I love how obsessed some Americans are with their founding fathers, it’s adorably weird. I’ve never ever based any of my decisions or opinions on what our first chancellor did or didn’t do and I don’t see fucking why.
It wouldn’t’ be so bad if they actually knew anything about their founding fathers. Maybe did a little research on them, but the ones that idolise them the most know almost nothing about them.
Because it was a government that was pretty much written up from scratch and went against many of the tenants of European governments at the time, such as a right to free speech, no state religion, etc. It is still based on English Common Law though. It inspired the French revolutionaries though they went in another direction ultimately.
The way it was explained to me, it’s because of a lack of history.
Being a new country, they had effectively no history or culture, unlike the rest of the world. It lead to a desire to develop it’s own identity which lead to elevating the founding fathers to a myth like status to match those of other countries.
It made sense to me, since there are myths involving demigods in different part of the world.
Just remember: these people’s vote counts just as much as anyone else’s.
these people’s vote counts just as much as anyone else’s.
Not true for Americans. How much your vote counts is based on which state you live in due to the Electoral College
When people got skin cancer back then they just called it cancer or didn’t even name it. You just died.
People have been using all kinds of stuff for sun screen for centuries. Ancient Greeks used olive oil, for example.
And of course clothing. There is a reason that beduins dress like they do, or why stetson type hats became popular in the West.
