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That Europeans discovered the 'new world', and that it was inhabited by 'savages' aka people with forgettable cultures, skills, and lifestyles.
Which certainly persists to this day. People saying that the USA is "only 250 years old" while ignoring all of the First Nations/ indigenous peoples. It even ignores all of the European peoples that were there before the it was called USA.
I don't seem to encounter this with Canada very often which is interesting. And if we are going off of dates the current nation/ government is created why don't people say "oh well Germany is a young nation, they don't understand history"?
I mean the USA as a country IS 250 years old, so I’m not sure where the issue is with that statement.
because through happy accidents (US tried to consciously do this through denazification but that was abandoned, while the USSR did successfully consciously do this for East Germany), the young (West) Germany was instilled with an extremely high sense of historical remorse partly because they were young.
i’ve never heard people say even half of “US is a young nation, they don’t understand history”