National trauma
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A national trauma is a crisis or a tragic experience which affects the spirit of a nation or an ethnicity, sometimes for generations to come. Large-scale disasters like war or genocide inevitably have this effect, but in an otherwise stable and prosperous country even a minor event (like an assassination of the leader or a transport disaster) can be traumatic.
[edit] Examples of national traumas
- Armenia: Armenian Genocide
- Denmark: Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
- Germany: Versailles Treaty, defeat in World War II, Berlin Wall
- Israel: Holocaust
- Japan: Black Ships, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Netherlands: Assassinations of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh
- Sweden: Assassination of Olof Palme, M/S Estonia shipwreck, Gothenburg riots, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
- United States: Attack on Pearl Harbor, September 11, 2001 attacks
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