to many Italian places.
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