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I couldn’t believe the narrative of WW2 I “learned” when I visited the War Museum in New Orleans. It’s really quite remarkable how countries can simultaneously

I couldn’t believe the narrative of WW2 I “learned” when I visited the War Museum in New Orleans. It’s really quite remarkable how countries can simultaneously tell the truth while having widely differing narratives.

aziaziazi 3y ago
Reminds me an Hezbollah war museum in Lebanon. What a surprising history class, keeps me curious of what I ear /read that is produce in “my” western country. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_Landmark_of_the_Resistance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_Landmark_of_the_Resi...
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fooblaster 3y ago
what was incorrect about it?
- bena 3y ago
  I've been there a couple of times. I wouldn't say it's outright incorrect, but everything is very US-centric. The place is also massive, you do get a sort of mental fatigue going through, reading, and processing all of the stuff. We were there from opening at 9 and I think we left some time around 2 or 3. And while we made it through all of the building and exhibits, we were definitely spending less time on any one thing towards the end. So if there were any real errors, if they came towards the end of the day, I'd have likely just not been paying any real attention by that time. There are little NFC cards you get that you can scan on various stations to hear about the person your card represents. There are various soldiers, leaders, and Bob Hope (not kidding, you get to hear all about his USO tours). But you hear about everything through the lens of its relationship to America.
  - AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
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  - glenngillen 3y ago
    To expand on this US-centricism (and to address the glib reply you got)... if this was your primary source of information for WWII you'd easily come away with the impression the US were the only country fighting the Axis. There's a few exhibits that present the number of US troops/vehicles/ships/etc vs the Axis to try and emphasis the scale of the challenge ahead of them. The contribution of most of the other Allied nations, and the fact they were fighting for years before the US fully entered, is so diminished that it seems irrelevant.

aziaziazi 3y ago

Reminds me an Hezbollah war museum in Lebanon. What a surprising history class, keeps me curious of what I ear /read that is produce in “my” western country. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_Landmark_of_the_Resistance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_Landmark_of_the_Resi...

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fooblaster 3y ago

what was incorrect about it?

bena 3y ago
I've been there a couple of times. I wouldn't say it's outright incorrect, but everything is very US-centric. The place is also massive, you do get a sort of mental fatigue going through, reading, and processing all of the stuff. We were there from opening at 9 and I think we left some time around 2 or 3. And while we made it through all of the building and exhibits, we were definitely spending less time on any one thing towards the end. So if there were any real errors, if they came towards the end of the day, I'd have likely just not been paying any real attention by that time. There are little NFC cards you get that you can scan on various stations to hear about the person your card represents. There are various soldiers, leaders, and Bob Hope (not kidding, you get to hear all about his USO tours). But you hear about everything through the lens of its relationship to America.
- AlgorithmicTime 3y ago
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- glenngillen 3y ago
  To expand on this US-centricism (and to address the glib reply you got)... if this was your primary source of information for WWII you'd easily come away with the impression the US were the only country fighting the Axis. There's a few exhibits that present the number of US troops/vehicles/ships/etc vs the Axis to try and emphasis the scale of the challenge ahead of them. The contribution of most of the other Allied nations, and the fact they were fighting for years before the US fully entered, is so diminished that it seems irrelevant.