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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Almeidaboo on March 25, 2008, 02:12:53 AM

Title: Oblivious people from the outside...
Post by: Almeidaboo on March 25, 2008, 02:12:53 AM: I saw something on the TV today that really got me worried...I'll explain leater, but please, answer the following questions (I ask you NOT to use any kind of sources, use only your current knowledge):

Who is Brazil's president?
What's Brazil's currency?
What's Brazil's official language?
In which continent is Brazil?
Who is this lady?
And this? (tip: it's NOT gimli.)
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Post by: Almeidaboo on March 25, 2008, 02:21:31 AM: A lot, actually ^^
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Post by: Razor on March 25, 2008, 02:23:47 AM: The answer to all of these and more: I don't know

oh except the continent one, that's South America.
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Post by: Almeidaboo on March 25, 2008, 02:33:51 AM: Tnks for your sincere contribution Razor!

EDIT: Ah yes, I ask that you answer based on what you think. Give it a shot, knowing this is ABSOLUTELY NOT your obligation.
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Post by: emiiru on March 25, 2008, 02:45:14 AM: Language: Portuguese

All I can add.
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Post by: Archem on March 25, 2008, 02:49:49 AM: Well, since I live in the US, I don't know anything about any country that's not the US.
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Post by: Ben on March 25, 2008, 03:41:20 AM: portugese, and south america.

The lady I dont know. The man is your president? The currency is the Brazillian dollar. Allthough Brazillio sounds cooler.

Dont feel angsty about our obliviousness. Most non Canadians cant answer these same questions about my fair nation

Who is our Prime Minister?

Economic system?

Primary Export?

Etc...

Allthough Im willing to bet Brazils Primary Export is wood.
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Post by: Archem on March 25, 2008, 05:15:01 AM: You know, upon looking back, I've realized that I can't answer most of these questions about my own country!
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Post by: ZeroKirbyX on March 25, 2008, 07:31:52 AM: What's Brazil's currency?: Reol or something?
What's Brazil's official language?: Portugese

The only countries I really no anything about outside of the US is Britain and Russia, one because they were our owners for awhile and one of the greatest allies and Russia because they had the nukes in the 60's.
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Post by: Apex on March 25, 2008, 11:48:44 AM: Isn't the woman your counsel lady, or some other figure in high government?

I remember learning this somewhere.
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Post by: Prpl_Mage on March 25, 2008, 05:38:46 PM: Who is Brazil's president? No idea
What's Brazil's currency? Real
What's Brazil's official language? Portugése
In which continent is Brazil? South America

Who is the woman? A movie star or singer I suppose... She got an awesoem dress either way.

Who is the man? No idea, your father perhaps?
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Post by: Grandy on March 25, 2008, 09:10:29 PM: Almeida, did you see that news about statistics showing that strangers know more about our country than we do, is that it?
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Post by: Almeidaboo on March 25, 2008, 11:55:07 PM: On the contrary Grandy. We know about other countries more then they know about us. These same questions were made in Italy, and people answered things as "Brazil is in Africa", the currency is the dollar or the peso, that our president was Hugo Chavez (FOR GOD SAKES, ANYONE BUT HIM!) and so on. No one recognized the most rich and sucessful and hot model in the earth (entitled über model by the international fashion community) GIsele Bundchen. Nor did they recognize our stupid little dwarfish (entitled über idiot by us, brazillians) president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Lula, to the haters.

I was impressed because in school I had to study the whole USA's and world's history, the geography of the whole freaking world, culture, religion and so on...And they don't even know our CONTINENT!

I'm not angry, just...@_@
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Post by: Ben on March 26, 2008, 12:07:36 AM: Dude, its the same in Canada.

I spent more time in Canadian school learning american history.....
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Post by: Grandy on March 26, 2008, 12:49:11 AM: Promoção da peixaria: Compre Lula e leve Traíra.
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Post by: Prpl_Mage on March 26, 2008, 12:54:05 AM: Not to be a stupid arse here but I bet you that barely any of the people here knows who's leading Sweden, what our currency is, who our greatest model is or where it is located without looking it up on wikipedia or googlesearch.

"I know a lot, but I can't remember everything and so we fall into oblivion."

