I admire this about America. Knowledge that history is a fictional story
Not just over time. School history textbooks vary from state to state depending on which groups are politically powerful in that state.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-california-history-textbooks.html …
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as with the knowledge of optical illusions, the understanding that something is fictitious can have remarkably negligible effects on people’s behavior
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“If the news are fake, imagine history.”
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When I went to high school in late 90s/early 00s Hungary, we didn't even *study* post 1939 Hungary since no one really dared to take a side and write it down. The last thing I studied was "WW2 Abroad" and I went to a History-major class. Cut to: current politics.
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(We did spend a year on Australopithecus tho)
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People do this all the time. Vietnam is rewriting its history to recognize South Vietnam which has been called an illegitimate regime since 1975.
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Indeed! Let us remember the millions of "workers" brought to the US from Africa to "work" on plantations, from a 2015 textbook. https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/10/23/450826208/why-calling-slaves-workers-is-more-than-an-editing-error …pic.twitter.com/7xLELAKug2
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