What is ERITREA? 🇪🇷 The Italy of Africa?
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HELLO FROM COUNTRY #172 - ERITREA!
I'm thrilled to be back in Africa where I will spend the remaining 3 months of the year! Many of you probably haven’t heard of Eritrea before and that’s because it’s a relatively new country and it’s notoriously difficult to enter (top 5 in the world). After 48 hours of roaming around the capital of Asmara and the ancient port city of Massawa, I’ve really enjoyed my time here.
I’m getting flashbacks to when I was in Ethiopia, yet also touches of Yemen Somaliland and Italy. Yes - ITALY! Eritrea is a former Italian colony and their influence is remarkably well-preserved in the form of giant cathedrals, pizza parlors, gelato shops, old Italian cars, appertivos and many people can still speak fluent Italiano.
The capital of Asmara is VERY safe, with kind-hearted people and surprisingly the weather is cold here (2,400 meters high). Unfortunately due to WiFi issues, I haven't been able to upload anything until now, but there’s no hurry because life is wonderful here! More to come soon 🇪🇷
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The italian accent of those old eritreans is almost perfect.
Did they speak good? I am eritrean, I knew some old men who could speak italian. I am interested to know how good they can speak it ?
How did this men speak?
@@erde2663 The guy at 0:18 was simply perfect. I know some Italian people that speak really poorly. Especially in the south.
That’s so crazy to hear! My grandpa also spoke fluent Italian. I could barely speak my mother-tongue(tigrinya) & he didn’t know English very well 😂 communicating was hard but he was always trying his best
Si! Mamma mia!
The oldest ppl are almost speaking perfect.
I'm Italian, I kwew that Italians had conquered Eritrea but I couldn't imagined that the Italian influence is so strong and
Neanche io tranquillp
Colonialists go away please.
@Panzai .Joe Dove?
@@WA-uq1rh what?
@Napoli Palermo ma anche in Egitto vi è molta influenza italiana, visto che anche lì avevamo stabilito una colonia
As an italian i can say that their italian is absolutely perfect!
@OXERON OXERON ahah, a parte quello 😂
They really LOVE to speak it too, we love everything about Italy 😭😩🥰 per sempre
@@AmareshAsmara thanks!
No Brasil 35 milhões de pessoas tem descendência italiana, meus bisavos nasceram na Itália e vieram para o Brasil em 1912 para fugir da crise que afetava a Europa assim como muitos outros. No estado de São Paulo e no Sul 50% da população tem sangue italiano. Alemães também há muitos. Eles que fizeram o Sul do país crescer e se tornar desenvolvido como é hoje 🇧🇷🇮🇹🇧🇷
It's a shame he didn't mention that Eritrea is in fact a totalitarian hellhole
I’m Ethiopian and when I was younger my parents used to tell me about their amazing friends from Asmara before the war started but as a grew up and gained Eritrean friends I realized they are some of the most kindest, friendliest, and hardworking people I have ever met❤️🇪🇷
Me too
Same I’m from Eritrea though
atashkabtt
Thank you man, I'm eritrean Never visited Ethiopia but I have alot of Ethiopian brothers and sisters here in the state.
@@RobelDesalegn-td6ls not everybody is like you buddy. Just don't live with an ignorance.
le persone dell'Eritrea parlano meglio delle persone del collegio 4
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Parlano meglio di tantissimi italiani
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@S D you wouldn't get it...
For real tho, I'm Italian and I went to Sweden last year. The host at my BnB was Eritrean and she spoke Italian so smoothly! We had a big fat conversation while her Swedish husband was there like 😐
There are alot of Eritreans in Sweden especially in my city and next to my Neighbor
there's a ton of those eritreans in stockholm. they came by boat like 4 years ago
Lol I'm Swedish and Eritrean!
How fat was the conversation lol
Well, If you go to america, the american will be fat.
I love Eritrean people they're great people huge respect from somalia🇸🇴🇪🇷🇸🇴🇪🇷🇸🇴🇪🇷🇸🇴🇪🇷🇸🇴🇪🇷
Tanks our beautiful somalian brother we love you to
Thank u we love you Somalia people too🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷 🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴
Yes wlhi big respect the people of eritrea us somalia🇪🇷🇸🇴
@Fatima Aziz what's you wrong
what you talking about ?if you are dirty not others
Oh so you're from that smelly shithole known as zoomalia?
I love Eritrea it's an amazing country in Africa with an Italian European feel to it!!!
Love from United Kingdom 🇬🇧💞🇪🇷
Time for a change then back to their original Afrikan culture !
It's Afrika !
Do you love dictatorship?
@Big Niggs What's wrong with constructive criticism ? Besides I believe it was an Eritrean who wrote in one of the comment's that the Italian's built those Building's for Italian's only, using Eritrean labour !
If the person who wrote the comment isn't Eritrean, then he or she write's like he or she should be !
How about you ?
By the way, I hope your surname doesn't relate to what I think it does !
We need to get away from that negative mind set, and elevate our self's to a higher level.
If you are Afrikan as you claim you are, then how about addressing your self using an appropriate Afrikan word.
If I have miss understood your surname, then my profound apologies !
@Big Niggs You have part of a racial slur in your name. I doubt you're Eritrean...
When you are half Italian🇮🇹 half Eritrean 🇪🇷 and you bump into this video ♥️
Lo sai l'Italiano?
@@tommasospadoni3839 Assolutamente, perché?
Fratello eritreo ti aspetto in Italia
bella frate
@@blablabla2847 no... così
From Somalia.🇸🇴 respect and love Eritrea.🇪🇷
Dad noo ek weeye
I’m from Somaila too
Is somalia really libertarian?
GBY 4563 huh??
