@Ethan Erwin-Marteniez The series showed promise with the Force Awakens. Then Ruin Johnson ruined the flow with The Last Jedi. So when the series tried to pick up the story in The Rise of Skywalker, the sequel trilogy by now was a mess. TROS tried too hard to retcon TLJ to the point where nothing really connected. I think the sequels get criticized so much because of its lack of consistency. All it takes is one bad movie like the TLJ and the whole series crumbles. It also is important that TLJ was the middle movie of the trilogy. It was supposed to serve as a bridge between the beginning and the end of the Star Wars sequels. But because it flopped so much, TROS didn't have much to work with because it was left with the dilemma of trying to reference their failure while trying to maintain the main conflict of TFA. So sadly, the sequels as a whole were more confusing than anything else. I think it could have been great if more people communicated during its production.
well, considering that the colonial powers INCLUDING the UK colonised Africa and almost all of South East Asia, many of these countries only regained sovereignty in the 1950s, for example Singapore in 1965 (although it was first merged with Malaya in 1963 which was the year the British gave up control). So it is entirely normal for people that have parents older than their country, since we count the age of our country from the day the country regained independence. And since Britain has never been invaded by colonial powers (it was one itself) nor Germany, none of your queens would be older than England unless they're vampires from the 16th century?
Thank you, John, for citing you sources. I just happened to stumble across this wonderful video, and I was overcome with emotion when I heard you cite my late, beloved Grandfather, Ainslie Embree, regarding post-colonial India. He passed away earlier this year. I hope I can show this video to my children someday. Thank you.
More videos on decolonization would be awesome! In Europe we don't learn much (if anything) about it. Our books are cool with talking about colonization and how we got rich thanks to exploiting other people, but they love to skip the part about what happened to those people afterwards.
About half of the teachers i know would make really scarry/ ruthless dictators in another life thats a 20 year detention to you for looking at youtube at work
***** There's a tired but true line: "There's no such thing as a benevolent dictator." It's less that they're objectively evil people, and more that they're humans, and are, by nature, flawed. They have their own set of biases and fears and wants, and - due to the incredible amount of resolve and self-assuredness it takes to take over a whole country - are usually very set in their views, and potentially radical. Their inherent flaws as people inevitably lead to some objectively bad things. We can't have everything run by one person, OR run by the people. There has to be a balance - of security and freedom.
+Tom Nemoy Power does tend to corrupt, and all that. Not that dictators are always more flawed than others to start with, but when you enter e realm where you can do what you want and everybody you talk to is scared to tell you it's a bad idea, well, watch out.
words of gold, somebody has to tell this to the greeks who have pride of destruction of the persian empire. but then there were 20 other greek countries who kept on fighting each other. lol
i like that you don't "talk down" when you explore the histories of the "third world". its sad (even scary) how often smart people (including respected professors in my political science program) appear to have imperialistic and racist undertones in their discussions/lectures. the number of times i flinch when such people pass on their assumptions about western superiority is almost amusing. you'd think ive developed a nervous twitch. so anyway i would just like to say thank you, and keep it up!
As a Canadian, we get plenty of attention, and have our own identity myths, and international stereotypes. Meanwhile 99% of people don't make the difference between Indonesia and Philippines. Are you the one with the terrorists? Sorry for replying.
GregTom2, I thought it was just 95%. Indonesia and the Philippines combined is enough 5% of the total world population. But both are almost the same country. The Philippines is a Catholic version of Indonesia. Indonesia is an Islamic version of the Philippines
Don't forget Wakanda! True, their economy is pretty well-backed by vibranium exports and hard protectionism for the last few decades, but the late king T'Chaka seemed well-loved and respected by his people. Let's hope the new king maintains the political and social stability.
Dear John Green and Crash Course team, YOU have not forgotten to be awesome. Thanks for making informative and educational videos well suited to the hyperactivity of the collective rising generation. :)
I don't know if you are sirious, but this is'nt somalia you know, we live on the coast where there is no actual ice and we live in the west/north america so take a guess
Daan892 Being an African and living in Africa all I can say is watch this space. We're more united politically and economically now more than ever and our economies are growing. Soon we'll be bailing out the EU!!!
@@BuyongoPhiri For that to happen, something really bad would probably have to happen to europe to knock them off their trail. Catching up will be hard since development of countries is the norm.
+N Squared Would of been cool if Admiral Ackbar had seized control in the intervening years and turned out to be a psychopathic dictator. The movie slogan could be "Turns out it really was a trap!"
I really like these videos, they are super informative and I love the enthusiasm, I just have a little criticism, I'm an African, South African (also white and afrikaans but born and raised in this lovely country)to be exact, I know this clip is from 2012, however the only issue i have is the very "poor cousin" point of very view it portrays, Yes we do have some serious problems in Africa and America, China, Europe and Russia might have a more "advanced" outlook towards us, I just want to say that the part where African countries are just represented as growth and investment statistics isn't very cool. We have a lot to teach the current sate of humanity about living for the greater good and to be honest the constant bombardment of capital interest from the "All mighty economies" really ads to the creation and subsequent corruption of people who are favoured by the people and could have been great leaders, And by the way Robert Mugabe was much more than a High school teacher, he was knighted by the Queen of England and holds 6 degrees including a Master of Science and Master of Law (British Law), an example of a great man corrupted by the views of the "Economic Powers" that every African can be bought.
I know I'm like a year late, Im from India, I feel you. You really can't blame the teacher here or any teacher from advanced western nations, they subconsciously bring in that superiority when they talk about the 3rd world countries. Even when they are praising your culture, you can sense that they don't really mean that. In a way Im happy for China's advancement which is nearly challenging the US even though I don't like China as such. A strong economy is the only thing they are forced to acknowledge in the end.
Thank you so much for making these videos ! The week before the AP test I watched your videos to study and I felt so prepared for the test that I went to sleep at 8 the night before the test ! I scored a 4 on the test and I have your videos to thank for that . Keep up the good work .
In rwanda, the tutsis and hutus were not different "tribes". Tutsi and hutu were labels conjured up by the european colonizers and cut across many cultural lines.
J Subz To think that tutsis and hutus are "tribes" shows ignorance. I was pointing out how the categories of "tutsi" and "hutu" were invented by europeans, as opposed to observed by europeans upon their arrival in rwanda. "Blacks will always find a reason to fight"? Really? I'm pretty sure senseless conflict is something all peoples of the earth have in common.
J Subz The Bosnian War and World War 2 were both European conflicts in which "ethnic conflict" played a major role. Also, the current war in ukraine is largely being fought between those who are culturally ukranian on one side and those who are culturally russian on the other. Keep winding the clock back and you'll see all the European wars over religion and and wars of imperialism. These all sound like petty conflicts to me
Again, I never see them. And you know why? Because most of the conflicts you listed took place well before I was born, or even before my parents were born. Besides, the Ukraine is barely clinging to the outskirts of Europe, and it is traditionally quite a turbulent place, put in comparison. It's just ridiculous to say that all European wars go back to religion. That sounds more like nonsensical atheist rhetoric to me. Imperialism, maybe, but religion, no. And when you compare the small amount of conflicts you mentioned to the ongoing, bloody, awful conflicts going on year after year within central and southern Africa, you start to wonder why it is that they just can't be civilised and stop fighting. Don't try and blame whitey, either. Won't work.
Speaking about decolonization without mentioning neocolonialism, capitalism, Western-organized coups to take down e.g. Mosaddegh or Lumumba or Sankara, inequalities, imposition of Western standards (e.g. economic growth or university diplomas), etc... Seems a bit partial and incomplete?
