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
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
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
But, yeah, that's just them being confused by the question then for some reason which I think is possible
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
Fuck you're probably right about this. It's a bit concerning