Kosior

At least in my high school (Foxborough High School in Massachucetts) there was no mention of the Armenian Genocide. I took standard history classes, but I also asked a friend of mine from the same school who took Advanced Placement History, no mention there either (although he said it was brought up in one of his college history classes). BTW thanks for the warm welcome everyone!

I am a 20 year old American from the Boston area. I have been doing a great deal of research in the last couple of months about American media, and their selective coverage of news. I happened to find a link to a site about the 1915 Armenian Genocide, and was appauled. Not only by the act itself, but by the fact that I had never even heard about it. I'm not extremely well educated (high school and one year of college) but I've taken my share of history courses, and it frightens me that the slaughter of 1.5 million people could be left out of any history text and barely acknowleged by the rest of the world. What scares me even more is that the average citizen of the most powerful and influencial country in the world, when asked what there thoughts are on a horror like the Armenian Genocide or any other exterminaton of a people (except the jewish holocaust because there was a movie made about it) would probably be, "Oh, that's too bad. So what's on T.V. tonight?" I know because I've been asking these questions, and though it's wrong to make generalizations because there are Americans who care, but there are far more that don't. For these reasons I really do worry about the future of my country and the world, especially with America's recent efforts to overthrow the Iraqi government, and it's consistent indifferance to international opposition on many issues. I guess the only thing I can do is educate as many people as I can about the things that they won't learn from the media, and if more people did that I think the would would be a better place...