"He was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist who believe that Gandhi was too sympathetic to Muslims". For fucks sake, he helps break the English rule over India and make it a sovereign state and you assassinate him because he believed that Muslim minority deserved as much respect as the Hindu majority. Talk about you can't please all of the people all of the time, a great video as always and Gandhi proved that pacifism and lack of violence can be just as effective as bullets and bayonets which is something that the founding fathers should of taken into consideration FYI I am American.
"which is something that the founding fathers should of taken into consideration FYI I am American." You're joking, right? Pacifism was a language that 18th century England defiantly didn't speak.
Gandhi's pacifism and lack of violence did nothing. How the hell did this kind of misinformation spread as "knowledge" is beyond me. The English left India because their resources were being spent elsewhere. There was also fighting going on against the English that was taking it's toll on them. Gandhi did nothing but cause the deaths of millions of people. You know nothing.
***** Jinnah was right to fear though and on the other point, Ghandi unleashed the masses, he inspired them to march even though they did not have the restraint he did, the marches turned into violent mobs and in days thousands died...times this by a period of 30 years or so years you get millions of deaths.
Gandhi helped in the events which led to the millions killed raped and so on, because he defended the idea of a united India, which didn't really existed at a time. By using that as the core of the speech and struggle he was unknowingly leading to conflict civil war or similar thing ( the reality was massed exodus and deaths by ethnic hate) And come one, It was not Gandhi who gave independence, The british said to all colonies, that they would give them independence if they helped without questioning and troubles, during their time of need (world war 2) Once the war ended it was a just a question of how, and not if it was going to happen. Gandhi tried to speed things up and we all know what happened. All the african british colonies had their independence without a fight as well. They just had it a decade later because they didn't speed up the process with mass rebellions and hunger strikes. Canada also became independent as a reward after the great war. I'm sure Gandhi had good intentions though. And the muslim leader had a more truthful view of reality ( by saying there was not a indian unity). ***** again is just spreading his chauvinism ideals. You can be sure Ulka, that I will expose who you are in every video I see your biased comments.
I am Congolese born and Burundian raised, both mentioned in the video, I thought the historical facts were as close as they can get. An innocent laughter on these matters is always a good thing. Yes African countries didn't have sufficient time to develop as Europeans did, but we are surely catching up. Ps: I will soon be the 17th congolese to get a college degree😆😆😆
Yeeyy... Finally BANGLADESH is Mentioned. After #39 episodes. Just For a Second Though. at 04:51 in Thought Bubbles. Thanks Mr. Green and Entire Team. Huge Fan. #ProudBangladeshi
Somehow I can say this colonisation things has affected me as individual. First thing first, of course I learnt about my country. How the history is and how they fight for freedom. And as a Malaysian, we're known as multiracial society. It give me the opportunity to learn about others' cultures. So far, I've been friends with people from each state of Malaysia and they speak different language.
Crash Course will forever be helpful...I wonder how many high school history teachers have just told their students "watch all the crash course videos and you'll be done for the year."
Hey CrashCourse, just letting you know I have an exam tomorrow. Thanks, again! When you mentioned Greenland I shed a tear from having such a good laugh. Thanks, again! You're the best.
Really love all your history videos. I hated history back in high school because all we ever did was memorize names and dates. This on the other hand is so much more useful and critical.
+Martin Samuel Why,? Do today's public educators consider maps and globes obsolete? It's amazing for an old-timer like me, who has been around since before Botswana became a nation, to see toddlers using computers, while teenagers know little of geography beyond which continent is which. I don't know what they actually teach in school-------------'democratic' ideology, maybe. But how can one USE 'freedom' without facts at one's disposal? How is one supposed to be a 'global citizen' without bothering to learn the names of other countries? So you have my sympathy. May God bless you and your country, and lead you in the way of Christ. (1st Timothy 2:5) 'For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.'
I wouldn't say colonisation is the thing of the past. It's jusr become more subtle. I mean, look at Iraq or Syria or East Ukraine... isn't it American and Russian imperialism?
While I, like many others, appreciate your efforts to spread the knowledge of History and while I commend the neutral approach you take while presenting conflicting narratives, I would have greater respect for you, if you suggested books, or provided links to materials that describe history in greater detail. In this video, as with many others, I found myself agreeing and appreciating your teaching, but then, suddenly, find myself shocked at the limited perspective offered. You have a great responsibility, owing to the fact that you have the privilege of moulding our young minds. I hope and pray that you realize the gravity of this and act accordingly. An few instances where I felt the perspective was limited: Crash Course World History # 230 : You mention that Western Democracies have offered greater wealth and improvement in the lives of their citizens. This makes it seem as though the "enlightened democracy" was the chief architect of the prosperity we see in the US, Britain, etc. and glosses over the fact that Slavery, Genocide, Continued military dominance and exploitation of weaker powers also contributed to this prosperity. While I do realize that time is your limitation, as is the attention span of most youtubers, I would appreciate it if you ended your videos with sources where your viewers may learn more about the topic at hand.
Actually america did say "Thank you so much for helping us thwart Germany's imperialistic ambitions, as a reward; please hand in your rifle and return to a state of subjugation." to blacks... Literally one of instigating factors for the civil rights movement.
you say that like you were there? and tell me this, do you also find every other race in america at that time to be racist against blacks? to me, you act as though america was filled with ONLY racist white people. there were more than one race and more than one opinion about the action. so cant say "America" as if everyone in "America" was racist towards blacks.
@@yikezb Ignoring that race is a term used mainly by people of Germanic descent, America is used as a personification in the comment, not as representing one group of people or another. It is America that enacted Jim Crow laws for instance. If you want to be technical about that, you can list the states that enacted such laws, but it was the U.S. that allowed such laws to be enacted when the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal'" was a defining principle
I guess we now do know what happened after the battle of Endor. They didn't specifically mention trade treaties with Gungan's, but I like to think that's what was being debated when the new republic got nuked.
An interesting note regarding the Vietnam war was before the Vietname war started, Ho Chi Minh wrote to the US asking for support, and wanted to ally North Vietnam to the US, however his letters were ignored, so he allied himself to the Communist nations and this is what started the war. All those dead could've been avoided. One of the United States biggest geopolitical blunders.
I believe originally the US did not want to get itself involved in another conflict (considering this was right after the Korean War, which was relatively costly for little to no gain) thus they refused to offer support, but when Ho Chi Minh then aligned himself with the USSR, the prevailing "Domino theory" at that time convinced the US to prop up the South Vietnamese regime in opposition, and the rest is history.
NeonsStyle according to my historical knowledge, USA had helped the French preserve their colony there. And when China came to conquer Vietnam, the USA helped again. So when did ho chi Ming’s letters get ignored? After the Chinese? I thought that before the splitt of Vietnam, USA had been an ally to ho chi mihn.
About Indonesia, The Dutch didn't refers Indonesian as 'peasant' but 'inlanders'. And the Dutch do give Indonesians Ethical Policies which offers Indonesian Irrigation, migration and Education. The third one is important because Educations create the founding fathers of Indonesia. And Sukarno is a President not Prime Minister. Just some info not trying to correcting. Please create a video about Indo people and Bersiap Periode?
+Christian Djami Well, the thing is that we didn't really oppress them ourselves directly but rather let that do that through the native kingdoms and tribes that were integrated into our system. Only after Eduard Douwes Dekker, a former Dutch colonial administrator and a famous fighter for Indonesian rights, wrote Max Havelaar (a semi-fictional novel in which a colonial administrator tries to fight the corruption and mistreatment in the colonial system) things would become better for the Indonesians, which was also a demise of Dutch colonialism when a class of educated Indonesians became existent on Java. Sadly enough Sukarno's dream became an islamis hellhole past few decades, although I've heard things are improving under the new president.
