masayuki yoshida wrote:

> mtfester@netscape.net wrote in message news:<be9etp$rfc$3@news.Stanford.EDU>...
> > masayuki yoshida <ysd_m@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> > > mtfester@netscape.net wrote in message news:<be89lc$3jp$1@news.Stanford.EDU>...
> > >> masayuki yoshida <ysd_m@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> >
> > > It would be a common story amongst those who got through classes of
> > > Japanese history in Japanese High schools.  Unlike that, fortunately I
> > > finished read Japanese and world history books cover to cover when I
> > > was in a high school.  Although Eric ALWAYS points out the lack of our
> > > history knowledge, are American people far more knowledgeable about
> > > their own nation's past than Japanese?
> >
> > Well, it's a much shorter time period to cover.
>
> You mean American history textbooks don`t cover the Stone Age, for example?

Not in American History. I didn't get much about American pre history before Columbus.
This is one issue in American history education, you see - focusing mainly on the
actions or achievements of European males, while not covering much of the indigenous
people, women, or other regions of the world, including yes, the effects of WWII on
Asians such as the A-Bombing. Such issues should be studied.

Much more could  be said, but that is what I believe, and what I have posted before.
It's simple.

So why are you so sensitive when people bring up Japan? Does their excrement not
stink?