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Friday, December 07, 2007

Today during class, some of my students were drawing swastikas. I wonder how they will enjoy next week's Hanukkah lesson...

At 11:57 PM, Rachel said...: Wow. That's something.
At 4:39 PM, Cliff said...: Could have been the Buddhist symbol for harmony...
At 5:11 PM, Amy said...: I don't know... They were also drawing stars of David on the same page.
At 8:57 AM, Anonymous said...: so what happened???

there some stuff on jews, japan and wwII here:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Japan.html

and on Sugihara (japanese diplomat who saved jews during the holocaust) and other things:
http://www.jcpa.org/jl/jl425.htm

and some random links down this page:
http://emol.org/nihongo/japanlinks/japanesejewish.html
At 12:58 PM, Anonymous said...: I would have taken the opportunity to tell the students that the symbol they were drawing was offensive and why, but it's difficult if you can't communicate fluently in another language. How did the other students react to the drawings?
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