+Remus Lupin I guess from the european perspective Sukarno is the first prime minister, because netherland wasn't acknowledge Indonesian independent until 1950 (while Sukarno declared our independence in 1945 tho). Before that they just acknowledge Indonesia as a united state(?), that's why from their perspective Sukarno is a prime minister.
Decolonisation was a disaster in India. Whole generations were devastated by the aftermath. Many families destroyed, many good people lost lives. Gandhi might have been a good showman, but he was neither a good manager nor anyone listened to him in the British Parliament nor in the Congress. He played a good distraction during the freedom struggle of India. Nehru & Jinnah secured their positions in the newly emerged power centres. Gandhi had to be shown the way out. Firebrand leader Subhash Chandra Bose was exiled from India due to the conspiracy plotted by the British govt & Gandhi-Nehru played pimps. Even Gandhi supported the death sentence of our beloved martyr Bhagat Singh & his comrades. Britishers promised to give India's demand of total freedom, if the British Indian Army could fight well in time of deep trouble of England during WWII. Discontent rose up in the ranks of British Indian army who had won the WWII for the British & no matter how loyal they were, it was time for India to break the shackles of colonisation. Britishers played with the lives of innocent people of India & none of the so called great leaders like Gandhi nor Nehru stepped in to stop the violence. Commoners were forced to leave their ancestral homes of hundred years, in both sides of the borders. It was a total chaos. No territorial force was commissioned to look after the security of the people. Rather force was rallied to escort the British elite from India & to safeguard Indian Congress elites. Many common British citizens also suffered due to the lack of transportation provided by the British govt for the return journeys. The provinces which gave India the most number of martyrs - Bengal & Punjab, were split in half during the decolonisation & their populations the most affected in the process. The decolonisation process left the deepest scar in the face of India, with the seeds of communalism, half worked constitution, most importantly the Nehru family in the centre of the power. No matter how the western media uphelds Gandhi, he is loosing his fakester image very rapidly even in public.
+Souvik Sinha Britain should have just handed India to the United States. That region has clearly proven unfit for self-government. They NEED colonialism. Decolonization was a mistake. Not every culture is equal. Western civilization will always be superior. We have the right values and morals, and everyone else is wrong.
Souvik Sinha You just can't stomach the fact that Westerners are inherently superior to all other cultures. It is our birthright to rule your savage "countries". We are better than you. Learn your place and accept our authority over you or I'll call the Army and have them send drones on your lands as punishment. Third World people have never deserved sovereignty. They don't have the right morals or values for it. They need our wise, intellectual rule and culture of rationalism if we are to save humanity from itself.
7:38 First *President.* We did have positions of prime ministers in the past but only in a brief early period in the chaotic political history post sovereignty. Speaking of, it happened around the latter half of 1949, but not quite 1950. All that aside, you did a great job summarizing the colonial and independence history of my country. Btw, I'm watching this the day after independence day. Keep up the good work.
I am glad that you pointed out several nations that have improved since the colonial powers departed. Unfortunately, it appears that many places (especially in Africa) have gone from bad to worse after their overlords left. Like the former Yugoslavia, and the Sykes-Picot "nations" once the bid bad dictator is removed, chaos ensues. As bad as life might have been for the people in those places, there was some degree of order. I wonder if life is better for them now than it was back under a strong man?
It's interesting that Gandhi was brought up as battling to "improve the rights of women" when there's been a lot of talk that he was rather misogynistic. He viewed rape victims of losing value as human beings and that women should kill their self if raped/their fathers were justified in honor killings (an issue that plagues India to this day), sexually exploited young women with his influence including his grandniece, reinforced gender roles, and refused to allow women to join on the plea that they had a ‘greater’ role to play. So yeah, while he saw women as an added force to use in changing social order and defeat imperialism (where he introduced 'special women’s programmes' that were a way to involve women in the movement while remaining at home), it is really tough to consider him a champion of women's rights, especially considering his beliefs regarding women and purity has really solidified the treatment of women even today.
Not to defend Ghandi as I've heard some pretty shitty things be said about the man, but a lot of "progressive" views are only relative to the current state. You're probably right, I'm just saying that perhaps even that was ahead for its socio-cultural context?
Grace Lauren Gandhi himself has said that he was wrong about many things and his life is just a series of experiments to find the truth. He was wrong about woman and plenty of people accept that but he was a man born in 19th century India. He fought against child marriage, dowry system supported remarriage of widows , He was against sexual desires of both men and woman and he himself practiced celibacy For a man born in 19th century that is clearly a good track record for woman's rights
As Indonesian I am so proud my country is a founding member Of Non-Aligned Movement and as a country that spread the spirit of decolonization after World War 2 to the whole world , especially southeast asia
+Bob Jones (DaSoloHan) Well.....i am not a historian , but i do remembered that the Timorese people wanted to join Indonesia in the 19th century , And although i don’t really know why they wanted to be independent . It is probably because the 1998 crisis , communist party , USA’s highly unnecessary intervention and etc.. But i think it is probably because Timor East is largely ignored and is less developed than the other region , and social ethnic tension . Controlling a diverse nation that consists of thousands of ethnics and hundreds of languages and cultures spread out in 1.9 million square kilometers and more than 13.000 islands , However , i really want to see your opinion on Indonesia , it might be interesting
@@jokerofmorocco hey,sorry for replying this after 3 years,i need to be an adult before reply this. Yes,ok for the timor east,we colonizing them,but for west papua,there is more to tell dude. oppresing is just one of a tool like american people said they are support freedom and tolerance in world war 2 but after that they are just like "Remember No Communist!"
@@rizkyaldi5698 For West Papua it's even a bigger example of colonizing as the Papuans don't want to be part of Indonesia but were forced into the union and after they were under the union they were brutally oppressed killing hundreds of thousands of them, additionally Indonesia is doing settler colonialism by mass migrating Javanese and other Indonesians into West Papua to turn it into Java 2.0
@@B1son it encourages you to learn something new about how Europeans history influences the world we have now, (with wit!). they provide the info as unbiased as possible and let you be big enough to provide context. Historical Journalist And their Dry wit.
Would it be fair to say that any one of these various forms of government, i.e. capitalism, communism, etc., would probably work just fine in satisfying the needs of the populous if only corruption and exploitation could be eradicated?
It is more fair to say that the overall tendency of human cultural diversity is to favor a compromise between these individual defined systems just in the same way that most individual people compromise between productivity, self-fulfillment and social interaction. But they would all be better off if we changed our cultural attitudes about wealth, self-interest, and the personhood of corporations.
Yes. The one, only thing. As opposed to predatory corporate capitalism. Or nazis. Or a huge economic depression. Or an invading foreign power. Or literal genocide. Or the end of the world. Or regressive conservativism. Oh wait were you being serious? Dang it invisible comments, now I just look even crazier!
Big Bad Wolf Well, technically. But then again, both when implemented ultimately have a huge influence on the government. Just look at how capitalism has ended up controlling the american government, I mean.
Hi...Mr. John. I am from Bangladesh, formerly Bengal,the first colony of The British East Indian Company. I love history....but hate wars. I love to learn the constitutional and administrative development of countries. I think you're right...History is not all about wars. Wars are merely just the BIG turning points. Right???
