Geez, France trying to rewrite its history:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051021/ap_on_re_eu/france_gilding_history;_ylt=AsyRXJyg9cxhtpwqT8.ABp gDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Makes you appreciate our country a little more, doesn't it?

The US doesn't rewrite history, that's true, it is much more proactive, it rewrites the present.

Originally posted by KingEdward
The US doesn't rewrite history, that's true, it is much more proactive, it rewrites the present. Much the same as when the British empire was the world superpower, yes?

Originally posted by HaVoK
Much the same as when the British empire was the world superpower, yes?
Yes.

Historians almost always rewrite history, hence the expression, History is written by the victors.

It wasn't until Leopold von Ranke and his assertion that history should be written, Wie es eigentlich gewesend war *, that any attempt was made to write factual history.



*as it actually happened

Geez, France trying to rewrite its history:

I can understand your revulsion to this. But I fail to understand this:

Makes you appreciate our country a little more, doesn't it?

Columbus Day is stilil an official holiday here. That's celebrating a pretty nasty bit of colonial history I'd say.

olumbus Day is stilil an official holiday here. That's celebrating a pretty nasty bit of colonial history I'd say. Especially because you can't discover a place in which people are already living.

Maybe I should go "discover" my neighbors house. I could use some new things and a few slaves...