r/NewsWithJingjing • u/Repulsive-Basis6434 • Jun 03 '23

Media/Video This is unironically what Americans are taught about China

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u/sabaping Jun 03 '23

We dont even learn about Japan's history. Its just said that they were in the axis powers but not why or really why any of the axis powers were in the war. Same with the USSR being with the allies,... i was super confused by this as a kid because we learn the USSR is an evil dictatorship but they fought against the nazis?? Then we learn America came in and got all the nazis out of japan's government and made it into a utopia /hj

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u/GBOY200710 Jun 03 '23

We learned japan joined wwii as an axis power because they were “anti-imperialist” like my teacher in christ ??? lmao

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u/fritterstorm Jun 03 '23

The Japanese saw themselves as anti-imperialist in regards to European imperialism in Asia, maybe that's what teacher meant.

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u/GBOY200710 Jun 03 '23

I suppose that would make a lot more sense, but he never pointed that out and none of our class materials suggested that it was in their viewpoint, so thank you for clarifying that.