9:30 Ouch. That's a very painful mistake you made there. The Hutu's and the Tutsi's weren't different tribes before the colonialism began at all. It's a common misunderstanding that these peoples were different tribes, while in all actuality they were different classes created by the Belgian colonists. They granted the Tutsi's, who were often richer (they owned cattle, that's also where the word Tutsi is derived from) more rights and privileges. That created a class system which made it easier for the Belgians to keep the people under their thumb. Later, when Ruanda became independent, the Hutu's would rise up against the Tutsi's, who were still in power. Because the titles "Hutu" and "Tutsi" were hereditary, the distinction is still made today, even though there is often no difference in wealth anymore.
Yes, but you succeeded in this by slaughtering countless low rank British soldiers who were only following orders, along with orchestrating terrorist attacks on British civilians. And don't bring up the common excuse that high up Nazis claimed they were," Only following orders ," because that statement is completely and utterly false. They knew full well the severity of their actions, and participated willingly.
Nick Zabawa The terrorist attacks did not occur until after Ireland gained its independence from Britain, they were mainly related to Catholic/Protestant tensions. Also, many innocent Irish citizens were killed too, it's tragic but that's generally what happens in a war. Not to mention those killed or left to die during centuries of oppression under British rule. I'm just saying it was impressive for a country as small and at the time, as poor as Ireland to break from British rule.
My grandfather, a native of the Netherlands, was in the Dutch army during the Indonesian National Revolution. He also lived in Nazi-occupied Friesland during WWII. He's told me some really interesting (and often scary and/or sad) stories about the occupation, and will talk freely about it if asked. The most he's ever said about his time in the army and the fighting in Indonesia was that he got seasick on the way over. I'm guessing it just wasn't very pleasant over there at all.
I was asking about the decolonization of Palestine, dominated by the British Empire. You know, when the United Nations voted the future of the palestinian nation. I think is an interesting topic.
I love how lecturer explain hunger strike by stuffing his mouth with cupcake. It made me laugh so hard that I didn't hear him clearly about hunger strike.
"We never saw what happens AFTER the rebels defeated the empire!" And less than a week later, the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy was announced. Timing, man.
Screw the Sequels we had the EU
@Ethan Erwin-Marteniez The series showed promise with the Force Awakens. Then Ruin Johnson ruined the flow with The Last Jedi. So when the series tried to pick up the story in The Rise of Skywalker, the sequel trilogy by now was a mess. TROS tried too hard to retcon TLJ to the point where nothing really connected. I think the sequels get criticized so much because of its lack of consistency. All it takes is one bad movie like the TLJ and the whole series crumbles. It also is important that TLJ was the middle movie of the trilogy. It was supposed to serve as a bridge between the beginning and the end of the Star Wars sequels. But because it flopped so much, TROS didn't have much to work with because it was left with the dilemma of trying to reference their failure while trying to maintain the main conflict of TFA. So sadly, the sequels as a whole were more confusing than anything else. I think it could have been great if more people communicated during its production.
Nigeria turned 56 on October 1st. My father lived through their fight for independence. Just to give you an idea of how young African countries are.
Foluke O. My father lived through the independence of Somalia too. African countries are so young
What stories did he tell?
Do you live in Nigeria today?
Foluke O. How old is oyo empire?
No queen of England is older than England. Why are most of your parents older than your countries? I smell fraud
well, considering that the colonial powers INCLUDING the UK colonised Africa and almost all of South East Asia, many of these countries only regained sovereignty in the 1950s, for example Singapore in 1965 (although it was first merged with Malaya in 1963 which was the year the British gave up control). So it is entirely normal for people that have parents older than their country, since we count the age of our country from the day the country regained independence. And since Britain has never been invaded by colonial powers (it was one itself) nor Germany, none of your queens would be older than England unless they're vampires from the 16th century?
Obnoxiously eating a cupcake while talking about Ghandi's hunger strikes is the most American thing I've ever seen lol
Thank you, John, for citing you sources. I just happened to stumble across this wonderful video, and I was overcome with emotion when I heard you cite my late, beloved Grandfather, Ainslie Embree, regarding post-colonial India. He passed away earlier this year. I hope I can show this video to my children someday. Thank you.
John - "You never knew what happened AFTER the rebels victory in Star Wars!"
Me - "Oh.... oh John.... We should've wished for it to stay that way..."
More videos on decolonization would be awesome! In Europe we don't learn much (if anything) about it. Our books are cool with talking about colonization and how we got rich thanks to exploiting other people, but they love to skip the part about what happened to those people afterwards.
My high school History teacher often said he wanted to be a dictator....... I'm scared now.
Noooooooo imagine a world where teachers had absolute power that didn't end at 3:30
About half of the teachers i know would make really scarry/ ruthless dictators in another life
thats a 20 year detention to you for looking at youtube at work
***** There's a tired but true line: "There's no such thing as a benevolent dictator."
It's less that they're objectively evil people, and more that they're humans, and are, by nature, flawed. They have their own set of biases and fears and wants, and - due to the incredible amount of resolve and self-assuredness it takes to take over a whole country - are usually very set in their views, and potentially radical. Their inherent flaws as people inevitably lead to some objectively bad things.
We can't have everything run by one person, OR run by the people. There has to be a balance - of security and freedom.
+Tom Nemoy Power does tend to corrupt, and all that. Not that dictators are always more flawed than others to start with, but when you enter e realm where you can do what you want and everybody you talk to is scared to tell you it's a bad idea, well, watch out.
Nicole Reeds hey, it might not be that bad, Julius Ceaser was a dictator
Ah, winning was easy young man, governing is harder.
They're being intransigent!
+Raina Pope if i rode into your home and told you i'm the king now, are you just going to listen to me?
+Carson Chiu
Oh! It's a quote that follows what the person I replied to said!
It's a Hamilton lyric, sorry dude.
YOU HAVE TO FIND A COMPROMISE
words of gold, somebody has to tell this to the greeks who have pride of destruction of the persian empire. but then there were 20 other greek countries who kept on fighting each other. lol
I love how Meredith the intern celebrates her singleness with a holiday
i like that you don't "talk down" when you explore the histories of the "third world". its sad (even scary) how often smart people (including respected professors in my political science program) appear to have imperialistic and racist undertones in their discussions/lectures. the number of times i flinch when such people pass on their assumptions about western superiority is almost amusing. you'd think ive developed a nervous twitch. so anyway i would just like to say thank you, and keep it up!
John looked legitimately infuriated by Stan cutting away from his *ahem* beautiful *ahem* singing
yay indonesia episode.. we're like canadians, starving for attetntion in world history...
this comment made my day!
As a Canadian, we get plenty of attention, and have our own identity myths, and international stereotypes.
Meanwhile 99% of people don't make the difference between Indonesia and Philippines. Are you the one with the terrorists?
Sorry for replying.
GregTom2 You my fellow canadian, are mean as hell. i like you
GregTom2, I thought it was just 95%. Indonesia and the Philippines combined is enough 5% of the total world population. But both are almost the same country. The Philippines is a Catholic version of Indonesia. Indonesia is an Islamic version of the Philippines
No but canadians are do not support saudi wahabi terrorists
Don't forget Wakanda! True, their economy is pretty well-backed by vibranium exports and hard protectionism for the last few decades, but the late king T'Chaka seemed well-loved and respected by his people. Let's hope the new king maintains the political and social stability.
You....I like you.
where is that?
R.I.P.
But they really need to diversify their exports. What happened when they run out of vibranium?
+That Cathedral Guy no they have a giant panther made out of vibranium
You're like the Bill Nye of historians.
