Consensus of educated Western people about history, identity, core cultural values.
History requires representation, mediation, in narrative, a story-form encoded as historical.
Multiculturalism, competing views of history and tradition. Hence empathy with the victor invariably benefits the rulers. Historical materialists know what that means. Whoever has emerged victorious participates to this day in the triumphal procession in which the present rulers step over those who are lying prostrate. According to traditional practice, the spoils are carried along in the procession.