@@sabrinahussein3218 some says that somalia is a libertarian paradise the say if you like wild capitalism go to somalia
> "this country is as unique as they come"
> compares it to Italy throughout
Unique in Africa he meant
Lol,lol,lol,lol,lol
kevin thomson no they did not. Eritrea has history predating anything that occurred during the Italian occupation. Take your white ignorance elsewhere
@@kevinthomson2691 .....Before the Italians, first city in Eritrea was dubaruba in Mendferea area, 4 Asmara (Arbata Asmara)...and many more city. But, the Italian did contribute in build Eritrea making it feel more like Italy. Also, way before the Italian around 14th-15th century the city of Massawa was build, even the Ottoman Empire built Mosques in Massawa. Eritrea was colonized by five different country and small cities were developed. And the last colonial was the Italian, which was the longest colonial and the most influenced in Eritrea. But, even though we were colonized by the Italians we still continued to practice our original language, culture & tradition, which was never demolished.
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Okey, maybe not your culture. But Italians did build most of your country.
Eritrea actually has its own culture that is nothing like italian culture and its beautiful
@@alessandrodonini8714 there is no Eritrean culture. Eritrea is just a relic of Italian colonialism that should not even exist. There is only Habäsa culture.
@@heruy8274 obvious troll lol
@@heruy8274 Who are you to say there is no Eritrean culture? Have you spoken to every Eritrean?
@@alessandrodonini8714 You cannot sue him for this first of all. Second you're Italian so dont say anything about this, and if you're eritrean it will just prove the point even more as Your name is Italian.
@@santium9494 "your italian so don't say anything about this" ? This is is insulting. I can comment on what I'd like. Who are you to say I cannot?
"Your name is Jew but you are Christian" that just killed me 🤣🤣
What's the timestamp
@@unmasked9873 4:26
HAHAHAHAHA SAME
Hahaha same though
😂😂😂
I would love to visit Eritrea one day.
Love from Italy 🇮🇹❤️🇪🇷
Anche io, voglio parlare in Italiano con gli eritrei che sembrano parlarlo molto meglio di tanti italiani
Perchè il cuore nero?
@@DeepUndaInAmsterdam non è nero, è rosso
@@sayidadam9794 we were in the past, but now we're not. And I hope that from our common history could spring friendship between our people
@@leov4404 Thats true, Your ancestors tried to invade us Ethiopians as well but the Ethiopia won and defended there land. Very proud of my ancestors!
Love to my Eritrean brothers and sisters 🇪🇷 from Somalia 🇸🇴
Tank you my brother
We too
I'm your italian uncle 😌😄
Nice, Somália has wi-fi
@@skylight0656 Somalia has war
This is my first time looking further into what is Eritrea. From one Italian- influenced country to another , love from Montenegro!
🇪🇷❤️🇲🇪
Wow , 2 different countries from such different backgrounds share something in common. Truly wonderful!
Interesting place .
I visited several times when Yugoslavia.
The Queen of Italy Elena of Montenegro in Savoy was much loved in Italy, much more than her husband, and I was pleased that she was well remembered by the people there too, despite Tito's brainstorming
We love our beloved Eritrea.. much love from Somalia 🇪🇷❤🇸🇴
🇮🇹🇪🇷🇸🇴
🙌🏾
yassin ahmed sxbey 🇸🇴🇸🇴💯
We love you too our African brother
Supreme Leader ‘ Who fucked your girl? A Somali?! LOOOL. Degenerate 😂😂
Love how Drew was like “yea yea” at the end lol. No need to make things harder than they have to be.
@@koala10ish dont pull a muscle bro
@@dagi_magna6446 well, let's get the facts straight! read if you are not aware of it!
@@dagi_magna6446 Are you aware the USSR giving the Ethiopians arms worth $10 Billion? 500 top Russian officers and thousands of Russian mercenaries? The beauty of it is the we snatched arms worth $7Billion and hit them back hard with their arms and liberated Eritrea without paying a penny except precious lives of 65000 brave fighters pooled voluntarily from each and every Eritrean family! Watch here ruclips.net/video/15z4P_OpK6A/видео.html !!!
koala10ish What’s with the harsh language? I thought you made peace with the Ethiopians.
@@fdama No, we didn't! Do your homework! Are you American?
Some of the most humble and nicest people I met, love to Eritrea from Egypt.
Thanks Omer
تحية طيبه من إريتريا الله اخواننا في مصر حبيبه
اقسم بالله نحب العرب روحا وقلبا والديل انتباهي علي تعليق من بين الالوف 😍👍
تحية لمصر ام الدنيا وشعبها الطيب ..
@@DahlaKabir-ERITREA-coast الله يسعدك ويسعد اهل اريتريا ويبعد عنكم الفتن والحاقدين..
حبيب قلبي والله
As a Serb i really like Eritrea,our Orthodox brothers 🇷🇸🇪🇷
They are muslims? Aren't they?
There is a big percentage of Orthodox people in Eritrea look it up
Of course
@@mozin.a no no half half
@Alenalki Eritrea that's really cool, thank you for letting me know 🙌
Eritreans are such nice and humble people. I wish them all the best.
Love from Sudan.
we love Sudan bro
The Moorish people introduced Pizza to Italy and the rest of Europe !!! Just for the records !!!
Very true
Yea but Sudanese people are just as nice if say I’m Italian
I mean Sudanese people are very nice this is coming from an Italian
Peace and love from Bari, in the south of Italy, for Eritreans brothers and sisters 😊🌍😊
ciao,saluto anche per te.
accumba.
sono Eritreo.
Forza La Bari Alé 💪🇲🇨
Ciao anche a te sono metà italiano e metà eritreo gli italiani hanno reso l'eritrea un posto ancora migliore un bacio
Ciao,sono da Roma!
@Jim Elliott Locorotondo ;)
Thst guy was speaking a perfect italian, even with accent
@@danielsmith4715-d2k dont be cringe. cretino.
They are mixed with Italian
Why this beautiful country and people's place not been popularized till now? It's a beautiful place by all means. - Love from Mumbai, India 🇮🇳 ❤ ♥ 😍
Because of sanction from the West Eritrea under sanction right now
I agree. Eritrea is very interesting as well as Ethiopia.
