national amnesia
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- A nationwide loss of memories about an event, time or cultural phenomenon.
- The country seems to have a national amnesia about its past.
- 1989, Toni Morrison, The Pain Of Being Black[1], Time:
- ...I don't want to remember, black people don't want to remember, white people don't want to remember. I mean, it's national amnesia.
- 1996, Meir Kahane, Or hara'ayon = The Jewish idea, →OCLC:
- Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
Further reading
[edit]national memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
social amnesia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia