How the U.S. Stole Mexico
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It seems like the US is really good at playing dirty and bloody and then making inspiring films about how amazing it all was becoming so amazing.
It really be like that and in the end the lies come to truth but we still make things worst and yet call it a great success!
Welcome to AMERICA 🇺🇸 a "free proud nation"
It’s not just the US tho every country makes movies like that
Lol the formation of almost all countries which have ever existed usually had some sort of war or foul play involved. You cannot be petty about what happened hundreds of years ago to create the country you’re sitting in right now. Bad things happen in the world, not everything can be rainbows and bunny rabbits.
I mean, Russia is kinda doing this in eastern ukraine right now. They’re moving troops towards the border which is usually a sign a war will ensue. However, Russia experts believe that Russia is trying to get Ukraine to fire the first shot so that Russia would have a “just”
cause for war. This would also make it more difficult for NATO countries to then back Ukraine via military involvement, since it’d be viewed as joining the side which started the war. Even though you could argue Russia is trying to start a war without firing a shot.
Point being every major superpower or regional power has done this at one time or another. Countries are run by either borderline narcissists or narcissists who want to make an impact on their society. And they’re willing to do a lot to succeed. Even so called “just leaders” are a bunch of narcissists. If you think you can lead over a million people/people should listen to you and trust you to do the right thing, then you’re not someone I’d trust. But, sadly, humans and primates are kinda messed up, it’s just we’re a lot smarter than chimps.
@@tornadochaser7226 It's important to learn about this and take it to heart because it is STILL HAPPENING.
5:30 as a Mexican, I can confirm the government didn't say 'no,' they said 'ni madres.'
LOL. I cackled at that. Such a Mexican response. I can even hear the inflections of utter annoyance on the "ni" and the "madres." :D
Totally
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Imagine being the group of 80 soldiers being sacrificed to provoke war.
one of them was Ulysses Grant (he obviously survived), he even wrote in his memoirs that he was ashamed to be an American every time he remembered the mexican-american war.
@@carloscarlin114 Jesus christ, I didn't know Grant was a part of that!
Got to love them dems.
imagine sacrificing 3k+ civilians at the world trader center
By any means necessary was Polk's thinking.
The best quote I heard was “we didn’t cross the boarder , the boarder crossed us”
The quote doesn’t even make sense, considering most Mexicans came to the US after the war.
Who ever made up that quote was historically challenged. It was actually Mexico who crossed the borders on inherent lands of the Navaho, Comanche, Caddo, Kiowa, Piaut , Shasta, Chumash, Pueblo and other northern tribes in today's USA. The Comanche and Kiowa constantly fought the Sonorans and Sinaloans. Fierce warrior tribes who were feared in those villages in today's northern Mexico who's lands were left in shreds by northern tribes.... Truth is Mexico had only been a nation for 25 years before the Mexican War and Mexico claimed its lands under its Estados Unidos Mexicanos constitution of 1824. Spain never acknowledged Mexican independence and Spains King refused to sign the Treaty of Cordova so Spain never treatied any lands over to Mexico. In fact under Mexico's first 1814 Apatzingan constitution, California, New Mexico which included Arizona, Texas were not Mexico. Today Mexico is what is left after the USA returned half of Mexico by the Treaty of GH. So "Mexico" since its beginning had been neither here or there. Until both the USA and Mexico negotiated a border. So that quote you mention is pretty ridiculous...
@@GodEmperorEnjoyer the same with Americans still coming to Mexico don't you think?
@@Kat-fq4ei”Texas were not Mexico” are u sure ?
Maybe next time don’t try to use the Americans as a buffer zone to deal with the Comanche
Im European and they don't teach us much about Mexico or talk about it on the news without mentioning drug cartels. This video is like a breath of fresh air! Thank you!
if you are european you dont call yourself european. thats weird, also you dont get teached about mexico the same way you dont get teached about the us. if your country is not involved with it its usually not worth to teach. Unless is something big enough like the industrial revolution or the world wars.
@@CoronelRadec But you'd usually get those kind of info from the news right ?
Im half mexican half european and i do hear mexico a few times in the news
@@a_yan6581 Harder for me to speak about that. Since im spanish and we have a bigger connection to latin america than the rest of europe. I guess i hear about it more often than in the other countries
@@CoronelRadec Mate back when i used to live in Indonesia my hometown even when bloke does possess drugs in any quantity they'd get put up in the TV, because there are plenty of men and woman in their 10s till 20s consuming drugs left, right and center. So in conclusion when someone or some drug cartel is smuggling drugs possessing drugs or whatever they'd be shown on the tele as well but it has to be in a massive scale.
But I don't if they still do that in Indo, I've left the country for quite a while.
Irony, racism saved Mexico form being completely annexed by US.
Americans were afraid of all those brown skin Mexican men coming over and taking away their white american women.
Once you go brown, you can't go back.
@Royal Bengal Tiger you act as if Mexico is any better. Mexico was also built on the murder and exploitation of other people
Usa is shite
@Royal Bengal Tiger Mexico is racist, starting with the Spanish/Indian conflicts and caste system. And before that tribe against tribe. Even today, Mexicans boast about their whiteness, others of their Indian blood. There would have been no African slaves if African merchants had not sold their own to other nations. Slavery in Africa was a booming business centuries ago. Racism in the United States is not what it was 150 years ago. Not all were slave owner's, in fact the nation went into the Civil War over freedom for slaves, segregation helped the Black to develop themselves to independence setting their own businesses, etc in their own communities, Civil Rights, and today they have every right under the law as any other American. In the US, any racism that still exists is politically motivated and racism works the other way around. Can't be that bad as immigrants of all colors are pouring into US borders.
There were many other reasons why the US didn't annexed all of Mexico. Racism wasn't the only reason. It wasn't even one of the main reasons. The US wasn't quite ready to control such a big territory. Everybody in Congress knew this and that's why they didn't annexed all Mexico.
Dear American friends: Is this being taught in the schools? If not what’s the “official” version?
No, and I graduated highschool from NC in 2019
Yes it is being taught as it is, we conquered Mexico.
Went to school in Massachusetts. Was taught all of this. Public education varies wildly by state.
i was in the texas public school system for a couple of years after immigrating from mexico. in 5th grade they “teach” you the history of texas, and if you’re lucky you get to go to the museum in austin in a big school field trip. the history in plain sight is wrong: the fight at the alamo is drawn out so students think that the settlers were brave and contagious, they never explained why they were there in the first place or how many native americans were murdered. quite frankly, it’s very bias and i was fortunate enough to have also been through the mexican school system to know what actually happened in the battle of the alamo and after.
Samantha Bajonero The Mexicans did the same to the native Americans? What are you talking about? Mexico is a rump state founded by Spanish settlers. Saying that the Mexicans were any better than the american settlers is just flat out wrong. The tejanos would regularly steal land from the natives (who in turn had stolen land from other natives centuries before)
It makes me feel good to hear this coming from an American telling the truth 👍👍👍👍
Europeans are not Americans.
Let’s not forget about the Declaration of Independence!
Birthright thief at its finest!
If the mexicans didnt want to lose their territory, maybe they should've fought better instead of surrendering
@@RellenaKing
If you refer to the United States His-Tory; you might want to research the law that applies to it.
Ipso jure as Moorish Subjects are all U.S. CITIZENS.
That’s why all U.S. CITIZENS are residents.
Beside the 14th Amendment is unconstitutional, so all U.S. CITIZENS are squatters!
Fear not, the United States Inc. is insolvent, bankrupt, and dissolved.
The end is near!
@@RellenaKingwhat?
@@Jeffthetrueboss My comment is very clear, if you dont understand then read it to yourself a second time
If only history was like this in school
I would of never skip classes
Well, U.S. education teaches us with American Exceptionalism, or, only our point of view of history. These videos get rid of that and show everything. Shows how shitty and back-staby America is.
@The Joker how is Mexico a bully? In this war... Mexico was a new nation...it was barely getting its people a nationality....the US started witj 13 original colonies..... Yes the US was thr bully
@@PrattlingPate_ America may be shitty and back-staby, but we are exceptional. May I please point to nearly all of the 100s of thousands of American pioneered technologies that made this convo possible. Hell, our tax payer funded work into agriculture-- alone-- is credited with 2 billion foreign humans not starving to death in the past 120 years.
America not perfect, but still far better than the rest combined.
@@jakehix8132 those technologies were also either stolen (Germans, Soviet, etc) or by immigrants. The people doing amazing things in the US are almost at not from there originally. America just provides the environment for innovation. But now someone is jealous of another nation taking over.
@Patty 7373 Calling Americans who call out the atrocities committed by America things like 'libtard' or sellout is just victim mentality
*Welp, the comments for this video should be highly interesting and friendly...*
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The video was made to be inflammatory and to try to make white Americans hate themselves, so I'd say the comments will be interesting for sure, lol. I'm Chinese from Hong Kong, and honestly when I look at you chaps I just think that you guys can't seem to let go of the past because you want to use it to justify the hate you have against groups you are opposed to. Like, slavery was in the past, US land grabbing is in the past, Native American slaughtering was in the past, etc etc. No one alive now took part in any of that, and you guys need to move on, seriously...I could justify hate against the UK because of the Opium War, but I don't because it's just so stupid to put blame on current generations when their ancestors that took part in that war are long dead. All I see in reviving such things is what the Chinese Communist Party is doing, using history to keep an everlasting grudge on all foreigners, especially the UK, the US, and Japan, and stoking hatred among us Chinese in order to use us for their purposes of control and power. As long as you hold on to hate, who you are will fade away and turn into a twisted form of what your potential could have been, and you will be easily used to further the purposes of more powerful, hateful people to push their own agendas.
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The creator of this vid is an SJW commie. I dont feel bad about anything. If it makes anyone feel bad, then they are weak minded. Every people on this Earth has stolen land at some point. Im not ashamed of anything the US did.
Meanwhile, there is a Karen in Texas shouting at Mexican people for not speaking "American"
America has no official language lol
And the worst is that there's not a official language on the US
And that they should "go back to Mexico".
As a Native Texan, i can confirm this lol
@@snyr but karen doesn't know that because she is karen
“The native Americans lived in for years” he forgot to add the words “thousands of years”.
Not all Native Americans in Texas have origins from Texas. There are some that migrated to Texas from other lands within the last 2 centuries.
You do realize that the Comanche were causing problems for the Mexican Empire and that’s why they invited the American settlers to act as a buffer between them and the Comanche
@@IslenoGutierrez and the native american probably conquered it from the native before them
@@Urekakwkwueh Actually they did. You see, the liberal narrative is that whites came and conquered peaceful Native Americans before that. But that’s not true at all. Before Europeans or Africans arrived, indigenous people of the continent and its islands were engaged in warring with each other and migration, whether taken land by force or by other means and migration often followed these campaigns. In fact, some Native Americans fought on the side of the whites because they were relieved a strong force could come into the region and fight against their enemies that had oppressed them, terrorized them or taken their land previously. This happened in the Caribbean between Caribs, Tainos and Guanahatabeys and in South America, Central America and even México. In México, the Aztecs oppressed other Native Americans badly, took land from them, terrorized them so much that the Amerindians in the area were excited the Spanish had arrived to challenge the Aztecs and fought on the side of the Spaniards.
Until you sold their land.
Spain: Look how they massacred my boy
Philippines: we are next
@El-Khalifa El-Hamdi Sure Uk en Francés did haha Irony...
Haha funny, Spain colonized and racialized mexico into castas (meaning you're more deserving of rights depending on how white you are) and blew the natural resources for years until Mexico kinda won a war just to have half our country stolen, yeah, that's laughable
@El-Khalifa El-Hamdi u're wrong, they have" leyes.of india's" and the culture was mixing with them.
@@gabrielteddy2588 nah, you you Just typing bullshit
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I prefer breakfast video
And it was very informative and well made
@@klauserji no
more like the US stealing territories
Mexican history can be summarized in five words:
*”And then it got worse”*
And it’s still getting worse
@@Nonamelol.
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lol
@@Nonamelol. Your argument to not bring up cartels is that they don’t kill random people but just target people. Great that they don’t kill random people but how is it not still terrible? Is that the standards you’re setting?
@@Nonamelol. You are looking at a result of Trump's Presidency, but Biden's Presidency is bringing them right back. California became majority Hispanic in 2015.
Es por eso que gran parte del territorio 🇺🇸 llevan nombres en español. Pero aquí estamos de vuelta y poco a poco estamos recuperando nuestras tierras.
You're not recovering your lands. It's USA corrupt politicians open borders. Not only to Mexicans, but to people all over the world...
The lands originally were claimed by Navaho, Apache, Comanche, Piaut, Kiowa, Caddo, Chumash, Shasta, Shoshone, Ute, Pueblo, Mohave plus many more northern tribes who spoke their own indigenous tongues. Cannot recover what was never yours...... The Spanish names came from Spain. These USA lands were part of New Spain. Which had nothing to do with Mexico except for 25 years.
Los españoles llegaron y quitaron todas las tierras a las personas indígenas. Por eso hablamos español. Esta tierra tampoco nos pertenece.
Not really, Hispanics are turning into Americans and even though they call themselves Mexicans-Americans. They more identify with America. And once a new generation of immigrant children are born. All they know will be America.
Take it from me. I’m Puerto Rican descent but I solely identify America. Same as many other immigrant children
Claro así será!🙏
Solo falta que gobierne un mexicano y ojalá que haga bien las cosas en Texas
In Mexico we learn this in school. Our school history books are encyclopedic and cover info from the first settlers in the continent, pre columbian cultures, the spanish invasion, “the birth of Mexico” as the mixture of both conquerors and conquered cultures, independence, revolution and contemporary history. Thank you for creating and sharing this video, you’re always welcome to come to México for this is also your home, Peace ✌️🇲🇽
Your country has a fascinated history, and your history books have covered it well! Wish I can take a look at it one day.
@@joerogaine3093 lmao 😂 you obviously hate Mexico and saying lies
I clicked on your profile and it showed me all the other comments you left on the video and let’s say their not friendly 😂
Just say you hate Mexicans and go it’s not that deep
@@joerogaine3093 good so stop claiming that you’ve been their
when you know you just lying out yo ass 😂😂😂
@@worldhubtv6496 How would you know if ive ever been to Mexico? I live less than 100 miles from it.
@@joerogaine3093 idk just a wild guess you know considering you hate Mexico and all
As a Mexican I like to think I don't care about these land grabs, but I'd lie if I said this video didn't hurt a bit. As Porfirio Diaz said "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the US".
Mexico only had like 20 years of existing when the independence of Texas happened, so the people of the northen Mexico didn’t feel so mexican. Also the Mexican government only allows white people to live in northen Mexico.
El gobierno mexicano enseña mucho esta historia para generar un patriotismo barato y poner como excusa que no avanzamos por culpa de USA y asi los políticos limpiarse las culpas de sus errores y corrupción.
If they had competent leaders back then they would have never lost the war.🤦♂️
@@EnriqueHernandez-cw3vf wut?
[citation needed]
MrNobodycares100 the Americans have better weapons and that was an advantage in the Mexican-American war.
The Americans cannons where lighter, so this give the Americans a great advantage in mobility. This was a great factor in the victory of the Americans.
magtovi In the museum of Palo Alto in brownsville, Texas and in the museum of historia norestense of Monterrey is this info.
Americans be like: We’ll steal your land and shout at you to “go back to your own land” okay?
thats legit every country in history lmao. Even native americans invaded eachother and conquered many other lands...
I'm a mexican that lives in México and that's the dumbest shit I've ever heard, no one cares that it was our land 160 years ago, it's history man. We're not salty for what happened 500 years ago either. Be greatful for your country as I'm greatful for mine.
@@pranithgeddapu3432 okay, your point is whataboutism. This can be called out as it is without WELL WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER BAD PEOPLE it's a cowardly argument that is trying to run away from the problem here
@@panic9383 But it doesnt change the fact that every country does it. Trying to say that America is the only country that does it is wrong, and the media doesnt accept that. They focus on America, while mexico took their land from thier natives. However, for SOME strange reason, i dont see "How mexico stole their land" videos do i?It's not a cowardly argument lmao, and what is the problem here? Anti illegal alien sentiments shouldnt be unjustfied, they did commit a crime. Anti immigration, however, is much worse.
I don't know why people are so pressed in their responses to your comments
And I love how the “Americans” are always chanting, ‘’ get out of my country’’ 😂😂
That's why I always say that's mexico land...
@@TommyTomTompkins should I hate usa for that ?
I have never known "Americans" to be always chanting that. Making light of the border crisis is stupid and infantile
And they are always calling people invaders, when they are literally the invaders. 😂😂 such nasty people.
@@TommyTomTompkins*WAS* Mexico's land. Keep coping
Mexico: I really hate Americans because they take our lands!
Aztec Empire: thats rough buddy
The aztecs used to terrorize and do rituals with the local slaves they used to capture, because they didn't have any competition. Then Spain came and local tribes fought together to overthrow the Aztec Empire. Learn your history
@@Rodrilechan lol like I did not know that
@@Rodrilechan im just saying that "historical lands" is bs because we all know that the lands they called "theirs" came from other poeple before them
As a mexican i dont hate anyone.
The mayority of the mexican let this history in the past
Most Mexicans are descendants of the Aztecs. So your comment makes no sense.
It's like saying that Italians stole Italy from the Romans.
Me almost fell asleep at 4:40 am in the morning.*
Me seeing a new notification that says there is a new video of you.*
me forgetting the time*
this reminds me of how my teachers taught this, they made it seem like Mexico was at guilt for this and how they were 'cowards' for not fighting even though they had knives to their necks. Teachers in texas not teaching this correctly is a crime
Or they were teaching the truth and the others (including this guy ) are telling lies.
@@HarrisonJBounel that’s pretty stupid logic.
@@friendlyfriday3445 Coming from someone as ignorant as you, that's a compliment.
@@HarrisonJBounel So bringing slaves to a country that prohibits slaves and didn´t need a civil war to stop slavery is good?
@@g_g1241 You act like America was the only nation that had slavery and originated it when that was far from the truth. Even ignoring the influence from the UK, Spain, Africa etc.
