Explaining South-East Asian Civilizations

[@JoiskiMe]

As I commented on the last video, I'm Thai and I appreciate your research into this. It's not easily accessible information online.

[@kevinlaminto]

im from Indonesia and at the moment living in Australia. I personally agree on what you said regarding the difference between western and eastern cultural view and their impact on the people's mental and physical behaviour. Australians are mostly individualistic by nature, especially ones who lives in city. meanwhile in my hometown of Manado, everyone seems like my brothers or sisters the collectiveness runs deep in our psyche, same with other SEA countries i think

[@Deenactor]

Where did it originate from

[@toledochristianmatthew9919]

@@Deenactor china of course. So much if our culture even our genetics is from trade and interactions with the sino populations if east asia.

[@driffbro3380]

It's because of Islam. Islam emphasizes alot on the "brotherhood" concept. You can find this troughout the muslim world. A good example would be how Khabib Nurmagomedov calls people "brother" even when talking to non-muslims.

[@remington2216]

@@driffbro3380 We called each other brothers and sisters even before that, and mothers and fathers when addressing strangers, I believe it originates in a deeper past

[@driffbro3380]

@@remington2216 in the past, everyone called each other brothers and sisters but, in the modern times, I feel like only muslims have kept this culture alive.

[@p_sardar_b]

Hey can you ever do a video on Central Asia? I am Kazakh and would love to see our culture explained to people who don't know

[@justinarzola4584]

Central Asia definitely needs more exposure, it's the most under talked about region of the world that people talk about less than even Africa.

[@edthoreum7625]

Uzbekistan,twice landlocked and reasons?

[@Nostripe361]

I'd like to see a video about it as well. As an American, this might be the area I know the least about in the world.

[@TomYawns]

@@justinarzola4584 i agree. it's seen such a large change over the course of time, seeing as in the ancient days it was largely indo-europeans like the Scythians who dominated the region. it explains why the pyramids in china (tarim basin i think) had caucasoid mummies. over the millenia, the aryan peoples were pushed west by the huns (who were aryans mixed with east asians and turks i think but i forget). Asha Logos "Our Subverted History" is an interesting watch if you're curious about that old history of the region.

[@markrossow6303]

Bald and Broke has touched on it, but nothing like a Whatifalthist treatment of course !

[@johnbrent7644]

I just started a Southeast Asian history class in college and my professor assigned this video as an introduction and overview of the region. Congratulations, you’ve gone from college dropout to being used in academia! =)

[@meloncrusher3316]

Ironically, that just prove that the academia is dogshit :)

[@dootdoot5617]

Wow, that's awesome as hell.

[@mscho3273]

I just want to mention, I watched the original Video with my girlfriend from South-East Asia, specifically the Philipenes. She travelled thorugh most of the SEA Region and said, everything you said was just true. KZbin is a joke sometimes.

[@yonathanrakau1783]

I'm an indonesian south east asian from borneo, more precisely dayak tribe who descendent from thais. I find almost all he said was true, except for some incredible detail regarding borneo but literally nothing offensive really

[@ffls2706]

What was changed/deleted in this version?

[@cudanmang_theog]

you probably often see this coming from some average white redditors: "Asians are the same" "Southeast Asia is a peaceful lovely region" "Vietnam is less racist than us" [> genociding indigenous Cham Hmong Montagnard Khmer peoples and replace them by Kinh settlers]

[@nigellanjuat3294]

True 💯

[@DSPHistoricalSociety]

You spelled the _Philippines_ wrong bro... hopefully you're "girlfriend" doesn't find out 😂🤣😂🤣

[@PedroNadais12]

Could you make more videos about others civilizations (current and extintic)? I find it one of the most interesting videos.

[@donniedewitt9878]

He’s doing an india one soon

[@Raum2901]

Perhaps midle-eastern/muslin civilization?

[@muayboran6111]

​@@Raum2901well, yhere are the cham people living in vietnam, research on that. Ahom kingdom, who are part of the Tai family, that went to war with the Mughals as well and barred the mughals from indochina

[@magnus7153]

As a Southeast Asian (Filipino), I am once again happy that you covered SEA. I was bummed that the OG video was taken down since I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to rewatch again. I hope you can cover more about Southeast Asia. Maraming Salamat! EDIT: I forgot to point this out but the only part of the video that bothered me was that you mentioned that Philippines is an extension of Latin culture which is really wrong since we are influenced by other cultures, especially Chinese and Indian who were longer influential figures way before the Spanish came. Unlike Latin America, we were able to keep almost if not all of our original culture intact.

[@halzan7467]

As another filipino I agree with this part of the video especially. 39:16 Lots of people will try to point out that we should embrace "Asian heritage" (malay) we once had, but people tend to forget we were isolated (in a sense) from them culturally and only the southern provinces (most notably Zamboanga) really share said malay heritage and even that is weak. Notably lots of the time people point to the ancient people and go "hey we should embrace this culture we once had" but moat of our history books pass ancient filipino history as a passing subject and immediately talk about Spanish, British, American, then Japanese colonization. I'm also not saying we should identify as Latin speakers, but it is important to recognize the Spanish are the ones who gave modern day filipinos culture (a united culture stemming from Spanish hatred). Edit: maybe some people agree or disagree with my take, but this is just my opinion.

[@YasukeKomiya]

@@halzan7467 The Spaniards barely managed to put together some cohesive political unit. I always believed that most influence beyond religion is superficial for the most part. Food, dances, dress, and language while important aren't the end all be all for culture. I think at the core, we aren't much different from our ancestors. Reason why having a truly unified country is hard. At the end of the day, we're still super regionalistic people.