Its a shithole that people cant wait to escape from?
dictatorship
It is militarized and their dictator. It is the north Korea of Africa.
Although Eritrea has a decent amount of Italian influence I think that it is important to note that they did not settle in Eritrea but colonized it. The Italians came over and used the native people to build the very places that you showed and were discriminatory towards them. The culture is one of the oldest in the world and is known for its powerful kingdoms such as the Axumite and D'mt. It goes way further and deeper than being reduced to the "Italy of Africa".
Helen S 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
My thoughtS exactly. They colonized the country. Why is he glorifying this?
@J this was a complete whitewashing and is unacceptable. Don't tell Eritreans how they should feel.
@J Takes an insane level of western chauvinism to call people "salty" for being critical of European colonialism
@J When this ppl killed millions of your ppl, and forces their culture and white Jesus and God on your ppl, there is nothing to glorify is a slap on the fucking face.
Guy at end of Vid: what's your name?
Drew: Drew
Guy at end of Vid: Jew, you Christian
Drew: yea
Yes, Jew! Douche! Jew! Son of a father of a Jesus Christ. Yeah, good for you. LOL
The last part killed me... Hahahaha
Saying ur a jew in muslim countries could be dangerous
Walter tf no
Walter is that true???
I'm eritrean and I was so happy watching this and reading your comments thank you so much guys🥰🥰🥰🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷
Me too😁😁
Btw, I'm from Eritrea too😁🇪🇷🇪🇷
Siete fantastici tutti quanti :))
Is true what the guy said? For example you know how to speak italian too?
❤️🇪🇷
@@darkahrenn1570 I think not, because not all Eritrean people can speak Italian. For example me, I can speak a little bit Italian, because I learnt it at school(in Switzerland) but if I hadn't learned that in school then I wouldn't be able to speak Italian.
@@darkahrenn1570 But thanks for asking😊
it really feels like italy ngl. i really love Eritrea: thanks for making me discover such an unknown african country. much love and appreciation from italy🧡
I’m Italian and I love Eritrea. I’m sorry for everything my people has done for the country. But if that’s anything positive left from colonialism is that now we feel connected, lots of prays for your beautiful country, I hope it gets back on its feet soon
Invest in Elitrea then. Brimg most of the italian factory in Elitrea amd the working ppl is only under 3million.
Jossi J yes, they have. Despite, they built buildings and railways , they also did many bad things of course.
sorry for what, Italians built Eritrea and today Italy is helping thousands of illegal Eritreans crossing the Mediterranean and economically.
There are also many postive things your people did for us so we are not even mad.
@@yonassbhatu7545 The buildings and railways...etc were also built with the blood and sweat of Eritreans. Italians were the designers and the colonial masters and Eritreans were the slaves who carried out the slave work.
I am Italian and I know that the nation in second place that makes excellent pizza is Eritea 🇪🇷❤️🇮🇹
@MartyrX
“Oh look at little Mario over here, he’s such a cute little boy! Too bad he’s European which means he colonized every part of the world. Oh what did you say? He’s just 4 years old? Ha! Don’t you know, colonizer? The current generation recieves the right treatment of being called a colonizer because the sins of their previous generation will always be inherited?”
Fucking dumbass
@MartyrX and proud😎
@MartyrX so what the fuck was your comment’s purpose was for? What did you get from saying it asshole?
@MartyrX I concur with everything you said, I found this video very condescending
@MartyrX I’m proud my ancestors were better than urs. Nerd
Eritrea it was an old colony of Italy,that’s why a lot of people speaks Italy and they know how to make some Italian dishes
L'eritrea è stata la prima colonia italiana, dal 1882
La lasagna e il gelato avevano un ottimo aspetto... 🤔
Riccardo Fagiolino True. They colonized us before the British and Ethiopia fought them and unfortunately defeated them.
Wow I never would've honestly thought
Eritrea 🇪🇷 Don’t speak Italian. Only the old people speak Italian and this old people they are almost Dying 😂🤣🤣😂
I'm Italian too and to say "Italians rolled up on the shore and formed settlements" is a very kind way of putting it. That was an imperialistic colonization our public opinion still struggles to reckon with
What are you talking about? The only buildings of any value there are the Italian.
It was brutal but I think long-term the cultural enrichment is worth it. You can see they still take pride in it. Pizza, cappuccino, hot women, gelato, great fashion, Italy can colonize me any day!
@@JGD185 what on earth are hot women got to do with it. They are right Italians were barbaric and the Eritreans have their own vast history.
@@franzjosef7728don’t be ridiculous. You clearly have no clue of the history
@@BF-bb5us Shut up, you ignorant.
Italy undertook various construction projects in Eritrea during its benevolent rule, which lasted from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century. Some of the significant infrastructure and buildings include:
Port Facilities: The Italians developed the port of Massawa into a major commercial hub. They constructed docks, warehouses, and other port facilities to support trade and military activities.
Railroads: One of the most notable projects was the construction of the Eritrean Railway, which connected the port city of Massawa to the highland town of Asmara. This railway was essential for the transportation of goods and people.
Administrative Buildings: In Asmara, the Italians built various administrative and government buildings. The city became a focal point of colonial administration and development.
Architecture: Italian architectural styles were evident in Asmara, where they constructed several buildings in the Art Deco and modernist styles. Some of these structures remain iconic examples of colonial-era architecture.
Agricultural Projects: The Italians initiated agricultural development projects, including irrigation systems and plantations, to improve local agriculture and support the colonial economy.
In Somalia, Libia, Eritrea, Albania, Romania and Croatia people understand or speak Italian.
Love from Italy🇪🇷🇱🇾🇭🇷🇦🇱🇸🇴🇷🇴🇮🇹
@Chris topher ah yes, thank you
@Chris topher and Città del Vaticano
Not Somalia.
