While mentioning all the Jamaicans there, it's also worth mentioning that the Cayman Islands used to be a part of Jamaica! England took formal control of the Cayman Islands, along with Jamaica, as a result of the Treaty of Madrid of 1670. A permanent English-speaking population in the islands dates from the 1730s. The first royal land grant for the Caymans was granted by the governor of Jamaica in 1734. Slavery was abolished in the Cayman Islands in 1833, and in 1863, the Cayman Islands was officially declared and administered as a dependency of the Crown Colony of Jamaica. The islands continued to be governed as part of the Colony of Jamaica, they were an internally self-governing territory of Jamaica from 1958 to 1962, and then they became a separate Crown colony after Jamaica obtained independence in 1962. The Turks and Caicos were also once administered by Jamaica as well as the Bahamas, as after Jamaica became independent, Turks and Caicos became their own Crown Colony, then in 1965, the governor of the Bahamas also became governor of the Turks and Caicos, and when the Bahamas gained independence in 1973, the Turks and Caicos received their own governor. On the Caymanian coat of arms, the three stars represent Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac (the flight between Little Cayman and Cayman Brac is one of the shortest commercial flights in the world; it takes 10 minutes), the blue and white waves evoke the Caribbean Sea, the yellow lion on the red field for England, the turtle references the original Spanish name that Columbus gave to the islands "Las Tortugas", as well as its tradition of seafaring, and the pineapple signifies Cayman's former connection with Jamaica.
Me when Shirtless Toycat is real, *"OH NO, HE'S HOT".* I didn't have Shirtless Toycat on a beach at the Cayman Islands on my 2024 bingo, but here we are! The first moving walkway debuted at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Six years later, another moving walkway was presented to the public at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris as the Rue de l'Avenir. The first moving walkway in an airport was installed in 1958 at Love Field in Dallas. The British Overseas Territories are definitely quite interesting! One of the more interesting ones is Montserrat. Its historic capital was Plymouth, but the city is completely buried in volcanic ash after eruptions from the island's once dormant Soufrière Hills volcano in the 1990s. Thankfully unlike Pompeii, the residents were able to evacuate to neighboring Antigua and then the UK. Now you can't visit the southern half of the island unless you have special permits on a tour because it's an Exclusion Zone (though the public can take a helicopter tour from Antigua that flies over the whole zone). Another one is Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, and while the flag of this territory is the Union flag, the different units of the territory have their own flags and coat of arms. Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately 2,787 kilometers from Cape Town, 2,437 kilometers from Saint Helena, and 3,949 kilometers from Mar del Plata. It is named after a Portuguese explorer who was the first to sight this island in 1506, though he decided not to land there due to the rough seas, and the name was later Anglicized. There is no airstrip, so the only way to get there is by ship. Saint Helena used to be the same way, but an airport was built in the 2010s. Saint Helena is known for being the site of Napoleon's second exile, following his final defeat at Waterloo in 1815, and he died there in 1821. Oliver Cromwell granted the East India Company a charter for St. Helena in 1657, making it the second-oldest Overseas Territory after Bermuda!
