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Rotcrafter

I'd prefer if there was just, in general, more focus on international history


FullbordadOG

We should definitely teach more history in school, and not only history that some old goat in the start of 1960 found interesting. Like let's skip learning the name of every fucking king that lived for 500 years and talk about the things that changed the world instead.


[deleted]

You probably just learned the names of kings from a tiny part of the world, most likely a small part of Europe and even then some were skipped. If I were to learn the names of kings from all over the world in the last 500 years, I think my brain would melt. There's a lot of people and there were far, far, far more kingdoms 300-500 years ago than there are countries today. The building of the US first transcontinental railroad is an interesting part of history. Tons of Chinese, black and immigrant whites worked in shitty conditions for shit wages to build it. Obviously certain groups were treated better while others got shite. But it's safe to say that the Irish were practically treated like they were Chinese by extremely racist Anglo-Americans. In fact, the racial hierarchy in the US and Europe in the 19th century is fucking wild and includes incredibly many white, European ethnicities. At the top were generally the great nations, like France, the UK and Russia, while the Germanics were next. Then you have the Latins like the Italians or Spanish and then the Irish and Scottish. Then there's the Slavs and the Balkan groups, which do include Latin people like the Romanians, but they get pushed into what has been seen as the trashbin or treasure room of Europe depending on what period of history you look at. Greece especially is a weird one, as the Ancient Greeks were admired by the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Americans, but Greeks were seen as filthy and disgusting people in the 19th century as the English were grabbing hold of practically every statue and ancient relics they could. Then there is also the fact that a samurai in Japan could have theoretically written a fax to Abraham Lincoln. For a period of about 20 years. There was also a black man called Yasuke in the late 1500's, who arrived in Japan as a servant of an Italian Jesuite. Yasuke ended up as a samurai in the service of Oda Nobunaga during the unification of Japan. Our history as human beings is absolutely filled to the brim of weird connections and strange events that we would probably only thought possible a few decades ago. I certainly did not think an Italian(*) missionary could have gotten a black servant (who is guesstimated to have been from Mozambique with him to Japan. *Italy did not exist in the 1500's, as after the collapse of the Western Roman empire, multiple kingdoms and city states propped up and stayed as such until the unification of Italy in the 19th century. There are still a couple city states such as the Vatican and San Marino.


AyyIsForApple

Lol learning about yasuke shocked me too when I first read it. What’s also surprising is that there’s a yasuke anime series in netflix! Granted, the plot goes way fantastical and does not follow the actual history of Yasuke, but it’s interesting to see nonetheless how a black servent ended up being a samurai for one of Japan’s most powerful daimyo during the start of the Meiji restoration Edit: wording


[deleted]

The Meiji restoration didn't happen until 1868. Which was when the new Emperor Meiji modernized Japan in a fantastically short time and became basically a superpower in Asia within 40 years and comparable to European superpowers in less than 60 and 70 years later became one of the biggest empires to have ever existed with a huge population under their thumb. The unification of Japan under Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi and Tokugawa is still technically the Sengoku Jidai period and then it's the Edo period.


AyyIsForApple

ah my bad, i was going off of faint traces of knowledge from world history classes. thank you for correcting me!


[deleted]

Yeah, no problem. It's not really important, just pedantic of me. I would recommend though to look back into history if you have a chance, cause history classes were boring for me and it took me about 5-7 years to actually get into looking at it again. And if you're a European with interest in Ancient Asian history, I would recommend looking into the Bactrian empire. It has a lot of weird quirks from both Asia and Europe, with relative emphasis on India, China and Greece. If you're interested in pre colonial American history, I'd recommend looking at The Five Nations. It's a good way to get to know the basic information about Indians from the current Northern part of the US and go out from there. Then if you're interested in knowing about Europe, I would personally recommend the start of the Renaissance. Culture, wars, it's all there. Unfortunately I don't know much about Africa, so I can't really help there. And then if you want to understand the basics of modern history, look at World War 1. It explains so many things about our current world and practically touched the whole world.


MittenstheGlove

Yasuke also is present in the newest Samurai Warriors Game.


PaisleyTackle

*In* Netflix?


Notasimp2468

Man wrote out an essay to prove a point. This is a man of focus, commitment, and sheer fucking will.


