It’s easy to romanticize any aspect of history. Our distance and our imagination can cause us to romanticize horrific events and regimes, sometimes providing…
For a disturbing amount of people, it is. Antebellum or "Old South" parties still happen despite basically being slaveowner cosplay. The slaughter of natives has largely been reconciled as "well it was just war and conquest as usual, btw remember thanksgiving? They taught us corn and we all ate turkey :)))" in a lot of the american consciousness.
For a disturbing amount of people, it is. Antebellum or "Old South" parties still happen despite basically being slaveowner cosplay. The slaughter of natives has largely been reconciled as "well it was just war and conquest as usual, btw remember thanksgiving? They taught us corn and we all ate turkey :)))" in a lot of the american consciousness.