As a Danish Canadian I want to correct you on something. Scandinavians are not restrictive on who can be Scandinavian. Actually quite the opposite. People of all types are welcome to move into Scandinavian countries. Also much of Europe's northern coast like Estonia and Netherlands have Scandinavian ties historically and culturally are very much brother nations with Scandinavia.
@@euzinjcclipes3710ou pior ainda, NOS ALMOÇOS DE FAMÍLIA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA É BRIGA SOBRE POLÍTICA, BRIGA SOBRE FUTEBOL E BRIGA SOBRE O PONTO DA CARNE
yeah that was Norway and even then... the vikings did colonize north america long before columbia or whatever his name was... however due to the extreme distance from the home land of Norway or extreme distance to the nearest friendly clan situated in greenland which was of Danish decent those early colonies kinda fizzled out on their own... coupled with not to friendly relations to the native locals resulting in a number of clashes between Native tribes of the americans and the Norwegian settlers along with logistic issues to and from Norway... in short, a lot of factors played in... and the Norwegian colonies just died out on their own or were wiped out by the natives, or possibly even assimilated by the natives... contact was simply lost and over time, forgotten. keep in mind that this was somewhere in the the year 900... the fact that the Norwegian clans were even able to reach north america was astounding.
South Park also has a joke about this, right? Greetings from The Netherlands, and you know that in our jokes you guys always are a bunch of assholes, right? (And most jokes that involve Germans are about WW II.) But in reality people here don't really hate you. Just the behaviour of German tourists here. :P
Czechia is pronounced "Check-ia", and to answer your question, far as I know, we do consume the most beer. Not sure about alcohol, but I think alcohol too. We drink... A lot. You see, we participate in a challenge. Take a drink every time you breathe.
@@imaginaryedge60 Well, "Czech" is pronounced as "Check", more or less. A "Chekh" would work as a "Czech" as well, but the difference is that "Check" pronunciation comes from English, speaking of the country itself. Czech Republic would be "Check" Republic while "Chekh" is more of a Czech pronunciation of a Czech native, a Čech.
And during the pandemic in all 3 countries the beer and alcohol consumation according to offical statistics dropped. Not because any inhabitant drank less. People here, like everywhere in the western world drank more during the lockdowns. But the reason why the czech republic, austria and germany are on the podium for beer consumed per capita per year, and why this dropeed by a fair margin during covid is tourism. Toursts in the czech republic onjoy beer prices they aren't used to from home and there is Beer tourism to the czech republic, winter tourism in austria means that as soon as darkness hits, the tourists get off the slopes and go drinking (And it's dark at 4pm most winter) and germany has a "small event" in the south that does attract the odd drink-tourist in september, as well as scandinavians crossing over sometimes with vans or trailers to buy comparatively cheap beer.
Estonian is closely related to Finnish and Tallinn and Helsinki are right next to each other, so it makes sense that they want to be Nordic when Finland is. However, the other Nordic countries don't really have much of a connection. Both Sweden and Denmark had it at one point, but that was many hundreds of years ago.
No? Denmark and Estonia are extremely close friends and Denmark was the one who helped Estonia gain her freedom. Maybe you should learn some history of Estonia. In 2020 Estonia's leader even openly declared their country close friends with Denmark.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 In 2020 the Estonia leader openly declared close relations with Denmark. That's all the evidence you should need that the countries are tied together.
@@Mr.Heller Nice false equivalence and btw Putin did want good relations with the US but the US rejected diplomacy talks. You might want to restudy that part of history.
Many of the islands/lands colonized or taken by the old Danes like Estonia still have loyalty to Denmark despite being their own free nations. It says a lot about how Denmark treated their invaded lands vs many other Empires. To add additional context to this Denmark also helped free Estonia and were one of the first if not the first to recognize Estonian independence.
The first to declare recognition of the restoration of Estonian (and Latvian) independence was Iceland. Though the situation was a bit complicated and there were good reasons not to rush the recognition. A lot of Western countries never recognised the occupation as legal in the first place, and considered the Estonian Government in Exile to be the only legitimate government of Estonia since WW2, rather than the government structures of the Estonian SSR (so in theory, the government of the ESSR didn't have the authority to make the declaration in the eyes of countries what recognised the Estonian GiE). Recognising the declaration of the Estonian SSR without a solid analysis of the legal implications could have undermined Estonia's legal continuity going forward. It didn't, because the declaration was a solid establishment of legal continuity with the interwar republic of Estonia. Russia still continues to claim that the modern Baltic states lack legal continuity with the interwar states, but it could have been a lot worse for Estonia if the 1991 declaration had been some kind of rushed mess that actually gave the Russian interpretation any legs to stand on and a lot of Western countries had recognised such a hypothetical rushed mess without checking what it actually meant for Estonia.
Estonia view their language and culture as being more similar to Finland than the other Baltic states and they were part of Swedish Livonia during the Swedish empire
They were part of Denmark for many centuries however right up until they gained freedom had good relations with the Danes and Denmark even helped them gain their final independence.
It was basically a meme for a couple years before it mostly died. What made it funny to us Estonians was how Scandinavians kept coming up with easily debunkable arguments about geography (which would have excluded Denmark if the same standards were applied to them) and lack of historical connection (which would have excluded Finland if the same standard were applied) to avoid saying the "you're too poor to be Scandinavian" part out loud.
@SmilingShadow-jl5tr This. In short, Scandinavia is Norway, Sweden and Denmark. That's it. Finland (and Iceland) is part of the Nordic countries. Why they won't let Estonia in fully, I have no idea.
