studying for uk residency
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@masukomi to be clear, this is from a "life in the uk" booklet. it is not education, it is just gatekeeping for immigrants
@whitequark So confused as to how this is relevant to UK residency.
"Oh yeah, >200 years ago one of our colonies got uppity and then became a superpower"
ok... what about all the OTHER colonies that got away? like India? and and and and ? And how is a 200 yr old uprising on another continent relevant to being a good resident?
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in related news, i really need to get back to work on gathering the things i need for UK citizenship (because the US going to
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@whitequark I mean… it's technically true. The fact that they starved because the British refused to give them any food, or that those actions lead ultimately to the creation of the IRA… surely those things aren't important.
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@whitequark can't wait to see what it says about the Indian independence movement
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@whitequark so orderly, the most orderly
No troubles, as it were
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@whitequark Gotta love that passive voice!
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@whitequark so orderly, the most orderly
No troubles, as it were
@SnoopJ it does mention those
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@SnoopJ it does mention those
@whitequark lmao fuck that
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this... document... is gravely insulting to at least tens of millions of people
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this... document... is gravely insulting to at least tens of millions of people
does anyone say 'the Blitz spirit'
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this... document... is gravely insulting to at least tens of millions of people
@whitequark Welcome to the British Establishment's view of history. It's gross.
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studying for uk residency
this paragraph is all it says about the american war of independence
@whitequark "_mostly_ harmless"
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https://arethebritsatitagain.org/ remains accurate and useful.
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@whitequark If they had more space, I'm sure they would have mentioned that 95% of the land in Ireland was owned by English or Anglo-Irish landlords, which might have had something to do with the famine.
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does anyone say 'the Blitz spirit'
became how
became independent how, motherfucker
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does anyone say 'the Blitz spirit'
@whitequark Yes, it's a very common phrase and it's got a lot of association with inner city working class communities
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@whitequark Yes, it's a very common phrase and it's got a lot of association with inner city working class communities
@jsbarretto huh, never heard it in my life. live and learn
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does anyone say 'the Blitz spirit'
@whitequark yes, but mostly fascist little shits like Farage and obnoxious hate rags like the Daily Mail
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@whitequark Welcome to the British Establishment's view of history. It's gross.
@whitequark If you want an example of how skewed the British institutional view of history is: I didn't learn of the _existence_ of the Holy Roman Empire until I was.. 19? and that was from reading history myself. UK schools teach tedious crap about the royal family, WW1, WW2 and then you're done. Maybe it's different now (unlikely).
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@jsbarretto huh, never heard it in my life. live and learn
@whitequark It's been somewhat coopted by politicians nowadays sadly, but most people that have lived ancestrally in the UK since the war have some sort of family story about the blitz. For me, it's my great grandmother dodging bullets from a Messerschmitt that was firing down the street with her knickers around her ankles because an air raid caught her when she was on the loo
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@whitequark If you want an example of how skewed the British institutional view of history is: I didn't learn of the _existence_ of the Holy Roman Empire until I was.. 19? and that was from reading history myself. UK schools teach tedious crap about the royal family, WW1, WW2 and then you're done. Maybe it's different now (unlikely).
@Foritus yeah not hugely surprised, my hs history class was incredibly tedious and not useful at all, i had to fix that myself later
