“A person, who succeeds, is a king, while a person who fails is a prisoner.” This Chinese proverb means that winners will have everything, while losers are just losers. People learn history most from books. However, books are always published by winners and this is the reason why history favorites winners.
There is a very obvious example that, the independence of America. American beat British Kingdom and become independent then. In history, the war is called “Independent War” because the war presents the eager of freedom of Americans. This part of history is certainly written by the new American Federal Government. In contrast, however, if Americans lost the war at that time, those fighters who were seeking for freedom would be called traitors instead of heroes. If so, everything changes now. Another example is illustrated in the article, “Discovering the Truth about Columbus”, which is written by Charles Sugnet and Joanna O’Connell. Columbus is a hero in history because he found the new continental. However, if the “loser”, Native Americans wrote the history, there would probably be some content about Columbus’s bad treatment on them.
Therefore, history is always written by winners and that is why history favorites them.
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