Honestly using memes like this is a good way to get people who may look past history or not consider it 'important' actually into the subject. However for me, as someone into history, it's great to see memes used this way.
"Just embrace Dracula" I think Romanians in generally already do. The Romanians I've heard talk on the subject told me he's considered a national hero. (The real Vlad Dracula, not the vampire)
South Park did a roast on the whole Germans not being funny thing where they got all offended by being called the least funny people and created a machine called a “Funnybot” hilarious episode if you haven’t seen it, the German part of this reminded me of it😅
Just saying so you know for future reference, Czechia is spelled with K where Ch is. So it's "Czek", because when you say Czeczia like you pronounce it, it sounds similar to Chechnya, huge difference
As a Scandinavian I can confirm that Estonia wants to sit at our table, always has. We like our little sister to the east, but she'll have to sit at the kdis tablle for a while longer. Doubt that Estonia will ever officially be one of us. Not for the lack of trying though.
God, I wish I'd had you as a History teacher in High School. Mine was one of those who clearly didn't actually care about anything and was just waiting to retire. Hell, he literally told us that. He was like, "I don't wanna be here anymore than you kids, so let's just get this over with". He cared less about the actual history and more about teaching us to write full essays for tests at University level. Keep in mind, we were in 9th Grade. Literal freshmen. Meanwhile, I was excited to learn more about world history because I'm such a huge Iron Maiden fan. I thought we were gonna learn about History in a way that made us give a shit. Instead, he just handed us various textbooks and went, "Read this yourself and then give me a bunch of two-page, double sided essays and comprehension questions".
Czechia has the highest per capita beer consumption and austria has the second highest. Both of them have over 100 litres (26.4 gallons) per year. Also: i have never heard about estonia wanting to be considered scandinavian. Ive only heard them wanting to be nordic since they are so close with Finland.
Mr terry, there was a british tv programme called the tourist trap (i watched it again recently on RUclips) where they took a group of brits, a group of japanese, a group of germans and a group of americans who were given a free holiday. During the holiday they were all subjected to the same experiences, such as being brought out a banquet which had a sheeps head with brains and eyes to be eaten as part of it, to see how each nationality reacted. Long and the short of it is the stereotypes we have are legit. Definitely recommed watching it, very interesting. The germans were serious, the americans were loud, the japanese were organised and well behaved whereas the british werethe opposite and just drank a lot and joked around!
Great stuff, maybe add a touch more commentary-- adds a lot! One thing, saying Bangladesh was 'connected' to India is an understatement. It was an integral part of India since the Mauryan era, as the undivided state of Bengal (even today, West Bengal is a state of India). During the late Mughal era, Bengal was one of the most industrialized and developed states in the whole world (alongside being utterly plentiful in agricultural products), hence the huge population density.
As a South African, a candle being blown out would have been more funny and fitting. Our power company puts the power off every day, its from stage 1 to stage 6 loadshedding, so a loadshedding joke would have been more relatable.
As an Estonian, *yes.* We constantly try to insist that we're Nordic, because 1) our islands were doing the viking thing with other vikings, 2) the alternative is being Eastern European, and 3) we live right next to Russia, of course we want nothing to do with them
@@vorpalchoppers. That’s a complete B S comeback!! In that case, using your logic, Denmark shouldn’t be part of the Nordic countries, but it is. As well with Iceland.
I agree you should be let in! I’m an American so I don’t have a lot of skin in the game, but I follow Artur Rehi and heave learned a lot about the history…besides, you have a sponsor! Finland is there to help get the attitude changed and regardless, as long as people start thinking of you as Nordic, it becomes the truth in its own way. Although it would help if your flag was in the shape of a Nordic cross like every other Nordic country. You can keep the colors the same. I already think of you as Nordic…and at the very least BALTIC. Not Eastern European in the slightest! None of the 3 Baltic states are Slavic, which I believe is the common denominator of what constitutes an ‘Eastern European’ country. Hungary is its own thing, while Poland would be lumped in with the Slavs.
2:43 as a Belgian, WE technically didn’t do anything wrong. The Congo was a private colony of Leopold. When the Goverment found out what was really happening (they were recieving money and fabricated pictures) they took control and the attrocities stopped. I am not excusing what Leopold did, just adding some insight.
As a Filipino, The Philippines part is accurate... Sadly. Discipline, particularly about our trash, is a problem here. Tbf we're 7k plus islands, lots of mountains and unpaved roads. I live in an area where you deal with your own trash. The temptation to just chuck our trash into the trash is tempting, tho some people opt to burn it instead and idk if that's any better.
