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Can we agree on a bit of both?
No? If the joke was "we know, we're British" then maybe. It says schooled in Britain - which implies "we know we learned it in geography". Not everything needs to have colonialism, capitalism etc in it, it's just a joke.
Yes, that's the original joke - having been taught in British schools, they learned about Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Why this is in the school curriculum, however, is another matter, and this thread is pointing out the coincidence that the British empire colonised Nicaragua for like two centuries.
We learnt about each and every country in the world at school. We had to be able to point it out on a blind map, remember the capital city, name the neighbouring countries, know the main mountains, rivers, economy, those sorts of stuff.