Straight Line Borders AREN'T As Terrible As You Think
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- lol straight line borders are responsible for all the worlds evils am i right
Riding my scooter to the welsh border:
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“I like my borders like I like my women: curvy.” - Geography chat up lines 101
I like my borders like I like my women: straight if possible, but it's okay if they're not too
@@ibx2cat this is gold
//o_o//
@@ibx2cat what if? There are no borders 🤔
@@ibx2cat LMFAO
0:58 people living in Saarland have been annexed by Luxembourg within a second. Nobody, including Luxembourg, knows what happened
I’m not complaining, Luxembourg deserve the world
And nobody in Germany really cared
Yes, he made a big mistake, as he pointed on the German-French border!
The area where he pointed at actually was Rheinland-Pfalz, not Saarland. Saarland is a bit more west, so its basically the same border with france
That wasn't even Saarland. That was Rheinland-Pfalz.
the one dislike on this video was a welsh border control officer
aged badly
@@isyraqfirdaus5322 why what happened
Of course an englishman would make this video lol
we even try to use a straight line when we divide England into north and south
Bruh
facts
@@ibx2cat true north is best
@@Meerkat_2110 yeah, it’s further away from France
I can see the Guardian's headline tomorrow: A white Englishman breaks lockdown rules by illegally crossing the Welsh border just to prove that colonization wasn't "as terrible as you think"!
ibx2cancelled!
LMAOOOOOOAOAOO
LMAO MY ASS OFF
Weirdo
*straight borders
I knew a British person would like straight line borders
There not that bad 😩
@@someone.6259 american here and i disagree
@The last Bean bender A ton of those borders are straight lines
@The Master mind very funny
"if a camel's on this side of the border, he's a chad camel"
word
A Straight Line Border in the middle of a desert is usually a good thing.
The US's borders being straight lines also doesn't matter all that much because nobody really lived in the border regions at the time. Most of the US-Canada border is a straight(ish) line through the middle of a huge-ass forest. Not too much to really worry about, is there?
I mean the us Canada border was actually very disputed with the british since the hudson bay company needed to use the river for their work so they proposed a border that let them both use the river but america being america rejected it for a straight line
@@Q75 bruh the British also rejected reasonable requests from the Americans but the Americans also rejected reasonable requests from the Brit’s
This man traveled to the England-Wales border for a second channel video he doesn’t care about.
@@smeggiamagarwine he actually rode an electric scooter lol
Second Chan probably care?????
you know you're home when you hear "i like this map too much, i'm sorry"
borders with straight lines aren't inherently a problem and in some cases are very sensible, the problem is dividing people across borders because a colonial power didn't understand where the different ethnic groups were.
The Problem was that they drew the border for administration and then when decolonizing there was no way to change it since where different groups actually live isn't defined by a rigid line and they would almost certainly fight over it.
Or even as maliciously as to do it on purpose to create ethnic hierarchies (divide and conquer) or empowered aristocratic minorities just because they're half a shade lighter pigmented.
@@MetanoiaMan nah you’re reading too much into it, they were just lazy
@@and_raw2036 Consider looking up the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi aristocracy by the Hutu majority.
Oh they knew. They did it intentionally so that the people would be too busy fighting each other to rise up against their colonizers.
13:44 toycat really giving hope to those who’s borders may not be as large
Yep, as our (hopefully) to be new country's government has told us, land area doesn't matter, it's the people and their hard work that makes a country.
From a CapeXiteer (South Africa)
ToyCat: "It's how you use it [that matters."
ToyCat's girlfriend: unconvinced
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6:58 "you see a border that is very precise"
*Shows an arc of a circle with a random section cut out*
"Straight line borders aren't as terrible as you think," says the Brit.
Toycat "zooms at saudi arabia/ iraq border and sees 4 cities near the border".
Also toycat : "as you guys see nobody lives here"
All nations should be triangle shaped with all national capitals being squares.