This is the first time I've seen a gringo tell the truth about what happened. It angers me that the US always acts all high and mighty regarding the actions of Russia and other countries when they have behaved like this since the birth of their nation. How they acted towards Spain (who helped them gain independence) in Cuba, to get Puerto Rico and the Philippines. The atrocities they commited against catholic, spanish speaking Filipinos in order to "civilize" them. The genocide of native Americans, of which they always accuse Spain, but never give an explanation to why there are only 1% of indians left in the US, but there are MILLIONS south of the border. The coups in Hispanic America, the racism, slavery of black people, the arrogance of calling themselves "Americans" as if the whole continent belonged only to them. I could go on, but you get the idea. I accept that the US is the most powerful country in the world, but I don't accept their fantasy of being a "shining city upon a hill" when they have such a violent and common (for empires) history.
So, I congratulate you. Great video and thanks for telling the truth.
@refriaire you are wrong, the US did not take Philippines, they are an independent country. The US people are fighting for their rights too so don't blame the people here but the Evil Government Leaders.
Great comments. Looking back, the people who have faired worst are the native peoples. They have been completely run over, land stolen, whole tribes disappeared. Looking forward, are we as a human race getting better? We are but a spec in time. Great empires have risen and fallen. What will happen to the US, Russia, China? I don't know, but i am proud of my Mexican heritage and happy we are still here.
@@FonzyBikeslet guess ,you're proud of Mexico, but hate US for doing awful things against natives ,when Mexico did the same thing?
Filipinos never spoke Spanish, only the elite did, not sure why that myth is stated over and over. If they did speak Spanish, it was a second or third language and not fluently spoken.
@@gostodemaisdaroca4052
Mexicans ARE NATIVES 🥴
This is one of my favourite videos you’ve ever made. Such a clear concise look at a complicated story
Your videos are awesome
Julie! Glad to see you here and to know you are a fan of this guy's work.
Josh Oduwole agreed!
Omg hi JULIE
Lol hi
The Mexican army showed at 6:08 is not the Santa Ana's army but the mexican civil war revels under Villa and Zapata 70 years later
Are there any actual photos of Santa Ana?
Yeah there is one but of old man Santa Anna
@@kissingthings2265 there are paintings and movies
@Joe Bland the story facts are quite accurate just some details missing. But to be an american he's quite informed of what he's supposed to ignore.
@@comphysync9084 I'll never understand why lefties project as much as they do. Yes, we patriots are quite familiar with our nation's bad points. We don't ignore them at all.
As an immigrant who is 43% Native American I’ve heard so many times, “go back to your country.” But I truly belong here, if life was fair I would be the majority not the minority.
anglo power, sorry not sorry 😎
@A Man Of Truth then in that case no one is native to any part of the world except Africa
@@reecemorton4786 Anglo power - what does that mean? A people more willing to kill other people. Not content with what they have, but always feel the need to take what belongs to others, and to kill them for it.
@@ialien2077 I'm sorry mate, but all countries have conqured each other including native ones.
Every border in every continent was created throu war, when countries lose wars they lose teritory that's how it goes
Reality is that the Anglo's were more technologicaly advanced and better at war.
The natives weren't "more morally correct", they conqured and killed each other, they were simply not as technologically advanced as Europe, Asia and Africa.
Get educated before speaking, if the Natives could colonize they would have done it aswell
@A Man Of Truth You're leveled up your ignorance. You're now a boss-level ignoramus.
There is a movie called my family (1995) and its a good movie and it does give a brief explanation of how California was once México and I've always been fascinated with how California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas were once México. Because i always wanted to know how California has street names in Spanish and cities in Spanish as well. This video explains it well. Thank you
Did the movie explain that California and all the SW were under Mexico's rule for only 25 years, known as the SW Mexican Period. That's about the extent of "was once Mexico"... There was no Mexico or Mexican before 1824. California, Texas and New Mexico got their names from Spain starting in 1550 to become territories of New Spain through Spains explorations by land and sea. "California" was a mythological tale in Spain extended to the New World. Texas was named after Louisiana Caddo tribes. California and New Mexico extended to Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona lands all claimed by Spain.
What are today NM, TX, CA were colonized by Spain. Towns like Santa Fe, Taos (Don Fernando), Albuquerque, Socorro, El Paso, San Antonio, Nachotiches, San Diego, San Francisco, Monte Rey were early Spanish Colonial settlements 1598-1770 of the Spanish Colonial Period of 250 years up to 1821. Nevada, Utah, Colorado were not colonized during the Spanish Period. The Amerindians were northern tribes as Shasta, Chumash, Mohave, Piaute, Shoshone, Ute, Pueblo, Comanche, Caddo, Kiowa, Navajo, Apache Pawnee and many more.
Mexico/Mexican were late arrivals to the SW after 1824. It was Mexican officials who transplanted north after Mexican independence 1821-1848 Mexican Period. Generally Mexicans didn't migrate north until post Mexican War years approx 1880, after USA westward movement, and after the US government quelled the thousands of unconquered tribes in the SW, and placing in reservations. Mexicans established towns in CA, NM, TX border areas. Americans, settlEd in CA and NM 1821; and TX shortly after, with Mexican issued land grant settlements as Texas was vast unpopulated lands and Mexico needed settlers. Trains, the 1910 Mexican Revolution brought more Mexicans. Americans built the SW, Americans influenced the SW as well as Mexican and Chinese in California. Mexicans were deported in the 1950s. There were not a high percent of Mexicans in California until the turn of the 21st century with uncontrolled illegal migration.
Mexicans are immigrants to the USA and do not share an indigenous tribal heritage to northern tribes who are not Mexican. And Mexicans ancestors are not rooted in California, New Mexico or Texas. No parts of the SW are ancestrally Mexico. I didn't see the Hollywood movie, but sure it didn't go into SW history. My guess is its an immigrants story...
Hollywood movie.
That's all you need to know.
No matter WHERE our southwest border would currently be, we'd have the same issues here in 2023. Even if everyone were sneaking into Oregon.
@@TheBatugan77 Unless there had been no USA...lol
@@Kat-fq4eiI personally don't care, but your logic is like saying, "You've only owned that watch for 25 years, so, it's fair for the taking".
@@oirampeceda2409 fair is winning the war, victor has always taken the spoils, it's written into mans DNA... Mexico is no exception. Mexico stole New Spain as Spain never Treaty'd their lands over to Mexico. And Mexico makes a mountain of a molehill on those 25 years over USA annexed lands which were not ancestrally Mexico to begin with, as they make it sound...
Lets take a moment to appreciate the efforts he puts into his video ...................
I mean they are quality content 🙏🖤
Thank you! I'm glad that matters. it take a LOT of hours to make these videos. Especially the animations. But my hope is that the effort pays off by making it easier to understand for everyone.
Johnny Harris Yes, it does.
@@johnnyharris ANIMATION!!!!!!! that exactly what makes these videos lively .
ANIMATION!!!!! it makes the video talking to us as a person .............I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR WORK JOHNNY
KEEP IT UP
Ain"t it great...
Yaa for sure. I agree this guy makes gooood videos
And btw. Americans never paid any rent for that land. They were welcomed as immigrants under the condition that they speak spanish and become catholic.
@z That too
Taxation in lieu of rent. The condition that they speak Spanish was pretty much over as soon as the tyrant Santa Anna was elected. which was soon after the colony was founded. You can thank the Aztecians for replacing sensible presidents with psychopaths and why we didn't keep all of Mexico after the Mexican American war..
@@dons123111 You can fell proud for being a thief and i will continue to feel proud for Mexicans taking that land back. Soon white people will be the minority in the US.
Yeah mexico barely controlled it. They only claimed it after a war with spain. The Comanche and other tribes were slaughtering mexicans so the mexican Gov. Wanted a buffer between them and the indians. So they said the Americans could live there if they converted to Catholicism, spoke spanish, and killed as many indians as they could.
@@donut_seed9813 Bruh Indians defeated the Spaniards. There was no killing Indians part of that deal.
“Remember the Alamo”. I learned this in school. Texas wanted to leave because Mexico outlawed slavery. Wow.
let me put it in these terms ... our first president Vicete Guerrero was a Black man ... that was about 10 years before the Alamo
@@phantasm8180 gross
@@JM-fo1te gross is the Americans who never come out of the bubble 😒
@@gabydoncella4032 too rich to care, Americans.
@@JM-fo1te too ignorant to spare the time when 'reality tv', mental illness, and drugs are the perfect storm for ignorance.
I visited San Diego recently. I took the bus where they tell you the "history of the city" and I was shocked that they didn't mention anything about the land being part of Mexico once. They focused on the business men who invested to build the city. Something like "before them, this was empty". It's really sad how they don't even acknowledge the fact that it was taken from Mexico. I felt like they just wanted to erase that part of history. Great video! Thanks for the hard work on this research.
Wow, exactly like zionist
California was claimed and founded by Spain, Spaniards approx 1540. Colonized by Spain in 1770 and belonged to Spain for almost 275 years. Mexico claimed California for only 25 years, California not ancestrally Mexico. In fact Americans settled in California 1821 just about the same time Mexican government officials took over California from Spain. Many Americans migrated to California after the Mexican War with the US westward movement. Mexican and Chinese were also immigrating at this time. But it was the 1910 Mexican Revolution that attracted Mexicans to the north escaping Mexico's government instabilities. While Spain founded the first Spanish Colonial settlements to guard California against Russian claims in an isolated wilderness desert in northern New Spain, with a few years of Mexican intervention 1821-1846 during which Mexico quasi controlled California which was not part of Mexico's main; it was the United States who made modern California what it today.
@@Kat-fq4ei LOL. That's a good example of what the people on the tour said. California belonged to Spain, as the rest of the Mexican territory did. When MX got its independence, it included California. You said "Mexico claimed California for only 25 years" That's the kind of rhetoric that I find quite shocking.
@@damarindo Spain did not recognize Mexican independence and Spains King refused to sign the Treaty of Cordova. Spain did not Treaty any lands over to Mexico. Mexico claimed its lands on paper, under its 1824 Estados Unidos Mexicanos constitution. One may consider stolen as Mexico Treaty'd lands over to the USA describing a border, lands and water's. There was no such description of lands under any agreement when Mexico took Spains lands. Under Mexico's first Apatzingan constitution, California, New Mexico/Arizona and Texas were not Mexico. So Mexico's borders changed 4 times within fourty years; from no border as there was no Mexico, then the lands under Apatzingan constitution, then the 1824 constitutional border, and the 1848 border. All in all from later 1800s California had its share of immigrants; Americans, Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese and Philippines up to earlier 1900s. And California had been settled by Americans early on during the SW Mexican Period which started in 1821. Mexican soldiers were given Mexican land grants during this Period to encourage settlers, they were few as California was very distant, isolated wilderness and conditions were as uninhabitable as during the Spanish Period, very difficult to settle with dangerous unconquered raiding Indians. Americans were the most population and built Californias infrastructure. Bottom line is Mexicans were not ancestrally rooted in California, they were late arrivals in the 1800s as were Anglo Americans. European Spain was the claimant, settler and founder of early California. It was the USA government who subjugated the Indians..
@@Kat-fq4eiin those 25 yrs there were almost no Mexicans all were still novohispanos for the Viceroy of new Spain. But as always the Anglos didnt keep their promises to the novohispanos and kicked them out or sent them to reservations. As always Anglo supremacy reigns supreme where ever they go
Me, a Mexican: "so our government was stupid from the beginning?"
Siempre lo ha sido. Antonio López de Santa Anna se la pasaba de fiesta y sólo estaba en el cargo de vez en cuando
Fue culpa de confiar mucho en Santa Anna. Sí, la regamos, pero siempre ha sido porque queremos ser amigos de todos. En cambio, los estadounidenses buscando su "identidad" roban tierra y matan a quien esté ahí. Solo fíjate en su nombre, literalmente robaron el nombre del continente para su país sin nombre.
@@ianrobles4298 No sería eso para todo el hemisferio occidental? Canadá, Brasil, México, Argentina Haití, Venezuela, Cuba incluida, solo por nombrar algunos.¿Qué país del hemisferio occidental no tiene conquista, colonización, esclavitud y genocidio en algún momento?
why would you even come to that conclusion?
In reality it's not that Mexican's are stupid. It's that we are humble, noble, and inviting people and is still reflected today with the vast majority of us. It's a main reason why EVERYONE in the world loves us Mexicans. We just had the misfortune of having such voracious neighbors, that is still visible today with having them promote 'peace' and 'freedom' worldwide.
Oh. To go back in time and tell the Mexicans that “the Americans aren’t sending in their best” lol
If those settlers were able to whoop the Mexican Army.... They were the best.
moracalde did you not watch the video? How is a recently formed country supposed to fight a developed country?
Good enough to take their land. Lol
HAHAHAHA..Only this time, it would be true.
@@moracalde No them settlers did not fought the battles it was the US army that initially lost the war at Resaca de la Palma. Then the US sent the entire army to ransack Mexico
The last time I was this early the Vikings were still living in Nova Scotia.
Wasn't it Newfoundland?
Those were the Scots lmao
@@HydraMannHistory of Canada, others were there before the Scots. ruclips.net/video/zz440EuFK8Q/видео.html
I think you mean Newfoundland and the year was 1000AD (or CE)
It’s Vinland, Vinland.
Which is why i find it ironic when they say Mexican immigrants invading the border like that part of the country wasnt stolen from mexico in the first place
And the Mexicans stole it from the natives
In the first place, the lands were claimed by tribes for centuries, Texas was claimed by France, lands were Spains for over 250 years, Texas Republic. And Mexico for barely 25 years. In fact, Mexico became a country only 200 years ago in 1824. Mexico did not inherit Spains lands, there was never a Treaty from Spain who did not recognize independence or surrender New Spain. The attempted Treaty of Cordoba was never signed by Spains monarch.
The USA conquered Mexico, and Mexicans migrated illegally to USAs borders after the Mexican War and signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In fact it was the USA westward movement that incentivized Mexicans migration north. Before the USA, Mexicans had no need for Texas, New Mexico or California which was just an uninhabitable barren wilderness with unconquered Indians ready to attack anyone not of their tribe... Unless within USA borders legally and mass forced illegal entry, it is an invasion... It was Americans who governed, beautified and developed California and the SW.
@@GodEmperorEnjoyermexicans ARE the natives
@@hr-g4640
They’re the natives of central Mexico, at best, not the modern US southwest. Everything else is from being the successor to New Spain. Most Mexicans aren’t even full blooded and almost none practice any indigenous culture.
@@GodEmperorEnjoyer"almost none practice indigenous culture" you are so wrong, and probably have a narrow view of what is "indigenous culture." Which let's clarify that there are different and diverse groups of indigenous, and is not just a big single community across US or Mexico, and every group and descendants have different practices and beliefs. The modern Mexican do practice "indigenous culture" is in our food, music, dances, holidays, stories, clothing, and even religion, etc.
Lol, lesson learned: never just invite people to settle your land for you.
To late a lot american live in Baja
Europe right now👁👄👁
Lot of middle eastern in europe
@@stormbliksem3439 Palestine now
South Asians letting the Brits do it: Well, our future's going to be worst than it was in the past with them.
I'm mexican and every time I hear about this topic I get pissed. But I understand it because the history of Mexico is based on that, the bad desitions from the authorities, they prefered to solve their individualist problems, and this happened. But we have learned from those mistakes, I'm part of the new generation and I see a lot of potential from us, we are going to change our bad situation, and I'm not talking about the territory I'm talking about the corruption, economy, and the insecurity. Any way I don't hate the US, they were more intelligent in this situation. Is good that you are discovering the real history of country. We have more in common than you think, so stop the racism.
"Every time I hear about this topic I get pissed". Why though? I'm basically half Mexican, but don't get pissed, and don't get why people would be pissed, as this happened almost two centuries ago..
@@sabr3T your land ...your people ..... America's dirty move .. colonisation of your land
You could have been in their place if you had all those land
I’m first generation of Mexican immigrants and I feel you.
It’s hard not to be somewhat angry when you hear about the people of your birth land warring with and swindling the people of your ancestral homeland. It makes me cynical about humanity in general because we should be working together not fucking each other over.
Nuestros países son hermanos y debemos cuidar nuestro tierra como hermanos.
@@Solidsnaikbut the point is you wouldn't have gone to US , if all this never happened !
Cuando desitions :v
Growing up in Texas schools, I can confirm: this is not the same story that our Texas History classes taught us 😂🤦🏻♀️
@@aidanphillips6760 🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@shadowslayer9988 what's wrong with texas?
@@aidanphillips6760 lying is not dignity, america for real Americans and German and English in Texas belong in Northern Europe.
@@rafg891 They’re not lying - how are they lying?
The U.s got its land fairly you lose a war you lose land the u,s should have annxed all of mexico
I know the United States is a great country, and Im grateful to have grown up here, but they did Mexico wrong and a lot of other countries throughout history to get their way and to exploit them. And just as the saying goes "what goes around, comes around". One day all truths will come to light and they will answer for their actions. In other words; they will pay. It's called karma. Very well made video Johnny. Thanks for the info.
I dunno man. America murder Mexicans, Mexicans murder the Spanish to break away. The Spanish murder the natives of the Americas, The Moores murdered the Spanish before that, the Iberians of Spain were murdered by the Romans, before them Cathagians, before them the Phoenicians, isn't all of history constant colonisation?
Didn't the natives just as readily slaughter each other brutally, isn't that how they got the land?
I hope not. I’m Mexican myself but looking at how Mexico is right now, I wouldn’t want to live there. I like how the U.S. turned out and kinda want to keep it that way 😅
I love Mexico. And I would definitely go live their. I visit 2-3 times a year to my beautiful Zacatecas. Viva Mexico 🇲🇽
Move to Mexico 🤷♀️🤦♀️
@@elizabethmanzo692 viva Mexico baby 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽. Don’t hate
"Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the US": Porfirio Diaz
wtf
Right
Yeah
And to know that with the heavy amounts of lithium found Mexico will be ur next home when USA done fall down wich is about to happen Mexico is the next USA
It was Spain, it's actually conquered American territory
You forgot to tell that Mexico had a political crisis at the time and the country was divided by 2, that is why the US won the war so easily. Everything else was pretty much covered, great video.
Greetings from México.
That's the thing about whites, they always leave out and replace the truth whenever it isn't convenient for them to let it be known.
The truth is made up by the winners
WHAT POLITICAL CRISIS?
@@JoRgEChavez-to2xd whites?have u ever heard about china?
@@luisd157 And who do you think the Chinese learned it from?
In the meantime Karens are still fighting this WAR....
😂
And the Karens are from Europe.