Dear John Green and Crash Course team, YOU have not forgotten to be awesome. Thanks for making informative and educational videos well suited to the hyperactivity of the collective rising generation. :)
As a Greenlander I am offended
Whaaa.... You have internet?
Hunter491 Nah just jappy not being danistani person
+Reno Anguteeraq Wait! So what do you guys do up there?
I don't know if you are sirious, but this is'nt somalia you know, we live on the coast where there is no actual ice and we live in the west/north america so take a guess
You and the other 3 people of Greenland are dying of cold
10:00 did this dude just throw his gun at the guy? lol
Bullets are expensive xD
+LilCheezy ya lol
I love this, but there is definitely a racist joke just waiting to be told...
Controlled Chaos out of ammo
Controlled Chaos he forgot how to use a gun
History has shown, there are no absolutes. Nothing stays the same forever...so yes; very Optimistic about Africa.
Are you absolutely sure? :D
EpicPowered Very Sure...Nature does not torture, she cuts you off like dead weight or lets you get ahead. :)
Daan892 Thanks, you'd be surprised at how many you'd find in Africa. :D
Daan892 Being an African and living in Africa all I can say is watch this space. We're more united politically and economically now more than ever and our economies are growing. Soon we'll be bailing out the EU!!!
@@BuyongoPhiri For that to happen, something really bad would probably have to happen to europe to knock them off their trail. Catching up will be hard since development of countries is the norm.
"You never learn what happened after the rebellion in Star Wars."
Ah, 2012.
Mr. Green, Mr. Green! I'm so excited that I finally get to cite one of your awesome videos for my history class!
Never learn what happens after the Rebels win...
if only there was an Episode VII
+N Squared Would of been cool if Admiral Ackbar had seized control in the intervening years and turned out to be a psychopathic dictator. The movie slogan could be "Turns out it really was a trap!"
+N Squared 'rebels'
+N Squared Yes, so apparently nothing changed when the Rebels won. They just changed names for some reason.
+N Squared Hello!!!!!! Have you seen the new Star Wars VII
+Dylan Ferguson im pretty sure he was making a joke about how dated this video is
I am over 60! These crash course series are so well done. Love it.
I really like these videos, they are super informative and I love the enthusiasm, I just have a little criticism, I'm an African, South African (also white and afrikaans but born and raised in this lovely country)to be exact, I know this clip is from 2012, however the only issue i have is the very "poor cousin" point of very view it portrays, Yes we do have some serious problems in Africa and America, China, Europe and Russia might have a more "advanced" outlook towards us, I just want to say that the part where African countries are just represented as growth and investment statistics isn't very cool. We have a lot to teach the current sate of humanity about living for the greater good and to be honest the constant bombardment of capital interest from the "All mighty economies" really ads to the creation and subsequent corruption of people who are favoured by the people and could have been great leaders, And by the way Robert Mugabe was much more than a High school teacher, he was knighted by the Queen of England and holds 6 degrees including a Master of Science and Master of Law (British Law), an example of a great man corrupted by the views of the "Economic Powers" that every African can be bought.
Thank you
(I'm African too)
AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY!!!
If you were born in Canada, you'd say you are Canadian not North American.
I know I'm like a year late, Im from India, I feel you. You really can't blame the teacher here or any teacher from advanced western nations, they subconsciously bring in that superiority when they talk about the 3rd world countries. Even when they are praising your culture, you can sense that they don't really mean that. In a way Im happy for China's advancement which is nearly challenging the US even though I don't like China as such. A strong economy is the only thing they are forced to acknowledge in the end.
South Africa is a country, look at a map sometime.
Thank you so much for making these videos !
The week before the AP test I watched your videos to study and I felt so prepared for the test that I went to sleep at 8 the night before the test ! I scored a 4 on the test and I have your videos to thank for that . Keep up the good work .
In rwanda, the tutsis and hutus were not different "tribes". Tutsi and hutu were labels conjured up by the european colonizers and cut across many cultural lines.
+Rabastu5 So what? Blacks will always find reason to fight; Europeans or not.
J Subz To think that tutsis and hutus are "tribes" shows ignorance. I was pointing out how the categories of "tutsi" and "hutu" were invented by europeans, as opposed to observed by europeans upon their arrival in rwanda.
"Blacks will always find a reason to fight"? Really? I'm pretty sure senseless conflict is something all peoples of the earth have in common.
I never see the kind of petty, ethnic conflict in Europe as I do in Africa. Unless you're talking about inner city, ethnic areas.
J Subz The Bosnian War and World War 2 were both European conflicts in which "ethnic conflict" played a major role. Also, the current war in ukraine is largely being fought between those who are culturally ukranian on one side and those who are culturally russian on the other.
Keep winding the clock back and you'll see all the European wars over religion and and wars of imperialism.
These all sound like petty conflicts to me
Again, I never see them. And you know why? Because most of the conflicts you listed took place well before I was born, or even before my parents were born. Besides, the Ukraine is barely clinging to the outskirts of Europe, and it is traditionally quite a turbulent place, put in comparison.
It's just ridiculous to say that all European wars go back to religion. That sounds more like nonsensical atheist rhetoric to me. Imperialism, maybe, but religion, no.
And when you compare the small amount of conflicts you mentioned to the ongoing, bloody, awful conflicts going on year after year within central and southern Africa, you start to wonder why it is that they just can't be civilised and stop fighting. Don't try and blame whitey, either. Won't work.
Speaking about decolonization without mentioning neocolonialism, capitalism, Western-organized coups to take down e.g. Mosaddegh or Lumumba or Sankara, inequalities, imposition of Western standards (e.g. economic growth or university diplomas), etc... Seems a bit partial and incomplete?
Hey APWH gang 2k19 where you at??
You ready for the test?
@@tmb3392no I have it this Wednesday. Pray for me
Im gonna die lmao
@@user-uz3fk8zq3u faxxxxxxxx, that DBQ ???
@@luciaheller2856 Wait did you already do it?
What were the essay questions I need this information
"He was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist who believe that Gandhi was too sympathetic to Muslims".
For fucks sake, he helps break the English rule over India and make it a sovereign state and you assassinate him because he believed that Muslim minority deserved as much respect as the Hindu majority. Talk about you can't please all of the people all of the time, a great video as always and Gandhi proved that pacifism and lack of violence can be just as effective as bullets and bayonets which is something that the founding fathers should of taken into consideration FYI I am American.
"which is something that the founding fathers should of taken into consideration FYI I am American."
You're joking, right? Pacifism was a language that 18th century England defiantly didn't speak.
Gandhi's pacifism and lack of violence did nothing. How the hell did this kind of misinformation spread as "knowledge" is beyond me. The English left India because their resources were being spent elsewhere. There was also fighting going on against the English that was taking it's toll on them. Gandhi did nothing but cause the deaths of millions of people. You know nothing.
nayius So they left a country full of resources because they needed resources?
***** Jinnah was right to fear though and on the other point, Ghandi unleashed the masses, he inspired them to march even though they did not have the restraint he did, the marches turned into violent mobs and in days thousands died...times this by a period of 30 years or so years you get millions of deaths.
Gandhi helped in the events which led to the millions killed raped and so on, because he defended the idea of a united India, which didn't really existed at a time. By using that as the core of the speech and struggle he was unknowingly leading to conflict civil war or similar thing ( the reality was massed exodus and deaths by ethnic hate)
And come one, It was not Gandhi who gave independence, The british said to all colonies, that they would give them independence if they helped without questioning and troubles, during their time of need (world war 2)
Once the war ended it was a just a question of how, and not if it was going to happen. Gandhi tried to speed things up and we all know what happened. All the african british colonies had their independence without a fight as well. They just had it a decade later because they didn't speed up the process with mass rebellions and hunger strikes.
