ANZAC DAY - LEST WE FORGET

Jeebus42 wrote:
For a country were "close" to, I've never heard of this, and I don't live under a rock.
Well good Anzac, Aussies. I'll tip a Coopers your way come happy hour. Cheers!

Anzac stands for Australia,New Zealand Army Corp

vercettitx wrote:

Waterboyeee wrote:

vercettitx wrote:
I've never heard of it. Damn my American education.
I'll be visiting Wikipedia shortly to learn more about it.

Don't blame your American education, perhaps you didn't listen well in class. Australia is one of our closest and most dear allies, having fought with us hand in hand in every single major battle since WWII.

As an American, I hold Australia and all of her people quite dear.

Or maybe I wasn't taught about it in class. Like I've already said. Perhaps you should troll someone else with your ignorant comments and don't try and tell me what I was or wasn't taught in school.

So you are telling me that (assuming you only finished grade school), you were never taught anything about Australia? You never watched any documentaries about any American history, or wars with American involvement?

Also, you should familiarize yourself with the term "troll" and "ignorant" before using them, I was never disrespectful.

Waterboyeee wrote:

vercettitx wrote:

Waterboyeee wrote:

vercettitx wrote:
I've never heard of it. Damn my American education.
I'll be visiting Wikipedia shortly to learn more about it.

Don't blame your American education, perhaps you didn't listen well in class. Australia is one of our closest and most dear allies, having fought with us hand in hand in every single major battle since WWII.

As an American, I hold Australia and all of her people quite dear.

Or maybe I wasn't taught about it in class. Like I've already said. Perhaps you should troll someone else with your ignorant comments and don't try and tell me what I was or wasn't taught in school.

So you are telling me that (assuming you only finished grade school), you were never taught anything about Australia? You never watched any documentaries about any American history, or wars with American involvement?

Also, you should familiarize yourself with the term "troll" and "ignorant" before using them, I was never disrespectful.

What this guy is saying is in most schools you don't learn much about other countries, except major events which, this is. Assuming this would come under History, here in England, we don't learn about foreign events? Why should we! Of course we learn about massive events, WW2, WW1, Cold War... We just learn things like English Civil War, Victorians, Stuarts. All English events! But Australia is tucked away in the bottom of Earth and don't take this offensive anyone but there isn't many interesting events in Australia, the only thing I have learnt is it was a big Alcatraz Island(a prison). And basic stuff, capital, animals that live there.. We don't all sit at home at night and watch documentaries, in my opinion they are boring. However stop griefing people just because some people didnt know what Anzac Day is. And no I'm not trying to be rude so don't say, 'learn respect' 'omg we learn about your country learn ours!'

dominic115 wrote:

Waterboyeee wrote:

vercettitx wrote:

Waterboyeee wrote:

vercettitx wrote:
I've never heard of it. Damn my American education.
I'll be visiting Wikipedia shortly to learn more about it.

Don't blame your American education, perhaps you didn't listen well in class. Australia is one of our closest and most dear allies, having fought with us hand in hand in every single major battle since WWII.

As an American, I hold Australia and all of her people quite dear.

Or maybe I wasn't taught about it in class. Like I've already said. Perhaps you should troll someone else with your ignorant comments and don't try and tell me what I was or wasn't taught in school.

So you are telling me that (assuming you only finished grade school), you were never taught anything about Australia? You never watched any documentaries about any American history, or wars with American involvement?

Also, you should familiarize yourself with the term "troll" and "ignorant" before using them, I was never disrespectful.

What this guy is saying is in most schools you don't learn much about other countries, except major events which, this is. Assuming this would come under History, here in England, we don't learn about foreign events? Why should we! Of course we learn about massive events, WW2, WW1, Cold War... We just learn things like English Civil War, Victorians, Stuarts. All English events! But Australia is tucked away in the bottom of Earth and don't take this offensive anyone but there isn't many interesting events in Australia, the only thing I have learnt is it was a big Alcatraz Island(a prison). And basic stuff, capital, animals that live there.. We don't all sit at home at night and watch documentaries, in my opinion they are boring. However stop griefing people just because some people didnt know what Anzac Day is. And no I'm not trying to be rude so don't say, 'learn respect' 'omg we learn about your country learn ours!'

Yeah, I hear ya. I honestly don't have an issue with what vercettitx said, personally, to the level of being a troll, ignorant, or disrespectful. I just didn't care for all "American education" to be lumped together in a negative way like that. I went to school in the United States and I was taught, and have heard of the Anzacs, and other important aspects of other countries. I am sure Americans could say the same. :)

LazyUmberto wrote:

nancalmei wrote:
... I have yet to watch a show or film that covered anything related to Anzac Day, meanwhile, he's exposed in so many different ways to all the American holidays, even the trivia...l

There are a few great WWI films about the Aussie contribution to the war... One was about miners at the European front and another called Gallipoli I think that starred a young Mel Gibson. Google it! :)

I'm boycotting Mel Gibson at the moment for various reasons, some obvious, but I'll ask my boyfriend. He probably remembers a few. If it's not current it doesn't exactly hit my desk Stateside.

Never heard of it. But without wanting to sound disrespectful you didn't see anyone else e.g. me creating a thread on the 25th of March or 28th of October (Although, I wasn't registered as a member then). It's a matter of perspective. Example. For the next decade all will remember about how two Chechens killed 3 people and wounded 100. But who remembers that in 2004, a school hostage situation by Chechens etc ended with 300 hostages dying? (Most of them children.)

