It's not that we're oblivious to them, we just haven't been trained to feel personally angry about it. I learned about the Opium Wars in my 9th-grade world his

It's not that we're oblivious to them, we just haven't been trained to feel personally angry about it. I learned about the Opium Wars in my 9th-grade world history class in US public school, nearly a quarter-century ago, and it was treated as a pivotal moment in Chinese history. It's very difficult to avoid being reminded about it regularly if you read news about modern Chinese politics and foreign affairs.