It's an interesting sentiment really- you see the same thing in pro-slavery sentiments during the 1800s- "oh, the Irish immigrants in Britain have it so much wo

It's an interesting sentiment really- you see the same thing in pro-slavery sentiments during the 1800s- "oh, the Irish immigrants in Britain have it so much worse, look at these slaves, they don't live in cold tenements! They have it so good!" To my mind it's a failure of the education system trying to make things easier for students to understand or something. Middle/kindergarten schools do some really quite perverse stuff, like "slavery days" where the white kids are "slaves" to the black kids, or other weird stuff. I don't know if I agree with the whole idea that it's guilt or something, I think it's more to do with people wanting to believe in a good, not a bad. History is harsh!