Videos like this for Indonesia, India, and China are still coming. I'm also thinking of doing a video about the origin of the name Middle East, as well as explaining the difference between Arab and Muslim with Venn diagrams, since a see a lot of people in the comments of my previous videos getting those two things confused so I figure its something that would be useful. If your country has really complicated subdivisions like Spain and Russia then I might also do it as well. What do you think about the audio? I tried some new things while I'm waiting on the good microphone I ordered to arrive.
VanDeGraph my country is as simple as a kids puzzle only 41 counties that arent autonomus and the capital that functions like a county and has 6 sectors that function like cities
Do Malaysia. A federation of 13 states with varying degrees of autonomy and three federal territories, a federal monarchy system which rotates around the country's 9 kings!
It is moslty based on the UK, but Dorne is very Spanish. Idk if you've read the books, but GRRM even divides the dornishmen into salty, sandy and stony, that go from people with darker complexion (like the typical tanned Andalusian stereotype) to fairer people (like the north of Spain). As a Spaniard I may be seeing references where there aren't any :P but he did confirm that his inspiration for Dorne were Spain and Cornwall.
@@yuzan3607 Yes, great differences. Several regions have a particular national identity different from that of Spain, with their own language, traditions, cuisine, history... As for the economy, wealth is manly concentrated in Madrid, Catalonia and the Basque Country, with stark differences between wealthy cities such as Madrid and poor rural areas such as most of Castile or Extremadura.
For better AND worse my friend. I tell you as an Spaniard. We could have gone the French way in many senses, minimizing nationalism/political sentimentalism which are always absurd and wrong.
What I think is citizens should be loyal to the rules they give themselves, mainly the law. and yeah, cultural richness is nice.
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VanDeGraph You are playing the big historian with your videos, but your inaccurate and superficial stories prove that you are either stupid, or a phony leftist (which more or less is the same).
Con la derecha si que vais apañaos, ¿quieres una república que mantenga a la Casa de Alba y las tierras que han robado a todos los andaluces? Porque eso es lo que hará tu preciosa derecha en caso de proclamar una república, mantener a todos los nobles y justificar sus tierras robadas a todos los españoles.
Jbcn jajaja chaval quienes han robado mas a los andaluces son los del psoe 40 años gobernando en andalucia y la han convertido en su finca particular. Mira mejor quienes son los que les sacan el dinerillo a los andaluces antes de hablar.
Holy crap this video was good. Kudos on keeping Catalan within the Occito-romance language family as many places still list it separate from Occitan by putting it in the Ibero-romance family. Also, great job on speaking slower, really makes a huge difference in your videos. I think if you keep it up you'll be a staple of the youtube geography content creators!
LyraBestPony Yeah, but there's a mistake, because both languages are not considered to be part of the Gallo-Romance tree, but a group of their own, or even inside Ibero-Romance one.
Catalan and Occitan are usually considered gallo-romances languages more than ibero-romances. It's a question of origin and relation, both languages have more in common with french than with ibero-romance languages.
El mayor fallo que he notado esque en el breve resumen de la historia salta del 1500 al 1900, habiendo de por medio la mayoria de causas políticas que llevan España a lo que es hoy.
Guerra en Flandes, Guerra contra Inglaterra y el desastre de la Armada Invencible, Pestes, Hambrunas, Unificación Peninsular, Vuelta a dividirse el Reino de Portugal, Gestión de las Índias desde la Casa de la Contratación de Sevilla, Siglo de Oro Español (S.XVI y S.XVII), Final de la Dinastía de los Áustrias en Guerra de Sucesión Española, Implantación de los Borbones en el trono de España, Cambio de la Casa de Contratación a Cádiz, Pérdida Paulatina de las provincias de ultramar, Guerra de la Independencia contra Francia, Restauración Borbonica con Fernando VII, Muerte de Fernando VII, Regencia de Maria Cristina de las Dos Sicílias, Llegada al Trono de Isabel II, convulso siglo XIX con las Guerras Carlistas y los varios pronunciamientos militares, destronamiento de Isabel II, Regencia del General Espartero, segunda Restauración Borbonica con Alfonso XII, muerte de Alfonso XII. Regencia de María Cristina de Absburgo -Lorena. Nombramiento por las Cortes de Alfonso XIII como Rey a los 14 años (Creo) y juramento a la Constitución. Guerra de Cuba. Pérdida de las últimas provincias de ultramar Cuba, Puerto Rico, Filipinas e Isla de Guaján (Guam). Desastre del 1898.... Solo es un ejemplo de lo acaecido en el Reino de España en 400 años, puesto de memoria y ordenado cronológicamente en lo posible.¡¿Como para decir que no se ha dejado cosas este buen señor?!. Pasar de la Edad Moderna al siglo XX. Del Absolutismo Monárquico al Reinado Constitucional. Es como si de un plumazo pasaramos de las primeras colonias inglesas en Estados Unidos a la presidencia de Theodore Roosevelt. Así no se hace una explicación seria, fidedigna y rigurosa de la historia de una nación. Y más como la de España, que por mucha leyenda negra FALSA que escribiera Inglaterra y Holanda, tuvo el mayor imperio colonial desde la época de Roma. Ni el inglés le igualó. From 1500 century XVII at 1900 century XX. It is if we are passing by a stroke of the first English colonies on North American soil to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Thus a serious, reliable and rigorous explanation of the history of a nation isn't made. And more like that of Spain, that for much FALSE black legend I wrote England and Holland, it had the greater colonial empire from the time of Rome.
I see you've taken in the suggestions to speak slower. This video is much easier to understand than your Russia one because you spoke slower. Great job, always keep improving
It's a really great video. Just one small mistake. The first general elections in Spain happened in 1810. The first ones under a republican democrathy happened in 1869. Before Franco Spain had 2 republican periods. The 1977 ones are just the first elections after Franco, or, if you prefer it, the first elections under its current political regime.
I mean, you guys did make sure your spelling is as un-Roman as it gets. Kinda like English, but they conquered the world and you didn't. *I know about the Romanian spelling reforms that drew influence from more traditional Roman (esp French) spelling.
They purposefully de-Slavicized their language. This is 19th century Balkan nationalism at its best. The same thing that happened in all Balkan countries. They had to form new national identities to make functioning centralized states, so all national divisions had to be eradicated since people were used to living in empires where national background really didn't matter at all. So Romanians wanted to be less Slavic and more 'French' so they did. This really had nothing to do with history. It was a choice. A nationalist, history-raping choice such as the Balkans have been seeing for 200 years.
Not just Balkan nationalism, though. The Turks have eradicated many Arab loanwords from Turkish, the Indians have Sanskritised Urdu to make it more Indian and less Persian, the developer of New Norwegian (Nynorsk) wanted to purify the language of its Danish influences by taking the most rural, 'untouched' Norwegian dialects as the base for his language... It was quite typical for the 19th century romantic nationalism in vogue in many parts of the world.
Well done! I'm Basque, and I can certify that this is quite an objective portrait of how the Spanish state works, especially considering how complicated things are now with the "Catalan situation". Not-biased and not-too-complicated, don't get that often in RUclips! Feel free to ask any question about our quirky language and small country! And also, one little mistake, which actually is quite funny, in 04:15 . Madrid was not separated to be its own A. Community, but rather the ones around Madrid didn't want to have the capital city (which would allegedly "suck" all income and jobs away from the other cities) within their own, so Madrid didn't have another choice but to be its own community. It's so absurd that the official anthem of Madrid refers to the absurdity of the situation. (es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himno_de_la_Comunidad_de_Madrid )
The basque people are the most honorable and hard working people I've met, even though I support the right in most cases, if they want to become independent they'll surely do a better work than the Catalans, their identity by nature is way stronger and more defined as an independent part of Europe. Zuen kultura eta zuen hizkuntza oso polit eta garrantzisuak dira europarako eta mundurako ere bai, beti gora Euskal Herria!
@@RicardoUrquizaMusic I'm basque, and I'd like to thank you for your nice words. However, don't make the mistake of romantizating some cultures to much. Basques are special sure (I myself am not against independence) but we aren't better than anyone, that kind of thinking can be really dangerous.
@@RicardoUrquizaMusic Don't believe all the myth scattered by the fascist and homophobic father of the nation: Xabino Arana. Gure hizkuntza ederra da, baina politizatuz suntsitu dute.
Actually, there is another level between provincial and municipal goverment. Each province is divided into 'comarcas' (more or less the equivalent to US counties), and those comarcas into municipalities.
TheArNoir Not accurate. Only some autonomies like Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia have comarques. And they are not strictly under provinces, they are more like parallel institutions, at least in Catalonia. In Asturias they act as municipalities thogh.
And there is also one level above autonomy and central state, eurorregions. This is the eurorregion of Catalonia+Balearic islands+Occitanie: www.euroregio.eu/
Just a point. The provinces in Spain has not goverment insted. In the practice are just subdivisions of the Spanish State. In the province's capitals there are delegations of the national and autonomous goverments. Actually, the provinces are considered local administrations, as same as municipalities. The administration that represent the province (named Province Diputation) is ruled by the municipalities inside the province. The Diputation president is named by the mayors of the municipalities (its said, indirectly democracy). The provinces limits are older than Autonomous Communities. So the think is: in Spain the Provinces are a very important historical way to administrate the country with a strong tradition, but not so much eficient nowadays in all spanish territory.
Well, that really doesn't apply everywhere. The provinces in the Basque Country are quite strong to be honest; in some aspects they are even more powerful than the Basque government itself.
Spain, take example on Switzerland, stay united and promote everyone's cultures and languages! I'm from Brazil and, even though sometimes richer states have to cover up for poorer ones (making people wanting separatism), I believe Portugal - and later our own governors - did a great job keeping our territory whole through so many centuries, despite all the differences!
I did do one on Russia ruclips.net/user/edit?o=U&video_id=qVoHAyEwhBc I might do a weird borders video on the former soviet union since there are a lot in the former soviet union.
Andi Rain First of all, I am a native Catalan and an adoptive Estonian. Second. My username is a mocking of a Russian ultranationalist organisation in Estonia which was named "Night Watch ( Ночной Дозор/Otni Vahond) and quickly became known as "ночной Позор" which means night shame.
@Andi Rain. Third. These regions wanted to stay in Russia or Armenia and they were forcing them to stay in countries that they didn't wanted to be in. Four, go talk with uncle adolf, you will be good friends judging by your hate of Russia. Fourth: I wipe my ass with putinism.
