HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_ja7iov1 wrote
Reply to comment by PrettyText in TIL a year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the English sent their own Armada to Spain, leading to similar losses of ships and men, and an ignominious English defeat by malektewaus
What makes you think the Irish potato famine might not been known about at all? Or that it was wholly a tragic accident? I don’t know anyone that thinks this
In school in the 90’s, all we were taught was that the British Empire was a bad thing. I don’t ever remember being taught the empire was glorious at all
A good example (because I know someone is going to bring it up) is Oliver Cromwell. We learned about him in school as basically a dictator. He banned Christmas (probably didn’t personally) and was a Puritan. We’re taught that life under him wasn’t very good at all. In fact, after he died, the English exhumed his body and cut his head off. But, there is the article people get giddy over of “top 100 Britons” that they love to link. This gets twisted by people on the attack as “Brits see Cromwell as a hero”. In fact, people are just stupid and simply don’t know more than 10 historical Britons and that’s how he made the list.
Who is understating the role of the Soviet Union? What decade are you referring to, the 1950’s?
marioquartz t1_ja8pp1d wrote
>What makes you think the Irish potato famine might not been known about at all?
Im from Spain. Is not learned. Im only watch about it in Internet. And in very few times.
Spank86 t1_ja95aik wrote
Probably because it's not massively relevant to the spanish. It's definitely taught in the uk and not as some sort of accident. When i was at school it was fairly bluntly explained that english landowners exported grain while the irish starved.
HobgoblinKhanate1 t1_ja913nf wrote
Op was talking about British people though
I don’t remember learning about the second naval battle a year later. But most of everything else he said is bullshit
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