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I think this is more of a problem in America than in Europe. After all, their native population got wiped out by disease, so they don't have castles littering
by neffy 7y ago
I think this is more of a problem in America than in Europe.
After all, their native population got wiped out by disease, so they don't have castles littering the landscape, the way we do.
- pushpop 7y agoYeah maybe that’s the case. In the UK kids are taught about how how brutal our history was because it’s an important part of our heritage having been conquered multiple times and each time the culture of those invaders being incorporated into our own. One could argue that Americans have more of a reason to underplay their barbaric past because they’re a much younger culture who were the invaders. Not that I’m saying us Brits are without blame given we had the largest global empire in the history of this planet. And sadly we have a tendency to brush over some of our misnomers during that period too.
- ip26 7y agoAmerican here, I can only agree with u/pushpop. Was taught in school about the various times Rome was sacked, where the term Vandalism comes from, Viking raids, etc. I don't remember anything about peace.