The street interviewer in Japan asked ‘who bombed Pearl Harbor during WWII?’. Only 30% of the Japanese people answered correctly. The remaining 70%, including those who answered ‘I don’t know,’ said the US or other countries were the ones who bombed Pearl Harbor.
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It’s probably fake.
This can’t be real, can it? Lol.
Wtf, hah.
Considering the people laugh after answering, it seems that previous to the question about Pearl Harbor other topics were brought up that influenced their incorrect guesses as to who bombed Pearl Harbor.
Welcome to Asia in general. Ask anything WW2 related and they will not be able to answer it. And Japan in general has pretty much cleaned up everything in their schooling that make Japan look bad. They do not learn anything about all the horror history. So you can not really expect anything else from it.
Maybe start with the question “where is Pearl Harbor”? They’re probably less confused about who bombed Hawaii.
Also, for the US, this is still treated like a big deal, something so big that even elementary school students know.
For Japan, this sits somewhere more comparable to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. From a historical perspective, yeah, it’s really important, but it’s just not a point that non-college educated people are likely know much about.
(Longer, much revised comment below, but “Pearl Harbor” was one of several US and British targets attacked by Japan in one single day of “surprise” attacks. From a Japanese perspective, this whole wave of attacks was the error. The US has, since that day, used “Pearl Harbor” as a shorthand for the attacks, but from the Japanese perspective, it was the enjoining the Allies that made things turn immediately worse, not that one target among many.)
An example of how governments like to change history and manipulate narratives.
These kind of videos are all editted anyways to only show the people who give wrong answers. But it confirms stupid people’s biases.
These people don’t even know where Perry came from.
Someone should ask Senator John “Bluto” Blutarsky the same question.
You came to the wrong person for that.
This is surprising, especially given the target demographic, which obviously consisted of exclusively high IQ individuals.
They don’t teach them this in history, just that Japan was bombed by the US, they don’t know why, so it’s very sad actually.
Another propaganda by China to slander Japan.
Not enough Pearl Harbor movies I guess. Is there an actual study of the average amount of knowledge people have about history? I think some people overestimate how much people know.
What is this video even talking about? It was the Germans. I even watched a documentary where a future US senator gave a rousing speech using this very point.
I remember in one japanese show they made a US veteran to meet up with a wife of a pilot who died at pearl harbor during the war and try to make the veteran apologize to the wife. That show was totally fucXed up. Still alot of japanese people think japan were allies with the US and fought against the nazis
Only reason most people probably know about Pearl Harbor is because Americans can’t not mention it, not because people actually learned it in school elsewhere in the world.
But yeah… everytime I go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki it’s all about how America dropped the sun on them and how horrible it was, but nothing about what caused it or their own atrocities. (Hiroshima more so than Nagasaki). As far as I’m aware they have very skewed learning about ww2.
Good ol’ cherry picked statistics.
You ask the dumbest people of a population a question, you’re gonna get dumb answers. (No offense to the kids in the vid)
I didn’t watch much. None of these people look like a good representation of your typical person on the street. Based on fashion, eyewear, etc., some don’t look like are from here at all.
Not worth watching.
Is this comment section also being used to spread propaganda for a specific country? Just how many videos of this kind have flooded the internet in recent years? As you can see from the subtitles, this is propaganda by Chinese people who love the past, making the Japanese look bad. Japan once ruled all of Asia, but only China and South Korea still complain about past wars. Taiwan was part of China at the time, the Republic of China, and fought against and was ruled by Japan, yet it is now a friendly nation to Japan. Knowing this, it is obvious that present-day China is just a dictatorship under Xi Jinping, with the same political system as Hitler’s during World War II. They are a dictatorship, while Japan is now a democratic nation. It is sad that they can only control their own people by blaming the past, and they cannot be called a great power.
Did you know who took the land from the natives and then called it their country?
If you did this same social experiment in America they wouldn’t also know either…
stupid englishmen bombing their allies…
Not really a fan of these clips, the underlying point is that people who had nothing to do with the sins of people long dead should somehow share in that guilt
Pearl Harbour sequel let’s go!
Besides the point but, I see youth fashion has changed a lot in the last 5-6 years.