Re. Herero

[Ghetta Life]

It's curious that you answer a serious question with a counter question.  I 
guess you mean it as a joke.  But the question was a simple and honest one.

The answer to both questions would have to define what the "average" citizen 
of each country would be.  That's probably easier for a German because your 
country is far more homogenious than the US.  But for the US let's stipulate 
a high school diploma and some level of continued literacy.  In that case, 
many average US citizens "know" what happened 100 years ago, including our 
attrocities toward native americans, at least in very general terms.

Ghetta

>From: KXX4493553 at aol.com
>
>r.romeo at atlanticphilanthropies.org:
>
> > Do you think the average German is aware of what happened to the Herero 
>or is it subsumed by the Nazi era in the public consciousness?
> >
> > Just curious
> >
>
>Does the average American know what happened a hundred years ago? We know 
>what happened 90 years ago, 1914, but before that:-)
>kwp

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