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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No? If the joke was "we know, we're British" then maybe. It says schooled in Britain - which implies "we know we learned it in geography". Not everything needs to have colonialism, capitalism etc in it, it's just a joke.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yes, that's the original joke - having been taught in British schools, they learned about Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

    Why this is in the school curriculum, however, is another matter, and this thread is pointing out the coincidence that the British empire colonised Nicaragua for like two centuries.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    It's in the curriculum because it's geography, wtf do you mean. We learned all the countries in the world, all seas, major lakes, mountains, highlands and lowlands across Europe etc. And no, I'm not British. There doesn't need to be a deeper meaning when there is none - people simply learn that shit over here.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    We learnt about each and every country in the world at school. We had to be able to point it out on a blind map, remember the capital city, name the neighbouring countries, know the main mountains, rivers, economy, those sorts of stuff.

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