But well, yeah. We learn a lot more about the outside than the outside learns about us.
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Post by: Grandy on March 26, 2008, 01:30:00 AM: ^ He's right.
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Post by: Archem on March 26, 2008, 03:26:32 AM: Quote
Originally posted by gemini
Dude, its the same in Canada.

I spent more time in Canadian school learning american history.....

American history? WTF?!
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Post by: Prpl_Mage on March 26, 2008, 07:41:24 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Archem2
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Originally posted by gemini
Dude, its the same in Canada.

I spent more time in Canadian school learning american history.....

American history? WTF?![/B]

Does America even have a history except getting free from GB, killing the indians, settler-ing, the civil war and then when they meddled in the world wars?
Oh, the gulfwar as well.... The Iraq-wars... I meant that.

Jaysis. Vietnam as well.
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Post by: ZeroKirbyX on March 26, 2008, 07:45:25 AM: Slavery, cold war, Westward expansion, immigration, prohibition, Texas. There's actually a lot.
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Post by: Archem on March 26, 2008, 08:22:51 AM: There's an ass load of history here! You only mentioned the war-related history and the early years. We have had over two hundred years of confusion and self-loathing. What makes for a more interesting history than that?

Serious question time: Do you guys like zoolapalooba?
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Post by: Almeidaboo on March 26, 2008, 09:55:56 PM: I agree with archem 13.78%. It´d be 1110% if he said "Zoolapalooba".
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Post by: Phayre on March 26, 2008, 10:19:35 PM: Actually most US schools don't teach about more recent stuff like Vietnam, Korea, Iraq.... sometimes not even past WWII.
As for teaching about other countries, I might go to colleg in Britain and I know NOTHING. It's depressing.
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Post by: Dragonium on March 27, 2008, 12:08:00 AM: Britain has a rich and varied history. Basically all you need to know is that we're being run by Gordon Brown, the least charismatic man alive, our currency is the pound, or "quid" if you're an authentic Brit, our main language is raucous swearing, and we're better than every other country.
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Post by: GaryCXJk on March 27, 2008, 12:40:29 AM: First of all, why the hell should we even need to know anything about a country asides from in which continent it lies whose significance in history doesn't even surpass that of the Netherlands, which significance isn't really that great either?

Second, like I said, do people even know a thing about the Netherlands, like how it was one of the forces behind colonizing the new world, starting with New York (Brooklyn's name being derived from the Dutch Breukelen, also a place in the Netherlands), and then expanding to the Republic of Suriname (although you could actually call it a trade between England and the Netherlands, where the Netherlands traded New York in for Suriname and ten bucks)? Or how they practically used Indonesian people as slaves, despite slavery being banished at that time? Or how the Netherlands was one of the first countries to be liberated by the Alliance during World War II, despite the fact that more than half of the Dutch people were NSB'ers (people who aligned with the Nazis), or that the Netherlands were found a safe haven for the Jews because of its neutrality in World War I? That Philips is a Dutch product, and that basically the Dutch people raped both Mario and Luigi for the CD-I?

I know a lot of nonsense that doesn't even have real significance about the Netherlands. But the Netherlands does have a significance in shaping the world.
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Post by: Almeidaboo on March 27, 2008, 01:14:26 AM: Quote
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Originally posted by GaryCXJk
But the Netherlands does have a significance in shaping the world.

I know you do a lot of drugs!!

I actually know a lot about Netherlands geography. Plus, if you misread, people won't even know the CONTINENT we are located!

One of the reasons I posted this is because I think this mediocre notion the countries teach their people about the whole outside world is one of the big time causes the rule today is, in one word, selfishness. People that think that knowing your own bellybutton, as you seem to think, is enough for you to go through the whole existance iter: born - grow - **** - die, which really won't make things any better. Sorry for the sincerity.

I did study world's history and geography in school. I did leave these subjects a long time ago, so my knowledge is diminished, but still we take our time to learn from history a bit.

And, it is the educational system current behavior that leads people to say, in a clear demonstration of ignorance and prejudice, that the Netherlands are only about doing drugs, which is a lie.

So yeah, there ya go. :Plight:
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Post by: Archem on March 27, 2008, 02:44:45 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Almeidaboo
I agree with archem 13.78%. It´d be 1110% if he said "Zoolapalooba".

Oh, but I did!