Actually, most of the history we encounter is written by the winners, though others recorded by the losers. watching on the Discovery Channel, reading on the books and hearing in the history classes, we built our knowledge of history stories and episodes easily and sometimes tell them to other people who are interested in. However, most people did not notice where they are from. Though it proves unapparent, if you read carefully, there still some trace of who wrote the history.
First of all, the history remains some clues of who described it, regardless it is from winners or losers. For example, the history written by winner usually call the condition one country (winner itself) defeated the former one "triumph", while loser (the latter one) call it "failure". The winners believe they will occupy that position forever and claim that is what they deserve. However, the losers describe that as temporary leaving-behind or even strategical adjustment manipulated by themselves clandestinely and the victory is at the corner.
secondly, we can not deny the fact most of record of history from the winners. It results from the people in winning countries are proud of what they attained and want to exaggerate the influence to stress the opponents. If such accomplishment is rare or hard to gain, it would prove the strongness of the winner. If that accomplishment is common or easy to reach, especially when the losers can never do it, the winners would emphasize the weakness of the losers. Nevertheless, the losers do not possess such vantage of pride to show themselves off. What they can do is just undertake the stigma passively and wait for next turning point-their victories. Then they can writer more than when they are losers.
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