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Perhaps every country has some shameful episode in their history.
I am from the U.S. and as for me, the top three things I feel my country has done that we should be ashamed of are:
There are definitely more, such as the detentions of Japanese Americans in WW2, the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam done by Lt. Cali(sp?) and his platoon platoon, etc...
My top 3 however, are chosen based on the enormity of the scale of suffering they caused.
How about you? In your opinion, what are the top 3 things your country has reason to regret doing or have shame in doing? If you want to list more, then please do, but if possible, put your choices for the top 3 worse at the top of the list. Looking forward to reading various perspectives of 'self' examination on one's own history.
I am from the U.S. and as for me, the top three things I feel my country has done that we should be ashamed of are:
1. Not ending slavery as soon as we 'freed' ourselves from our colonial master.
2. The near genocidal way and contempt in which we treated Native Americans, their culture, rights as beings, and the many instances in which we broke treaties we were a party with them in as we pushed west.
3. The fire bombings of large civilian population centers in WW2 and the atomic bomgings of Hiroshima and Japan.
2. The near genocidal way and contempt in which we treated Native Americans, their culture, rights as beings, and the many instances in which we broke treaties we were a party with them in as we pushed west.
3. The fire bombings of large civilian population centers in WW2 and the atomic bomgings of Hiroshima and Japan.
There are definitely more, such as the detentions of Japanese Americans in WW2, the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam done by Lt. Cali(sp?) and his platoon platoon, etc...
My top 3 however, are chosen based on the enormity of the scale of suffering they caused.
How about you? In your opinion, what are the top 3 things your country has reason to regret doing or have shame in doing? If you want to list more, then please do, but if possible, put your choices for the top 3 worse at the top of the list. Looking forward to reading various perspectives of 'self' examination on one's own history.