Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism: Crash Course World History #34

[@EASYTIGER10]

Matthew Perry arriving in Japan: "Could these markets BE any more closed??"

[@LopezSAntonio]

Gold. Hahaha

[@kenllacer]

Matthew Perry is a thug in a suit.

[@SealyAl]

+EASYTIGER10 "OPEN THE COUNTRY. STOP HAVING IT bE CLOSED"

[@kenllacer]

dfoley63 Whatever economic value his 'visit' entailed, doesn't change the fact that he threatened a nation who wished to be left in peace to open up so America could 'set-up shop' in the far east. It can also be argued that his counter isolationist policy turned Japan into the brutal Imperial Japan that raged through the Asia-Pacific in the name of Industrial Expansion introduced by the west.

[@kenllacer]

dfoley63 Thank you for insulting me and my ancestors with your insensitive remarks. It's a shame you take my views aggressively. My ideas and interpretation of OUR history are my own as you are with yours.

[@BlankPicketSign]

Public Education is important... _"Because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of Stupid People!"_ Best wishes: John Green

[@iTzNikkitty]

Knock knock. It's the United States, with huge boats, with guns, gunboats.

[@pottertheavenger1363]

Knock knock, we are here to liberate your market

[@Victor-zd1jr]

Open up your port, stop, having it, be closed

[@maggiekwan6700]

"Open the country" said the united states "Stop having it be closed"

[@eleanortan4816]

With guns and ships and so the balance shifts..... :D Hamilton fandom anyone?

[@Tenkay0]

@@eleanortan4816 no

[@lolzersguy6]

"Open your country. Stop having it be closed" -Matthew Perry

[@johnnyboy3390]

Thank you so much

[@BBBuilds12]

History of Japan?

[@top10geography39]

+Rockstar Zombie best video ever!

[@AJ627]

+Rockstar Zombie I came back her because of that video

[@drag0n_rage682]

Yes, was looking for thiz!

[@BURNOUTRS]

I can see how the arrival of Chandler Bing would have been a problem for the shogunate. Terrorizing the countryside with his sarcasm

[@ahmadusmani2230]

Mongols VIP is naruto

[@crystalward1444]

Ah yes, Christianity: Oh my GOD.

[@GodImJust2Sxy]

That’s Ms. Chanandler Bong

[@christianactuallyimjewish4285]

"A big part of being Irish, for instance, is not being English." I'm Irish and I think that nearly sums it up ;) haha

[@goldbullet50]

"Swedes we no-longer are, Russians we do not want to become, let us therefore be Finns!" - Adolf Ivar Arwidsson So this counts for Finland as well :)

[@matthewmcneany]

Not just not being English, but rather not being British either.

[@Lilypup142]

Irish people are awesome!

[@imperialinquisitormaximusv3645]

Gaelic

[@Aritul]

@@goldbullet50 That was interesting about the Finns once being Swedes.

[@martinch3318]

I love how I don't take History classes since High-School and I can still enjoy watching these crash course videos for fun. They do an amazing job at making history enjoyable!

[@vandercecil9449]

Nice to actually see your high school history teacher you so often mention!

[@RCShufty]

"It's because I don't like living in a country full of stupid people". Nail on the head right there.

[@Lilypup142]

Shufty same tho

[@icylooz]

Good thing you dont live in the UK 😳

[@katiecook6332]

husband: hi honey wife: welcome home bald rat

[@kazzykinsYo]

Yarn Addict I can honestly see this being accurate.

[@InvadersMustDie2CR]

" I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people " Is the best single sentence about public education I have heard as of yet.

[@SteadholderXBL]

I know I chuckled at it as well :D

[@twilitetra9245]

I was completely focused on the video and what John Green was saying...until I saw Amaterasu gallop across the screen. That reference deserved a like.

[@mr.e8325]

DUDE! I'm _so_ happy I'm not the only person who got that!

[@raymondshields7764]

Was just about to say the same thing... 6:03

[@hgnbfc2]

I had a loud freak out in class when I saw that. Everyone was confused, but the fact that John is a fan of Okami really makes me giddy.

