My US history teacher mentioned the Armenian genocide today!

[CatWoman]

Okay this is a US history class, not world history! The teacher was showing us some slides from the New York Times dated around 1915-17 when US wanted to declare war on Germany and how the government portrayed Germans in the newspaper and stuff... next thing you know, he's like "and here is a very interesting article about how US wants to stop Ottoman Turks from massacaring hundreds of thousands of Armenians. Of course, Turkey is now denying it. ha ha ha... look, it was in the newspapers back then, how can you deny it! And here is another article about the Armenian massacre... It's funny how turks say they never did it, then I suppose it was the aliens. ha ha ha... Everything is in the newspaper (with a smile on his face). Of course, we have good relations with Turkey so we don't push this too much and leave it at that."
On monday, I'm gonna make copies of those two articles. I think it was very reeeeally interesting...

I wanted to give him a big hug after class... There are like 40-50 students in our class! And in case you are wondering, no he's not Armenian, he is a Philipino-American.

[Inna]

that is awesome, i've waited time and again for at least one of my history teachers to bring it up. It has yet to happen. I've even checked the index of my history books and checked to see what is written about Armenia throughout the book. All I ever find is that Armenia used to be part of the Soviet Union. this really upsets me that the US doesnt even write it in the history books. I've asked my US history teacher about it once, why the books never talk about the genocide, she never really answered my question. I just dont get how history teachers can talk about Rwanda, Cambodia, the Holocaust, and present Sudan..yet never even mention Armenia.

[xBaron Dants]

My (Canadian) history books have always at least made some vague allusions to the Armenian massacres, and usually use the term "genocide" and devote at least a paragraph to it.. There was even a short text about the genocide in one of my high school french books.

My 20th century history teacher in high school actually took an entire class to talk about the Armenian genocide, which really surprised me.

Many of my professors now in CEGEP have made allusions to it. I remember my sociology teacher asking the class "how many people have heard about the Jewish Holocaust?" and everybody raised their hand, and then asked "how many of you have heard of the Armenian Genocide" and maybe 10 people raised their hand (including 3-4 Armenians), and she later went on to talk about how media affects knowledge etc.

We also have had many discussions about the genocide and its possible recognition in my politics class last semester, even though I was the only Armenian, and the class was about the Canadian political system.

[SasunD]

On monday, I'm gonna make copies of those two articles. I think it was very reeeeally interesting...

When you make a copy of it, can you scan it in if possible and post it here...
It would be interesting to read it and shove it in the faces of people who refuse to aknowledge that it did happen.

[CatWoman]

When you make a copy of it, can you scan it in if possible and post it here...
It would be interesting to read it and shove it in the faces of people who refuse to aknowledge that it did happen.

Sure...
I know huh... what better evidence than New York Times!

[!EEK]

EH...each single year in our history books we have a whole part about the armenian genocide.....and in Europe, no taboos, they really call it a genocide and accuses the Turkish state.

[Dave]

Even if denialists see these sorts of things, they won't want to accept that they are authentic, and not fabricated.
Even if you put the archives of the whole world in front of them, they won't accept it.

It's not like there are only one or two papers prooving the genocide...

I really don't understand their mind... The turkish word ''delleh'' caracterizes them well.

[jessoussi]

i live in lebanon...and the subject has been brought up plenty of times....but i guess its a normal thing, since we do have many armenians in here

[ArmoBarbi]

I am glad that there is this attitude in our country as well. I am used to looking at blank faces when I say the words Armenia, Turkey, and Genocide together.

My current world geography prof told me that she talks about Armenia specifically because it cant be read in the text book. I am going to do a presentation in the class as well. I cant wait!

[ArmenianKid]

where i live there is a whole wing of a holocasut muesum dedicated to the armenian genocide. i thanked the owner and told him its people like him that will finaly make turkey crack.