National mythologies depend on suppressing contrary histories

Evidence

It is worth taking the time here to draw out how hosts and guests are racialized categories that depend on specific silences. National mythologies are about an imagined sameness that comes about because a people have made a history together, a history of enterprise and innocence. In Norwegian national mythology, Norwegians courageously resisted the Nazis, something that does not bear up under close historical scrutiny. As a people, Norwegians have built a rich and peaceful land into which newcomers have come only recently. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 284

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Benedict Anderson’s imagined communities and to my soundscape reading on how nations establish themselves through selective account of the past. — connects to: The two legitimating grand narratives are national and European myths — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 34; National identity is built on manufactured ancestral myth, not primordial history. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 74; Nationalist myths date mainly to the nineteenth century and impede shared identity — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 84 (+3 more)
• QUESTION: What is the historical record on Norwegian resistance to the Nazis that fails to bear up? Worth chasing for the parallel to American founding mythology.