Let a Spanish homie make some things clear: 1. Galicia has a non-independentist majority (We're totally against the idea of being a country). I live there 2. Catalonia/Cataluña/Catalunya is in the national headlines for their constant dissobedience of the constitution 3. Vasque Country/Euskadi/País Vasco had a very aggressive type of independentism. In the 60's a terrorist group called ETA was bord there. They made some really bad shit. Search "Atentados de ETA" and you'll see the massacres they made. As their language has an unknown origin, they think their DNA is different than the rest of Spanish people
The different DNA thing is scientifically proved, however, they do not want independence by that. ETA was the reply to a totalitarian state that oppressed them, and I am starting to think if they were right in disbanding because i supported their disbandment at the beginning but as it seems Spain continues denying self-determination....
"I am starting to think if they were right in disbanding " What you said is very very dangerous. Gaining independence by killing innocent people is not the right way. Also in Basque Country the supporters of independence are fewer than a few years back.
Well... Nobody talks about independence, buy now a days the basque movement for independence is lower than ever, and ETA leaves the terrorist activity back in 2011 so it doesn't represent danger anymore. Also Galicia wants an autonomous status now and then (nearly 70% of galicians considers themselves galicians and spanish equally)
And one more important thing: the European Union is not a confederation, mainly because it is not a state. It is neither a international organization. You should say it is a supranational entity which operates somewhat between a confederation and a federation. Another reason the EU is not a confederation (or a international organization) is that the EU can dictate rules that have direct effect over citizens, with no need for the states incorporating it to their inner legal system, which a confederation cannot.
Well I did say it was "like a confederation" but I see your points. There were no examples other examples to use. You obviously know a lot about this :)
Great and accurate explanation of Spain...from a Spaniard!! Just to point out the main reason why Spain is not a Federation. The "Estatuto" or Statutory law that provides Autonomus Communities (in Spanish "Comunidad Autonoma") is actually a National Law. It's like the National Congress says to the provinces: "OK, we let you organise a Region and Autonomus Community". Since it's a national law, this can be reboked any time, so the transfer of powers is up to the National Congress, and it's not guarantee by the Constitution. As you explained, in a Federation, the Federal Region/Province/District or whatever you wanna call it has guaranteed rights of self-governing from the National Constitution, and cannot be abolished unless the form of Government is changed. As you explained, we have this model in Spain so the Centralised Powers hold an Ace in the sleeve in case they wanna retrieve powers from the Regions. The reactionary forces in Spain and the far right truly despise the descentralisated model of today and wanna have the comfortable option to plug it off when found convenient.
Funny how Galician is in the ibero-romance branch and catalan is in the gallo romance branch yet they are both grammatically, fonetically and in original roots of the words because they got a lot less influence from Arabic (valencian and balearic dialects have more Arab influence though). Galician was probably closer to Castilian before the reconquista, but Castilian got more Arabic influence than catalan Galician and Asturias-leonese (which is the closest to Galician without being a dialect of it). It’s sad that only elder people in the villages in the mountains speak asture-leonese, because they didn’t become oficial administrative status after the formation of the spanish constitution. 500 years ago, gallician-portuguese were the same language, just 2 different dialects. They started being more and more different between the two because of isolation between the two. This happened both because of them being in different kingdoms (Portugal and Leon, later Castile and Leon) and because of the mountains where the Galician farmers lived (the fishermen in the southwestern coast had more contact with Portugal, though)
Valencià is not an other language diferent from catalan it's a dialect like the spanish of argentina. One dialect it's a variant from one idiom but is considered the same idom, in this case, Occidental catalan. You can see more informacion here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language
Tanmateix, és correcte anomenar valencià o balear per referir-se al català. Tot i que són denominacions que no se solen emprar, l'Ethnologue, per exemple, té enregistrada amb el nom Català/Valencià/Balear la nostra llengua.
Just want to point something out: from 1833 to 1978 Spain was already divided in 15 Regions, which where the precedent to the Autonomous Communities territorial-wise, but within a centralised government. There were minor changes to those Regions during the establishment of democracy after Franco's death, like Madrid, Cantabria and La Rioja becoming their own regions and the province of Albacete seceding from Murcia and annexing to Castilla-La Mancha (known until then as "Castilla la Nueva") and the provinces forming Reino de León and Castilla la Vieja merging into one single Region renamed as Castilla y León.
Well, I do not agree. The comarcas facilitate a lot of government procedures of the every day live, otherwise We would have to go the capital of the Province so often, and in Spain isn't so normal to travel long distance every day, because all it's near, unlike in the USA. Plus, yes it's true that in some communities don't use a lot the comarcas but it's because they don't have the historical tradicion of more political liverties that have the communities that formed part of "la corona de Aragón": Catalonia, Aragón, Valencia and Illes Balears.
I am really loving your videos (and how often you upload) recently. This one was perfectly explained (I am a Spaniard, so I'd know xD) and was needed, as few channels had explained something as interesting as the Spanish Administrative Divisions. Kudos for a great video and channel!
No one wanted Castile and León, but was created anyway by ministers of the former dictatorship like Rodolfo Martín Villa. There is no historical continuity that explains the Autonomous Community of Castile and León as a unified identity whatsoever. 3:22 that Leon-Castile is entirely inaccurate, that was just Leon. The monarch in that time was called Alfonso the emperor. You could say Castile was a vassal kingdom then. the Castilla post-1230 is a union of several kingdoms of two crowns (León and Castile) in a dynastic union which maintained equal status until the XIVth century, until Castile started dominating everyone and imposing their language. However, each kingdom (CROWN OF LEON: Galicia, Leon, CROWN OF CASTILE: Castile, Toledo, Seville, Cordoba, Jaen, Murcia) had its own laws until the House of Bourbon started reigning and eliminated all that. The flag of the Crown of Castile we nowadays know was different depending on the kingdom it resided (lions were not 2nd and 3rd in Leon and Galicia, but 1st and 4th), since there was no crown over the other. This fact is inmensely unknown, but I thought I should say it. 3:28 that date of unification is not true either, the Bourbons were the ones that did that, and we're talking at least about the late XVIIth century.
This guys has replaced CGP grey at this point, since CGP greys content is basically dead or has become less interesting in the past year or so. I also love the diagrams and maps used in this channel to explain more in detail as to what is happening. Cant wait for your future videos on China and India!
Galicia is NOT related to Portuguese. Portuguese derives from Galician. Galician is the original language derived from Vandal Latin and was spoken in Royal court circles until Castilian took over as Galician was kept by the newly established Portuguese Kingdom from which Portuguese then developed. What's more, Galicia is the only Autonomous region aside from Aragon, Castille to have been an entirely independent Kingdom. Leon was also part of said Empire until it joined Castille, some years before Galicia, itself did.
For the first time in my life (I'm old!) I really started enjoying geography thanks to these videos by VanDeGraph. I've watched them all and they are jam packed with information. Many thanks VanDeGraph.
Wow and 1:13 and Asturian is not included, wtf Spain? Why? I know their language is on the edge of extinctio but ffs it's still ALIVE!!! #AwarenessForAsturians!
It's *recognized* by the Asturias government, but it's not official. Recognition is: "look, that seems a language, they say it's called asturian" but nothing more, they don't teach it on schools and the asturian government doesn't publish nothing in asturian.
It is so strange to see a video about Spain made by non Spanish that has no mistakes. I'm still picky about it saying Catalan is 'distantly' related to French but I'll let that slide. It's a great video. Kudos to you
Aaaaah! I hate when people take the incorrect map of the Basque Country, that's just a part of the basque country, Basque Country is what you took + Navarre + 3 autonomus comunities of France. The map you putted was the map of Euskadi, and Euskal herria means Basque country. It would be ok if you try to explain it thanks
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x Seeker, mallorquín and valencian languages are not catalan dialects. Valencian and mallorquín languages are 400 years more ancient than catalan, so it'd be impossible that they were variations of catalan. Valencian language was officialiced in 13th century when the king of Aragon made to write the laws of Valencian Kingdom specifically in valencian language, while in Catalonia the laws were written in latin. Catalan was not officialiced till 19th century, so please, do not manipulate the history.
As a Spaniard you actually did a pretty good job. I am surprised that a foreigner knows a lot about Spain since even us Spaniards don't understand our country.
Catalonia independentism has developed since 1980, when it became a regional political area under the spanish kingdom, with one of the highest grades of autonomy, a process of lack of true information to their citizens, an educational program that changes history in order to make of Catalonia what it never was, and the worst of all, a process of racism that has brought it to a kind of fascist or nazi regime. More than half of the population in Catalonia does'nt want any kind of independence from Spain. But those are the inhabitants of the rich parts of the region, including Barcelona. The most undeveloped, rural and village based populations are, with their lower cultural status, in the hands of the politicians that due to their problems with the corruption use the independence for their own profit. It is really a disaster! Now there is a new iniciative, TABARNIA, a new political entity emerging from this chaos, which favors the separation of Tarragona, Barcelona and the coastal areas from the interior land independentists. But TABARNIA does'nt want to be an independent country (impossible under the actual spanish constitution) but another spanish region, a political process which has many records in different countries in the world's recent past.
Run from the catalan rural nazi regime with lower cultural status but without army and imprisoned for celebrating a referendum and join tabarnia to defend spanish speakers to not be forced to learn any other fucking lenguage ever
It’s so disrespectful not to show Canary Islands all the time...I’m from Canary Islands and we are the same as the rest of the other communities you should edit the video...
From my point of view: Aragonese is closer to Catalan than to Castilian or Leonese. Catalan is not closer to French than to the Iberian Languages. Catalan-Occitan language group is often not labeled as Gallo-romance, but a bridge between Iberian and Gallo languages. And the ones from Northern Italy are also related to the Gallo group.
Well it's slightly more complicated. French is an Oïl language, while Catalan is an occitanian language. Catalan is extremely similar to occitanian in many ways, and occitanian is extremely similar to French. The thing is... All these languages are formed from the vulgar Latin and form a language continuum with numerous distinct dialects going from Madrid to Paris. So basically, the divide is as political as it is linguistic. Yet, Gallo-Romance languages not in its strictest form are very similar, even more so than Spanish and French. I'm a French speaker, it took me 2 weeks to learn Spanish and a few days to learn Catalan.
Matthew Hemmings Hi. Well, I'm Spanish, I speak Spanish and in general terms I understand Catalan really well, much more than French. Spanish and Catala are mutually intelligible. Of course this is also thanks to the constant contact between Catalans, Valencians and the rest of Spaniards, but I also find Occitan really close to Spanish. For that reason, I think they are in between.
Because 80% of the population from Catalonia lives in Barcelona area where the tourism and inmigration has made the use of spanish in the everyday life much more common.
Marc Lamport I wouldn't say most of the catalan people only want more autonomy from Spain, if that was the case the catalan government wouldn't be striving to make a referendum about independence right now. Mario Revuelta That's just not true, nearly 85% of the population in Catalonia are able to speak Catalan according to the Institute of Catalan studies.