😆
Johnny casually rewriting history once again
Not the colonizer getting mad that the video is true😂
Welp, American's habit of "going to war for freedom and defense" is actually old James Polk's strat. History really is repeated once in a while.
podster12II let’s not pretend Mexico was a free society at the time, Santa Anna, general of French Invasion and Alamo fame, was the dictator of Mexico
@@wtripley Yes so?? much better than state that used Black people for free labour
What is "welps" is it an expression, are you responding to a person named welps??
@@tobiasmercader8091 welp = excited well
beautiful strategy
British settler colonies be like:
“How the US stole the US”
“How Canada stole Canada”
“How Australia stole Australia”
Except New Zealand. They’re cool.
EDIT: Apparently the British Kiwis also did bad things to the natives :(
Yeah I love how well the Maori and white kiwis are integrated
Nah we still totally stole Aotearoa - against the rule of the crown. We even had wars that were against the instructions of the British Royals.
Aotearoa/NZ has it's own dark history because of colonisation
Ummmm, NZ was stolen too. Look up Raupatu and the confiscations of 1863 and 1864 just for starters. That's literally theft by a Government that wasn't acknowledged by the Indigenous People
NOPE, NZ was stolen from the Maori, by the British. Very similar story. Look up "The Citizen's Handbook", it's a hilarious webseries that (briefly) explains a lot of NZ's history.
“Go back to the country you came....” Said the settlers...
Settler colonizers
Joseph S most of all country are a product of colonization on the western hemisphere. Almost no native languages are used for national language, or at least spoken by the “settlers” from the colonies. But Paraguay may be the exception here, because they conserve native languages and culture, even hispanic descendants speaks it too.
But many Colonies genocide the tribes and assimilate the natives because they think that they are inferior to the colonies.
Rob Dee what’s in the past was already in the past, what matters now is that the U.S. Need to treat immigrants like human beings, whether they got U.S. nationality or not. I kinda sick to see that kind of nationalism actually
@flmvdvsrg I think the word you’re thinking of is, “inhabited,” which is the past participle of the verb, inhabit:
(of a person, animal, or group) live in or occupy (a place or environment).
"a bird that inhabits North America"
@Alfredo Pineda
Kinda like South Africa eh?
And now we call immigrants "illegal", the irony is crazy
Illegal yes, unless the immigration was processed lawfully for USA citizenship. Borders divide nations, since ancient times.
Yes just keep letting those engineers and scholars over the border without any checks
There's legal and illegal immigration
If you have thousands to pay a coyote to sneak you in, you have a few hundred to apply for a work/school visa
Well, if you cross the border illegally then you are illegal. that is basic symantics. But hey, I bet you have never even been to a mexican immigration jail? My buddy Dave spent about 9 months in one. So doont act like this is a situation unique to American, cause it is every country in the world especially the ones people love to cite the most like Norway, China, Mexico or France. Take this and think on it. I promise you kits the truth. Cheers
You do realize most of those illegal immigrants aren’t even Mexican, right
Mexico: Wait, it's all United States?
United States: Always has been.
Yes! I was looking for this comment 🤣
Lmaoooo
Q. u. e.
These After Effects works by him are just
*Phenomenal
Forgot the other Astrid lol
@@ididntcreatethischannel. lmao correct, My autocorrect is very stupid
Moral of the story don't let American come to your country and settle
Israel : *Ok I can copy that, I guess*
This is true for every people bro.
Indians can say the same about the British
And what about all the jews in the Arab countries? What happened to them? Oh that's right they were driven out.
@@djunior874 the Jews in the arab countries were by no means driven out.
In fact the arab states began to notice the migration of Jews in big numbers around the beginning of the 20th century, and decided to take strict measures to prevent the Jewish migration to Palestine, all of the migrations of Arab Jews took place secretly.
AKA borders.
I go back to this video every single year when I teach. It is truly the best history video I’ve ever seen. Cheers, my dude
LOL it's pure propaganda. History Legends demolished it a year ago.
That is a LIE the natives of Texas were christians and spoke Spanish because were part of Mexico and were part of the Spanish empire before that !! that is a justification to the genocide !!! AWFUL !! Americans always try to hide that Native Americans spoke Spanish and were christians !!
LMAO when you teach? And what do you teach??
@@Hexiad it's the truth . Like it or not .
@@martinalfaro1317, it is propaganda. He is right, History legends broke this video down.
The trade of alaska is actually interesting too. Make a vid on it
How the U.S. Stole Alaska. Just getting it started for him. And by trade, you mean trading money for land? Or are you pointing out that just like Russia claiming they owned Alaska which had native peoples, Mexico's claim on most of it's territories weren't really democratically agreed to and kind of a taking by the ones with the biggest army?
2nd best real estate deal ever made right after the Louisiana purchase.
I think Alaska was given to the US for defensive purposes, its next to Russia.
@@nolanmartin6601 Look up Seward's Folly. Alaska wasn't given.
@@johnvtran and what was the first? I'm curious
تحيه من البلاد العربية الى المكسيك 🇮🇶❤🇲🇽
Saludos de los países árabes a México🇲🇽❤🇮🇶
Listo pa la guerra hermanos arabes abajo el imperio yankee
@@NBWARRIORS777 hal taqsud 'iinakum turidun aistirjae taksas min al'amrikan
Un Arabe con foto de perfil de Pablo Escobar, simplemente increible
Gracias :,), enviando amor de regreso ❤️🧡💛
Mucho amor para مصر
Being born and raised in california, I feel closer in culture to mexico than New York or the South
probably because of all the mexicans from mexico living there???
You do realize there are a lot of Mexicans living in Texas and getting along fine right? Most immigrants live better in Texas than they do in Mexico
that’s what happens when you get invaded
@@bemotivated8443 i can confirm that
cmon, ffs, every time the replies turn into a war zone...
I love how oversimplified this video is. Like broooo.
He's not telling any lie though
This is a new topic to me. Can you please elaborate on points that were oversimplified or misappropriated.
@@tavencio879he left a lot out
@@nope6908 well its a 13 minute video ... with an ad. Can you be more specific about what truths you think have been distorted from the stuff he left out? Or give some examples of what you think he left out?
@@tavencio879He’s not necessarily telling the whole truth either tho. I hate to be that guy but Mexico also stole Mexico. When The United States stole from Mexico it was basically one colonial power stealing from another after the Indigenous people of both places were screwed over and treated like crap by the colonial powers (The US government tried to wipe out and obliterate Indigenous tribes just like the Mexican government did).
6:06 That's a foto featuring Pancho Villa, a mexican hero of the revolution that occurred 64 years after this altercation. Actually, in 1846, Pancho Villa wasn't even born. Lol
we can forget that as the image was just trying to illustrate "some mexican warriors from back around 1900" haha
@@gonzalonoriega8644 Entre más sombrerudos y bigotones, mejor
@@gonzalonoriega8644 Pancho Villa was no warrior. He was a stone cold butcher .
@@4cornernan hahaha and how one thing cancel the other? Most of the times it is this stone cold behavior what aloud a warrior to be a "successful" one, you guys also have so many examples of that
@@4cornernan yeah thats pretty much every famous warrior in history
Oh look..., *He's back*. Now try the Philippines.
oooohhhh boy, the effects of colonialism still lingers there for sure
Roland From which power? The Muslims? The Spanish? The Americans? Why not discuss the future Chinese hegemony over the Philippines while at it?
I would be very interested in that. The Philippines has had a tragic colonial past.
its on my list! :)
@@johnnyharris Thank you!
Land Exists*
America: We can do this the easy way or the hard way, choice is yours
We can do this the hard way or you can just give up
xd
I want to dislike this, but it is truuuue.
And that's how its always been in world history. There is no just America. People fought over stuff for the longest. Well before there was an America. Get over it. Softies.
@@seanbrummfield448 If other people do it too was a person 🤡
Easily one of my favorite RUclipsrs across all categories. Thanks for existing.
NO! That land rightfully belongs to USA. Not Mexico. Mexico dont deserve it.
“The settlers completely ignored it”
That is so American 😂
Edit: all of the soft people in the comments crying because they can’t tell my comment is a joke 🤡
They were given the land one wanted mexico didn't either when they found out that they were successful they tried to take it back which started the war 🤔 we purchased the rest this video is just lies and properganda
@@jeremysanchez8329 No mexico wanted the land it was new and undeveloped land so they rented it out to Americans hoping to help the economy but the Americans brought slaves Which was illigal and acted indipendant to the Mexican government
They didn't rent it out they gave it out to settlers to build there economy they thought it was forthless and when it was successful they tried to take it back and they fought back hence the undisputed land
@@jeremysanchez8329 Wow. And I guess Hitler never invaded Poland, it was loaned to him and then the greedy bastards wanted it back later only after Adolf invested a shit ton of cash into developing it, so poor old Hitler had no choice but send the tanks in. Edit: Things you learn on RUclips!
Huh? What r u talking about u okay 👌were talking about mexico 😆😁🤣😂🤔
We need a series on "How British Stole" too.
How Britain stole Hong Kong, then made it a political landmine.
Americans are British.
@@hassangraham9784 America is one of the most diverse countrys’ most white Americans have Irish or German decent not British
that would span 10 seasons
how British stole Ireland...
The fact that 'How the U.S Stole....' can be made into a series is a problem....
EDIT (4/08/20)
This comment section has been filled with great discussion, and it’s been a week since the original comment was made and so I felt it may be good to answer some questions or thoughts you may have when reading the original comment.
