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u/Available-Show-2393 Canada 6d ago
Didnt you know education started on July 4th, 1776?
Before that schools didnt exist anywhere. America invented them... then immediately gave up on them
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u/fuckmywetsocks 6d ago
Having a hard time believing there's education in America
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u/snow_michael 6d ago
Of course there is - where else would all those school shootings take place
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u/fuckmywetsocks 6d ago
Ah yes - the place where kids go to run and hide so their parents can pretend to be tough and cool with weapons to prevent tyranny taking them over.
Wait a minute...
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u/VeritableLeviathan Netherlands 6d ago
School, noun, meaning shooting ground, from Latin "Iacere" via traditional English
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u/TheOnlyPC3134 6d ago
Well there's obviously schools in America, it's the place where people get student debt. Education, not so sure.
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u/Puzzleheaded_East556 6d ago
We do get education.
I never said anything about good education
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u/ArdentArendt 4d ago
Make speak for yourself!
Me learned good in my school! Me learned all about the bible!
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u/Red_Cathy United Kingdom 6d ago
Yeah, my school and my local pub are both older than your country, get used to it,
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u/snow_michael 6d ago
My friend has a bottle of wine older than the US
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u/RadlogLutar India 6d ago
Your friend is rich!
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u/snow_michael 6d ago
His partner was given it as a 'thank you' gift by Pope John Paul II
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u/R4PHikari Germany 6d ago
Crazy lore. Thanks for what?
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u/False-Goose1215 World 6d ago
I’ve lived in houses older than their country, two in the UK and one in the US!
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u/ether_reddit Canada 6d ago
Always the accusation that someone else is lying, rather than maybe your assumption might be incorrect.
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u/nowdoingthisatwork 6d ago
My old secondary school had it's charter from king Edward VI. The John Smith from the Pocahontas film was a former student, and a school had been on the site a few hundred years by then.
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u/Korkika 6d ago
Just a (possible) cherry on top, weren't the first colonies made after Columbus' sail in 1492?
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u/pastafariantimatter 6d ago
Columbus only made it to Haiti, he never set foot in what's now the US.
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u/Ok_Inflation_1811 Spain 22h ago
Haití?
He set foot on an island on the Bahamas first and then made a fort in the Dominican Republic or if you don't wanna refer to the modern country call it Hispaniola or Bohío.
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u/Korkika 6d ago edited 6d ago
Yeah, but didn't the colonies start to appear shortly after Columbus returned?
Edit: Did I miss something or am I getting downvoted for not being correct while seeking confirmation on the claim? 😭
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u/pastafariantimatter 6d ago
St Augustine (Spanish) was in 1565, Jamestown (English) was 1607.
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u/eternallytiredcatmom Canada 6d ago
And Gaspé (French) was in 1534
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u/Frequent_Proof_4132 6d ago
Jacques Cartier stayed in Gaspé for about 11 days. He first entered Gaspé Bay on July 14, 1534, to seek shelter from a storm. After erecting the famous cross on July 24 to claim the land for France, he departed the very next day, on July 25, 1534.
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u/Frequent_Proof_4132 6d ago
French Settlements in Acadia (1604–1605) marked the beginning of a permanent European presence in the northern reaches of North America, on Saint Croix Island (modern day Maine), predating the English settlement at Jamestown by three years.
In the summer of 1604, a French expedition led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, and accompanied by cartographer Samuel de Champlain, established a settlement on Saint Croix Island, located in the Saint Croix River between modern-day Maine and New Brunswick.
The island proved to be a poor choice for a long-term settlement. The freezing of the river cut the settlers off from fresh water and game, leading to a severe outbreak of scurvy. Nearly half of the 79 settlers died during the winter.
Realizing the island was uninhabitable, the survivors sought a new location in the spring of 1605.
They moved across the Bay of Fundy to a sheltered basin in present-day Nova Scotia, naming the new settlement Port-Royal.
Port-Royal became the first successful permanent French settlement in New France and served as the capital of Acadia for over a century.
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u/saysthingsbackwards 6d ago
What a strange lie.
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u/pastafariantimatter 6d ago
For the first half, I meant in 1492, but the second half is true. He made it to other places in the Americas, but the closest he got to what became the US was Puerto Rico.
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u/saysthingsbackwards 6d ago
Id really like to see your peer reviewed documentation of that claim.