Depends on the trash that you're burning, if its paper, cardboard, wood pallets, food scraps etc. basically anything that is normally biodegradable its fine (tho its depends on how heavily chemically treated some of those wood based products are), the ash from that can help the soil in many cases in particular if its depleted of nutrients, similar to how forest fires deposit nutrients back into the soil once the ash finally settles. Conversely if you're burning things like plastics that is probably not the best of ideas, given that the smoke/fumes that come off of that are highly toxic and permeate the soil/water sources for extended periods of time, which are likewise notoriously difficult to get rid of, and in quantity especially in high concentrations can cause mutations in the local fauna (take a look at China). In which case recycling the plastics is a better option, tho granted I can't say for sure how robust your recycling infrastructure is there, but given what little I do know and your own testimony on the matter, I think I'm gonna say its likely not robust or even existent. Honestly if you want a effective solution and I believe you guys have at least one biomass power plant in the country, the government (if the power plant isn't privately owned) could pay citizens to gather trash to feed into said biomass power plant, this would be a two fold solution 1) cleaning up the country and 2) provide fuel for increased power generation, which would help deal with your rolling brownouts and blackouts which I know you guys have a problem with. The payout would be set by weight so say as a example 100 Pesos per 1kg, you could also effectively "employ" unemployed individuals this way and it could even extend down to even kids being able to bring in extra cash for the family (I know that is big thing there to), while say their father and or mother holds down and works their normal job(s) so technically a three fold solution when taking that into account. If you want to get people to do something money is always the best motivator to achieve that objective, the caveat and or problem with this idea is corruption which I know is also a big problem there (granted being from the States myself, were not exactly ones to talk on anything corruption related, one look at our own government can tell you that much). That said if y'all could reign in both the pollution and corruption y'all could very well become a tourist mecca to rival the likes of Fiji or Bali, given that y'all have a naturally beautiful country both topographically and climatic wise and Filipinos tend to be pretty friendly overall. Which could generate huge revenue (being from a state myself that has heavy tourism traffic, which generates anywhere from 30%-60% of our GDP it can be quite profitable) for the country which could be put into improved infrastructure projects (the road issue you mentioned) and likewise providing further jobs on said projects to help elevate the standard of living for many Filipinos.
Always amazes me how these compilations just list the UK as one. England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales all have their own very meme’able qualities
Some of the memes are "meh... okay." But the one for Poland definitely deserves an applause. They are the world's MOST INVADED COUNTRY! And I don't think that second place is even close to that.
Not to mention when Belarus began with “invading” Polish borders recently a few years ago… Internet be like: “Really? Of all the countries in the world… Poland? Really?!” xD
As a Pole I have to agree, we’ve been invaded or attacked so many times that when we’re learning history in school we’re taking forever before we start learning about the rest of the world
13:53 That was Simple Plan, not Good Charlotte, lol. They're the band known for that MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) campaign song, Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me).
I used to make satirical photoshops for a big website in my country. I once photoshopped that you guys went back to the Drachme and used it as toilet paper. Also I made Greek vouchers for donkeys since they're more stable in value than your currency if you'd go back to the Drachme Oh wait, you also had that evil looking temporary minister of finance in 2015? I forgot his name but I made him red and put some devil horns on him. Edit: Yanis Varoufakis. I'll try to put links to the photoshops in the next message.
@@MarcelNL Oh yeah, Mr. Varoufakis. We had lots of memes about him. His nickname was "The Yanis with one n", because that name is spelled with a double n, but he spells his with one. Witch, I don't know about English or other languages, but it's not something can do in Greek, it's just a typo.
Oh Czechia is the best in drinking beer. Recently we applied to the UNESCO the sentence "Jít na jedno" which literaly means "Go to have one (beer)" but it really means to get wasted. To drink is "kalit" which literally means to quench and we do it "do sraček" which means until you shit yourself. There's a saying "pivo je náš chléb" which means beer is our bread and "hlad je převlečená žízeň" which means the hunger is a thirst in disguise. LOL
10:01 dude, I am a lavian, and while watching this video, I was eating my breakfast, which consisted of salad, potatoes, and minced meat sauce. so true.... :(
Hello, native Estonian here. The meme about us claiming to be Scandinavian is not at all true. Not a single person claims that we are Scandinavian, you'd have to be beyond stupid to make such a claim. I think the meme was supposed to be a reference to us wanting to be part of the Nordics, but I haven't heard anyone talking about it much for well over a decade.
The most people can do is insult Canada for being nice which isn't really even an insult. I wish people would be more creative. As a Canadian I'd love to see original digs at Canada not the same trope of "being nice" over and over.
I'm well versed in history, geography, and sociology that by the end of the video my chest freaking hurt from laughing so hard. 100% of them are absolutely on point. Alas, some of those had absolute no chill at all 🤣
If your well versed then how do you agree about the USA one we have literally won 99% of wars we've been in. And the wars "we lost" we've only benefited while the other side didn't. The American military is quick to shut down and take entire countries. If your going to make a joke about the military it has to be about Gorilla warfare. The US is king of Interstate wars but not the best at counterinsurgency.
But again most people can only comprehend what they are fed through social media. There are actually so many people who think we can’t win wars anymore so I have to go back to my list of 15 different US victories in the last 30 years. Then I go to casualties, economic damage, infrastructure damage and how quick the capital was taken for the wars we "lost".
I’m German, I grew up in England. Peter Quill/ Starlord (MCU) looking shocked being our meme was on point! Either we don’t get it, don’t like it, or laugh about the worst things
First of all, the bridge is way higher than the clearance of any ship. Secondly, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s main port is in Ploče in Croatia. The country exclusively uses Croatian ports. The only coastal city in Bosnia is Neum, who doesn’t have(and doesn’t want) a port. Not to mention, that the waters in that area are too shallow to build a major port anyway.
@@Monnigga Went to Brazil a few times and I know a little bit how it works. I also know that brazilians love to dissing their own country so I wont waste my time arguing.
Dutch guy here en ik denk dat het wel klopt wat ze over onszeggen. :P Oh wacht, laat ik ook maar een lang woord typen zoals Hottentottententententoonstelling of zo. (Ja, theoretisch gezien is dat echt een mogelijk bestaand woord.)
If you mean WW1 that was mainly Canadians who forced Germany to surrender with their many key victories and leading the charge in the final 100 days. If you mean WW2, that was Russia who destroyed the vast majority of Germany's forces.
