• OhStopYellingAtMe
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    012 days ago

    Oops, I got my colors switched. I meant only one of purple was American specific.

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    Longhorn is also an English breed of cow. Longfellow, while an American poet, is still known outside of America for anyone who’s read a book of poetry.

    • ZagorathOP
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      211 days ago

      Longhorn is also an English breed of cow

      Oh, neat.

      Longfellow, while an American poet, is still known outside of America for anyone who’s read a book of poetry

      Not one I’ve ever heard of. I think the only American poet who we studied (more than just one or two poems) in my literature course was Frost. It was mostly Shakespeare, Romantic British & Irish poets, and WWI poets like Sassoon & Owen.

      And considering one of his most famous poems (based on what Wikipedia chose to mention in the lede) is about an important event in the American founding myth, and another one is basically a retelling of an Indigenous American folk myth, I feel pretty confident in saying that yes, this is a very American-centric entry that most non-Americans, even educated non-Americans, could not be expected to know.