The British colonies of the Caribbean actually tried to form their own federation called the West Indies Federation between 1958 and 1962 and it composed of the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, and those on the Leeward and Windward Islands, with its de facto capital in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Their intention was to create a political unit that would become independent from the UK as a single state similar to Canada and Australia, but this ran into different problems over how it would be governed or function viably. The big catalyst for its dissolution was Jamaica, as Jamaicans felt that their share of the seats in the federal parliament was smaller than its share of the total population of the Federation, that the smaller islands would be a drain on Jamaica's wealth, they were isolated in distance from the other islands, there was inter-island rivalry, and many Jamaicans were upset that Kingston had not been chosen as the capital. Besides Jamaica, there was lack of local popular support, competing insular nationalism, the weakness of the federal government, prohibitions on taxation and freedom of movement (they feared people abandoning the smaller islands), inadequacies in the Federal constitution, fundamental changes made to the constitution very early in its existence, political feuds between the influential leaders, the decision of the three most influential politicians not to contest Federal elections, friction between these leaders and the Federal government, the overwhelming concentration of population and resources in the two largest units, geographic and cultural distance between the units, the lack of a history of common administration. Also, there were problems with the Federation's proposed capital in Chaguaramas on Trinidad, at that time still in the hands of the US (who leased it as a naval base during World War II). Many of the Caribbean provincial leaders wanted Chaguaramas to be the Federation's capital. Provincial leaders such as Norman Manley of Jamaica and Eric Williams pushed for handing over of Chaguaramas to the Federation from the US. However, the US and the UK disagreed, and the Federation's Prime Minister Grantley Adams stopped the provincial leaders from obtaining Chaguaramas
7:03 "Loudest toilet I ever been in, so I'll use subtitles for now" Editor: **cracks knuckles** Subtitles are for toycats, here's vocal isolation. 18:51 The AI enjoyed the joke too, she increased her creepsmile factor by 9000.
Last year there were some news articles saying that councilors in the Orkney Islands could be set to follow Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man in becoming a Crown Dependency. You should make a video about that and maybe visit the Orkney Islands as part of the video.
worst part of the big airports with many of those horizontal escalator things is that even when there are multiples going in the same direction you still get lazy people blocking the way in all of them so sometimes its still faster for me to not take them
I half expected this channel to be the more popular one, but it turns out that his “main” channel has 7.5 times as many subscribers. However, the number of views on those videos seems to vary wildly from ~5000 views to >100k views. The numbers here are much more consistent. No, I don’t watch his first channel either.
Unrelated but could you do a video of islands inside lakes inside of countries? Like Manamansalo in Finland. Idk why but it tickles my brain a bit and it'd be funny to have an overview
@5:40 Sir King Charles is the King of Canada, he’s not technically the King. And all laws has to be approved by the king via Governor General, and the Governor General has the authority to veto any bill. And if prime minister dose not like it he can call a referendum.
Glad you enjoyed visiting our islands. Over half the population isn’t originally from here so it’s kindve hard for some people to get a gauge on the national identity of you aren’t staying for long or visiting the eastern districts. But as Caymanians we 100% have our own national identity, I’ve never met a Caymanian in my life who claims to be British or from the UK, (unless they have a parent from there.) While we don’t need independence to succeed as a nation at the moment, I do hope to see it achieved at some point in my lifetime.
this was such an interesting watch for me, having a caymanian/jamaican mother. i don’t think i have much authority to weigh in on national identity, having only been a handful of times as a kid and once as an adult, but close family is a major value - with it being such a small place. my most recent visit was in january, i could go out with direct family and find a handful of third cousins without fail 😂🤣 most of my cousins spouse are from other CARICOM islands, and often times we’ll also see them state side in like miami or tampa. but yeah in short you’re kinda right 😅
Tours of the Quebec hotel rooms, that country accent in Charlotte impression, laying on the beach in the islands, and interesting knowledge. 10/10 This may be THE perfect 2cat video.
I’ve heard of the idea of separating state and nation in terms of discussions. Nation would be people who share cultural/ethnic/religious aspects however fluid that itself is and a state would be the entity itself the governing body if you will
As a Canadian I’d say we became independent on July 1, 1867 at least that’s what we celebrate. I’m aware that our parliament was fully cut on in 1982 though.
0:01 I don't know where the idea comes from that the British empire ruled over a quarter of the world's land area. Land area = 150 million square km. British empire had 35.5 million square km, so well under a quarter. Maybe it's like if you add up all their holdings over time instead of looking at their greatest extent in any one snapshot
Me being stoned out of my mind watching a Cat travel video, more common that you'd think. I love that this second channel is still going strong after all those years.
It was never part of the UK. The UK is *only* England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. That's a very basic concept which I'm sure toycat knows so it's gotta be engagement bait. Im not from the UK, and Im not a UK citizen. I dont have a UK passport because I'm not from the UK. We even do export and imports to the UK and UK citizens dont just automatically have the right to show up and live here. UK = British but British ≠ UK.
