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nostalgia-tblr · 2 years ago

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Re: Hunting for Sport Poll though, I do want to add (separately) that you don't have to feel bad about not knowing the history of every place on Earth, even the famous bits. The world is very large and history is very long and there is no way you'll ever know even a basic outline of everyone's national histories unless you spend all day every day doing nothing else. Think of how much time you spent in school in a history class and it's no longer quite so shocking that you don't know even quite major things from the history of wherever you live.

So, like. Don't beat yourself up over things you didn't know because nobody ever taught them to you. And hey, you know now!

#i have a history degree and there's huge bits of just UK history i know nothing about. because history is rly big!#it's like that douglas adams quote about space but with dead people in it #and after undergrad it'd be increasing detail about less and less span of history #you didn't choose your school's curriculum did you? no you didn't.#and you also had (still have really) all of science and animals and art and literature and etc you could learn about!#i def sometimes think “i wish more people knew about [THING]” but i know there's a lot of (sometimes very good) reasons they don't #besides beating yourself up for your past ignorance doesn't really help anyone with anything anyway does it?#i still remember when someone i knew suddenly asked me “have you ever heard of the Armenian Genocide?” - she wasn't into history really #she'd found out because she'd visited the Vatican while an Armenian was being made a saint and it was mentioned in the service #(do they call that a service?) there was an Armenian priest and he talked about it and she'd then spent several weeks when she got home #asking people if they knew about. because she was so shocked that nobody including her knew about this thing #but now she knows! and so do the people she told about it! she has kept that information circulating among people who normally #wouldn't ever hear about it.#(i can't even remember why i'd heard of it - it might have come up at university when we did the Nazis?)#history stuff #like idk don't revel in ignorance but don't guilt endlessly about stuff you just didn't know yet because nobody told you #you can't google something you didn't know even happened right?

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