Ночной Позор Gibraltar es una piedra q solo sirve de paraíso fiscal. La mayor parte de la gente q trabaja ahí viven en España y cruzan la frontera cada día para trabajar, incluso su presidente tiene la casa en España. No me parece q se esté disculpando, solo menciona q pese a ser catalán no quiere q se le asocie con el independentismo.
Exactamente, y como dices Gibraltar no es solo el territorio sino el perjuicio a la economía de la zona y la cueva de corruptos. PD no he visto el comentario de ese ruso aunque mejor si era para decir una chorrada Con la tonteria que hay montada con el independentismo hace que tenga que aclarar que no soy independentista o que siendo catalan no significa que me de igual el resto de españa
My own Canada behaves in many ways like a confederation even though it's still officially just a federation, in the same way that Spain behaves in many ways like a federation even though it's still officially just a unitary state.
Be more specific in your video description please. Canary Islands are located in the coast of North Africa. If you only put "coast of Africa" people get confused and don't know if you are talking about Sub-Saharan Africa or North Africa. You can also write that Canary Islands are "located on the Atlantic Ocean, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco.". Definetely "coast of Africa" is a horrible description. It's like saying Cuba is in the coast of America, Taiwan in the coast of Asia or Ireland in the coast of Europe. BE MORE SPECIFIC PLEASE.
Who says that the great Canary in the coast of Africa is racist because the largest Canarya is located in North Africa and not on the coast of sub-Saharan Africa
Greetings from Valladolid, capital of the region of castile and león. The language you, and the rest of the world,call spanish os the castilian. Tour region os famous for many things. I recmend you to know more about castile and other regions of spain. For example my city was capital of the biggest empire that the world has ever met... Until they move it to Madrid
Valladolid solamente fue el capital de su imperio durante unos pocos años. Pero siempre fue la silla de la monarquía. Felipe III construyó un palacio para el verano allí, y por eso la ciudad funciona como capital brevemente. Fue Madrid, entonces Valladolid, entonces Madrid otra vez. Lisboa incluso fue el capital (durante el periodo de la union iberica) por algun tiempo, porque estaba la ciudad mas importante de la peninsula. Perdoname para mis errores, el español no es mi primer idioma. : )
primero estuvo la capital en valladolid y depués la movieron a madrid por su posición mas céntrica. En valladolid nació Felipe II el rey que heredó el imperio más grande, pero este la posicionó mas tarde en madrid por lo que he dicho. Para no ser tu primer idioma lo escribes muy bien. A mi no me molesta que digas español, pero es mas correcto decir castellano
Primero Valladolid y después Madrid fueron la capital del imperio pero la riqueza del imperio estaban en la Ciudad de Mexico, Ciudad de Manila y Ciudad de Potosi.
Por lo que sé, mientras que es cierto que rey Felipe II se movió el capital a Madrid durante su reino, yo creo que antes de esto, el capital estaba en Toledo. Al menos, Toledo fue el centro del rey Carlos I, por que él había establecido su corte allí. Felipe I no lo cambió a Valladolid, por lo que sé. Si estoy equivocado, por favor me corríge. Antes de rey Carlos, tal vez el capital estaba a Valladolid, o durante la edad media. No sé mucho del país en esas épocas. Con respeto al nombre de este hermoso idioma, todos los hispanohablantes en mi ciudad dice ’español’ normalmente. Cuando dicen ’castellano’, es especificamente refiriéndose a la variedad del idioma que hablan en España. Pero yo sé que los españoles generalmente prefieren el termino castellano. Otra vez, perdoname si hay errores. :)
"don't call Spain a federation or else the Spanish Constitution will get mad at you!" Well, the govern has systematically violated the constitution and they're still in charge.
Psyrgery 2011. Merkel. Austerity, GAL, 2010 banning of part of the catalan statue, Egunkaria case, ilegalization of Batasuna, the PP constantly forgets the right of the right to work and to have a house, politized justice...
Constitución Española Artículo 47 Todos los españoles tienen derecho a disfrutar de una vivienda digna y adecuada. Los poderes públicos promoverán las condiciones necesarias y establecerán las normas pertinentes para hacer efectivo este derecho, regulando la utilización del suelo de acuerdo con el interés general para impedir la especulación. La comunidad participará en las plusvalías que genere la acción urbanística de los entes públicos.
Spanish here from Galicia. This video is surprisingly accurate and objective. Something interesting about Spain that explains some of our internal issues is over 80% of the population is by the coast and the middle of Spain is empty with the huge exception of Madrid.
As a Spanish, I have to say that the video is extremely accurate. Good job. This is the first video (in either English or Spanish) that is able to explain it so thoroughly and accurately.
I am Spanish and I must say you did a very good job. It is hard to explain everything so well, specially avoiding controversial issues, as you indeed have.
Yeah you did it almost perfect, Basque country and Navarre have their own taxes collect because all over the history they had try to be independent from the rest of Spain, so for maintaining them unified the government gave them the priviledge of paying less taxes and not to the state but the autonomous community. Nice video (Im spanish, from Castilla la mancha).
yeha the video was correct. This guy was is not though, Navarre and The basque country collect thir own taxes because they backed the winning king during the war of succession in 1700 and therefore didn't get their foral laws abolished by the new king.
Ix The Best 9/11 was a hoax. This is no longer a wild conspiracy assertion; it is a fact, supported by thousands of other verifiable facts, foremost of which are: The attacks of 9/11 COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED without the willful failure of the American defense system. In Washington, Air Force pilots demanded to fly but were ordered to stand down. Yet instead of prosecuting the president and military leaders for this unprecedented dereliction of duty, military leaders were promoted and the president was praised for presiding over a defense system that suspiciously failed the most crucial test in its history. None of the deaths would have happened without the deliberate unplugging of America's air defenses. Planes that lose contact with control towers are usually intercepted by fighter jets inside of ten minutes, as the incident with the golfer's plane a few months earlier so clearly demonstrated. Yet on 9/11, the jetliners that struck New York were allowed to proceed unmolested for more than a half-hour, and the plane that supposedly crashed in Washington was not intercepted for more than an hour and forty minutes after it was widely known that four planes had been hijacked. The twin towers could not have collapsed as a result of burning jet fuel. Most of that fuel was consumed on impact. In the south tower, most of the fuel was spilled outside the building. Heat caused by burning jet fuel does not reach temperatures needed to melt steel. What does stand out as particularly suspicious and still unexplained is that fires raged out of control beneath THREE of the collapsed towers for ONE HUNDRED DAYS, clearly indicating the presence of some kind of substance utilized in the demolition of the structures. The Twin Towers did not fall because of plane impacts or fires. Most likely explosives were placed on structural supports in the towers (as was done in Oklahoma City), and these controlled implosions snuffed out the lives of three thousand people. FBI Director Robert Mueller insisted officials had no idea this kind of attack could happen when in fact the FBI had been investigating the possibility of EXACTLY this kind of attack for almost TEN YEARS. Numerous previous attempts at using planes as weapons, intimate knowledge of terror plans called Project Bojinka, and knowledge of suspicious characters attending flight schools who were being monitored by the FBI make his utterance a clear lie on its face. In the weeks before 9/11, the U.S. received warnings from all over the world that an event just like this was about to happen, but FBI investigations into suspected terrorists were suppressed and those warnings were deliberately disregarded. The names of the alleged hijackers, all ostensibly Muslims, were released to the public only hours after the attacks, despite Mueller saying we had no knowledge this would happen. This is an impossible twist of logic. If he didn't know of a plan to strike buildings with planes, how would he know the names of the hijackers? Various artifacts were discovered in strategic places to try to confirm the government's story, but these have all been dismissed as suspicious planting of evidence. Since that time several names on that list have turned up alive and well, living in Arab countries. Yet no attempt has ever been made to update the list. And why were none of these names on the airlines' passenger lists? Much like the invasion of Iraq, the anthrax attacks were designed to deflect attention from unanswered 9/11 questions in the patriotic pandemonium that followed the tragedy. In addition to making large amounts of money for the president's father and his friends from the hasty sale of inefficient drugs to a panicked populace, the investigation into these killings was abruptly halted when the trail of evidence led straight to the government's door, and has not been reopened. The anthrax attacks also amped up the climate of fear and deflected attention from the passage of the government's repressive Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was presented in the days after the tragedy supposedly as a response to it, yet it was clear that this heinous act, drafted to nullify provisions for freedom in the U.S. Constitution, was put together long before 9/11. In addition, testimony by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) revealed that most members of Congress were compelled to vote for the bill without even reading it. This was a vote to eliminate the Constitutional Bill of Rights, which has defined American freedom for 200 years, and it was accomplished when legislators voted for the bill without even reading it. The invasion of Afghanistan was presented as an attempt to pursue the alleged perpetrators of 9/11, yet it had been discussed for years prior to the tragedy and actually planned in the months before the attacks on New York and Washington. Statements by Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Republican-written Project for a New American Century have stressed that America needed a formidable enemy to accomplish its aggressive geopolitical aims. The supposed enemy we attacked in Afghanistan was a diverse group of men from all over the world who were initially recruited, encouraged and supported by the American CIA. The hole in the Pentagon was not made by a jumbo jet. Damage to the building was simply not consistent with the size of the hole nor the absence of debris. At the supposed point of impact, a whole bank of windows remained unbroken and there were no marks on the lawn. No airplane debris (except what was planted on the lawn) nor remains of passengers were ever found. The president has admitted that he continued to read a story to schoolchildren in a Florida school for 30 minutes after being informed that two planes had struck New York and that the nation was under attack. He has never explained this puzzling behavior, nor how he saw the first plane hit. It was never televised, only recorded by a French crew filming firemen in New York. In that film, the plane in question does not appear to be a passenger airliner. The plane in Pennsylvania was shot down and broke apart in midair. No other explanation can account for the wreckage, which was spread over a six-mile area, or the eyewitness accounts that describe debris falling from the sky. Cellphone calls cannot be made from airliners in flight that are not close to the ground. As research by Professor A. K. Dewdney has shown, the emotional conversations between hijacked passengers and others would not have been possible under conditions that existed at that moment. These calls were cynical fabrications, exploiting the distraught emotions of those who lost loved ones. Radio communications from firefighters on the upper floors of the Trade Center towers clearly indicate that fires were under control and the structure was in no danger of collapsing.
