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national amnesia en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A nationwide loss of memories about an event, time or cultural phenomenon.
   • […]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. 1989, Toni Morrison, The Pain Of Being Black, Time:
   • Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are. 1996, Meir Kahane, Or hara'ayon = The Jewish idea, →OCLC:
   • […] for its subjects to be able to forget the history of bloody conquest and empire-building if they are to partake in a collective identity as members of such sovereignty. But such collective, national amnesia—at both the individual and the national levels—is precisely what Kundera takes issue with[…] 2018, Vincent J. Cheng, Amnesia and the Nation: History, Forgetting, and James Joyce, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 20:
   • The country seems to have a national amnesia about its past.