Malta
🇦🇱❤️🇮🇹
Love for Eritrea 🇪🇷 from Philippines! 🇵🇭 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
love you too
Thank you Eritrean from france.GOD BLESS YOU.
Love You To Brother i like Philippines
Thank u im Eritrean Love too Philippines
Love you too bro
- I'm in the south of US.
- Oooh, so Texas...
- No, Arizona
- Is it like a village?
- No, it's a state
He's never heard of Arizona.LoL
Am from eritrea i never heard arizona
Natnael Tesfalem me either
Coz Arizona drinks are $1..hhhh village price.
Natnael Tesfalem Arizona is a southwestern US state that borders California and Mexico.
From somalia 🇸🇴
Peace and love Eritrea 🇪🇷❤❤
I’m Ethiopian but Eritrea looks beautiful and I love how clean and structured it is
We love Ethiopia aswell! Its beautiful and full of so much history
@@zusyee8926 I laughed so hard at this comment. I have no idea why.
@@zusyee8926 oh really! I'm jealous 😍😊
@@rosa_stars349 the most history, humans originated in Ethiopia and Kenya
Are they free
Non vi abbiamo mai dimenticati🇮🇹❤️🇪🇷
anche noi.
ho molto di dire,degli italiani.in senso positivo.
grazie.
Grazie avete reso l'eritrea magnifica
@@sugobuono6507 si a suon di botte. C'è poco da star contenti
Mi dispiace per gli errori commessi dal regime fascista. Purtroppo il colonialismo creò danni in tutto il mondo. Meglio sentirsi abitanti del pianeta Terra. L'umanità deve fare ancora passi da gigante. Imagine all the people sharing all the World.
Io non c ho mai pensato
They speak Italian wonderfully 🇮🇹
Thanks hello am Eritrea , Italy chaw
@Lion Heart I do like him, he is a very good player
Love to Eritrea 🇸🇩 ♡ 🇪🇷
why is there so much content comparing your country to north korea. you sound like propaganda.
That Drew-Jew confusion in the end was just epic haha!
@@boqoll i dont think people in Eritrea would mind him being Jewish matter of fact it might even be a bonus
I agree not to mention the Jewish religion isn't foreign especially to east Africans.
@r s hahahha I just love how indians always want to claim that Pakistan is unsafe for Jews because of taliban . 1st talibans are in Afghanistan and 2nd drew already visited pakistan and stayed there for over 1 month and said that he felt safe and he even told people that he was a jew and nobody did anything to him .
@@gamingparadise3390 Exactly.
AZX There was Jewish in Eritrea but they ALL travelled to Israel. So if you tell to Eritreans that you’re Jewish, the don’t care.
I was in Eritrea when I was a teen. my parents never let me go out when I was in India even for school tours because they were scared. but in Eritrea!! I was shocked I was allowed to wander in the streets alone. And I never felt hostile or scared no matter how dark it was in the evenings. people just leave you alone. Low crime country. Those were the best days of my life. Looks like it has changed a lot. I wish them luck in developing the country. I Love it.
Those mini pizzas at cafes are HEART THROBES. No cheese no fancy stuff still tastes heaven. cant find recipe anywhere
@Lion Heart love from Ethiopia! Wish to visit one day.
It's because of the punishment criminals face, that's the reason eritrea almost doesn't have any crimes at all
There is almost no crime there.
@@Mark12434 there usually isn’t any crime in jail. Or if there is. It’s really underground.
@@gunners1st201, to be honest, that plays some part but the main reason it is a cultural thing if you spotted stealing even women or children won't leave you alone, because they know that every individual will back them up. and you will be isolated from society for being a thief, even your own family will kick you out of the house to clear their status. as it has consciences such as being left out from engaging in things that we value most such as marriage or death and so on.
Is it just me but as an Eritrean I kinda feel disrespected because all you put was Italian music and talked about Italy. Talk about the history of Eritrea too!!
I mean it is still eritrean history but yea he should have gone to other places too.
@@lolololololol369 it’s very small Eritrean history. He could have visited the Eritrean museum talked about the Eritrean sphinx, or ancient Eritrean empires, what about the diverse wild life, or the struggle for independence there is much more to Eritrea than Italian colonialism.
It was awful
Don’t forget the humanitarian war crimes
The title of this video that you clicked on is exactly the content given. It's like saying I don't like this chapter in the book because it's not the talking about the rest of the book.
In Africa the only warning they take seriously is
LOW BATTERY
So true. I lived in Nigeria for ten months.
I'm african and I feel like I should be offended by this but i'm laughing because its actually kinda true. WAAAAAAHHH we need to do better *face palm*
@@gopherlee9427 which part of Nigeria?
Haha 😅
🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Eritrea existed thousands of years before Italian influence. Respect the country enough to expose the beautiful elements of the country without centring Italy at every given moment
He should also have mentioned how brutal Italian colonisation was
Yeah, he should have gone to Sawa and report the slavery
That isn't really true. Eritrea came into existence in 1994. Before that it was Ethiopia. The modern country Eritrea definitely still has Italian influence.
@@iaraaraujo3869 stfu barista
@@starfthegreat colonialism is always brutal, do you think other european colonizers were more kind? Check out Belgians.
Wow, I had no idea it would be like that. Eritrea looks damn cool.
Waiting for you to visit.. I like your channel by the way.
Thanks a lot. Eritrea is now on my list.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos You will see the complete transformation in temperature from the highlands where the capital Asmara is and the lowlands where the red sea coast is. One is heavenly and cool the other is humid and hot.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos You should definitely check it out. But Don't forget to visit Dahlak Island. There is a lot more to see than the Inner cities.
Welcome to Eritrea 🇪🇷🇪🇷
Aw man, as an Eritrean I wished this video was about our culture. Not about our colonization by Italy
Well, it seems like a really cool place! And at least your country has a travel video, drew binsky didn't make any video about my country, uruguay
@@johnimaonthewing it was awful and ignorant
I'm half Italian and Eritrean, I'm so happy to see you love it❤️
The Italian cars. "What car is this?" "Renault" 👍
Keep in mind he's American. They only get luxury cars from Europe.