For all intents and purposes the Isle of Man is part of the UK. It is a Celtic country in the same Cornwall is part of England, but the only thing it separates it from the UK is its geography. Crown dependency - "A territory for which the UK is responsible..." Manx people are British citizens. The British monarch is the Lord of Man. British government is responsible for its defence. Granted, being British doesn't make you part of the UK in the same way as a Australians are. Although when your "country" is situated in the "British Isles", when at one point almost the entire group of islands were governed by ONE monarch and government, it just comes down to some pretty shallow semantics to assert that it's an independent country in the same way that Ireland *with a monarchy is / was.
isle of man is not part of the uk. us crown dependencies make our own laws and have our own fiscal policy. the uk is responsible only for our defence, has rights to negotiate on our behalf, and controls the monetary policy of the currency we share. For all intents and purposes then were as much a country as European microstates
@@jamesbrewer6970 IOM is apart of the UK, they are basically an external county of England as they compete in the Lancashire system in Football and Athletics.
@garystill1308 lmao Swansea compete in the EFL does that mean swansea is part of England? Isle of Man and other criwn dependencies are again not part of the uk. They are property of the crown and do rely on the UK for defence policy, but that does not change the fact that legally the UK government has no jurisdiction there: they are independent. its not even like how wales or Scotland have had powers devolved; there are no powers to devolve becuase it is not UK jurisdiction source: i live here
@@jamesbrewer6970 You could say the same for Scotland. They can make their own laws and taxes. But they don't have their own currency. The IoM in theory has its own currency, but in practical terms it is using Sterling. Not really any different to and independent Scotland.
@@rogink Difference is that the British parliament can make laws for Scotland and Scotland has parliamentary representation. Neither are true for the Isle of Man. The Manx have no representation in Parliament and in turn the British parliament cannot make any laws for the Isle of Man.
Great vid! always enjoy your ones! I think my summary would be its NOT part of the United Kingdom and the UK is still just made up of 4 "countries" the fact you cannot freely move there, they set their own visa rules, the completely different money etc. You can freely move between England, Scotland and Wales for example and I could buy a house and start a new life as easy in Wales as I could in England. Doing this here though would not be an easy task and I could be denied, leading me to an answer that its not part of the United Kingdom but more a somewhat in between not quite a country, not quite part of the UK inbetween and a somewhat confusing state. I guess I learnt a lot from this video but also still am left confused how this can function and work!
WTF TOYCAT I LIVE THERE, i wish i knew i wouldve said hiiiii!!!! :c [to clarify i mean the cayman islands] also for my thoughts on some of the questions. yes we are close to the us, our currency is related to the usd and we (unfortunately imo) use the imperial system fully. our cars are 50/50 for which hand drive, even tho we drive on the left. i think everyone here would call cayman a country, after all we are self governing. we go in the olympics, have our own country code, etc, so as far as we are concerned we are a country even if not a fully sovereign one. in my mind country doesnt necessarily mean soveriegn, i would call wales and scotland countries too for similar reasons as us. half of our population are on work visas, so we definitely are quite a melting pot. a lot of the wealthier people are those people on work visa, like lawyers and accountants that come from abroad and work here. in terms of born caymanians its i guess some kind of mix between jamaican british and maybe a bit american depending on who u look at. and yeah! if anyone has any questions feel free to ask :>
Just more evidence that the word "country" is very confusing. First you have the Cayman Islands and Scotland - both countries within the UK, that have their own laws. But then you have "countries" like the Basque Country, which, if you've ever been, also has a very strong sense of its own nationhood even though it crossed the French-Spanish border. And then finally you have "the country" in reference to anything that isn't urbanised. It just makes you realise that everything should probably be called "political entity" and then "political subdivision" but that would be boring. Especially when you take into account that "country" is our go-to word: you've got kingdoms - run by monarchs, dukedoms - run by dukes, republics - run by elected heads of state, and then country - the region run by a "count" in historic contexts. That's all my thoughts about countries I think. The end.
