Monday, September 7, 2009

Is neutrality possible?

There is no way to write a history book so that it remains completely neutral. History is recorded and passed down through generations but it is only told from one side’s perspective; because nobody wants to show their bad side. Therefore they only tell the good and forget about the bad and ugly. Thus, everyone’s history slowly looses more of its reality and truth; the more its told and passed down because with each person that history is passed down to the story changes ever so slightly until it has became completely biased to the party who’s retelling the events. And no matter what you try to do like, take the history from both sides of a war, the history will still be seen as wrong to certain people because the people who are involved in the issue but on opposing sides both will see what happened in different lights.

Also, history cannot be objective because no two people have the same opinions and no matter what history has a slight bit of opinion contained in it. Because like they say, “there are two sides to every story.” So nobody can explain a certain piece of history without leaning more towards one side and we do not have the right to say that what we did was right and the other side is wrong; and that is what a majority of history books today do. They take terrible things that people did to either prove a point or to begin a revolt and turn them into positive and highly praised actions just because their own personal side may have either came up with the idea or because they practiced it; either way they are trying to justify something that they had once done in order to get a more positive public appeal. Consequently, history cannot be taught in a neutral or objective way.

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