[@magnus7153]

I enjoyed both of your guys' comments! I too wish that Filipinos embrace more with their Malay heritage. It seems today that Filipinos are going to their Asian roots but more of East Asian flavor (Japanese and Korean culture). Though to be fair, China has been a longer influence on us than the Spanish Empire. I still have that hope that one day that more Filipinos will emphasis more on our Asian heritage. I also agree that the Spanish did not really influenced us a lot more than we think. I mean they didn't fully conquer the nation (I could be wrong but I know the Moros have strongly resisted the Spanish and kudos for them for keeping our Malay heritage alive) and even their influence on our language is just loan words. Majority of our food is both Malay and Chinese and we still kept our dances, traditions, and many other parts of our culture!

[@shivmaple1013]

Oo Op

[@achachalak]

@@halzan7467 When they say embrace precolonial heritage, they meant the ancestral Austronesian roots and not "Malay", which can be ambiguously interpreted as synonymous to Austronesian culture or as the culture in Malaccas. While inhabitants of the Philippine archipelago had varying degrees of foreign influence prior to colonization, all still had shared similarities from their common origins which is Austronesian. In part, yes, we were somewhat isolated with mostly Zamboanga / Mindanao being most similar to Malays of Malaccas, but actually the cultures in the Philippine archipelago (and Taiwan) are the least foreign-influenced, older and closer to the ancestral Austronesian culture and language. This is also probably why the states and polities in the islands were still small and emerging since they had less contact and trade compared to those in Malacca and Java, which were traffic hubs between the Indian Ocean and South China Sea, and had established empires. Indeed, precolonial history is not given as much attention and importance because there are less information and records about it. Learning it would mean you have to learn a lot of each culture which there are a lot of. Unlike the Spanish and succeeding eras, where events and history was written down and the islands were now under a single political state, teaching it would mean more cohesive content and events to discuss which would be overall easier to follow and understand. Spain didn't just "give" us culture, but they certainly gave us influences that we infused unto our own local cultures that we have retained up to modern day. Even Catholicism, their biggest influence is infused with folk beliefs and customs. While indeed there's detestation towards Spain, we still have our shared Austronesian and Asian heritage that unite us, even though it's not as obvious in modern day.

[@starmaker75]

That comprasion of northern winter and topical equatorial summers reminds me a saying that me and my dad said “you can escape the cold, you can’t escape the heat

[@SamuraiPoohBear]

Never heard of AC?

[@darthdarthbinkss]

@@SamuraiPoohBear Not everyone is inside 24/7

[@jacob4920]

@@SamuraiPoohBear AC is stupendous... so long as you can afford the electricity...

[@markrossow6303]

agree -- I work outdoors a lot; enjoy AC in work-car + '95 Land Rover Hate indoor AC; do not have it at 1893 house; very normal thing in Seattle

[@jasonreed7522]

I always heard the debate between whether cold or hot weather is is batter as "You can always put on another layer, but you can only get so naked". I'm used to the climate of Northern NY so I'm used to -20°F before wind chill as being easily tollerable (just need a good coat) but when it gets over 85°F manual labor outside isn't going to be efficient and everyone would rather find the nearest lake or river to cool off. (I also recognize that our wildlife is very tame, the deadliest thing is a black bear which runs away unless its a mom and cub [in which case you are probably dead if you get between them] or a bull moose which are rare and just another large herbivore to give due space) Anyway I'm team cold weather is best weather.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

For me personally, Southeast Asia is my favorite part of the world, the culture, the architecture design, the geography, wonderful people, it’s beautiful.

[@christiancummings6283]

Love the, videos man. Wanted to be an archeologist when I was a kid. Still enjoy learning about these things, even as life has worn down my expectations. Glad to see I'm not alone. Please keep up the spectacular work!

[@dannyt4663]

I’m half Filipino and can confirm that pride and respect is a HUGE deal in this culture. In my experience many filipinos have constant status anxiety. Very friendly but also can be extremely critical of self and others

[@ennui9745]

That's a generalization, sometimes it's true, sometimes it isn't. And in my experience a significant number of people from any culture have "status anxiety".

[@boaoftheboaians]

as a Filipino who grew up under some very weird circumstances..... a lot of this doesn't apply to me Ennui9745 here is right

[@ennui9745]

@@boaoftheboaians This channel is mostly lots of really broad and inaccurate generalizations about different cultures. It's bizarre how he has so many fans who hang on to every word he says.

[@migspeculates]

Pride and respect can be used by insecure people as shields.

[@kimmyDaYang]

@dannyt4663 Only some not many. Majorities of us don't have status Anxiety

[@anvos658]

Honestly with how much this happens to various youtubers, I honestly feel like there is likely a problem with not enough oversight of the human moderators, where they can get away with taking down and restricting videos they dislike or disagree with too easily. Good on you for sticking it out though

[@sovietunion7643]

i swear its like every youtuber i know now. wow_mao for one thing, Alert world (EAS analog horror channel) and even smaller ones like this one fallout new vegas shitposter i like. i don't know whats going on but this isn't a good way for youtube to run its buisness. instability is biggest cause of investors fleeing, especially with something so far used like youtube.

[@theBear89451]

Next stop, Musk buys Alphabet.

[@wrenloco]

@2:30 The guessing game channels have to do is the annoying part of it all. Jessie Gender just put out a three hour video and it seems like it got brigaded with ill intention complaints and she reached out for time codes and they won't provide them. Because it is all just algorithm based and they don't want to actually make decisions because then they'd need to be consistent.