LEVELING Your audio is all over the place. Can't watch without earphones for fear of disturbing other people in the building, can't watch WITH them either without unexpectedly blowing an ear drum.
I'm a bit concerned about the idea that penguins aren't people becau se nobody's racist against them. If we want to assert the full humanity of a particular ethnic group, should we use all the slurs we can find against them?
@@stargazer-elite No, it's not. It's a separate legal entity. The UK government does not have any say in what's going on in some of these areas at all. Indeed some where still feudal as late as this decade if I don't remember wrong...
@@stargazer-elite It's not the crown of the UK. The crown is *above* the UK and separate from it. It's how countries could be in personal unions. The UK is only the two biggest kingdoms on the British isles, the kingdoms of England and Scotland that where unified into a single kingdom, that doesn't mean that the monarchs didn't have separate areas ruled by them that *never* where a part of that united Kingdom, and is not under the rule of its parliament. Anything that was not merged with either, England, Scotland or the UK either before or after the merger of the two kingdoms is *not* a part of the UK, despite sharing a king. These areas are no more a part of the UK then Canada is right now, or Australia is. They're separate sovereign entities sharing a monarch that may or may not rule there depending on the area in question.
The island of Ireland which contains the Republic of Ireland, whatever one's political view one holds on Northern Ireland is not in the British Islands. The island has a name. Ireland.
After seeing the luxury hotel I'm starting to think this guy isn't using my money to buy kebabs at all...
Maybe they serve kebabs at the hotel?...
How could he 😔
While mentioning all the Jamaicans there, it's also worth mentioning that the Cayman Islands used to be a part of Jamaica! England took formal control of the Cayman Islands, along with Jamaica, as a result of the Treaty of Madrid of 1670. A permanent English-speaking population in the islands dates from the 1730s. The first royal land grant for the Caymans was granted by the governor of Jamaica in 1734. Slavery was abolished in the Cayman Islands in 1833, and in 1863, the Cayman Islands was officially declared and administered as a dependency of the Crown Colony of Jamaica. The islands continued to be governed as part of the Colony of Jamaica, they were an internally self-governing territory of Jamaica from 1958 to 1962, and then they became a separate Crown colony after Jamaica obtained independence in 1962. The Turks and Caicos were also once administered by Jamaica as well as the Bahamas, as after Jamaica became independent, Turks and Caicos became their own Crown Colony, then in 1965, the governor of the Bahamas also became governor of the Turks and Caicos, and when the Bahamas gained independence in 1973, the Turks and Caicos received their own governor.
On the Caymanian coat of arms, the three stars represent Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac (the flight between Little Cayman and Cayman Brac is one of the shortest commercial flights in the world; it takes 10 minutes), the blue and white waves evoke the Caribbean Sea, the yellow lion on the red field for England, the turtle references the original Spanish name that Columbus gave to the islands "Las Tortugas", as well as its tradition of seafaring, and the pineapple signifies Cayman's former connection with Jamaica.
I see you comment everywhere, do you watch mandrproductions?
Me when Shirtless Toycat is real, *"OH NO, HE'S HOT".* I didn't have Shirtless Toycat on a beach at the Cayman Islands on my 2024 bingo, but here we are! The first moving walkway debuted at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Six years later, another moving walkway was presented to the public at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris as the Rue de l'Avenir. The first moving walkway in an airport was installed in 1958 at Love Field in Dallas. The British Overseas Territories are definitely quite interesting! One of the more interesting ones is Montserrat. Its historic capital was Plymouth, but the city is completely buried in volcanic ash after eruptions from the island's once dormant Soufrière Hills volcano in the 1990s. Thankfully unlike Pompeii, the residents were able to evacuate to neighboring Antigua and then the UK. Now you can't visit the southern half of the island unless you have special permits on a tour because it's an Exclusion Zone (though the public can take a helicopter tour from Antigua that flies over the whole zone).
