(And usually it’s something kinda related to negating the sins of our history or even genocide trust me I’m spaniard I know what i’m talking about this is not even about the conquest of Mexico or Perú but about La Gran Redada or the conquest of La Española people have created the strawman of a modern black legend to try to impose a pink legend this is so insane please rescue me)
Mahevol on
Luso mindset 😎
seeker8901 on
Iraq (aside from Kurdistan ) actual shithole but people always be like we wuz empires n shieet and most of them are Arabs and have nothing to do with ancient Iraq unlike the Kurds and Assyrians and other minorities (aside from Turkmen who came from Central Asia)
Natasha_101 on
*Me thinking back to 2012 when we had $1 mcchickens, 24 hour Walmarts, and a president who wasn’t a walking dementia patient:*
Good times, good times 🥲
TheHistoryMaster2520 on
You could argue that some people are doing it in order as a call to arms or to inspire present-day people to, you know, make the present better?
dworthy444 on
Bonus points when they blatently make stuff up because of their ignorance of the actual cool things in their history. (It’s called psuedohistory, by the way.)
onichan-daisuki on
My third world country lives on coping about our past
The-marx-channel on
Basically the entire balkan peninsula
IllConstruction3450 on
As an American I can’t relate to this. We’ve always been epic 😎. Mississippian Civilization? Epic. Ok, the South wasn’t epic.Â
AdministrativeTip479 on
I just want to go back to 2015 tbh, nothing special.
Cladzky on
I remember listening to a lecture about the Odissey and the host, at some point said “Three thousands years ago the greeks wrote such refined literature, meanwhile the germans lived in huts made of shit and hay, so Merkel has no right to reprimand Greece for its economic situation”.
Which, aside from being a gross simplification, doesn’t make sense. What does iron age literature have to do with today’s economy?
Tal_Imagination_3692 on
Don’t you know that [insert country name here] was the greatest of all time. We have [insert geographic site] and we did [insert historical anecdote here] we were doing great until [insert minority or marginalized class here] arrived.
dater_expunged on
Me an Austrian: This is where I’d put my country’s glorious past to be proud of… *IF IT HAD ONE*
YeahImMan39 on
Welcome to India, where we distract ourselves by reminiscing about our ‘past glory’ instead of improving the atrocious living conditions in our country.
ClavicusLittleGift4U on
If I’d glorified the past of my country, I’d end as a pissboy in the Tuileries Gardens while the king would do a gangbang with all the human chess pieces.
Realistic-Sound-1507 on
Pic unrelated
Naive_Drive on
Hey did you know the United States once landed on the moon?
MaximusLazinus on
I do think about Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth sometimes, true
username9909864 on
This has Orban / Hungary written all over it
Rex_Africae on
I always get a bit weirded out seeing people glorifying the days of the Brazilian Empire, Pedro II and such… especially considering that in those days, a person with my skin color would be most likely a slave.
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(And usually it’s something kinda related to negating the sins of our history or even genocide trust me I’m spaniard I know what i’m talking about this is not even about the conquest of Mexico or Perú but about La Gran Redada or the conquest of La Española people have created the strawman of a modern black legend to try to impose a pink legend this is so insane please rescue me)
Luso mindset 😎
Iraq (aside from Kurdistan ) actual shithole but people always be like we wuz empires n shieet and most of them are Arabs and have nothing to do with ancient Iraq unlike the Kurds and Assyrians and other minorities (aside from Turkmen who came from Central Asia)
*Me thinking back to 2012 when we had $1 mcchickens, 24 hour Walmarts, and a president who wasn’t a walking dementia patient:*
Good times, good times 🥲
You could argue that some people are doing it in order as a call to arms or to inspire present-day people to, you know, make the present better?
Bonus points when they blatently make stuff up because of their ignorance of the actual cool things in their history. (It’s called psuedohistory, by the way.)
My third world country lives on coping about our past
Basically the entire balkan peninsula
As an American I can’t relate to this. We’ve always been epic 😎. Mississippian Civilization? Epic. Ok, the South wasn’t epic.Â
I just want to go back to 2015 tbh, nothing special.
I remember listening to a lecture about the Odissey and the host, at some point said “Three thousands years ago the greeks wrote such refined literature, meanwhile the germans lived in huts made of shit and hay, so Merkel has no right to reprimand Greece for its economic situation”.
Which, aside from being a gross simplification, doesn’t make sense. What does iron age literature have to do with today’s economy?
Don’t you know that [insert country name here] was the greatest of all time. We have [insert geographic site] and we did [insert historical anecdote here] we were doing great until [insert minority or marginalized class here] arrived.
Me an Austrian: This is where I’d put my country’s glorious past to be proud of… *IF IT HAD ONE*
Welcome to India, where we distract ourselves by reminiscing about our ‘past glory’ instead of improving the atrocious living conditions in our country.
If I’d glorified the past of my country, I’d end as a pissboy in the Tuileries Gardens while the king would do a gangbang with all the human chess pieces.
Pic unrelated
Hey did you know the United States once landed on the moon?
I do think about Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth sometimes, true
This has Orban / Hungary written all over it
I always get a bit weirded out seeing people glorifying the days of the Brazilian Empire, Pedro II and such… especially considering that in those days, a person with my skin color would be most likely a slave.
Brits