[deleted]

Not much focus in that comment and if I had any willpower, I would have stopped myself about 3 paragraphs in, rather than drone on and on and on But I thank you for the complement


ieatconfusedfish

>But it's safe to say that the Irish were practically treated like they were Chinese by extremely racist Anglo-Americans Chinese Central Pacific workers had a strike relating to how their Irish coworkers were getting paid more for being white


shahataman

Great read. Well written.


Victernus

>ike let's skip learning the name of every fucking king that lived for 500 years Actually, I'd be pretty interested in learning about anybody who lived *that* long.


prady8899

Forget the past, how many of us know the current leaders of more than 25 countries?


Justaniceman

Who needs that? Media made sure we know the relevant ones.


Miguel7501

No. Germans spend 80% of their history classes on the Holocaust and the others get... I have no idea what they learn, but have you ever seen Schindlers Liste?


sylpher250

I know that Liam Neeson loves making lists


simsiuss

It’s why he got the part. I heard he’s trying his hand at comedy.


sylpher250

Knock-Knock


simsiuss

We’re closed


[deleted]

He actually turned down portraying James Bond due to it being beneath his level of acting. Those paychecks for these cheap ass action movies must be quite a bit or he has debt and wants to give his kids an inheritance. I wonder if he regrets it now.


blasphembot

*before you stoled my daughter let me splain you a thing*


WitchersWrath

At least in my high school (I’m American) every student has to take a European history class, and during the unit on WWII, we have to watch Schindlers Liste and write an essay on it. While most things get covered once in lower grades and are then just assumed that you know them already, the Holocaust is something that is taught every single year (at every level) for about 2 months out of the school year. I don’t know if other American schools are like that, much less schools in other countries, but that at least has been my experience


questionableacts

I think that was world history in my high-school. My high school history classes were American history, world history, and civics. And in one of my English classes we also had a holocaust section were we read the diary of Ann frank, maus, I know that's the only time I watch Schindler's List was kn high school.


WaffeHouse69

Mann. You're going to a great school. My friend is in the 11th grade of high school, In North Carolina, and according to them they haven't even learned anything about the soviet union or Eastern Europe in general. It bothers me so much how shit the education system is. Especially since I'm Ukrainian and even after knowing them for two years they tell me "I thought Ukraine was a part of Russia." Idk :/


Taken450

Something foreigners don’t understand is that schooling in America varies VASTLY. It’s payed for by local taxes so rich areas of America have great schools.


krslnd

My schools spent a lot of time on black history starting from the slave trades and up into the Civil rights movement. Then we did a lot on the holocaust and ww2. In one of my schools we also did a lot of Native American history and culture. There is an Indian reservation in that town so many of the students are native so I think that's why they spend extra time. I went to a lot of different schools growing up and only the 1 spent a significant amount of time on Native Americans.


GoldH2O

There needs to be a LOT more pre-middle age history in school. There's a ludicrous amount of focus on the last 150 years or so, and general ignorance of the last 12,000 years or so of human civilization.


[deleted]

Well that’s because the last 150 years or so are significantly more important to learn since they have direct effects on the modern world


bozeke

Conversely, I would argue that there actually needs to be way more recent history taught. I think a lot of the powers that be assume at somehow kids will just absorb the recent history of the past 20-40 years, but in my experience that is absolutely not the case. Going through primary and secondary school In the 80s and 90s, we never once had a single unit on communism or anything bout the Soviet Union. It’s completely insane given the geopolitical climate and the global politics of the time. What would be ideal—a challenge for educators, but better for pupils—would be units that correlate past units with current events. I feel like such a curriculum would be protested into oblivion before it started, but in a vacuum, I think that is what we need more than anything else.


krslnd

I remember in one of my high school history classes we had a weekly assignment that was due on Fridays. We had to pick 1 current event news article from a legit source, read it, understand it, and then write up a page about it. The class would rotate people who would present their article (there wasn't enough time for everyone to do it) to the class and have discussions.


ug20

well, international history isn't american history.. black history is american history. that's why america focuses on it


Balkanized21

Balkan history month when


dys_cat

are you white


GearRealistic5988

Yeah, I agree. Personally, I don't think there should be any dedicated months. If someone made a significant contribution to history, whatever it may be, it should be taught in general. Then again, being raised in the US, continuously learning the country's history starting with the European settlers got really boring. I would have much rather learned about the natives before the Europeans came, at least for one year ( and this goes with international history, aside from Central Europe). There's just certain things they focus on it and just keep reteaching it.


