German schoolchildren and Japanese school children would also not be able to answer a lot of obvious questions about WW2.
school curricullum in denial.
The children are taught nothing of The Berlin Airlift or The Marshall Plan, either.
Oh, those terrible Americans!
Ask them what a gulag is.
Ask them who George Orwell was.
Ask them about Churchhill.
Then ask them to describe Reagan, Thatcher, Bush, and Blair.
Last week I asked my 8 year old who Thomas Edison was. He didn’t have a clue. I ordered a biography for him.
Me brudder’s student-teaching in a south east Pennsylvania high school - from the stories he’s telling, many of the kids he’s around probably wouldn’t be able to identify Auschwitz, Britain, Germany, Japan, Marshall, Berlin, World War II, or even America.
Eat, sleep, talk, talk on cellphone, text on cellphone, play video games, repeat.