Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Day of Reflection. Nobody can read everything that appears here each day, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
I really enjoyed /u/Jasfss post about the links (or lack of) between orthodox Christianity and Hinduism
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/22p9kl/is_there_a_recorded_cultural_link_between/
/u/rakony on the interactions between the Chinese and the Mongols.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2410cu/was_there_much_interaction_between_the_yuan/
Finally, I enjoyed answering this question
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/23tau0/why_is_the_dpad_on_the_left/
I hope as the years push on we get more video game related questions. It is hard to ask questions about video games because most end up belonging in another sub. But video games are an important cultural icon and I hope they get the same kind of rigorous study that film and television get.
/u/TFrauline and /u/vertexoflife tag teamed to do some mythbusting on the perception of women's sexual appetites in the past.
I enjoyed this week:
I want to highlight this thread, for it's insightful discussion of "victors justice" and the complications of civilian culpability for the German atrocities in world war II:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/23t3gz/how_did_the_german_general_public_respond_to_the/
I learned a great deal in this thread, and came away with a much less positive view of the "denazifiication" efforts, which seem to have been generally a failure.
As an aside, the fact that I my initial emotional impulse is that future generations should suffer for the crimes of their ancestors, suggests that my moral compass is demagnetized.