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To be fair UK history is also many nation's history, including the US.
Honestly people should be shamed for not knowing about Abe's Odyssey
I'm from the UK, which definitely did not try its hardest to make the world revolve around it.
famous work of american literature, The Odyssey
Clearly Liam just confused The Odyssey for Ulysses, and assumed Ulysses was about Ulysses S. Grant, easy mistake
Same joke but Homer Simpson
Clearly talking about O Brother Where Art Thou
I find it a bit weird you haven't at least heard of the Odyssey by cultural osmosis. I've never technically read it but I like know the basic points of the story.
pretty much anyone who's ESL would not hear it through osmosis
I don't know if that's necessarily true. Greek history and mythology is taught throughout the world.
If you said "non-westerners" to mean countries which don't think of themselves as rooted is Greek and then Roman cultural history, then yeah I suppose. But any European country I would expect people to have learned it through osmosis.
I’ve heard of Space Oddysey, does that count?
I have a feeling Liam's teachers tried a lot harder than everyone who has ever talked to Liam assumes.
Homer was so eurocentric, smdh
Doh!