Ix The Best I sexually identify as an Internet Service Provider. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of disappointing customers all around the nation and charging them an unnecessary high fee. People say to me that a person being an ISP is impossible and I'm fucking retarded, but I don't care, I'm 300GBps fast. I'm having a technician installing Ethernet cables, Optic Fiber cables and a Wi-Fi antenna on my body. From now on, I want you guys to call me "Disgusting Greedy Company" and respect my right to give Internet to everybody and not to fix the problems they have with my connection. If you can't accept me you are an ISP-phobe and need to check your sysadmin privileges. Thank you for being so understanding.
You missed the independence requests from different autonomous communities... Also, saying that what Catalonia wants is more 'power' is a really poor explanation... The situation is very complex and I think it doesn't do Catalans justice to say it that way. The rest of the video was great though, so congrats!
Pedro Andreu si no lo incluyen es como si no fueramos parte de españa, ahora estan diciendo de hacer un mapa en el que el zoom es adecuado para incluir a canarias
Very accurate video, congrats. However, when it comes to the regional languages in Spain most people make the same mistakes. 1. There is not such thing as a Catalan language, in fact there are 8 dialects in Catalonia, all of them coming from limosin occitan and provencal occitan, heavily influenced by old Spanish or Castillian (see point 3). These dialects are buarceloni dialect (wrongly called catalan), aranés, capcinés, xipella, salat, rosellonés, leridano, tarragonés. The other regions you branded as barceloní speakers in your map in fact speak valenciano and mallorquín, two regional languages, similar to barceloní dialect, as all of them come from Castillian and occitan, but different on their own. Even valenciano is documented as an older language than barceloní dialect. 2. Basque language is an artificial language invented less than 70 years ago using the few remains words they had of Lingua Navarrorum plus a plethora of Spanish words and some French words as well. Thus the current Basque language or Batua is an invented language. 3. Nobody, besides 8 or 10 top Spanish Linguists can actually speak Castillian, just like very few people speak old English, old French, old Italian or old German. Castillian is the old linguistic metasystem of the modern linguistic system called Spanish. Do you call languedoc to the French language or toscano to the Italian language? Exactly. The correct name for the current language then is Spanish, NEVER Castillian. 4. Have you done or will you do a video on the regional languages and dialects in France (some 20 of them), Italy (over 30) or Germany (over 40)? That should be quite interesting. Cheers.
A Spanish politician gave the best definition: Spain is an asymmetric quasi-federal state. We call this structure in Spain "Estado de la autonomías" (state of autonomies, because the name of our 'federal states' is 'autonomous communities'). There are federal states in other countries with less self-government than several Spanish autonomous communities. Spain is one of the most decentralized in Europe. Canada and Belgium are other examples of asymmetric federal states
we kashmiri people love and support you catalonia ....may God help u and be with u .... love and support from Indian illegally occupied kashmir. ...we kashmiri people are also fighting for our independence. ....
You forgot to say that during the spanish civil war, under the republican government, the valencian "estatut d'autonomia" was wrote and planed to be aproved by the central government, however the republicans losed and this text never was approved. I say this because as the way you have shown the autonomies, it seems that only catalonia, the basque country and galicia were the only territories with a federal will.
He did a good job but he also forgot about Cantonal Revolution, anecdote: That was when Murcia(Cantón de Cartagena) asked to the United States of America to become one of the states. They send a letter to the president Ulysses S. Grant but Cartagena was defeated before receiving a reply.
Very well explained. Some valencians would say their Language is related to but not derived from Catalan. Madrid is an Autonomous Community on its own since neither Castilla y Leon nor Castilla la Mancha wanted to take the risk of the Capital taking over all resources.
valencià is 95% mutually intelligible with català and in practice both languages share the same written standard. studies of valencià in the universities of valencia and alacant are called catalan philology. speakers at the catalan-valencian border share the same dialect. people who deny they're the same language are often unable to speak it whilst most native valencià speakers will acknowledge the obvious
Spanish Constitition is a composite of agreements that made possible to create the Spanish Republic granting autonomy to the regions and their executive and legislative organs. Spain is unique in that sense and it the organisation of its political system and the relations between Madrid and the regional autonomies is so complex it turns out very hard to explain specially in english
Videos like this for Indonesia, India, and China are still coming. I'm also thinking of doing a video about the origin of the name Middle East, as well as explaining the difference between Arab and Muslim with Venn diagrams, since a see a lot of people in the comments of my previous videos getting those two things confused so I figure its something that would be useful.
If your country has really complicated subdivisions like Spain and Russia then I might also do it as well.
What do you think about the audio? I tried some new things while I'm waiting on the good microphone I ordered to arrive.
VanDeGraph sounds fine
VanDeGraph my country is as simple as a kids puzzle
only 41 counties that arent autonomus and the capital that functions like a county and has 6 sectors that function like cities
could you make a video about the assyria? or babylon?
Hey can u make a video for Balkan States? Anyway great video like always !
Do Malaysia. A federation of 13 states with varying degrees of autonomy and three federal territories, a federal monarchy system which rotates around the country's 9 kings!
Galicia, Aragon, Valencia, ...
wow Spain, your country sure has some epic sounding names
I know right, even the Iberian Wedding sounds like something straight from Lord of the Rings.
Firefox is red, Explorer is blue. Google+ sucks and Chrome does too. Yup.
Or from Game of Thrones... >:)
George R R Martin actually drew a lot of inspiration from Spain for A Song of Ice and Fire. Mostly for Dorne.
Eduardo de Montenegro Oh! Didn't know that. I thought it was like 99% inspired by the UK haha.. Thanks for sharing. :)
It is moslty based on the UK, but Dorne is very Spanish. Idk if you've read the books, but GRRM even divides the dornishmen into salty, sandy and stony, that go from people with darker complexion (like the typical tanned Andalusian stereotype) to fairer people (like the north of Spain). As a Spaniard I may be seeing references where there aren't any :P but he did confirm that his inspiration for Dorne were Spain and Cornwall.
Franco: Dead 1975-Present - Thx for making that clear.
He grew the rest of the beard, a funny accent and a tendency to think the rest of the the people are as stupid as him.
It's important to reassure people that he's still dead.
In the first year of SNL , Weakend Update always started "Francisco Franco is still dead"
And somehow, for many of us seems like he never died, and is still in power...
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I'm Spanish and I can spot no mistakes. Just a magnificently complete and clear explanation. Very, very impressive job.
Apart from Aragon has a language
@@imo6927 aragon has a language, we just dont use it any more
are there big differences between the different regions of Spain in terms of culture/economy?
@@carlosIAAC Well it's still spoken in the north, but not much these days.
@@yuzan3607 Yes, great differences. Several regions have a particular national identity different from that of Spain, with their own language, traditions, cuisine, history...
As for the economy, wealth is manly concentrated in Madrid, Catalonia and the Basque Country, with stark differences between wealthy cities such as Madrid and poor rural areas such as most of Castile or Extremadura.
It is funny how you needed 6 minutes to explain Spain while you needed 3 to explain the huge mother Russia, Spain is complicated!
I'm also talking slower so that made the video longer.
For better AND worse my friend. I tell you as an Spaniard. We could have gone the French way in many senses, minimizing nationalism/political sentimentalism which are always absurd and wrong.
What I think is citizens should be loyal to the rules they give themselves, mainly the law. and yeah, cultural richness is nice.
VanDeGraph You are playing the big historian with your videos, but your inaccurate and superficial stories prove that you are either stupid, or a phony leftist (which more or less is the same).
@@javiceres The thing is that if those rules are not fair, nor what anybody wants. They should not just accept it.
"Death: 1975 - present", let's hope he doesn't rise from the dead. XD
Do you believe in reincarnation? Because that's what happened with him
If you mean something like "Trump is literally [insert dictator here]": You have no bloody idea.
The catch is he never actually died.
Franco is not dead?
DUN DUN DUUUUUUN
I hope Franco reincarnated in a mosquito or a worm of those who eat rotten things.
I think it would have been important to mention that Spain is also a Kingdom. Not that it matters much, just for the sake of being thorough.
Viva la República Española!!!!!!!
Gobernada por la derecha, porque si no vamos apañaos
Con la derecha si que vais apañaos, ¿quieres una república que mantenga a la Casa de Alba y las tierras que han robado a todos los andaluces?
Porque eso es lo que hará tu preciosa derecha en caso de proclamar una república, mantener a todos los nobles y justificar sus tierras robadas a todos los españoles.
PAPANOMA
Há 1 ano
Viva la República Española republica so deu merda em espanha
Jbcn jajaja chaval quienes han robado mas a los andaluces son los del psoe 40 años gobernando en andalucia y la han convertido en su finca particular. Mira mejor quienes son los que les sacan el dinerillo a los andaluces antes de hablar.
0:45 Franco
Dead: 1975-present ROFL XD
Denvormine ZOMBIE FRANCO!
He is still dead
Only in body... their ideas are still alive unfortunately....
Lol 😂
Thats because he was reincarnated to James Franco
I was starting to worry that Franco wasn't still dead. Much calmer now, thank you.
you got some Civil war flashbacks
Don't forget that won Iron-Man...
UHmmmmmm èl si. los hijos de sus ministros asesinos estan en ciertos partidos.
@@delarkaBCN Puedes explicar más a fondo lo último que has dicho por favor?
Holy crap this video was good. Kudos on keeping Catalan within the Occito-romance language family as many places still list it separate from Occitan by putting it in the Ibero-romance family.
Also, great job on speaking slower, really makes a huge difference in your videos. I think if you keep it up you'll be a staple of the youtube geography content creators!
LyraBestPony Yeah, but there's a mistake, because both languages are not considered to be part of the Gallo-Romance tree, but a group of their own, or even inside Ibero-Romance one.
Catalan and Occitan are usually considered gallo-romances languages more than ibero-romances. It's a question of origin and relation, both languages have more in common with french than with ibero-romance languages.
Thats why i put it at x1.25 speed
I really liked this video, hello from a Portuguese fan! :D
Glad you liked it!
Soy de Barcelona y el verano pasado estuve en Lisboa y en las playas cercanas. Me encantó ;)
Lusitani Mendes tugapower
Olá Tuga, brazuca aqui.
Portuguese is not Hispanic.
Well done! I'm from Spain and there were no mistakes!
Apart from pronouncing Ceuta as 'Soita'!
Well, there is one mistake, Menorca is de facto German xD
I'm from Mallorca actually XD
Solo que Andalucía se escribe con "c"
Why didnt you guys created a federation?
I'm from Spain. Very good and accurate explaination!
Love your videos
no sabia que eramos familia super lejana xD
pues a mi me parece que tiene bastantes fallos gordos
Perdón pero, ¿cuáles serían los fallos gordos? No soy español y por eso lo digo desde la genuina ignorancia.
El mayor fallo que he notado esque en el breve resumen de la historia salta del 1500 al 1900, habiendo de por medio la mayoria de causas políticas que llevan España a lo que es hoy.
