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Explain me the apparent obcession America has with it's civil war. (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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My country has had a civil war, invasions by the french, by the spanish, more recently a revolution that threw a fascist government, followed by a very colourful period of internal squirmishes between anti-regime forces, but we settled those events and that was that: off to the history books.

What motivates so many people to re-enact battles from the American Civil War?

It sounds cruel. Re-enacting a war where so many died gruesome deaths.

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[โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

This is kind of what I'm thinking. Our history only goes back a couple hundred years as opposed to a couple millennia of recorded history for many European countries. We have fewer historical periods to obsess over so, more of us end up on the same topic.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 year ago

    I think the events op mentioned probably happened in the last couple hundred years too. It's more that the U.S. has been more stable over the past 2 centuries compared to most other countries. There's only been 3 mass wars in defense of the country, the revolution, the civil war and WWII. Compare that to say France which has had 3.5 revolutions and 3 giant continent spanning wars in that same time period.

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