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Friday, August 10, 2018
 
Black Legend - Wikipedia

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A "black legend" is a historiographic phenomenon suffered by either characters, nations or institutions, and characterized by the sustained trend in historical writing of biased reporting, introduction of fabricated, exaggerated and/or decontextualized facts, with the intention of creating a distorted and uniquely inhuman image of it, while hiding from view all its positive contributions to history.

According to historian Elvira Roca Barea the formation of a Black Legend and its assimilation by the nation that suffers it is a phenomenon observed in all multicultural empires, not just on the Spanish Empire. The black legend of empires would be the result of the following combined factors:

1. The combined propaganda attacks and efforts of most smaller powers of the time, as well as defeated rivals.

2. The propaganda created by the many rival power factions within the Empire itself against each other as part of their struggle to win more power.

3. The self criticism of the intellectual elite, which tends to be larger in larger Empires.

4. The need of the new powers consolidated during the Empire´s life or after its dissolution to justify their new prevalence and the new order.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend#Unique_Aspects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend#Unique_Aspects

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