What about city-states?
@@qbek_san City states shouldn’t exist.
@@efilwv1635 or maybe isosceles trapezoid?
@@plislegalineu3005 I’m for it!
Hello Efil, do you take criticism
Straight lines aren't the issue, it's the location of those lines that creates problems. Sykes and Picot could have drawn straight lines in the Middle East and created a stable, culturally and economically sturdy regions, but their borders were designed for the opposite reason to this, dividing resources and people groups in order to prevent strong local nations forming/consolidating and therefore improving the strength and power of the European powers in those regions.
When you realize chad and Libya had fought over that useless border called the Aouzou strip
And Chad win. As always.
Yeah, Libya invaded that area because of the Oil resources in the Aouzou strip
There was oil what do you expect. Its not just the Americans who do it
Fun fact, the border between Sweden and Norway; it is defined at a resolution of about 5 km, marking points of where the line should go through. Since the border is 1630 km long, that makes it 326 segments of 5 km straight lines. This is unlike most borders that follows natural elements which are very squiggly. It also means that the border is exactly 1630 km since it doesn't have a fractal pattern.
Some animals actually DO have borders among their own species but humans dont care about those borders nor they ours
You know what would be interesting? Have someone try and map out the "borders" so to speak between wolf packs or gorilla troupes. Would be a real eye opener.
I wanna se like a history of a street and see what dogs conquered what by pissing on it
I live in Germany near the Czech Republic. A physical border doesn't exist hear anymore. But the red deer heards still don't cross the old cold war boarders even though there is not a single deer which lived during the cold war still living today.
Apes will declare independence and make their own country.
@@Opanker_ Apes. Together. Strong
7:13 The Middle East, its a place with some problems with uh everything.
killed me
I mean like he is not wrong.
The English/Welsh border isn't just difficult to define, it's got loads of minor roads and country lanes passing through it. Most of these don't even bother with a sign telling you the county, so I'm impressed you found that quiet country road that actually tells you you're at the border.
Australia and New Zealand also didn't change their borders.
Same with Canada, I think.
@@spencergraham-thille9896 They get that little piece of land from the US in northern Minnesota.
when this guy goes on a tangent, he truly flourishes and becomes incredibly fun to watch
The Chad Camel Vs the Virgin Human Citizen
europe 1000 years ago: Messy Borders
europe 100 years ago: functional borders
europe now: no borders
of course it does, it just has free access, and eventually the european federation might form and in that case, no there won’t be borders, but what’s the problem with that?
“It’s not the size of your border; it’s how you use it.” Lol.
Didn't Libya invaded Chad over the placement of that straigth line? "Toyota Wars" or something.
They did...
You can not stop Chad. Chad can not be defeated
"Let's Go Places"-Toyota motor company Dec/31st/2012
They did and won because they used Toyota instead of tanks which Lycia had but there toyotas were so quick they dodged the tank amno and run over minefield without blowing up
Straight line borders usually need less troops to control than curvy ones, because they are shorter. This works over flat empty terrain. Where you have rivers and mountain ridges, using the natural features may be more efficient.
“Non hospitable” as you zoom up on the hundreds of towns in Saudi Arabia
Saying the ENTIRE french-german border is the rhine, then pointing to germany and saying "this is luxemburg"
@@vo4zw-vo4zw I know, I just found it funny, no ill intention :)
It doesn’t matter how you pronounce “Grande”, you just have to say “Rio Grande”, NOT the “River Grande” or “Grande River”
It's actually called Río Bravo now
@@eddie-roo not in the US
This comment be like:
O, say, can you see
The Grande River?
Oh no! I can't see,
I see only the Rio Grande.
"Rio Grande River"
Its Río Bravo
New idea for the countries which have borders around the Sahara: make the border line spell out “send nudes”
In Arabic or English?
@@bruhz_089 BOTH
In french
Autocorrect: did you mean sand dunes?
