The Mexican American Border | A Tale of two Colonies
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Why is Mexico so different from the United States? Why is one country poorer than the other? In this video, the first of a 3 part series, I would like to take you on a journey through the socio-economic developments that took place in two countries throughout their recent 400 years of history and compare them.
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Source material
Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
American Nations, by Colin Woodard
American Character, by Colin Woodard
The Forgotten Continent by Micheal Reid
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
These truths, by Jill Lepore
The Contemporary History of Latin America, by Tulio Halperin Donghi
The Narrow Corridor, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
The Origins of Political Decay, by Francis Fukuyama
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How the hell did you get a serbian translation
@@yiayyiay1352 with a serb willing to translate (?)
somewhat surprising that there isn't a spanish translation yet
Just rewatched your Video on the fall of democracy in imperial Japan. Still planning on doing a 2nd part? Ó_ò
Im Namen der allermeisten hier kann ich dir nur wieder zu einem gelungenen Video gratulieren. Informativ, witzig und spannend.
Cant imagine how much hell it must have been to draw those individual Aztec-balls
Seeing you watch other history youtubers’ content seems cool
Wow, it's cool to find you here. you have really good taste.
Relatable
I remember seeing all your comments on brain4breakfast videos
Yeah...
We should get Nogales' Tourism Office to sponsor us.
I definitely want to go to Nogales now and see what its like.
@@jasonkrasnopolskiy504 Oh nice! Ask for tortillas sobaqueras. They're very big and very good.
Legit, bring a friend if you want to eat anything with that. The wrapper's enormous lol.
Están chingonas tu bolas... You draw really good, man.
@@chico20m ¡Jajaja, gracias! Ahí para cuando guste >;oooo
Me agradó trabajar en este video. Y agárrense que vienen más.
which one
Hey! Nogales resident here!
It’s so surreal that a Polandball RUclipsr that I’ve been watching for a long time just started talking about the small border town that I live in. I never thought that anyone would talk about this place outside of Capirtoada, so that’s great!
While I wasn’t born in Nogales (I was born in Ciudad de Querétaro), the majority of my life has been spent living here. I lived 7 years in Nogales, Sonora; and 3+ years in Nogales, Arizona (where I live now). I mostly wanted to make this comment to corroborate things from the video with my own personal anecdotes.
I want to start off by saying that crossing between each Nogales is a very integral part of both cultures. AZ to Sonora for economic/commercial purposes, and Sonora to AZ for literally everything else. It’s not considered very special to cross between both countries’ borders because, well, we live here (this would probably be the same for most dual border towns), and a lot of people cross the border every day, multiple times a day. When I lived in Nogales, Sonora; my older sister worked retail at one of the stores at the border on the American side. Even though she would only make minimum wage, they would pay her in dollars, so she would end up making more money than if she worked retail in Mexico, all while crossing to and from AZ every day.
You are also right about the students (I was one of them). Nogales AZ has one public High School (the other 2-3 of them are private) and a good chunk of students from that school live in Mexico. They cross the border from Sonora to AZ every weekday at around 5:00 AM to catch the bus (the border is the only sector of Nogales AZ that the school would send more than one school bus to pick up students) and once school was over, they would grab the bus back to the border. A lot of these specific students wouldn’t even completely know English! Even though I spoke/speak fluent English (English was my first language, Spanish my second) I still struggled a lot with properly writing English when I transferred there in Junior year (I never took a proper English class in Mexico), something that I’m still trying to refine.
Also, Nogales, Sonora is so much more interesting entertainment-wise than its American counterpart. To the point where my high school's prom would be held in America, and then the afterparty would be held across the border in Mexico at a nightclub (The legal drinking age in America is 21, whereas in Mexico it's 18).
I’m not sure if this is because of the specific classes that I was in, but the students at my American HS were a lot more politically involved than in my Mexican HS. In fact, the student council president (who I was friends with) would regularly work on projects outside of school and in the general community; and she would even frequently contact, conduct campaigns with, give suggestions of changes to, and generally assist the mayor of the town, which is kinda cool for a HS kid to do?? Idk.
(Cool little anecdote about my old HS, the mascot is the Apache, and I believe the school sent out representatives to local apache tribes to ask them for permission to use them as the school’s mascot. (In honor of them) Apparently, they all found it very humorous and flattering, so they said yes. They are now supposedly the only HS in this region to have ever asked permission for usage of a tribe mascot like that.)
The only crime that I’ve ever experienced here was that one time where my neighbor stole my bike (and left it in his yard?? Like bruh if you're gonna steal it, maybe actually try to hide it). Other than that, I only remember when some drug lords from Nogales, Sonora, were caught strapping bags of cocaine inside the wheels of teachers' cars, which they would then cross the border to get to work as unknowing drug mules. Also, that one case where a guy killed another guy in revenge like a year and a half ago. Other than that, not much. In Nogales, Sonora, however, you have to take a lot of precautions to protect your belongings (and by extension yourself), especially if you are a child or a woman. I do find your comment about transportation interesting though. In all the 7 years that I’ve lived there, I never got robbed or hurt by someone in public transportation, and I would take it A LOT (school busses don’t exist, but you do get a discount if you’re in your school uniform, and I went through all of middle school and most of High School using these public buses). The same for taxis, although it might vary from age and gender (I was a young boy at the time), so take my anecdotes with a grain of salt.
I think it’s interesting how almost no one in Nogales, Sonora knows how to speak English fluently (the majority can still understand it), yet the vast majority of people in Nogales, AZ are bilingual.
You are also very correct about healthcare, literally, every one of my friends in Nogales AZ would cross to Mexico every time they needed to go to the doctor, dentist, optometrist, etc. There’s just no comparison to the quality difference. This also might just be a placebo, but for me, Mexican medicine is so much more effective than American medicine by a landslide. It is also SO MUCH CHEAPER.
Overall, I really liked your video and hope to see the next two parts soon!
Anyways, tl;dr: _✨N o g a l e s✨_
Same here in Hidalgo ( McAllen) Texas, The fun was always had on the Reynosa side and the same with the health care, not to mention the food. We eat a lot of alligator gar ( cattan) and we cook it chicharrón style I remember asking my grandma why it taste better on the MX side she said because the gringos use new grease and we don’t I remember thinking to myself silly gringos.
Nice description thank you
What a nice little add-on to read after finishing the hour-long video. It's nice to read accounts of real people that have largely experienced what was explained in the video. Living in one of those dual-border towns must be such an interesting situation to be in, especially where it's two hugely different countries involved.
I live in Miami and even though we are not bordering anyone, we are pretty much a little bubble in which pretty much all Hispanic cultures interact within a United States institutional framework. It is really fascinating to watch Miami society's daily life play out.
Your neighbour must have stolen it under "influences" to make such a stupid mistake ahjaahhahahhaha
Imo (I’m from Tijuana btw) it’s not so much that healthcare is better in Mexico. Public healthcare is fine and sometimes mediocre or even bad. But oh lord, private healthcare in Mexico is godsend. The Mexican doctors who have their specialties are so good and caring compared to a lot of doctors in the US and despite being private it’s still way more affordable than in the US. I could be biased because medical school is 6 years in Mexico and 4 years in the US
Kraut be like:
"Why are there 2 Nogales and why is one way worse than the other?"