Canada also became independent as a reward after the great war.
I'm sure Gandhi had good intentions though. And the muslim leader had a more truthful view of reality ( by saying there was not a indian unity).
***** again is just spreading his chauvinism ideals. You can be sure Ulka, that I will expose who you are in every video I see your biased comments.
I am Congolese born and Burundian raised, both mentioned in the video, I thought the historical facts were as close as they can get. An innocent laughter on these matters is always a good thing. Yes African countries didn't have sufficient time to develop as Europeans did, but we are surely catching up.
Ps: I will soon be the 17th congolese to get a college degree😆😆😆
Yeeyy... Finally BANGLADESH is Mentioned. After #39 episodes. Just For a Second Though. at 04:51 in Thought Bubbles.
Thanks Mr. Green and Entire Team. Huge Fan. #ProudBangladeshi
I find your overuse of the word "problematic" problematic.
Triggered
+Shariq Torres I was joking.
I was triggered by someone else being triggered.
he is using it in the real way, people shold learn from that
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Somehow I can say this colonisation things has affected me as individual. First thing first, of course I learnt about my country. How the history is and how they fight for freedom. And as a Malaysian, we're known as multiracial society. It give me the opportunity to learn about others' cultures. So far, I've been friends with people from each state of Malaysia and they speak different language.
10:43 "Your teachers may have dictatorial ambitions!" 😂 Well yeah, iirc Mussolini was also a teacher. 😂
Meredith the intern, I'm in love with you. I just couldn't have laughed more with Merebration, love it! LOL
Crash Course will forever be helpful...I wonder how many high school history teachers have just told their students "watch all the crash course videos and you'll be done for the year."
Absolutely fantastic video. Informative, funny, and worldly, John Green truly is a gift.
When he said revolution was the easy part my mind said, "Winning was easy young man governings harder."
Hey CrashCourse, just letting you know I have an exam tomorrow. Thanks, again!
When you mentioned Greenland I shed a tear from having such a good laugh. Thanks, again! You're the best.
Really love all your history videos. I hated history back in high school because all we ever did was memorize names and dates. This on the other hand is so much more useful and critical.
who else is watching this because of the AP exam tomorrow
5 for the win
+Shaune Lapp me fam, me
+Shaune Lapp RIght Here!!!
me
+Shaune Lapp I basically know the Neolithic revolution and that's about it...
AP test tomorrow!! WAHOOO!! Why at 3:15 does the globe on the left move????!!!!!! (I'm distracted...)
+Jadyn Christensen same test tomorrow
Don't go down there, turn back up when you see this comment please, for your own well being ;_;
***** Don't, it's cancer.
Thanks. I ventured to one comment, closed my eyes and turned back. I'm totally obsessed with Crash Course though.
Lmaooo. Thanks. Im taking this advice.
well I didn't take your advise...down there seem no different than most other comment sections on RUclips!!!
Ameya S I don't know how it is now but when I wrote that it was... Bad...
Merebration - HILARIOUS!! Im copying that tradition. But Im replacing the cup cakes with whisky.
1:27
Well, there have been multiple Persian Empires throughout history, it depends on the one you are looking for.
When you come to the video for a lesson but you find Prequel references: ✅✅✅✅✅✅🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
9:30 The Hutus and the Tutsis were historically together with the Tutsis as the traditional ruling class and the Hutu as the lower class
5:57 Meredith is a legend for that!
Thank you so much for mentioning my country, Indonesia :)
He does sing like an angel.
Did anyone else notice his Harry Potter T shirt reference :)
11:22 I get goosebumps whenever Botswana is mentioned anywhere because I'm convinced 90% of the world population doesn't know who we are
+Martin Samuel
Why,? Do today's public educators consider maps and globes obsolete? It's amazing for an old-timer like me, who has been around since before Botswana became a nation, to see toddlers using computers, while teenagers know little of geography beyond which continent is which. I don't know what they actually teach in school-------------'democratic' ideology, maybe. But how can one USE 'freedom' without facts at one's disposal? How is one supposed to be a 'global citizen' without bothering to learn the names of other countries?
So you have my sympathy. May God bless you and your country, and lead you in the way of Christ. (1st Timothy 2:5) 'For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.'
My AP test is tomorrow and crash course it pretty cool to review with.
I wouldn't say colonisation is the thing of the past. It's jusr become more subtle. I mean, look at Iraq or Syria or East Ukraine... isn't it American and Russian imperialism?
Imperialism today is brought about by corporatism.
"best intro music ever" hahaha love it (hint: read subtitles)
At 8:49 snoop dog is standing in the back row of guys in that black and white picture LOLOLOL :D
Just sitting in my igloo.... chillin... with my frozen wifi❄️
My teachers as dictators *shudders*
The scary thing is I can imagine some of them doing that.
My History teacher is also our head discipline master.... great experience as dictator🥶
All this talk about decolonization without mentionning Algeria! How odd?!
nantzstein oml ur profile pic...
is that taron egerton I see?! :D
kalojiostuff Never knew his name! Well I gess I do look like him ;)
3 months of history class summed up in a twelve-minute video :)
Please John Green, will you ever do a video about Ireland? Did we do something to upset you? :'(
While I, like many others, appreciate your efforts to spread the knowledge of History and while I commend the neutral approach you take while presenting conflicting narratives, I would have greater respect for you, if you suggested books, or provided links to materials that describe history in greater detail.
In this video, as with many others, I found myself agreeing and appreciating your teaching, but then, suddenly, find myself shocked at the limited perspective offered.
You have a great responsibility, owing to the fact that you have the privilege of moulding our young minds. I hope and pray that you realize the gravity of this and act accordingly.
An few instances where I felt the perspective was limited:
Crash Course World History # 230 : You mention that Western Democracies have offered greater wealth and improvement in the lives of their citizens. This makes it seem as though the "enlightened democracy" was the chief architect of the prosperity we see in the US, Britain, etc. and glosses over the fact that Slavery, Genocide, Continued military dominance and exploitation of weaker powers also contributed to this prosperity.
While I do realize that time is your limitation, as is the attention span of most youtubers, I would appreciate it if you ended your videos with sources where your viewers may learn more about the topic at hand.
Actually america did say "Thank you so much for helping us thwart Germany's imperialistic ambitions, as a reward; please hand in your rifle and return to a state of subjugation." to blacks...
Literally one of instigating factors for the civil rights movement.
conscripting them was a huge mistake.
@@puggerinopug9280 How?
you say that like you were there? and tell me this, do you also find every other race in america at that time to be racist against blacks?
to me, you act as though america was filled with ONLY racist white people. there were more than one race and more than one opinion about the action. so cant say "America" as if everyone in "America" was racist towards blacks.
@@yikezb Ignoring that race is a term used mainly by people of Germanic descent, America is used as a personification in the comment, not as representing one group of people or another. It is America that enacted Jim Crow laws for instance. If you want to be technical about that, you can list the states that enacted such laws, but it was the U.S. that allowed such laws to be enacted when the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal'" was a defining principle
I guess we now do know what happened after the battle of Endor.
They didn't specifically mention trade treaties with Gungan's, but I like to think that's what was being debated when the new republic got nuked.
1:45 It could be said that in the Cold War the Soviet Empire was fighting the American Empire.
Except neither was an empire.
