I think it’s because there’s over a million Chinese in Aus (>1/27th of the population), and they’re also our biggest “trading partner”, so…
China weighs heavy on the Australian psyche. As does Indo, of course.
Whereas, despite us having the largest Japanese prison breakout in WW2 (Cowra), Japanese internment camps don’t feature in our psyche/historical narrative anywhere as much as (in my understanding, at least) they do in the US, say…
Edit: it’s also worth mentioning that many, many Tiananmen survivors and/or Hong Kongers moved here, after 1989, so that 100% plays a role, too. Similar with South Africans post ‘94…
Does even Hitler have a course dedicated to just him?
The way pretty much all 20th Century history is taught revolves around him on some level.
Or Mao. At least in Aus, they really, really like talking about Mao…
I can think of a few reasons why that might be…
Mao hardly gets a mention in America.
I think it’s because there’s over a million Chinese in Aus (>1/27th of the population), and they’re also our biggest “trading partner”, so…
China weighs heavy on the Australian psyche. As does Indo, of course.
Whereas, despite us having the largest Japanese prison breakout in WW2 (Cowra), Japanese internment camps don’t feature in our psyche/historical narrative anywhere as much as (in my understanding, at least) they do in the US, say…
Edit: it’s also worth mentioning that many, many Tiananmen survivors and/or Hong Kongers moved here, after 1989, so that 100% plays a role, too. Similar with South Africans post ‘94…