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Thread #95037   Message #1846042
Posted By: John on the Sunset Coast
29-Sep-06 - 11:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Growing up in post-holocaust Germany
Subject: RE: BS: Growing up in post-holocaust Germany
Little Hawk, I disagree with everything you opine in your post of 1:28am
from the third paragraph on, but it is your opinion and you're entitled to it.
However, you speak of North American xenophobia against Japanese and Germans in the 1950s and 1960s. I believe that characterization is factually wrong. Well, I don't know about Canada, but in the U.S. by that time Japan and (West)Germany were well on their way to being forgiven and becoming our allies. In 1950 I was 11 years old, and even then a news junkie. No school I went to was teaching hate of those groups; government and private programs were assisting those countries.
Interestingly, you mention the communists as a parenthetical aside...that was the one area that we could have been be considered xenophobic.