• Maalus@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      No? If the joke was “we know, we’re British” then maybe. It says schooled in Britain - which implies “we know we learned it in geography”. Not everything needs to have colonialism, capitalism etc in it, it’s just a joke.

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        53 minutes ago

        Yes, that’s the original joke - having been taught in British schools, they learned about Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

        Why this is in the school curriculum, however, is another matter, and this thread is pointing out the coincidence that the British empire colonised Nicaragua for like two centuries.