@@KornalyUr genius
The French-German border doesn’t follow the Rhine river, it only makes up a small section of the border. Most of the Rhine is entirely within Germany and the Netherlands
Breaking News: 90% Of England Votes to Become Welsh, leading to people looking back on the ancient Brittonic Cultural Lands and the British Isles before the Germanic Invasions, Where the "Welsh" were the primary occupants of the English Region.
Though Its much more likely that "the North" would join Scotland for That sort of argument, their benefits are generally better than ours (the welsh) - though Celtic/Brittonic influence is still kind of prevalent in Northern England I believe in that they can use some Welsh-Descendent words in their local dialect to a greater degree than normal English.
My father has Welsh family, and so used random bits of Welsh.
but since the Germanic invasion most of north england became anglo's and tbh the idea that wales and Scotland are still celtic is a weird imo they are pretty much identical to the english in culture apart from a few minor bits
"The only countries that look vaguely the same is Papua... Egypt, and Oman"
Japan, Australia, Cuba, Philippines, New Zealand, and the rest of countries with no land border: hmmm
0:58 germans find themselves living in Luxemburg
all borders straight: lesotho: aight i'mma head out
Swaziland simply vanishes.
Wait, just how did you say Mauritania?
It's called the Rio Grande, even in English. Nobody says River Grande.
The sections of the US Mexican border that are unprotected are in incredibly inaccessible and inhospitable areas where there is a good chance of death if you attempt to cross. If it was easy to just walk across, people wouldn't be paying coyotes thousands of dollars to smuggle them in.
The US also has a 1,300 mile dead straight border with Canada that doesn't seem to cause any problems.
Because why would you want to leave Canada for the US
Parts of the U.S/Canada border are definitely problems
That first map showing which countries were colonized by Europe is disappointing to me because Ethiopia was never really colonized. Sure Italy was stationed there for a few years but they were constantly being fought back against for the duration of the time and never had any actual governmental control of the region.
Same with marking Ireland as not being colonised even though we were… we even had our own language other than English which was systematically educated out of our children…
“Precise lines” can still be very bad, like when the europeans carved up africa . Yes, they are “precise” but it disregards the cultures and traditions there.
@Wind Rose yup, the concept of "nation" and "nation state" is a European export item that doesn’t really apply everywhere
Perhaps a better example of what your trying to say here would be the example of the middle east. In the wake of the collapse of the ottoman empire, Britain and France carved up its southern territories among themselves. With zero disregard for the ethnicities and people living in the region When those places gained independence. They almost immediately collapsed to authoritarian regimes backed by the USA and Soviet Union because there was valuable oil there and it would be important to have control of the region in the future. When the cold war ended and interest in the region collapsed, The dictators there almost immediately fell victim to large revolts widespread throughout the country. And in Syria those revolts escalated to a full civil war. All because some white men with little knowledge of the region and its peoples; used a ruler to draw the borders.
Andrew uploading a video on his 2nd and 3rd channel at the same time
Absolute madman
Absolute madman
2:50 "European sphere of influence" isn't that the earth?
im glad he made a comment about northern ireland critiscizing the brits
0:57 Not even an entire minute in and he already gave away the entire palatinate (or even everything east of the Rhine), to Luxembourg of all countries!
Toycat breaking lockdown restrictions to make a video. Our hero
At least he did not exhaled into other persons inhaling zone, vice versa.
The title just sounds like something Africa would say to Europe.
I’d think that it would be the reverse as it was the Europeans who propped up those borders in the first place
@@empirus8732 yup balkans destroyed africa 👍🏻
@@empirus8732 Ah, true true
Oh sorry I'm late I was busy watching someone go to the Welsh border on a scooter
When he points between Yemen and Oman three times and says Oman would be mostly unaffected by his new borders.
Oman would lose quite a few towns at the UAE border.