Another one is Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, and while the flag of this territory is the Union flag, the different units of the territory have their own flags and coat of arms. Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately 2,787 kilometers from Cape Town, 2,437 kilometers from Saint Helena, and 3,949 kilometers from Mar del Plata. It is named after a Portuguese explorer who was the first to sight this island in 1506, though he decided not to land there due to the rough seas, and the name was later Anglicized. There is no airstrip, so the only way to get there is by ship. Saint Helena used to be the same way, but an airport was built in the 2010s. Saint Helena is known for being the site of Napoleon's second exile, following his final defeat at Waterloo in 1815, and he died there in 1821. Oliver Cromwell granted the East India Company a charter for St. Helena in 1657, making it the second-oldest Overseas Territory after Bermuda!
4:14 “if there were reasons to be in Quebec, I’d invent them to stay in this hotel” 😂😂😂
Poutine!
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10:10 POV: You’re chilling at the beach and a random British man starts lecturing you about the complex geopolitical environment of the Cayman Islands
The list of slurs is great. It's fun to send it in group chats with no context.
How to keep your empire: rebrand.
Imperial federation?
Well yeah thats how all nation states formed
The British colonies of the Caribbean actually tried to form their own federation called the West Indies Federation between 1958 and 1962 and it composed of the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, and those on the Leeward and Windward Islands, with its de facto capital in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Their intention was to create a political unit that would become independent from the UK as a single state similar to Canada and Australia, but this ran into different problems over how it would be governed or function viably. The big catalyst for its dissolution was Jamaica, as Jamaicans felt that their share of the seats in the federal parliament was smaller than its share of the total population of the Federation, that the smaller islands would be a drain on Jamaica's wealth, they were isolated in distance from the other islands, there was inter-island rivalry, and many Jamaicans were upset that Kingston had not been chosen as the capital.
Besides Jamaica, there was lack of local popular support, competing insular nationalism, the weakness of the federal government, prohibitions on taxation and freedom of movement (they feared people abandoning the smaller islands), inadequacies in the Federal constitution, fundamental changes made to the constitution very early in its existence, political feuds between the influential leaders, the decision of the three most influential politicians not to contest Federal elections, friction between these leaders and the Federal government, the overwhelming concentration of population and resources in the two largest units, geographic and cultural distance between the units, the lack of a history of common administration. Also, there were problems with the Federation's proposed capital in Chaguaramas on Trinidad, at that time still in the hands of the US (who leased it as a naval base during World War II). Many of the Caribbean provincial leaders wanted Chaguaramas to be the Federation's capital. Provincial leaders such as Norman Manley of Jamaica and Eric Williams pushed for handing over of Chaguaramas to the Federation from the US. However, the US and the UK disagreed, and the Federation's Prime Minister Grantley Adams stopped the provincial leaders from obtaining Chaguaramas
How to expense your vacation as a tax break lol. Love the irl video man! Hope you had a good trip!
Gotta visit the falkland 🇫🇰 now
The Cayman Islands are apparently literally the country equivalent of the child that refused to move out xD
Well they were apart of Jamaica , saw what happened after Jamaica moved out and said yeah umm no I'm good.
@@manovrsb wasn't the worst choice apparently.
Really great video as always. Every time you manage to shoehorn in the wikipedia list of slurs is pretty hilarious to me
7:03 "Loudest toilet I ever been in, so I'll use subtitles for now"
Editor: **cracks knuckles** Subtitles are for toycats, here's vocal isolation.
18:51 The AI enjoyed the joke too, she increased her creepsmile factor by 9000.
Last year there were some news articles saying that councilors in the Orkney Islands could be set to follow Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man in becoming a Crown Dependency. You should make a video about that and maybe visit the Orkney Islands as part of the video.
This is the first video I have ever thought of Toycat as cool... Well that was until @10:20, when Toycat just became sexy!