[@Bobbyjonesyrrr]

To be honest. It's most likely not even a human moderator.

[@timl9724]

@@Bobbyjonesyrrr most likely it was flagged by a user. A human moderator may have taken it down after the age restriction.

[@chrisdoesnotcare]

Keep up the good work man. You do a great job. It’s disheartening that creators get their videos taken down or demonetized. ESPECIALLY channels like yours that are simply giving people history lessons.

[@kaed1107]

i love how he turned his issue with youtube to a lesson on how it works and how it functioned and how it compares nowadays, love that, thanks rud! i watched the og version but imma watch this one to see what you left out!

[@hollowt3a199]

Im a third Gen immigrant from SEA and this area has always been super fascinating to me. A perfect blend of the West, India, China and then tons of their own culture and ideas. Lots of biodiversity and the the rainforests are really something. Never knew that there was a trend of the mountain peoples of SEA, at least on the mainland, converting to Christianity, I thought that was an isolated thing to my people, the Hmong people.

[@jordanmadison6924]

DIASPOROID SPOTTED + DILUTED BLOOD

[@rilke3266]

I’m half-Vietnamese and half-European (English & German). I would say that the biggest difference between these two cultures is simply the idea of familial honor. The idea of “honor” does exist in the West, but typically is more individualistic. In Asian cultures, you strive to be an honorable person not so that you yourself are an honorable person, but so that your familial name gains “honor.” I’m sure it is more complicated than this but from my experience, this is the most simple difference.

[@MrIkOgNiTo]

German culture is historically very different to western culture but very similar in that regard to east asian culture since germans are historically collectivistic instead of individualistic. The concepts of "Gesichtsverlust" (losing face), "Familienehre" (family honor) and "Familienschande" (bringing shame over the family) does exist in german culture in the exact same meaning as in east asian cultures. Unfortunately germans were forced after ww2 to give up their culture and become highly westernized by basically becoming an anglosphere colony which causes the problems germans are nowadays struggling with such as a lack of identity, traditions and self-perception. In it's core german values and american/english values couldn't be more different till this day since germans still put more value on the common good as on individual interests but due to immigration this is changing rapidly too.

[@125discipline2]

no sanctity either

[@freddypowell7292]

Glad to see this back up.

[@bleached_anus1487]

amén brotha

[@michaelsilver253]

"emphasis on outwards appearances, which California doesn't really have." gotta say they both do, it just manifests really differently

[@andyc9902]

Lol CA Is a weird distopiaaa

[@gunnasintern]

same can be said for the US in general honestly

[@gwho]

one hour of whatifalthist is so much better than a week of school history class.

[@Sokrabiades]

More like a semester.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

whatifalthist one week history class

[@cittaaukoto_japan9926]

Good stuff. Massive input, both from observation and reading, and massive stream of consciousness output. Having spent a fair amount of time in Thailand and Vietnam, most of your observations seem spot on. Having walked hundreds of kilometers through central Bangkok, I concur that it’s incredibly clean. One hardly observes rats running around anywhere, in sharp contrast to HCMC (Saigon). Thanks!!

[@fordheath]

Quite possibly the best and most informative channel on KZbin, amazing!!

[@High8Studio]

As a Vietnamese person I agree on your take on Thailand, wonderful country but the people are much more complicated than just "nice". They are very polite people and avoid conflict but it's to save face and not cause trouble despite their true feelings. It's really a lot more fake than nice. People give me shit for that but its just true. Very different from Vietnamese who just let out whatever they feel at others.

[@jordanmadison6924]

banger take as always + glory to CPV

[@tsurugi5]

So being polite and cordial is a bad thing now? What would you have them do? I think this mindset is a rather good one, as in my opinion, it is a good trait to control yourself. I guess it depends on what you want from a person. That aside, it is certainly a bad one for enacting social change. As a rule of thumb, Thais would rather not act in favor of keeping the status quo. Understandable, but it is what it is. To add on, I think it also comes down to familiarity. Thais are very intimate and friendly with people they know and that also extends to other fellow thais but they are a lot more reserved to foreigners, as thais mostly keep to themselves(even with all the foreign visitors) and because of their poor english.

[@jordanmadison6924]

@@tsurugi5 thailand should be destroyed

[@DungPhan-2002]

Đúng ,nó là sự giả tạo

[@SilasHaslam]

Yeah as a Thai, I have to agree with that. Our outer persona is based rather on many concepts and “Face” is one of them. It’s a culture of conformity but weirdly Individualistic too. The name Thai literally means “Free”. It’s a country that values intimate unity but not so much for the whole harmony (not at the level of Japan or South Korea at least). That is why there are many “hidden” rules that outsiders might not even notice but people would have judged them already. Nevertheless, there's another strong feature of the Thai people; “Tolerance”, which might stem from Buddhism and that’s where the individualism of the people arises because even though they might not agree with each other. The Thai minds would just “accept” and “let them be”. And that’s also the reason why “Rules” in Thai are just some “Guidelines” which differ depending on how much the society can “tolerate”. Ps. I have experienced many high-level passive-aggressive and subtle social games in many Asian countries. Many would have thought Japan would rank at no.1 but for me, it might be a tie between Japan and Thailand. While the Japanese might look more “rigid” and “harder to approach” compared to the Thai. Behind their smile and nice persona, there are also many hidden layers of relationship that in the end could be harder to detect compared to the Japanese.

