When we engage in debate, it is important to acknowledge that our emotional responses come from our experiences and our origins. This reveals the need for empathy in understanding our differences not as an objective truth which only one has discovered but as co-existent interpretations that deserve understanding and compromise if we are ever to diverge from the hostility that seems to be the focus of much modern political discourse.
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Tension between the celebration and criticism of war is advanced by motives informed by oppositely different experiences of the same shared history. Especially in a multicultural society that has been framed by colonial values, such diversity is necessary to adequately represent minority perspectives within dominant institutions.
Read MoreReading the article on the Smithsonian’s Enola Gay exhibition and visiting the Auckland War Memorial Museum, there was a clear theme. Both acknowledged the tension between commemoration and scholarship in relation to conflict....
Read MoreWhen Dr Nicole Perry spoke to us a few weeks ago I felt very much apart from her seminar. German sensationalising of Native American culture didn’t spark much of a connection with me. That is, until, I began a history assignment...
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