0:53 The city on the left is actually the city of Passau and it's located in south-eastern Bavaria near borders of Austria. The river is Danube and far into the picture u can see river Inn joining Danube. and behind the tunnel, bridge and building on the left is another river, river Ilz, joining the mighty Danube. I just wanted to make clear, that this isn't any French city, but pure German city near borders of Austria.
Well, if you don't count Liberia as non-colonized by Europe, then you shouldn't really count either Japan or South Korea, cause they were basically USA colonies after WW2.
You mentioned european borders and how people on each side are q different group of people, but you forgot Hungary where everyone near the border on both sides is Hungarian, thank you treaty of trianon
You should have a look at the border at Baarle-Nassau. A beautiful mess of borders.
Really enjoy your videos,love to learn things I don't need to know. Greets from Germany.
Could you do a video explaining what Belgium is?
it’s a country
@@louw-h3754 in Africa
The map at 1:37: **Exists**
Ethiopia: What the hell, man? You made LIberia orange but not me?
Well it was colonized by Italy
@@pascal9527 occupied not colonized
@@mitchhennen3525 Still under European control
@@pascal9527 thats means that france was colonized by Europe
I guess those people in that village really took being 'Welsh' to a whole new level.
If I were a rich man,
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum.
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.
If I were a welshy man.
Canada's borders would only be slightly changed if the borders were straight lines
There is a town called Saltney where the England Wales border runs through a road. Boundary lane.
DENMARK WASN'T CHANGED WHEN YOU MADE THE BORDER STRAIGHT?!
What is this "Denmark" you speak of?
Part of the border changed.
Thank you for giving us Pattburg back! You get Kobbermølle in return.
"It's not the size of your border, it's how you use it." - ibx2cat, 2021
It's for 'work' purposes - so OK :o)
If I see a straight line border my first thought is
"those guys are good friends"
As a Belgian I'd like to know how and when Lille was a part of Belgium
For the Anglophones, it's the river "grand", for the Mexicans, "grand-ay".
actually in spanish the E is not pronounced as "ay" but as "e" (I don't really know how to explain the E pronunciation to an English speaker)
@@e.moonbound2420 "alglophones" máquina 😎
7:37 just so you know, the first map was at a time when the whole land was under british control, the second map was a UN partiton plan that the jews agreed to, the arabs declined, the 3rd map is the proposal after the 6 day war in 1967. once again, the jews agreed and the arabs declined, and finally, the 2012 map is not showing the context that the west bank is divided into areas A, B, and C, area A which is shown under israel, area B which is also shown under israel (although the palestinian authority controls most of it except for security), and area C is showing the control of the palestinian authority and hamas. i just wanted to let you know that the map that you showed is very misleading and can be interpreted by most to show mostly false information. otherwise great video!
as an israeli i will add to this by saying that gaza and the west bank were fully part of israel too, taken from egypt and jordan (reminder that jordan and egypt annexed gaza and the west bank, hence the name "west" bank, back when israel was just born. on a A-Political map, israel does control most of the west bank with only some minor places by the others. so this map on that time stamp is mostly false. arabs declined so the 1947 borders never existed. in their name it says it is a proposal. and the small dots of the west bank and gaza were the actual first time they gained somewhat land by the oslo accords. the british mandate of palestine was actually the jewish country (changed it's name from a european one to the old one) since if you will see posters of it back then, you see football groups of palestine with a magen david and posters saying "free palestine" by the zionist organization. the more you know
@@Gearkiller25 :) עם ישראל חי
@@jaxrippon2106 ברור :)
"People on this side are from Liechtenstein" Literally points at saarbrucken🤣
RUclipsr :Only Egypt is unaffected.
Australia: Are you sure about that.
Spain and Portugal in the treaty of Tordesillas:YES
Hungary is the only country in the world that's only bordered by itself. You should make a video about that. If nothing else, it would trigger some *insert 7 nations*-ian people :D
"Most people don't choose to swim from Ukraine to Turkey."
