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History in different languages
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cordelia0507
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United Kingdom
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Speaks: Swedish*
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Message 49 of 51

01 April 2010 at 1:10am | IP Logged

Wow, what can I say! You clearly know what you are talking about. I usually avoid these films, so I can't really say that I do. I only watched these particular Russian films because they are such classics there and people kept talking about them.
But I am sure you are right. I'll edit my post later.

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Delodephius
Bilingual Tetraglot
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Yugoslavia
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Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, English^C1, Czech
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Message 50 of 51

04 April 2010 at 12:29am | IP Logged

julie1275 wrote:

I'm sure there's a lot of variations in history of different countries. For example, in my country, South Korea, I am tought that many concepts are "Europian-oriented", which means biased. But I don't think many Europian history textbooks teach those things.

I live in the border between the Balkans and Central Europe. Here there are sometimes great differences between school history books. The main differences for example concern territorial claims where in each state children are taught that a certain regions historically belongs to their state, or that certain rulers were of their ethnicity, or that certain ancient people were their ancestors, that is exclusively theirs not their neighbours. Many times when people from tow neighbouring countries meet on a forum for example and perhaps casually engage in a discussion about history they get very surprised on how different their education has been.
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Tetraglot
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United States
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Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French
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Message 51 of 51

17 April 2010 at 11:57pm | IP Logged

History differs from nation to nation due to perspective.

I have read history books in Spanish that say that Spain did not lose the Spanish-American war but instead "surrendered and ceded territory to the United States".

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