[@libertatemadvocatus1797]

The reason why Java is so densely population is because it is a volcanic island with extremely fertile soil. Most tropical soils tend to be rather thin and infertile, but since Java has a number of highly active volcanos regularly depositing mineral rich volcanic ash over the island; it can support a huge population. The other islands have much less fertile soil which makes colonization of those island much less attractive.

[@dikathemas6713]

Don't forget about the trees

[@safuwanfauzi5014]

that why Java is full of temple thousand of its, many old city ruins, old city wall ruins, city wall gates because Java have the higest population, compare smaller population Sumatra and Malay Peninsular[Southern Thailand and Malaysia Peninsular], and the temple and ruins are not to many, most in major city of old Srivijaya and old Langkasuka like Kedah Malaysia, Southern Thailand Pattani, Surat Thani and Nakhon Si Thammarat, and in Sumatra especialy in Jambi, South Sumatra province and Riau, included West and North Sumatra, and to very2 low population thick jungle Borneo except the coastal that why we get big tomb, stone inscription and small temple all around coastal except east coast of Sabah, and North Kalimantan. Java always core of 'Nusantara culture', some of roof culture in Java died out only Joglo are more popular, but in Kelantan Malaysia, the old Javanese roof, Keris Pekaka[from Rajamolo style] still preserved, 'Bumbung Pemeleh' is the famous style in Kelantan, Pattani and Terengganu, the pyramidal style roof of Kelantan, like Masjid Kampung Laut Kelantan very similar to Javanese mosque, and 'ekor itik' or in Java called it 'nok' or tanduk kambeng' roof decoration ornament, no in others peninsular have used like in Java, except Malacca mosque have similar on top of the pyramidal roof used crown/memolo/mahkota/mustako, because malacca mosque have similar connection with Palembang mosque, also used mustako on top of the pyramidal roof, the roof of rest the Peninsular more similar to Sumatra 'balai adat melayu' styles or Balai besar alor seter. the bumbung pemeleh style can be see in old relief in java temple, and simple version like in 'Taman Sari', do know why this style died out in Java, like Kampungan roof, it very rare, only Limasan, Tajug and Joglo are more dominant, Java also that give the Khmer architecture and evolved into Khmer culture and influences Thai and Laotian architecture. others that Javanese do not used anymore like 'ketopong' crown, only Kutai sultan still used it, and mainland southeast asia excepet Sinosphere Vietnam.

[@XandieFireman]

@@safuwanfauzi5014 yeah Java is the best that is why they became slave to the Dutch.

[@safuwanfauzi5014]

@@XandieFireman India still the best in civilization, Myammar to, Cambodia to, Vietnam too, but culture, architecture, art, tradition and langauge alive. unlike Filipino, even the name still under Spanish king tumb, slave of king philipE II, China lost to Russia, British and France, and Hong Kong was colonized so what? Java still the best we know. that why Borobudur and Prambanan is the legend. and Cambodia Angkor wat and Angkor Thom

[@XandieFireman]

@@safuwanfauzi5014 you have so much hate towards the Filipinos. I wish all the Indonesians the best. May your best culture be known all over the world.

Say what's up notification squad! From what I can tell, age restriction is the way KZbin shadowbans videos and comments, especially if they think you have the "wrong opinions". Portuguese here... Can I ask you, if I may, to one day do a few videos about the Portuguese discoveries and how it changed the mindset of Europe and history of the world. I know you've touched on the subject a few times, but I would like to see it from a non European perspective as we Europeans tend to be extremely biased towards our countries, colonies and empires. Either way, looking forward to enjoy this one.

[@buddermonger2000]

Yeah but what "wrong opinions" would there be here? It's about a civilization and how it acted with the end message saying that it's a very open one. So not sure what the issue would be here.

@@buddermonger2000 Mate... Ask KZbin. I wish I knew the answer for that. I saw the original video and I'm baffled that this would happen.

[@engineeredarmy1152]

It was one of my favourites and it was disappointing to find it disappeared. Nowhere to discuss about it being gone and it felt like it never existed. And thankfully it's now back!

[@tristanchung6811]

I’m a Singaporean living and studying in the US, and SEA history is rarely ever touched on. I found nothing to be offensive in the original upload. In any case you’ve clearly presented a disclaimer in that you admit to be not the most versed in SEA history. So I don’t get KZbin’s weird censorship protocols.

[@jordanmadison6924]

diasporoid spotted

[@n_core]

He forgot to censor this 40:57. It's clearly heads chopped off from their bodies. KZbin probably doesn't tolerate this. I saw the original video and surprised that he left it in the video without censoring it.

[@JamesBond-er1hk]

Heard that Singapore sort of has modern slavery, where rich family’s will employ a maid and that made makes basically nothing or whatever.

[@demun6065]

@@JamesBond-er1hk dumbest comment I've read all week

[@republicadominicana8589]

@@n_core its not taken down yet so we just pretend its mannequins. It's a misconceptions yt doesn't allow goire but I watched a local old crime tv series with unconcerned d3d bodies victim etc. just fine here on yt.

[@engineeredarmy1152]

I was really shocked to see the cultural similarities between us and Southeast Asia, our history books failed to teach anything about them. Most Indians wouldn't know and would be shocked to learn that earliest trading kingdoms in SEA were named rajas and Thailand celebrates ramayana mythology. I feel deeply connected with this land hopefully it becomes prosperous and helps the trade and culture thrive between us and the rest of east asia, just as like it always has been.

