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There are variety of conflicts between multitude of nations due to distortion of history. China, for example ,has took great different point of view from Japan about history during imperialism. Why until now then have these countries fight to get history corrected? Does it have that much value? Learning about past has less value for human living in the present due to three reasons; rapid change rate of lifestyle, importance of progress and globalization.
To begin with, technologies of nowadays altered life style of the modern people greatly so old knowledge become almost obsolete. It can be easily found by form of the war. There is no society that was built without war. Ages ago, learning what tactics were used might help to correct and revise new tactic. Accumulation of knowledge might bring the better chance of victory with a little bit of flexibility. The situation flipped however owed to technology advancement. In modern war, some ratified nations have hydro-bomb which can bombard a city and owe thousands of life in a second. War, unlike the past does not have to plan position of the armies and make the greatness of the sword. Like change of wars tell us, modern people do not need the mass of knowledge from the old world.
Moreover, importance of progress verifies human no longer need to learn about the past. In nowaday society regressing is hardly bearable. Of course a lot of knowledge nowaday is the result of amassing information from the past, However, to make a progress, what scientists need is not outdated knowledge but updated information.
The last but not the least, globalization is another reason for history not being important. With globalizaion the barrier between nations is becoming much less important. It will be accelerated as the time goes. The objective of history is to remember origin of human to have concept about the nation. What is use of thought of nation if all human beings live under the name of the Earth and have the only ancestor at the beginning?
To sum up since greatness of technology improvement, focus on progress and globalization counters the idea human have to learn about the history.
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