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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStudy: 22% of Millennials are unaware or unsure of what the Holocaust is
The study was conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Eleven percent of U.S. adults haven't heard or are unsure of what the Holocaust was.
Sixty-six percent of Millennials and 41 percent of adults don't know what Auschwitz is.
[link:https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/study-22-of-millennials-are-unaware-or-unsure-of-what-the-holocaust-is|
Renew Deal
(81,858 posts)Enough time passes that people either forget or are never told or they think they wont make the same mistakes.
NYMinute
(3,256 posts)in the 9th or 10th grade all around the world.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)Granted that was nearly 25 years ago but I agree with you.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)True. I graduated in 1991, but it was part of the basic curriculum then.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)That was in 1990.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)world wide wally
(21,743 posts)There aren't any questions about the Holocaust
barbtries
(28,793 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Folks' knowledge in this information age is - or should not be - limited to what they learned in school. Surely much of what millennials know now was never taught in their classrooms ...
Capt. Ross: Corporal Barnes ... Is there no book, no manual or pamphlet, no set of orders or regulations that lets me know that, as a Marine, one of my duties is to perform code reds?
Cpl. Barnes: No, sir. No book, sir.
Capt. Ross: No further questions.
[as Ross walks back to his table Kaffee takes the book out of his hand]
Kaffee: Corporal, would you turn to the page in this book that says where the mess hall is, please?
Cpl. Barnes: Well, Lt. Kaffee, that's not in the book, sir.
Kaffee: You mean to say in all your time at Gitmo, you've never had a meal?
Cpl. Barnes: No, sir. Three squares a day, sir.
Kaffee: I don't understand. How did you know where the mess hall was if it's not in this book?
Cpl. Barnes: Well, I guess I just followed the crowd at chow time, sir.
Kaffee: No more questions.
From "A Few Good Men"
misanthrope
(7,411 posts)by those who see educated lower classes as a hindrance to their selfish aims.
CrispyQ
(36,464 posts)The GOP has focused on filling positions in Boards of Education since the 1980s. They had a long term strategy & it's paying off.
And sports. This country is sports crazed. It's obscene how much many universities pay their sports coaches. And even at a high school level sports is often emphasized/supported more than academics.
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)CrispyQ
(36,464 posts)appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)- A Third Of People In Major European Countries Know Little Or Nothing About The Holocaust. Many Europeans also hold anti-Semitic beliefs, a CNN poll confirms, Huff Post, Nov. 28, 2018.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/holocaust-antisemitism-survey-europe-cnn_n_5bfef9bfe4b0e254c9270726
- Study: Canadians Lack Basic Knowledge of the Holocaust. Like their U.S. counterparts, young adults in Canada show an alarming knowledge gap, a survey shows. US News, Jan. 2019.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-01-24/canadian-young-adults-know-little-about-the-holocaust-survey-finds
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)rownesheck
(2,343 posts)But with so much information available on an infinite amount of topics nowadays, maybe the brain can only retain so much. Stuff just gets pushed aside.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)You are right, there is a great deal of information to cover, however WW2 is still a pivotal event in World History and the Holocaust should certainly be a section of study during the unit on WW2. It is quite simple really.
WW2 as a consequence of the failings of the Treaty of Versailles and other Treaties.
The Rise of Hitler & the Third Reich in the context of social and economic upheaval in the 1920's and 1930's.
The Reich's use of antisemitism and the beginnings of expansion into the east.
The failure of European powers to stop the rise of the Nazis and American isolationism in the 1920's and 30's.
The War & The Final Solution.
Obviously there would be units on the Rise of Japan and expansionism in the Pacific as well, but the Holocaust was a central theme in the European theater of war.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Just general awareness. There are many documentaries, books, and articles.
Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)The information is out there. School, documentaries, books, remembrances.
How?
WTF?
How?
Disgusting.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)her teacher said she didn't want the history term paper to be on a topic "everybody" already knew about. One of them was the Holocaust.
Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)Or an idiot.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)Cuthbert Allgood
(4,921 posts)So, not sure who this survey is polling.
dumbcat
(2,120 posts)such as us Boomers.
So the survey was among a group of adults, not all of whom were Millennials.
Cuthbert Allgood
(4,921 posts)My bad.
dumbcat
(2,120 posts)I've been known to do that upon occasion.
Blecht
(3,803 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 24, 2019, 06:51 PM - Edit history (1)
It means what it says.
The idea that all Millennials are adults, but not all adults are Millennials is something you need to bring to the party.
Here is the info about the survey (just two links away):
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany commissioned Schoen Consulting to conduct a comprehensive national study of Holocaust knowledge and awareness in the United States. Schoen Consulting conducted 1,350 interviews with American adults aged 18 and over between February 2327, 2018. The margin of error is +/- 3%.
onecaliberal
(32,856 posts)barbtries
(28,793 posts)the dumbing down is nearly complete eh.
ecstatic
(32,701 posts)that those in control of the curriculum/textbooks/etc have systematically whitewashed history with regard to slavery, the Holocaust, Native Americans, etc. Again, I think it's by design, but I don't think it's going to work out the way they intended. When citizens become overwhelmingly ignorant of history, the entire country is at risk of failing, and yes, that affects the 1% as well.
dugog55
(296 posts)who were the perpetrators of the Holocaust, have classes in school for all their students on the Holocaust. They do not hide from it, and use it as a lesson for future generations as to just how horrible people can be to other people. It is not a 30 minute slide show, but a detailed, lengthy course. I am sure it is sobering to some children to know that Great Grandpa was a Nazi and participated in such a horrific program.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,187 posts)Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)My high school had an entire course on the Holocaust.
