Question

What should individuals do when reconciling history? Question 1 options: 1) Majority cultural group members need to feel guilty about their past deeds 2) Both the oppressor and the oppressed group members should forget about the past history 3) Both the oppressor and the oppressed group members recognize that the past history influences today’s interactions 4) Minority cultural group members need to feel guilty about their past deeds

Answer 1

Reconciling history:

3) Both the oppressor and the oppressed group members recognize that the past history influences today’s interactions.

Step-by-step explanation:

A people's history form the basis for present-day interactions, relationships, and communication.

Attempts should be made by all to ensure that correct history is documented and well preserved. A people without history is a people without a recognized future. To forget one's history is to sell one's birthright, to live without purpose, and to forget one's future aspirations.

In reconciling history, people should be open to learning what took place in the past vis-a-vis the present happenings, which together shape the future of the affected community. Feelings of guilt and forgetfulness do not solve the present problems created by the past. What should be enthroned is a sense of admittance of wrong and forgiveness, which form the bedrock for a sustainable future. And this can only happen if both the oppressor and the oppressed group members recognize that the past history influences today’s interactions.