national amnesia

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national amnesia

  1. A nationwide loss of memories about an event, time or cultural phenomenon.
    The country seems to have a national amnesia about its past.
    • 1989, Toni Morrison, The Pain Of Being Black‎[1], Time:
      ...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.
    • 1996, Meir Kahane, Or hara'ayon = The Jewish idea, →OCLC:
      Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

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