He jump inside the only french taxi of the town
Most of the car were Italian...
You can spotted a old " 600"... Bigger then the old 500...
Cheers
@@flopunkt3665 - VW and Fiat are sold here. Renault has thought about coming back to the U.S. market. They left in the early 1990s. There have been a few Renault-badged Dusters spotted around California. I'd like French cars to be available again here but don't care so much about rebadged VWs - Skoda, Seat, etc.
i thought it was a Ford.
It's just like Namibia with Germany
Galician Polonizer South Africa with Netherlands too
Algeria with france
Northern Morocco with Spain and Spain with Morocco actually .. both conquered eachother
Phillippines with USA and Spain
@@sabilly1471 no no, not much dutch influence here
That interaction at the end was priceless lol. Love the older generation very funny and humble
Eritrea was italian many years before the Mussolini's government.
Yea he lost it lmfaoo
@R B J well you try to govern a country that has just been United after almost a thousand years
@R B J every single country in Europe got his colonies. USA imported slaves from Africa.
The main development of the country happened during fascism in preparation to the war with Abissinia and to alleviate the economical pressure of unemployment in southern Italy
No Eritrea is always Eritrea .do you mean italia ?
We love ERITREA from Somalia 🇸🇴❤🇪🇷
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@@thebarkaysfan1100 😁😁😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@JiafeiProducts6969 Its not Dahomey its Benin
Missing Ethiopia and Libya 🤣😂
Its interesting, the people in the comments who dislike Italians are clearly not Eritreans. They are either Ethiopians who claim that Italy separated Eritrea and Ethiopia (WRONG), or hoteps from America bitching about two countries that they dont come from.
1. Eritrea took up arms for independence as a response to Etiopian subjegation, they shut down our parliment and banned our languages. It was Ethiopias fault not Italy.
2. Eritrea has a close relationship to Italy, they did colonize Eritrea, but they actually behaved better then the Ethiopians. Italy built the longest Cableway in the world in Eritrea. They built more traffic lights in Asmara then in Rome. They made sure all Eritreans had access to modern sanitation and hospital services.
There were racial laws, dont get me wrong, but nothing like what happened in the rest of Africa, nothing like what the Ottomans did, nothing like Ethiopians or the British did.
Read about the Eritrean Ascari, a fighting force respect as highly as the Ghurka. The british actually wanted to split Eritrea up between Sudan and Ethiopia. An Eritrean-Italian togther with help from the pope lobbied in the UN against this and won with one vote thanks to Haiti.
Not everything is black and white. If Italians behaved like the french in Congo, then I would have been the first to say off with their heads, but the italians I have met in Eritrea and abroad who knows about Eritrea are very humble and curious about our shared history. How can I dislike that?
I and the rest of Eritrea welcome every humble Italian who is curious and want to know more about a period in time were our two nations shared the same pages of history.
Also thank god it was not french people, Yuck..
@Lily Lily I understand were you come from, but I want it to be clear that im not saying that colonization was good or that I defend it. Im trying to make people understand that this was way back then, the world was different but still Eritreans have always been proud and just like they first welcomed the Ethiopians and later fought them towards victory, freedom and independence (when they tried to take away our rights and subjugate us), exactly the same thing would have happened if the Italians would have treated Eritrea and Eritreans bad, we would have fought to kick them out too. The only reason why Eritreans were ok with Italian rule was because back then it was better then what we had, they built and modernized the country. Racial laws existed, but those laws existed before too, they were just class laws, very few people had acces to the wealth of Eritrea.
I dont doubt in my mind that if the Italians would not have been kicked out after WW2, they would either have had to live with Eritreans without racial laws or they would have been kicked out. Just like you say, they brought alot of good to the country in a period where we unfortunatly were not strong financially.
I want you to know my beautifuö Eritrean sister that im not trying to offend you, I just want people to know how proud and beautiful my people are. We think before we acted, just because we let the Italians stay and build does not mean we had too, we just realized it was to our benefit at the time.
you talk too much lol
@@painkillerO8 I dont know who you are talking too, but why dont you keep your thoughts to yourself. I am clearly talking to someone who wants to talk to me, who the F are you to care? I love my country, I am proud over my country, and I bet you dont have the same pride for your country if you have one, because if you did you would never have a problem with someone else showing his/her love and pride for their country. Punk ass bitch
@Lily Lily And when we where strong we also colonized, I think the last country we colonized was Yemen. Massawa was the biggest hub/port for slavery on the entire east coast of Africa, and no it was not Eritrean slaves it was slaves that where taken from West and Central Africa. The Italians came with something better at the time, had they instead tried to subjugate us by banning our language and culture, I no it would have been a war and that the people of Eritrea would not have stopped fighting until we had independence.
Even after the british kicked out the Italians, the majority of Eritreans supported Italian rule, they would never had done that if they did not benefit from it, meaning that they would never had done it if it was more bad then good, see Belgians in Congo, British in kenya or French in west Africa for comparison.
I’m Italian, I love Eritrea’s location, food, and the architecture is so unique
I have a lot of Eritrean friends. They are the most humble , friendly people in whole africa . Kamayka😂
Kamayka Dehan dika
Khaled Zaynulah
Tsubuk Aleka/ki do 😂
@Doraemon Suisse the new generation is shit . No respect at all
Thanks bro from 🇪🇷
Hahahah selamdyu
Can we have italy?
Mum: We have italy at home
Italy at home:
this fr be beautiful though
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ICharCoalZ I’m from Eritrea n I’m dead 😵😂😂😂
eooo certo siamo mischiati con loro ....e ora siamo neri...che schiffooooooooooo
@@violetka1197 cosa
If you're Italian smash that like button! 🇮🇹 (by the way Drew, it's "aperitivo", not "appertivo")
Amico, we should show this video to the people who are moaning about "Tortellini al pollo"... you know, the whole thing about "changing other people's traditions" ;)
No one gives a fk
Yea because your people colonizing and slaughtering innocent civilians is something to brag about! Wooo!