[@ftwsam2246]

I was like "was that amateratsu?"

[@pokeyrusher]

Okami, best the humans ever made.

[@sarahp6512]

I love your non-eurocentric approach to history, because I'm sick of not knowing about the rest of the world. However, this isn't great when I have to study for a test in my very eurocentric history class.

[@FFFanboy7]

5:36 for me stability isn't underrated, it may cost some administative power, but it gives me more taxes and more trade power... i bet 3 guys got that reference

[@TehHobbyist]

Apparently 4 did.

[@davidkelly4210]

I don't even touch EU4, too much fun with CK2. lol

[@michaelindustries9460]

Eu4 is cool but Victoria 2 is more fun for me

[@reizayin]

at least seven people got that reference.

[@marypusineri6291]

At least 85 people got the reference

[@Kmct]

"Hire a samurai"

[@GustavoRodriguez-qr5po]

Those who couldn't afford one did not

[@Tinnesa]

History of Japan video?

[@GustavoRodriguez-qr5po]

yep

[@nicholassiena8895]

america with their boats with guns, gun boats

[@aubster321]

I love how many History of Japan or History of the World references are made on a totally different channel.

[@Adam-dl4xk]

As an Egyptian, I'd like to thank John Green for making me feel that Egypt hasn't ended with the fall of the Ancient Egyptian civilization :D

[@343bola4]

No, I didn't think you were going to say Germany. I read the video title

[@闇TRVPD]

*”japan is a island by the sea, filled with volcanos and its, BEAUTIFUL”*

[@corwintipper7317]

a billion years ago Japan might not even exist

[@adjm642]

Corwin Tipper u don't know when the earth got shaped aren't ya

[@summertime69]

It amazes me that most of my knowledge on feudal Japan is accurate mostly thanks to the anime Ruroni Kenshin, a wandering sumari at the start to the tokugawa regime.

[@ElBandito]

I love public education cause I get to hang out with people who actually understand that it is the earth that travels around the sun, not the other way around.

[@EndrChe]

Well, it's certainly a start.

[@TheSkyrimmaniac]

El Bandito You know more about the solar system than Sherlock Holms.

[@krakenshark9482]

Isak Svensson gotta clean out that brain attic

[@TheDudeMaaaan]

well people that go to public schools still believe Noah's ark is real, and the Earth is only 6000 years old. Our public education in America is a fucking joke

[@EndrChe]

Actually, they're learning that from church leaders, not from the schools, same as children in every other country in the world. The nice Jewish, Dutch computer programmer still thinks you'll burn in hell for all eternity just like any Kentucky Baptist.

[@juliuskull]

Wow, you used pics taken in Estonia, when describing nationalism. We are honored.

[@sofiapandolfo4131]

Loved the open letter to public education. It's necessary and benefits anyone, even if it doesn't benefit you directly!

[@jennyairplane8384]

The addition of a reference to Mattew Perry, or more specifically Chandler Bing from Friends practically paid for the like.

[@s4ujcd]

Jenny Airplane I'll be there for youuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!

[@jennyairplane8384]

When the rain starts to falllll

[@theweredragon9887]

" I don't like living in a country full of stupid people" amen brother

[@jacobkern2060]

And yet we do anyways.

[@Questron71]

ever heard of homeschooling? Public education doesn't really work with such backdoors...

[@theweredragon9887]

i was homeschooled

[@okiedokie56]

I don't like living in a country full of liberal morons like you.

[@theweredragon9887]

no one takes a joke anymore. the fact that i said the above comment makes me an idiot its a semi paradox.

[@pancreasnostalgia]

Even a couple of years after taking IB Asian history, I still love this episode. A Modern History of Japan was even our textbook for the Japan unit.

[@tcc5750]

5:30 just a heads up, the Tokugawa clan actually forged a document showing they descended from the Minomoto clan (one of the former shogun clans) thus gaining the decree of Shogun. It's important, because the nobles in court were NOT going to hand over the title to Shogun unless you had "proper" decent. Hence why Oda Nobunaga, who terrified the court, couldn't get the Shogun title.

