Quote Originally Posted by mrspunkysmom View Post
At least your country has a collective guilt over the Nazi era. I'm not sure our country as a whole has any guilt or shame (a better word?) over the treatment of the Indians, the Japanese, or the Africans held in slavery. Did I leave any group out? I think a little bit of shame wouldn't hurt.
Of course it does! As an American child we learned of those things in school. If there was no shame or guilt felt, we would not have been taught about it, would we?

But we are also taught to learn from our history and strive not to repeat it. One cannot change the past, but one can make the future different.