History Is Written Is Merely Fluid Prejudice

History “The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” –Mark Twain. This quote carries a meaning that history has been written from one point of view: the victors, while the voices of minorities that were needed to complete the picture of the event, have not been heard. It tells us that most of the horrible events happening throughout history are due to ignorance and prejudice of people. With all the new types of technology and our large accessibility to information, we are at a very big advantage. The Internet helps us hear the stories of the “losers”: to look at the story from a different perspective and form the picture of the event as a whole with all its dirty stains. The ignorance of people was the reason for
To some extent, all humans are ethnocentric, yet there are some examples when ethnocentrism is taken way too far. A horrible example of this type of bias would be seen in Nazi Germany, when Adolf Hitler, very furious by the loss of the Germans in the First World War, decided to blame the Jewish community for the “stab in the back”. He forced his anti-Semitic views into the minds of the depressed citizens, who were desperate to believe any story but the fact that it was nobody’s fault but their own for the loss. Enraged by such news, they began to help Hitler not only separate Jews from the Germans, but also murder them all in concentration camps. Prejudice in this case cannot be deniable and it is again the cause of mass genocide and horrible treatment of innocent people. Germans, blinded by the hatred, could not find any other source of information to prove Hitler’s words untrue. Hitler made his citizens feel as though other nations were terrible while Germany was ideal and supreme. Maybe at that time, if Germans had another source of information, they would make their own decisions and the horrible genocide of the innocent would not have happened. Yet it was not only the Jewish citizens that suffered in that time period in Germany. People considered the “other” were segregated from the community and sent to concentration camps. Disabled people, people of a different race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation would fall under the category of the “other” and the “unwanted”. If people had been able to understand that the government was manipulating them, the mass genocide of innocent people would not have happened. Ignorance of the citizens and other countries such as Britain and France, who knew about the genocide but chose to close their eyes to it, has obviously been the main reason for such cruelty to