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Mikero
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« Reply #503 on: 17 November 2009, 00:57:01 » |
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Well I don't know if Rosa Parks is in Canada's text books...
No, if only because you don't need a text book to know who Rosa Parks was. I don't care who you are, if you're from North America excluding Mexico (I guess) and you don't know who Rosa Parks was it's YOUR fault and I don't respect that. You don't have to even LIKE history. Like, you might as well just decide to be stupid. Anyway I really can't remember having a "History" class until grade ten, and that was SPECIFICALLY a Canadian History class (it was awesome though I didn't like it at first). But I never said History is not important.
That's exactly what you said. You said that knowing history or not knowing history would make absolutely no difference, which is saying it has no significance, i.e. unimportant. Or in your words; Irrelevant. Which, I have to say, sounded incredibly douchey. No offense to you as a person but yeah it would make a difference if you didn't know anything about the holocaust, and holding on the immutable laws of physics that stop anything from being wholly impossible, I have to say it's impossible that your life would be the same if you had zero knowledge of Earth's history. I think you're a good guy and everything, but I feel I would be doing myself a disservice if I didn't mention that that whole post put me in a bad mood and I think it was totally ignorant and actually a bit conceded, albeit unintentionally. But I'm going to leave it there because I think going further will keep me from my dinner for a hot minute longer and I really don't know what I should say to you about it that wouldn't end in a tl;dr response. History is boring.
You're doomed to repeat it if you know what it is or not.
And JC, if it's any consolation, I've spent the last few years studying international history for school, and I've learned all sorts of stuff. That said: having gone from uneducated to relatively informed, I don't feel as though my life as really been enriched in any significant way. It's good stuff to know in terms of culture, but it has absolutely zero practical value to the average person.
Fair statements, and sure an intimate knowledge of the world's history has no practical value to anyone who isn't that field, but a general level of assumed knowledge in the are is important for anyone who wants to live in, um, society. I don't expect everyone to know every name or date but to actually know nothing, and to aspire to know nothing, is ridiculous and gets you exactly nowhere. But I'm sure you know that, I'm clearly just speaking generally. |
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ChaosVortex
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« Reply #508 on: 17 November 2009, 02:34:46 » |
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No you're fine. I've said stupid stuff before, so forgive and forget. But one last comment I want to make. Spoiler tagged so we can get back on topic: [spoiler] History is boring.
You're doomed to repeat it if you know what it is or not.
And JC, if it's any consolation, I've spent the last few years studying international history for school, and I've learned all sorts of stuff. That said: having gone from uneducated to relatively informed, I don't feel as though my life as really been enriched in any significant way. It's good stuff to know in terms of culture, but it has absolutely zero practical value to the average person.
Fair statements, and sure an intimate knowledge of the world's history has no practical value to anyone who isn't that field, but a general level of assumed knowledge in the are is important for anyone who wants to live in, um, society. I don't expect everyone to know every name or date but to actually know nothing, and to aspire to know nothing, is ridiculous and gets you exactly nowhere. But I'm sure you know that, I'm clearly just speaking generally.
Yeah, that's fair. Mike practically said why you should know History. Sure, there may be some very irrelevant things in history that happened, but there's going to be a scenario where you'll be interacting socially, watching something, doing something, whatever... and knowing the basic background of it might be important. Naturally, you wouldn't go buy a house without knowing how it was built, for example. Although nobody mentioned it: as for actually LIKING History, I suppose it's just a taste. I love it. It's almost like a big story book or film transcript to me. Others say it's absolute torture and boring.[/spoiler] And that's the most awesome squirrel I've ever seen. |
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Ikeoko
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« Reply #531 on: 26 November 2009, 06:01:34 » |
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preventerWIND
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« Reply #548 on: 2 December 2009, 00:42:57 » |
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