Miss Holocaust Survivor......the winner is????

I found out what the holocaust was when I started playing guild wars, and there was a character in my guild named Holo Caust. Two years after that I was reading the GW forums and a thread came up on people with bad in game names, and one person said 'I knew a guy named Holocaust for over a year and can't believe he never got a name ban'.

I thought I knew that guy too from my guild, but what exactly is a holocaust? ... Google google... Oh my!

I started playing GW at age 20, and 2 years later was 22 and also definitely this happened in my last year at uni when I was 22-23 years old. I didn't know who Winston Churchill was untill around age 24, nor what remembrance day actually was / what it was about until around 24 - 26 too, all topics that I simply randomly stumbled across through my video game hobby and using forums and were never taught to me at school.

I strongly suspect that my school only taught WW2 at GCSE level history, and I didn't do that because I picked Geography for my humanity subject.
 
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Castiel said:
And not understanding what Remembrance day is?....it is not as if it is not explained every year in the weeks leading up to Remembrance Sunday, with major coverage in the Press and media, such as television and radio......an awareness of what remeberance day is about doesn't require formal education about it.
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I don't read the press / media and stopped watching TV around age 15. Most of it is BS like the daily mail, sun, the BBC... Id actually rate fox news to be better than British media because at least its fun to watch.

I think that Jews should have more controll of the media and education so that maybe then WW2 would be taught much better ... :D
 
Pate said:
I was never taught the holocaust in school, only about the American genocide of the natives.
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That is awful, did you go to a Catholic School?

Given that almost 3 million Catholics were also victims in the Holocaust I would have thought it would be taught in any Catholic school....

My 13 year old has been taught about it in school, with talks from a survivor and a visit to a holocaust exhibition, I can't recall where.
 
My 8 year old has already started being taught about WW2 and has a visit to Eden camp lined up in a year or so.

Any school not teaching it is failing magnificently.
 
bhavv said:
I don't read the press / media and stopped watching TV around age 15. Most of it is BS like the daily mail, sun, the BBC... Id actually rate fox news to be better than British media because at least its fun to watch.

I think that Jews should have more controll of the media and education so that maybe then WW2 would be taught much better ... :D
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So all this time you were just trolling? how sad

Enjoy your suspention :D Bervinder
 
bhavv said:
I'm sure it was state funded - Thornton Grammar School, which became a funded sports college during my A levels.

I paid attention in all my classes and was in the top class for science subjects, second class for everything else, always contributing with my hand raised trying to answer every question asked, and had a 98%+ attendance.
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They didn't teach you to be curious about subjects you were not bothered about however and this is rather a pity, but while your education appears to have failed you in this instance you had many opportunities, outside Guild Wars to educate yourself before the age of 22. You could consider taking some responsibility for what you know and do not know and that means not waiting for someone else to educate you.

As for the idea of a party for remembrance Sunday and the idea that a religious group should teach WW2 coupled with having a death list in your signature while posting about something like the Holocaust, means it appears you are simply posting that sort of thing to provoke a reaction. Which of course you have done.
 
Castiel said:
absolutely. I think schools that are not teaching this are the exception rather than the norm.
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There are probably also schools where it is taught but people are not paying any attention, which is a separate failing, but can be something about the individual, or the teaching. I doubt there are very many schools in the UK where the holocaust or WW2 are not taught at all.
 
Rossi~ said:
That's horrible, absolutely horrible.

I'm all for drawing attention to the holocaust, how it was awful, how it should never happen again and the survivors telling their part of it all etc but this is just really not the way about it.
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I'm bored of it TBH. The Jews keep using it as a moral stick to beat everyone with. It happened, it was tragic, move on.

And it has happened since in a number of countries, albeit not quite on the same scale.
 
I'm pretty sure it wasn't covered in my school, we did Bismark and the Nation States. But it's one of those obvious things you pick up along the way, such events are just part of British culture anyway.
 
bitslice said:
I'm pretty sure it wasn't covered in my school, we did Bismark and the Nation States. But it's one of those obvious things you pick up along the way, such events are just part of British culture anyway.
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Everything is apart of British Culture, that's the point...exactly the same with the US, but we are much less crude. ;)
 
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