+willefromphilly USA was imperialist since its independens which USA set conquest for Texas and parts of Mexico and not to mention native americans.
avid david also the spanish colonies after the spanish-American war
1:41 uhhhh, John , you are forgeting the American empire.
Don’t forget China
An interesting note regarding the Vietnam war was before the Vietname war started, Ho Chi Minh wrote to the US asking for support, and wanted to ally North Vietnam to the US, however his letters were ignored, so he allied himself to the Communist nations and this is what started the war. All those dead could've been avoided. One of the United States biggest geopolitical blunders.
I believe originally the US did not want to get itself involved in another conflict (considering this was right after the Korean War, which was relatively costly for little to no gain) thus they refused to offer support, but when Ho Chi Minh then aligned himself with the USSR, the prevailing "Domino theory" at that time convinced the US to prop up the South Vietnamese regime in opposition, and the rest is history.
NeonsStyle according to my historical knowledge, USA had helped the French preserve their colony there. And when China came to conquer Vietnam, the USA helped again. So when did ho chi Ming’s letters get ignored? After the Chinese? I thought that before the splitt of Vietnam, USA had been an ally to ho chi mihn.
Oh my God, his younger self's "Save Ginny" shirt is the best thing ever
About Indonesia, The Dutch didn't refers Indonesian as 'peasant' but 'inlanders'. And the Dutch do give Indonesians Ethical Policies which offers Indonesian Irrigation, migration and Education. The third one is important because Educations create the founding fathers of Indonesia. And Sukarno is a President not Prime Minister. Just some info not trying to correcting. Please create a video about Indo people and Bersiap Periode?
+Christian Djami Well, the thing is that we didn't really oppress them ourselves directly but rather let that do that through the native kingdoms and tribes that were integrated into our system. Only after Eduard Douwes Dekker, a former Dutch colonial administrator and a famous fighter for Indonesian rights, wrote Max Havelaar (a semi-fictional novel in which a colonial administrator tries to fight the corruption and mistreatment in the colonial system) things would become better for the Indonesians, which was also a demise of Dutch colonialism when a class of educated Indonesians became existent on Java.
Sadly enough Sukarno's dream became an islamis hellhole past few decades, although I've heard things are improving under the new president.
admittingly they're not as bad as the French, Germans and Belgians too when it comes to Native people treatment.
+Remus Lupin
I guess from the european perspective Sukarno is the first prime minister, because netherland wasn't acknowledge Indonesian independent until 1950 (while Sukarno declared our independence in 1945 tho). Before that they just acknowledge Indonesia as a united state(?), that's why from their perspective Sukarno is a prime minister.
Remus Lupin I'm guessing you're french
Nicolaes Marius It's not Islam that ruined Soekarno. It is coup de tat by Soeharto and CIA agent.
US also had a colony called the Philippines
davidsegun It wasn't a colony
+davidsegun No, no, not really a colonies but a puppet state... yes ok that might be a form of colonisation.
Puppet state or not it's still a colony.
+Pocholo Pan.
Use whatever Euphemism for colony you want. Its still a colony.
Yeah, under the one colonial empire that got stronger after WWII, instead of weaker, like nearly every other colonial empire came out.
Decolonisation was a disaster in India. Whole generations were devastated by the aftermath. Many families destroyed, many good people lost lives. Gandhi might have been a good showman, but he was neither a good manager nor anyone listened to him in the British Parliament nor in the Congress. He played a good distraction during the freedom struggle of India. Nehru & Jinnah secured their positions in the newly emerged power centres. Gandhi had to be shown the way out. Firebrand leader Subhash Chandra Bose was exiled from India due to the conspiracy plotted by the British govt & Gandhi-Nehru played pimps. Even Gandhi supported the death sentence of our beloved martyr Bhagat Singh & his comrades.
Britishers promised to give India's demand of total freedom, if the British Indian Army could fight well in time of deep trouble of England during WWII. Discontent rose up in the ranks of British Indian army who had won the WWII for the British & no matter how loyal they were, it was time for India to break the shackles of colonisation.
Britishers played with the lives of innocent people of India & none of the so called great leaders like Gandhi nor Nehru stepped in to stop the violence.
Commoners were forced to leave their ancestral homes of hundred years, in both sides of the borders. It was a total chaos. No territorial force was commissioned to look after the security of the people. Rather force was rallied to escort the British elite from India & to safeguard Indian Congress elites.
Many common British citizens also suffered due to the lack of transportation provided by the British govt for the return journeys.
The provinces which gave India the most number of martyrs - Bengal & Punjab, were split in half during the decolonisation & their populations the most affected in the process.
The decolonisation process left the deepest scar in the face of India, with the seeds of communalism, half worked constitution, most importantly the Nehru family in the centre of the power. No matter how the western media uphelds Gandhi, he is loosing his fakester image very rapidly even in public.
Just came back from a movie - Rajkahini ..... Guys will get much insight on the subject
+Souvik Sinha Britain should have just handed India to the United States. That region has clearly proven unfit for self-government. They NEED colonialism. Decolonization was a mistake. Not every culture is equal. Western civilization will always be superior. We have the right values and morals, and everyone else is wrong.
AirCooledMan2006 yes ..... Being the first country to induce HIV AIDS, America can brag about itself
Souvik Sinha You just can't stomach the fact that Westerners are inherently superior to all other cultures. It is our birthright to rule your savage "countries". We are better than you. Learn your place and accept our authority over you or I'll call the Army and have them send drones on your lands as punishment. Third World people have never deserved sovereignty. They don't have the right morals or values for it. They need our wise, intellectual rule and culture of rationalism if we are to save humanity from itself.
+AirCooledMan2006 I can already picture your big truck with the Trump 2016 bumper sticker and confederate flag waving out the back...
7:38 First *President.* We did have positions of prime ministers in the past but only in a brief early period in the chaotic political history post sovereignty. Speaking of, it happened around the latter half of 1949, but not quite 1950.
All that aside, you did a great job summarizing the colonial and independence history of my country. Btw, I'm watching this the day after independence day. Keep up the good work.
I am glad that you pointed out several nations that have improved since the colonial powers departed. Unfortunately, it appears that many places (especially in Africa) have gone from bad to worse after their overlords left. Like the former Yugoslavia, and the Sykes-Picot "nations" once the bid bad dictator is removed, chaos ensues. As bad as life might have been for the people in those places, there was some degree of order. I wonder if life is better for them now than it was back under a strong man?
Funny hearing a non-Dutch person trying to say "Cultuurstelsel"
It's interesting that Gandhi was brought up as battling to "improve the rights of women" when there's been a lot of talk that he was rather misogynistic. He viewed rape victims of losing value as human beings and that women should kill their self if raped/their fathers were justified in honor killings (an issue that plagues India to this day), sexually exploited young women with his influence including his grandniece, reinforced gender roles, and refused to allow women to join on the plea that they had a ‘greater’ role to play.
So yeah, while he saw women as an added force to use in changing social order and defeat imperialism (where he introduced 'special women’s programmes' that were a way to involve women in the movement while remaining at home), it is really tough to consider him a champion of women's rights, especially considering his beliefs regarding women and purity has really solidified the treatment of women even today.
he was also a fucking racist he lived in south africa and look down on the natives there kissing ass to the people that was oppressing him
Grace Lauren *Feminist rage*
many of these things are said are by hindu nationalist (same ideology that assassinated him )
Not to defend Ghandi as I've heard some pretty shitty things be said about the man, but a lot of "progressive" views are only relative to the current state.