Mariana
(14,856 posts)That's why I don't believe it. I believe many of the respondents were pissed off that this idiot pollster was asking them such a stupid question.
obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)RobinA
(9,893 posts)is that kids don't read at all anymore. I don't even remember where I learned about the Holocaust. We read Diary of Anne Frank in 6th grade. I THINK we had it in school, but I could remember falsely. I was a voracious reader and picked up a lot outside of school. I know we covered WW2 many times in Jr. High and High School.
Another odd issue that I discovered was when several of us in my family did DNA testing. It came out that my niece knew next to nothing about genetics. Because she went to the same high school that my sister and I went to, and we had a very good genetics unit, I asked her way she didn't know anything. She said that she didn't remember studying it and if they had she probably wouldn't have believed it. I was floored. It's science. Science progresses, but not believing science you learn in school in the 2000s? She's a millennial, and I had to wonder if all millennials don't believe what they learn in school. I mean, there's healthy skepticism and then there's not believing how cells divide.
Amishman
(5,557 posts)I know when I was in my teens, I was a contrary shithead and probably would have gleefully played dumb to mess with their results
Mariana
(14,856 posts)She and her friends hate polls like this, because the questions are stupid and/or insulting.
Just for the record, there are no Millennial teens. All of them are adults.
moose65
(3,166 posts)The youngest millennials are 22, 23 years old. The oldest ones are in their late 30s.
Srkdqltr
(6,285 posts)I don't think that is all that bad.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Not having kids, I really don't know, but my own high school experience a million years ago was that lots of class time was spent on the Civil War and western civilization, etc., but next to nothing on more recent history.
In fact, my first exposure to Jim Crow laws was on a field trip to Lincoln's New Salem, IL, not from our history teacher but from an African-American classmate who schooled the rest of us on the bus trip home.
I probably first heard the word "Holocaust" from the 1970s TV mini-series by the same name, not in class.
Judging from the poll's findings, nothing much has improved in the eons since I was in high school.
sarisataka
(18,649 posts)Typically get through the Depression but speed through the rest of the 20th century if they have time. High schools may offer more in depth courses on 20th century history but usually those are electives.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)Because, for the most part, people don't really give a shit about stuff that happened 'a long time ago' or stuff that doesn't affect their daily life, so they forget it.
I'd bet that most adults can't name the original 13 colonies or tell you what an Isosceles Triangle is......despite almost everyone having learned those things in school.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)to move forward in the future. Sad really sad. So people wouldn't give two shits if they living in a dictatorship???
Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)But a significant percentage of people don't worry about it because they figure someone else will take care of doing that understanding. If it's not happening right now, and it doesn't affect them directly, they don't care.
That's why one in five millennials are unaware, or unsure of, what the Holocaust was. It's not that it wasn't that they weren't taught about the Holocaust in school. They were. They just forgot it. It was 'a long time ago', so it's about as important to them as stories about the old west, or medieval times, or Alexander the Great.
And, I'm not knocking millennials in particular. The generation behind them is going to be even more ignorant about the Holocaust, and the generation after that even more so.
And as far as people not giving two shits if they live in a dictatorship........Yes, there are people that wouldn't care if they lived in a dictatorship, because they might not even be aware that they live in a dictatorship. There are also plenty of folks that would be perfectly happy living under a dictator, as long as they liked that dictator.
I can practically guarantee you that there are a good amount of people in our country that would prefer to have trump as a dictator to having an elected President who is a Democrat.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)your comment is chilling. But thank you for your honesty. This POS isn't giving the people anything to better their lives, just blames brown people when it is that top 1% that are stealing from us.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)bdamomma
(63,849 posts)I guess history isn't being taught in schools, the way to keep the masses ignorant and easier to manipulate.
Volaris
(10,270 posts)Oh wait, Betsy Devos...nuff said, I guess
Still...
Mariana
(14,856 posts)They were out of high school before she was appointed to her position.
Volaris
(10,270 posts)Since the founding of the public education system.
One of the questions I'd like her asked in Public:
Would your various companies have made nearly as much money if the workforce you employ, consisted ONLY of rich kids whos parents could AFFORD to teach them to read?
'crickets.'
That's what the fuck I thought.
Joe941
(2,848 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,956 posts)Nor am I surprised by the defense of that ignorance. There have been other polls where findings were similar. Holocaust denial and revisionism are also on the increase.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)and Im irritatingly close to fifty years old. Of course I knew about it because I read books and watched documentaries and was always interested in history, but younger people dont read or learn much outside of school much in my experience.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Read Anne Frank and watched the movie. Learned about how Nazi propaganda used Jewish stereotypes. I remember it well. Also 60 civil rights movement was covered as well. I finished school sometime before 2003 but I learned a lot more after school than I did in school.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)The lack of historical knowledge and civics with this generation is extremely troubling. I work with them every day so i know what I am talking about.
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)among the young and adults according to recent surveys. Shameful.