For a big part, they didn’t. Of course in smaller circles people knew exactly what happened, but nationally it was denied or downplayed and covered up by the South. Until sometimes they couldn’t. Like in the Emmett Till case, who was on a family visit from Chicago and was lynched in Alabama. This got a lot of media coverage nation wide for a change.

Usually yes, and I will acknowledge that skipping this step is showing laziness or incompetence, but I don’t think children are already reasonable, especially when they’re tired (this happened late in the evening) and already committed to throwing a tantrum. And in this case the whole situation might have been already stressful for the parents anyway, which doesn’t help. Probably they should have talked about it more way before they entered the plane, and prepared the kid for what was going to happen. And maybe they did. But the situation then being what it is I think options can be very limited, and there probably wasn’t much time to try reasoning with the kid

Sure, we know what not to do, but do we also know what we should do instead then? Sometimes you need kids to comply within a certain time frame and that’s going to require some pressure one way or the other and no, it’s not going to scar them for life

Wikipedia has a nice article about it. It’s rare in European languages, but it does exist

Maybe check out Fragile (by Sting) and it’s background story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiylEdcIZ2Q

The woman in black

Switzerland. Taking the very busy cableway down the mountain. People waiting in line to get in. Next stop, I see some people exiting and immediately getting in line again there. Apparently they thought you need to get in line again at every stop. Crazy. Sweet maybe, but crazy.

There’s also the naughty programmer getting spanked by EFL