• SlimeKnight@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The way it was explained to me, it’s because of a lack of history.

    Being a new country, they had effectively no history or culture, unlike the rest of the world. It lead to a desire to develop it’s own identity which lead to elevating the founding fathers to a myth like status to match those of other countries.

    It made sense to me, since there are myths involving demigods in different part of the world.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah its the same way other post-revolutionary countries idolise their revolutionary leaders, like how the soviets idolised Lenin or Trotsky.