In most of the circumstances, the history we know are written by the winners. However, the winners, which later becomes authorities, usually write the history with their prejudice and consider the benefits of them or their groups first. This situation was extremely notable in ancient China when the empires took charge of everything. For instance, the empire thought that they lived in the center of the world and regarded the people living far away as barbarians. However, it is now proved that where they used to live was not the center of the world. Neither was those people living far away from them barbarians.
The history can be totally different if the losers are writing it. However, everyone has prejudice while looking at this world, and no one can be perfectly subjective. The losers would also stand for their own benefit and have a different bias. Actually, I would rather read the history from the winner's side, since I insist that for most of the time, there is a reason why winners are winners. Therefore, the view of the winners will probably be more close to the fact. Nevertheless, I would like to access the history through the view of both the winners and the losers to get a better understanding.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
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