Tumblr thread: Victorian era outside the UK energy

Classic Tumblr thread taking the “Victorian era” label and applying it everywhere else to show how Eurocentric our historical framing is.

The thread starts by pointing out the absurdity of using “Victorian era” for non-UK places — you wouldn’t say “Han Dynasty era Rome” or “Soviet era Australia,” would you? Then it escalates beautifully: “Soviet America, home of the McDonalds and Cocaine Cola. Long live Comrade Reagan,” followed by the historically accurate gut punch that the US Civil War was literally the “Late Tokugawa Period America” (1861-1865 = Bakumatsu Japan).

The punchline? A commenter realizes this is actually a useful mental tool for syncing up global history instead of viewing it in isolated national silos.