Hold on! I literally live here! Very nice you were able to cover our small rocks in the western Caribbean! ❤🇰🇾
same, this feels absolutely insane to see for some reason
New slur for penguins: ice cream sandwich
Good coinage!
worst part of the big airports with many of those horizontal escalator things is that even when there are multiples going in the same direction you still get lazy people blocking the way in all of them so sometimes its still faster for me to not take them
PS - I still have no idea what the first channel is. LOL
Who cares what it is. I have no intention of ever finding out.
I half expected this channel to be the more popular one, but it turns out that his “main” channel has 7.5 times as many subscribers.
However, the number of views on those videos seems to vary wildly from ~5000 views to >100k views. The numbers here are much more consistent.
No, I don’t watch his first channel either.
Unrelated but could you do a video of islands inside lakes inside of countries? Like Manamansalo in Finland. Idk why but it tickles my brain a bit and it'd be funny to have an overview
Can we get a warning before that sort of thing? Like, just a countdown at the bottom: Shirtless British man in five, four, three, two...
I will never be able to unsee 10.12
I was hoping you were heading to St Helena.
Sexy Toycat
The Cayman Islands are one of my absolute favorite places in the world. I can but wait to get back there some day
10:09 that cut 😂
We're just going to call it "Ireland Regular" from now on
shirtless toycat isn't real and he can't hurt you
shirtless toycat:
Is the petrol in US or U.K. gallons?
wtf is a UK gallon? And why would it be priced in those?
@@Khloya69A UK or imperial gallon is 1.2 US gallons and is used by 6 countries and 4 UK overseas territories
Wikipedia says they use UK gallons
@@adlg5158 That's pretty funny considering even the UK switched to litres long ago.
@5:40 Sir King Charles is the King of Canada, he’s not technically the King. And all laws has to be approved by the king via Governor General, and the Governor General has the authority to veto any bill. And if prime minister dose not like it he can call a referendum.
Glad you enjoyed visiting our islands. Over half the population isn’t originally from here so it’s kindve hard for some people to get a gauge on the national identity of you aren’t staying for long or visiting the eastern districts. But as Caymanians we 100% have our own national identity, I’ve never met a Caymanian in my life who claims to be British or from the UK, (unless they have a parent from there.) While we don’t need independence to succeed as a nation at the moment, I do hope to see it achieved at some point in my lifetime.
this was such an interesting watch for me, having a caymanian/jamaican mother. i don’t think i have much authority to weigh in on national identity, having only been a handful of times as a kid and once as an adult, but close family is a major value - with it being such a small place. my most recent visit was in january, i could go out with direct family and find a handful of third cousins without fail 😂🤣 most of my cousins spouse are from other CARICOM islands, and often times we’ll also see them state side in like miami or tampa. but yeah in short you’re kinda right 😅
Tours of the Quebec hotel rooms, that country accent in Charlotte impression, laying on the beach in the islands, and interesting knowledge. 10/10 This may be THE perfect 2cat video.
I've never swum with manta rays, but I have seen the Tampa Bay Rays play baseball. And isn't that basically the same thing?
I’ve heard of the idea of separating state and nation in terms of discussions. Nation would be people who share cultural/ethnic/religious aspects however fluid that itself is and a state would be the entity itself the governing body if you will
As a Canadian I’d say we became independent on July 1, 1867 at least that’s what we celebrate. I’m aware that our parliament was fully cut on in 1982 though.
Anyone else notice the Franz Ferdinand shirt? (Knowing this guy he's never heard of the band and thinks its merch of the archduke himself)
Bro got hickeys on his neck
0:01 I don't know where the idea comes from that the British empire ruled over a quarter of the world's land area. Land area = 150 million square km. British empire had 35.5 million square km, so well under a quarter. Maybe it's like if you add up all their holdings over time instead of looking at their greatest extent in any one snapshot
That would aslo make other empires smaller then
Me being stoned out of my mind watching a Cat travel video, more common that you'd think.
I love that this second channel is still going strong after all those years.
It was never part of the UK.
