• Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I mean it's definitely cherry-picked, but anyone would know these answers even without education if they are at all participating within the pop culture of the US at basically any point.

    It's either people saying dumb shit because they're confused by the situation, some people saying dumb shit because they're annoyed at the man on the street interview, or they're just acting.

    Like there's just no way anyone could possibly think these things lol while also knowing what the event is referring to.

    Example: The 4th of July as an extent holiday in the US is basically unavoidable, it's impossible for a person to legitimately think it had anything to do with Koreans or took place in the 80s lol

    Maybe, someone living in a cave, having just seen the surface and then immediately interviewed may say something like "what are you talking about" but not what we got here lol

    • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      just because the 4th of july is a giant unavoidable event doesn't mean you're bombarded with actual facts about it. most the 21st century its been jizzing on troops and :frothingfash: about muslims hating freeeeedom

      its entirely possible to absorb that kinda stuff to the exclusion of practical historical knowledge. when do people who aren't extremely fucking boring actually say 'we're celebrating this july 4th because they signed the dec. of independence, from Britain, for reasons x, y, z.'?

      also since we use such a limited stable of words to describe wars, something as simple as someone hearing about the Korean war of independence, and the US war in Korea being asked 'who we fought in the war of independence' nets: US v. Korea :thonk: which is true if you say Koreans were the ones fighting for independence

        • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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          2 years ago

          you can't be anything but confused by the question and piece together your answer from half-remembered facts when you don't know anything about the question

          or you could say you don't know but we're yankees that'd be far too humble for us

    • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Example: The 4th of July as an extent holiday in the US is basically unavoidable, it’s impossible for a person to legitimately think it had anything to do with Koreans or took place in the 80s lol

      ive never learned anything about history on the 4th of july. its just the day where people blow shit up and abuse animals

      • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I have no idea, maybe you're the cave being I referenced then. Still did anything lead you to believe Korea and the 80s had anything to do with it

          • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I'm trying to think about it more and you're right there really is no direct references to what any of it means. Just like bits of scattered information

            What the hell