@BreadaddyLenin@realwow_mao I've not seen any reason to believe this is true tbh. Wikipedia says that the first recorded use was in a Puerto Rican source but their reference is paywalled. I saw it used extensively in multiple museums in Mexico - here's one example from the palace of fine arts museum
@IAmLordGargoyle@Y40IFRQTTING You would be weird too if you peaked enormously over 2000 years ago and everyone knew it. The British also suffer from this quite severely, though on a much accelerated timescale.
@RedGreenBC England had Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Marx wrote Capital in London. You cannot bruh away Austen, Dickens, the Brontes and all the great victorian poets. And maybe science? Darwin, Faraday and Maxwell. Plus all the low culture stuff that emerged (Christmas and Halloween etc.)
@HakataQueen Tbf to Americans, when I ask where they're from, I do want a specific answer. I already know they're from America because it's always extremely obvious lol
@the_corvidae Disagree with the idea that women hating or being rude to men is actual resistance in and of itself. For example many wives treats their husband in a way that looks like rudeness or domination but really she's doing the free domestic labour of managing him and his life.
@joshoconnr4real I wonder if there are wanky world-traveller french people who refus to say Londres insist on saying London in a Dick Van Dyke Mary Poppins accent