The UK is *only* England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
That's a very basic concept which I'm sure toycat knows so it's gotta be engagement bait.
Im not from the UK, and Im not a UK citizen. I dont have a UK passport because I'm not from the UK. We even do export and imports to the UK and UK citizens dont just automatically have the right to show up and live here. UK = British but British ≠ UK.
1:44 never thought of it that way
19:58 Yeah
How much did you spend to get to the Cayman isles?
5:20 did anyone else notice the man survived a vampire attack; or got with his girl🦇
Tristan da Cunha next m8 :-P
Nice he went to my state, I only have been to Charlotte to pick somebody from the airport but still my state
For all intents and purposes the Isle of Man is part of the UK.
It is a Celtic country in the same Cornwall is part of England, but the only thing it separates it from the UK is its geography.
Crown dependency - "A territory for which the UK is responsible..." Manx people are British citizens. The British monarch is the Lord of Man.
British government is responsible for its defence. Granted, being British doesn't make you part of the UK in the same way as a Australians are. Although when your "country" is situated in the "British Isles", when at one point almost the entire group of islands were governed by ONE monarch and government, it just comes down to some pretty shallow semantics to assert that it's an independent country in the same way that Ireland *with a monarchy is / was.
isle of man is not part of the uk. us crown dependencies make our own laws and have our own fiscal policy. the uk is responsible only for our defence, has rights to negotiate on our behalf, and controls the monetary policy of the currency we share. For all intents and purposes then were as much a country as European microstates
@@jamesbrewer6970 IOM is apart of the UK, they are basically an external county of England as they compete in the Lancashire system in Football and Athletics.
@garystill1308 lmao Swansea compete in the EFL does that mean swansea is part of England? Isle of Man and other criwn dependencies are again not part of the uk. They are property of the crown and do rely on the UK for defence policy, but that does not change the fact that legally the UK government has no jurisdiction there: they are independent.
its not even like how wales or Scotland have had powers devolved; there are no powers to devolve becuase it is not UK jurisdiction
source: i live here
@@jamesbrewer6970 You could say the same for Scotland. They can make their own laws and taxes. But they don't have their own currency. The IoM in theory has its own currency, but in practical terms it is using Sterling. Not really any different to and independent Scotland.
@@rogink Difference is that the British parliament can make laws for Scotland and Scotland has parliamentary representation. Neither are true for the Isle of Man. The Manx have no representation in Parliament and in turn the British parliament cannot make any laws for the Isle of Man.
is there lore behind the backward shirt?
LOL, Charlotte, not the name of your ex-girlfriend. Made me laugh. :D
Great vid! always enjoy your ones!
I think my summary would be its NOT part of the United Kingdom and the UK is still just made up of 4 "countries" the fact you cannot freely move there, they set their own visa rules, the completely different money etc.
You can freely move between England, Scotland and Wales for example and I could buy a house and start a new life as easy in Wales as I could in England. Doing this here though would not be an easy task and I could be denied, leading me to an answer that its not part of the United Kingdom but more a somewhat in between not quite a country, not quite part of the UK inbetween and a somewhat confusing state. I guess I learnt a lot from this video but also still am left confused how this can function and work!
Leathery carpets - classic new name for sting rays. LOL
Toycat, make a video about the EU elections on 9 June and how the EU is "governed"
Next you should check if the Pitcairn Islands feel like the UK
This video is pure gold. 👽💜
WTF TOYCAT I LIVE THERE, i wish i knew i wouldve said hiiiii!!!! :c
[to clarify i mean the cayman islands]
also for my thoughts on some of the questions. yes we are close to the us, our currency is related to the usd and we (unfortunately imo) use the imperial system fully. our cars are 50/50 for which hand drive, even tho we drive on the left. i think everyone here would call cayman a country, after all we are self governing. we go in the olympics, have our own country code, etc, so as far as we are concerned we are a country even if not a fully sovereign one. in my mind country doesnt necessarily mean soveriegn, i would call wales and scotland countries too for similar reasons as us. half of our population are on work visas, so we definitely are quite a melting pot. a lot of the wealthier people are those people on work visa, like lawyers and accountants that come from abroad and work here. in terms of born caymanians its i guess some kind of mix between jamaican british and maybe a bit american depending on who u look at. and yeah! if anyone has any questions feel free to ask :>
Why does he keeps jumping up and down?