"Ok, give me a moment to explain..." *starts talking about the Aztec empire*
Same can be said to explain about ww2 let's start from Charlemagne
@@silvanmoses9122 and you cant explain Charlemagne without explaining the fall of the eastern roman empire and the threat from the Islamic golden age.
Every RUclips Essay be like
@@Mana-xd2tp One thing for sure is I feel like Kraut is better at doing this than other RUclipsr. I find most overexplaining seem a bit disconnected and uninteresting by the end. For Kraut, his pacing is well established so you can transition from 1 section to another until the very end seamlessly.
Bonus the fact that Kraut speaks clearly to the audience. As someone who is not native English speaker, I find Kraut voice soothing and easy to understand. His words choice aren't much complicated and straight into topics. Using academic term is fine, but finding a balance like Kraut is much better in my opinion ^-^
I was born in Nogales AZ, so it was a huge surprise for me to hear Kraut himself talk about the little town... I've always thought it was interesting that it was split between two countries and shows the difference between Mexico and the US so clearly, so it was always surprising that literally no one I've talked to knows about it. Great video as always!
Do people move between them often?
Do people move between them often?
I used to go there to go shopping I live in Mexico and crossing the border was like 10 minutes in car and like 15 walking
@@lowleypeasentmr.l8836 yeah I used to we went to get groceries and clothing they were more cheaper in Nogales(AZ) we're talking here like 2010
@@lowleypeasentmr.l8836 It's the main reason people live there. Businesses that move cargo between the US and Mexico use Nogales as the last stop on either side for registration and logistics related to the border crossing. Gas stations, insurance companies, tons of warehouses, offices, and mechanics are solely there for this business. Plus, a lot of local clothing vendors from Mexico buy American clothes due to the higher quality, so tons of Mexican business owners cross the border and shop at discount shops in Nogales AZ. Americans, on the other hand, go to Nogalez Sonora for cheap medicine or as a stop before hundreds of miles of Sonoran desert. Its one of the busiest border crossings between both countries (other than El Paso and Tijuana) mostly since companies use Nogales a lot for exports, and since its the most convenient crossing for people going to the north western part of Mexico or going to Arizona.
Handy Dandy Timestamps
Chapter 1 - 7:42
Chapter 2 - 26:32
Chapter 3 - 35:35
Chapter 4 - 47:55
Very weird time
How did you make timestamps?
@@kartupelu_pankucinas you just put numbers with " : " in between in this format ##:##. like 1:24 , 4:56 etc
@@adudeontheinterweb6571 What he said :)
@@adudeontheinterweb6571 oh well thx, like this? 4:08
Kraut Jr.: "Dad, how did the Mexican American border happen?"
Kraut Sr.: "Well son, there was this new continent, called Pangea..."
@Ricky Smith . It's s believed that Pangaea was the Earth's original continent before it broke up. So, this is just a joke about how, the story of a place can begin at any point in time. It also means that this is a very thorough presentation!
@@ALCRAN2010 OK, I get it now. The problem was that I misunderstood your comment as a criticism that Kraut was over complicating things by going too far into the history of colonization of the Americas. Maybe that confused Ricky, too. The truth is that Kraut has greatly simplified things. But not more simplified than was necessary.
AHAHA soo true. He begins his Turkish history video with the invention of agriculture :P
@Ricky Smith he’s making a joke about how much context kraut provides
@Ricky Smith no problem, Pangea was an ancient landmass from millions of years ago where all the continents were conjoined, so he’s making an exaggeration to make a joke about how much context Kraut gives to setup the main point. Hope this helps
My family is descendent from conquistadors. They eventually settled in a small town in the San Luis valley in a town called “Del Norte” - in Colorado - where there are still groups of people of Spanish descent that speak Spanish - and get very defensive when people call them “Mexican”. Thank you for shedding light on this lesser know part of history!
If they are brown they aint spanish, simple as that
Mexico is just Spanish North America, they don't want to associate with Mexicans because they don't want to be associated with poor mestizo people looked down by Anglo American culture.
The Spanish colonization of the Southwest was done by Mexico (by New Spain) not by Madrid, the Spanish they speak comes from Mexican Spanish and so the culture.
@@chrisfenrir thank you, that is just the truth, it amaze me how many people with mixed background on the southwest claim to be "spanish" when few spaniards went to the southwest to form communities, spaniards actually went mostly to Lima or Mexico City, not what at the time was considered a wasteland
@@rodrigoe.gordillo2617 This is only partially true, while this areas saw major migration of Spaniards, by far, the whitest region of Mexico is Northern Mexico (Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Baja California).
@@rodrigoe.gordillo2617 this channel isn’t for you
"This is Nogales. This is also Nogales. This is the entire history of Mexican politics."
well that is what the video was about, the Nogales analogy was only a way to show the differences in societies.
I used to live there! It wasn't so bad back in the day.
@@SpywareEverywhere But did you live in Nogales or Nogales?
@@LordDarthHarry Yes
@@LordDarthHarry Aladeen
This is like a slightly late Christmas present.
This is a New Year's Eve present.
this is a gift from the gods
5 days « slightly »
Both a Christmas and New Years' present 🎁.
This is a video
This information is plain gold. As a northen Mexican I must tell you that this is top notch. You detailed our History better than any of the teachers and historians that I’ve ever come across. Please, you’ve got to allow someone helping you make a Spanish version of this in case you cannot do it yourself. We Mexicans and other Spanish speakers desperately need to listen to this. Let me know what you think. For now, you’ve got yourself a new suscriber.
you can subtitle the video
✈️ 💰
I see Brazil making companies like Embraer, and being entepreneurial in general.
I dont see Mexico doing the same.
I always wondered why honestly
@@honkhonk8009 que?
@@honkhonk8009 I don’t think you know what you’re talking about. Maybe you’re just trying to start a dick measuring contest?
6:35-7:35 This is the minute... the ONE minute that makes shivers run down my spine every single time - and puts every achievement into perspective... just the thought that, were we born in a different location, or a different time, all our talents, all our ambition, all our determination could be null and void due to the ruling system is very humbling.
Not null and void. There’s a strong argument that your talents and ambition would reach their fullest potential. Most probably your qualities would be channeled in different ways, or that you’d develop other talents, or that you’d try to emigrate to somewhere else. We are extremely adaptable.
I hope that your trajectory towards maximal happiness is smooth and ever ascending, but if you should suffer serious setbacks or unforeseen circumstances, always remember that you are of flexible mind and adaptable to meet any situation. You are never null and void while you can draw a breath, not ever. 😊
@@MarcosElMalo2 there's no doubt that humans can adapt to a myriad of various circumstances... however, when you talk about "serious setbacks or unforeseen circumstances" I certainly believe you're talking about things like financial hardships, a messy breakup, maybe impulsively committing a crime and being convicted for it...