@@GeneralLocooo loser of history, quit your bullshit. You and your people only exist because someone decided that natural selection isn't a thing anymore. Be grateful
f p it's the other way around. Without slavery and resource exploitation Europe would still be a shithole
I'm from zambia and I do love eritrea! 🇿🇲❤️🇪🇷
The western media will never show you this image of eritrea on TV
Maybe because none of this matters when Eritrea is a totalitarian shitshow and a brutal dictatorship?
Yes, because their brutal 30 year dictatorship takes up enough airtime.
Yes you are right
Nipsey Hussle was from Eritrea
He is not from Eritrea he is from LA, he is half Eritrean tho
@@MultiDiceman was*
Slawsonboy Er
ethiopean
MultiDiceman LA is a country lol?
Love Eritrea 🇪🇷 from Somalia 🇸🇴
we love somalia😍🌹🇪🇷🇸🇴
Thanks, most of somalias are nice people. we love you guys too
I was actually born in Eritrea
i wish drew had explored more about the ancient history of Eritrea instead of the Italian influence of the country. watching the video some people might get the wrong idea that some how Eritrean are proud of being colonized by the Italians because they preserved their legacy. yes ,the engineers and the architects of those buildings were Italians, but make no mistake they were built by the sweat and blood of Eritreans. All the material used in those buildings were also Eritrean. Furthermore, Italy didn't build the city for the natives, it was meant for the white Italians, in fact Italy had the first apartheid system in Eritrea way before south Africa. Natives were not allowed in the city center. i guess what i am trying to say is Eritreans should be proud of those beautiful buildings because they were build by their grand parents who paid heavy price.
this is so important, thank you for writing it
Right ❤
what do you mean we should be proud of the Italian colonisation just because of they built few buildings and road. what about our gold that has been taken worth of millions USA dollars. i totally disagree with your statement and I'm not proud of being colonised by any county not only Italia.
@@DanielZeresenay read my comment again and then respond. You completely misunderstood it.
Cpared italian colonialism with other European empire and than try to say that again, even italian don't claim those structures as their, during fascism they were depicted as our brother in army not as an inferiour being (like all the other beautiful and democratic European colonialist empire), Italian put an end to slavery in Eritrea in 1935.
The Italian were so bad that ascari still tried to fight against British occupation after fascist capitulation, but yeah we all saw the bright future UK and US granted to Eritrea after they fight down fascist.
I still believe that Italy should make everything that's possible to regain a direct influence over those countries and help them to restore their greatness instead of saying "we were bad Urr durr" and let them alone in a far worst situation in the current days.
Rest in peace Nipsey Hussle. Eritrea’s American son 🏁
Oh, really? Ethnically is he eritrian?
@@grantreznor His dad is Eritrean
LMAO , But here no body know him
@B Boss dont reach
Akram Seddouki well technically no, he’s American of Eritrean descent. It’s not like he had dual citizenship
I am Somali 🇸🇴. And eritrea is our brothers🇪🇷
Shout out to all my somali waryas, we've always seen eye to eye. From🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷
We don't know.
Don't try to relate yourself just because your nation is a failure.
@@Ramy_Ramz
Whyat do u mean?🤦♂️
Are u even from the east
@@waterfull2907 lol I was just joking with the Somali comment with all respect but it's kinda crengy when people admire neighbouring countries when their own is literally on fire.
And yeah I am from Kurdistan, if you think it exists or not IDGAF 30 million people believe it does.
Sooo glad to see a show on Eritrea. My fiancé is Eritrean & I want to know more about his country & culture, & for our kids to know their roots. Unfortunately I can't ever find many things about it, only the usual negativity I always hear but I want to know more about the ppl & the beauty that it has so much of to offer❣️ 🇪🇷
Well, you won't find it here. If your fiancè is Eritrean you should know our history does not equate to colonalism and certainly you shouldn't be gaining knowledge from this for your children, that's deeply worrying. There is plenty of material about Eritrea's vast history so much, from the Axumite period and beyond. You shouldn't use this whitewashing video as a stepping point.
@@BF-bb5us!!! I was annoyed by how he solely focused on the italian influence which is less than 1% of the country and culture
@@alisalman5917As an American he was surprised to realize that some local persons can speaks Italian and that there are Italian food and architecture in the capital city.
Further he produces these vlogs to attract Americans.
I have watched a number of vlogs about Eritrea really enjoyable and informing.
These vlogs are not related to history of the country but more to the touristic point of view.
Please make your video on those lands before colonization so that we could understand better.
@@cogito3227 there is so much material about Eritrea pre colonialism including videos about its history, its history is also taught in universities. It has a history that spans thousands of years.
@@cogito3227 i get that he’s trying to attract americans and that’s perfectly fine that he shows that specific side of the country. Ofc, his vlogs aren’t meant to be about history but I’m surprised he didn’t show the local local culture if ygm. Like how there’d be Tigrinya music blasting in the middle of the streets, the jebena (traditional coffee that you’ll find in every street corner) or even the injera based dishes
Love Eritrea from yemen ❤️❤️🇪🇷🇾🇪
Love yemen from Somalia 🙌
Ya habibi Yemeni
Love you too my red sea brothers
@CGI Future maxaad ninka carabka futaada uga leefaysa
@@youngmoe7850 WTF no I am not LMAO
Love Eritrea 🇪🇷 from somalia 🇸🇴
Love you more
I’m Eritrean, and basically my whole family speaks Italian🇮🇹🇮🇹🇪🇷🇪🇷
Love Eritrea from Italy 🇮🇹 and 🇨🇦
Thanks we Love italian too, cause Asmara is small Rome.