[@Despotic_Waffle]

The word for king in Malaysia is still Raja

[@varotjutaviriya1808]

As A Thai people, I would say we are just a “Indianized Chinese” . Thai ethnicity came from southern china, but our religion, our political system and our language is heavily influenced by Indian culture. Thai people has Pali-Sanskrit based name, Thai King still crowned in an Hindu ceremony, while our de-facto state religion is Buddhism, an Indian religion.

[@Author_Paluthor]

@@Despotic_Waffle in Indonesia too for obvious reasons

[@tomorrow.]

Really? I was not really shocked. Most of us in South of India already knew our history with South East and East Asia.

[@engineeredarmy1152]

@@tomorrow. I'm from South India too, it wasn't once taught in our schools about similarities. The only thing we learnt was how chola empire ruled in southeast Asia.

[@dome2919]

This... was... fascinating! I wish I'd found your channel sooner! The ideas that this video carries you through ( my favorite being that these cultures engage in a "Peaceful Selection" to root out the best and most amicable forms of foreign philosophies and religions ) have my mind buzzing! I'm gonna have a great time with this series!

[@fuski23]

17:29 the mountain ⛰️ are where you may find some relief if you get high enough. The greater your altitude, the lower the Temps, even in the tropics. It's a function of the atmosphere acting like a thermal blanket, it's thinner the the higher you go.

[@duckpotat9818]

That's also why Indians worship the Himalayas

[@republicadominicana8589]

that's why people from Nairobi Kenya and Quito equador wore thick coats

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

​@@duckpotat9818north india is already cold in winter without going to mountain.

[@quantumbyte-studios]

Thank you for all the maps, as a visual learner, it really brings the past to life!

[@buddermonger2000]

My comment from the last video was something along the lines of "it sounds like a very compatible civilization to that of the Anglosphere with both being open and fairly curious of other cultures while also being in economic, geographic, and demographic situations that compliment very well"

[@SopaDeLengua]

Information -> Truth -> Power. Those in power don’t want others to gain power. Controlling information is key. That’s why China has the Great Firewall. You’re doing good. Having innocent videos taken down is a sign you’re doing good 👍

[@DaveChuaa]

Manila and Mexico City is very different. Manila is more on glassy buildings since colonial buildings got destroyed during WW2. The only similarities are the Catholic Churches. Also, Philippines have our own “Bahay na Bato” style architecture which combines Chinese, Austronesian, and Spanish influences that you can’t find in any Latin/Hispanic countries.

[@boaoftheboaians]

Much agreed! Also worth adding, the subtle pattern of roofs that follow uniquely Filipino architecture can also be seen in places like Japan, China, and Indonesia (And I have high doubts Mexico has similar styles, but other commentators feel free to disprove to me otherwise if it does not match up with reality) 2023/06/13 EDIT: I'm also gonna add this, I've been to Manila countless times to confirm Dave Chua's comment. Meanwhile, I've only been to Cebu City once in my life, but I can safely say they have a lot more preserved Spanish architecture than Manila does.

[@blackwater7183]

He is just shitting on the Filipinos basically. Just listen to how he describes the Filipinos, "tribal jungle people" and scoffs at how similarly poor and corrupt the Philippines is to Mexico. Please report this video.

[@FBI.capturo.gente.rara.]

Peru and Mexico also have their own constructions that are foreign to the rest of the continent, but that is not why they are considered different.

[@DaveChuaa]

@@FBI.capturo.gente.rara. Your point is?

[@donkeysaurusrex7881]

I think you’re mostly right, but I have ran into Filipinos online who wanted their country and people to be considered Hispanic or seemed legitimately angry the US didn’t do more to encourage Americans to move to the Philippines. Definitely a small minority though.

[@cossacktwofive4974]

I can't say about malls in Bangkok as the last time I went there was in 2001, but malls here in the Philippines will not go away as we treat shopping mall complexes as large "indoor airconditioned parks" which is full people every weekends pre-pandemic and post-lockdowns.

[@donkeysaurusrex7881]

This is the ideal culture. I am so saddened that the US has abandoned mall culture for stupid outdoor lifestyle centers where you’re exposed to the miserable heat and humidity.

[@cossacktwofive4974]

​@@donkeysaurusrex7881 Late reply. Another factor is that every weekend, and specially holidays, the malls here in the Philippines full of people, usually small to large families who spend time together after going to church, which funnily enough, some malls here have large chapels inside the malls themselves. So it is more like aside from being "indoor airconditioned parks", malls here are also treated as a place where families could simply spend time together even if they just go their to dine and not do any shopping at all. Others are usually a group of friends who use the mall to hangout.

[@donkeysaurusrex7881]

@@cossacktwofive4974 Again it sounds like an ideal culture.

[@АбсолютСпирит]

Love how he analyzes culture through the material conditions that created it!

[@Bam-mi6pz]

Man, I never thought I would be this interested in history. Thanks to your videos!

[@birbsbizarreaccenture7999]

Some correction because a photo is incredibly misleading, The photo used for 'discrimination against the Chinese' is from a protest in the Philippines against the encroachment of the PRC in Philippine EEZ waters which includes Chinese naval vessels bullying local fishermen in the region and building artificial islands aka the nine dash line (the Hauge ruling has been won by PH). The diaspora is not the PRC. Also, as far as i know of, there is no anti-Chinese discrimination in the Philippines (there is, however, in the Spanish era). A good chunk of Filipinos have partial Chinese ancestry mostly from Southern China and because the country is inherently multicultural, intermarriage is not a big thing as in other cultures. Chinese New Year is also a non-working holiday here in addition to typical Catholic observations like Christmas and Holy Friday.

