I agree with you, but I was talking about a specific article which does an explicit history dive: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/19/georgia

I agree with you, but I was talking about a specific article which does an explicit history dive: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/19/georgia-looks-to-future-historic-euro-2024-football-appearance https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/19/georgi... Also, this convention of not digging into a country's history can only ever work before it brings its history as a topic of conversation. In case of small, post-colonial countries that often happens on the first contact.