Even I have Italian relatives . So I love Italian people and their quality products.
🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Thanks my brother I’m so happy to see people getting alone spreading love great experience thank you 🙏
I mean getting along lol
I am Eritrean, From Arizona. Miss my Sweet Picolo Roma, Asmara,Eritrea.
@Napoli Palermo La puglia!!
ኣነ ባዕለይ
La figa !
The history of Eritrea doesn’t begin with European colonialism 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
How do people not understand that was not a compliment?
the north korea of africa is eriteria
murkzmontana the whole point of this video was “This country is awesome because white People built stuff here”
This video blogger is so ignorant :(
Dan Gulino - that’s why I dislike tourism immensely . But it’s a free world o guess.
Thanks for posting. I work in the hospital in Canada and meet a lot of refugees with newborn babies from Eritrea.
“Yes, yes, Drew...Jew... Father of Jesus Christ?”
"good for you"
😂😂😂
Hahahaha the fact he is jew
Joker. your name is jew but you are Christian huh.
Correction! We didn't get our independence from inferior Ethiopians; we rather snatched our independence from the jaws of two super-powers (hammering each for 15 years)! Ethiopians were merely maids to advance the interests of both super-powers!! So, correct it!
Waaw what a beautiful country, we love our brothers and sisters of Eritrea 🇪🇷 big ❤️ from 🇸🇴
Kowsar Hassan how different are Eritrean food and Somalian food?
@@readisgooddewaterkant7890 I think it's similar to the Italian food
Do people from Somalia eat timotomo
YES
@10 LMS also somalia have anjera
The whole country is a museum. Love my country❤🇪🇷
🇮🇹🤜🤛🇪🇷
Yes, you can even travel back in time in the "Days of Slavery" exhibit
After seeing this I definitely want to visit Eritrea! 🇪🇷🇨🇦
Say something about 🇪🇷
@@Mr-my8kx what
I think glorifying the Italian influence on Eritrea is gonna send foreigners a severely wrong message about how this country is truly like. I never heard anyone call Eritrea the Italy of Africa, more often I heard how Eritrea is called the North Korea of Africa
That's very untrue. People are just pissed that Eritrea doesn't allow many foreign embassies despite being near the Yemeni straight. It's certainly no heaven on earth but even compared to it's neighbors like Djibouti or Sudan it's not that bad.
I'm fully Eritrean and I'm proud🇪🇷
im eritrean to but what city are you from. im from mendefera
Can you understand italian?
@@симона-з7ф im eritrean but i don't understand italian but if you peak italian then i can use google translator
@@симона-з7ф why should he? Nobody under 50 speaks it.
@@GoogleUser-xd5fi I went to Italian school for 7 years when I was in Eritrea (private). I’m pretty sure you would know this school if you have lived in Asmara but yea you’re wrong.
I went to Asmara few years ago just because the city's name mean 'love' in my language. Did not disappoint... it's a lovely place.
M.R.R Ali
Thanks for visiting my wonderful country. (Are u Indonesian?)
Where u from
I'm a Malaysian Malay. 😊
I hope you had a fantastic trip In the beautiful Asmera
Yes, in Malay/Indonesian, Asmara means love/romance 😊
Who told you that there are no modern buildings in Eritrea? Leave Africa alone. Africans can present their culture to the world
"All the old Italian cars, for example, this is a..." "A Renault 🇫🇷" 😅😅😅
Whoops
I mean, Italy sells fiat cars ib Lithuania
kia rio taxi: exist
Larboghinis ferraris
@@abovethelaw4417 Sureeeeee.
Alfa Romeo, Lamborghini, Maserati, Pagani, Ferrari, all trash.
Ok champion.
I met an Uber driver and he told me he was from Eertria. I have never heard of it before glade I took his ride. I would love to visit Eertria one day
I am an Eritrean and I have been to Korea
Its spelt Eritrea btw ✨
I would love to visit Korean too - Eritrea
@@lidya7094 on the first hour I went there I met another fellow habesha on Seoul main train station. Really funny
Love from 🇸🇴 my brothers Eritrea 🇪🇷
My coworker from Eritrea speaks 5 languages. Fluently. AND she speaks a conversational Spanish from just practicing with her friends, so that's 6 languages. She told me that 90% of people in Eritrea are polyglots
Love Eritrea from Italy 🇮🇹❤️🇪🇷
Grazie mille anche noi molto mi piaceno Eritrean Sono Ertiro Love you italiano
💘Respect from 1933
@Demetrio Yes mi speak italiano si io parlare italiano e tu
Ciao Hiwet!!
@@niky5022 ciao come stai tutto bene
I'm from Italy and damnnnn I need to visit this country😻
Your welcome any time ):
@@MD-fc5oc Lol I am not Italy, I am me, people should stop to generalize people🤦🏻♀️
Whoz hea to c her being blasted 4 copying a comment?
Let me take you there am also from Ghana
Maria Rosa Di Silvestro 😂🤣Ghana???
I love my country ❤️ Eritrea 🇪🇷 even me I speech pretty well italian language ❤ my God bless our country 🙏 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷
Love Eritreia 🇪🇷 from Portugal 🇵🇹
Obrigado
Ohhh Ronaldo I love love from Eritrea 🇪🇷 to Portugal 🇵🇹 😍
@Lion Heart you mean vs. The ottomans?
The late great Nipsey hussle was Eritrean
so is the comedian Tiffany haddish
@ALL IN why do you say "so called African American"? Whst ethnic identifier do you prefer for your people?
@@thebee9853 gotta realize that "African Americans " are pretty much all blacks lumped together they aren't even all the same people and many are actually native to the south east not africa
And J Holliday
@ALL IN what is a African American ? What culture do you come from
this makes me so happy being eritrean myself im glad to see it being broadcasted this way thank you
what?are you fr?
@@Mr-my8kx wdym its a nice country
Your probably mad lol
@@Mr-my8kx you smell like Agame!! Wediza lemanit!!