[@aman-tl9gd]

i feel proud when someone from other country talks about my country

[@joshborsykowsky1540]

the subtitles make watching so much better! they also have a bit more than what is spoken

[@Kardia_of_Rhodes]

ignorance is the root and stem of all evil -Plato

[@renren2740]

I still amazed with Japan, honestly.. After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan modernized her country and become on par as a world player in the early of the 20th century.. Such a rapid transition from a majority agricultural country to a modern nation for less than a 50 years!

[@syedali-rs8cj]

I agree, Japan was smart and modernized in order to not get invaded by foreign countries in the 19th century.

[@sol2544]

They really did earn their place in history and modern culture as a major player, and even today they are a vital chunk of the economy. Praise from America for such a rapid and miraculous growth!

[@Saltynerd]

"you can bite me bismarck"

[@madisonreitler1038]

I just finished my master's in US history but am watching these videos to brush up on my world history knowledge for my teaching certification exams. I have never read the comments before but knew I had to for this video for the Matthew Perry comments-- did not disappoint!

[@shawnajayne1642]

"You can bite me Bismarck" hahaha Im dead

[@jonathanallison785]

try slowing the video to 0.5 speed and listen to john speak

[@thelin9061]

Jonathan Allison Gahahaha, it sounds like he's on drugs xDDD

[@linhhoang1363]

+Jonathan Allison omg EPIC dude =D

[@GaelicStallion]

is there a way to do this on youtube?

[@DRosie222]

+GaelicStallion yes, on the desktop version

[@askeskipper3783]

Sounds like he's high

[@asneakychicken322]

All these people complaining about public schooling omg, having gone through it I can recognise that in some cases while it doesn't always work out amazingly, it is the best method we have and certainly far preferable to a totally private school system where it will be restricted to the people who can afford it, thus widening the gap between the rich educated class and everyone else, that would essentially be returning to the way things were for most of our history where like 1% of the population would be literate and educated because they had been schooled and there would be little social mobility

[@dallenforsyth2942]

Homeschooling man.

[@MrGamerGuy951]

Dallen Forsyth Not everyone has the time, ability or skill to educate their children and you will always have parents who simply don't care.

[@lordblazer]

same. I went through it too and if I had no opportunity for 0 schooling. I wouldn't have traveled the world, or even bothered going to graduate school. Public Education is something worth protecting.

[@garysanders6091]

Aaron Brougham Well "omg" back to you guy. The public education system widens the gap by forcing up the cost of private education.. If you make $30,000 a year you cannot possibly afford to simultaneously pay the taxes to pay for public education AND pay for private education (that has expensive prices because any cost effective school would be competing with 'free').. However, if you made $30,000 a year and you didn't have the tax burdens put on by the state, and private education were to be able to compete for your dollar you would see a HUGE increase to quality of education.. There is a reason why people who get publicly educated tend to stay in the lower class, and why people from private education and homeschools have a higher class mobility rate.. Its because the public education is set in place to keep poor people from competing with the wealthy.

[@ravengrey8891]

Dallen Forsyth I like homeschooling

[@TroyBrownTV]

Crash course should win an award for this work

[@johnnyo.7668]

Part time History teacher, Full time Savage... hahaha Public Education..

[@MrRoboskippy]

Hey a cameo with Raoul Meyer! That's awesome!

[@BulletsToBrainRatio]

John's pronunciation of Japanese words is fantastically fun to listen to.

[@NINjaboy20111]

Hey don't forget Oda Nobunaga, he was the reason Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu rose to power.

[@darthcyclone2019]

i literally played a game on my ds about this

[@fawadjavaid1]

Man this channel is a gem😁

[@avidarois5505]

♫ hire a samurai ♫

[@sergiovillarreal9744]

to kill Trump

[@contrasbeatshop]

agreed lmao

[@HelloItsPrisca]

Thanks, you have practically saved my freshman year with videos.

