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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

sigh

and the empire is all our fault etc etc

Neil MacGregor, the former director of the British Museum, has bemoaned Britain’s narrow view of its own history, calling it “dangerous and regrettable” for focusing almost exclusively on the “sunny side”.

Speaking before the Berlin opening of his highly popular exhibition Germany – Memories of a Nation, MacGregor expressed his admiration for Germany’s rigorous appraisal of its history which he said could not be more different to that of Britain.

“In Britain we use our history in order to comfort us to make us feel stronger, to remind ourselves that we were always, always deep down, good people,” he said. “Maybe we mention a little bit of slave trade here and there, a few wars here and there, but the chapters we insist on are the sunny ones,” he said.


Neil MacGregor: ‘Britain forgets its past. Germany confronts it’
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MacGregor warned: “This sort of handling of history is dangerous as well as regrettable”.


Ignorance is bliss eh?


https://www.theguardian.com/culture/...useum-director