[@scarling9367]

Having lived in Guam for several years, I can backup your statements on the jungle and climate. You have to plan around the noon sun and the daily rain. And if you walk the jungle, even established paths, you can be met by hand sized spiders camping at face height. 😮

[@dome2919]

Hate to bother you on an old comment, but what is that like? The places that I live don't have such large bugs as a constant fact of life, so I wonder what the mentality is around them. Is it a thing that you begin to passive keep a keen eye out for, or are such creatures a constant and active fear?

[@scarling9367]

@@dome2919 For the most part I only ran into them while hiking (I'm in their neighborhood so to speak). So.eyimes you'd catch little geckoes outside or crabs in the roads near the beach. They kinda just become a daily thing. A momentary amusement and back to work.

[@dome2919]

@@scarling9367 That makes sense. It sounds like they're mostly happy to let you have your zone while they keep theirs.

[@quantumbyte-studios]

Living in Thailand, the binary stars of the Orient is a beautiful way to describe the orbit of Indian and Chinese cultures upon the region. Well done

[@destinypirate]

Correction - Not just the elite, Thai culture broadly emphasizes the importance of appearance and also respect for others, tradition, and property which in this case manifests as respect for their jobs, homes, and even the very streets which are ''theirs''. Also, they are nearly 100% recyclers, yet through a unique dynamic. The refuse collectors sort through every bag of garbage, curbside, separating every item categorically and even setting aside items which are still usable and/or can be resold. Thais are share comparatively more "intimacy, realness, and depth" as a culture than can be found in most other cultures. Total strangers, even from distant provinces, quickly refer to each other as older/younger sister/brother and automatically share food, drink, and cares with one another. Thais are also very charitable and their sense of social service is quite high in terms of tending to the elderly, youth, and others in need. They view themselves as a nation of extended family. Of course along with the benefits of extended family comes the lack of privacy, the ensuing neurosis and frustrations. However, the Thais do not suffer from a lack of individuality - they rather turn towards more subtle individualistic expressions and een humorous personality options - they tend to be much more aware of nuance than is commonly found in the West. They do frown upon assertive individualism that seems aggressive to them. This is primarily due to their practical sense that serves their ability to harmonize within a densely populated and highly cooperative culture. None of this is a primary driver of suicide. Rather it is hopelessness and the struggle to keep up, as modern economics desert them, which leads them to feel there is no hope of achieving even modest dreams...

[@kylejamesdalzell2839]

Thank you for sharing your insights.

[@dpcnreactions7062]

When I went to school, most of the history classes that I took in School in Atlantic Canada focused mostly on British History starting with the Viking Age, William the conquer, war with France, battle of Quebec city, Confederation, The boer wars, the World Wars and ending with the late Trudeau years. Very little American history was mentioned other than arrival of the United Empire Loyalists in the Maritimes. I don't recall anything on Asia and Africa was only mentioned in relation to the slave trade.

[@234n9]

As a explanation, it could be because the people in charge of revising the controversial videos are mostly employed from the philipines and if someone see it and don't like it that should be the reason.

[@ffls2706]

Do you remember what was deleted?

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

What comes to mind when I think of Southeast Asia: Pol Pot Vietnam War Muay Thai Fighters

[@emilv.3693]

It's the cultural phenomena where a man dresses in the clothing of another culture in America and ppl think he's racist and offensive while when he dresses in that clothing in the country that culture is from the locals are appreciative of him...

[@Lam-ba-Lam]

So in the west you have to dress according to your bloodline and appearance, whereas in other places you're allowed and encouraged to diversify your wardrobe...

[@timmyturner327]

@@Lam-ba-Lam the very idea of "cultural appropriation" is, 95% of the time, utterly stupid and it's wildly overrepresented among the wackos on social media. The average American probably wouldn't care too much either way in practice.

[@Hakar17]

​@@Lam-ba-LamNot really but you do have to deal with rich white women whining.

[@Nicookr]

On the irrationality of KZbin decisions, this is a direct consequence of AI use. I write software for another large tech company directly adjacent to some AI products (credentials). That plus the desire to police content, listings, or whatever else user supplied info. That’s just how AI models work, see the weird stuff ai art does for good easily understood examples.

[@snoboater]

Glad to see it back up. I hope Hindu and Islamic civilization follow soon. Keep up the great work!

[@zhcultivator]

Same

[@mainakmandal2003]

I want to do some corrections as I am from Eastern India. Firstly, rice is more laborious but it traps most calories per unit area than all other crops. Secondly rice cultivation was also once in a year and farmers got 5 months off for leisure. Until recently modern seeds came which can be grown in winter-summer also. 3 times a year is very rare. So rice farming was worth it. Besides you can't grow wheat in tropical regions.

[@rutvikrs]

He gets nearly everything about India wrong thanks to the sources. For example, India has a third type of agriculture, sorghum which allows for farming under minimal effort and Hardy transportable food. This exists in a belt between north Karnataka to Rajashthan formed by the rain shadow of western ghats. We have had so many empires emerging from this region from Rashtrakutas, Satavahanas, Chalukyas to early modern Vijayanagara empire, Marathas and Rajputs. Insane to count them out.

[@thefolder3086]

Being from Thailand,Rice in some places can be cultivated more than once a year including a large part of south east Asia. Though three is only available in some regions of India and a large part of southern China.

[@janethopper6750]

People [including you and me] prefer bread to rice balls. That's one of the downsides of the tropics.

