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Why you should always question the History you were being taught.
Is The Popular History To Be Fully Trusted?
If we’re talking about humanity, there is one thing we can all agree on:
Nobody agrees about the past, especially when people don’t belong to the same group, nation, religion, continent…
History might be a self-sustaining pattern of division. Think about it, why don’t some people like others? They don’t even know each other. Yet, from an early age, they were taught to exchange mutual hate, and that’s how they become the bad guy in each other’s stories and history.
When two places are widely different but go way back, you can’t help but notice that their common History is more divisive than uniting.
And that’s fair and square! The experiences they share regarding the same event are not lived equally. But on occasions, it goes beyond this.
Like it or not, our species is quite self-centered. So when we get to tell the story of our past, we want to sound good in that story.
So what do we do? We edit it, crop it, and add a few filters… This way, the hegemonic history would look pretty much the way we want to, concealing what might show the ugly side while emphasizing our heroic snapshots.
