frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 30 days agoWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?message-squaremessage-square146linkfedilinkarrow-up192
arrow-up192message-squareWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 30 days agomessage-square146linkfedilink
minus-squarespicy pancake@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·30 days agoanything that implies they’ve only learned European and US history (e.g. discounting the global technological contributions of Asia and Africa)
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·30 days agoI have one for this! I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?” I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF) She said George Washington!
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·30 days agoVariolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·29 days agoIn the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
minus-squarespicy pancake@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·30 days agoEven I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing
anything that implies they’ve only learned European and US history (e.g. discounting the global technological contributions of Asia and Africa)
I have one for this!
I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?”
I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)
She said George Washington!
Variolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
Even I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing