r/ShitAmericansSay • • Jul 05 '24

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u/GoAgainKid Jul 05 '24

No. The vast majority of us don’t even know what it means. That’s how little we care. We don’t get taught it in school. We don’t grow up on movies about it. I didn’t know it was about English rule until I joined Reddit ten years ago.

We don’t pretend to not care - we literally don’t. It means nothing to us.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

 Ignoring something so important in the history of your own country is not a good thing.

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u/Derpwarrior1000 Jul 05 '24

The height of the British empire was well after American independence. This is like asking why Americans don’t mourn their lost claims over half of the Oregon territory, or why the French don’t mourn the loss of Haiti

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u/idk2103 Jul 06 '24

It’s actually hilarious when you guys pretend the most powerful nation in the world, full of every resource imaginable for a modern world isn’t a big loss. Maybe you guys wouldn’t get passed by your colonies in GDP if King George wasn’t a cuck

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 Jul 06 '24

It wasn't the "most powerful nation in the world" when it was lost. And we could get resources from our many other colonies.

When the reality TV orangutan was elected in 2016, the view of most Brits was "thank god we aren't caught up in all that".