13:00 "I mean that's the easiest joke for poland right? That's what happens when you are geographicaly between historicaly powerfull nations. You get invaded a lot". Switzerland and Nepal: *laughing in mercenary pikemen and gurkha*
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Which meme was the MOST accurate?
Ukraine hands down
Lithuania was pretty accurate as a Lithuanian
The Estonian joke was really clever actually
@@Xnoob545It wasn't really a joke. Estonia still has loyalty to Denmark despite being a freed nation.
As a Danish Canadian I want to correct you on something. Scandinavians are not restrictive on who can be Scandinavian. Actually quite the opposite. People of all types are welcome to move into Scandinavian countries. Also much of Europe's northern coast like Estonia and Netherlands have Scandinavian ties historically and culturally are very much brother nations with Scandinavia.
As a german:
Our humor is special. Its strict. And efficient
Where have I heard strict and efficient used to describe Germans? Oh wait...
And dark
Ja mein freund
@@zacmayes2802 I don’t get it my men
is it stronger and superior to foreign degenerate humour?
im brazilian and i love that Its two stereotypes at once, the whole country is dangerous and that brazil is just rio de janeiro
Durante as eleições parece q ta tendo uma guerra civil.
@@euzinjcclipes3710ķkkkkkkkk vdd
sim
@@euzinjcclipes3710 é uma guerra se você é flamengo e tem um amigo corinthiano
@@euzinjcclipes3710ou pior ainda, NOS ALMOÇOS DE FAMÍLIA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA É BRIGA SOBRE POLÍTICA, BRIGA SOBRE FUTEBOL E BRIGA SOBRE O PONTO DA CARNE
As a New Zealander, this is kinda accurate. Our way of communicating sounds like a heated argument to a foreigner that isn't from Australia.
So like Sumatrans here
And even then, I’ve heard some Kiwis and Aussies don’t like the other country.
Im also a New Zealander, and I completely agree with u 😂
As someone from New Zealand, very true.
As a kiwi i find that highly offensive and true at the same time, now fight me! just kidding lets go get a beer and then fight each other
The Denmark one actually got me. They could have colonised North America, even reached it. What did they choose to do instead? Iceland and Greenland😂
It was Norway tho
yeah that was Norway and even then... the vikings did colonize north america long before columbia or whatever his name was... however due to the extreme distance from the home land of Norway or extreme distance to the nearest friendly clan situated in greenland which was of Danish decent those early colonies kinda fizzled out on their own... coupled with not to friendly relations to the native locals resulting in a number of clashes between Native tribes of the americans and the Norwegian settlers along with logistic issues to and from Norway... in short, a lot of factors played in... and the Norwegian colonies just died out on their own or were wiped out by the natives, or possibly even assimilated by the natives... contact was simply lost and over time, forgotten. keep in mind that this was somewhere in the the year 900... the fact that the Norwegian clans were even able to reach north america was astounding.
@@The_Mother. The norse in greenland were norwegians, danes didnt go there
@@norwegian1234 I suppose I stand corrected ;)
Greenland will at least be a big deal when global warming happens. So it’s the long con.
As an Italian: the one about Italy is 100% accurate 😂
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As a French knowing some italians, I 200% confirm
Eyup
Approvo
Same with Portugal, the amount of people that think we're a part of Spain is insane...
Let me add the classic "german humour is no laughing matter"
South Park also has a joke about this, right?
Greetings from The Netherlands, and you know that in our jokes you guys always are a bunch of assholes, right? (And most jokes that involve Germans are about WW II.)
But in reality people here don't really hate you. Just the behaviour of German tourists here. :P
@@MarcelNL And in German jokes Dutch people are mostly stupid xD
But I do understand that you don't like some of our tourists
@@einflinkeswiesel2695 Yeah stop digging holes in our beaches! :P
We're stupid in your jokes? We have the Belgians for that! :P
As a german that has humour, that is very accurate
How many germans does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one, because we are efficient and do not have any humor.
Czechia is pronounced "Check-ia", and to answer your question, far as I know, we do consume the most beer. Not sure about alcohol, but I think alcohol too. We drink... A lot.
You see, we participate in a challenge.
Take a drink every time you breathe.
isn't it more of "Chekh-ia"?
maybe i'm wrong though
@@imaginaryedge60 Well, "Czech" is pronounced as "Check", more or less. A "Chekh" would work as a "Czech" as well, but the difference is that "Check" pronunciation comes from English, speaking of the country itself. Czech Republic would be "Check" Republic while "Chekh" is more of a Czech pronunciation of a Czech native, a Čech.
@@johnnysteele5934 ah, yeah you're right
Yeah, most beer consum before austria and germany
And during the pandemic in all 3 countries the beer and alcohol consumation according to offical statistics dropped.
Not because any inhabitant drank less. People here, like everywhere in the western world drank more during the lockdowns.
But the reason why the czech republic, austria and germany are on the podium for beer consumed per capita per year, and why this dropeed by a fair margin during covid is tourism.
Toursts in the czech republic onjoy beer prices they aren't used to from home and there is Beer tourism to the czech republic, winter tourism in austria means that as soon as darkness hits, the tourists get off the slopes and go drinking (And it's dark at 4pm most winter) and germany has a "small event" in the south that does attract the odd drink-tourist in september, as well as scandinavians crossing over sometimes with vans or trailers to buy comparatively cheap beer.
I want as much commentary as you can give. I crave knowledge and education like a drug. I love it!