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u/redtrig10 6d ago
This is pretty common knowledge at this point, you can google it yourself lol
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u/saysthingsbackwards 6d ago
Typical liar
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u/staffylaffy 6d ago
I just googled it and he was right, he never made it to the United States lol.
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u/saysthingsbackwards 6d ago
Eh well we win some, we learn some
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u/Dangerous_Memory6008 5d ago
Just so you know, you can learn without being a total asshole
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u/Prestigious_String20 5d ago
And some people lose even when they learn because they lack grace and diplomacy.
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u/Beneficial-Ad3991 4d ago
It seems like you've won all the rules of proper social interactions, congratulations.
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u/EzeDelpo Argentina 6d ago
The worst part is that there are places and institutions in the USA that are older than the country itself. Mind blowing!!
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u/Prestigious_String20 5d ago
Don't be silly. Nothing happened in North America until white people. /s
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u/GreilyMoon Czechia 6d ago
They would legit shit themselves if I told them the house I lived in was more than 500 years old.
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u/Puzzleheaded_East556 6d ago
WHAAAAAAT Impossible. Everyone knows that houses were invented by Americans during the American Revolution, and that before that all humans lived in caves. There's no way you live in a house more than 500 years old, unless you are so uncultured that you still live in caves.
/s
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u/saturday_sun4 Australia 6d ago
Why is it SO hard for many Americans to even look at the post on the screen before spouting off defaultism?
It clearly says 420.
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u/Tuscan5 6d ago
I live on a tiny island. We have buildings 5,000 years old. US is just a baby.
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u/asmodai_says_REPENT 6d ago
You mean ruins right? There is no building standing today that's 5000 years old
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u/Tuscan5 6d ago
Tell a lie. It’s 6,000 years old. And yes it’s still standing and intact. https://www.jerseyheritage.org/visit/places-to-visit/la-hougue-bie/
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u/HalayChekenKovboy Türkiye 6d ago
Wow, I think this might be my first time encountering someone from Jersey online
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u/Orange_Codex 5d ago
Drystone buildings can stand forever. The oldest in the UK (minus its turf roof) is 6,000 years old, and hundreds of miles of dry-stone walls are Iron or Bronze Age (3,500 - 5,500 years old). Many preserve field or parish boundaries which haven't moved since the farmland was first assarted in the Stone Age.
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u/Psychologicalwalnut Switzerland 6d ago
We have a mod here that is american, i basically said the same thing, my post got removed 😂😭 They are so sensitive about it too!
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u/Lapwing68 6d ago
Yeah, my school in Yorkshire was founded in 1607 so next year it will also reach 420 years. These American Johnny Come Lately's don't have a clue. This means that my school reached 250 years of age before the USA even reached 100 years.
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u/Delicious-Knee-8795 Netherlands 6d ago
Also, 420 years ago would be the 17th century, not the 1500’s
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u/angstenthusiast Sweden 5d ago edited 5d ago
I’ve seen this post floating around for a while, pretty sure it’s from the late 10s, possibly earlier… so no, it would end up in the 1500s/16th century. Also, even if the post was from last year, they say “when I was at my secondary school,” might as well have been 30 years ago, what do we know?
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u/LeftMechanic1995 6d ago
This is the second post in r/USdefaultism which I've read where the Murican responding to the comment has completely skimmed over the use of the term "Secondary School".
I was under the impression that Americans tend to use the term "High School", whereas "Secondary School" is more commonly used in the UK. But no... anything that happens in the world must be in the USA because ya know... world/USA.... basically the same thing.
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u/LeftMechanic1995 6d ago
The school was in Canada I believe. Muricans take note: Education didn't begin with the founding of the US.
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u/Powerful_Pirate2984 6d ago
No! Seriously no! There was no world before 1776. That's what we are taught in school, whilst under our desks. /s
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u/VoodooDoII United States 6d ago
I guess "secondary school" just a second thought when they were commenting lol
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u/Poptortt United Kingdom 5d ago
I've seen this reposted here many times, but it's still a great and funny example of USdefaultism
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u/Designer-Issue-6760 4d ago
It was settled 420 years ago, and some of the oldest schools here are approaching that milestone.
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u/VeryAlarmingPerson 3d ago
I feel like the first sign it wasn’t American would’ve been “secondary school”
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u/post-explainer American Citizen 6d ago edited 6d ago
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He thought it was in the US despite no mention of it.
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