[salawat]

Yepper. Trail of Tears, German/Japanese internment are all primary education topics. Now interestingly, I don't think Bush has made it into the history books yet, but I don't have kids, so can't verify current day education materials.

What I find interesting is the bits we leave out. Like we touch on the Banana Republics, but the annex of Hawaii and how that was skulduggerously done is completely skimmed over.

[IAmBroom]

> German/Japanese internment are all primary education topics.

There wasn't any German internment. White people got a pass.

[dragonwriter]

> There wasn't any German internment

There was, in fact, but the proportion of German (and Italian, also) nationals and citizens of German (and Italian) descent interned was far lower compared to the population of such foreign nationals and citizens than was the case for Japanese nationals and citizens of Japanese descent.

> White people got a pass.

Relatively speaking, yes, but there still were internments, including of US citizens based on German and Italian descent. (But with more individualized review before internment or eviction from coastal areas than was true of citizens of Japanese descent.)

[drcongo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans

[TrnsltLife]

Remind me what the German equivalent of Japan's attack Pearl Harbor was on US soil.