But what I also like to be seen included in my statement are things like being captured and sold into slavery, being killed or imprisoned simply for your mere ethnicity, religion, or political affiliation, randomly being chosen as a human sacrifice, being tortured and left crippled for the rest of your life for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and some inquisitor thought there was something up with you, being legally or socially bound to or restricted from certain occupations (e.g. Jews in the Middle Ages who were forbidden to own land or manufacture things), places to inhabitate etc.
These are things you cannot just "adapt to" as most of them include physical restrictions for the rest of or rightout ending your life.
It's an appealing straw to hold on to to believe you can just go on and work in the system regardless, but there are circumstances that are final to the individual and can only be resolved by outside influence or system collapse.
As a Russian, hearing the history of the newly independent at those times Mexico really gave me cold sweat, it's uncomfortably reminiscent of what we have been experiencing as a country since at least 1991
For perspective ruclips.net/video/KY8KH93JCuw/видео.html
Quite good
Latin America was the first case of fail states, A tactic later use in the middle East but much more efficiently
Since 1917
@@datadavis Since 1547 🤭
@@macanaeh or since the vikings colonized rusland😅
The Wild West: Started by Mexico, adopted by the United States, and portrayed by Italy.
Spaghetti westerns are solid films
@@133774c05 Spaghetti westerns are better than classic westerns, don't change my mind. Just look at the modern westerns, they are all spaghetti westerns.
I don't like Spaghetti. I'm talking about the food of course, I really just don't care for Spaghetti. Just thought the internet should know that.
And filmed in Spain
@@terrypennington2519 hmm big ears
As an economics student with a big interest in history I must say, I LOVE your videos! I have read “why nations failed” and when I recognized it in the beginning of the video I was immediately exited. You are a true genius when it comes to making interesting videos based on books that can be somewhat tedious at times. Thank you for all your hard work. I can’t wait until part 2!
You can read extensively about this in Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu and Robinson. Theory has more loopholes than you think
What a great deep dive in to a topic. Rarely is anything in TV or media particularly in-depth, but it seems so desired, by many,
The Kraut content is literal movies now!!! I hope you are aware of this pivotal moment in your career Kraut. You are about to leave your primordial ooze and affect the minds of millions of people. Given your evolution and "redemption arch", I (and it seems thousand others) are certain that you will provide a long lasting positive effect on this planet.
I love me some *_Kraut Originals_* once in a while.
Kind of like all the commentary channels now on this website.
always has been
Ikr
Pop. That. Corn.
Something about the polandballs with the blackened eyes seems extremely eerie.
I know right
Could loterally make a spooky meme with them
It reminds me of that one comic were Germany is konflicted of ghost from his past. Super dark, but beautiful.
Makes them look hollow in my opinion
@@boogaloo2.017 a strange split
Wow! As a mexican, I can say that this video is extremely well made, huge props to everyone that helped in this video. No biases and no misinformation that is consistently told by history books. I am looking forward to watch Porfirio Díaz's and PRI's dictatorships in the next 2 videos.
Si es cierto, estaría bueno;
también de la revolución.
Yo también. I also hope he covers more of the Anglo’s genocide against the Indians. My thesis is that both the Spanish colonizers and the English colonizers engaged in genocide, but the characteristics were different. The Spanish tried to impose a cultural genocide in Mexico (that was never completed), whereas the English colonists and Americans engaged in a physical genocide (that was nearly complete). Furthermore, the racism took different forms. The weirdly intricate social stratification of the Casta system provided a basis for social mobility at the same time that it oppressed. Have a child with someone of higher racial caste, and you could improve the social standing of your child.
That sounds very messed up until you compare it with the racism of the U.S. The child of a slave and a white was still a slave. The only good indian was a dead indian (a common saying well into the 20th Century). Neither the dead nor the enslaved had any chance of social mobility.
@@MarcosElMalo2US killed no more Indians than Mexico did. Lower Native populations in the US are due to lower population densities. most "Indians" in Mexico are in the south which is where the highest population densities were.
Furthermore, you are talking about two systems over very different time scales- Spain's control lasted from 1500's to 1800 while the US expanded in 1 century. US also had MASSIVE immigration which Spain and later Mexico never had. This is why there are relatively few natives in the US- not because the US carried out some sort of genocide program. the Fact that the US had programs for reservations for Natives shows the US was not planning on wiping out Native populations but that the relatively small numbers of natives were forced into reservations to make way for the incoming settlers.
However, the US was not just wantonly carrying out genocide- its simply shown in the facts.
Long story short- Ango genocide was never worse than Spanish or Mexican genocides period. If you wonder, why Natives are such a small total of the population when compared to Mexico look at a Mexican phone book vs an American phone book and look up last names- the US is far more diverse in its ancestry then Mexico.
One of, if not the best, multi-discipline analysis of Mexican history that I've seen. Detail, relatability, wit, and modern insights -- not an easy balance. Bravo señor
I was just in the Macdonald’s that you’re talking about lol
In the nineties I was able to go to that Mcdonalds as a kid without a visa for christmas
@@Tabadi simple land
@@Tabadi that's honestly touching
mcdonald's
@@sleepful1917 Yeah
"and then it got worse"
- mexico
Fortunately, not enough worse.
Native americans: pfft...you got off easy.
pog through the pain
@Sanic Da Haghogg nah only 21% is native mestizos are 50% spanish and 47% of the population is white
Mexico is the Russia of the Americas
Only 26 minutes in and I've already learned infinitely more about the founding of my country than anything a school course ever taught me. Kudos to you man.
This guy is explaining our history through an Anglo American lense. We need to learn about our history through an Hispanic lense, not this pro-freedom stance that Westerners obsess over
@@jimmyrustles914 ''Austrians are Anglos and freedom sucks'' -Hispanista mamabicho
@@jimmyrustles914 Who rustled your jimmies? 😊 But seriously, you can take in the information Kraut is offering you, knowing that he has a *Euro* lens (iirc he’s not Anglo). If you want a realistic view of Mexico, an outsider’s view can be very useful. I agree one shouldn’t accept everything blindly, and one should note when and where cultural values are omitted or glossed over. This is why it’s always good to have more than one credible source.
Is this a credible source? Remove some of the cultural bias (which really isn’t too bad as far as these things go) and this video is a pretty good primer on the history of colonization up until Independencia and Santa Ana.
@@jimmyrustles914 ok jimmy
@@Dhjaru nikka look at your profile 😂
Every time I think about what Mexico could have been I always struggle to think of how it went wrong. As a Mexican it's hard to not see our revolution as more of a hypocrisy then the American one. To this day we still have yet to live up to most of the promises made by that revolution and the later revolution of the 20th century. This video perfectly shows why Mexico never was or is like the US and how comparing the two is like comparing two entirely different things. Mexico is not like the US, it's culture and society are fundamentally different. I could never say it since I never understood why, but these are the reasons we are not the US and they are the root of our problems.
Yup. America thrives on giving massive amounts of power to the individual, and to prioritize the hyperlocal representation.
Mexico is more like Canada imo.
