I used to work with a French girl who was studying at University in Kent and she claimed many of the English students on her course had not heard of Hitler and had never heard of the Cold war. She thought it was pathetic and I agreed.

Also, my Uncle owns a swanky Hotel on the North coast of Jamaica and he claimed many of the English residents are among the least cultured people he has staying there. He said the kitchen staff regularly laugh their asses off at how ignorant the Brits are in particular using the wrong knife or fork during a meal

Anyone who thinks its cool to act or be thick is sadly in the minority. Most people in this country and abroad laugh at that kind of ignorance.

Does she actually think she's endearing herself to the public by playing the 'token thicko card'? It's so 2009. Fake ass bitch.

lets face it the english are considered probably the least sophisticated people in all of europe nowadays...a reputation well earned by football idiots (thankfully much better than it was) and packs of drunken aagressive english people chanting and threatening people all over the meditterranean...I went to stay in a mates villa on the algarve in portugal they wouldnt let any brits into the nightclubs because of our previous behaviour, I explained I was scottish not english and they let me in....same with truck drivers across europe you have to display a scottish or welsh or irish flag in order to be treated well, they hate the english

He wasn't even German :suspect:

You dont know the difference between intelligence and interest by the looks of it.

Im much more a sciency person ty

Who gives a **** about hitler even if she does know who he was I would rather pretend I didnt

Yeah, but when it comes to things like the Holocaust and major world wars that's no excuse really. It's important.

That's not really the point. It's important that these generations of the future don't forget these very important events in human history.

I'm no history buff myself but it maddens me when people like you make silly comments like that.

Do you also live in blissful ignorance of the state of the world's economy?

And here she comes... :rolleyes:

as I said earlier people should know these things, but in some ways its nice to see some innocence , but not to celebrate ignorance...I would argue that knowing about elvis and rock and roll is every bit as important as knowing baout that evil scum hitler....elvis was one of the first kings of rock and roll and brought the whole a new magical medium to share and celebrate music and life itself...Id say thats worth a damn sight more than some racist evil scum....the main lessons though are about the suffering and the discrimination against all sorts of peoples, the jews, the disabled, different races etc etc
we also need to be aware of the horrors going on nowadays all over the planet, the slave labour, the oppression, the starvation,the endless military dictatorships and despots , the worldwide banking corruption etc
what annoyed me more here wasnt what they didnt know but how they celebrated their ignorance and really didnt want to learn anything

I wonder if Becky is going to drop out of school when this is over. If her fellow drama students are even half as backstabbing and conniving as the ones I have to interact with through the year, she's done nothing so far these past few weeks but give them buckets full of ammo to use against her. She's dramatic, but a bad actress. She's too ignorant to understand the subtext that's going on around her most of the time, and too lazy to do any more than she has to for anything. If she keeps this up, all she's going to have by the time she's done is an extensive resume as prop mistress.

Becky is pathetic
she's even blatantly just thick, or she thinks acting dumb, looks good.

how silly, there's nothing more interesting than history

Yeah, she doesn't really make a convincing drama student to me either. If I didn't know what she did, going by the way she speaks and acts I'd think she worked in Tesco's or something.

ashleigh knew who hitler was though.

"leader of the nazi's"

why are people bothered by what becky said?

she doesn't care about his history, why should she?

it doesnt interest her.

they both knew who hitler was.

people are getting this wrong.

ashleigh knew he was the leader of the nazi's.

becky knew him, but didnt know about the nazi's.

yes that was right

Since the age of 8, none of my education has involved any history, I'm not into history programmes or books yet even I know that hitler was Austrian, not German and who he was. She is stupid to think anyone will fall for that act

This is a big brother forum not the history channel. Becky is 19 of course she knows who hitler was she probably didn't want to bore herself and others talking about it. I have children and I look to the future not the past and I couldn't care less about an evil racist pussy of a man who committed suicide because the English destroyed him

Have to say when I was 19,20,21 I had little or no interest in history tbf...

History was taught in a dull and unengaging way when I was in school, and I hear things are not improving ... If I was at school, bearing in mind the economy we live in, I think I would be focusing only on what I considered to be relevant to my future, and leave subjects like history and literature for when I had the time and inclination to spare on them.

previous housemates have done very well playing dumb so thats why they do it!
history! you cant change the past no matter how much you know about
there are a lot of super intelegent people full of useless imformation.

I too hate history with a passion but to not even WANT to learn about Hitler is just ignorant.

i think it might be important to know about the major events in history and how they came about. especially when you have children and want them to live in a relatively free and safe environment when they grow up. knowing about hitler and his propaganda might actually be beneficial in our day and age, just look over the pond to the big US of A and how theyre using it right now. its very similar.

if you dont recognise whats going on, you cant do anything about it. and its easier to recognise something when youve heard of it before.

having said that, i agree with previous posters, i dont think theyre actually that ignorant. i think 60% of it is playing up to the cameras. at least i really hope so lol

mybe the forget

Erm, missing the point just like Becky did.

She made out it wasn't important. Not that she didn't want to talk about it, but she didn't really know about it because she wasn't interested. It's not about caring about Hitler, it's important to remember these events.

Feel sorry for your children being raised in total ignorance.

That's not really the point. It's not about having a keen interest in history, but being aware of VERY big and important times in human history. The holocaust falls into that.