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As I guy with a degree in history (and an interest in psychology), it's hard to disagree.
For one, people are more interested in things that don't happen a lot. There's a saying that news is called news because only things out of the ordinary would be worth writing about.
While history tends to favor the victor (or those who can write), the tendency to favor the rich and powerful doesn't really reflect the individual historian. Many historians do want to document and write about common folk, but can't because there is too few sources, they're not getting enough funding, and people straight up not caring anyway. I know some people personally who are getting into "microhistory", where they look into stories about common individuals to extrapolate the life of the common people (e.g. Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms), but currently it's too niche.
The thing about where the money and attention goes is also true to some extent. I'm from Southeast Asia which has very little attention in the west. I went to my school library which is separated into geographical regions, and most of the shelves for Southeast Asia are half-full. The only one with multiple shelves is Vietnam, and of course it is mostly about that thing you all know about.
Btw, I sort of hope you can do video on historian jobs, where the demand and thus supply is unfortunately declining with no signs of recovery. Even I as a trained historian (not to mention a non-western one) see little future in pursuing that career.
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