Guerra en Flandes, Guerra contra Inglaterra y el desastre de la Armada Invencible, Pestes, Hambrunas, Unificación Peninsular, Vuelta a dividirse el Reino de Portugal, Gestión de las Índias desde la Casa de la Contratación de Sevilla, Siglo de Oro Español (S.XVI y S.XVII), Final de la Dinastía de los Áustrias en Guerra de Sucesión Española, Implantación de los Borbones en el trono de España, Cambio de la Casa de Contratación a Cádiz, Pérdida Paulatina de las provincias de ultramar, Guerra de la Independencia contra Francia, Restauración Borbonica con Fernando VII, Muerte de Fernando VII, Regencia de Maria Cristina de las Dos Sicílias, Llegada al Trono de Isabel II, convulso siglo XIX con las Guerras Carlistas y los varios pronunciamientos militares, destronamiento de Isabel II, Regencia del General Espartero, segunda Restauración Borbonica con Alfonso XII, muerte de Alfonso XII. Regencia de María Cristina de Absburgo -Lorena. Nombramiento por las Cortes de Alfonso XIII como Rey a los 14 años (Creo) y juramento a la Constitución. Guerra de Cuba. Pérdida de las últimas provincias de ultramar Cuba, Puerto Rico, Filipinas e Isla de Guaján (Guam). Desastre del 1898....
Solo es un ejemplo de lo acaecido en el Reino de España en 400 años, puesto de memoria y ordenado cronológicamente en lo posible.¡¿Como para decir que no se ha dejado cosas este buen señor?!. Pasar de la Edad Moderna al siglo XX. Del Absolutismo Monárquico al Reinado Constitucional.
Es como si de un plumazo pasaramos de las primeras colonias inglesas en Estados Unidos a la presidencia de Theodore Roosevelt. Así no se hace una explicación seria, fidedigna y rigurosa de la historia de una nación. Y más como la de España, que por mucha leyenda negra FALSA que escribiera Inglaterra y Holanda, tuvo el mayor imperio colonial desde la época de Roma. Ni el inglés le igualó.
From 1500 century XVII at 1900 century XX. It is if we are passing by a stroke of the first English colonies on North American soil to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Thus a serious, reliable and rigorous explanation of the history of a nation isn't made. And more like that of Spain, that for much FALSE black legend I wrote England and Holland, it had the greater colonial empire from the time of Rome.
I see you've taken in the suggestions to speak slower. This video is much easier to understand than your Russia one because you spoke slower. Great job, always keep improving
It's a really great video. Just one small mistake. The first general elections in Spain happened in 1810. The first ones under a republican democrathy happened in 1869. Before Franco Spain had 2 republican periods. The 1977 ones are just the first elections after Franco, or, if you prefer it, the first elections under its current political regime.
@@jgt3640 They were turbulent times with very polarized positions, but they were democracies like any other of the time.
Great job explaining Spain! Your audio is getting better too. Can't wait for your future videos.
Connor Ross but he still needs a better mic
Connor Ross he needs a trash man
The islands are not "controlled" by Spain, they Are Spain. There's no such thing as Spain without any of the actual parts/communities its composed of.
2:33 Romanians be like. Yay you remembered us :)
xD i am romanian
It's always overshadowed by the other bigger Romance languages. Seeing how isolated and desolate it is from the other romance speaking countries.
I mean, you guys did make sure your spelling is as un-Roman as it gets. Kinda like English, but they conquered the world and you didn't.
*I know about the Romanian spelling reforms that drew influence from more traditional Roman (esp French) spelling.
They purposefully de-Slavicized their language. This is 19th century Balkan nationalism at its best. The same thing that happened in all Balkan countries. They had to form new national identities to make functioning centralized states, so all national divisions had to be eradicated since people were used to living in empires where national background really didn't matter at all. So Romanians wanted to be less Slavic and more 'French' so they did. This really had nothing to do with history. It was a choice. A nationalist, history-raping choice such as the Balkans have been seeing for 200 years.
Not just Balkan nationalism, though. The Turks have eradicated many Arab loanwords from Turkish, the Indians have Sanskritised Urdu to make it more Indian and less Persian, the developer of New Norwegian (Nynorsk) wanted to purify the language of its Danish influences by taking the most rural, 'untouched' Norwegian dialects as the base for his language... It was quite typical for the 19th century romantic nationalism in vogue in many parts of the world.
Well done! I'm Basque, and I can certify that this is quite an objective portrait of how the Spanish state works, especially considering how complicated things are now with the "Catalan situation". Not-biased and not-too-complicated, don't get that often in RUclips! Feel free to ask any question about our quirky language and small country!
And also, one little mistake, which actually is quite funny, in 04:15 . Madrid was not separated to be its own A. Community, but rather the ones around Madrid didn't want to have the capital city (which would allegedly "suck" all income and jobs away from the other cities) within their own, so Madrid didn't have another choice but to be its own community. It's so absurd that the official anthem of Madrid refers to the absurdity of the situation. (es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himno_de_la_Comunidad_de_Madrid )
Oscar Blanco I do
The basque people are the most honorable and hard working people I've met, even though I support the right in most cases, if they want to become independent they'll surely do a better work than the Catalans, their identity by nature is way stronger and more defined as an independent part of Europe. Zuen kultura eta zuen hizkuntza oso polit eta garrantzisuak dira europarako eta mundurako ere bai, beti gora Euskal Herria!
@@RicardoUrquizaMusic I'm basque, and I'd like to thank you for your nice words. However, don't make the mistake of romantizating some cultures to much. Basques are special sure (I myself am not against independence) but we aren't better than anyone, that kind of thinking can be really dangerous.
@@RicardoUrquizaMusic txotsolo
@@RicardoUrquizaMusic Don't believe all the myth scattered by the fascist and homophobic father of the nation: Xabino Arana.
Gure hizkuntza ederra da, baina politizatuz suntsitu dute.
Actually, there is another level between provincial and municipal goverment. Each province is divided into 'comarcas' (more or less the equivalent to US counties), and those comarcas into municipalities.
TheArNoir Not accurate. Only some autonomies like Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia have comarques. And they are not strictly under provinces, they are more like parallel institutions, at least in Catalonia. In Asturias they act as municipalities thogh.
Andalucía está dividida en alcaldías, provincias, comunidad autónoma y gobierno nacional. Espero que eso se acabe y sólo haya un gobierno nacional.
Arturo B. Ok
And there is also one level above autonomy and central state, eurorregions. This is the eurorregion of Catalonia+Balearic islands+Occitanie: www.euroregio.eu/
Wouldn't they be like the Portuguese Distritos?
Just a point. The provinces in Spain has not goverment insted. In the practice are just subdivisions of the Spanish State. In the province's capitals there are delegations of the national and autonomous goverments. Actually, the provinces are considered local administrations, as same as municipalities. The administration that represent the province (named Province Diputation) is ruled by the municipalities inside the province. The Diputation president is named by the mayors of the municipalities (its said, indirectly democracy). The provinces limits are older than Autonomous Communities. So the think is: in Spain the Provinces are a very important historical way to administrate the country with a strong tradition, but not so much eficient nowadays in all spanish territory.
Well, that really doesn't apply everywhere. The provinces in the Basque Country are quite strong to be honest; in some aspects they are even more powerful than the Basque government itself.
untalalvaro and basque provinces have their own parliaments named Juntas Generales and are elected in Foral Elections
Aragon has their own language ' l'Aragonese ' it is just not recognized
Bien dixo! Creyo que l'autor lo clama una mica de vegadas a ro largo d'o vidio
Spain, take example on Switzerland, stay united and promote everyone's cultures and languages!
I'm from Brazil and, even though sometimes richer states have to cover up for poorer ones (making people wanting separatism), I believe Portugal - and later our own governors - did a great job keeping our territory whole through so many centuries, despite all the differences!
shup up your country is a shithole
Balearic Islands and Canary Islands are also Autonomous Communities as the others. As well as Ceuta and Melilla are Autonomous Cities.
Why not make a video about the Swiss Cantons and also briefly cover Leichtenstein?
Because no one would care.
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you do not care. Does anybody care about weird borders in india.
You should do a video like this on the Roman empire or the former Soviet Union.
I did do one on Russia ruclips.net/user/edit?o=U&video_id=qVoHAyEwhBc
I might do a weird borders video on the former soviet union since there are a lot in the former soviet union.
Go watch History Channel.
Andi Rain The occupied thing is debatable.
Andi Rain First of all, I am a native Catalan and an adoptive Estonian. Second. My username is a mocking of a Russian ultranationalist organisation in Estonia which was named "Night Watch ( Ночной Дозор/Otni Vahond) and quickly became known as "ночной Позор" which means night shame.
@Andi Rain. Third. These regions wanted to stay in Russia or Armenia and they were forcing them to stay in countries that they didn't wanted to be in. Four, go talk with uncle adolf, you will be good friends judging by your hate of Russia. Fourth: I wipe my ass with putinism.
Let a Spanish homie make some things clear:
1. Galicia has a non-independentist majority (We're totally against the idea of being a country). I live there
2. Catalonia/Cataluña/Catalunya is in the national headlines for their constant dissobedience of the constitution
3. Vasque Country/Euskadi/País Vasco had a very aggressive type of independentism. In the 60's a terrorist group called ETA was bord there. They made some really bad shit. Search "Atentados de ETA" and you'll see the massacres they made. As their language has an unknown origin, they think their DNA is different than the rest of Spanish people
The different DNA thing is scientifically proved, however, they do not want independence by that. ETA was the reply to a totalitarian state that oppressed them, and I am starting to think if they were right in disbanding because i supported their disbandment at the beginning but as it seems Spain continues denying self-determination....
"I am starting to think if they were right in disbanding "
What you said is very very dangerous. Gaining independence by killing innocent people is not the right way. Also in Basque Country the supporters of independence are fewer than a few years back.
Make peace outlawing parties (or selling heroine to teens in Basque Country) like Spain was doing is also not the right way...
Well... Nobody talks about independence, buy now a days the basque movement for independence is lower than ever, and ETA leaves the terrorist activity back in 2011 so it doesn't represent danger anymore. Also Galicia wants an autonomous status now and then (nearly 70% of galicians considers themselves galicians and spanish equally)
Item 1 needs actuslization
And one more important thing: the European Union is not a confederation, mainly because it is not a state. It is neither a international organization. You should say it is a supranational entity which operates somewhat between a confederation and a federation.
Another reason the EU is not a confederation (or a international organization) is that the EU can dictate rules that have direct effect over citizens, with no need for the states incorporating it to their inner legal system, which a confederation cannot.