As a Canadian I agree the amount of times I’ve apologized for being angry is not even funny anymore
and yet a laughing emoji
i'm sorry to hear that
4:21 he’s Reading so slow that He didn’t realize that they switched places😭
No Estonians do not argue that they are Scandinavians.... they argue that they are Nordic. (and to some degree they have a point)
Estonia can into Nordics.
i mean to be fair lol
Aren't they? I already see my country (the Netherlands) as a little bit nordic.
@@fireshadowdark5462They're baltic
they Uralic tho .. like finland and hungrary (and would be Sápmi if they had they own country)
Estonian is closely related to Finnish and Tallinn and Helsinki are right next to each other, so it makes sense that they want to be Nordic when Finland is. However, the other Nordic countries don't really have much of a connection. Both Sweden and Denmark had it at one point, but that was many hundreds of years ago.
No? Denmark and Estonia are extremely close friends and Denmark was the one who helped Estonia gain her freedom. Maybe you should learn some history of Estonia. In 2020 Estonia's leader even openly declared their country close friends with Denmark.
@@bumblebeeyellowdragon Denmark might be a big deal for Estonia, but most Danes don't even know the common history.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 In 2020 the Estonia leader openly declared close relations with Denmark. That's all the evidence you should need that the countries are tied together.
@@Mr.Heller Nice false equivalence and btw Putin did want good relations with the US but the US rejected diplomacy talks. You might want to restudy that part of history.
@@bumblebeeyellowdragon No for his last sentence? ... Because his first sentence is true tho.
Many of the islands/lands colonized or taken by the old Danes like Estonia still have loyalty to Denmark despite being their own free nations. It says a lot about how Denmark treated their invaded lands vs many other Empires.
To add additional context to this Denmark also helped free Estonia and were one of the first if not the first to recognize Estonian independence.
Låter som danskjävel propaganda
@@CalmNoises
Genomsnittlig svensk:
Average Swedish:
@@CalmNoises No it was literally an Estonian who told me their country liked Denmark.
@@bumblebeeyellowdragon Eh don't worry, the swedes and danes hate eachother, its like Turkey and Greece.
The first to declare recognition of the restoration of Estonian (and Latvian) independence was Iceland. Though the situation was a bit complicated and there were good reasons not to rush the recognition. A lot of Western countries never recognised the occupation as legal in the first place, and considered the Estonian Government in Exile to be the only legitimate government of Estonia since WW2, rather than the government structures of the Estonian SSR (so in theory, the government of the ESSR didn't have the authority to make the declaration in the eyes of countries what recognised the Estonian GiE). Recognising the declaration of the Estonian SSR without a solid analysis of the legal implications could have undermined Estonia's legal continuity going forward. It didn't, because the declaration was a solid establishment of legal continuity with the interwar republic of Estonia. Russia still continues to claim that the modern Baltic states lack legal continuity with the interwar states, but it could have been a lot worse for Estonia if the 1991 declaration had been some kind of rushed mess that actually gave the Russian interpretation any legs to stand on and a lot of Western countries had recognised such a hypothetical rushed mess without checking what it actually meant for Estonia.
Estonia view their language and culture as being more similar to Finland than the other Baltic states and they were part of Swedish Livonia during the Swedish empire
They were part of Denmark for many centuries however right up until they gained freedom had good relations with the Danes and Denmark even helped them gain their final independence.
It was basically a meme for a couple years before it mostly died. What made it funny to us Estonians was how Scandinavians kept coming up with easily debunkable arguments about geography (which would have excluded Denmark if the same standards were applied to them) and lack of historical connection (which would have excluded Finland if the same standard were applied) to avoid saying the "you're too poor to be Scandinavian" part out loud.
@SmilingShadow-jl5tr This. In short, Scandinavia is Norway, Sweden and Denmark. That's it. Finland (and Iceland) is part of the Nordic countries. Why they won't let Estonia in fully, I have no idea.
How baltic of them.
@@LuulitaCD If we follow the Nordic definition given before (speaking north germanic) then finland can't be nordic....
The Belgium and Finland memes were the most accurate for me as well as the Vietnam meme
Finnish one wasn't really offensive though.
@@half55-qo1tq I know it wasn't offensive I was just saying that I understood the meme right away. It was funny
Gotta love that Finland's slander is actually just one big flex :D
As a German I’ll have you know we have an amazing sense of humor.
We are talking about one of the five human senses, yes?
good one! German approved.
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Wir Deutsche haben einfach einen speziellen humor
@@Guynic I recently started learning German and I’m so giddy that I can understand you. That’s the comment, just wanted to say this.
Honestly using memes like this is a good way to get people who may look past history or not consider it 'important' actually into the subject. However for me, as someone into history, it's great to see memes used this way.
"Just embrace Dracula"
I think Romanians in generally already do. The Romanians I've heard talk on the subject told me he's considered a national hero. (The real Vlad Dracula, not the vampire)
I don't know about everyone else, but your commentary is WHY I watch your videos. :)
South Park did a roast on the whole Germans not being funny thing where they got all offended by being called the least funny people and created a machine called a “Funnybot” hilarious episode if you haven’t seen it, the German part of this reminded me of it😅
Yeah South Park is quite hard on you guys. Like with Cartman leading that march for instance. :D
Just saying so you know for future reference, Czechia is spelled with K where Ch is. So it's "Czek", because when you say Czeczia like you pronounce it, it sounds similar to Chechnya, huge difference
As a Scandinavian I can confirm that Estonia wants to sit at our table, always has. We like our little sister to the east, but she'll have to sit at the kdis tablle for a while longer. Doubt that Estonia will ever officially be one of us. Not for the lack of trying though.