[@SparkyFinch]

Crash Course, thank you for making these wonderful videos! I am diagnosed ADHD and dyslexic and I barely made it through public education and am now an Engineer. These videos are the best way I've ever leaned History. Please keep in mind that Public Education is not anything amazing. To me, it's simply a relic of the industrial revolution and quite frankly, we can do better. It's thanks to options like Crash Course that we can really enjoy great, free education. Keep it up!

[@allendu5954]

"Nationalism in Europe? What could go wrong?" -Kate McKinnon, SNL

[@leonorrustemi3418]

there was an albanian sultan of egypt? Well you learn something every day

[@bigbeardjer]

Thank you. With regards to your open letter in this piece; I am a parent and I have never been able to adequately explain to people who are not why they should pay more taxes dedicated to public school funding. Or to those who no longer have children in school. Everyone benefits from having smarter people in society. Thank You.

[@cloe412]

I miss him. So relevant in 2019.

[@sirbillius]

I once worked in a customer service department and I would argue that we do, in fact, live in a country with a bunch of stupid people.

[@exilley2134]

'Murica

[@Jack-zl7cb]

I don't know how he made it through the whole video without a single reference to "The Last Samurai."

[@willowmasquerade2107]

Surrounded and outnumbered FIFTY TO ONE, SWORD FACES GUN 🎤🎵🎶

[@darthcyclone2019]

bruh same

[@jaclyncraeming2623]

This entire channel is amazing

[@TheThOdOr1s]

Thanks for mentioning us ~Greece

[@ranaklindor8069]

+Znik Or worse for you, focusing on Kosovo as a case study.

[@TheThOdOr1s]

Znik Tbh most Americans don't even know that Serbia Croatia Bosnia Montenegro and so on even exist. They refer to the whole region as Yugoslavia, as if it's the 20th century. Or worse. Basically Americans know about Europe as much as you and I know about Iowa and Mississippi. Which explains a lot of their foreign policy decisions.

[@kemchobhenchod]

Mathew Perry just wanted some Friends.

[@zinklerkelter]

In my oppinion nationalism it's a response to the suffering of the people in certain place ( nation, town, etc.). The fact of hoping for a better future (real or not) gives them the strengh and willpower to unite under a single idea. It's a pitty we still don't see the planet with that idea.

[@19Pyrus70]

I love what you said about paying taxes that are used for funding education.

[@maciejzuk7756]

When he started talking about public education in Japan I thought about "Shonan Junai Gumi" and "Great Teacher Onizuka". The original Japanese ones.

[@altareggo]

"Bring back my globes: i feel naked without them." Best KZbin quote EVAH!!

[@kaustavadhikary8940]

I love Japanese history its awesome!!

[@thegibusman2622]

Kaustav Adhikary Just make sure to get the full picture.

[@sonic_owl4465]

If you haven't seen it and want to learn more I recommend Extra History's warring states period series.

[@Necroskull388]

Kaustav Adhikary Yeah, but its Imperial phase is pretty scary.

[@adityasah1563]

Yq

[@tdav1991]

The history of Aboriginal Australians please John Green - would make for a great episode or two

[@MaebyBaeby]

*Obligatory comment pointing out the Okami reference*

[@Acute_Mango]

Obligatory reply to the comment stating a similar appreciation to said reference.

[@MaebyBaeby]

Mateo Anzola Pointless comment stating that yes, I do indeed agree with even though that has been clearly established.

[@Acute_Mango]

The Arbitration Ridiculous reply to pointless comment in which the author's appreciation is evidenced, even exaggerated to the point he feels the need to show it off by a personal profile modification.

[@Bellehiek]

comment stating universal agreement that is 4 years old

[@KOS_Nova]

"OPEN THE COUNTRY" he said "STOP HAVING IT BE CLOSED"

[@abrorinomshoev4680]

"The project of creating a nation-state goes hand in hand with preventing others from doing the same." That is an interesting idea.

[@suranjanasinharoy4786]

best open letter in all of crash course

[@ashtonboyle969]

Would you be able to do one on the Sengoku-jidai period, regarding the Battle of Sekigahara, Nagashino, etc?