The irony is that at the time of that incident the Balkan wars had ended and the Izmir catastrophe happened a few years later and still I've never heard of anything in between... except from the fact my great grandfather was send with the British troops to Russia... *shrug*

Waterboyeee wrote:

dominic115 wrote:

Waterboyeee wrote:

vercettitx wrote:

Waterboyeee wrote:

vercettitx wrote:
I've never heard of it. Damn my American education.
I'll be visiting Wikipedia shortly to learn more about it.

Don't blame your American education, perhaps you didn't listen well in class. Australia is one of our closest and most dear allies, having fought with us hand in hand in every single major battle since WWII.

As an American, I hold Australia and all of her people quite dear.

Or maybe I wasn't taught about it in class. Like I've already said. Perhaps you should troll someone else with your ignorant comments and don't try and tell me what I was or wasn't taught in school.

So you are telling me that (assuming you only finished grade school), you were never taught anything about Australia? You never watched any documentaries about any American history, or wars with American involvement?

Also, you should familiarize yourself with the term "troll" and "ignorant" before using them, I was never disrespectful.

What this guy is saying is in most schools you don't learn much about other countries, except major events which, this is. Assuming this would come under History, here in England, we don't learn about foreign events? Why should we! Of course we learn about massive events, WW2, WW1, Cold War... We just learn things like English Civil War, Victorians, Stuarts. All English events! But Australia is tucked away in the bottom of Earth and don't take this offensive anyone but there isn't many interesting events in Australia, the only thing I have learnt is it was a big Alcatraz Island(a prison). And basic stuff, capital, animals that live there.. We don't all sit at home at night and watch documentaries, in my opinion they are boring. However stop griefing people just because some people didnt know what Anzac Day is. And no I'm not trying to be rude so don't say, 'learn respect' 'omg we learn about your country learn ours!'

Yeah, I hear ya. I honestly don't have an issue with what vercettitx said, personally, to the level of being a troll, ignorant, or disrespectful. I just didn't care for all "American education" to be lumped together in a negative way like that. I went to school in the United States and I was taught, and have heard of the Anzacs, and other important aspects of other countries. I am sure Americans could say the same. :)

You really don't learn much about other countries in American schools. Maybe you heard about some of this stuff, but I'd bet money that most Americans have not.

I doubt this is really different anywhere else. Other than major historical events where our histories align, the knowledge most other people have about the US comes from our media. Which is pretty terrible.

Waterboyeee wrote:

Yeah, I hear ya. I honestly don't have an issue with what vercettitx said, personally, to the level of being a troll, ignorant, or disrespectful. I just didn't care for all "American education" to be lumped together in a negative way like that. I went to school in the United States and I was taught, and have heard of the Anzacs, and other important aspects of other countries. I am sure Americans could say the same. :)

People forget that some states have horrible, incomplete and completely rewritten (history, sciences) curriculums that are decided upon by local politicians instead of qualified and neutral educators which is why education is so broken in this country and why no two high school graduates will have the same level of knowledge on the same subject even if they both attended public school but in different parts of the country. I'm not surprised that certain states or counties within a state would perpetuate the idea that the US accomplishes/d everything on it's own but even in some American movies, at least about Vietnam, there's mention of the Australians being there. I guess one just has to pay attention to the drama and not just the action. Also, the so-called Coalition of the Willing during Iraq, Australia's in there too and that's within the past 10 years. I personally remember finding out about the Australia/Vietnam War connection watching a movie when I was a kid or perhaps it was that TV show China Beach.

Waterboyeee wrote:

vercettitx wrote:

Waterboyeee wrote:

vercettitx wrote:
I've never heard of it. Damn my American education.
I'll be visiting Wikipedia shortly to learn more about it.

Don't blame your American education, perhaps you didn't listen well in class. Australia is one of our closest and most dear allies, having fought with us hand in hand in every single major battle since WWII.

As an American, I hold Australia and all of her people quite dear.

Or maybe I wasn't taught about it in class. Like I've already said. Perhaps you should troll someone else with your ignorant comments and don't try and tell me what I was or wasn't taught in school.

So you are telling me that (assuming you only finished grade school), you were never taught anything about Australia? You never watched any documentaries about any American history, or wars with American involvement?

Also, you should familiarize yourself with the term "troll" and "ignorant" before using them, I was never disrespectful.

Like I've already said before, WE WEREN'T TAUGHT ABOUT ANZAC DAY IN SCHOOL. Grow up and stop trolling. You're trolling because you decided to leave your ignorant comment directed at me. I listened in school. That's a fact. Implying I'm an idiot because I didnt know what this holiday was is EXTREMELY DISRESPECTFUL.
Maybe you should familiarize yourself with the term douc hebag, because you're acting like one.

vercettitx wrote:

Like I've already said before, WE WEREN'T TAUGHT ABOUT ANZAC DAY IN SCHOOL. Grow up and stop trolling. You're trolling because you decided to leave your ignorant comment directed at me. I listened in school. That's a fact. Implying I'm an idiot because I didnt know what this holiday was is EXTREMELY DISRESPECTFUL.
Maybe you should familiarize yourself with the term douc hebag, because you're acting like one.

Quoted to let people enjoy before you delete or edit again, lol.