As a Scandinavian you should know the difference between Nordic and Scandinavian.
the peruvian one is so damn accurate XDD. there are always good options, yet for a weird reasson always the worst outcome happens.
I love you man ! I have seen so much of your stuff, i couldnt watch all those things alone so i am grateful that you did it with me ❤
God, I wish I'd had you as a History teacher in High School. Mine was one of those who clearly didn't actually care about anything and was just waiting to retire. Hell, he literally told us that. He was like, "I don't wanna be here anymore than you kids, so let's just get this over with". He cared less about the actual history and more about teaching us to write full essays for tests at University level. Keep in mind, we were in 9th Grade. Literal freshmen. Meanwhile, I was excited to learn more about world history because I'm such a huge Iron Maiden fan. I thought we were gonna learn about History in a way that made us give a shit. Instead, he just handed us various textbooks and went, "Read this yourself and then give me a bunch of two-page, double sided essays and comprehension questions".
“Ok class we will now watch this short video for educational purposes”
*Proceeds to play a RUclips slander
As a Finn, I'm confused! :'D That was not a diss, that was a flex! :'D
Czechia has the highest per capita beer consumption and austria has the second highest. Both of them have over 100 litres (26.4 gallons) per year.
Also: i have never heard about estonia wanting to be considered scandinavian. Ive only heard them wanting to be nordic since they are so close with Finland.
Agree, I don’t think that meme had factored in the difference between ‘Nordic’ and ‘Scandinavian.’
Mr terry, there was a british tv programme called the tourist trap (i watched it again recently on RUclips) where they took a group of brits, a group of japanese, a group of germans and a group of americans who were given a free holiday. During the holiday they were all subjected to the same experiences, such as being brought out a banquet which had a sheeps head with brains and eyes to be eaten as part of it, to see how each nationality reacted. Long and the short of it is the stereotypes we have are legit. Definitely recommed watching it, very interesting. The germans were serious, the americans were loud, the japanese were organised and well behaved whereas the british werethe opposite and just drank a lot and joked around!
Damn I have to search for this on RUclips it sounds like a fascinating show.
Bro called us Chechia 😭💀
Nah but jokes aside, yeah the czech republic has the highest beer consumption per capita in the world
2:29 You talking is why I clicked this video. I don't know half of these countries so your insight is honestly quite entertaining.
Great stuff, maybe add a touch more commentary-- adds a lot!
One thing, saying Bangladesh was 'connected' to India is an understatement. It was an integral part of India since the Mauryan era, as the undivided state of Bengal (even today, West Bengal is a state of India). During the late Mughal era, Bengal was one of the most industrialized and developed states in the whole world (alongside being utterly plentiful in agricultural products), hence the huge population density.
As a Canadian we indeed say sorry whenever we show mild anger towards someone.
Indonesia, one of the few countries that, for way too many times, tried to end itself and/or humanity as a whole.
Being Indonesian is fun.
Which is also your neighbours meme source. Indonesia is SEA’s Florida
As a South African, a candle being blown out would have been more funny and fitting. Our power company puts the power off every day, its from stage 1 to stage 6 loadshedding, so a loadshedding joke would have been more relatable.
I agree
As an Estonian, *yes.* We constantly try to insist that we're Nordic, because 1) our islands were doing the viking thing with other vikings, 2) the alternative is being Eastern European, and 3) we live right next to Russia, of course we want nothing to do with them
You're still not Scandinavian or Nordic though
North European country on an Eastern European plain
@@vorpalchoppers. That’s a complete B S comeback!! In that case, using your logic, Denmark shouldn’t be part of the Nordic countries, but it is. As well with Iceland.
I agree you should be let in! I’m an American so I don’t have a lot of skin in the game, but I follow Artur Rehi and heave learned a lot about the history…besides, you have a sponsor! Finland is there to help get the attitude changed and regardless, as long as people start thinking of you as Nordic, it becomes the truth in its own way. Although it would help if your flag was in the shape of a Nordic cross like every other Nordic country. You can keep the colors the same. I already think of you as Nordic…and at the very least BALTIC. Not Eastern European in the slightest!
None of the 3 Baltic states are Slavic, which I believe is the common denominator of what constitutes an ‘Eastern European’ country. Hungary is its own thing, while Poland would be lumped in with the Slavs.
15:26 funniest part of this for me is the guy in the “average American” but is actually Australian
Only at lowes 😉
Happy forth of July Mr. Terry 🥳🇺🇸🇺🇸
11:04 that's kinda true cuz when typhoon muwar hit us we stayed up all night working😂
2:43 as a Belgian, WE technically didn’t do anything wrong. The Congo was a private colony of Leopold. When the Goverment found out what was really happening (they were recieving money and fabricated pictures) they took control and the attrocities stopped.
I am not excusing what Leopold did, just adding some insight.
As a Filipino, The Philippines part is accurate... Sadly. Discipline, particularly about our trash, is a problem here. Tbf we're 7k plus islands, lots of mountains and unpaved roads. I live in an area where you deal with your own trash. The temptation to just chuck our trash into the trash is tempting, tho some people opt to burn it instead and idk if that's any better.
Depends on the trash that you're burning, if its paper, cardboard, wood pallets, food scraps etc. basically anything that is normally biodegradable its fine (tho its depends on how heavily chemically treated some of those wood based products are), the ash from that can help the soil in many cases in particular if its depleted of nutrients, similar to how forest fires deposit nutrients back into the soil once the ash finally settles.
