With his [safari](https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/s/zgl6SOtKqZ) concluded, Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit met up with his wife Edith, and daughter Ethel at Khartoum for an eventual sortie into Europe. From Khartoum, the four traveled by steamer and train downriver to Cairo. Along the way they took in the sights, ancient and less so. Much was the same as on Roosevelt’s visit forty years earlier, but much, including the British occupation, was different. In British East Africa, Roosevelt had remarked that he was “a pretty good Imperialist”; it had showed then, and it showed now. He thoroughly approved of the civilizing work the British were doing in Egypt-although skeptics might have asked, and did, what the British could teach the country that had invented civilization thousands of years before the inhabitants of what would be called Britain stopped running around in skins and face paint. Roosevelt waved the imperialist flag in an address at the National University at Cairo, praising the British and telling them to keep up the fine job.
Source: T.R., The Last Romantic, pages 659-661
ArbereshDoqetejete on
Too long didnt read, but the meme sounds like someone who is butthurt the brits supposedly/apparently were/are called the “bringers of civilisation” and not their ‘ancestors” from 8000 years ago.
Apart-Difference9699 on
I’m not sure of the point the meme is trying to make. Civilization in 3000 BCE and in 1900 AD do not mean the same thing.
chuchpanda on
This is next level wrong. Even your dates are shite. Kufu’s great pyramid was build 4000 bc ish, your off by a millennium. Massive wank…
Lemmingmaster64 on
Mesopotamia is the birthplace of civilization not Egypt.
Captain_Weebson on
Im pretty sure that slapping an Anglo Saxon instead of Celtic Britton in the lower portion of the meme would be by far much more accurate given that by the time British took over Egypt… Quite a lot of said Celtic Brittons got genocided or assimilated in the British isles by the Anglos with only Welsh and Highland Scots (Ireland doesn’t count as its separate island)
Just sayin’
wisdompuff on
This is historically inaccurate. The “Brits” should be hiding in a Bog.
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With his [safari](https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/s/zgl6SOtKqZ) concluded, Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit met up with his wife Edith, and daughter Ethel at Khartoum for an eventual sortie into Europe. From Khartoum, the four traveled by steamer and train downriver to Cairo. Along the way they took in the sights, ancient and less so. Much was the same as on Roosevelt’s visit forty years earlier, but much, including the British occupation, was different. In British East Africa, Roosevelt had remarked that he was “a pretty good Imperialist”; it had showed then, and it showed now. He thoroughly approved of the civilizing work the British were doing in Egypt-although skeptics might have asked, and did, what the British could teach the country that had invented civilization thousands of years before the inhabitants of what would be called Britain stopped running around in skins and face paint. Roosevelt waved the imperialist flag in an address at the National University at Cairo, praising the British and telling them to keep up the fine job.
Source: T.R., The Last Romantic, pages 659-661
Too long didnt read, but the meme sounds like someone who is butthurt the brits supposedly/apparently were/are called the “bringers of civilisation” and not their ‘ancestors” from 8000 years ago.
I’m not sure of the point the meme is trying to make. Civilization in 3000 BCE and in 1900 AD do not mean the same thing.
This is next level wrong. Even your dates are shite. Kufu’s great pyramid was build 4000 bc ish, your off by a millennium. Massive wank…
Mesopotamia is the birthplace of civilization not Egypt.
Im pretty sure that slapping an Anglo Saxon instead of Celtic Britton in the lower portion of the meme would be by far much more accurate given that by the time British took over Egypt… Quite a lot of said Celtic Brittons got genocided or assimilated in the British isles by the Anglos with only Welsh and Highland Scots (Ireland doesn’t count as its separate island)
Just sayin’
This is historically inaccurate. The “Brits” should be hiding in a Bog.
Seems like this meme was made a roman.