Americans discover the 3000 year old continent spanning nation of 1.4 billion people... might have regional differences. honestly, who knew?

western ignorance is truly a form of exceptionalism

  • TheDrink [he/him]
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    4 hours ago

    tfw you realize that "this massive continent only has one language" is a belief that directly results from imperialism wiping out the hundreds of other languages that used to be in North America.

    Sometimes people will try to point to the Chinese adoption of Mandarin as an official lingua franca as some kind of equivalent form of colonialism, and it's just not.