Re:Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii
by hcho on Sunday December 27, 2020 @09:36PM
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That does not ring true. Crusades were mostly forgotten until the rise of Arab and Turkish nationalisms. They were then appropriated into nationhood folklore.
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Re:Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii
by al3xandre on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:31PM
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Crazy how what we identify with historically depends more on what we decide to teach children in school than actual history, no?
Re:Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii
by oblio on Monday December 28, 2020 @03:43AM
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Primary and middle school especially are part of nation building everywhere in the world. History lessons are purposefully a mix of history and propaganda.
Every nation has a founding myth. Romania's is the struggle against adversity, foreign empires and our resilience over millennia. The American one is freedom (the struggle against tyranny) and the American dream. The British one is resistance against adversity on their island, vanquishing European autocrats. Russia's is liberation from the steppe nomads and then turning the tides in a rough part of the world.
They're half lies, half truth in my experience. You know, myths :-)