[@isaackim310]

Float like a butterfly, sting like a Wāli,. -Muhammad Ali

[@Rickie53]

Slightly ironic that he praises public schools, on a youtube channel that seems to do better educating than public schools, while not being funded with tax money, and being totally privatized.

[@Bird_Dog00]

+Ty White The shortcomings of many public schools isn't because the basic concept of public shools is flawed (it isn't), but because of the failings of those responsible for implementing said concept: The politicans. Too often schools are expected to do the parents' job of raising and socialising the kids and way, way too often public education becomes the target of budget cuts - usualy by conservatives - because schools have no real lobby and politicans love soft targets when it comes to aplying the red pen.

[@Rickie53]

Bird_Dog So what you're saying is that public school isn't reliable or ideal?

[@Bird_Dog00]

No. That's not what I am saying. What I am saying is, that public schools often find themselfes at the recieving end of politics more concerned with lowering taxes to buy votes than the nation's future.

[@Rickie53]

+Bird_Dog So what you are saying is that public schools are inherently worse, due to the very nature of them being a public school? and my point to these replies is that this guy is literally trying to argue why he thinks public schools are superior, by explaining why they always end up worse off.

[@Bird_Dog00]

+Ty White No! How do you make this shit up?

[@PochitaNegrita]

Raoul! yay! Crash Course is Great; thank you guys for what you do!

[@5lowvoltage5]

When it comes to the part about Christianity in Japan, I'd like to add a few things people may find interesting. Originally when the British, Dutch and Portuguese landed in Japan they were rather welcomed. Ieyasu saw them as knowledgeable and useful to his cause. He granted them power, trading rights and one, William Adams, became something of a lord. Anjin street in Tokyo is still named after him, and his shrine is still visited. Ieyasu's son however experienced the Christian missionaries attempting to consolidate their power and turn it away from the emperor. He exiled all Christians and put a death penalty on all who stayed and sent Japan into 200 years of isolationism.

[@starwarschic123]

6:03 OKAMI REFERENCE!

[@BakusanDayo]

How John not managed to bring up Nobunaga I am not sure lol Fantastic video nonetheless.

[@Jrflippp990]

Soren G 織田がつき 羽柴がこねし 天下餅 座りしままに 食うは徳川. Nobunaga pounds the rice cake, Hideyoshi kneads it, and in the end Ieyasu eats it. (The Japanese uses family names and Hashiba Hideyoshi was the name he was born with.)

[@BakusanDayo]

Soren G I know not to go into detail, but not even a mention? I think if you ask any Japanese today to name the top three historical figure in Japanese history and you are bound to find Nobunaga mentioned every time, yet John managed to go over most of Japanese history without mentioning him This is not a criticism, of course, because I think all crash course videos are awesome. but com on! You HAVE to at the very least mention Nobunaga! (Don't get me started about shinsengumi and that era. lol)

[@Jrflippp990]

Cfli731 I just tested your theory and asked two publicly educated Japanese people (my wife and my daughter(but she's only half Japanese)) and they confirmed you are correct. Nobunaga was mentioned both times. Except my nine year old didn't know his family name.

[@BakusanDayo]

Brad Pearson lol I will ask my cousin later and see if he mentions Nobunaga as well. Allow me to expend on that prediction.. Top 5 Japanese historical figure: Oda Nobunaga Toyotomi Hideyoshi Tokugawa Ieyasu Sakamoto Ryoma (Bakumatsu period yes!) Hijikata Toshizou Let's see how this list goes :)

[@omega5279]

Cfli731 I disagree. For the topic of the video, a lot of the Sengoku Jidai isn't necessary, just the closing moments and how they led to the Sakoku of the Edo Jidai. The Shinsengumi, also, don't necessarily need to be mentioned as they simply fell under the category of the failing Tokugawa bakufu. Oda and the Shinsengumi are interesting topics, but they don't need to be mentioned in a summary of the modernization period. Toyotomi didn't need to be mentioned either.

[@anawisa88]

Open letter is straight facts. He was spittin 🔥

[@4600norm]

A couple of problems. The Tokugawa Shogunate actually did centralize power, otherwise there would have been constant war between the Daimyos. Also, most samurai during that time were not bureaucrats. Most of them were semi-employed warriors with minimal duties, a bunch more were ronin, and another bunch were bureaucrats.

[@jdxanadu872]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Satsuma rebellion. Also technically Japan kinda sorta already had control of Okinawa, but they kept it a secret because they didn't want to piss off the Chinese.

[@spazzitronmcgee6254]

6:02 OKAMI!!!!!

[@spazzitronmcgee6254]

+Spazzitron McGee *Ammy lol

[@Creepzza]

Oh, I missed that!

[@tris5on9582]

6:02 That lovely Okami reference right there

[@bridger1221]

Oh man, Rip Matthew Perry

[@lmaothischannelsnotcomingb3616]

On 6:03, did I just see Amaterasu from Okami?

[@RhysJudicata]

"Open the country. Stop having it be closed." -Commodore Matthew Perry

[@petika654]

In the 34th episode i first heard about Romania , thanks a lot !

[@Lucy-ng7cw]

Pre federation in Australia no one would call themselves Australian, you would be a Queenslander or Victorian ect. Alternatively you identified as British

[@dcs3395]

Or bogan

[@Lucy-ng7cw]

+Dylan Schultz ?

[@Kfarris22]

Same was true in the US per-civil war. In fact, George Washington had a heck of a time getting anything from the states despite his fighting a war against Britain for independence. Of course, there were many that did not want independence. I would like to apologize in advance of whatever horrific embarrassment our imbecile that occupies the White House does during his visit to meet the Queen. There is a rumor that under British law the Queen could kill Trump with a sword and it would be fine. If so, I support my queen. No, I have NO problem wishing death on this racist, narcissistic, and completely ignorant con-man that fooled 60,000,000 of my countrymen to vote for him - with Russia's help, of course.. Three million more voted for Clinton but under our twisted, antiquated Electoral College, which has twice given us conservative presidents that received fewer American votes than the Democratic opponent. Nonsensical!! Go Queen!

[@Kfarris22]

PS: Thank you Australia for being by our side in EVERY fight we have ever been in. Sorry the idiot personally attacked your Prime Minister over refugees we AGREED to take. This president views it as if America is HIS now and he doesn't need to honor the good name of America because all the other "weak & failed" presidents that proceeded this guy, who I swear thinks he is doing the best job since Abraham Lincoln. There are no words... we're just holding on, hoping he gets impeached because he is the most corrupt in more than a century and laundered Russian money since the 1990's. Otherwise, we just wait for it to - and hope to GOD it does - END soon and with a peaceful transition of power we have always enjoyed (so far anyway). You to Canada!! You've been with our military blunders too - AND you gave us HOCKEY!!!

[@warfoxrommel5172]

U Bloody Bogan

[@bombay9891]

i wish you guys would've covered more of japans history but i'll take what i can get. p.s. love the series.

[@secularmonk5176]

Hey, why no comment about the return of the open letter fancy chair? (I've been binge watching)

[@thelonewolf498]

Hey John.Thank you ,for saying the great stuff about the Balkan nations too .

[@kencarter6481]

1:17 that of course does not age well

[@EfrainRiveraJunior]

"It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people" - My favorite line so far!

[@napalmblaziken]

According to EU4, there was no Tokugawa Shogunate. The Ashikaga remained in power, and not only united Japan, but also gave the Koreans a smackdown! They took quite a bit of land, and forced Korea to expand into Manchuria. Then when the Ming was busy in a war with the countless hordes, Japan struck! Japan won the war, forcing Ming to release several kingdoms, including the Qi, who Japan had as a vassal. All the while, they did the unthinkable. They colonized the Americas! Japan sent a fleet with a bunch of samurai, cavalry, and yumi people and royally crushed the Colima, and took their land. And boy did their presence surprise the Europeans.

