Re. Herero

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In einer eMail vom 03.08.2004 17:06:43 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt 
ghetta_outta at hotmail.com:


> 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.
> 

I think it's the same here. The most people know from history what they 
learnt at school. And let's say, an average German knows that 100 years ago we had 
a monarchy and an emperor, we had colonies and there were strange people 
called "Hottentotten", wild and black and primitive. I would say the last s/he 
knows from his grandfather. That's all. 
kwp
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