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Do You Believe In...; What In History Books Says?
Topic Started: Jun 6 2015, 04:02 PM (239 Views)
Neomi
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...What in history books says?

I can't say for myself, since I rarely studied history books in school and college or even at home and online on the net.

But for me, I like facts and not false information with delusional none-sense. :|
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CJ
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I do, but then, the textbooks we had at school tended to be good. When there was something unconfirmed or controversial, they'd try to present information supporting both sides.

I imagine a lot of them are written by authors with their own biases and motives, though, so care does need to be taken when reading them.
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Jarkko
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I'm of the belief that 100% objectivity is impossible from the vantage point of a mere human. Of course, as CJ said, some textbooks do get it pretty good. It is good to read a wide range of books from a diverse lot on a particular subject just so one can get a number of different viewpoints, but with some things - one of which, as I found out in my Former Soviet Union culture class, was the Armenian Genocide - the literature is overwhelmingly one-sided.

Honestly, one of my biggest pet peeves with regards to history is when one country says "oh, we won World War II," as if the other countries had nothing to do with it. (And it's not just Americans that do this, regardless of any stereotypes suggesting otherwise; I'd even go so far as to say Russians are worse for this.) No. It was a team effort, and each member of the Allied team had its moments of brilliance. Yes, even Canada. :P
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Mozzie
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There is the history they want us to believe, then there is the real history, we are lead to believe a lot of things, we are told what they want us to know, but in reality, none of it is true
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CJ
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I guess that's especially true of civilizations that didn't leave behind extensive records of themselves, because those records were either lost to history or never written in the first place. In those cases, most of what we 'know' about them was written by their opponents.
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Zero Revolution
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Honestly, I tended to just go with what was written in the books at the time just because it's the information we were required to know. I know that quite a bit is probably false, but I wasn't going to fail my classes due to only knowing the correct information (if there's any at all)...as strange as it sounds now. :P
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