[@19midge98]

+

[@mangosentinel695]

Love this channel!!!

[@anisb6980]

Anyone else here after Matthew Perry died?

[@EpsilonEridani_]

Heh, I like the art style of the thought bubbles :)

[@アマダン-s9r]

Edo is pronounced edo instead of ido goddammit

[@アマダン-s9r]

XZDrake I'm Japanese

[@アマダン-s9r]

XZDrake so weaboo doesn't make sense...

[@naerwenina]

he butchered pretty much every Japanese name in there...

[@Questron71]

+アマダン "Edo is pronounced edo instead of ido goddammit" You do know that for an american you just made no sense whatsoever as they would most likely pronounce Edo "Ieeedou" not "Uhdoh" and Ido in american parlance would end up as "Ay-Dou" not "Ieeedoh" so the other way round than you intended to show?

[@zacnieprawisz9171]

Urs F He/she intended you to type "edo" in wikipedia and hit that blue audio button, so you would finally know how not to sound like a stupid, ignorant American. (By the way, I am Polish, not Japanese, in case you would like to make any ad personam arguments.)

[@aniotashogun007]

the man who is in right position in 1:37 is not Hirohito, he is Hideki Tojo

[@Fuyutsuru]

6:00 Isn't that Okami Amaterasu?

[@khongkokwai]

Please correct the name of Iyeasu in 5.10. Not Iyeasu but Ieyasu.

[@carolinegv3028]

Anyone else laugh when they showed the friends Matthew Perry?😂

[@sierrafarnum9689]

As someone who didn’t go to school till they were 11- education is a blessing. A whole bunch of time in school is wasted and there are a lot of bad teachers and stupid curriculums but it is sooooo much better than not getting an education at all. And it makes a population smarter than if they didn’t have public education, that’s pretty obvious. I think we should all be grateful for public education, but I think there are still things that should be fixed. Happy medium.

[@chownful]

"The reason I don't mind paying taxes for public education is because I don't want to live in a society filled with stupid people!" ...oh the irony.

[@Evi3142]

why is that irony? am I missing something obvious here or is it a grammatical error that i don't see?

[@chownful]

evi v The irony is that the current American public education system usually produces stupid people.

[@x1XnewgrounderX1x]

chownful They're still smarter than if they hadn't gotten an education.

[@chownful]

Justin Jacobs I guess so, but is that really what you want in America? Let us spend insane amounts of money and get pathetic results? What about other countries that spend a fraction of our budget per capita and still have better performing students (i.e. their high school graduates actually know how to read and write)?

[@joeallen7981]

evi veraart Irony: A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. While the public education system is likely not deliberately ineffective, its inept administration and failure to meet expectations certainly make it seem deliberate.

[@florianpeters8568]

Identity is gained by contrasting it with counteridentities. The constructed differences are real and fantasy at the same time. Therefore inherent to identity is the struggle for definatory power (agency). The main problem is the overidentification with an identity or disregarding it entirely. The key is to destabilize static identities by questioning its natural and cultural cores. Especially the hegemonic ones (common sense) to gain a dynamic of change and decentralized positioning. The politics of identity (feminism, classism, ageism etc.) are a strategic form of opposition that tends to focus just on one category. The hegemony just shifts from one identification to another (e.g. homonationalism). The key is not the political acception and tolerance but the destabilization of structural/discursive hegemony itself (dialectical emancipation).

[@PoojaDeshpande84]

thanks dude, i totally got that

[@rustymarquis3879]

I think I get it, but remember, this is youtube dude, not grad school...

[@florianpeters8568]

Well, somehow it's sometimes good to blur the lines a bit. I would like to have more everyday language at university to overcome this gap. The same goes for art and everyday live. But you're right I might've limited my audience and potential partners in dialogue by writing in that way.

[@qasimqureshi1230]

Reading this while under shelter in place in NYC due to COVID 19. Looking at the world around me looks like we are heading towards another wave of nationalism. :/

[@jonathanwilson8127]

Yas mai dude

[@xlilcarebear]

everything went straight over my head