As always you make some interesting points - and I have an interesting observation to make. When I was a younger penguin, we never studied Anne Frank. She only features in the canon of my reading because I went and looked her up (and visited her house) - but we did spend an entire term of our English Language or drama lessons focussed on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the colonisation of America.In fact, in our GCSE exams we studied poems by Chinua Achebe and Maya Angelou. We arguably spent as much time studying literature from elsewhere in the world as we did here. In fact, Vultures by Chinua Achebe went on to be one of my favourite poems.... albeit by a Nigerian about Belson.

I do think it's odd that American might not focus on their own history, but I'm trying to grasp whether this is something peculiar to US Psychology or this is something that is just super charged in the US because of the relatively short time frame you guys have been on the planet. The disconnect between Europe and the US is beginning to fascinate me and is worthy of more research I think. I don't know why America wouldn't study their own genocides in much the same way as Germany did across the 50s and 60s, and to a lesser extent Japan - though I'm dubious about the Japanese political system.