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Ugly is culturally relative. Fifty years ago, people would be horrified to find out how many people were gay. Today, we're horrified to find out that gay people felt the need to stay in the closet.


Agreed, 'ugly' is culturally relative. I'm interested in what happens when cultural norms change a lot in the span of 20 years yet everyone's real history is public domain.


That real history will itself affect the cultural norms.


Maybe. But by "real history" I'm referring to the stuff that historians produce, not popular history/myth.




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