"the history of Ireland is the story of an identity crisis"
that quote was inscribed on one of the desks in the history room in my school in Ireland. I found it quite hard to follow, especially as an outsider and never having heard of anything like "political obstructionism" or "policy of abstention", but you grow into it.
And by the way, what that professor said about the different perspective thing is acutally very true. On that course we covered European history including Germany and WWII as well and it helped me to move away from a very self-centered teaching in Germany to a broader perspective.
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Wer die Enge seiner Heimat ermessen will, reise. Wer die Enge seiner Zeit ermessen will, studiere Geschichte.
(Kurt Tucholsky, 1890-1935)
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that quote was inscribed on one of the desks in the history room in my school in Ireland. I found it quite hard to follow, especially as an outsider and never having heard of anything like "political obstructionism" or "policy of abstention", but you grow into it.
And by the way, what that professor said about the different perspective thing is acutally very true. On that course we covered European history including Germany and WWII as well and it helped me to move away from a very self-centered teaching in Germany to a broader perspective.