You're probably right, I'm just saying that perhaps even that was ahead for its socio-cultural context?
Grace Lauren Gandhi himself has said that he was wrong about many things and his life is just a series of experiments to find the truth.
He was wrong about woman and plenty of people accept that but he was a man born in 19th century India.
He fought against
child marriage,
dowry system
supported remarriage of widows ,
He was against sexual desires of both men and woman and he himself practiced celibacy
For a man born in 19th century that is clearly a good track record for woman's rights
FINALLY! SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS MY LOVE OF THE GALACTIC EMPIRE!!!
As Indonesian I am so proud my country is a founding member Of Non-Aligned Movement
and as a country that spread the spirit of decolonization after World War 2 to the whole world , especially southeast asia
Spreading it by colonizing and oppressing West Papuans and East Timorese
Hahahah laughed so hard at this! Nice comment!
+Bob Jones (DaSoloHan) Well.....i am not a historian , but i do remembered that the Timorese people wanted to join Indonesia in the 19th century , And although i don’t really know why they wanted to be independent . It is probably because the 1998 crisis , communist party , USA’s highly unnecessary intervention and etc..
But i think it is probably because Timor East is largely ignored and is less developed than the other region , and social ethnic tension . Controlling a diverse nation that consists of thousands of ethnics and hundreds of languages and cultures spread out in 1.9 million square kilometers and more than 13.000 islands ,
However , i really want to see your opinion on Indonesia , it might be interesting
@@jokerofmorocco hey,sorry for replying this after 3 years,i need to be an adult before reply this. Yes,ok for the timor east,we colonizing them,but for west papua,there is more to tell dude. oppresing is just one of a tool like american people said they are support freedom and tolerance in world war 2 but after that they are just like "Remember No Communist!"
@@rizkyaldi5698 For West Papua it's even a bigger example of colonizing as the Papuans don't want to be part of Indonesia but were forced into the union and after they were under the union they were brutally oppressed killing hundreds of thousands of them, additionally Indonesia is doing settler colonialism by mass migrating Javanese and other Indonesians into West Papua to turn it into Java 2.0
My school is having me watch this 25 times.... I hate this
And then the Muslim Brotherhood never became an issue again... Wait, what?
If I remember from the random side teachings of my World Geo teacher, didn't they become Al Quida, and eventually ISIS?
That was the joke he was making. John was being sarcastic when he said they never became an issue again.
If this was the case why TF didn’t they say so it’s just rlly annoying if u have no context
@@B1son it encourages you to learn something new about how Europeans history influences the world we have now, (with wit!). they provide the info as unbiased as possible and let you be big enough to provide context. Historical Journalist And their Dry wit.
I absolutely died at the Ben Kingsley and Ghandi part 😂😂 I might be the only under-20-year-old who got that....
A Greenlandic acquaintance of mine is offended
is anyone not gonna talk about his "save ginny" shirt
Afroeurasia, I like that term..... Afroeur- damn that's a nice word.
Hi Fionn its Joseph from school
Joseph Coughlan Smitty Waberjagermanjenson guy?
Fionn Conner what did you say
Joseph Coughlan That thing you're always saying.
What thing
Who needs to read the text book when you have John green
Would it be fair to say that any one of these various forms of government, i.e. capitalism, communism, etc., would probably work just fine in satisfying the needs of the populous if only corruption and exploitation could be eradicated?
It is more fair to say that the overall tendency of human cultural diversity is to favor a compromise between these individual defined systems just in the same way that most individual people compromise between productivity, self-fulfillment and social interaction.
But they would all be better off if we changed our cultural attitudes about wealth, self-interest, and the personhood of corporations.
Yes. The one, only thing. As opposed to predatory corporate capitalism. Or nazis. Or a huge economic depression. Or an invading foreign power. Or literal genocide. Or the end of the world. Or regressive conservativism.
Oh wait were you being serious?
Dang it invisible comments, now I just look even crazier!
Neither are forms of government.
Big Bad Wolf
Well, technically. But then again, both when implemented ultimately have a huge influence on the government. Just look at how capitalism has ended up controlling the american government, I mean.
Ellotus Freeholy capitalism wont help viva la communism
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"dutch cant defend their colony", they cant even defend them self let alone their colony
Raghunandan Reddy C Your country wouldn't be able to defend itself fromGermany either.
Dutch Navy: Am I a joke to you?
Hi...Mr. John. I am from Bangladesh, formerly Bengal,the first colony of The British East Indian Company. I love history....but hate wars. I love to learn the constitutional and administrative development of countries. I think you're right...History is not all about wars. Wars are merely just the BIG turning points. Right???
did anyone else get assigned to write a summary of this by your social studies? :)
Did anyone hear the mongoltage background at 0:06?
9:30
Ouch. That's a very painful mistake you made there. The Hutu's and the Tutsi's weren't different tribes before the colonialism began at all. It's a common misunderstanding that these peoples were different tribes, while in all actuality they were different classes created by the Belgian colonists.
They granted the Tutsi's, who were often richer (they owned cattle, that's also where the word Tutsi is derived from) more rights and privileges. That created a class system which made it easier for the Belgians to keep the people under their thumb.
Later, when Ruanda became independent, the Hutu's would rise up against the Tutsi's, who were still in power. Because the titles "Hutu" and "Tutsi" were hereditary, the distinction is still made today, even though there is often no difference in wealth anymore.
I love Stan's side comments in the subtitles. :)
Sooooo, APs are soon, who else is cramming for the history AP in 2018?
me too
lets go
What about Ireland? Nobody ever mentions Ireland! I think we're a pretty damn good example of triumphant nationalism and decolonization
Yes, but you succeeded in this by slaughtering countless low rank British soldiers who were only following orders, along with orchestrating terrorist attacks on British civilians. And don't bring up the common excuse that high up Nazis claimed they were," Only following orders ," because that statement is completely and utterly false. They knew full well the severity of their actions, and participated willingly.
Nick Zabawa The terrorist attacks did not occur until after Ireland gained its independence from Britain, they were mainly related to Catholic/Protestant tensions. Also, many innocent Irish citizens were killed too, it's tragic but that's generally what happens in a war. Not to mention those killed or left to die during centuries of oppression under British rule. I'm just saying it was impressive for a country as small and at the time, as poor as Ireland to break from British rule.
My grandfather, a native of the Netherlands, was in the Dutch army during the Indonesian National Revolution. He also lived in Nazi-occupied Friesland during WWII.
He's told me some really interesting (and often scary and/or sad) stories about the occupation, and will talk freely about it if asked. The most he's ever said about his time in the army and the fighting in Indonesia was that he got seasick on the way over. I'm guessing it just wasn't very pleasant over there at all.
Although I didn't really get the lesson, it's at least more interesting than my world history teacher's lectures.
It's ok, they eventually went on to destroy a third Death Star.
And, what about Palestine? ................ This silence is disturbing me.
Palestine in the years after world war 2 was not popular in the west as they were Pro-Nazi in WW2 and became close to the Soviet Union.
I was asking about the decolonization of Palestine, dominated by the British Empire. You know, when the United Nations voted the future of the palestinian nation. I think is an interesting topic.
but it is the reason because all of the Pro-Palestine countries were defeated. Only ones left were pro-Israel.
Burhan the Somali Not since 2005.
Manuel Cordero Iniesta It is, which could really have it's own episode. But he's giving a general overview of decolonization not an in depth one.
why does you from the past always do the outro?
I love how lecturer explain hunger strike by stuffing his mouth with cupcake. It made me laugh so hard that I didn't hear him clearly about hunger strike.