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Seriously is this real??
Kids today didn’t know about the titanic being real, most thought it was just a film!!!!!
http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2012/04/twitter-didnt-know-titanic-was-real
Yeah, I read about that – sad innit!
It also makes you wonder about the peeps who think the Holocaust didn’t happen!
It’s quite believable……I have worked with primary school chldren who thought WWII was just a story
#-oTo be honest it doesn’t surprise me. I wonder how many of them realise that Schindler really did have a list? How many of us watched Zulu without realising that it depicted a battle that really happened? We’ve all probably watched many films without realising they were based on actual events.
When I was a kid I watched war films and westerns with my mum. They were so far removed from my life that I didn’t realise that they were based on actual events…not so different from kids today not realising that Titanic was real if you think about it.
I remember asking my daughter once if she had read a particular book and she said no but she had seen the film! I dont think that its kids that are divorced from reality, just that adults try, sometimes, to re write history.
@jen_jen wrote:
To be honest it doesn’t surprise me. I wonder how many of them realise that Schindler really did have a list? How many of us watched Zulu without realising that it depicted a battle that really happened? We’ve all probably watched many films without realising they were based on actual events.
When I was a kid I watched war films and westerns with my mum. They were so far removed from my life that I didn’t realise that they were based on actual events…not so different from kids today not realising that Titanic was real if you think about it.
I used to watch Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks with my mum – I thought it was real :lol:
Might add, Corrie to that, but I still think it is rofl :lol:
I’m wondering what schools teach these days and do children tweet more than visiting their local library.
when I was at Junior school, I thought WW2 was just a story, and that was just a bit over 10 years after it finished. 2We won the war – in nineteen forty four’, we chanted, oblivious to historical accuracy. It seemed such a world away – it was a world away. Hitler was a character who seemed to arouse hatred, but he was as distant as Napoleon (he was alive 5 years before my birth!!)
I just can’t imagine even today the dread of the air raid siren and the ominous sound of bombers aiming to destroy my environment and people I see – me, even (yikes!).
Mind you, I have worked with Iraqis for whom this is only too real, and have talked to people not too much older than myself who remember the Blitz. My one-time flatmate told me of how as a toddler he was taken out to watch the fighting in the skies over Kent.
As far as the education of kids in history is concerned – I don’t really know lol. But many of the kids of my generation who were interested in history – ie war and torture – found out about it from the telly and war history from the library.
So maybe it’s not too surprising abut the Titanic – maybe not even too worrying?
That is interesting, my grandfather/father being farmers had to have prisoners at war, live and work with them, one of them, named Hugo, never left and stayed until he died, a few years ago, probs cos my Nan was Austrian and he loved the lifestyle – I still remember him now – so, I guess, I DID know the war had existed!
My grandmother came to the UK to be an au-pair for my grandfather’s youngest brother – she was ostrasized in the local village (her accent), being near Canterbury with the airships etc etc – oh the stories I got told – for being a spy!!! Couldn’t make that up, if I tried!
Apart from all that, I have made sure that my two know exactly what is real and what isn’t – sorry chaps/chappesses, it is up to the parents! :)
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