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[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 147 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Remember, small impressionable children, oligarchy and rigged market capitalism is the only way, everything else is evil and anti-freedom, and remember to compete against your fellow Americans to try to get more than them!

For our next lesson, critical thinking and reasoning! Just kidding, we don't do that here. It doesn't help to make you better laborers.

And now onto history, open your textbooks to page 33:

[-] pigup@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago

Damn that picture is pissing me off lol

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Imagine what Native Americans must think of such depictions.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 months ago

Well if they wanted to tell their side of the story, they should've won.

Not our fault they didn't invent guns or a bunch of diseases by domesticating livestock in population centers!

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 months ago

I think it pisses them off too

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

For First Thanksgiving?

Most of that is believed to have happened or is so cloaked in mythos that any version is likely to be true if you're talking the American version.

Source, native. The women being there is the thing that's least likely to be true.

Nearly all of what historians have learned about one of the first Thanksgiving comes from a single eyewitness report: a letter written in December 1621 by Edward Winslow, one of the 100 or so people who sailed from England aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. William Bradford, Plymouth’s governor in 1621, wrote briefly of the event in Of Plymouth Plantation, his history of the colony, but that was more than 20 years after the feast itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

https://www.history.com/news/first-thanksgiving-colonists-native-americans-men

[-] manucode@infosec.pub 56 points 2 months ago

I'm interested in how Americans pronouncebourgeois.

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 66 points 2 months ago

as long as the French get offended by the pronunciation, then it's pronounced correctly in American

[-] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 2 months ago

We just say bourgeois

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago

Burgers

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Boogers please. We ain't no uppity frogs.

[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 months ago

"job creators"

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'm actually something of a job creator myself. Last week at the grocery store I didn't return my cart to the coral. They had to pay someone to go out and bring it in!

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

I personally pronounce it fahrenheit

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

Boo shwa zee

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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

I pronounce it bore-zhwah. Is that wrong?

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Feel like that's as correct as we can get, as Americans.

[-] olosta@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

French pronounce the "ou" as is "tour". But you do you.

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Tour as in tu- er or tore? I've heard it pronounced both ways here in the states

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Whoa what? I've never heard anyone pronounce tour as tu-er. At that point you might as well slap an umlaut on that bad boy

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Bore rhymes with tour.. no?

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

Bore rhymes with tore. Tour is closer to sewer

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[-] sparkle@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In most American dialects and some British dialects, "bore" and "tour" rhyme (called the "pour-poor merger"). But in some dialects it may rhyme with "sewer"/"two-er" or have the same sound as in "blue" or even as in "were".

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Aha. See, that explains the disconnect. Thank you.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A more aggressively American pronunciation would be bore-ge-oh-is.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

'Boojz wah', or if I'm feeling silly bourguignon. But I'd probably be more likely to use 'middle class' instead of the French.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

Borzshwah

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Different ways, I usually say boo-jwah, bur-jwah is also one I've heard though.

[-] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

Bourxjeauxaseaux

[-] JovialSodium 6 points 2 months ago

I and anyone I've heard say the word says it the same as the English pronunciation in this random video I found searching for how to pronounce it. For whatever that small sample size is worth.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMOHP3Uu54