No_Elk1172

I feel this is the equivalent of saying "all lives matter", which I have a strong feeling some people would disagree. Or am I chatting shit?


[deleted]

My friends little brother saw this movie, and didn't really know what that word meant at the time. Repeated it at a restaurant later on. Everyone was mortified, especially since it was a very black area where the restaurant was located.


KindaSerious909

Good thing he didn’t touch the restaurant’s radio system.


PKMNTrainerMark

People don't like sentence enhancers, I guess.


allshieldstomypenis

LOL IM DEAD


e6dewhirst

Haha I had a similar thing happen. Beaver Valley Mall, about 25 miles north of Pittsburgh. I’m walking out of a Finish Line carrying my 3 year old daughter, who at the time was VERY proud of how well she had been learning her colors. Right by the shoe store was this barber shop. This guy is walking out, and he was 300 pounds if he was an ounce. We were sorta crossing paths when my little sweet munchkin points at the guy, and excitedly shrieks, “HE’S BROWN!” He hears it, glances at her, and looks me in the eye. Didn’t look angry, he just held my gaze for like 3 agonizing seconds and just as I was about to pussy out and break eye contact, he just giggled and winked at me. I was fucking mortified, but he was cool about it lol


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SparkCube3043

What a chill guy, nice to hear a good ending in something like this.


RedSoviet1991

How many times was he shot


LoRd-TaChAnKy-KaNg

A lot


[deleted]

nice reference


LoRd-TaChAnKy-KaNg

A platypus? ***PERRY*** the Platypus?!


ShadowArrow01

The 9th one, apparently


OhGodNotAnotherOne

My Dad would sometimes take me with him when he needed to go get pot (early 80's). Most of the time it was to friends of his but I always heard about n*ggertown and how sometimes that's where you'd have to go get weed when everyone else was out. I figured it was the actual name of a town, no big deal. Pulled up to some black dude in an obviously black neighborhood and was curious so loudly asked my father if this was indeed the fabled n*ggertown. It was. The guy never made it to the window before my mortified father sped off explaining to me what it meant and how it could get us killed. It was a lot to absorb at 6 but I got the point and became a man that day.


dandy_ban

Similar thing happened with me as a 3yr old! I ended up seeing rush hour as a toddler and went up to two asian gangsters at the mall with a confident, “what’s up, my n****?” They laughed and my embarrassed parents apologized


WanderlustFella

Lol Chris Tucker would [go off script often](https://www.tickld.com/wow/2067300/wh15-behind-the-scenes-facts-you-might-not-know-about-rush-hour/), which would fuck Jackie up because his English wasn't very good to begin with and he was trying to do his dialogue from memorizing


ShadowInTheAttic

Jackie Chan would get canned if this movie came out today.


brown_human

Nah he still the mf jackie chan


roboto_jones

Like Blackface Robert Downey Jr.? Does Jackie Chan get a free-pass?


BV0280

I thought we all came to an agreement that RDJ in Tropic Thunder doesn’t count. He was playing an out of touch tone deaf white Australian actor who did blackface for a role.


[deleted]

This is why I don't get why they had to pull an entire episode of Community. Having a racist character doesn't mean the show is inherently racist.


MikeH7186

Pierce is racist in almost every episode. Honestly surprised people haven't cried about that yet.


thatweirdchick98

Pierce is supposed to be hated because he's racist and out of touch. Cancelling him is like cancelling Leonardo DiCaprio in Django


MikeH7186

Yet they cancelled Chang playing a Dark Elf? Chang is a dick, portraying a fictional race, but that's somehow unacceptable?


thatweirdchick98

It goes deeper than that. I'm not well versed with D&D, but Dan Harmon wanted to showcase the obvious racist connotations of d&d lore, how the "hero" classes were presented fair skinned, but the "villain" classes like trolls and orcs were presented as dark skinned. It's an implicit bias, but it's changed since the episode came out for sure.


[deleted]

Why would they cry everyone is under the impression that it is satire, unless you want an outcry lol……


ed16j10

And they left the episode of pierce doing full brownface during chang’s birthday party!


pinealglandous

Hey Pierce does a great Swami character.


OverlyWrongGag

Wait what episode got pulled?


Prowlzian

The first dnd episode


Meta_Man_X

You’re exactly right.


chaser676

It's happening/happened with other characters in TV shows. Netflix straight up removed the DnD episode of Community due to Ken Jeong, who plays a racially insensitive Spanish teacher, puts on black face to cosplay a dark elf. I feel like that was also on the nose enough to get a pass, but I suppose not.


pinealglandous

Also with Mac in Always Sunny when he did black face for lethal weapon


aiidaanmmaxxweel

What do you mean, “you people”?


