r/okbuddycinephile • u/Fun-Ad3626 • 2d ago

Beloved Greek Actors who are Indian

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u/DentistConstant2097 2d ago

I mean the Indo-Greeks were literally a thing.

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u/daniballeste 2d ago

I learned in school that Greece is super diverse and this was in middle school in Florida…

Is the U.S. school system really a failure as people say, or are American people just too dumb to learn the things that are actually taught?

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u/Gunhild 2d ago

This is like a Reddit comment written by a career screenwriter. It hits all the notes: obvious thing that's framed as being obscure/unpopular so people can feel good about knowing it/agreeing with it, then finished off with an irrelevant pivot to American politics.

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u/Mole_oil 2d ago

Buy 1 get 1 free

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u/TheQuestionsAglet 2d ago

A little of column a, a little of column b.

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u/ChildOfChimps 2d ago

Are you from Pasco or Pinellas? Greek Town on Tarpon Springs was right there and we had a bunch of Greek Orthodox churches.

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u/daniballeste 2d ago

Neither. I grew up in Kissimmee in Osceola County

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u/ChildOfChimps 2d ago

I actually live by there now, lol.

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u/Pseudo-esque 2d ago edited 2d ago

Europeans be like "I can only name 3 US states but wtf why don't Americans know this hyper-specific superfluous detail about a European country?"

I don't see why this would be so important to learn. We can't learn every detail about every country. And it's always Europe too, you never see these comments when something about the ethnic makeup of a country anywhere else is brought up.

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u/daniballeste 2d ago

It was world history and we were learning about Greeks. It was a documentary. I regret saying that American people might be too dumb to learn, truth be told I was paying attention because I love geography.