Well I did say it was "like a confederation" but I see your points. There were no examples other examples to use. You obviously know a lot about this :)
Deus meu, subtítulos en galego.
Meu deus
@@sasuke22dante es "deus meu" y no "meu deus". Él está hablando galego, no portugués. Entiende la diferencia
A entendo mellor que ti, falabarato gl.glosbe.com/gl/es/meu%20Deus
Galego parece como Português
@@isaacmoraesdornelasdesouza3314
'Cause Potuguese is an dialect from Galicia language.
Great and accurate explanation of Spain...from a Spaniard!!
Just to point out the main reason why Spain is not a Federation. The "Estatuto" or Statutory law that provides Autonomus Communities (in Spanish "Comunidad Autonoma") is actually a National Law. It's like the National Congress says to the provinces: "OK, we let you organise a Region and Autonomus Community".
Since it's a national law, this can be reboked any time, so the transfer of powers is up to the National Congress, and it's not guarantee by the Constitution.
As you explained, in a Federation, the Federal Region/Province/District or whatever you wanna call it has guaranteed rights of self-governing from the National Constitution, and cannot be abolished unless the form of Government is changed.
As you explained, we have this model in Spain so the Centralised Powers hold an Ace in the sleeve in case they wanna retrieve powers from the Regions. The reactionary forces in Spain and the far right truly despise the descentralisated model of today and wanna have the comfortable option to plug it off when found convenient.
The fact that Spain has held onto its monarchy considering all that its been through is amazing.
Not really the reason for being a monarchy is because Franco wanted a sucesor but before Franco the monarchy was already overtrhown twice
@@Miguel-vk1vh the first dirty r*publican revolution lasted less than a year and the second was literally socialist
@@Miguel-vk1vh also Juan Carlos restored democracy after franco died
Funny how Galician is in the ibero-romance branch and catalan is in the gallo romance branch yet they are both grammatically, fonetically and in original roots of the words because they got a lot less influence from Arabic (valencian and balearic dialects have more Arab influence though).
Galician was probably closer to Castilian before the reconquista, but Castilian got more Arabic influence than catalan Galician and Asturias-leonese (which is the closest to Galician without being a dialect of it). It’s sad that only elder people in the villages in the mountains speak asture-leonese, because they didn’t become oficial administrative status after the formation of the spanish constitution.
500 years ago, gallician-portuguese were the same language, just 2 different dialects. They started being more and more different between the two because of isolation between the two. This happened both because of them being in different kingdoms (Portugal and Leon, later Castile and Leon) and because of the mountains where the Galician farmers lived (the fishermen in the southwestern coast had more contact with Portugal, though)
Valencià is not an other language diferent from catalan it's a dialect like the spanish of argentina. One dialect it's a variant from one idiom but is considered the same idom, in this case, Occidental catalan.
You can see more informacion here:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language
Tanmateix, és correcte anomenar valencià o balear per referir-se al català. Tot i que són denominacions que no se solen emprar, l'Ethnologue, per exemple, té enregistrada amb el nom Català/Valencià/Balear la nostra llengua.
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Ten cuidao, que idiom no significa idioma en inglés, es mas bien como frase hecha.
Lo que buscas es language.
Linguistically, yes, politically, some might disagree...
TheMentorAssassin Gracias por la observación!
Just want to point something out: from 1833 to 1978 Spain was already divided in 15 Regions, which where the precedent to the Autonomous Communities territorial-wise, but within a centralised government.
There were minor changes to those Regions during the establishment of democracy after Franco's death, like Madrid, Cantabria and La Rioja becoming their own regions and the province of Albacete seceding from Murcia and annexing to Castilla-La Mancha (known until then as "Castilla la Nueva") and the provinces forming Reino de León and Castilla la Vieja merging into one single Region renamed as Castilla y León.
Huh, I guess our subdivisions are complicated. It's one of those things you never notice until someone points it out.
Between the powers of province and municipal are the power of the Comarca, a group of towns with a capital
Well, I do not agree. The comarcas facilitate a lot of government procedures of the every day live, otherwise We would have to go the capital of the Province so often, and in Spain isn't so normal to travel long distance every day, because all it's near, unlike in the USA. Plus, yes it's true that in some communities don't use a lot the comarcas but it's because they don't have the historical tradicion of more political liverties that have the communities that formed part of "la corona de Aragón": Catalonia, Aragón, Valencia and Illes Balears.
I am really loving your videos (and how often you upload) recently. This one was perfectly explained (I am a Spaniard, so I'd know xD) and was needed, as few channels had explained something as interesting as the Spanish Administrative Divisions. Kudos for a great video and channel!
"All of our provinces might be decentralised but we are a centralised state"
-(Presumably) King Juan Carlos I of Spain, Late 2012
No one wanted Castile and León, but was created anyway by ministers of the former dictatorship like Rodolfo Martín Villa. There is no historical continuity that explains the Autonomous Community of Castile and León as a unified identity whatsoever.
3:22 that Leon-Castile is entirely inaccurate, that was just Leon. The monarch in that time was called Alfonso the emperor. You could say Castile was a vassal kingdom then.
the Castilla post-1230 is a union of several kingdoms of two crowns (León and Castile) in a dynastic union which maintained equal status until the XIVth century, until Castile started dominating everyone and imposing their language. However, each kingdom (CROWN OF LEON: Galicia, Leon, CROWN OF CASTILE: Castile, Toledo, Seville, Cordoba, Jaen, Murcia) had its own laws until the House of Bourbon started reigning and eliminated all that.
The flag of the Crown of Castile we nowadays know was different depending on the kingdom it resided (lions were not 2nd and 3rd in Leon and Galicia, but 1st and 4th), since there was no crown over the other. This fact is inmensely unknown, but I thought I should say it.
3:28 that date of unification is not true either, the Bourbons were the ones that did that, and we're talking at least about the late XVIIth century.
Thank you for doing videos about Spain or related to it, whe are usually ignored by the rest of the world.
Porque ni siquiera entre nosotros nos respetamos.
Cuanta verdad en dos comentarios XD
Danolo AlcNom y en cuatro.
Danolo AlcNom y en cinco, por el culo os la hinco.
y por 6... 6 meses tarde :v
This guys has replaced CGP grey at this point, since CGP greys content is basically dead or has become less interesting in the past year or so. I also love the diagrams and maps used in this channel to explain more in detail as to what is happening. Cant wait for your future videos on China and India!
Galicia is NOT related to Portuguese. Portuguese derives from Galician. Galician is the original language derived from Vandal Latin and was spoken in Royal court circles until Castilian took over as Galician was kept by the newly established Portuguese Kingdom from which Portuguese then developed. What's more, Galicia is the only Autonomous region aside from Aragon, Castille to have been an entirely independent Kingdom. Leon was also part of said Empire until it joined Castille, some years before Galicia, itself did.
So.. it is related to Portuguese.
in eastern valencia there they do not speak catalan
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Nobody in Valencia speaks catalan,we speak valencian
@@su_morenito_1948 which is a dialect of the same language as catalan
For the first time in my life (I'm old!) I really started enjoying geography thanks to these videos by VanDeGraph. I've watched them all and they are jam packed with information. Many thanks VanDeGraph.
Wow and 1:13 and Asturian is not included, wtf Spain? Why? I know their language is on the edge of extinctio but ffs it's still ALIVE!!!
#AwarenessForAsturians!
Technically it is not an official language. Galician is also spoken in some west asturian regions.
It is oficial in Asturias, the only place that matters
It's sadly not official.
Germán García it's not
It's *recognized* by the Asturias government, but it's not official.
Recognition is: "look, that seems a language, they say it's called asturian" but nothing more, they don't teach it on schools and the asturian government doesn't publish nothing in asturian.
It is so strange to see a video about Spain made by non Spanish that has no mistakes. I'm still picky about it saying Catalan is 'distantly' related to French but I'll let that slide. It's a great video. Kudos to you
Well, in its origin it's actually more related to French.
Aaaaah! I hate when people take the incorrect map of the Basque Country, that's just a part of the basque country, Basque Country is what you took + Navarre + 3 autonomus comunities of France.
The map you putted was the map of Euskadi, and Euskal herria means Basque country. It would be ok if you try to explain it thanks
iparralde not exist in france political division xD
@@aitxol0279 Basque Country comes from "País Vasco" in Spanish, it is not referring to all basque spoken areas.
@@DavidGarcia-hi9tl ya lo c
de donde crees que soy?
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I want to explain you something here in balearic islands we talk in mallorquin and its a variation of catalan (like the valencian).
x Seeker, mallorquín and valencian languages are not catalan dialects.
Valencian and mallorquín languages are 400 years more ancient than catalan, so it'd be impossible that they were variations of catalan.
Valencian language was officialiced in 13th century when the king of Aragon made to write the laws of Valencian Kingdom specifically in valencian language, while in Catalonia the laws were written in latin.
Catalan was not officialiced till 19th century, so please, do not manipulate the history.
yes, you're both right, and actually mallorquin is pretty different than catalan
And menorquin...
Still understandable like the so-called Aragonese or Valencian, same language at the end.
is that like speaking mexican?
As a Spaniard you actually did a pretty good job. I am surprised that a foreigner knows a lot about Spain since even us Spaniards don't understand our country.
As a Spaniard, I found this video amazing! Nice work!
Catalonia independentism has developed since 1980, when it became a regional political area under the spanish kingdom, with one of the highest grades of autonomy, a process of lack of true information to their citizens, an educational program that changes history in order to make of Catalonia what it never was, and the worst of all, a process of racism that has brought it to a kind of fascist or nazi regime. More than half of the population in Catalonia does'nt want any kind of independence from Spain. But those are the inhabitants of the rich parts of the region, including Barcelona. The most undeveloped, rural and village based populations are, with their lower cultural status, in the hands of the politicians that due to their problems with the corruption use the independence for their own profit. It is really a disaster! Now there is a new iniciative, TABARNIA, a new political entity emerging from this chaos, which favors the separation of Tarragona, Barcelona and the coastal areas from the interior land independentists. But TABARNIA does'nt want to be an independent country (impossible under the actual spanish constitution) but another spanish region, a political process which has many records in different countries in the world's recent past.
Run from the catalan rural nazi regime with lower cultural status but without army and imprisoned for celebrating a referendum and join tabarnia to defend spanish speakers to not be forced to learn any other fucking lenguage ever
It’s so disrespectful not to show Canary Islands all the time...I’m from Canary Islands and we are the same as the rest of the other communities you should edit the video...
From my point of view: Aragonese is closer to Catalan than to Castilian or Leonese. Catalan is not closer to French than to the Iberian Languages. Catalan-Occitan language group is often not labeled as Gallo-romance, but a bridge between Iberian and Gallo languages. And the ones from Northern Italy are also related to the Gallo group.
