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How many monuments are there in the US? How are they visited? How is a monument to the pilgrims visited a hundred times more than a museum to the genocide of Na
by KingOfCoders 5y ago
How many monuments are there in the US? How are they visited? How is a monument to the pilgrims visited a hundred times more than a museum to the genocide of Native Americans?
History is not what is teached in school but how a society sees itself.
German society at large has accepted the Holocaust, because it was useful, but hasn't accepted the history E.g. of the Deutschritterorden or the genocide of the Herero and Nama - it hasn't been useful to do so. There is no monument to the genocide of the Herero in Germany. History is a tool how society sees itself.
- themitigating 5y agoSchool is a part of how that vision formed
- WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
- RC_ITR 5y agoWe just got rid of the Cleveland baseball team and Washington football team, but people act like society has come to terms with the genocide. Hell, Chicago hockey is still the Blackhawks, but since it’s “tasteful” people aren’t complaining loudly enough to get it to change.
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- josephg 5y ago> History is not what is teached in school but how a society sees itself. Sounds closer to a definition of culture. And culture is never monolithic. Plenty of people are horrified by past atrocities committed on their behalf. And plenty of people don’t care. But you don’t measure a society’s collective perspective by counting monuments. Monuments signify what was important to the people who made them. Not the people who see them. For my money you’d do better to look at modern media of all kinds. What are the stories being told today, in news, in movies, in textbooks and in social media? They aren’t the same stories our forebears were telling.
- KingOfCoders 5y agoNo, just read the "history" of countries or events in different languages on Wikipedia, they are completely different.