is it right that some countries lie about the History?

Question

I speak about Iran , because of 300 movie... !!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Compare and contrast '300' and the Holocaust denial.

The "300" never intended to be 100% historically accurate. It is a fictional retelling. A journalistic re-telling of an event is more properly named "non-fiction", or extremely dull fiction.

It was an idealogical, artistic retelling, using that story as a background. You're not supposed to believe that 300 naked Spartans went to battle against evil monsters and katana wielding immortals, but you are supposed to apreciate its impressionistic style of art and its moral story about a group of heros struggling against a great evil.

The Holocaust denial, however, is emphatically trumpetted by those bigots as the truth in history. They hold holocaust skeptics summits, entertain anti-semitic cartoon contests, and brag about how they are going to wipe Isreal off the map. Glorifying and desiring genocide (and taking steps to fulfill it) is a vastly more monstrously evil act than creating history based artwork.

Answer 2

There is an old saying "History is written by the victors". This is more or less true. History is marked in some way by monumental struggles...and whoever comes out on top usually writes the "accepted history" and sometimes that history becomes legend. In the case of 300 specfically, that was embellished a GREAT deal and rightly so, as it was based off of a graphic novel and only loosely "inspired by" the real Battle of Thermopalye. Look, classical antiquity is not very well sourced, so we can NEVER be sure what actually happened, so don't worry about it.

In general though, history is sometimes embellished or altered for political, social, or cutural issues. This is true even in the United States. There is an "accepted history" which the majority of scholars accept, but there are and will always be a minority opinion. History is also ever-evolving, new evidence can be uncovered that sheds light on past events in way that alters our understanding of them. Few histories are outright lies, but like anything that requires deep thought and analysis to compile, history is bound to have inaccuracies.

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Answer 3

Is it 'right'? Countries lie about their own history constantly. Some even lie about OTHER countries history. Did you know that Iran's president has lied to the Iranians about the Nazi holocaust? In the face of that, what difference does it make what happened 3500 years ago?

Answer 4

Every nation lies about some aspect of their history.

United States: Neglected to mention they invaded some countries over and over again.

Germany: Tried to cover up the Holocaust for a while.

Japan: Is actively denying the 6 million civilians they killed during World War 2.

I bet there are more, but I can't really think of them...but every country at some point lies about their history.

Answer 5

The movie "The 300" certainly warped history a good deal. Then again, so did Braveheart and The Music Lovers and Gone With the Wind and etc. etc. etc.

It's called "artistic license." You're allowed to muck with history to make a better story.

Now, your question about countries falsifying history--well, that's just plain wrong. Unfortunately, every nation does it. One step toward wisdom is to find out how your own nation covers up or glosses over embarassments from its own past.

Answer 6

First, you have to ask "are they lying or are they just looking at things from a different point of view?" What looked like a horrible unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor to us looked liked an appropriate response to US control of markets in raw materials. It's all perspective, when even the simplest items are involved.

Yes, we as a country lie all of the time, and as a country, we probably should. We can't be telling the enemy what we are thinking, doing, when we plan to pull out of a war (we aren't really going to that are we??? ... I mean, tell them when we intend to quit?) etc. We have to. It's all part of the game of the world and politics.

But again, before we begun to get too high and mighty, let's look at things from the point of view of other countries, and then reschedule the 4th of July to the 2nd of July where it belongs in history, because we lied about that one too.

Answer 7

history is in the eyes of the beholder and to the victor. Julius Ceaser lied about the Celts so that he looked like an awesome military strategist. It was proven that there could not have been as many Celts at Alesia as he boasted. History is used as propaganda too many times anymore. Remove a small tidbit of info and all of a sudden the evil doers are not so evil.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

ALL COUNTRIES TRY TO PUT A FAVORABLE LIGHT UPON THEIR OWN HISTORIES;BUT LIGHT HAS A FUNNY WAY OF SHINING OUT THROUGH THE AGES AND BELITTLING ALL SUCH PUNY EFFORTS AND EXCORIATES THE VILLANS AT LAST FOR THEIR EVIL DEEDS AND MECHANATIONS!!I TRULY BELIEVE THIS IN MY HEART OF HEART BECAUSE MANY PRESENTLY WISH MY ILL FOR TELLING THE TRUTH EVEN HERE NEFORE THIS AUGUST BODY OF SOCIETY'S OBSERVERS!!

Answer 10

No, lying about history is not right but it is done....