Its unwise to copy the US, rather it would be better to copy Singapore
@@honkhonk8009, yes, because Singapore is such a great example of how to build political institutions.
@@honkhonk8009 the us* its an oxymoron to call the usa " america" when talking about other american nations.
Don’t be disheartened by your history-Mexico’s future is bright. The culture is very old, but Mexican democracy is very new. Democratic institutions (actual institutions but also the processes and norms of democracy) are still young and need nurturing so they will grow. Rule of Law is just taking root.
The economy is still in transition from agrarian to industrial and high tech. Mexico has great petroleum reserves, but doesn’t completely rely on the petro to drive the economy. But Mexico’s greatest resource is its people. It’s la gente that will drive Mexican prosperity.
Don’t give yourself an inferiority complex by comparing yourself to the U.S. Los EEUU has its own problems, its own structural problems, and its own dark history. I don’t think the U.S. is in decline, but its road is quite bumpy right now. Mexico’s road also has bumps. Ni modo. The important thing is that, whatever happens in the rest of the world, Mexico is on the right track. If you look to your neighbor to the north for guidance, you will find lessons both from what they do wrong and what they do right, but ultimately Mexico will find its own way. Again I tell you, the future is bright for Mexico.
And now a cynical joke to wipe away all of the above optimism. Maybe you’ve already heard it?
When God made Mexico, he gave it fertile valleys, beautiful beaches, and majestic mountains filled with valuable minerals. He gave Mexico great forests and lush green jungles.
The Angels came to him and said, “Is there a catch? You have given Mexico such an abundance that it doesn’t seem fair to the rest of the world. Surely you are planning something negative to provide a balance.”
And God replied, “Yes, there is a catch. This beautiful and rich land I have created will be populated by Mexicans.”
@@MarcosElMalo2 No tenemos democracia México es una oligarquía, estamos evolucionando para atras, la gente está más preocupada por los "progres" y por la gasolina como para hacer un cambio significativo, México no es y nunca ha sido principalmente agraria, desde hace ya como 30 años minimo, México es una industria manufacturera
Russia: "And then our history went from bad to worse."
Mexico: *"observe."*
Also Mexico: And that's just the first 100 years after independence.
@@pancholopez8829 Yeah... _yeah._
Russian History according to kraut:400+ years of subsidized alcoholism
@@kiethhammer6882 This is true.
@@pancholopez8829 what do you expect a newly independent country got taken advantage by a country which was 100 years ahead of it
"Why are some countries rich and some countries poor"
Kraut: It all dates back thousands of years to prehistoric society....
@@OttomanSultana It does, but equally you can apply this to anything. Whatever issue can be dated back to the big bang if you go that far.
@@hazzardalsohazzard2624 he goes back to the basics, to the origins of the countries, it's what needs to be done to understand structural problems, it is not a "explains everything , predicts nothing" , it explains what it needs to explains, predicts a good lot of stuff, LA countries will never be anything due to their social structure and weak instituions.
@@cseijifja a strange time
@@hazzardalsohazzard2624 Yeah. That just means that human agency is a sad illusion and nothing's fair 🙃
One word: institutions
Can we just appreciate how flawlessly he pronunces foreign language words in all of his videos?
He's a German, who speaks perfect british English.
His R pronunciation is very very extremely similar to the Spanish R
@@user-cl9du6lm4t that's because the southern German/Austrian pronunciation of the R is extremely similar to the Spanish one :D
The way he pronouncers war sounds weird but honestly can sound quite fine at times
@Kshitiz Pokhrel *Austria
How is one of the most comprehensive and simultaneously entertaining telling's of American history,both only an hour and only have half a million views ? Children would legit learn more from this hour-long video than most schools curriculums teach in a year.
"Warre." - Thomas Hobbes
In islands
“So we fight?”
“Not sure....”
TIL Kraut is a 40k fan
@@od4361 who isn't.
Kraut pulled a Lemmino and went from memes to television tier documentaries.
Emplemon did a similar thing, going from YTPS to analysis videos and hour long documentaries
I remember the sometimes questionable old videos.
@@ypsilondaone there was a redemption arc afterwards, but still this dude is complicated to say the least😏
@@kosatochca you talking about RageAfterStorm?
All that feuding with the alt-right was an exhilarating bit of drama before it became tiresome. His videos weren’t perfect, but the white nationalists poked fun at him accidentally applying a point about pregnancy in r-type species to a fish and thought they automatically won. I thought I was taking crazy pills when people kept saying that those nut jobs were winning the debates.
Im a Spaniard and I find disgusting what my country did centuries ago.
And under Catholicism. Not so Christian. But it was the 15th 16th C. We should not judge an ancient world with 21st C lens.
@@SeatoShiningSeaSea Well yeah, everyone was doing that back then basically, which doenst it make any less fucked up.
Thats cool, thanks for recognizing that.
Can we have our gold and silver back? (The comment thing said i had to be polite lol)
This is probably one of the greatest history type videos I have ever watched. Thank you so much for this.
It premieres at 3am for my place.
A small price to pay for salvation
Malaysia? :3
@@mrshumancar Ah yes, a fellow Malaysian I assume?
Well,Iam not sleeping tonite, Isn't it?
@@snowblizz8701 :Yes:
@@weakspirit_ :'3 I feel so proud to see my people here
Mexican history can be summed-up by the phrase: And somehow, once again, things got even worse.
I got a better one, Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!-Porfirio Díaz
@@Xerxesjc28
I was about to say that. So true.
As someone else also pointed out in the comment section. Mexico is basically Spain without S
@@Xerxesjc28 My reply to Diaz - If so, then perhaps you should exchange places. With Finland. Better yet, Taiwan. Your big neighbors will be very tolerant of your antics./sarc off
As a mexican who studied economics I have to say that is not correct. In 1910 almost 95% of the population was on extreme poverty, outside of monetary economy, a little middle class and a tiny upper class.
Now almost 60% of the population is still poor, and extreme poverty still affects around 12% of the population... still very bad but better than before. The level of income stagnated since the 80´s and there are a lot of problems, but again not as bad as before.
The fact your videos get demonetized is absolutely ridiculous. Of all the information and academic commentators on RUclips you truly stand as one of the best at balancing entertainment and substance. Props to you 🎉💜
Okay, so I'm about an hour into this and I just need to get this off my chest. I've been on a Kraut binge for a few days whenever I have time and it's just fantastic. The way in which you contextualize the subject matters of your videos is nothing short of brilliant. Bravo!
Central mexican here:
The wealthiest where i live which is a rural town are politicians, policemen, criminals who sell stollen gasoline and those who family member live in the U.S.
wow
Oh, okay
@Azael Mtz, you can thank the people from Spain for teaching them so well.
reee
@@thesteelecrusader7778 They did need to be taught, you might want to read up on the civilians in this region pre colonization. Hunter gatherer type villages and societies rarely have crime.
This I won't imply, you need to read more.
Man, this channel is CRIMINALLY underrated
casue of its old nazi rep lol
@@blankblank7016 explain pls?
