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Today, a girl who just graduated from high school asked me why Mexicans speak Spanish. 

I said, what do you mean? 

She said "You know, why don't they speak Mexican?" 

I said, because Spain colonized Mexico.  Like how we speak English and not American. 

She said "Wow, where do you learn all that stuff?"

Aw, don't be too judgmental. People are different, you know? 

XD 

Lol. I'm always surprised by how little people know about the rest of the world xD

You shouldn't be. 

I'm not surprised when people are stupid on the internet, but I discriminate against people with a lack of knowledge about anything in real life xD

What the fuck.

The actual fuck.

Flying actual mother fucking FUCK?

At least she didn't ask if Europe was a country...

Type "Is Europe a..." in google and you'll see the results...

Really that's not the worse I've heard.

The worse I've heard was from my friend, she's kind n' all don't get me wrong but...

We were talking about Chinese culture because my other friend was going to do a week-long class in China, and her response was:

"Where's that? Oh! Is that in Uganda?"

She has also graduated from highschool... A while ago...

Well she could have meant the variations of the Spanish language between Mexico and Spain. American English and British English has some differences, just as the different countries that have Spanish as it's language. This is of course assuming that she meant to say what I just did.

At least she didn't think 'Mexican' was an actual language :P (I've known people who do)

Did they sound like this:

Boy, dis here's 'Merica. We don't need you speakin' no Mexican. Here we speak American, American, 'cause we're in America."

Ahh... brings back good old memories of 10th grade ag class, where girls discuss their...female isues...in class and the guys next to you seem to talk about nothing but the best ways to drown a dog in a pond or set a squirrel on fire. Oh, and if you're really lucky, your phone (which you didn't even know was on you) will go off when there is a substitute and you will get Saturday school, despite the fact that most of the people in the class have their phones and use them to watch porn when the teacher's not in the room (which happens a lot). Oh, and black jokes, an unholy number of black jokes, which was cool (went unpunished) because we only had like a half dozen black people going to school there.

Sorry, feel free to ignore that entire last paragraph, if you wish.

Um, no. More like, "I'm rich, and I'm rich... And one of my Mexican maids steals spoons behind my back and curses me in Mexican. Did I forget to mention I'm rich?" 

That is all surprisingly accurate.

You forgot the stories of shooting foxes to death with pellet guns, discussions about supermodel boobs and the watches though.

Yeah, and that's only a fraction of the wonders of high school ag class. In the first semester of my eleventh grade year (I started home schooling after the end of that semester), I took ag structures, a class dedicated to building shit for the instructor to take home and use around his farm. There was this one chick who would do nothing but sit in the corner of the room and say "cock and balls" repeatedly in a high pitched voice. This same chick actually got kicked out of one of the inner city schools once for punching the vice principal in the face. On another note, one day, this one substitute (we had a lot of substitutes) spent several minutes discussing duck hunting and showing us gory pictures of boating accidents. Granted, it was better than actual work. Also, everyone accused me of being a potential serial killer. I had fun with that, though, telling them that serial killers usually go after the people they know best, so they shouldn't do any things to me to make themselves more memorable. It didn't work; they kept picking on me. Oh, and whenever the teacher would leave the room, they would start blaring music from the Insane Clown Posse or some ridiculous country "artist". But, best of all was that one kid who somehow managed to go to basic the summer before and despite the fact that he was sent home due to flat feet, thought that made him some sort of army badass. He seriously thought that going to basic made him some sort of drill sergeant. He was always yelling and screaming in my face, "Coker, what the fuck do you think you're doing?" and "What you doin' over here, Coker? Quit playin' your fuck fuck games and get to work."

What is an AG class?

Google told me agriculture, so I'd gue-

Why the fuck would a teacher ask for you guys to make usable shit in an Agricultural class?  I thought you were supposed to learn about seasonal stuff and the business of farming in Agricultural.  That's like being told to spend real money on your Economics teacher's investments.

Well "ag" is short for "agriculture". Despite the name, most ag classes have nothing to do with agriculture; it's just that all vocational (welding, electrical, mechanical) classes are held in the ag building (a.k.a. the shop). Where I went to high school, you could graduate with a "completer" cord, meaning that you took a certain number of electives from a certain category (business, computer stuff, home ec). I took intro to ag (9th grade), ag business and marketing (10th grade), and ag structures (11th grade). If I graduated from that school, I would have gotten a completer's cord for ag.

 Well, anyway, like I said before, Ag classes were for people who didn't want to take home ec (or "family and consumer sciences"), business (proper business, not ag business), or computer classes. So, ag classes were usually composed of a bunch of red-necks with horrible grades who and nothing to look forward to after graduating (Gah, my English skills are terrible, aren't they?). There were a few good, honest people in ag, but most of them were awful. Like I said before, there was this one girl in ag marketing who seriously spent all class period (we seriously did nothing in that class) talking about how she was allergic to her own vaginal fluids (and I really hope none of these people I talk about are reading this). 

