“In particular, if you are from a small nation that has never really been a player in world history, your local historians are likely to be full of parochial bias motivated by the local political quarrels and grievances...”
Small nations aren’t always Roaring Mice … some trade on being modest and unthreatening , and forming egalitarian alliances with other small nations. For instance., the Benelux Countries
“In particular, if you are from a small nation that has never really been a player in world history, your local historians are likely to be full of parochial bias motivated by the local political quarrels and grievances...”
Describes Ireland pretty well.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/4ba/some_heuristics_for_evaluating_the_soundness_of/ckd2
Small nations aren’t always Roaring Mice … some trade on being modest and unthreatening , and forming egalitarian alliances with other small nations. For instance., the Benelux Countries