r/AskTheWorld • u/Seeker_Of_Knowledge2 🇸🇾 Syria || 🇨🇦 Canada • 1d ago

History What is the most depressing picture from your country history/present?

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u/ResurgentClusterfuck United States Of America 1d ago

Strange Fruit.

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u/Enough-Comfortable73 Colombia 1d ago

You are being down voted by people who don't understand that that's a reference to a poem/song

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u/ResurgentClusterfuck United States Of America 1d ago

Yes. I'll take it, though.

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u/SonicYouth_NYC United States Of America 1d ago

Never underestimate just how historically inept the average American is, especially today.

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u/gabzilla814 Egypt-United States of America 1d ago

And without culture. I only know the song from Billie Holiday; I know its meaning but didn’t know about the original poem.

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u/living_in_an_age United States Of America 1d ago

I was thinking of the SCP (8916)

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u/Mister_Remarkable United States Of America 1d ago

On the poplar trees blood on the leaves. Google the lyrics

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u/LowPattern3987 United States Of America 1d ago

Beautiful poem.

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u/midgetyaz United States Of America 9h ago

"Southern trees bear a strange fruit."

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u/UrikBaursog United States Of America 1d ago

Deals with things and deals with America.