Yale-Educated Lupita Nyong’o Admits She Never Heard of ‘The Odyssey’ Before Helen of Troy Casting

[Mac-7]

You cannot ******* read. I posted that Karen Bass attended a state university. The other two did not, as you claimed they did. You were ******* wrong and refuse to admit your error. Everyone else can see you are a loudmouth asshole. You are the one ranting with lies!

AOC is the only one who attended private college

 

[Zincwarrior]

Are you talking about the Yale School of Drama? It is very prestigious and exceptionally hard to get into. So how did a Kenyan-Mexican (as she identifies herself), who went to such a rinky dink undergraduate college that students there apparently never even heard of the Odyssey, manage to get into such a highly competitive school?

The odds are two out of three that she got in because she wasn’t white.

She can act.

 

[rosends]

She did not go to Yale College she went to the drama school which is completely different. So did Henry Winkler and Meryl Streep The article states clearly her undergrad is from a rinky dink NH college.

Whoa - she went to Hampshire which is not in New Hampshire and is not at all rinky dink. It isn't for everyone but what a school!

 

[Lisa558]

Whoa - she went to Hampshire which is not in New Hampshire and is not at all rinky dink. It isn't for everyone but what a school!

Hampshire College is a far-left, activism-focused school. And it’s closing due to declining enrollment.

 

[rosends]

Hampshire College is a far-left, activism-focused school. And it’s closing due to declining enrollment.

True but I would have loved to have gone there. Incredible academic program. But yes, weird as the day is long.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Homer probably got his ideas from Jewish lit, notably First Samuel. The ancient Greeks attributed their language to Moses and the Hebrews, hence a lot of intellectual cross-fertilization.

https://jbqnew.jewishbible.org/jbq-past-issues/2016/443-july-september-2016/literary-parallels-homers-epics-biblical-philistines/

Early Jewish literature was superior to the ancient Greek lit.

 

[westwall]

True but I would have loved to have gone there. Incredible academic program. But yes, weird as the day is long.

If it were incredible it wouldn't be closing.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Homer probably got his ideas from Jewish lit, notably First Samuel. The ancient Greeks attributed their language to Moses and the Hebrews, hence a lot of intellectual cross-fertilization.

https://jbqnew.jewishbible.org/jbq-past-issues/2016/443-july-september-2016/literary-parallels-homers-epics-biblical-philistines/

Early Jewish literature was superior to the ancient Greek lit.

Yea, no, they don't.

 

[rosends]

If it were incredible it wouldn't be closing.

That doesn't follow. The mass market doesn't always value elements towards the top of the culture ladder.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

AOC is the only one who attended private college

So did Newscum. Santa Clara is private, dumbass! Google works! Try it sometime!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

She went to a private International school for high school and her father was a collage professor. Seems a bit racist to say Africans don't study the classics.

Her father taught art?

 

[Lisa558]

That doesn't follow. The mass market doesn't always value elements towards the top of the culture ladder.

You just admitted that Hampshire is “as weird as the day is long.” Since when is “weird” considered near the top of the culture ladder?

 

[rosends]

You just admitted that Hampshire is “as weird as the day is long.” Since when is “weird” considered near the top of the culture ladder?

They aren't mutually exclusive (and in fact often correlate positively). Hampshire had an innovative approach to education and very high acceptance standards. Exclusive, selective and non traditional. Weird but very high on the culture ladder.

 

[westwall]

That doesn't follow. The mass market doesn't always value elements towards the top of the culture ladder.

Of course it follows. If a college has incredible curriculum, and incredible professors, that equates to great outcomes and high paying jobs.

If you spend a ton, to end up working at a Starbucks, with debt out the wazoo, that ISN'T a good outcome, so people stop going to a college that churns out useless drones.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Yea, no, they don't.

They don't what?

 

[EdwinAMartin]

They aren't mutually exclusive (and in fact often correlate positively). Hampshire had an innovative approach to education and very high acceptance standards. Exclusive, selective and non traditional. Weird but very high on the culture ladder.

Used to. They don't now. Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League aren't anything to brag about either, just a place to network and meet other halfwits with high self-esteem. MIT is still viable, but it tends to not screen out the crazies enough, though it still limits the number of foreign students it admits, which is good.

 

[toobfreak]

Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o has admitted that before being cast as Helen of Troy in ~~~ The Odyssey, she had never even heard of the epic story, despite having graduated from Yale University.

No surprise there. I spit on Yale, as possibly the worst rip off of money for "education" right next to Harvard.

These two universities are spit. A total rip off living off past glories.

You can get a better education in Europe for 1/10th the price.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

What are you ranting about?

You can try to deflect

But the fact is that US education is a mess

Yeah, that's why people clamor from all over the world to come to the U.S. to study and get their college degrees <eye roll>

 

[westwall]

No surprise there. I spit on Yale, as possibly the worst rip off of money for "education" right next to Harvard.

These two universities are spit. A total rip off living off past glories.

You can get a better education in Europe for 1/10th the price.

Yup, my daughter is attending ETH Zurich and has an internship at Ferrari coming her way!

 

[Meathead]

"Yale-Educated Lupita Nyong’o Admits She Never Heard of ‘The Odyssey’ Before Helen of Troy Casting
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Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o has admitted that before being cast as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of the 2,800-year-old Greek classic The Odyssey, she had never even heard of the epic story, despite having graduated from Yale University.

“I really had no idea what The Odyssey was,” she told Elle Magazine. “I was like, ‘oh, snap, I don’t know the first thing about this.’ So it was a crash course. I picked up the books and read them immediately. I have this film to thank for my Greek mythological education.”

The admission is startling considering the fact that she is a graduate of one of America’s most elite universities. The actress — born to Kenyan parents in Mexico, then raised in Kenya — graduated from Hampshire College with a theater degree, then went to Yale in 2009 and obtained a master’s degree in acting in 2012. She also attended several high-status colleges in Kenya."

Yale-Educated Lupita Nyong'o Admits She Never Heard of 'The Odyssey' Before Helen of Troy Casting

Lupita Nyong'o has admitted that before being cast as Helen of Troy, she had never heard of "The Odyssey," despite having graduated from Yale University.

www.breitbart.com

Imagine going to an Ivy League university and never hearing about Homer or the Odyssey. This is a perfect example of how dumbed down American education has become.

When all you study is Afrocentric history it is unlikely Helen of Troy would come up. You see, they didn't know Helen was a jungle bunny at the time.