Blog Assignment 5

Think of any instance you can of the winners writing the history. What would the same history look like if the losers wrote the history?

History is a media connecting ancient times with nowadays. Media itself is a controversial topic. It carries the writter's point of view through the information, and always has a purpose. Thus media always seen as an invisible weapon, so does history. History is considered as a required course before grade 9 in most of the country, but does not tell absolute truth. For an instance, the point of view from China and Japan towards WWII are totally different. In China, there are many museums about WWII. They include the unforgettable massacres such as Nanjing Massacre, also include how Chinese people come over the crisis and won the war. Oppositely, Japan's history text book concealed those facts but more focus on how brave japanese soldiers are. If to forget about Japan changed their text book about this period of history and pay homage to Yasukuni Shrine, I can quite understand why Japan has different version of history to China. Japan can not change the result of war but at least can avoid to talk about the crimes, and describe the soldier's bravery instead. Who wants the next generation live in the shadow of losing. The history is the things in past that people cannot judge what is true, what is wrong since no one can come back to the past.
The only thing we know is which tells more truth than the other.