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con un\'assoluta mancanza di senso della storia

English translation: absolutely lacking any sense/awareness of history

22:47 Aug 13, 2016
Italian to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - History / In A Historical Novel
Italian term or phrase: con un\'assoluta mancanza di senso della storia
Contesto:

Di recente, poi, sopratutto - ma non solo - nei paesi dell'America Latina, si è fatto strada un'altra interpretazione dell'esperienzia colombiana che le nega qualsiasi merito, e anzi ne fa il punto di partenza del genicidio degli indios, descrivendo Colombo come il più crudele e vile dei conquistadores.

Senza mezze misure e con un'assoluta macanza del senso della storia, come se la schiavitù non fosse una pratica ancora profondamente radicata nelle società del XV, anche europee, e le terribili guerre di conquista di quei tempi, sia in Occidente che in Oriente, non fossero accompagnate ovunque da crudeltà d'ogni genere, del tutto analoghe a quelle che non solo e non tanto Colombo, ma quelli che vennero dopo di lui compirono a danno delle populazioni autoctone del Nuovo Mondo.

Molte Grazie,

Barbara
Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 13:25
English translation:absolutely lacking any sense/awareness of history
Explanation:
The point is that the people who condemn Columbus are completely blind to the other, similar things going on in the world at the same time.

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Note added at 15 mins (2016-08-13 23:02:25 GMT)
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Perhaps 'completely' is better than 'absolutely' here. Just a preference.
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Raph Torrance
Local time: 19:25
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absolutely lacking any sense/awareness of history


Explanation:
The point is that the people who condemn Columbus are completely blind to the other, similar things going on in the world at the same time.

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Note added at 15 mins (2016-08-13 23:02:25 GMT)
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Perhaps 'completely' is better than 'absolutely' here. Just a preference.

Raph Torrance
Local time: 19:25
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  James (Jim) Davis: with a complete lack of any sense of history / with no sense of history whatsoever
4 hrs
agree  BrigitteHilgner
6 hrs
agree  Peter Cox
2 days 12 hrs
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