Reply #34: Does anybody like talking about the black spots on their history?

[rockymountaindem]

What if we walked into a Japanese mall and posted signs that read "lecture on Japanese mass murder in China: 1931-1945, today at 2pm"? How many people would come? What if we walked down the streets of Madrid with a bullhorn shouting "shame, shame on Spain for slaughtering millions of Native Americans, Muslims and Jews". How do you think people would react? Or what if we went into a street cafe in Paris and said, "boy, I bet you French are really proud of your distinguished colonial history in Algeria and Indochina".

Americans, while often ignorant of our national embarassments, are not unique in this regard.