palandio
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« on: September 05, 2020, 01:20:17 PM » |
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Does the question refer to US American WWII discussion or to WWII discussion in general?
Because it should be obvious why China (and the Asian-Pacific theater in general) is horrendously underrepresented in European WWII discussion.
Regarding US American WWII discussion there seem to be the following reasons: - A higher affinity towards countries and areas with similar culture, wealth, economy, politics and ancestry (A part of what others have called Western bias) - American troops involved in the Pacific area, but not mainland China, combined with a general tendency to overemphasize the military role of the US in WWII
"Western bias" seems to me like an immensely ambigous term when speaking about WWII historiography. It could either mean the higher affinity mentioned above resulting in just not caring about what happens in "exotic" (non-Western) parts of the world. Or it could mean overestimating the role of Western actors in defeating the Axis at the expense of non-Western actors. These are two different points, both valid.
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