Why do people read the history and then bring up about it?

Question

I ask you all this question because someone I know very well he is deaf and got real mad what he has reading about deaf history.

He got real mad how people mistreat deaf people and I try so hard to explain to him that is past and get it over with it.

Do you all believe history really brings hates?

If you don't understand , please forgive my lousy English because English is not my first language.

I need to understand why people are taking so serious about the past if they never born at that time.

Please education me.

Thank you.

Answer 1

History has the tendency to repeat itself. Even if a certain part of the past is not ignored and fully looked into, it can still have a chance of occuring.

Also, maybe your friend is just sensitive and needs to vent.

Answer 2

This is why I hate Americans. You crack open a book, and they're so stupid that they accuse you of being some spy or something from another country because you can predict things.

Here's what I mean. Your friend is obviously mad because he's deaf and gets very offended at what they have done to the deaf. Just like an African-American or a Native-American man. When they read about their history they cannot help but to be mad. And they can even predict that, you know maybe that hate is still around today for their minority. And they're right, because Indians and African-Americans are still miss-treated in today's society.

Answer 3

George Santayana once commented that "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." But if that is true, we have to ask ourselves "just what are the lessons of history?" The reality is that history does not repeat itself.  We learn, as Gerda Lerner has written about history, " that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events."

Another way of putting it is to say that we need to know our history, because it is in the past that our future is determined.  

Answer 4

You have to understand your history to get to your present and know your future. History only repeats itself if we all ignore it. He has a right to be angry about it, everyone has a right to be angry about the bad things that have happened.  

Answer 5

Your English is fine.

You have to understand that some people tend to be more sensitive when they read into and study certain subjects and will not react to the news the same way that you would react.

For instance, I was very shocked, angry, and hurt when I found out about Slavery in America. I became even more distressed when my mother showed me pictures of my direct ancestors half-naked and barefoot picking cotton in a field.

But then I realized that these things DID happen a long time ago, and are being taught to us so that we'll learn from the mistakes of our past.

What I'm saying is that if your friend is a reasonable person, he will get over it in due time.  

Answer 6

History is all that many have on which to base their alliances and beliefs, who they trust, who they don’t; history, in this case, is the same as experience, and it has taught them the negative and positive. Of course the writer of the history influences the beliefs whether true or not.

The deaf, despite legal requirements, are still discriminated against, yes, there have been advances in the behaviour of the rest of the population. Without the efforts of a militant few who is to say which technologies would leave the deaf without access to them, for example something as simple as the subtitles on DVDs. These conditions affect all minority groups in many ways, all of them need a committed voice(s).