The Neutrality of Analyzing History

In a world that filled with disputes and disagreements, it is somehow difficult to describe a conflicting event in a neutral tone based on one’s own judgment, typically for those historians who attempted to examine the events occurred in the past. As a matter of fact, people’s perspectives may be influenced by many conditions such as their cultural identities, genders, religions, emotions etc. Therefore, it is more likely that historians tend to hold biased view that may affect their tone in neutrality. However, to what extent can historians, or more generally the people, learn the history from an unbiased and neutral perspective? In general, as long as people equally analyze the view points from both sides and take the position between the two, they can then describe the history neutrally. To help substantiate that historical fact can actually be described in neutral tone, two effective examples below, which are the Korean War and the Vietnam War, could provide sufficient justification.
An unbiased description of any historical event should consist of objectivity, or neutrality. The term “neutral” can be used in various aspects for different purposes: “neutron” as the non-charged particles in science; non-colored paintings; neutral on the side that stays out of disputes between countries. The one core value of neutrality in common is that a person, an event or an act stands in the middle way between two extreme and opposite sides. That being said, being neutral in tone means one could not depict an historical event using a biased, subjective and prejudiced point of view that one should not choose the position from either side but should stand in the middle.
Set in the 1960’s a massive dispute occurred within the K...

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... to spread again. The Chinese began to claim their position as similar to the Korean war: defend its ally and protect them from the invasion of U.S, and that the U.S was driven out of the war by them. Hilariously, the Chinese have twisted the neutrality of tone again, they judged the entire event solely from their own perspective which obviously contained biased and selfish opinion.
However, if all these events were to described by an outsider, such as a historian from Denmark or an academic institution from Canada, then such biases or twisted critics would not exist, so that the tone could be maintained in neutrality.
History, is a record of the present traces of the significant events occurred in the past. As long as people equally analyze the view points from both sides and take the position between the two, historical events can be described in a neutral tone.