Keith Lowe : Why we need to stop obsessing over World War II

Keith Lowe at TEDxAthens  (transcript)
Why we need to stop obsessing over World War II
Summary
This is a surprising title for me who thought that the speaker wasn't definitely an American. Of course, he seems to be a Londoner and a historian.

The beginning of this year, l thought why l didn't study our Japanese history, thus l’ve just read many books about World War 2 and l think that it's enough yet. However, the title seems to say to me like l don't need to study about World War 2.

There are many differences between the speaker and me. For example, he is European, a man and  a historian who studies history a lot. However, l think this is a big chance to summarize my opinion so far. It might change tomorrow though l try to do it.

First, l summarize the story 1) and l want to write about why l started to read books about world war 2, 2) what I want to tell you, 3) and my conclusion. 4)

1)The answer of the speaker why we need to stop obsessing over World War 2 seems to be for making our world a much more peaceful place. His opinions are that the Second World War is used just for trying to get people to feel good about themselves and in our society, there are difficult grey areas where people don't allow to point out. Thus people, especially politicians would use the words: Second World War. However, it's often not related with the Second World War and it’s to provoke an emotional response.

As a historian who studied it really hard, he tells us that's the wars certainly will never be solved peacefully. If we could all just learn to accept it, our world must be much more powerful places.

What? What did he say?

I now understand what he wants to tell us. It's to stop obsessing so it's not to stop saying but it's learning more to use it and to make our world better. This is the same as my conclusion. 4)

2)Why l started to read books about the World War 2 is that l wanted to have skills to explain about Japanese problems because l study English and l sell world's flags.
3)The story makes the Japanese all the evil monsters and why the Chinese are all selfless heroes.

I’m really glad that my learning is not wasted. What the speaker wants to tell us must be that there is a big damage not to learn Second World War and to be deceived by myths.

Words in this story
aftermath /noun/ after-effect, consequence, secondary effect, sequel
inherent /adj/ congenital, innate
foster /verb/ cultivate