When we started talking about history in our TOK class i was pretty surprise because i always thought of history as a "science", a subject with clear facts and no discussion at all. However getting to know more about it, t got pretty clear why were we talking about it. The history of the world is what makes it what it is today, we couldn't fully understand the world today if we didn't study were we come from, but what happens if what is told that happened is not actually what happened? Our task for today was to think weather rewriting history should happen or not. This topic completely changed my idea of history being an exact science, this is because we will ever really know if what we think that happened is what really happened. Weather or not history should be rewritten is a pretty controversial topic since every country that wants to do it has different reasons. In my opinion is impossible to do decide if it is correct or not, i personally believe that it has to depend on the different situations of each country. Some country have being harshly affected by others in the past, and these type of success sometime need to be forgotten in order for the country to move on and progress. However if the country has the power of getting up after being suffering attacks from other countries I think people should be proud of it and it should be something to remember. As well as if a nation did something wrong, for example the nazis in Germany, this was one of the most terrible acts humanity has seen and many believe that it needs to be left in the past by rewriting what happened, however i don't think it should be possible. For me this situations even though they emphasize the bad stuff of the country it also shows how there are good people too, that there is many people that differ with that kind of massacre and that at the end thats the people who won against this murderess.
