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I found a little series of videos on starting a book club. I've been watching each one (since I'm starting a book club) and just got to one about good books a for a college book club. The person hosting the video teaches high school English. She mentioned a book about The Rape of Nanking, which she called a "Little known event."

What? I actually rewound and listened again and she really said that.

Please tell me she's not correct.

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In my case it's a yes and no answer. Yes, I'd heard of the Rape of Nanking; no, I had to use Wikipedia to find out specifically what (and when) it was; yes, I knew that the Imperial Japanese military treated non-Japanese, especially non-Japanese Asians, as non-humans.

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At least you'd heard of it and knew the context. She gave the impression that most people would never have heard it. Sadly with all this teach to the test stuff going on it is probably true for a lot of people educated (and I used the term loosely) under that system.

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I knew the context as "massacre in Asia," but I couldn't have told you whether it was by Chinese, Japanese, or Europeans; whether it took place in China or Korea; or whether it was 19th or 20th century.

My history knowledge is rather spotty--reasonable with European history, quite good with English (but not British), bad with wars, detailed about US pre-Civil War slavery (but little after the war started), pretty good with Japanese internal events pre-WWII, pretty good with Russia pre-Revolution, woefully typical for Africa and the rest of Asia.

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As for high school and before, I decided in university that I needed remedial world history, so signed up for a three-class sequence that wasn't even required.

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To what system are you referring? Teaching to the test?

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knew about it, but I was a WW2 buff as a kid and this was one of the pre-cursor events. Having said that, it wasn't taught in any history class I had in high school or college.

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Scary, but sadly, not surprising.

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Nope, I'd never heard of it. I had a very good secondary education (I did Latin and Greek at 12) here in Holland, but one of the consequences of choosing all the sciences was having to drop history and geography after about 3 years. I would guess it would probably have been covered in a later year, though Dutch circa WW2 history does tend to focus a lot on Europe.

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Oh, I knew about it, but then I am old. Many of my family served in the Asian theater in WW2. There were some great documentaries telling the story.
Unfortunately most people you ask won't even know where Nanking is.

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I knew about it because my high school history teacher for the 1870-present class was obsessed with China and turned the focus there as often as she could. I'm pretty sure the other classes didn't spend nearly as much time on it as we did, if they covered it at all :/

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