Conversely if you're burning things like plastics that is probably not the best of ideas, given that the smoke/fumes that come off of that are highly toxic and permeate the soil/water sources for extended periods of time, which are likewise notoriously difficult to get rid of, and in quantity especially in high concentrations can cause mutations in the local fauna (take a look at China). In which case recycling the plastics is a better option, tho granted I can't say for sure how robust your recycling infrastructure is there, but given what little I do know and your own testimony on the matter, I think I'm gonna say its likely not robust or even existent.
Honestly if you want a effective solution and I believe you guys have at least one biomass power plant in the country, the government (if the power plant isn't privately owned) could pay citizens to gather trash to feed into said biomass power plant, this would be a two fold solution 1) cleaning up the country and 2) provide fuel for increased power generation, which would help deal with your rolling brownouts and blackouts which I know you guys have a problem with.
The payout would be set by weight so say as a example 100 Pesos per 1kg, you could also effectively "employ" unemployed individuals this way and it could even extend down to even kids being able to bring in extra cash for the family (I know that is big thing there to), while say their father and or mother holds down and works their normal job(s) so technically a three fold solution when taking that into account.
If you want to get people to do something money is always the best motivator to achieve that objective, the caveat and or problem with this idea is corruption which I know is also a big problem there (granted being from the States myself, were not exactly ones to talk on anything corruption related, one look at our own government can tell you that much).
That said if y'all could reign in both the pollution and corruption y'all could very well become a tourist mecca to rival the likes of Fiji or Bali, given that y'all have a naturally beautiful country both topographically and climatic wise and Filipinos tend to be pretty friendly overall.
Which could generate huge revenue (being from a state myself that has heavy tourism traffic, which generates anywhere from 30%-60% of our GDP it can be quite profitable) for the country which could be put into improved infrastructure projects (the road issue you mentioned) and likewise providing further jobs on said projects to help elevate the standard of living for many Filipinos.
Always amazes me how these compilations just list the UK as one. England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales all have their own very meme’able qualities
Yeah!
Like hild my Guinness, my haggis, my beer, my tea/ bo’ow o’ wo’er
The Uruguay one got me, I fully expected a Uragay joke but that one was accurate as hell
Some of the memes are "meh... okay." But the one for Poland definitely deserves an applause. They are the world's MOST INVADED COUNTRY! And I don't think that second place is even close to that.
Not to mention when Belarus began with “invading” Polish borders recently a few years ago… Internet be like: “Really? Of all the countries in the world… Poland? Really?!” xD
13:51 “I don’t think youtube likes Good Charlotte that much.” My brother it is Simple Plan 💀
As an Algerian i'm glad someone has mentioned the brutality our grandfathers faced
Yep, france sucks, sad that algeria was the last to get free, at least it got some help
Tragic that the French of all people conquered them. I'm surprised the French didn't sail down there and immediately surrender
9:12 this is even more funny as am a quarter jewish 💀
2:50 Yeah, look it up and learn about it, and then you'll know it's not "the Belgians".
yes Czech republic or Czechia has the most yearly beer consumption per capita,witch was 181.7 liters of beer per person in 2020
as a belarusian i do indeed confirm that we are educated to do hopak at the age of 5
7:10
Your in the snipers sight
The first kill tonight
Time to die
Your in the bullets way the white death’s play
Sabaton reference
3:22 as a brazilian, this is very very accurate and even worse lol
3:06
We are running away from landmines....That makes sense
As a Pole I have to agree, we’ve been invaded or attacked so many times that when we’re learning history in school we’re taking forever before we start learning about the rest of the world
Being between Germany and Russia didn't help lmfao
2:05
As a Bangladeshi citizen
I can confirm what Terry is saying is true
(Thank you for representing my country, favourite historian Terry)
4:58 I'm from Czechia and I can 100% confirm.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
As an Argentinian i was expecting something about inflation.
13:53 That was Simple Plan, not Good Charlotte, lol. They're the band known for that MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) campaign song, Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me).
As a Chilean can totally confirm we live with earthquakes-
5:02 For Czechia, i think its actually only beer compsumption per person
4:33 As a Croatian, They have "Neum", a single city with more hotels than normal houses and not a single port, just overcrowded beaches
I'm from Greece. Money is overrated, I can eat ancient marble just fine.
I used to make satirical photoshops for a big website in my country.
I once photoshopped that you guys went back to the Drachme and used it as toilet paper.
Also I made Greek vouchers for donkeys since they're more stable in value than your currency if you'd go back to the Drachme
Oh wait, you also had that evil looking temporary minister of finance in 2015? I forgot his name but I made him red and put some devil horns on him.
Edit: Yanis Varoufakis. I'll try to put links to the photoshops in the next message.
Ahhhh and the trouble of uploading the photoshops was for nothing because the links indeed have been deleted.
@@MarcelNL Oh yeah, Mr. Varoufakis. We had lots of memes about him. His nickname was "The Yanis with one n", because that name is spelled with a double n, but he spells his with one. Witch, I don't know about English or other languages, but it's not something can do in Greek, it's just a typo.
5:03 Bro really said Chechia 💀💀💀
Oh Czechia is the best in drinking beer. Recently we applied to the UNESCO the sentence "Jít na jedno" which literaly means "Go to have one (beer)" but it really means to get wasted. To drink is "kalit" which literally means to quench and we do it "do sraček" which means until you shit yourself. There's a saying "pivo je náš chléb" which means beer is our bread and "hlad je převlečená žízeň" which means the hunger is a thirst in disguise. LOL
10:01 dude, I am a lavian, and while watching this video, I was eating my breakfast, which consisted of salad, potatoes, and minced meat sauce. so true.... :(
As a Slovenian I find that part accurate. Also I find all the ones from our neighbours accurate.
eeeee brat
as a brazilian that was relatable they also transported your dad left with the milk and your momma joke there
As a Sri Lankan, I have to agree with the assessment of my country.
