Yes.

Japan doesn’t tend to teach its children about the atrocities that Japan committed in the past century.

China is in a similar boat.

Depending on the province, school board, and even teacher, Canada doesn’t always do a good job of teaching its children about the residential schools and related atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the land.

So yeah. I think it’s possible that people old enough to work and be looking for jobs (which can be as young as 14 where I live) are ignorant to the atrocities their countries committed.

The USA is actually surprisingly halfway decent at teaching kids about the atrocities committed against Black people, from my perspective. There is still a long way to go, but at least kids grow up knowing that many Americans owned slaves and that it’s wrong to own slaves. Some regions less-so than others, but still, lol

I’d infer that the children are of the age where they’d be applying to college in your scenario.

If they’re not, then whoever said that isn’t speaking from experience, but from imagination.

Where are you going with this?

imo, you read that with a positive interpretation.

If they were saying that, they should’ve said that their kids “never experienced it” or “never participated in it” or “didn’t live through it”.

But instead, they said their kids “don’t know what apartheid is”.

If they misspoke, fine. But I don’t know with certainty that they meant what you said. I think they might’ve meant what they said.

I’ve got white children, they’re at the bottom of the hiring list here. So, there is no future for them. And the sad thing is they don’t even know what apartheid is.

If your children are old enough to work, and they don’t even know about your country’s most pressing issue that only ended like 30 years ago, then no wonder they’re at the bottom of the hiring list.

They’re ignorant fucks! Lol