Political Memes

It probably happened before you even saw the meme.

Fox News is gonna run a piece on how we must eliminate Arabic numerals from American society. Your family will be talking about this travesty at Thanksgiving.

I shared it ironically with a group of people that won't understand it. I proceed to watch silently as they raise their cortisol levels.

Never became a terrorist so far.

I highly doubt they're panicking. If they're even aware they're perturbed at best.

in case some people don't know: algebra actually comes from the Arabic word "al-jabr".

Number one justification for islamophobia and sinophobia.

Would have been a better headline!

literally in the middle of a fucking mission

We call them Arabic numerals too but the street name is numbers. Very powerful concept

They're definitely known as Arabic numerals elsewhere too. It's mentioned in Math class fairly early on when Roman numerals are also introduced. I'm sure that even in American schools, it's mentioned that they're called Arabic numerals.

Unless you mean that in Chinese there's just no word for "numbers" and you have to use the name of the specific system?

Chinese/Japanese characters have kindof always led to good student outcomes in wrote memorization because of the necessity of pattern recognition. With an alphabet there’s simply less to learn, and you don’t have much context since etymology in alphabet based languages is so much more esoteric.

Also, Americans aren’t really taught much about technology from outside of the American sphere of influence. American schooling has a lot of dead zones.

Get out.

one for one? what does that mean?

Thy hips shall not speak falsehoods.

I could go for a little Shakira law.

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i like these :)