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Healing White Guilt

Do People of European Descent Deserve to Take Pride in Their History?

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Johannes M. Koenraadt
Aug 24, 2016
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After World War II, historians scrambled to try to explain what could have caused such a destructive event. What was so different about the Europeans that had steered their actions towards the Holocaust? In attempts to answer such a question, historians and sociologists began pointing fingers at four pillars of European evil: nationalism, xenophobia, racism, and sexism.

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