What about all the other countries that have “stolen” land?
- Yes, nearly (I say nearly because I do not know everything about the world since the beginning of time) every current nation has “stolen” land throughout history. I know and completely acknowledge that the US is not the only country to be”stealing” or had “stolen” land, many nations especially the Superpower nations have “stolen” land. This is a video focusing on the U.S. Had it been that Johnny Harris created numerous videos with the title beginning for example “How Spain stole....” or “How Britain stole...” the the same comment would again have been made. For example “The fact that “how Spain stole...” can be made into a series is a problem...”
It’s not a problem, it is history, you can’t change it, move on.
- I do think that it is still a problem. I made a comment below reasoning why I think it’s still a problem, but in summary, it is still a problem because the US (as many other nations) are still “stealing” and exploiting sacred land and resources. It is still a problem as many education systems fail to make this part of history known. It is still a problem as because of this so much culture has been lost whether for choice or by force due to the US “stealing” land, leaving many indigenous people of today with little knowledge of their heritage.
You clearly haven’t studied history
- I would like to say that I know a bit about history, but I do not claim to know every single thing since the beginning of time and am still learning. Which is what I aim to do, to learn, understand and grow from what I learn.
If you say it’s a problem, what’s the solution?
- I made a comment answering this below but again in summary. I do not claim there is a definite solution. And I do not speak on behalf of people such as the Native Americans. But I do not think (again I could be wrong) there is a sum of material gain or money to compensate their loss. I encourage people to keep learning, act accordingly whether that be raising awareness or signing petitions etc.
The land is not “stolen”
- I used the verb “steal” in relation to the video title. Whether you would rather prefer to define this as conquered, colonised, invaded, etc etc is up to you. Although, some people may argue that land was rightfully conquered and some people may argue that the land was stolen.
Stop making the US seem like a big bad country
- I do not claim that I think the US is a “bad” country. My intent is not to hate on these countries but to share points for discussion. You may not agree with what I say and that is perfectly okay, I do not expect anyone to agree with me, you are entitled to your thoughts and opinions as am I.
Lol you can do with about any country that’s been a great power.
You can't change the past Eva, so no it's not a problem. It's fucking history.
Technically Mexico "stole" their land from Spain... and on and on it goes.
@@TRC804 Mexico stole it from Spain, Spain stole it from the native tribes, and those tribes even probably stole it from someone else thousands of years before.
@@dragondrew2000 "it's fucking history"
BS, the US is currently doing it. But now disguised as a fight against "dictatorship". It's just a great and convenient coincidence that those countries happen to have a lot of oil and other strategic resources. In Mexico we've had dictators such as Calderon who committed fraud to win the election and the US said nothing about it. Peña Nieto was the last US puppet who sold the national resources. that's why they didn't react to Ayotzinapa the same way they would if that happened in Bolivia or Venezuela. And just to be clear.. the US should stay away from any country period. They have a lot of issues internally to take care of anyway
Fighting a war, winning, and gaining territory as a result is how borders move. It’s not “stealing”
It's the way around the globe for centuries... The Mexican War was USA conquest, no matter how history revisionists spin it...
Amen
But it is tho🤔
@@angelaevans7605 Land disputes, war, conquests, occupation, treaties, 25 million dollars is not stealing. Especially after Spain never acknowledged Mexican independence 25 year's earlier. What is Mexico today is land returned by USA under the Treaty of G Hidalgo and another Treaty, Garson Purchase. End of story.
If I had a nickel for every time the U.S stole something
You would be rich af
it would get stolen
They would get stolen by the U.S. itself!
Try a liter of oil
You would b white
An interesting fact about Polk is that after he accomplished his goals he left office. Based on his "successes" I think he could've easily won a second term, but he did just about everything he wanted in his first so he didn't run again.
He died bro
@@ashariaee yeah but like he had no ambitions to run in the next election him dying isn’t particularly relevant to the fact that he had already retired from politics 3 months earlier
Basically Emperor Diocletian
Polk was pretty smart. Using war tactics to gain land from Mexico and negotiating with the British for the Oregon Territory to finalize the ever-expanding United State to a coast-to-coast continental country.
Polk die as any king or tyranny dictator early death. Santan takes them directly to hell, to get tormented for eternity..
Make a separate playlist " How US stole _____ ? " 😂😂😂
He'd have a lot of content to keep the channel going lol
Oil, lithium, etc...
South Africa
South Africa
Should we have just stayed a few small states?
Don’t worry La raza already took those territories again 😂😂
They don’t want to be part of Mexico either lol.
@@visorij3374 You are right, we don't need to be part of Mexico again, but our MEXICAN culture it's rising stronger and powerful and it's the predominant now here, just myself 10 years ago i used to speak mostly English and listen entirely English music, now 75% of the time i speak SPANISH (the language of our Spaniard ancestors) and now i listen 100% Regional MEXICAN spanish Music.. and im Proud to let you know almost everyone i know here in CALIFORNIA we are returning to our roots, stop listening to "american, black hip hop" and now we listen more MEXICAN Spanish music.. everyone i know 😎
Boxing Training it doesn’t matter, data shows by the 3 to 4 generation every immigrants is fully Americanized regardless of culture. And all public schools require you to learn English so regardless of if you speak Spanish eventually you linage will only speak English.
@@visorij3374 It was that way before when Anglos were the majority the older Generations of Mexican-Americans didn't have choice but assimilated to avoid discrimination by racist people back in the day and many forget their roots, now times are changing and we are different proud Mexican-American new generations that we are stick to our culture and roots, for your information now in 2020 REGIONAL MEXICAN MUSIC its now the most popular music in us Americans of MEXICAN-HISPANIC descent we even have several hundred groups with U.S. born CALIFORNIANS of Mexican descent making it big in the REGIONAL MEXICAN MUSIC industry with each video having millions of millions of views and i can give you many examples.... like i told you in the other comment many millions of us Mexicans- Americans we have already stop consuming to "americanize" English influence (including Music) for strong reasons, we are already replacing all that in our cities and you like it or not now HISPANICS young people are more into SPANISH.. that is our language that runs through our veins and from couple years SPANISH it's way more popular in all aspects.. THIS IS THE REALITY NOW ;)
Nah not even! I’m Mexican and that’s not true at all
Imagine 200 years from now some Chinese national making a video about how they took Tibet.
@@leejianne5342 ya...in CCP Cinematic Universe....in reality Dalai Lama chose India
Tibet was originally peacefully liberated. The Dalai Lama also went to Beijing to meet Mao Zedong. Later, China began to crack down on the rich, communist wealth and land. The rich, headed by the Dalai Lama, resisted this policy, and finally went to India. This policy was a minority of capitalists. It is opposed, but most Tibetans in the middle and lower classes support it
@@xiangzhang1127 lol, that’s what they teach in China AKA CCP cinematic universe 😂
@@mikedouglas1582 I’m Tibetan, I’ve gone through all this, I don’t care about politics, I just want to tell the truth
@@xiangzhang1127 ya any Chinese who is allowed to use free internet behind the firewall is a Chinese bot
Every racist-"Go back to where you came from"
Everyone else- hmmm 🤔
That doesn't work anymore and it is also a false comparison. People were born in the new land, so that is their home. Just because you have an ancestor who immigrate three generation ago doesn't mean this isn't your home or should be deported.
@@htoodoh5770 gonna cry ?
@@Aditya-yl7fi Why will I?
@The Hardcore American Patriot It is their land if they are Americans. And yes, you are a racist.
@@htoodoh5770 only works if you are a white american, because if you are from another ethnic group you still get discriminated and get treated like $h1t even if you were born there.
We didn't steal Mexico cause they let Americans work the land, we stole Mexico because Mexico was tired of dealing with the Comanche tribe and let the new settlers be a buffer of carnage...
True, there weren't Mexicans in rhe SW until after the USA subjugated the unconquered northern tribes approx 1880, decades after the Mexican War.
moral of the story?
NEVER LET AMERICANS ENTER YOUR TERRITORY
If you replace "Americans" with "inbreds" you would be correct.
@@JoRgEChavez-to2xd YOU GOT IT ;)
“Native Americans, Hawaiians, Puerto Rican’s have left the chat”
There's been a lot of american settlers in Oaxaca, that freaks me out 🌞
@@ramonvillalva2097 Start kicking them out if you don't want to lose your home and potentially even your life.
Great video. I think that you could have insisted that the main issue between the Texan settlers and the government of Mexico was slavery. So, every time they tell you that Texans were fighting for freedom, keep in mind that it was for the _freedom to own slaves_
@Hector Lomeli
And also the fact that Mexico became a dictatorship, but let's leave that part out.
@@GodEmperorEnjoyer In that case they should have gone back to the U.S. Where having human beings as slaves was perfectly right. You can't deny your kin: The Queen and The Pirate's Empire. That's what they do right? Stealing from weaker nations.
@@GodEmperorEnjoyer the dictatorship was not affecting the American settlers at all, if it was such a terrible dictatorship why did he want to free the slaves then
Not to be insulting but it wasn’t just slaves, the president Santa Anna had been making moves forcing Texans to pay higher taxation and give up their arms cache to defend against native attacks. He also imprisoned a Texan falsely for 2 years. Mexico was not a shining star either, they had constant revolt during the 1820s and 1830s and it was not at all peaceful
@@australium7374 yeah “defending”
This is tough part of Mexican history to teach, and learn, in Mexico at school. As Mexican, I can say this has been a sour episode of our history, but I wanted to highlighted that this was key to create the concept of Mexico as national state beyond the pre-Columbian culture and the Hispanic inheritance.