Now, you're probably wondering what I was doing in such classes (if you're not wondering, then f*ck you). Well, first of all, I really liked chickens and public speaking. Ag provided opportunities to compete in both poultry judging and public speaking. Secondly, I had very poor self esteem back then. I was convinced that I would be unable to get into college and that I would be a failure at life. There is one particular person responsible for instilling these thoughts in me, but I'd rather not get into that right now. So, there you have it.

Ah. Nope; at my school that's everyone, not just the duncies, haha.

In Mexico, I think they actually have a different edition of Spanish, but it's only about as different from Spaniard's Spanish as North Britain's English is different to California's English. Which is to say, it'd probably take some getting used to, but you could understand it without needing to take classes or use Rosetta Stone.

The word is "dialect", not "edition". But, yes, you are right. Mexicans actually have several different dialects of Spanish, all remarkably different from the dialect(s) used in Spain.

Myeh, I called it an "edition" because to me, "dialect" has always been more of an accent thing, of course, that could be more of me mis-defining it because the term was often used in close context with accents because people with certain accents sometimes use differente dialects in their language than those that have different accents and speak the same language.

Ahh. Accents differ only in the pronunciation of words. Dialects differ in words used, the connotations of words ("fags" in U.S. vs. "fags" in U.K.), and grammar.

^ Mostly true :D. Only way it's different is that dialects also include pronunciation, but also all the other stuff you mentioned. For example: According to my high school French teacher (from Paris), Parisian French and Haitian French are almost completely different. They have the same base language, but two people who speak the different dialects would have an extremely hard time communicating.

Gotta love 'Merica. But yeah, one that always struck me as odd was when people asked me how I knew some historical fact when I knew that we were in most of the same history classes :P. In their defense, who actually knows that you can learn history in History class?

There are many Americans that don't know our country's history better than some immigrants. That's just pathetic.

That's just beautiful XD. 

When Jay Leno was on the air (I think it was Leno at least) he had this segment that was something along the lines of "Redneck Inventions." It was an amazing segment where it showed how people were rigging their own ways of getting out of buying something new. Like instead of a cup holder there would be a roll of duck tape hanging from just below the radio they put coffee cups in XD. Or a guy had a chainsaw strapped to a stick that he was using as a weed whacker.

It's easy to make fun of as "redneck," but if you think about it it's actually kinda talented to be able to a.) be creative enough to think up the solutions or b.) have the technological expertise ro make some of these rigs.

Most immigrants, yeah. Immigrants have to know a certain amount of history in order to become a U.S. citizen where native-born Americans are simply American at birth, so if they're legal they know a lot. Immigrants have beaten me in history trivia before :P

I never allow an immigrant to out history me. It's just a matter of pride.

It's a good thing to me. I love it when someone is willing ot integrate another nation's culture into their own and it shows how people underestimate immigrants. Almost every person I've met from another country (immigrant or not) has been awesome, and since Troy is known as the "international university" with sixty campuses in 17 U.S. states and 11 foreign countries and a VERY active exchange program, I've met quite a few.

Of course there are a few who have been complete assbags, but that's besides the point.

" I love it when someone is willing ot integrate another nation's culture"

This is killing me inside

In Hetalia theres this super  condescending narrator and she's like 

"And for you Americans, stuff happened in other countries that did not involve explosions and kicking ass."

But was America involved anything that didn't involve explosions and kicking ass? I think not, commie! #backtobackworldwarchamps

What about Vietnam? They certainly didn't kick the 'cong's ass... Well, numbers-wise they never lost that war, they just left it, last I checked, but the point stands. It STANDS!

Oh cool, so you watch hetalia... :'(

Well, maybe she turned in a lot of extra credit...

That's photo shopped lol.

I feel bad for this lady. She's been ridiculed forever. Must have just been so nervous she lost her mind.

Haha, silly 'Murikans

Q.What's the opposite of genius?

A. My Sister

Yeah once there was this kid who asked me who Jimmy Hendrix was.

I told her it was the white rapper that left Pearl Jam for Nirvana.

And she's like "omg just like Macklemore!"

( ; _;)

Can't really blame someone for not knowing musical facts :P. 

I've seen a LOT of sad things about music in my time, I once knew a guy who thought Macklemore was a renaissance composer, I met a guy who thought Marilyn Manson was Marilyn Monroe, and vice versa, I met someone who thought Axel Rose was one of the singers for AC/DC, I heard there was someone who thought Frank Zappa was heavy metal, and there was someone else who thought Ozzy Osbourne wrote Iron Man for the new iron man movies.

Hell, I'll make a list of others:

Someone thought Wagner's Flight of the Valkyries was the Hall of the Mountain King.

Someone thought Rage Against the Machine wrote I'm a loser by Beck.

Someone who headbangs every time an electric guitar gets involved.

Someone who thought the Mysterious Broadcast in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues played rock.

Someone who claimed to know "all the words from Ode to Joy!"

Someone who thought The Entertainer's rythm was half-time.

It's sickening, it really is.

Okay, I understand most of them, but why shouldn't it be possible to know all the words from Ode to Joy?

How could someone confuse Hall of the Mountain King with anything else? It's such a kick-ass song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OhOm-1m3D8

Is she American? That would answer your question.