"None of Us Hawaiian Kids Know This!" — This Woman Thought New England Was in Europe
By Alex WestNov. Three 2023, Published 3:33 p.m. ET
All the ones videos accusing Americans of not realizing geography are, sadly, being confirmed proper once more. A young woman on TikTok, Bristyl Dempsey, got here to the conclusion that she didn't even know the regions of her personal nation. She did not know the place New England used to be!
Bristyl blamed the Hawaii schooling gadget for her gap in knowledge and went on to provide an explanation for both how she got here to this conclusion and the reaction her friends had when she advised them.
"Am I dumb? Am I dumb? I'm naturally blond," she joked in a video to her fans. Bristyl advised them her baffling realization and declared: "New England is in America. Not in Europe."
The realization it sounds as if hit her when she attended a Noah Kahan concert. She heard Noah's hit music "Homesick," which went viral throughout TikTook. When individuals have been the usage of the audio, they shared their experiences growing up in New England.
After all, the lyrics to the songs are: "I would leave if only I could find a reason / I'm mean because I grew up in New England / I got dreams, but I can't make myself believe them." Apparently, on the time, Bristyl didn't connect the dots.
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♬ original sound - BristylIn any other music via Noah, "Stick Season," he mentions his house state, Vermont. So, Bristyl did assume that it was slightly bizarre of Noah to reference each Europe and Vermont in his music. "He's from Vermont. He's not from London or Europe," she defined.
After Bristyl made up our minds to google what was occurring, she discovered that New England is a number of American states. "So, I posted on my story," she stated. "Three other people I went to school with in Hawaii all were like, 'Uh I googled because I thought you were f------ lying. You're right.' None of us Hawaiian kids know this! Why?"
"This is my Roman Empire," she captioned the video, referring to the newest TikTook development the place men say they think about the Roman Empire incessantly. The feedback, although, have been indisputably roasting her. "It's called NEW England, not England," one commenter said.
Another individual commented with a bit of context and a history lesson. "Wow so many people don’t know this, what? New England was one of the collections of colonies that established independence for America," they defined.
"Bro, the New England Patriots," a soccer fan pointed out. Plenty of the opposite feedback were stuffed with New Englanders basically guffawing at Bristyl as they sat in their properties up north. The video also spread out a conversation concerning the American schooling machine.
"To be fair, California schooling didn’t teach me this," wrote one particular person, validating Bristyl's concern that it was the Hawaii education system that messed up. However, if you're , the Hawaii Department of Education does pressure geography as part of their required curriculum.
Don't worry, regardless that, the Hawaiian got a taste of her personal medicine. Other other folks in the feedback expressed their lack of understanding about her state. "When I was little I thought Alaska and Hawaii were actually at the bottom left of the U.S. as shown in maps, but Alaska is cold so I was confused," somebody wrote.
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