Estonia is a Observer member in The Nordic Council afaik, which is basically Scandinavia+
Loving this reaction Estonia were in vaded by the Vikings in fact Vikings got all the way down to Ukraine.
Germany Surrendering in WW3 is the World Equivalent of the smart kid having trouble with the test
0:24 wait what
You: cooks pasta wrong
Every Italian within a 90 mile radius:
Hello, native Estonian here. The meme about us claiming to be Scandinavian is not at all true. Not a single person claims that we are Scandinavian, you'd have to be beyond stupid to make such a claim. I think the meme was supposed to be a reference to us wanting to be part of the Nordics, but I haven't heard anyone talking about it much for well over a decade.
Mr Terry: "RUclips doesn't like Good Charlotte much" *mutes Simple Plan*
Me: *visible confusion*
The most people can do is insult Canada for being nice which isn't really even an insult. I wish people would be more creative. As a Canadian I'd love to see original digs at Canada not the same trope of "being nice" over and over.
How about being woke, eh? :P
you're ned flanders but when he's the devil (because of your history of genocide)
@beepboop42069 - the webcomic Scandinavia and the World calls you America’s Hat.
@@lordofuzkulak8308 I don't get how that's an insult. The hat is the most classy part of the wardrobe.
@@bumblebeeyellowdragon at least it’s something different from the ‘always polite’ trope. 🤷🏻♂️
As someone from New Zealand can confirm that's accurate outside of friends and family sometimes
I'm well versed in history, geography, and sociology that by the end of the video my chest freaking hurt from laughing so hard. 100% of them are absolutely on point. Alas, some of those had absolute no chill at all 🤣
If your well versed then how do you agree about the USA one we have literally won 99% of wars we've been in. And the wars "we lost" we've only benefited while the other side didn't. The American military is quick to shut down and take entire countries. If your going to make a joke about the military it has to be about Gorilla warfare. The US is king of Interstate wars but not the best at counterinsurgency.
But again most people can only comprehend what they are fed through social media. There are actually so many people who think we can’t win wars anymore so I have to go back to my list of 15 different US victories in the last 30 years. Then I go to casualties, economic damage, infrastructure damage and how quick the capital was taken for the wars we "lost".
France ??????
I’m German, I grew up in England.
Peter Quill/ Starlord (MCU) looking shocked being our meme was on point! Either we don’t get it, don’t like it, or laugh about the worst things
New Zealanders aren't that angry, but we do have a lot of egotistical drivers on our roads.
Very true, very true.
12:38 and for that you earned yourself a sub! Thanks for defending me country 😅
As a german with humour, i laughed at the joke 🗿
4:37 Correct, but Croatia recently blocked it by building a bridge at the only way out. As you said, look it up.
nobody blocked nothing ships can still pass under the bridge
First of all, the bridge is way higher than the clearance of any ship. Secondly, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s main port is in Ploče in Croatia. The country exclusively uses Croatian ports. The only coastal city in Bosnia is Neum, who doesn’t have(and doesn’t want) a port. Not to mention, that the waters in that area are too shallow to build a major port anyway.
As a Brazilian it was a hundred percent true!
You know its not.
@@rustcohle9267 its true
@@rustcohle9267it's true
@@Monnigga Went to Brazil a few times and I know a little bit how it works. I also know that brazilians love to dissing their own country so I wont waste my time arguing.
@@rustcohle9267 bro, its just a joke but if you live in my country, you will know
As a moroccan Citizen I agree we hate when there is a border between us and the "western sahara" desert so the meme was pretty accurate
Ah, good ol' prejudice equality
Racist to everyone, equally!
As a Dutch person I wanted to argue the sentence with another unintelligible sentence
I am russian and I literally died of laughter during this video, thanks
Indonesia has 2 seasons,
Scorching hell and back to Noah's time. Sometimes both at the same day.
I'm French and the colonisation of Algeria was horrible and I'm truly sorry for what my ancestors did to the Algerian people.
Dutch guy here en ik denk dat het wel klopt wat ze over onszeggen. :P
Oh wacht, laat ik ook maar een lang woord typen zoals Hottentottententententoonstelling of zo. (Ja, theoretisch gezien is dat echt een mogelijk bestaand woord.)
As an albanian I could not wait to comment that I am a proud Albanian 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱 SHQIPERIA 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Okay, the thumbnail got me, as a Brazilian, i can relate to that 😂😂
Every day I hear some shots from not far away
We do have a sense of humor. But the last time we had some fun you americans had to come rescue the french 😂😂
If you mean WW1 that was mainly Canadians who forced Germany to surrender with their many key victories and leading the charge in the final 100 days. If you mean WW2, that was Russia who destroyed the vast majority of Germany's forces.
He is still right for ww1, Canada is in America
@@josh049 Not if you're from modern day times and didn't just time travel here from the 19th century.
13:00 "I mean that's the easiest joke for poland right? That's what happens when you are geographicaly between historicaly powerfull nations. You get invaded a lot". Switzerland and Nepal: *laughing in mercenary pikemen and gurkha*
For Belgium, that was the King and the when mess was created the belgian government had to takeover and try help the mess.
You don't talk too much, we watch your content specifically to hear your reactions and your insight!