Well it's slightly more complicated. French is an Oïl language, while Catalan is an occitanian language. Catalan is extremely similar to occitanian in many ways, and occitanian is extremely similar to French.
The thing is... All these languages are formed from the vulgar Latin and form a language continuum with numerous distinct dialects going from Madrid to Paris. So basically, the divide is as political as it is linguistic.
Yet, Gallo-Romance languages not in its strictest form are very similar, even more so than Spanish and French. I'm a French speaker, it took me 2 weeks to learn Spanish and a few days to learn Catalan.
Matthew Hemmings Hi. Well, I'm Spanish, I speak Spanish and in general terms I understand Catalan really well, much more than French. Spanish and Catala are mutually intelligible. Of course this is also thanks to the constant contact between Catalans, Valencians and the rest of Spaniards, but I also find Occitan really close to Spanish. For that reason, I think they are in between.
If Catalonia finally secedes from Spain this year you should do a quick video or update from this one, anyway great job.
I just looked it up and apparently they are going to be holding a referendum in September. I didn't know they were that serious about it!
We are not going to be an independent country. Most of us (catalans) want more autonomy from the central government, but not independence.
Because 80% of the population from Catalonia lives in Barcelona area where the tourism and inmigration has made the use of spanish in the everyday life much more common.
Marc Lamport I wouldn't say most of the catalan people only want more autonomy from Spain, if that was the case the catalan government wouldn't be striving to make a referendum about independence right now.
Mario Revuelta That's just not true, nearly 85% of the population in Catalonia are able to speak Catalan according to the Institute of Catalan studies.
30% as the first language, but 80-90% speaks it as second
My family is basque. My father and my mothers father are both from sans Sebastian a very popular city in the Basque Country
MISTAKE!! Valencian is also a co-official language!!
Valencian is Catalan, and the linguists say it.
True.
never seen so accurate map in 3:14, very well done research
Viva España, incluyendo obviamente la colonia del peñón usurpada que es suelo español, si soy catalán pero me encanta mi país
el que pensin els gibraltarenys no importa no? I a sobre disculpant-te per ser català. Foteu pena.
Ночной Позор Gibraltar es una piedra q solo sirve de paraíso fiscal. La mayor parte de la gente q trabaja ahí viven en España y cruzan la frontera cada día para trabajar, incluso su presidente tiene la casa en España.
No me parece q se esté disculpando, solo menciona q pese a ser catalán no quiere q se le asocie con el independentismo.
Exactamente, y como dices Gibraltar no es solo el territorio sino el perjuicio a la economía de la zona y la cueva de corruptos.
PD no he visto el comentario de ese ruso aunque mejor si era para decir una chorrada
Con la tonteria que hay montada con el independentismo hace que tenga que aclarar que no soy independentista o que siendo catalan no significa que me de igual el resto de españa
Tu no ets català, tu ets un colono castellà vivint a Catalunya que és diferent!
Jajaja un colono diu xD quin rentat de cervell t'han fet, segueix el ramat xai
My own Canada behaves in many ways like a confederation even though it's still officially just a federation, in the same way that Spain behaves in many ways like a federation even though it's still officially just a unitary state.
This Is ExSPAINing Spain
Well at least you tried ...
i dont remember dis at all
A Video about Georgia (the country) and it's autonomous regions and it's two separate regimes (Abkhazia, South-Ossetia) would be interesting
Well in theory countries can leave EU. Finnish constitution says "Finland is a part of European Union".
your country is like heaven honestly
Except because there's no Sun and summer doesn't exist.
Arturo B. Joder eso me encantaría la verdad
that's because they are freaking smart.. either you are part of a greater powerful "nation/entity" or you are doomed
Be more specific in your video description please. Canary Islands are located in the coast of North Africa. If you only put "coast of Africa" people get confused and don't know if you are talking about Sub-Saharan Africa or North Africa. You can also write that Canary Islands are "located on the Atlantic Ocean, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco.". Definetely "coast of Africa" is a horrible description. It's like saying Cuba is in the coast of America, Taiwan in the coast of Asia or Ireland in the coast of Europe. BE MORE SPECIFIC PLEASE.
Who says that the great Canary in the coast of Africa is racist because the largest Canarya is located in North Africa and not on the coast of sub-Saharan Africa
Greetings from Valladolid, capital of the region of castile and león. The language you, and the rest of the world,call spanish os the castilian. Tour region os famous for many things. I recmend you to know more about castile and other regions of spain. For example my city was capital of the biggest empire that the world has ever met... Until they move it to Madrid
About the language is like if call the british language instead of english
Valladolid solamente fue el capital de su imperio durante unos pocos años. Pero siempre fue la silla de la monarquía. Felipe III construyó un palacio para el verano allí, y por eso la ciudad funciona como capital brevemente. Fue Madrid, entonces Valladolid, entonces Madrid otra vez. Lisboa incluso fue el capital (durante el periodo de la union iberica) por algun tiempo, porque estaba la ciudad mas importante de la peninsula.
Perdoname para mis errores, el español no es mi primer idioma. : )
primero estuvo la capital en valladolid y depués la movieron a madrid por su posición mas céntrica. En valladolid nació Felipe II el rey que heredó el imperio más grande, pero este la posicionó mas tarde en madrid por lo que he dicho. Para no ser tu primer idioma lo escribes muy bien. A mi no me molesta que digas español, pero es mas correcto decir castellano
Primero Valladolid y después Madrid fueron la capital del imperio pero la riqueza del imperio estaban en la Ciudad de Mexico, Ciudad de Manila y Ciudad de Potosi.
Por lo que sé, mientras que es cierto que rey Felipe II se movió el capital a Madrid durante su reino, yo creo que antes de esto, el capital estaba en Toledo. Al menos, Toledo fue el centro del rey Carlos I, por que él había establecido su corte allí. Felipe I no lo cambió a Valladolid, por lo que sé. Si estoy equivocado, por favor me corríge.
Antes de rey Carlos, tal vez el capital estaba a Valladolid, o durante la edad media. No sé mucho del país en esas épocas.
Con respeto al nombre de este hermoso idioma, todos los hispanohablantes en mi ciudad dice ’español’ normalmente. Cuando dicen ’castellano’, es especificamente refiriéndose a la variedad del idioma que hablan en España. Pero yo sé que los españoles generalmente prefieren el termino castellano.
Otra vez, perdoname si hay errores. :)
This channel has so much potential. Keep it up!
"don't call Spain a federation or else the Spanish Constitution will get mad at you!"
Well, the govern has systematically violated the constitution and they're still in charge.
Mmmm... yo no lo creo amigo, pero no entremos en temas tan calentitos
Sergi Monserrat Mascaró sure buddy, nice try.
Ley Mordaza
Psyrgery 2011. Merkel. Austerity, GAL, 2010 banning of part of the catalan statue, Egunkaria case, ilegalization of Batasuna, the PP constantly forgets the right of the right to work and to have a house, politized justice...
Constitución Española
Artículo 47
Todos los españoles tienen derecho a disfrutar de una vivienda digna y
adecuada. Los poderes públicos promoverán las condiciones necesarias y establecerán las
normas pertinentes para hacer efectivo este derecho, regulando la utilización del suelo
de acuerdo con el interés general para impedir la especulación.
La comunidad participará en las plusvalías que genere la acción urbanística de los
entes públicos.
Spanish here from Galicia. This video is surprisingly accurate and objective.
Something interesting about Spain that explains some of our internal issues is over 80% of the population is by the coast and the middle of Spain is empty with the huge exception of Madrid.
Zaragoza It's also in the interior and It's the 5th largest city of Spain...
I’m spanish, and I tell you thx for this video, tho I want a federation, I am federalist.
As a Spanish, I have to say that the video is extremely accurate. Good job. This is the first video (in either English or Spanish) that is able to explain it so thoroughly and accurately.
GALIZA is not spain¡
anda gallego, quedate en los montes, que os toca despues de los catalanes
I am Spanish and I must say you did a very good job. It is hard to explain everything so well, specially avoiding controversial issues, as you indeed have.
Yeah you did it almost perfect, Basque country and Navarre have their own taxes collect because all over the history they had try to be independent from the rest of Spain, so for maintaining them unified the government gave them the priviledge of paying less taxes and not to the state but the autonomous community. Nice video (Im spanish, from Castilla la mancha).
Thanks! I glad the video gets approval approval from actual Spaniards!
yeha the video was correct. This guy was is not though, Navarre and The basque country collect thir own taxes because they backed the winning king during the war of succession in 1700 and therefore didn't get their foral laws abolished by the new king.
