Many examples --- Thinking about the Catalan case, for instance: pro-independence groups list among their arguments that they were once an independent kingdom from Spain (a kingdom whose existence anti-independentists deny).

Anti-colonialist movements in Latin America also use/devise stories that best serve the social/historical features they wish to exalt, usually denying the relevance of the colonial heritage.

Source author: Liliana Oliva Bernal loliva@sre.gob.mx