Yeah, say that to the guy who I saw in a dream couple of days ago
I was in your dream i know what your talking about 100%
''it's not the size of the border, it's how you use it'' lol
20:38 a desert is somewhere that gets less than 10 inches of rain a year
Lets give the guy props he went to the english-welsh border to make a video insted of just talking over some maps
Credit to ibx2cat for teleporting during the video
6:38 how would you know? Also there's animals who have borders between rival groups of their species, this have been documented by humans
Because that map at 8:00, like you said, has not been implemented, Turkey is often not considered to have been colonized (but invaded in WW1 but to no avail)
Iran generally is also not considered to have been colonized by Europeans.
The straight line border for Northern Ireland actually follows the demographics much better than the option imposed by the British bureaucrats at the time. Of course that's the only place the British Empire went with the alternative.
I knew toycat coulnt resist crossing the border 13:08
Egypt doesn't change much
*Laughs in Denmark only has one almost straight border on a peninsula"
I don't know if anybody has mentioned this already but at 0:52 there is a picture of "Passau" shown as a exemple of the rhein boarder between france and germany. But Passau is a city in Germany located near austria and even though the city isn't divided by a border, not far from the city is a border between germany and austria which follows the danube (the danube flows through Passau).
ibx2cat: "Nigeria"
Me: "Haha, there's no such country!"
Me: "Wait, he's just pronouncing it like a Brit."
Me: "Why were you just being dumb, me? Was it time to do so again already?"
Unfunny
@@bruhz_089 Then don't laugh and don't like. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@hiccup1001 Not at all sure what you're confused about. I was thrown off by him using the *English* pronunciation of the word. English is not my native language. But I wanted to be more specific, so I wrote "like a Brit". I didn't mean "as opposed to Like someone from the US".
In case that helps.
Toycat: straight borders arent as terrible as you might think
Me: *EXPLAIN YOURSELF, COLONIST*
0:57 "People who live on this side of the line are in Luxemburg" *proceeds to point at German lands west of the Rhine*
1:57 no, the map is not right, there are zero Eiffel Towers in South America, even in French Guiana
Minute 0:53 is the German town of Passau. Both sides in that picture are thus Germany. Interestingly the hill in the background is Austria :)
the sykes picot agreement wasn't actually that curvy, you just happend to pull up an appallingly bad map of it
2:00 shows iran as not binging invaded
Sad alexander the grate noises
British representative at the Berlin Conference explaining how they are going to divide up Africa, 1884 (audio).
Countries shouldn’t be drawn on ethnic lines unless those groups hate eachother, in which case they need to grow up.
That is why I propose uniting the Balkans into one superstate and if there are any ethnic conflicts, tell them to cut it out.
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What's ironic about this is that Libya and Chad fought a long bloody war in the 1980s over their border in the Sahara. I notice the town of Wath is right on the Libya-Chad border. I don't think that's the reason they were fighting, though. The land Libya claimed is drawn as part of Chad on your map. I also think it was probably actually about something other than the border dispute it was supposedly about. Supposedly it's somehow it's connected to a Chadian civil war, the Cold War, the Arab Cold War, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Much love to your content sir! Coming at you all the way from Seattle Washington! Bro I just wanted to say you make the videos so we’ll and they are such a joy to watch. God bless you
pog new second channel geography video
Pig is cringe
“Straight line borders isn’t as terrible” - toycat laughs in British
they are also some of straight borders in europe. look at former borders between ussr and poland, when it is not bind to a river, its pretty straight (poland-russian border, or poland-ukraine border)
I don't know why I laugh every time I see your intro.
I couldn’t help thinking of the long straight US and Canada border from the Great Lakes to the Pacific during this entire video. Granted that’s likely because I’m a (US) American.
I searched this but didnt expect you to make this
1:48 Wait what?? The British and Russians did Occupy and divide Iran among them and the British also managed to conquer Afghanistan for a few years in 1800s. I don't get this map
This video was partially just the European colonist in him awakening.
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