Thanks for referring me here, @eric3579.

It's all true. The bit about pretty much zero world history being taught in schools is correct, but in a way that just makes it all the MORE puzzling.

I teach high school level students English. I do a unit on "Local Heroes" where my students learn a little bit about significant people from native English speaking countries. To get the theme across, I start with a Thai guy named Phraya Phichai who is a very significant person in the province where I live. From there I talk about Elvis Presley or Amelia Earhart for the US, Lord Nelson for England, William Wallace for Scotland, Nelson Mandela for South Africa, etc. to demonstrate people who have a similar kind of significance to people from those states/countries.

After that unit, during oral testing I ask every student to name their favorite historical figure / hero other than the ones we covered. Single most common response: the King of Thailand (the one that just died last year was and still is extremely respected / revered by Thais). But the second most common response: Hitler. By a pretty wide margin. I'd say 30%+ say the King, and nearly 10% say Hitler. Random sports players, musicians, etc. make up most of the rest -- but none with a big chunk of the responses like those 2.

I used to be pretty shocked by all of that kind of stuff here (I've seen the shirts, chicken restaurant, nazi flags for sale, etc.) but I guess I'm pretty numb to it by now. No idea what the source of it is, because it really does seem quite strange that Hitler isn't covered in schools here, yet somehow people seem to learn broad strokes about him enough for him to be oddly "popular". Whatever the source of that is, it seems to filter out the stuff that should make him infamous as opposed to a general pop culture sort of famous.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'stuffed, Leslie, Nielsen, Priscilla, Presley, police, squad, 1988' to 'stuffed, Leslie, Nielsen, Priscilla, Presley, police squad, 1988, naked gun' - edited by Grimm

Presley be shreddin', yo...

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I still don't see why people have to hate on Nickelback. Record companies have been generating hyped out bands and singers ever since someone invented record companies. For every Beatles and Elvis Presley, there are a couple hundred Monkees and Nickelback.

By and large, people are sheep. They move with the herd. What is Facebook and Twitter other than versions of this cult of popularity? They are both shit "apps", but they make money and are popular.

I bet over half the people who like "indie" music download it illegally instead of supporting their favourite bands. The fact most people support bands like Nickleback and not indies is almost funny in it's irony.

33rpm - Elvis Presley "Blue Hawaii"

45rpm - Judas Priest "Painkiller"

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Let's try that again.
*related=http://videosift.com/video/Andy-Kaufman-on-Johnny-Cash-doing-Elvis-Presley
*related=http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Carrey-as-Elvis-Presley

A great skit, but you need the first bit too to get the context - *backup=[...snipped...] is the complete version.
As well: *related=http://videosift.com/video/Andy-Kaufman-on-Johnny-Cash-doing-Elvis-Presley
*related=http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Carrey-as-Elvis-Presley

Invocations (related=http://videosift.com/video/Andy-Kaufman-on-Johnny-Cash-doing-Elvis-Presley, related=http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Carrey-as-Elvis-Presley, backup=[]) cannot be called by Zawash because Zawash is not privileged - sorry.

Chris Farley, Elvis Presley, Tupac Shakur, The Beatles (they were all fucked up on various abuses, including physical), Michael Jackson, River Phoenix, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Heath Ledger, John Belushi, Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison, Biggie Smalls, Gary Coleman...

I don't think Chris Farley is the prime example, but he's on the list.

But... that doesn't mean their works are any less for it. Getting famous for having talent brings reward, but it also blurs the lines and stunts maturity...

Most of these people didn't even make it to 30, or were so fucked up by the time they had hit this milestone, there was nothing they could do; they didn't have the necessary life lessons that guide us by constant evolution of being. Too many rewards and too much pressure with few threshold guardians to intercede. It's a gauntlet.

http://videosift.com/video/Rita-Hayworth-Steppin-Out-to-Elvis-Presley

That Rita was a talented gal! =oD