AMERICANS REACT TO The Animated History of Australia

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Ned Kelly is an absolute legend, the Robin Hood of Australia, the poor mans hero! 🤗

[@paulabourke6666]

Ned Kelly was a bushranger. Your equivalent to an outlaw. He had a final showdown with police wearing that metal armour. It worked well, untill the police figured out that is they could just concentrate their shots at his legs.

[@FeistyAussie]

To be fair, this isn’t actually the history of Australia, is the history of the colonisation of Australia. Aborigines were here for 60,000 years before colonisation, so…. this animation like many of our books only record 200 and odd years and miss out 60,000.

[@achebwahs1111]

You must look into Ned Kelly. I went to primary school (grade school) in the town next to site of the Kelly Gang's last stand and have been into Kelly history since. I suggest "Ned Kelly: Australia's Most Famous Outlaw" by Biographics. A very good overview with real pictures.

[@mithrasrevisited4873]

You will have to do the youtube on Ned Kelly and the letter he penned.

[@kevo6190]

You guys should check out Ned and the Kelly gang but we had quite a few crazy Bushrangers causing trouble around the Aussie scrub too.

[@darrenhunt9049]

1854 spirit. The first time Australia stood up to be recognised as a mixed race people not to be looked at as lower class British subjects. The Australian Army name of Digger actually comes from the Eureka Stockade.

[@trevorkrause7220]

Not true. Call any miner throughout history just a digger and you should probably expect a fat lip. A digger digs trenches or holes in the ground mainly for burying other things. A miner excavates the ground in a competent manner searching for things that are generally of great value. No miner present at the Eureka Stockade would have referred to himself as just a digger. The ANZACs got called diggers because at Gallipoli they dug, and dug, mainly trenches and holes, and they did that because that was the only way that most of them could have survived in that hellhole. No doubt some high ranking Pommy staff officers referred to the ANZACs at Gallipoli as diggers almost as an insult but the Aussie and Kiwis took it as a badge of honour and used digger to refer to themselves thereafter. A similar thing happened when the German general, Rommel, referred to the mostly Australian soldiers defending Torbruk for months as trapped rats, and they then referred to themselves as the Rats of Torbruk.

[@darrenhunt9049]

@@trevorkrause7220 myself being ex Australian Army with a family history of Military involvement starting with the Boer War I do know what you are on about but there's the Oath declared on the hill in 1854 and was adopted by our Military. If you disagree I suggest you do some research.

[@trevorkrause7220]

@@darrenhunt9049 Nowhere in the Eureka Stockade Oath as recorded does it ever refer to the rebel miners as diggers. As most military units that fought in the Boer War were mostly separate Australian Colony/State formations of mounted rifles as there was not one country of Australia at that time. As such most of the digging they got to do was latrine trenches when camped or based in one location for a considerable period of time, which was rarely, so why would any soldiers from any of the Australian states or colonies be referred to as "diggers".

[@kanenstuff]

Our family arrived in 1829 from Hampshire England and we have been there ever since though currently I love in Malaysia but the family is still there.

[@Simpson195]

Ned Kelly was the first Ironman hahaha

[@genxscotty]

Hey I have lived in kelly country my whole life I went to the same school as ned did watch this doco

[@TheDa1sy]

Women are not meant to play the didgeridoo

[@-sandman4605]

Good old Ned Kelly 😎

[@trevorkrause7220]

Canberra was not a town chosen as the Federal Capital city halfway between the two most major Australian cities, Sydney and Melbourne. There was originally no town there, it was just a sheep station, or as an American might put it a sheep ranch. Canberra was thus designed, an actual competition was held to choose the best design, long before any work started on constructing any building, road or other structure on the site. Even the big lake that is a feature of the city of Canberra is artifical and constructed as per the plan.

[@siryogiwan]

you gotta have a date night together and watch "young Kelly" a comedy about a young ned Kelly, but not really, it's a classic Ausie comedy in the weird Al style lol.

[@siryogiwan]

oh and the Chinese and Irish played a big part in Australia, doing jobs nobody else wanted, both seen as only just above Aboriginal people back then

[@kyesimon6718]

Rabbit proof fence 2002) and Ned Kelly 2003) is a must watch

[@williamwebb8908]

Check out Ned Kelly mate.

[@chezzachezza7325]

Check out Ned Kelly

[@mikeythehat6693]

There have been many movies about Ned Kelly. Some good, some terrible. Mick Jagger played him once in one of the most awful demonstrations of how not to act in a movie that you've ever seen. The first ever feature length movie made anywhere in the world was an Australian effort about the "Kelly Gang" (suck on that Hollywood). Probably one of the most watchable examples is the most recent one made in 2003 and starring Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Naomi Watts. It received mixed reviews from critics but I liked it and it's certainly the best movie about Ned Kelly. Ned is easily the best known Australian anti-hero, you would be hard pressed to find an Australian who doesn't know about him.

[@mikeythehat6693]

Before the British started transporting their convicts to Australia, they transported them to the colonies on the east coast of North America. A fact that a lot of Americans don't seem to know. It was only after the Revolutionary War, when King George III lost the colonies and they became The United States of America, that the British needed a new place to transport their undesirables. They chose the east coast of Australia as a precursor to setting up a new colony to replace the one's that they had lost. So, while it's true that many of the first Europeans in Australia were Convicts, the same is true of the United States. That's why the first fleet to Australia didn't come until 1788 when the continent had been known about by Europeans for a hundred (or so) years.