@@torahibiki their first videos are about alt right and RUclips doesnt like political videos
@@torahibiki Kraut was a pretty prominent member of the 'skeptic community' back in the day (2016). Idk what the left may have thought about him, and so can't really say anything about his reputation, but I remember him as being among the more rational and logical of the skeptics, by no means a nazi or alt-righter. Not to mention that he eventually changed his focus from criticizing Islam and SJWs to attacking the alt-right (those videos are still up).
He eventually left RUclips for a while after some drama involving a discord server, I think. I don't recall. You can probably find something about that if you google him, or something.
@@pascalausensi9592 I believe he did say on one of his videos. That he was fiercely anti communists and more conservative but in no way did he embrace tyranny to own libs. Like most far right wing fanatics. Or at least that how I've always seen it. The man does subper geopolitics videos that both in depth and easy to understand. Something which I very much enjoy. Love history and as such can't hate the man.
0:00 Prelude
7:40 Conquistadores, Puritans, Slaves and Quakers
26:31 Leviathan and the Tyranny of Cousins
35:45 El Norte
48:04 Un paso adenlante y dos pasos atrás
1:04:15 Outro
You forgot "WARRE"
this is insanely interesting, especially the part on the leviathan, i wouldn't expect to learn about political concept in a countryball video
Have you seen brain for breakfast's videos?
I think he fundamentally misunderstandd what Hobbes was saying in Leviathan. Hobbes was not concerned with prosperity or happiness or the common good, Hobbes was only concerned with safety and security.
Hobbe's thought that if everyone agreed to obide by the will of the sovereign then they'd avoid the horror of a state of nature - where right is might because any man can kill another. The sovereign didn't even have to be a monarch (although Hobbes would probably see that as preferable), Hobbes specifically says that the sovereign could be an assembly of men (as long as it has a clear will).
For Hobbes the only duty of the sovereign was to use the collective might of its citizens to protect its citizens, both from external threats and from the state of nature (with the use of laws). The only time it was permissible to disobey the sovereign was if it was a danger to your life - the sovereign had failed in its obligation to you, so you are no longer bound to it. Which is why using Nazi Germany as an example of a Hobbsian state doesn't make sense (as the sovereign would have fundamentally failed in its only obligation to its citizens).
All of Krauts examples of stateless societies could be argued to be Hobbsian states - as all the people in them obeyed the sovereign (be it the church, landowners, aristocracy, etc) and the sovereign in turn enforced its own sort of order and protected its citizens.
Kraut gets a lot right but I think here he either hasn't read Leviathan (which is fair enough, if I didn't have too I would've used sparknotes or some shit) or fundamentally misunderstands Hobbes (which is also fair because Leviathan is incredibly difficult to read, Hobbes writes in the most confusing ways sometimes).
@@tobymcelhinney5354 curious what you think about Confucius ... I don't know particularly much about either Confucius or Hobbes but they sound very similar, philosophers who wrote about what the relationship between a state and its people should be during a time of turmoil, and concluded that both sides were meant to fulfill their ends of the bargain.
The hype is real
It is
Definitly
Oh yea
Indeed
YUPPPP
"¿Como putas seguimos vivos?"
-Mexico XVIII Century.
-Mexico XIX Century
@@hugomartinez692 -México XX Century
@@hectorescobaraguirre2681 PRI
-Mexico XXI
-Mexico 40k
I grew up on the US Mexican border and know first hand of what you speak. By the time I was in my late teens and equipped with a good understanding of world history I came to much the same conclusions on the topic as you. Thank you for providing it in such a concise video format.
I think this is one of the first pop history of this story that includes Texas that doesn’t immediately go to the newish, ahistorical, revisionists “hUr DuR sLaVeRy” as a reason for Texas independence and this overall picture of the history of Mexico basically requires that you acknowledge that it’s a revisionist perspective on history in order to tell everything else. I’m glad you’re making this and shedding even more light on the story of New Spain, Mexico, and its 19th century turmoils to give a broader picture of something not many people (especially in the Anglo sphere outside of the American border states) have any clue about.
I've built so many things in Minecraft while watching your videos.
make sure to show me some
@@Kraut_the_Parrot play roblox
@@Kraut_the_Parrot ok
It's a shame really, the animation is quite good, you're missing something.
@CamelMan302 why would he defile himself in such a manner.
You and all the artist did a wonderful job! Every video keeps looking even better and better!
I like your videos dude, I hope you keep improving your content.
@@bojarckhoosemanschnarf5851 Thank you! I hope so as well
5:51 My jaw dropped real hard. Amazing buildup, and the irony in the conclusion was funny af, but felt sadistic in retrospect. Claps from me
I know it's cliche to say this, but I really did learn more in this video than I ever have in a History Class
One thing that you forgot is how Cortez actually got help from the ethnic minorities and lesser vassals of the Aztec empire, for everyone *hated* the Aztecs.
People don’t like taxes
@@raptonsoul2557 especially when those taxes are payed with human sacrifices
Makes sense. Kind of reminds me how the british managed to take control of all of india; largely by hijacking the local power structures and conflicts to divide and conquer.
Well just lesser vassals, both Mexica and Tlaxcalteca people were Aztec :) so, no ethnic minorities
@@DralonIsBack Really? I thought that they were considered their own ethnicities.
"My next video will be a short 20 min video"
-Famous last words
A poor idea to form
*40 minutes
29:50 “a society is only worth as much as its laws are worth” I live in the US, and I agree wholeheartedly, I will add that the implementation and consequence of the law and its executors is a fantastic measure of worth.
The US has some good and fair laws, often implemented and executed upon in unfortunate ways. The executors of these laws often have different consensus on the meaning of the laws. And most importantly, the public and their powerful counterparts misunderstand the purpose of law and order altogether.
Can I be absolutely honest? I miss Brain4Breakfast’s videos so much, and watching yours made me so happy because the videos categories are so similar and I really appreciate it. RIP brain4breakfast :(
>Starts rewatching kraut videos 3 days ago
>Kraut uploads again
The content is real my friends
Mexico its the poster boy for the frase "pain gives you character"
Floppa!
@@Mika-cs6tr who say who squ
Mexico's history is Spain without the S.
XDXDXXDXD
"so far from god, so close to the United States"
@@alexarnold8461 *O I L*
@@alexarnold8461 holy shit my cousin is always telling me that lol, im mexican american and he’s mexican
@@BigBoss-sm9xj So you are American.
34:19
This genius just turned polanball into nightmare fuel.
As a brazilian I really wanted a series of videos like that on my country. But noticing how similar our history is to the rest of latin america I just realized that Kraut will probably not want to make a video covering the same stuff again :(
Who knows! Don't be down on yourself that much :) there is a lot of interesting history regarding Brazil that in many ways is unique to Brazil! Especially with the Portuguese aspect or the history of the Portuguese crown escaping to Brazil.