I’d also like to highlight the fact that we Mexicans haven’t held grudges to our neighbours in the north and I think we’re great hosts with them in their multiple vacations and business trips to our country despite losing half of our former territory with USA.
I’ve been follower of Vox for years and more recently of this channel and I have to say that this video is incredibly honest and critical coming from a US citizen (note that I avoided to say American).
John Edward Gallagher glad it’s not your concern. I’m not trying to blame you guys for our own mistakes. Maybe you should do the same beginning with being humble. Greeting from America
Sultan Abdulhameed II man, this shouldn’t be a forum for hate. This is what I was trying to explain in my initial comment. First and foremost, US is a great country in its own right, that being said we had our bad moments with them in the past, despite of it we the Mexican people have never been blinded by it.
Reason you don't hold any grudges is that you've been successfully coerced by United States of America and its media.
Google about coercion and you'll agree with me.
@@arminius6506 Reason they dont hold grudges is because of due diplomacy, no successful nation holds grudges and stays successful.
Simply put everyone is the same fucking species. There were civilizations to the tip of South America THOUSANDS of year before there were any humans in Europe. Fast forward, the US is a young country with a society regulated by selfish politicians who make it a business. So society, people of every culture, are only really taught what will benefit they're management of the country for years ahead. That's why we learn more of the past online. And México has its own shit to deal with. They don't have time or power to make enemies. Mexicans have been impacted so much. Kinda sucks, but it ain't holding us back thats for sure.
You got it by force, same way you got everything today too
Ever hear of the 1846 Mexican War.... Mexico started the War, thinking they would win it.
@@Kat-fq4eithey were defending Texas because the US was trying to take it away. You guys initiated the invasion. Mexico has never started a war with a foreign country. But the USA government wants to lie and say Mexico started.
Damn staright. So don't mess with us.
@@shrimpflea y’all ain’t scary. Couldn’t even beat Vietnam.
@@shrimpfleaof course you can't spell 😭☠️🤦
Imagine if you did a series on "How the British stole _."
The earth
It never ends
There wouldn't be enough time.
Wake up, the sun set already
Sun never sets
They still own land in South America or close to it
This why the Mexican American War was also call, "Mr. Polk's War".
Is it? I've never heard it called that. Always just Mexican-American war.
Mmmmmmm 🤔
Polks was bad president he cause the war he lied on Mexicans to take the lands.
@@Saudyization That’s funny because in that era and any year before WWII he was considered to be one of America’s greatest presidents for giving us our modern border. Modern society just likes to demonize great men.
@「Obese Giorno」 lol The US is the only nation that gets in “trouble” for annexing land fair and square. We conquered unstable regions of a failing former colony. Marched all the way to Mexico City and still left the Mexicans with a large part of there territory. I call that Mercy.
You didn’t talk at all about New Mexico, one of the few portions of this piece of land that had substantial Spanish settlements (compared to Alta California and Texas). Santa Fe is the oldest state capital in the United States, and New Mexicans descended from Spanish and mestizo settlers and indigenous slaves are still here, and often forgotten about. We’re not immigrants, we’ve been here before America or even Jamestown or Plymouth existed.
Just like we California Mexicans Americans, we have always been here yet white folks call us illegals in our own land lol they think that we don't know the truth.
Can't make the best country in the history of civilization without breaking some eggs.
It's one of the best but not the best
_“[•••] now what happens next in the Mexico story gets kind of nuts”_
That line pretty much sums up Mexico’s history
Thanks to the US though
@@makisjnx007 primarily Spain though. Spanish colonial policies did NOT prepare Mexico to be an independent nation. In reality, for obvious reasons, they were always intended to do the opposite.
@@makisjnx007 The US had nothing to do with it. After independence Mexico controlled everything from South America to Oregon. If the country was stable it would’ve dominated world history. The problem is the Spanish intentionally divided the people to make them easier to govern.
@@makisjnx007 Mexico had so many civil wars. It's still one of the least stable countries in the world. The cartels are military level in Mexico.
@@makisjnx007 Mexico was gone to shit since it’s creation as a republic first the problem with family’s that owned more land than almost everyone else, a broken class system, gangs civil war, rebellions. Mexico wasn’t ready to become independent
Damn imagine getting kicked out of your own land.
I feel ya Mexican.
Only yours if you can defend it
@@yesyes4542 I’m coming to take your land then, but I doubt you have any
Don't worry . We're slowly reoccupying all our former territories
@@yesyes4542 I don't think you would say that if someone took your house by force.
I feel ya Native Americans*
Whenever I listen to an American saying Mexico I wait for the worst, but I love how objective you are. Thanks for your videos.
Mehico
Mehico
Whenever I hear American say I wait for a thief from the territory of Mexico that is a supremacist who practices slavery without a culture who has guns everywhere and a hypocritical fucking drug addict who calls himself our brother
@@aldrik8300 Most of modern cultures are influenced by USA
@@prometheus5405 not mexico usa are influenced by mexico usa dont have any culture
Yeah as a Texan, a lot of my friends have grandparents who lived and died swearing they were Mexican not American because they never moved across the border, the border moved across them. Their families had been on the same land for generations and then white people showed up being like “this is the USA now so you’re Americans” and they’re like “wtf are you talking about this is Mexico we’re Mexicans”
loool but most Northern Mexicans themselves are descendants from Spaniards themsleves. Im not even talking about Mestizos. Northern Mexicans are mainly Castizos and Criollos .... so they would be White themselves. Really history of Mexico is not too dissimilar from the United States.
Mexicans aren't native to the Americas
Horvat Lovren apparently they weren’t treated as white people back then
Let's Travel rightfully Lol in a couple more years your grandchildren will be brown
chaosXpert they are technically. Most are mixed with Native American blood.
Your reasoning for the Texas colonies wanting to separate leaves out a lot. Like the Mexican constitution of 1824. Texas wasn't the only Mexican state that left Mexico
Well actually if I’m not wrong there were two states...besides texas that would eventually leave Mexico, these states or regions both returned to Mexico, one was a region that later became Guatemala (Spain split the regions on the americas in weird ways), but the state always identified itself as Mexican so they left Guatemala and returned, the other was the republic of Yucatán in the south, 50-50 of population chos e either to return or wanted to be out of the republic, so they split into 3 states, and all of them returned to the Mexican republic. Aaand the were islands that were disputed with England, but I think England got those. For a summary, it was a pretty good video, since the full history would’ve taken hours to explain.
What this very left leaning creator fails to mention, is that President Polk was a Democrat (the one he labelled a "racist") and that President Lincoln was the first Republican president, you know, the guy who emancipated the slaves. Also, we were invited here for a reason - to create a buffer between Mexico and the absolute scourge of the Great Plains; the barbarous Comanches. Mexico didn't bother coming this far north to police the place properly. The Anglos were allowed to bring the slaves (not that, that was a good thing), and they were Mexican Citizens, called "Texians", not Americans. The Hispanic Texians were called Tejanos. The Tejanos and several Indian tribes ALL rose up and fought with us against Mexico, when they tried to disarm us. This was an internal Mexican Revolution, against it's own Mexican government, just 12 years after Mexico "stole" Mexico from Spain. That would be a great video, but I don't think it would be Anti-American enough for the obviously Marxist creator of this video, who is trying to re-write history, instead of completely explain it. One last thing, the last time I checked, Mexico was a sovereign nation. It wasn't stolen. They lost pieces of it, and Texas was for mismanagement.
Steven Hoskins Well...the first ones to abolish slavery and presented ideals for American union were the Republican Party...the Democratic Party...not so much, political views were very polarized. I wouldn’t call him a Marxist based on a few minutes of facts he summarized, history is recorded from different points of view, and different records that match or share common ground eventually become history (just as it happened with the modern bible, many parts were deleted because they were apocryphal), and in recent years it IS a fact that Mexico is considered a sovereign nation, thing is, the constitution changed so much since Mexican independence, so much that the centralization and decentralization of power created total chaos, so much that the dates when the Mexican laws should’ve been applied took longer, so the ones that really knew history were the ones that lived it. There’s a few data kept secret from both sides, just like there are secrets in the library of the Vatican. It’s a RUclips video, on history, not a lecture, the color grey exists. Also, there were a few issues in Mexico not mentioned that very few know in history; there was a war on race (guerra de castas) on the southern peninsula growing and growing, so the army had lost many men and kept loosing them, the Comanches on the north and the Rebel Mayans on the south (the Mayan war began before the official dates), also the conflicts in Guatemala and the regions that were in constant dispute because they wanted to join the Mexican side in the south but never got an answer because the country’s policies were always on violent dispute between liberals and conservatives. Just an opinion.
@@stevenhoskins7850 "the absolute scourge" AKA the actual rightful habitants of that land that you ultimately stole from them (after almost exterminating their entire population). You were an invading army, of course they defended themselves against you. What a narcissistic, ignorant asshole.
But it was the only one that left by foreigners that decided to not integrate to Mexican culture and keep slavery when it was abolished in a country that had learnt from its mistakes and were people were finally free for real no matter their origin or skin color.
