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What have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Literally anything MAGA says

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 20 points 5 days ago (7 children)

anything that implies they've only learned European and US history (e.g. discounting the global technological contributions of Asia and Africa)

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I have one for this!

I once asked someone "In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?"

I thought she'd say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)

She said George Washington!

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Variolation isn't vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it's an attenuated vaccine.

[–] Pierre121000@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i'm hearing about Edward Jenner

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Same here in the UK, but Alexander Fleming

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[–] Alsjemenou@lemy.nl 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Acting that everyone on Reddit/Lemmy is American.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 days ago

The Netherlands is just as much a part of the West.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Crocs

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 10 points 5 days ago

"Nambia"

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