But of course, it colors your experience of history in accordance with the selection criteria used. It can be good or bad depending on the intellectual integrity of people. My history teachers did it too. Luckily I have always been a reader, reading library books of my own selection, That helps a lot, but is also sometimes frustrating, as fx the book "Gargantua" that I was not allowed to borrow as it was on the 'only for adults' list because of immoral words) Anyway i found it in an Old-books store and read it anyway.
You can't really believe anything printed about history.....mostly history is written by the victors and by that definition they can write what ever they want.....
Young Jappanees children know hardly anything about the atrocities their grandfather soldiers did to prisoners of war and civilians in the countries they over run.... Is there any victorious armies that haven't committed attrocties throughout conflict.....No country in their right mind would ever own up to it though....
noun 1. a spoken or written account of connected events; a story. "the hero of his modest narrative" synonyms: account, chronicle, history, description, record, report, story "an interesting narrative about her year in Bolivia"
adjective 1. in the form of or concerned with narration. "a narrative poem"
"Narrative" has become a naughty word meaning "story that's inaccurate and factually incorrect".
History is a narrative. The problem is whose narrative it is. Most of recorded history was written down by people who had agendas. Archaeology can corroborate what's written, but we don't have video evidence (and even that is not a guarantee of fact). Someone's narrative is always going to creep in.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 31, 2018 4:03 PM MDT
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