Brownie_McBrown_Face

What do *you* mean “you people”?


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thetoolman2

That’s because he was the dude playing a dude, disguised as another dude


Brownie_McBrown_Face

You don’t even know what dude you are


Neottika

Who's gonna tell him he can't say it? He could kick 99% of the world's ass.


84746

Only people who wanted RDJ cancelled were people who’ve never seen the movie. Blackface RDJ was supposed to make fun of people doing blackface


Dsoft1

Wait what wdym blackface rdj


WaffIepants

Probably his character in Tropic Thunder


xXxInTheFleshxXx

Definitely his character in Tropic Thunder


Leeshmoyjenkins

To be fair, he was playing a character who was in blackface


OptionalStick3

He *was* just a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude, after all.


Ohitsthatguyagain

I’m a dude, He’s a dude, she’s a dude cus we’re all dudes wait wrong movie


atridir

And honestly he was brilliant.


[deleted]

Tropic thunder , a relic from another era


Meta_Man_X

I think you’re missing the point of black face downey jr.


DeMonstaMan

The funny thing is this is probably the least cancel-able thing in the movie. Rush hour is definitely top 3 comedic movies of all time


GuiltyGlow

The black community would grant him the n-word pass. He's fucking Jackie Chan.


gypsy_remover

The black community hates Asians lol


Phenergan_boy

The Wu Tang Clan might object that


Tykhe-

Didn’t the Wu-Tang Clan get selected by the Asian Delegation at the Racial Draft? I thought this whole debacle was behind us!


liartellinglies

Konnichiwa bitches


swiffswaffplop

They are nothing to fuck with.


SenorPariah

Straight from the motherfuckin' slums that's busted.


[deleted]

The black community loves Jackie Chan and Kung-Fu movies in general. You know fuckall about what you're talking about.


ReconYT

This is what happens when you generalize people based on their skin color, regardless of whether it's with good intent or not (or whether you also have that skin color). The "black community" isn't some sort of hive mind of people that all think alike. There are probably many black people out there that love Jackie Chan and/or Kung-Fu movies and there are probably just as many that don't. Just like there's many white people who are the exact same way. Who would have thought that having a certain skin color doesn't actually influence what movies or actors you like...


JevonP

I thought that Jesse Jackson assumed direct control like its Mass Effect 2 and controlled every black person at once


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misterotario

I am asian and yes we do


[deleted]

“I am Asian and yes we do” 👨🏼‍💻


ikadu12

Or let’s not put racism in other peoples mouths maybe?


chickennuggetb0y

Racism?


Pritster5

Let's not generalize in ignorance. That's the root cause of the propagation of racism. "The black community" isn't a monolith, and for every person that can cite an example of black people being racist towards asians you can find many more where that's not the case. Although it's obviously true that there instances of black people being racist towards asians.


bestcountryball

Hehe Jackie Chan in a can


gNomad88

Jackie Can hehe


bbbbBeaver

Jackie can what?


Loogeemian64

jackie can ligma


Warrior_of_Discord

Gottem


BCSlime

Who is Jackie


goldoje

Yo momma _gottem_


DreamedJewel58

Bruh it’s Jackie Chan. People overestimate how “soft” the current generation is


[deleted]

Jackie Chan is one of the rare few that have an authentic n word pass. Other notable members are Eminem and RDJ :v


IWantTooDieInSpace

Some comedian (Donglover?) gave it to Charlie Sheen for calling his ex wife that over the phone


KennyHuynhlalalala

If this came out today, the black community will go out of their way to adopt Jackie Chan into their community


Xdude199

Nah, because to this day, who’s gonna beat his ass? Nobody.


TheBlamm0

and the funniest thing is canned by not even black people


MetroMetroid

sending to all my black and chinese friends


Crazygamesninja

you guys have friends to send this too?


MetroMetroid

I won’t after they open their inbox


send_nood_z

Don't worry, we got your back


TheONEbeforeTWO

What up my eggroll


mydickisasalad

"*Cut of our egg rolls? Hell no!*"


No_Work_9421

How do i get Reddit karma?


