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

[rosends]

A well educated one does. The question is define a good education. Gender studies is a useless field. Art history, unless you are going to be a curator, is likewise mostly useless. Why pay for degrees that are useless?

Most degrees are not about the content but about the process. Gender studies has content but it also requires skills for evaluation and synthesis of new ideas. That more people are seeing all Hum as not foundational to making money is why STEM is where the popularity is now.

 

[Rawley]

Her father taught art?

political science

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Greek language and culture did not come from Judah. It pre-existed them.
The Philistines with their superior iron and crafts were Greek colonists (the Peleset).

So go back in time and tell the Greeks they were wrong, then go tell all the Jewish historians that as well; I'm sure they will try to keep from laughing til you leave.

I said nothing about 'culture', so I guess you just felt a need to beat up a strawman, as usual.

And no, they didn't 'pre-existed' them; many Jewish texts pre-date Homer by several hundred years.

 

[Zincwarrior]

So go back in time and tell the Greeks they were wrong, then go tell all the Jewish historians that as well; I'm sure they will try to keep from laughing til you leave.

I said nothing about 'culture', so I guess you just felt a need to beat up a strawman, as usual.

And no, they didn't 'pre-existed' them; many Jewish texts pre-date Homer by several hundred years.

Literally none of what you posted is supported by anything. Sorry.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

It should.

Teaching was never a highly paid profession, but they were well respected; not so much any more, and for good reason.

 

[marvin martian]

"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.

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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.

Yale? I suspect she can't do high school level math, either.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Literally none of what you posted is supported by anything. Sorry.

Ah. so you're an illiterate as well. of course it's supported, it's just that you aren't the type who would know anything like that sort of history. The ancient Greeks equated the Jews with the Phoenicians, whose alphabet became used throughout the Med. You've never heard of them either.

For the younger people in the Peanut Gallery, who attended schools that quit teaching history decades ago and now just focus on propaganda, indoctrination, and trying to convince you to sexually mutilate yourself.

Phoenician alphabet | Definition, Letters, & History | Britannica

Phoenician alphabet, writing system that developed out of the North Semitic alphabet and was spread over the Mediterranean area by Phoenician traders. It is the probable ancestor of the Greek alphabet and, hence, of all Western alphabets. The earliest Phoenician inscription that has survived is the

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No need for you to click in the link; it will just make you confused again.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Used to what? While many parents are questioning the value of a 150k plus degree, many still see it is valuable.

It's a social event for the 'Legacy' students. They make up a sizable percentage. Both Yale and Harvard accepted a drunken imbecile like George Bush, and gave him the standard 'Gentleman's C-' for showing up once in a while and Daddy donating a lot of money. Meanwhile the smart brother chose UT Austin.

Though many in his family had attended Yale University, Bush chose to attend the University of Texas at Austin, beginning in September 1971. He played on the Texas Longhorns varsity tennis team in 1973.Bush graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin American studies. He completed his coursework in two and a half years.

Jeb Bush - Wikipedia

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No free 'C-' for Jeb, and certainly no wasting time at Yale.

 

[Lockback]

Yale is too busy teaching their students to be Communists to waste their time with the classics.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I don't remember the blonde swimmer who swears her life was ruined by losing a college swim meet to a dude but if she had made the same statement, this thread wouldn't exist. That the subject is a black female is the ONLY reason Lisa558 has come out of retirement to land on her fainting couch about this non-issue.

A black female inappropriately appropriating another culture. It is cultural vandalism and she is a vandal.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

I don't remember the blonde swimmer who swears her life was ruined by losing a college swim meet to a dude but if she had made the same statement, this thread wouldn't exist. That the subject is a black female is the ONLY reason Lisa558 has come out of retirement to land on her fainting couch about this non-issue.

Do you think it was racist to hire a black guy to play Michel Jackson in the new movie, when they could have supported Diversity N Stuff by hiring Fred Willard or Cling Eastwood?

 

[westwall]

Most degrees are not about the content but about the process. Gender studies has content but it also requires skills for evaluation and synthesis of new ideas. That more people are seeing all Hum as not foundational to making money is why STEM is where the popularity is now.

No it doesn't. Gender studies is mostly about indoctrination. I have an advanced degree in a hard science. I have tried to engage gender studies students in conversation, they are not capable of doing anything other than making vague declarations and hurling accusations when they get flustered.

 

[rosends]

No it doesn't. Gender studies is mostly about indoctrination. I have an advanced degree in a hard science. I have tried to engage gender studies students in conversation, they are not capable of doing anything other than making vague declarations and hurling accusations when they get flustered.

Sure it does. That doesn't mean that the students get any better at the skills, but curricula are designed for more than just lecturing.

I have multiple degrees in liberal arts subjects and surrounded myself with humanities students. Some were smart and well spoken, and others weren't. For some, the classes they took had very little impact on skill building.

 

[westwall]

Sure it does. That doesn't mean that the students get any better at the skills, but curricula are designed for more than just lecturing.

I have multiple degrees in liberal arts subjects and surrounded myself with humanities students. Some were smart and well spoken, and others weren't. For some, the classes they took had very little impact on skill building.

Gender studies as an entire field are worthless. They teach nothing. The students would be better served learning a foreign language. That actually develops your brain.

Gender studies stunts brain development.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

political science

You didn't get the joke. That screaming noise you heard was it going over your head.

You said "collage" which is an art form. Maybe you should go back to school.

 

[Rawley]

You didn't get the joke. That screaming noise you heard was it going over your head.

You said "collage" which is an art form. Maybe you should go back to school.

Or, perhaps you could stop being an asshole.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I had read parts of the Iliad and Oddyssey before college but not through school. It was never mentioned in (private) high school. I ran into it in college because back then, there was a requirement to study "humanities" and the humanities were Western-centered. Change the idea of "humanities" or shift the canon to revolve around other cultures and Homer gets dumped. It is very likely that her curriculum wasn't designed around ancient Greek culture.

Is there something unique and necessary about Homer that demands that it, and not another piece of writing, is the cornerstone? Is it just one example of a type of writing which could be represented by something else?

There aren't any other cultures that rose to the level of western civilization. Other cultures may be studied but never emulated.

 

[candycorn]

Do you think it was racist to hire a black guy to play Michel Jackson in the new movie, when they could have supported Diversity N Stuff by hiring Fred Willard or Cling Eastwood?

I love Cling Eastwood....

 

[candycorn]

A black female inappropriately appropriating another culture. It is cultural vandalism and she is a vandal.

Just when I think you’ve hit rock bottom...you start digging.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Just when I think you’ve hit rock bottom...you start digging.

The truth shall always be with you.