issue221 [冲刺 小组]第五次作业

chenhaozUID: 2525010

Is it the chief benefit of the study of history to break down the illusion that people in one period of time are significantly different from people who lived at any other time in history? I believe not, due to the following reasons.

First and foremost, to break down the illusion of the significant difference from the people in different times does not count as the chief benefit, although it is one benefit. We will just know that people in certain periods were not so different from those in others, but this fact will not bring lots of benefits for us now and in the future. For example, what it can bring to the advance of our society to know that the people from 300 years ago and 500 years ago both have noodles or play balls? What we need is a good way for running the society, apart from sciences and technologies, rather than such facts serving only as a knowledge. So I believe the stop of such illusion cannot play a role as the chief benefit from the study of history.

Secondly, the study of history could give lots of chief benefits, so the break down of that illusion mentioned above could never be the only chief benefit. The history study could let us remember the reasons why our life becomes in this way today, and offer other chief benefits, such as important dos and donts or certain countries' customs and behaviors. For example, why Chinese people hold Spring Festival every year? The history study tells us that they wanted to scare a monster called Nian away. Similar examples together show how and why Chinese people live in those ways, which can let people all over the world know the Chinese better, and this benefit among the chief ones is from the study of history. So the illusion of that difference is not the only chief benefit.

Meanwhile, sometimes people from different decades really have significant differences, so it is no point to bring us their similarities. For example, the Germans were always calm and rational, but they turned wild and enthusiastic during the period of Nazi. It will be no point to say that they still had the same food or celebrations, because they, those who were friendly people, became slaughtering machines, which is the main points. So, the differences are not illusions sometimes and it is not worthy to break them down.

In all, the break down of the illusion that people in one period of time are significantly different from people who lived at any other time in history is surely not the chief benefit from the study of history.

[ 本帖最后由 chenhaoz 于 2008-8-5 11:47 编辑 ]

claraffUID: 2494888

拍得不好请见谅。。

Is it the chief benefit of the study of history to break down the illusion that people in one period of time are significantly different from people who lived at any other time in history? I believe not, due to the following reasons.

First and foremost, to break down the illusion of the significant difference from the people in different times does not count as the chief benefit, although it is one benefit.
                                                                                                                                                                                                  这里用though好一点
We will just know that people in certain periods were not so different from those in others, but this fact will not bring lots of benefits for us now and in the future. For example, what can it bring to the advance of our society to know that the people from 300 years ago and 500 years ago both have noodles or play balls? What we need is a good way for running the society, apart from sciences and technologies, rather than such facts serving only as a knowledge. So I believe the stop of such illusion cannot play a role as the chief benefit from the study of history.

Secondly, the study of history could give lots of chief benefits, so the break down of that illusion mentioned above could never be the only chief benefit. The history study could let us remember the reasons why our life becomes in this way today, and offer other chief benefits, such as important dos and donts or certain countries' customs and
                                               或者可以改成comes into being today
behaviors. For example, why Chinese people hold Spring Festival every year? The history study tells us that they wanted to scare a monster called Nian away. Similar examples together show how and why Chinese people live in those ways, which can let people all over the world know the Chinese better, and this benefit among the chief ones is from the study of history. So the illusion of that difference is not the only chief benefit.上一段说to break down the illusion does not count as the chief benefit of history study,有一点点矛盾.我觉得楼主可以不比局限在讨论chief benefit，而是把它们称为benefits。

Meanwhile, sometimes people from different decades really have significant differences, so it is no point to bring us their similarities. For example, the Germans were always calm and rational, but they turned wild and enthusiastic during the period of Nazi. It will be no point to say that they still had the same food or celebrations, because they, those who were friendly people, became slaughtering machines, which is the main points. So, the differences are not illusions sometimes and it is not worthy to break them down.

In all, the break down of the illusion that people in one period of time are significantly different from people who lived at any other time in history is surely not the chief benefit from the study of history.

感觉逻辑上不是特别的连贯，第一段说研究历史上人们的相似之处没有什么意义，还说了我们需要的是a good way for running the society，可能在下文讨论一些历史研究对找出a good way for running the society 会更加完整；还有例子的引用如果能分析得再详细一点就更好了。