@@arminkuburas1696 That is unique indeed. This fact indeed put brazil history on a different path to spanish latin america. We can trace back to that the fact the portuguese america remained united, differently from spanish america
@@Nermalton77 yet the troubles are basically, exactly the same, rich, noble wanna be landowners blocking progress at every turn because it fot in the way of their bottom line, if anything it shows that even if lets say, spanish south america was "the united provinces of south america", landowners would still have screwed everything up.
If you did a video series like this one but featuring Brazil, who would be the neighbor country to provide contrast? Argentina?
@@MarcosElMalo2 Why would a contrasting country be necessary? It's perfectly fine to do one without. Argentina could be indeed, but I still think Brazil and Argentina have much more similarities than differences
dude, are you seriously going to provide me information, history, knowledge, a whole semester's worth of facts and info in less than 2 hours that my school would've loved stretching out via breaking up the info into bits and having a weekly test on the crumbs of the subjects that would boil down into focusing on irrelevant data and info that would make the big picture too convoluted and bloated for one to get their mind wrapped around
*FOR FREE!?*
you can always donate to my paypal as a thank you, lol
He's done all that for you in extensive research and studying of his own. College is only as useful or useless as you allow it to be.
Very well put. How's this for a solution; The education system sponsors creators like Kraut for producing teaching content. Independent and relevant historians review and fact check the content (historians don't always agree so we'll have to accept a margin of slop). Incorporate the content into the curriculum. Boom! We just automated 1% of the education system. Making a teachers work life just a tad bit less hard.
@@ChrisDesi College is useless in of its self the reason you go to one is for making connection's with people and to get that piece of paper which will open many gates for you
He glanced over a fuck ton of drama between the turmoil within the Aztec confederacy before and as the Spanish arrived. The Conquistadors didn't just conqueror the Aztecs by themselves with a hundred men they made deals with all the heads of the surrounding tribes under the Aztecs. They all despised the Aztecs for their brutality and demanding tribute for their massive temple gathering human sacrificing events. The heads of those villages that aided the Conquistadors were rewarded being appointed nobles in charge of their own territories for helping over throw the Aztecs. ruclips.net/video/KWmo9r0hnM8/видео.html this is a great in depth video on that kind of stuff.
I usually post the sources until the end of a series, but since there is such high demand. Let's go.
Books:
Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
American Nations, by Colin Woodard
American Character, by Colin Woodard
The Forgotten Continent by Micheal Reid
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
These truths, by Jill Lepore
The Contemporary History of Latin America, by Tulio Halperin Donghi
The Narrow Corridor, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
The Origins of Political Decay, by Francis Fukuyama
The Age of Walls, by Tim Marshall
Additional material:
www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/az/nogales/larceny-theft-rate-statistics
www.towncharts.com/Arizona/Education/Nogales-city-AZ-Education-data.html
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3375430/
www.osac.gov/Content/Report/4ca8bbe4-c2f5-40bd-b6e2-15f4aec251e8
www.kpbs.org/news/2020/feb/07/sonoran-police-plagued-by-killing-corruption/
Sources will be the same for the next two videos too.
Could you pin this
@ábregodiseño calm down there bucko, why u so mad tho
@ábregodiseño Here we have an Spanish nationalist, who doesn't know shit about their own history
Greatest content on the entire platform!
@UCDtkwp18FU8EOeJNpb67lVQ From what I've seen this creator does a great job of sharing his researched information in a non-biased and objective way, and in a way that is also entertaining. He even gives sources he used for his research. Can't get much more transparent than that. Idk what you're even talking bout mang.
26:06 this made me more proud to be an American than I've felt for awhile.
I think he might still be mad at Sargon.
Nothing like a foreigner European telling you “everything you were taught about the founding of your country over the course of 18 years is actually completely false. I know how it actually happened, they were actually political assassins and starved to death.” Wrong. Love it when foreigners tell you your history.
The way you present history is so informative, entertaining and challenging. I went through 4 years of school completely apathetic because of the snide and race-obsessed manner it was presented. Thanks so much for reviving my love for studying history.
Studying to become a history teacher, if i ever make it to that proffesion im so gonna steal your presentation style (with credit ofcourse)
Apparently a anti sjw
*Ah yes, Making your own México i see.*
Many of my Mexicans friends for some reason Always blame the drug trade for making Mexico corrupt, So it wasn't the drug trade that made Mexico corrupt, it was always there in the beginning.
It was corrupt already but it definitely brought more crime because there was
corruption before the drug trade but now there’s corruption and intense crime. The drug trade definitely exposed the lid that the politicians don’t care about the people and only work to fill their pockets and leave the country once they're done. They do this by being a foreign asset and then getting paid or through screwing up the system and stealing the people's money. The only time that there was some good and pretty stableness was during the Porfilio Diaz era and the Lazaro Cardenas era. Overall, the main problem is populism.
I have read complains from the "visitadores" (royal functionaries that came from Spain to watch over colonial authorities) about the widespread corruption of the institutions in 1600... the problem is not new.
For 3 centuries the higher authorities came from Spain, the local elite was rich, lived in luxury but never exercised authority. Just before the independence came Carlos IV in Spain, a cuckold that let the government to the queen´s lover Godoy. He mismanaged not only Spain but the empire and were extremely corrupt even by the standards of the time.
When Mexico achieved independence the elite was worried about preserving the status quo with them at the top over the masses of indios and mestizos, but with any previous experience in government and the example of corruption of the former authorities. The product was an extremely corrupt and clumsy government.
Unfortunately the truth is more depressing, corruption is cultural and widespread among all society... to open an internet cafe in the capital I had to pay bribes and almost everyone had a similar experience, in my birthplace town is considered normal to steal electricity, in many commercial transactions fraud is common, etc.
The tradition of extreme corruption is still alive in the present government (leftist) with functionaries buying real state that represent decades of their income in just 2 years in office... The last government from the PRI and before that a rightist government by the PAN were no better, maybe worst.
@@Chepicoro happy late
@twenty druids That's the whole point of this video. That Mexico didn't got fucked up suddenly one morning. It was a long process that literally lasted CENTURIES, and is ongoing up to this day. Is unrealistic to think that something that have fucked a nation for centuries will be fixed within a lifetime. The world doesn't work that way.
The war on drugs was something that added "murder and killing" into the mix, and sadly it's not a problem of our own making, but rather an American demand mixed with poverty on our side of the Bravo river. But yeah, the corruption in Mexico is endemic, it's been here for centuries, literally. Drugs only made it far far worse.
THIS IS THE DEFINITION QUALITY CONTENT. THIS SHOULD BLOW UP EVEN MORE
56:31 Please do a video on this. As a Central American from Honduras I would be very thankful as our region's complex history is often ignored. This is the first time I see an english speaking video referencing Morazán.
As a proud Norteño from the young state Baja California, the representation of the North Mexican region is on point. Thank you for this.
Saludos a la banda de Baja California desde Querétaro
Its a shame, my dad spent quite a few of his early days in chihuahua. He had a falling out with his family there and therefore refuses to visit the country entirely as theres "nothing there for him". Id like to go back one of these days.