[@donkeysaurusrex7881]

Rice paddies can in certain circumstances enrich the soil over time, and this includes using the paddies to raise fish and ducks either while raising the rice with fish or after the rice has been harvested with ducks.

[@macmurfy2jka]

This was good the first time, good again!

[@BidensTaint]

I LOVE your channel. My friends and I all think you're pretty mindblowing sir

[@leonardogoncalvesmachado7820]

I don't know if you already made a video covering this topic, but I think a video about the US relationship with the different regions of the world would be very interesting. I believe it is important to talk about how the US as a nation is very influential in the world, be it as a good, bad or controversial influence. I'm not sure if you are american (but I believe you are), and I would like to know how an american sees the relationship between his own country and others. I don't know if you put your research material in the description and I forget to check, but could you say a little more about the books/documents that you use to make the videos? Thank you for covering topics about history and politics that are not very well covered in school, this makes me even more interested in it.

[@cane6074]

I always viewed the Thai's reverence for the monarchy as something similar to how the Japanese view their Emperor. The difference being that for the Japanese's it more reversed and quite but nevertheless deeply felt, but for the Thai's its more overt and emotional. Its something I always found kind of interesting.

[@gwho]

or how about britain just 100 years ago?.... -_-

[@cane6074]

@@gwho Its some what close to that, but Thailand has a culture much different, due to the collectivist, hierarchical and deferential nature of Thai society, plus the extreme emphasizes that area world puts on maintaining face, in which being seen a supportive of the monarchy is seen as honorable, thus great social power is given by default, but informally. We also have the fact that Thailand ceased to be a in absolute monarchy in 1932, under a so-called Revolution, (acutely a coup, those became common throughout modern Thai History unfortunately) and we look at most of Thai history, kings were all powerful and loomed large to such extent that the monarchy became integral to Thai Culture, which means old habits still remain. Combined with the fact that Thai governments sense then have often been very corrupt and incompetent, thus as a result the King tends to look better in compression to the tainted politicians, and the fact that the monarchy as a institution is one of the few in the country that functions properly(Along with the Military, Most Infamously). There is also the fact the the monarchy has played a major role in rural development, throwing its wealth behind such endeavors through its Crown Properties Bureau. Which many Thais are thankful for. There also the fact the monarchy has been a stabilizing force in Thai poltics. It using it's moral authority shame the politicians to behave when they often get out of line, through this controversial due to the king is supposed to be a figurehead. This all could change, due to the current king is not welled liked due to his Scandalist behavior and lacks the charisma or political acumen of his father, Thailand has changed radical in the half century and younger generations are questioning the role monarchy has played. We might see a eventual decline of it power.

[@wintermanthenforcer]

No, I would say it's the reversed. Japanese are more fanatical than Thai. The emotional Thai's loyalty you see is a part of Cold War propaganda around the King

[@gold-toponym]

It's called devaraja traditions. God kings. Adopted from the Khmer empire. Which got it from Hindu influence.

[@cane6074]

@@gold-toponym Yes, that is probably major factor as well.

[@Bribridude130]

3:53 The Art of Not Being Governed. Finally, an obsure book Whatifalthist cites that I have previously heard of.

[@Hasan-we7qp]

Whatifalthist : "put beheaded picture in video" Whatifalthist : this video is aged restricted for no reason!

[@silverchairsg]

Really? Where?

[@wiank6459]

Not gonna lie, I facepalmed when I saw it

[@wiank6459]

@@silverchairsg 41:00

[@AmirAllam-m9t]

im a filipeno egyptian american and i left the states for vietnam around the end of covid. in america, we get this impression that filipenos are more culturally hispanic than they are asian, but after i moved to vietnam, im actually surprised that the philippines shares so much culture with the rest of asia. imagine being 30 years old and realizing that the only reason im obsessed with playing the guitar, singing, drawing, martial arts, mediation, and mathematics is because ive actually been asian this whole time. - american filipenos just idealize east asians like americans do. they dont really get how deeply asian the culture really is. and yeah, its obviously a mix, but the point still stands.

[@VioletPrism]

Love your videos I remember this going down keep it up!!

[@SidtheCreativeKid]

As a hindu myself, I can say that he's absolutely right when he speaks of its complexity, hell I dont even understand or know half the stuff of hinduism inspite of growing up within a "hindu" home

[@monsieurlemon]

the concept "face" is actually popular in America, not too different especially at a job or school or social situations

[@Jimblefy]

Great video. Super informative. Thanks.

[@JustAnNPC69]

It's always nice to see an outsider’s perspective on your area.

[@jordanmadison6924]

im so sorry

[@FallingPicturesProductions]

Really enjoyed the OG version of this video, might as well watch it through again to help re-boost you in the algorithim. Thanks for reuploading it.

[@boaoftheboaians]