"How to use a vacation as a tax write off"
The state of United Kingdom is a sovereign state that is also the sovereign state for many places outside the british isles.
THE SUN NEVER SETS IN THE UK 🇬🇧
Because it never rises
Well, since they claim that slice of Antarctica both are technically true. Which one it is depends on when in the year we’re checking in.
what a lovely tax write off... I mean video
Wait, I thought you lived in Las Vegas?
I understand what it's like to roam around Grand Cayman with hickeys on my neck.
“second channel don’t care” is becoming much more tenuous since toycat literally flew to the cayman islands for this video
tax write off, no actual caring don't worry
you can keep telling yourself that but i don’t believe you…
I did not know we used to own Canada
Just more evidence that the word "country" is very confusing. First you have the Cayman Islands and Scotland - both countries within the UK, that have their own laws. But then you have "countries" like the Basque Country, which, if you've ever been, also has a very strong sense of its own nationhood even though it crossed the French-Spanish border. And then finally you have "the country" in reference to anything that isn't urbanised.
It just makes you realise that everything should probably be called "political entity" and then "political subdivision" but that would be boring. Especially when you take into account that "country" is our go-to word: you've got kingdoms - run by monarchs, dukedoms - run by dukes, republics - run by elected heads of state, and then country - the region run by a "count" in historic contexts.
That's all my thoughts about countries I think. The end.
You must be doing really well if you can afford all these trips, LOL. Jealous, me?....
Second channel don’t care. Love it!
Fun video as always. So WHO was the camera guy/girl? Hmm... mystery ensues.
ur mum
Love this
LEVELING
Your audio is all over the place. Can't watch without earphones for fear of disturbing other people in the building, can't watch WITH them either without unexpectedly blowing an ear drum.
I'm a bit concerned about the idea that penguins aren't people becau
se nobody's racist against them. If we want to assert the full humanity of a particular ethnic group, should we use all the slurs we can find against them?
Yes, the territories and dependencies are part of the UK.
No, that depends, some things are under the crown but *not* a part of the UK.
@@Luredreier but it’s the crown of the UK meaning they’re still part of the UK by technicality
@@stargazer-elite
No, it's not.
It's a separate legal entity.
The UK government does not have any say in what's going on in some of these areas at all.
Indeed some where still feudal as late as this decade if I don't remember wrong...
@@Luredreier read the last two words
@@stargazer-elite
It's not the crown of the UK.
The crown is *above* the UK and separate from it.
It's how countries could be in personal unions.
The UK is only the two biggest kingdoms on the British isles, the kingdoms of England and Scotland that where unified into a single kingdom, that doesn't mean that the monarchs didn't have separate areas ruled by them that *never* where a part of that united Kingdom, and is not under the rule of its parliament.
Anything that was not merged with either, England, Scotland or the UK either before or after the merger of the two kingdoms is *not* a part of the UK, despite sharing a king.
These areas are no more a part of the UK then Canada is right now, or Australia is.
They're separate sovereign entities sharing a monarch that may or may not rule there depending on the area in question.
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Cayman islands, british puerto rico 🇵🇷 🇰🇾
im not digging them music intermissions, bruh, just saying
I'm glad that my carpet doesn't start moving and demanding food from me.
He's a good boy that is happy with what crumbs randomly drop on it.
ayy I live there
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The island of Ireland which contains the Republic of Ireland, whatever one's political view one holds on Northern Ireland is not in the British Islands. The island has a name. Ireland.
the official name of Ireland is Ireland
@@asheiou Éire on my passport ♥️
Wait, euros consider 30° hot? I feel bad for yall.
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