Are you guys trying to succeed
@@Neymarinet
Its understandable, he is not a tourist and his roots connecting him there were broken for wtv reason, so there is no reason for him to come back
Ahora entiendo porque los norteños son tan diferentes a los del sur.
As a Mexican I really love this content and I wish more people could see it
Same thing here, I hope more english-speaking mexicans watch this video and learn more about our history, rather than the fake version the school textbooks give us.
@@asmrenjoyer2016 I agree with you, the mexican Textbooks are no more than propaganda
@@Ratafina100 EXACTLY
And it's not even a secret, it's a open secret among all Mexicans how shitty the government is, and how futile it is to try to fix it.
Even judging it or mentioning corruption in media or public recording is enough to wake up in a bag and the news to report "A death under mysterious circumstances"
It's fucking scary to be a law-abiding citizen here in Mexico
Oh what world where we a 2 view of a country
@@Ratafina100 How do the Mexican textbooks frame history, if you don't mind me asking?
finish the next chapter damn you! I've been on the edge of my seat for the last 3 months
just have to say as a person who is half Turkish half mexican raised mostly and living in Canada: I love this channel. "I just finished the Turkish Century" in one sitting and excited to start this.
I never knew I needed “Mexico: Bane Edition”
As we see here. Spain the country sucks and the might British empire makes them suck it
Nobody cares who I was until I put on my sombrero
Bane is mexican after all
*Interesting side topic comes up*
Kraut: But that's a story for another video.
CGP Grey subscribers: Then that's the last we'll ever hear of it.
Remember part zero of the Indian Americans series... I remember
@@eank3429 You mean American Indian aka Native Americans....gods Europeans really did a number with us Asian Indians by thinking everywhere is India.
@@shiveshsingh3169 u haven't watched the vid I mentioned haha
@@eank3429 its almost like traveling to a bunch of reservations while the plague is about is a bad idea, so that particular project had to be on hold.
He managed to do three parts of Turkey's history since the fall of the Ottomans. So I bet he will continue... I hope.
I just wanna take a moment to appreciate, 46:55 Is both an absolutely wholesome image, and a great image to describe "family values" and "tradition", the kid already wearing the hat of his father, as symbolism of he inheriting the values of his dad.
He drew an hour of countyballs
Holy shit that must've been hell.
It took a German to teach me some american history that 12 years in public school failed to teach me.
Reminds me of Django.
Is he just ethnically German because he sounds pretty English
@@Retotion austria
The US education system is meant to indoctrinate into believing capitalism is the only the world economy should run. It does a pretty good job of it considering that you are probably coming up with many different excuses to defend capitalism as you read this comment.
@@deleeson All command economies end in failure and despotism, go away
Really obscure joke at 35:20. Instead of Mississippi's new "In God We Trust" flag Kraut draws it as a parody of the Saudi Arabian flag
Can you please explain?
@@ChrisDesi arabias flag says the shahada (Theres is no god but allah and prophet muhammad is his messenger) in the middle with a green background and an arab sword underneath. Mississipi has its similar with a red background and a musket underneat instead the mississipis new flag
@@trollinape2697 I see, okay, that makes more sense now. Thank you!
@@ChrisDesi youre welcome
The flag actually also says in god we trust
Literally in the middle of reading Why Nations Fail right now. As soon as I saw the title, I knew I was in for a ride.
Kraut: I make serious documentaries
Also Kraut: **Warre**
My family was wealthy in Meixco and lived on the border for hundreds of years. The stuff you said about Mexican politics is spot on, every election my extended family would fly to Paris to avoid potential civil unrest.
So your family is poor now?
@@kamanashiskar9203 Most are dead, only one left is still wealthy, but doesn't feel safe.
@@SearingCow Sorry for your loss :(:(:(
My family is from Nayarit (politics, education, biotech, agriculture) and Michoacan (religious agricultural enclaves). What he said about kleptocracy like power structures is 100% accurate. Needless to say we dont exactly discuss this type of history over dinner or at quincineras, and i dont agree with my family about politics. I dont actually talk to older generation which is unheard of in our culture and this video really explains why. Like my mom was kind of a conservative asshole, which makes sense because my uncle was a deputado de PRI, unbeknownst to my younger self getting chastised for dreaming about using automation and policy to help people because "como vas a pagar por eso, tonto" so yeah growing up in an low level industrialist family is pretty fucking cringe. No wonder my cousins became a black metal band touring with Slayer and everyones has a feelsbadfor/hate relationship with our colonial elders despite being marginally better off, because i think on an intuitive level we know what it cost but also world is fucked and for even us a solution is out of our control outside our lands and line of sight. Its bigger than just a few rich families causing problems, and conversely needs more effort to fix than that. I hope they address more in the next video because im curious how my grandmother got a french last name in the context of geopolitics.
Were you family narcos or something? What years are we talking about here? 1800’s?
Ok but some of the imagery during the leviathan segment was terrifying, like damn
Honestly yeah
The way the artists drew the evil and dead Polandballs' eyes is actually scary.
@@kavenxiong5521 You must be referring to Tanit's art!
His twitter:
twitter.com/T4NlT
@@kavenxiong5521 and who say white people can’t pay some of the crimes
Kraut: *pronounces the names of Mexican states with a committed accent*
Also Kraut: New Or-leens
Hey Kraut, I know that after the sea of comments that you receive per video, I can not expect you to read this individual comment, but I still feel force to express my gratitude for every single one of your videos which explain the historic links to systemic dysfunctionalities existent in different regions at a global scale. It is insane to me to see how much knowledge it is presented in every single one of your videos and I must admit that it shapes a lot of my views when it comes to political systems and institutions in general. Thank you very much for helping me understand in a relatively detailed manner the historic reasons behind the existing structures of power and also helping me reinforce a commitment to help change said structures when it comes to their lack of function. I hope that you keep doing that amazing work, because, as little as it might be compared to the great scheme of themes, it still makes a tremendous difference at an individual level. I also thank all those incredible artist which support your narrations making them not only interesting and entertaining to watch, but also hooking me up in a way that I can not stop wanting to see them. Please do not stop producing this amazing material, because without a doubt, it is the reason that makes RUclips worth existing.
As a mexican, I'm hyped af.
Ya te vi, Ismacaco
@@FilthyGaijin ¿Jocho? :DDDDD
Ya llegamos los Dandys sí señor.
Avisenle a tfw you live en México
Yo también jaja
When most people lose an argument on the internet, they pretend they're right and forget about it.
When Kraut loses an argument on the internet, he uses the experience to identify holes in his knowledge. He then spends over a year researching to become a master of that knowledge, and turns his findings into high quality long form content so that we too may be enriched.
Bravo.
This.
Kraut has always been something like this since day one.
This is eventually how he grows.
@@icefl4re597 race time
What was the argument about?
@@okofreak01 Leaving a comment so I can find out as well, this is interesting
@@okofreak01 Back in 2019 Kraut had a long discussion with a guy called Vaush. There were many topics but when the middle east and the European Muslim refugee crisis came up, Kraut face-planted hard when it came to American involvement in... anything, and Vaush just memed on Kraut when he tried to fall back on the Ottoman's to explain some of his points.