@@Mr-my8kx Italy colonized Eritrea for over 60 YEARS that's the history and u can see it by their language and building and their culture so stop making assumptions and bullshitting
Same 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷
You know Eritrea has an extremely rich culture with our distinctive food, music, dance, clothes and tradition. But go ahead and ignore it and highlight the colonial aspect of the country. Very disappointed that one of the few times we get represented, we are still ignored. Hopefully one day we will receive the recognition we deserve.
Exactly I honestly would rather people not know about Eritrea at all if this is what the information people will get about us. I'm really disappointed, there were just basic things he could've at least mentioned but no 🤦🏽♂️
exactly... he supplanted the native culture with stories of a colonial culture...smh
@@mizztoya8149 Definitely and what's worse he could've given some far more cool facts about Eritrea such as the religious harmony between the 50% Muslims and 50% Christians, the David vs Goliath independence war. Eritrea today isn't as influenced by Italy as he makes it out to be.
Non avete un cazzo di nulla a parte quello che vi abbiamo costruito. Senza di noi vivreste nelle capanne di fango e merda ancora
I want appreciate for my somali brothers for all their positive comments to my country.we are living together migrated every where with peace and mucj respect.Long live our nations.
I studied uni with ERITERANS they are the nicest people I have ever seen , polite , kind hearted and well mannered people ❤
Thank you so much
@@HakunaMatata-lz6zf you are welcome , it's true tho 🙂
You must be ER hahaha lol
@@Arsenal1998-p8n
Nope , I'm Somali .
Nasir Fadhiyare that is not true
This was beautiful 💜
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It was 🇪🇷
@Valery M it's a good country but like most countries
It's the government that's the problem
Poor
Valery M he is a dude
So the Italiens "rolled up" to Eritrea, then more and more came, they built roads and buildings and then left... mhm.
Sure you could describe the brutal colonialisation of a country that way.
Italian colonialism in xx century is actually known as one of the greatest flop in colonialism history . ''Leaving aside '' the war crimes they did , basically they spent so much money in the colonies that even today when buying fuel in Italy , people are paying an extra tax called accisa that basically is half the price of fuel
I've been in Eritrea for work, and I met amazing, kind and extraordinarily friendly people.
Ciao enrico, girando un po' su internet le idee non mi sono molto chiare, da un lato c'è chi parla di eritrea come estrema dittatura. Es. vice ruclips.net/video/XBacsi5eX0A/видео.html e poi c'è questo che si fa il viaggio filmandolo tranquillamente - non so bene che idea farmi, qual'è la tua esperienza?
@@togemathia9748 Ciao! Hai ragione, penso siano due realtà che convivono, un paese può essere bellissimo con persone meravigliose ed essere una dittatura. Io ci sono stato ormai molto tempo addietro con l'ONU, in posizione privilegiata quindi, ed ho incontrato persone estremamente cordiali. Soffrono molto per le ristrettezze economiche e rispetto a quando andai io mi riferiscono sia ancora peggio, il servizio militare obbligatorio è tremendo e dura (non so ora) tre anni ed il regime controlla tutto, ma gli eritrei non difettano di dignità e cordialità (L'Italia durante il ventennio non era meno bella nè gli italiani meno cordiali). Per il resto è veramente come nel video, mi sembrava di essere in Italia, in alcune zone del Lazio di impronta architettonica dell'Italia degli anni 30/40 (ci sono ancora i cartelli di divieto di affissioni in italiano). Il cibo è molto buono (non solo pizza e lasagna), con molte spezie ed odori incredibili come nel resto dell'Africa. Il resto del paese è incredibile, viaggiando da Asmara a Massawa si cambiano tre paesaggi totalmente diversi. Per quanto riguarda il viaggiare liberamente, non penso che ci siano particolari pericoli, ma non voglio dire sciocchezze perchè non so come sia ora la situazione. Magari se c'è qualcuno che legge della folta comunità eritrea italiana, potrà essere più preciso. Ciao Enrico.
I'm Italian and damn, I need to go to Eritrea to experience a vintage Italy. Awesome video Drew! Thanks
Anche a me e venuta la voglia di visitare questo paese bellissimo
You are Welcome in any time bro.
E pensa che i nostri avi ci hanno costruito tanto li...che peccato che non la conosciamo per nulla...in somalia ed etiopia invece abbiamo solo fatto casotto
@@giorgiociaravolol1998 History is written by the Victors
@@MD-fc5oc exactly they beat black people in Italia
Salam to my Eritrean 🇪🇷 people, love from Somalia 🇸🇴
Supreme Leader This makes absolute zero sense. Please just disable your account and find something constructive to do.
Wynapse O thank you 🙏🏿
Habiib Bule 👃🖕🖕🖕
Únanse a Etiopía y formen un país potente.
@Supreme Leader ‘ I suggest you to realize you're an idiot asap to minimize the damage
I am Ethiopia & grow up in Eritrea. I am Etioertrian.
I love Eritrea as much I love Ethiopia.
We love Eriteria . From somalia❤️❤️❤️❤️🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴
😍🌹🇪🇷🇸🇴
Can I ask u something?
@@alberto.delbono no somalis no longer speak Italian maybe some of the older generation but the civil war has wiped nearly all Italian influence. Was that your question?
@@theflagbearer9196 also. I'd like asking what you inhabitants of the African Corn (Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea) think about Italy and if you consider it more a cruel ruler or a friend
@@alberto.delbono obviously not a good history, but at the same especially for us Somalis the effect didn't last long as the Italians didn't control us for our long, Mogadishu our capital didn't fully fall untill 1935 to the Italians and between 1945 to 1950 the British took over as punishment for the Italians trying to take British Somaliland from Britain. And then the last 10 years was a combination of mostly UN, and some Somali and Italian rule. So in short we don't really think that much about our history with the Italians, a funny thing is the civil war wiped most of their influence.