Ix The Best 9/11 was a hoax. This is no longer a wild conspiracy assertion; it is a fact, supported by thousands of other verifiable facts, foremost of which are: The attacks of 9/11 COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED without the willful failure of the American defense system. In Washington, Air Force pilots demanded to fly but were ordered to stand down. Yet instead of prosecuting the president and military leaders for this unprecedented dereliction of duty, military leaders were promoted and the president was praised for presiding over a defense system that suspiciously failed the most crucial test in its history. None of the deaths would have happened without the deliberate unplugging of America's air defenses. Planes that lose contact with control towers are usually intercepted by fighter jets inside of ten minutes, as the incident with the golfer's plane a few months earlier so clearly demonstrated. Yet on 9/11, the jetliners that struck New York were allowed to proceed unmolested for more than a half-hour, and the plane that supposedly crashed in Washington was not intercepted for more than an hour and forty minutes after it was widely known that four planes had been hijacked. The twin towers could not have collapsed as a result of burning jet fuel. Most of that fuel was consumed on impact. In the south tower, most of the fuel was spilled outside the building. Heat caused by burning jet fuel does not reach temperatures needed to melt steel. What does stand out as particularly suspicious and still unexplained is that fires raged out of control beneath THREE of the collapsed towers for ONE HUNDRED DAYS, clearly indicating the presence of some kind of substance utilized in the demolition of the structures. The Twin Towers did not fall because of plane impacts or fires. Most likely explosives were placed on structural supports in the towers (as was done in Oklahoma City), and these controlled implosions snuffed out the lives of three thousand people. FBI Director Robert Mueller insisted officials had no idea this kind of attack could happen when in fact the FBI had been investigating the possibility of EXACTLY this kind of attack for almost TEN YEARS. Numerous previous attempts at using planes as weapons, intimate knowledge of terror plans called Project Bojinka, and knowledge of suspicious characters attending flight schools who were being monitored by the FBI make his utterance a clear lie on its face. In the weeks before 9/11, the U.S. received warnings from all over the world that an event just like this was about to happen, but FBI investigations into suspected terrorists were suppressed and those warnings were deliberately disregarded. The names of the alleged hijackers, all ostensibly Muslims, were released to the public only hours after the attacks, despite Mueller saying we had no knowledge this would happen. This is an impossible twist of logic. If he didn't know of a plan to strike buildings with planes, how would he know the names of the hijackers? Various artifacts were discovered in strategic places to try to confirm the government's story, but these have all been dismissed as suspicious planting of evidence. Since that time several names on that list have turned up alive and well, living in Arab countries. Yet no attempt has ever been made to update the list. And why were none of these names on the airlines' passenger lists? Much like the invasion of Iraq, the anthrax attacks were designed to deflect attention from unanswered 9/11 questions in the patriotic pandemonium that followed the tragedy. In addition to making large amounts of money for the president's father and his friends from the hasty sale of inefficient drugs to a panicked populace, the investigation into these killings was abruptly halted when the trail of evidence led straight to the government's door, and has not been reopened. The anthrax attacks also amped up the climate of fear and deflected attention from the passage of the government's repressive Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was presented in the days after the tragedy supposedly as a response to it, yet it was clear that this heinous act, drafted to nullify provisions for freedom in the U.S. Constitution, was put together long before 9/11. In addition, testimony by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) revealed that most members of Congress were compelled to vote for the bill without even reading it. This was a vote to eliminate the Constitutional Bill of Rights, which has defined American freedom for 200 years, and it was accomplished when legislators voted for the bill without even reading it. The invasion of Afghanistan was presented as an attempt to pursue the alleged perpetrators of 9/11, yet it had been discussed for years prior to the tragedy and actually planned in the months before the attacks on New York and Washington. Statements by Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Republican-written Project for a New American Century have stressed that America needed a formidable enemy to accomplish its aggressive geopolitical aims. The supposed enemy we attacked in Afghanistan was a diverse group of men from all over the world who were initially recruited, encouraged and supported by the American CIA. The hole in the Pentagon was not made by a jumbo jet. Damage to the building was simply not consistent with the size of the hole nor the absence of debris. At the supposed point of impact, a whole bank of windows remained unbroken and there were no marks on the lawn. No airplane debris (except what was planted on the lawn) nor remains of passengers were ever found. The president has admitted that he continued to read a story to schoolchildren in a Florida school for 30 minutes after being informed that two planes had struck New York and that the nation was under attack. He has never explained this puzzling behavior, nor how he saw the first plane hit. It was never televised, only recorded by a French crew filming firemen in New York. In that film, the plane in question does not appear to be a passenger airliner. The plane in Pennsylvania was shot down and broke apart in midair. No other explanation can account for the wreckage, which was spread over a six-mile area, or the eyewitness accounts that describe debris falling from the sky. Cellphone calls cannot be made from airliners in flight that are not close to the ground. As research by Professor A. K. Dewdney has shown, the emotional conversations between hijacked passengers and others would not have been possible under conditions that existed at that moment. These calls were cynical fabrications, exploiting the distraught emotions of those who lost loved ones. Radio communications from firefighters on the upper floors of the Trade Center towers clearly indicate that fires were under control and the structure was in no danger of collapsing.
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Ix The Best I sexually identify as an Internet Service Provider. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of disappointing customers all around the nation and charging them an unnecessary high fee. People say to me that a person being an ISP is impossible and I'm fucking retarded, but I don't care, I'm 300GBps fast. I'm having a technician installing Ethernet cables, Optic Fiber cables and a Wi-Fi antenna on my body. From now on, I want you guys to call me "Disgusting Greedy Company" and respect my right to give Internet to everybody and not to fix the problems they have with my connection. If you can't accept me you are an ISP-phobe and need to check your sysadmin privileges. Thank you for being so understanding.
I usually don't like short RUclips videos that try to explain complex issues but, overall, that is an excellent video.
¡Muy bien!
I'm Andalusian and it's not an official language, but they all say that andalusian is better than normal spanish, like a spanish 2.0
You missed the independence requests from different autonomous communities... Also, saying that what Catalonia wants is more 'power' is a really poor explanation... The situation is very complex and I think it doesn't do Catalans justice to say it that way. The rest of the video was great though, so congrats!
oscaar_39 okay but you can't try to explain a very complex situation like this to people who aren't spanish
@@neilmax1018 you abused the hipotetical xd
@@neilmax1018 cant say is a hidden agenda of the politicians when theres more than two milions pushing for it
@@neilmax1018 i was there man, go throw shit to somebody else
Amazing work, very accurate. Also you didn't forget about the galician-portuguese language, like many other videos :)
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THAT MAP IS WRONG!! WHERE THE FUCK IS CANARY!?
Para tu informacion las canarias estan mas al sur que en ese mapa, por eso no salen simplemente.
Pedro Andreu ya, pero normalmente se les pone un recuadro o algo, no se
Adonix Master haha funny
Canary Mapping Ese recuadro es opcional xD
Pedro Andreu si no lo incluyen es como si no fueramos parte de españa, ahora estan diciendo de hacer un mapa en el que el zoom es adecuado para incluir a canarias
The basque is not in the Pirineos is in Cantabrian mountains
viva la madre patria
why did you separated from it then? lol
retardats qui? si els van envair els putos EUA, ara tenen puerto rico en la merda
Alberto López todos tiene su propio punto de vista político, y no no se porque me tienes que insultar así.
No te he insultado, hablaba de EEUU, y por otro lado iba en respuesta de un comentario borrado
Alberto López ahh ok
Very accurate video, congrats.
However, when it comes to the regional languages in Spain most people make the same mistakes.
1. There is not such thing as a Catalan language, in fact there are 8 dialects in Catalonia, all of them coming from limosin occitan and provencal occitan, heavily influenced by old Spanish or Castillian (see point 3).
These dialects are buarceloni dialect (wrongly called catalan), aranés, capcinés, xipella, salat, rosellonés, leridano, tarragonés. The other regions you branded as barceloní speakers in your map in fact speak valenciano and mallorquín, two regional languages, similar to barceloní dialect, as all of them come from Castillian and occitan, but different on their own. Even valenciano is documented as an older language than barceloní dialect.
2. Basque language is an artificial language invented less than 70 years ago using the few remains words they had of Lingua Navarrorum plus a plethora of Spanish words and some French words as well. Thus the current Basque language or Batua is an invented language.
3. Nobody, besides 8 or 10 top Spanish Linguists can actually speak Castillian, just like very few people speak old English, old French, old Italian or old German. Castillian is the old linguistic metasystem of the modern linguistic system called Spanish. Do you call languedoc to the French language or toscano to the Italian language? Exactly. The correct name for the current language then is Spanish, NEVER Castillian.
4. Have you done or will you do a video on the regional languages and dialects in France (some 20 of them), Italy (over 30) or Germany (over 40)? That should be quite interesting.
Cheers.
Your head is full of shit, isn't it?
ce-UH-tah*
I knew I was going to pronounce something wrong.
VanDeGraph well, now you know know to pronounce a new word, awesome video as always btw
👑RÍOS FAMILY 👑 it refers to the ROYAL HOUSE OF ASTURIAS where the RÍOS👑 last name most likely originated from.👑.
Re-watching to understand Catalonia.
A Spanish politician gave the best definition: Spain is an asymmetric quasi-federal state. We call this structure in Spain "Estado de la autonomías" (state of autonomies, because the name of our 'federal states' is 'autonomous communities'). There are federal states in other countries with less self-government than several Spanish autonomous communities. Spain is one of the most decentralized in Europe. Canada and Belgium are other examples of asymmetric federal states
0:41 "Dead: 1975 - present" lol
Love your video!! Very good explained (usually everybody forgets about Galiza) 😂😂
2:49 Erase Barcelona. Barcelona has never been a kingdom. Is was part from the Aragon kingdom. It was only a duchy.
What film is it?
aragon kingdom is actually aragon(and valle de aran)
barcelona era un condado independiente que junto a otros mas pequeños, conformaban cataluña
we kashmiri people love and support you catalonia ....may God help u and be with u .... love and support from Indian illegally occupied kashmir. ...we kashmiri people are also fighting for our independence. ....
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You forgot to say that during the spanish civil war, under the republican government, the valencian "estatut d'autonomia" was wrote and planed to be aproved by the central government, however the republicans losed and this text never was approved. I say this because as the way you have shown the autonomies, it seems that only catalonia, the basque country and galicia were the only territories with a federal will.
Same with Galicia.
+Schwann Mutt I'm from Valencia and I can tell you that here that will is held only by a few people.
He did a good job but he also forgot about Cantonal Revolution, anecdote: That was when Murcia(Cantón de Cartagena) asked to the United States of America to become one of the states.
They send a letter to the president Ulysses S. Grant but Cartagena was defeated before receiving a reply.
Very well explained. Some valencians would say their Language is related to but not derived from Catalan. Madrid is an Autonomous Community on its own since neither Castilla y Leon nor Castilla la Mancha wanted to take the risk of the Capital taking over all resources.
like this vídeo. but only one reflexión. Valenciano is not a catalán .. Is an other lenguaje .. not the same origen.
valencià is 95% mutually intelligible with català and in practice both languages share the same written standard. studies of valencià in the universities of valencia and alacant are called catalan philology. speakers at the catalan-valencian border share the same dialect. people who deny they're the same language are often unable to speak it whilst most native valencià speakers will acknowledge the obvious
"both languages" ??? ONE ONLY LANGUAGE
Welp, I'm a Spaniard, interested in this stuff and yet I found the video informative. Very well done
I'm from Valencia. Valencian, Catalan and Balearic is the same lenguage, Catalan.
This is the first video about Spain without mistakes I've ever seen, THANK YOU and greetings from the Canary Islands.
Supa hot be like:
but I'm not a federation
Extremadura and Cantabria have a variation of Asturleonés so they also have their one language.
Catalonia will forever be Spain.
Not all Catalonia belongs to Spain neither you are a vident, so shut your dirty mouth.
I dont want Catalonia to leave. Not because I hate'em, but it renders my map inaccurate:) I mean, why would you want to leave the Roman Empire?
For a person who claims to speak 7 languages, you sure have a crappy English. Maybe focus on 2 or 3 given your lack of talent.
Well, you must be thrilled that soon it will be 2014 and you will, at last, be and independent european nation! Oh... wait...
Like Portugal says, Neither good winds nor good marriages come from Spain. (De Espanha, nem bons ventos, nem bons casamentos.)
Spanish Constitition is a composite of agreements that made possible to create the Spanish Republic granting autonomy to the regions and their executive and legislative organs. Spain is unique in that sense and it the organisation of its political system and the relations between Madrid and the regional autonomies is so complex it turns out very hard to explain specially in english