#partially staged incident in which an europeanborn spaniard shopkeeper refused to lend a flowerpot to a criollo (creole. white
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Yo guys its flowerpot day here in colombia that's so cool :DDDDDD
apparently it's to celebrate the contributions of the ceramist trade to the history and heritage of the country that's so cool :DDDD
#the flowerpot is apparently used as a symbol of the both beauty and usefulness of the ceramic craft and how that's affected the culture#that's so cool :DD#totally no tomfoolery going on here :D#not at all ;D#colombia#20 de julio#national flowerpot day#ok i think that enough bloat to hide this#congrats! you've expanded the tags! its actually independence day (1) the flowepot joke was about how a revolt was kickstarted by a#partially staged incident in which an europeanborn spaniard shopkeeper refused to lend a flowerpot to a criollo (creole. white#born in the colonies) (literally one level below spaniards) which led to a revolt and eventual overthrowing of the viceroy of new granada#(now colombia and others)#and then they sent a letter to spain basically pleading for daddy ferdinand (former king of spain before napoleon overthrowed him and#instilled his brother in charge (aka pepe botellas) messy affair. as history often is#because we cant have nice things here)#but even with the staunch royalist sentiment of the first revolt it eventually paved the way for colombian independence!#misinfo#(only the parts before the “congrats!”)
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