american culture

It's wild that the U.K. doesn't teach the Odyssey, I thought their whole thing was stealing other peoples' culture and pretending they owned it now.

When the only Homer they know is Homer Simpson.

The world doesn't revolve around America, but you'll see idiots in Bumbfuck, Romania talking about Soros and wokeism. It's got to be exhausting.

As an American, I am going to dine on this single example as if it disproves the idea that we are insular and provincial hicks for the next decade.

The problem is, I have this big bag of stones in my glass house, and I want to throw them at the UK for being dumb, but if I do, I also have to admit the US education system is trash.

To be fair, the only people left on Xitter are idiots

$10 says the dipshit in question did a frantic google, saw 'ulysses' and went james joyce.

You haven't experienced The Odyssey until you've read it in its original Klingon.

Liam’s a tool. UK schools absolutely do teach the Odyssey, and have done so at least as far back as my youth.

The Illiad and the Odyssey are classics and hardly American culture. They are western culture as a whole. No idea what the drama is about but some dude not knowing what the Odyssey is, is the same as not knowing any other classic. (There are too many to count, but not knowing the most popular ones are is like not knowing the titanic sank.) (Spoilers)

I have to admit that I have not read the Illias or the Odyssey in school, either. We were made read books in school intendet to make children shy away from books, so they won't touch any of them after school ever again.

Luckily I had read loads of good books by that time, so I knew that only a few are as horrible as the ones they made us read in school.

The Illiad was like the Bible before the Bible.

is this why the miniseries is trending on some torrent sites?? haha!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_(1997_miniseries)

"the world doesn't revolve around your country"country Said the user from UK.

Silly anglophone countries, the world actually revolves around the chad mediterranean

What! He never saw Wishbone’s the Odyssey?

I prefer to watch it in its original Japanese.

The American version has more Laser-shark-launching gun-swords though fewer exposed boobs.

Wait.. some people don't know the Odyssey?

Just play "Age of Mythology". Duh.

Its not even that great of a mini van. You can get better for cheaper!

...may we see the tweets?

Meanwhile on tiktok British people are apparently mad at Americans for not knowing or caring about Robbie Williams

may nigel farage further dumb down the island people.

Did "history of the world" not mention Homer?

instead we studied useful things

Have you ever seen any British television quiz game shows? The amount of world geography and history most contestants seem to know is abismal, makes me scratch my head and seriously wonder what many of these people are doing there, in a game show about knowledge. What are they even doing there, in the delusion that they have a shot.

"What is the capital of Denmark?"
"Erm... pass."

This person's comment is just another drop in the bucket in the sorry state of things.

Most cultured Brit

Reminds me of this: https://www.tiktok.com/@emanrtm/video/7348507560032439585?lang=en

The Odyssey is an American epic? Wtf, I love America now!

I'm in Canada.
I wasn't taught anything about the Odyssey or Iliad
But I at least know that they're ancient and Greek.

How are you supposed to enjoy the music of Civilisation 7 without knowing The Odyssey?

On a similar note, you'd think the guy on the right would counter with Beowulf

Shared this with dome American friends to throw them a bone as they are taking it tight from us on a daily basis

If someone doesn't know, they can check out the EPIC Saga!

I am tired of western Cinema jerking off to same old stories, which tbh aren’t the pinnacle of literature or storytelling. There are so many cultural epics which are deserving of the big screen, but unfortunately this western culture bias keeps the general audience from being exposed to any of it.

It wouldn’t matter, but the issue is then you have utter fucking illiterates and philistines who believe that only western writers, thinkers or philosophers came up with anything good. New flash, many, many of the western writers took their influence from non-western sources.

Fucking Liam

I'm a little mad that Nolan is making the Odyssey. It's gonna be so pretentious and trendy, and I'd be surprised if Anya Taylor Joy, Timothee chalamet and Jeremy Allan White aren't in it, to round it out into the most pretentious movie in history

Edit: Nolan can't film anything but drama. Go watch Batman again and notice how awful the fight scenes are shot and the terrible choreography.

Hot Take:

Ulysses > The Odyssey

I may be misremembering but didn't the derogative "Chad" start in the UK?

EDIT: I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT GIFS!!!! https://tenor.com/nB52SeZoYP1.gif

I never got into geography, tbh. It's not actually that useful for anything.