"wasn't Italy where the Greeks were from?" "No that was Greece" "Oh yeah, well... wait yeah, Italy took over Egypt" "And Turkey I think" "No, Turkey was Roman, Istanbul was the Roman capital"
mfw I didn't think the stupidity of others could actually trigger me
why are the general population so ignorant of basic world history? Was it always like this?
>be me >back in high school >have to label map of europe >negress screeches "WHERE DA FUK IRELAND AT?"
Noah Cook
Is that Himmler on the left with the glasses?
Jaxon Collins
What army is this?
Jace Lopez
You reminded me >About 6th grade >Geography class >Learning Magellan's journey around the world >Task is "what route could have Magellan taken to make his journey significantly shorter?" >Teacher is smug as fuck >Says "If I were Magellan" >Moves her pointing stick towards the Isthmus of Panama >"I would have gone through the panama canal and right around the world! :)" >mfw I didn't know back then that the Panama Canal was built in the 1900s >All of those students probably still think Magellan was retarded for not going through the Panama canal
Nothing wrong with these to be honest. I thought Alexander the Great was Roman until last year and Taiwan and Thailand were the same country until the year before that.
Holy fucking brainlet Might as well share my early historical brainletism >i used to believe the prussia was fromed from the marriage of russian nobility with polish nobility and every prussian noble was actually a slav
Ian Moore
It’s nothing too egregious But l was taught columbus wanted to prove the earth was round in third grade They corrected that in sixth grade though
Noah Gomez
>why are the general population so ignorant of basic world history? Was it always like this?
They are stupid because that's how humans be and yes, it has always been like this remember, you're here forever
>that one time in middle school history class when you asked why Germany didn't get in on the early colonization thing like England, Spain etc. >actually got a crash course in the >H>R>E since the teacher was actually competent I'm still haunted by it though Also I think I never would have learned anything else about Germany prior to 1900 in school if I hadn't asked about that then Fuck American public schools
Ryan Edwards
>Class what is Prussia? >Oh it's the german russians :)
Daniel Phillips
but the greeks are from greece, and there were plenty of greeks in southern italy
italy did take over egypt and turkey as the roman empire
and istanbul was the eastern roman capital as constantinople
what the fuck are you mad about
Easton Murphy
I thought that Alexander and Achilles being blonde in movies was just Hollywood whitewashing. I even brought it up as an example in class. Little did I know that they were both accurate.
Andrew Gray
Probably the alpine front because its Germans on the right and austrians on the left
Gabriel Jackson
>some bitch asks why cleopatra isnt black in a movie
Mason Bailey
This legit pissed me off.
Chase Hall
This
Cooper Hernandez
At least you can admit your mistakes. I don't think I had heard of the >H >R >E until 2014, unless I just forgot about it from hearing it in childhood. Holy fuck that's hilarious
>Junior in Highschool. >WW2 history. >Teacher puts on Pearl Harbor and sneaks drinks from his flask while grading papers. >Get tested on it.
Josiah Young
>being taught that the first men to bring elephaunts to europe was a portuguese king in the xvi century >Athens razed Sparta in the penepolese war >constructivism being taken seriously
beat me faggot
Gavin Price
>freshman in high school >be truant, show up halfway through the day >manage to smoke some weed in the woods during lunch >show up to history class >the teacher already taught everything on the syllabus and gave all of the tests, so history class was just the movie 300 without any notes >my entire day consisted of nothing but smoking weed and watching the movie 300
I seriously wonder what Hellenic Marseilles looked like
Nathan Williams
good days
Benjamin Turner
>be a gook >talk about the Huns to my dumb uncle >he suddenly shouts and talks about how Huns BTFO Europeans XD >then he claims that the Huns and Koreans are the same WE
based Grey Wolves Uncle teaching you to respect Turan is he fighting alongside The Turks in Afrin?
Levi Wood
Nah, half of Himmler's inferiority complex was because he just missed the opportunity to fight in World War I.
Adam Williams
My French colleague who comes from some town in the Alps once mentioned the famous story of how Alexander the Great crossed the Alps with his elephants.
I asked him who Alexander was fighting but he couldn't remember.
It has nothing to do with that degrees or anything like that. The problem is simply that most people don’t have any hunger to learn more, improve themselves or even just listen and retain information.
Asher Cooper
When I was 17 a kid in my class randomly announced "who would call a kid Ein?"
He though Ein was Albert Einstein’s first name
Kayden Sanders
he was the the firstborn and his parents were really uncreative
David Cruz
>being taught that the first men to bring elephaunts to europe was a portuguese king in the xvi century What the fuck, did no one hear of Hannibal?
Zachary Rogers
other than the "wasn't Italy where the Greeks were from" those mistakes ain't bad enough for a thread
Ryan Smith
What is amazing is the blissfulness of people when they assert their ignorant opinions/data with total confidence, never making a conscious exam of themselves. I am always thinking I'm an ignorant and, if possible, recheck things before spouting them and putting words like "in my opinion", "according to evidence", "if I recall correctly" in my speech and writing.
Jace Gutierrez
They were closer to Koreans than Europeans.
Oliver Clark
>mfw I didn't think the stupidity of others could actually trigger me Like you said, that's ignorance, not stupidity.
For instance, OP is stupid, but not ignorant.
Ethan Wilson
Someone post the cap of that Irish user who thought Northern Ireland existed for thousands and years and that the first Irish protestants were pagan druids who converted
>be teacher >on Civil Rights unit >make review lesson where they can make their own violent/non-violent group >get tons of funny shit hybridizing Nation of Islam and Black Panthers >they also present them to each other >one is this hilarious group centered around kidnapping Obama’s dog, blowing up parts of the Mexican border, and painting the White House red to get rights for illegal immigrants >laughing so hard as they give their speech I start crying Goddamn those classes were fun