It's a long watch at 2 and a half hours, and both parties have grown and matured significantly since it's release, but personally as a fan of both I found this to be a fascinating discussion.
Enjoy:
ruclips.net/video/0UIKjrMKnMo/видео.html
I have watched this series three times now. This is my favorite of your video series. You remain for the most part unbiased in the telling of Americas and Mexico story and in doing so all this video has done is make me apreciate both cultures even more. Cheers from the USA and love to our Nieghbors down south.
This is absolutely brilliant. Stellar video, perfect structure, kick ass videos, amazing work
That pronunciation of "warre" had me splitting my sides 😂
It's so interesting to me that a German who lives in Europe knows so much more about the history on Mexican independence than anyone I know and I'm a 1st generation immigrant from Mexico to the United States
Latin americans don't know more about history than " we are poor and the gringos are rich, it's because the spanish stole our gold!", sadly pro indigenous waves have had the unintended effect of streamlining our history and making it very obscure and creates a population that knows very little of their actual history!
@@cseijifja empires yay
@@cseijifja just like Spaniards only think that they brought civilization to savages and their colonies lived great under the spanish crown and never did anything wrong in América.
@@nullValo hardly anyone in spain thinks that, for the most, they are either apologists or actually mad because most of it conforms to the black legend of the spanish, shit the dutch, english, or USA did gets pinned on the spanish, for example, the inquision was nothing as what is protrayted in popular culture.
The spanish conquest resulted in a great loss of previous knowledge of the incas, but as far as it goes, it was what the incas and aztecs did to the other kingdoms of natives, the incas tought they were "civilizing " their roudy neighbours too, adn the aztecs had a combo0luted red of alliances and subjugated people.
The Natives allied with spain because they saw it as more beneficial than being subjugated to the incas, and their ruling system wasn't much diferent than the retrograde spanish system back home, nobles owning workers and them being the owners of huge plots of land.
@@cseijifja but Mexico was kind of different than other Spanish speaking countries. Nationalism hit hard. And to keep the independent regions of the country together the government intentionally pushed national myths, like the “we where attacked and exploited by Spain and we won our independence and we are the new race of the future”
I definitely recognized the "American Nations" book by Colin Woodard used in this video.
Your channel is criminally underrated.
The thing that makes nations successful is ultimately the institutions and incentives that govern it. In capitalist economies (without distortion by commodities), wealth predominantly comes from human capital and ingenuity. No country produced as fertile ground for this type of growth as the US did in its early history.
Commodity economies which are initially successfully sow the seeds of their own destruction through bad institutions and perverse incentives.
The problem with a commodity based economy is that its wealth doesn't come from the people, but from a cheap resource a narrow group of elites can control. Saudi Arabia can survive as a backward nation because of its oil wealth, while Israel is a nation that has to innovate to survive.
Would cotton or tobacco or the vast expanses of land be considered a distorting commodity in early US history?
Reason is because it seems that the UK was initially the best place for a thriving capitalist economy in the 18th-19th centuries.
I believe the early United States even imposed tariffs on imported goods to benefit local industry (called the 'American system')
@@DieNibelungenliad It could be, due to the large stain of slavery that dominated those two industries by that time. And the government did in fact have to bend over most of the time to negotiate with the slavery dominant south, which had the fertile lands capable for the cotton and tobacco plantations. You can see the effects of the vast cotton industry in the form of the lack of condemnation by foreign nations regarding the south's slave practices, even if they had already abolished such systems, due to the large quantity of cotton being exported.
@@nathanseper8738 I think the Saudi family's tendency to spend much of the oil wealth on their own private businesses and various luxuries and vanity projects instead of on innovation in medicine or space is another problem.
For example, the Soviet Union was very much reliant on natural resources exporting, but they still managed to produce much of their own manufactured goods (instead of importing them) and innovated in technology significantly.
Reason I bring up the Soviet Union is because like Saudi Arabia, both places limited free speech and thus an exposure to new ideas or perspectives, yet one did reap different produce.
@@DieNibelungenliad Yes, you can especially see this from the difference between the North and South at the time of the civil war. The South's plantation economy held back industrialization and was a big factor in why they lost.
The US didn't have the same starting position as the UK, but during the late 19th century it really pulled ahead. The UK also had great institutions but was limited by its population and its legacy feudal class structure
As someone from Honduras that has studied these historical events from many angles, i really appreciate how you managed to get the main points on how and why the countries that emerged from Spain colonisation vary in societal structure and economical relevance, from those that were born from British colonisation.
Also, buen intento con la pronunciación en Español. Esperaré con ansias la publicación sobre la republica de centro américa y Francisco Morazán.
Yo también ando hypeado ahora que mencionó un vídeo en Centroamérica eventualmente
Spanish colonies were always for exploitation, they enserfed the natives and stripped bare the land of metals. British colonies were for settling and the natives were exterminated instead.
@@MeidoInHebun It's more complex than that.
@@Amantducafe is just that, to this day, our Republics were born the enrich the elites and nothing more.
T. Chilean living in one of these distopyan republics.
@@luxvult5202 Eso es correcto hasta cierto punto, ya que con la democratización han habido muchos representantes electos que no han sido parte de la elite sin embargo el problema común que observo en muchos países de latino-américa es que se busca dicha posición de poder para enriquecerse o formar parte de esa elite.
Thanks for making this… I’m from Del Rio another border town in Texas
At times, your accent sounds more british than actual british english (and I love it)
Yeah, Germans sometimes sound like that.
You’re telling me that this vid is 1 hour Felt like 20 minutes
Especially coming down off acid
@@zingiberae Lol. I did not think I would be laughing aloud at a comment on this video at 5:58 in the morning. Thank you. XD
@@lucaseastman1877 time for blood
@@Ttegegg What?!
This art is getting real good. Who would have thought a ball would look so ominous it would give me goosebumps.
What I love about this video is not only the factual neutral stance it takes explaining factors and systems paired with Easter eggs that resonate with us and are familiar to us. From the 40k, LOTR, and Bane. It's a smart thing yet great for telling the story.
This has me wanting to learn more!
My husband @lilbipper found your videos not to long ago and we started watching this one together.
I immediately subscribed.
Wonderful content, to all who contributed incredible work! I enjoyed the illustrations, the detail and time it took to put this together.
Great narration, It didn't even feel like it was a hour long.
I am looking forward to hearing what else you have on your channel.
I burst laughing at: "however Santa Ana didn't quit, and became president again"
What a time, what a time
Seriously, if you want a wild ride you need to see the biography of that guy, changing as he please of political party, rumours of being a mason, loved by most people on power, when he lost his leg made an official army burial and all that, and thats just from the top of my head of what teachers taught me years ago in elementary, and some of it was in the educational program, but most of it was because i got lucky and my teachers had a nack for history.
Its amazing all the madness going on most if not all the time not only with that guy, i mean mexican history
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only Warrerererrererererer
“Why are there 2 Nogales?”
Kraut: “Back when Rome was still a small city-state bordering the Etruscans…”