[@davidsage124]

This country isn't perfect! Great video.xox

[@stackhat8624]

2:40. Where do you think the British were dumping convicts before Australia? The date of the landing of the first in 1788 is no coincidence. Hmm, I wonder what happened to a certain bunch of British colonies just a few years before? Amazes me that so many Americans dont know that part of their history. That Britain dumped tens of thousands of convicts in the colonies.

[@petersaxby9302]

If you want to learn about the stolen generation(aboriginal) you should watch "Rabbit proof fence" excellent movie much recommended 👍👍👌👌

[@Rusticcornhole]

Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi

[@davidcruse6589]

Stolen children is debatable as these children where looked down on by both sides The children would've died if the didn't get removed as they where frowned appon by indigenous communities So they where removed and the churches took care of them Now this is a contentious issue's depending on which side you are from Funny thing is 3/4 indigenous people now days are mixed very small ammount of full indigenous aboriginal people or communities The majority of mixed class themselves as indigenous aboriginal as lots of financial benefits from it Their will be people who disagree with me and that's fine as far as im concerned their only one race in Australia 🇦🇺 That's is we all are one Australians race should be living under one law for all This doesn't mean people have to forget their heritage or celibate them either and sadly at the moment we have a minority activists in government and corporations trying to destroy our heritage and create segregation and why the voice referendum failed Because the majority voted no and rejected the proposal So now they are trying to take our history and heritage away Like Australia 🇦🇺 and Anzac day their trying to remove the flag As well as name Australia and flag Even certain corporations not stocking Australia 🇦🇺 day merchandise including flag Because it's part of the present government ideology same shit every western society facing Also want to change names of places That's been here since settlement So don't believe everything you see on the net as only show the good We are no different as most countries you have your activists who cause instability for financial purposes Nothing to do with the majority of society we actually get along quite well and referendum proved this Unfortunately we have a woke activists government's at this present time and people waiting for next election to have their say Thankfully the majority of aussies are tolerant of each other and are aware of what's going on and remaining civil to each other Then will make changes at the election in a couple years time with their freedom of choice on voting slip in a civilised way Sorry for rant but not everything is rosy all the time but in general everyone shows tolerance Cheers guys 🦘🇦🇺👍

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Thank you! Yes mixed race children helped by well meaning Christians, they need that same intervention right now, their prospects have declined further! Most Aboriginals are now mixed race, either white or Indonesian! We are one, they are Australians and the untruthful and loud activists should not be taken seriously as they are the real minority! Uluru means "rock" and it's not sacred! They never "owned" land! The Flag was designed by a white man in 1995, their Dot painting didn't exist until 1971, Welcome to Country was created by Ernie Dingo in 1976, etc, etc! Words, unverified, are seriously divisive!

[@grahamjohnbarr]

Terra Australia incognito. The unknown Great Southern Land. The stolen generation. What isn't talked about is why this happened. The Half Cast children weren't considered members of the Tribe & were shunned by the Full Blood Aboriginals. The little boys were beaten & starved, the little girls were Raped, beaten & starved. Many died from neglect. Only their mothers loved them. Therefore, the Government saved the children by removing them from harm. They grew up got an education the boys learnt Trades & the girls became House Maids, Nurses etc. Not all is as it is portrayed in the media now-a-days.

[@petertimp5416]

Oh, in ‘Aboriginal culture’ woman are not allowed to play the didgeridoo and very young girls were given as a wife. There are a lot of bad things they did before European settlement. No society is perfect, but there should be truth telling from both sides.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

And the females were excluded from foraging and ceremonies and if they argued they were abused or beaten to death with sticks, this actually still happens here, not much progress!

[@user-mc2sz5ei8p]

Woman not playing the didgeridoo is due to unnecessary pressure put on the female reproductive organs, not a sexist thing at all.

[@petertimp5416]

@@user-mc2sz5ei8p Wrong!!! Do some research. Some may say if you’re not Aboriginal it’s ok, some will say ‘depends, but it’s not their opinion’, etc. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYLWgmWNf7p4eposi=GhSPHRZ1wIM-cMXm

[@petertimp5416]

@@user-mc2sz5ei8p also kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5a8gn6tediLm5Ysi=zvSGtttDm2BQnnvA

[@joannedickie7863]

@@user-mc2sz5ei8p Completely false. It is a traditional thing just like certain religions frown on women doing certain things or force them to wear certain clothing. Women in less traditional tribes play the didgeridoo as do non-indigenous women.

[@abrighterday508]

It was only 50 000 to 80 000 years ago all our ancestors were black

[@jenniferharrison8915]

And running around Africa with spears! 😁

[@JasonSmith-r7k1e]

Very loose use of the word history. Much of this video is based in opinion.

[@kerrydoutch5104]

Nope not a good video. Even tho it seems to be an Ozie production.. Especially where the early days are concerned. Very superficial and a bit misleading. Theres better more informative and accurate videos on the history of the country. Do US a favour and check out other vids