Fact: As a result of the Republic of Texas independence, Mexican Cession and Gadsden Purchase, Mexico lost about 55% of its territory.
@Albert Moore Well, at least you didn't peddle the lie of Mexicans facing genocide.
The United States also paid off the Mexican National Debt.
@@Wayne_Wheeler it's not him deciding that they weren't good enough to be americans, it was the people at the time saying they're not good enough. racist? yes. i'm not saying racism is good but that argument might've saved mexico from full annexation. anyways, it'd be good to just cooperate with each other now instead of reminiscing over old enmities.
lost 55% of the territory that they could barley control or protect. the only reason it was theirs was because they claimed it after a war with Spain.
Albert Moore and* they didn’t because they knew that endless war would ingulf the area
These videos about colonization and maps and borders have taught me more in the past few weeks then I ever knew! I'm almost 40 years old and I was so misled! Thank you John, for opening my eyes.. I'm so interested in this stuff now thanks to you and your team..
"This little mountain range" shows iterally the entire appilachian range
@L MIt is a little mountain range. The Andes or Himalayas are big mountain ranges. Its relative, I don't think it's a joke
@@brunolondinese5857 Well, it is a very old mountain range and therefore isn't as tall as those younger ones -- 480 million years or so of erosion is enough to cause some shrinkage. However their effects on the geography in the region are still huge. In fact, if you were to walk from the east coast to the west coast it is likely that the most challenging part would be the Appalachians (even though the Rockies are much taller.)
Basically.
@@matthewbanta3240 shrinkage? Are you trying to say the Appalachians were... In the pool?
@@matthewbanta3240 The Appalachians were as once big as the Himalayas.
And this conflict is taught in American schools as the “Mexican-American War”, while it is the “American Intervention” in Mexican schools' National History classes.
Edit: There's a lot of misinformation and plenty of toxicity in these responses. Proceed with caution.
If you see that as a good thing, you are a monster
They took a huge L
@Mark Peacock Mexico nearly drove the Americans back but the Mexican Government had some internal problems their Military had to respond to.
@Mark Peacock hey champion, I don't like to say it but in 25 years Hispanics and Asians will be the majority in us.
Mexico started the war when we annexed the state of Texas after it left Mexico
I really love these Map Videos, it has inspired me to be interested in geography and international affairs. Thank you for the video!
I love how you have all this source of information… yet get so much WRONG
It’s sad,there’s a reason why they say behind every great wealth there’s a great crime
Thanks for the video very well explained
Loser mentality. "Other people are more successful than me, therefore they're evil." The number of Mexicans living in Texas at the time of Mexican independence was a meager 2,000 individuals. Texas was NOTHING before the Anglos showed up and actually started developing it. And the vast majority of America's wealth was created after abolition (GDP of less than $100B at emancipation vs 20T today). So it was WHITE immigrants who transformed the American southwest from a wasteland into an economic giant. Meanwhile, Mexico remains corrupt and underdeveloped as always.
@@gymnopedie4445 so does that mean they didn’t steal the land?
@@vergil8257 It's an incredibly stupid framing of history, to say the least. The reality is that many empires fought wars over what is now the American southwest and drove out earlier inhabitants in the process. Both the Spanish (and later Mexican) empire and the Comanche empire drove out Native tribes like the Apaches in wars of violent conquests. So they stole the land first, then the whites "stole" it from them in turn.
@@gymnopedie4445 so it’s not stealing?
Thank you, Americans should really know their history looked at from another perspective, not to feel ashamed, they didn't do anything, but to feel compassion for the people that just want to be able to feed their families, that just want to live life as they want it (legally ofc).
Also, I live in a west pacific city in Mexico and there are entire neighborhoods of Americans living IN Mexico expecting everyone to understand and talk to them in English, but yeah cheers
I live in Milwaukee.. and there’s giant neighborhoods of Mexicans that live here and they mostly speak Spanish in their neighborhoods and expect u to speak it there was well .. also in El Paso they’re hospitals where no one speaks English
"another" perspective? There are as many perspectives as there are people. There are hundreds of millions of perspectives. .
Americans aren’t the only people who should understand someone else’s perspective .. Americans are just trying to feed their families as well .. my grandmother came over from Mexico .. so I understand what that was like ..
@@dayra6425 So, Americans should act differently than all others. Talk about American exceptionalism.
3506Dodge what do you mean
Native peoples were living there for thousands of years not centuries
They were from Asia. They migrated just like any other group
@@thepinkpanther47 from asia? you mean accordig to dna coding.. human are moving form afirca and move thorugh asia and get to north america... so what? the fact is we don't really own anything in this land...
@@campkira Ever heard of imperialism?
Then who is the owner of the land? grass? the first settlers who settled there ever since are the true owner of the land
@Magic lobster yup. very true.
I am SO stoked I found your channel
"America won a war against Mexico, which is like you winning a fight against a 3 year old" said my 5th grade teacher.
Your teacher rules.
They were both countries that were trying to get an advantage. And in this case the US (to use your analogy) beat the shit out of that toddler and threw it south. That’s just how war goes
No, Mexico was not a weak country. Mexico had one of the most powerful armies in the western hemisphere. Mexico in 1821 won it's war of independence against Spain, the most powerful country in Europe. Even before it's independence Mexico was the most powerful colony in the continent before The United States of America was even a thing. Don't you know about the Alamo? Mexico kicked some American ass there. The only reason Mexico lost the Mexican - American war was because of Santa Ana's idiotic leadership. Santa Ana was the worse thing that ever happened to Mexico. If we have had a smarter leader then the whole southwest would've still been ours.
@@robiking011 The battle of the Alamo took place in a war where Mexico was fighting a Texan revolt though, not the US. And yes I agree, Santa Ana was a blight to Mexican society and its progression
yes
native Texan here. I remember this being taught as a largely pro-Texas version where we heroically stood up to an oppressive Mexico. very wrong that even from a young age, Texans like me are implicitly taught to look down on Mexico
Texan settlers were forced to learn Spanish and the Mexican government at the time was largely corrupt and unstable. There were many reasons for their rebellion than just not being allowed to own slaves, which was still a common practice in other parts of Mexico despite being “illegal”.
@@banderson5702 Yeah, you are correct, also you have to point out that and i think the real reason behind is that in mexico was illegal slavery, and texas was a pro slave territory... That is the reason why in mexico we do not have that thing of african-mexican and asian mexican and white mexican... Just mexican....
Alex Madrid but there are Afro Mexicans what are you talking about? And instead of importing slaves the Spanish settlers would enslave the native populace, that’s why the majority of Mexicans are half amerindian
@@banderson5702 Don't tell him about the silver mines in central Mexico.
@@banderson5702 it wasn't legal and it wasn't a common practice because that was the while point of the independence. They weren't slaves at Mexico in that time. And yes they were told to speak Spanish and I don't see the big deal on it
Ah the British didn’t want to piss off the French that’s a funny joke
That's what I thought 🤭
It's a matter of timing. The British didn't want to piss everyone off at the same time.
France actually won the most number of battles than any other EU country
@@mymaster416 No one is talking about that... And, btw, Mexico won against Napoleon. ;)
@@IrKeNoVa Napoleon the 3rd, but we could wish to kick Napoleon ass, but he died, before giving Mexico a fight.
Let’s not forget that Mexico wanted Americans to settle Texas so that they would be a meat shield between them and the Comanche raids jaja
To begin with, there were no Mexicans in Texas, New Mexico/Arizona or California. They were all south of the border and not part of Spanish Colonial settlements in these New Spain Territories. Mexicans migrated to border areas after 1880 with US westward movement and after the USA subjugated the warrior Indians who roamed and raided Sonora and Sinaloa. They along with American settlers established towns in barren border areas which had been a desert wilderness never colonized under the Spanish Colonial Period.
The young Mexican government needed a population and incentivized Americans settlers with land grants to settle Texas. The Mexican government also had to bring soldiers from the distant south to fight the Texans (Spanish and American) and later the Mexican War as there were no Mexicans in California and New Mexico/Arizona had already been taken by Americans with no soldiers or south of the borderians in sight.
Ha, "so the Mexican army" and then shows a picture of pancho villa and a bunch of other villa era (early 1900s) fighters
IKR. They have bolt-action rifles ffs...
i was looking for this comment
if you don't know know pancho villa, he was a genocide dictator in mexico wich filled mexico with religeous repretion. (noyt responding to you, is for the readers of this comment to know.)
Same he starts off with a map of the thirteen colonies and talking about the British border in the early 18th century and how the settlers ignore it, then shows a bunch of pictures of covered wagons heading west that were around the mid 19th century.... You skipped about a 150 years there my man....
@@tobiasmercader8091 You've got your Pancho Villa info ALL WRONG. He was never a Dictator. He never ruled Mexico. His faction lost the Mexican Civil War (Mexican Revolution) He was a 'Caudillo', a strongman from the northern part of the country. He constantly was a headache to US Cavalry. He was a Border Bandit.
Next up: How the U.S. Stole Your Girlfriend
The Korean War
CrashDavi Damn Americans stole South Korea from Kim Il Sung.
@@starventure Actually we might say from Russia. The puppet masters are still busy at work.
I mean I don't think anyone would argue the US dominates Western media and your girlfriend bases her image on that, sometimes more than even family, friends and her own thoughts. So in a way they already have.
@@Sam-es2gf Yep