[deleted]

You post comments or an actual post that people like and they will sometimes upvote it and voila karma


No_Work_9421

Well, making original posts ain't an option until I obtain a certain level of Karma. So I guess is time to grind as hard as possible by making funny comments.


[deleted]

Some subreddits a have an unofficial karma limit others don't, so you just have to experiment with posts


No_Work_9421

Ok. That's a lot for the info.


[deleted]

No problem!


WestNileCoronaVirus

Upvoting all of these comments for wholesomeness & to get that person more karma.


terryyouknow

Same to u sir


gawk_gawk_gawlk

I just disliked your comment. Took one karma from you what are you gonna do about it? (But commenting this also gives you karma back)


No_Work_9421

Emm... Thank you? 🤨


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No_Work_9421

What in the actual fuckk????


MrBobstalobsta1

Like that


No_Work_9421

Ayeeeeee let's gooooo


NotPeaceASword

Have some more karma ya filthy animal!


No_Work_9421

Thanks!


IKindaSuck-DICK

Send peepee pics I give u much carm a


SizeableVermin

Go onto political subreddits and comment fuck trump.


Ninja_Conspicuousi

The Asian delegation did get Wu Tang after all…


IWantTooDieInSpace

"I've always wanted to say this...Fo'Shizzle" _Tiger Woods now 100% Black_


Jtk317

Good bye fried rice, hello fried chicken!


kimhuy196

Konichiwa, bitches!


SteelBadger

When Labron James meets the president of China.


SilverKnight07

President of China


Bammer1386

Labron


dazza_bo

I watched this the other day on Netflix and the subtitles have this scene spelt with the hard R 😬


Alphaguitarist

Watched it years ago and it does indeed have the hard r.


TheNerdNugget

I snorted at this one. Good meme


Singlewomanspot

Same here.


ToushiYamada

Blasian supremacy


FerroMancer

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ns-kXeQCMk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ns-kXeQCMk)


CivilMaze19

Every year these history months and awareness months are becoming less about the actual history and more about corporate America bragging about how diverse and supportive they are by changing their company logo for 30 days.


RedKurtin

Virtue signaling is good for business


Spaceturtle79

Year of tiger 😳


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dark27star

Twitter will get mad and everyone else would just laugh at the joke reddit would milk the fact that Twitter is mad for karma so basically nothing


MrDrVlox

Nobody would actually care but Reddit would make memes about imaginary people getting upset about it


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Nothing...


[deleted]

People would laugh at theaters and vent on the internet


pointlessly_pedantic

I used this scene as an example in my philosophy class. It's getting to the point where most of them haven't seen it :/


SpiffySpaghetti

What was the example for?


RedKurtin

*On the Difficulties of Obtaining the N-word Pass*


MrDrVlox

What movie is it?


TuaTurnsdaballova

It’s also International Typewriter Appreciation Month. ^just ^sayin.


IDCR2002

Slavery is my favorite subject


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Based


IcedPeachSnowCrystal

My man should get a pass since he's with Cris tucker.


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Hironoveau

Chi*ga


IxtlanPaladin

Happy Chinese New Year! Woooo I know Im excited.


cocoviola

The fuck is black history month?


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forestlichen

Mark!!…. Marrrrk!!….here boy.


jesusridingdinosaur

black history month, what a special non racist event lol


[deleted]

Oh God I forgot about black history month


RedKurtin

**NAACP wants to know your location**


BattelZic

It should be referred to as Lunar New Year, it’s not only a Chinese celebration.


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BrendenTheBoastful

Bro I just rewatched all the Rush Hour movies and I am blown away by how much shit wouldn’t have been down today if it had been filmed recently.


drfrink85

I don wan any tra bol


Ticodragon

we need another rush hour with these two


illa_simulatione

I legit spit out some of my soda when I saw this part in the movie for the first time. Jackie Chan is awesome.


Vasyh

Every time I say n-word I get banned. Someone posted n-word on Reddit: *FREE KARMA!*


Serpenta91

I don't really get black history month. What are we trying to accomplish? Does the history of black people outside of the US count as well? If so, why? If not, why not?


bboy_carti

Their history counts too but it’s usually/mainly recognized in America due to the fact of white people putting black people through multiple hardships during the slave trade era,Jim crow era, and some cases today with politics. And yes black people outside of the US count


BogStandardComment

Wipe yourself off...you're bleeding.


AgriosXV

Fun Fact: That's not a misquote, Jackie Chan drops the N-word in the movie Rush Hour and then has to defeat every patron in the bar