As a Filipino myself who knows too much about Philippine history, (especially the parts before the Spaniards came) I still sharply disagree on the classification of Philippines being a cultural extension of Latin America. We’re too unique to really be properly classified to any civilizational category just due to the sheer amount of foreign influence we took in. Classifying us as part of Latin American civilization would be like classifying Japan as part of Chinese civilization. There’s also the fact that unlike Latin America, we kept our original Austronesian language and don’t speak any of the Iberian languages (in fact, they’ve been dying out due to internal and external factors over the last century to the point only Chavacano and the massive amount of Spanish loanwords in Filipino are left) Plus, our level of development wasn’t really “tribal” as he claims, it was more similar to…. Greece in early antiquity, with many small city-states and the occasional large kingdom. (Such as the sultanates in Mindanao and Tondo) We had boats that I’m told were faster than even the Spanish warships at the time, and some areas of the Philippines had already figured out cannons made of bamboo, which if I’m correct was used against the Spanish conquistadors when they tried to take Manila. In fact, assuming my info is correct, we probably had more literate people than the Spaniards of Spain at the time. (Correct me if I’m wrong on this one) Whatifalthist here has a good general level insight of the Philippines for a foreigner, but it doesn’t change the fact that it remains surface level. *I urge everyone, both Filipino and non-Filipino, to think twice about what he says about the Philippines, and to do their deep research.* While what he said about our politics and inequality are undoubtedly true, but we’re also in a far better position than most Latin American are. Competition, proximity, and influence from our SEA neighbors, and powerful countries like China (who btw is just nearby and also still aggressively claims our islands) that threaten our security will in time force us to snap out of it (whether we like it or not), and improve our society for the better. Whatifalthist stated in other videos that he doesn’t see Latin America changing for the next century, but I don’t think this applies to the Philippines at all, and if my predictions go correctly, we could be in a very good economic position within the next century. (Although that’s assuming nothing really bad will happen in a way that damages the Filipino psyche in the coming future) (Also, a commenter by the name of Dayang Marikit pointed out in the original video that he used racist paintings made by Europeans that depicted the Filipinos as inferior to them, not knowing what we truly are, which I agree. The scenery in those paintings look to me more like something out of New Guinea than really, the Philippines. She went on to cite the Boxer Codex and all, I suggest people reading this comment to check that codex out.) PS, Rudyard if you happen to see and have read this comment, thanks for the reupload~

[@artoriuscasca424]

Im, not Filipino, but I cannot agree more with your statement. I have read about the many kingdoms, such as Tondo, Sulu, and Maynila. It does have a fascinating political system before the arrival of the Spanish. Many people, including Rudyard, get mistaken by just seeing the Philippines at face value, especially if they have never been there. They see Filipino/Tagalog being Latin based in its alphabet and shares words and similarities with the Spanish language, like Berde or kumusta ka, similar to Verde and Como esta. They also see its Christian tradition. So they just designated the Philippines an Asian south America. Forgetting the various cultural traditions and dialects that inhabit the islands and thousands of barangays. Some other states in South East Asia share a western language and Christian tradition, like the Philipines, such as Timor Leste. Though we shouldn't say, Timor Leste is an extension of Brazil because of its shared history with the Portuguese.

[@Unknownuser1077-8oa]

Bamboo cannons are just toys, in fact that lantaka cannons are made of iron

[@magnus7153]

I admit, I rolled my eyes when he said that PH is an extension of Latin America culture 💀

[@boaoftheboaians]

@@Unknownuser1077-8oa ah yeah, I must have been meaning to refer to those lantaka The point was that we already had gunpowder weapons by the time of Legazpi’s arrival 😁 (I assume proximity with China must have helped a lot with this tbh…)

[@gamercatjr.2941]

@@boaoftheboaians Care to share what books/historians/articles you've read? I too want my knowledge expand regarding our history.

[@Sigismundssword]

I knew I saw this video on your channel but could never find it. Thank you for xonfirming I'm not crazy

[@sls140]

“ rice agriculture involves bending over into muddy ground to pull out tiny grains of rice…“ @14:36 He knows rice doesn’t grow like potatoes, right?

[@danielscalera6057]

The original video was one of my favorite from the channel getting me interested in civilizations I never gave a thought to before. It got me interested enough to look for more and think about going to Thailand sometime

[@avery_3479]

The way KZbin is treating its creators is unacceptable. I'm glad this video is up again.

[@talkingBS]

I’m a Canadian who lived in the Philippines for 2.5 years. I can attest that once you live there for 3-4 months you acclimatize. I would go mountain biking in the hills at high noon after i adjusted. So discomfort levels you experienced while travelling are not necessarily long term to local populations.

[@andyc9902]

I love Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur is great

[@zzzzz653]

Thank you for injecting some common sense. I have seen that this vlogger is way too quick to pass judgements and opinions on subjects that he knows and understands very little.

[@pong9000]

Some Filipinas working in Canada acclimatize, and say they can't tolerate the heat back home.

[@wenderis]

Absolutely! Human acclimatize. Some do it slower than others, but certainly we do it faster as a collective with cultural and technological inventions or basically by enjoying the heat, make peace with it. It's quite well known that most of SEA (outside of the northern n central PH) love spicy food. We just cant get enough of the heat

[@nicmagtaan1132]

Doing something at high noon and biking at the hills... I am a Filipino but I'll melt at that one

[@noelsweet1772]

Love ur vids, dont let yt keep you down

[@wenderis]

I hope any southeast asian watching this, take all of these (even the good points that he made) with a grain of salt. Arguably, this area is the most diverse area in the world! A 45mins video from a few weeks in Thailand and reading some books (granted, books by serious scholars) would never do it justice! Specially, this guy started by treating an area of 1000 languages and thousands of islands like its a monolithic culture.

[@VicTheFigGuy]

Yes! My god, listening to this was painful! If this is anthropology, then it is a very sad state. SE Asia got one of the most complex and diverse regions. He makes a ton of generalizations and assumptions of SE Asia as a whole like they are all the same.

[@kylejamesdalzell2839]

@@VicTheFigGuy Please make your own video to correct his mistaken observations.

[@sparta117corza]

Really cool to see this as its the only country I have ever visited as an Australian (Flights are cheap) and I was astounded by the culture there.

[@wush7985]

South East Asia is not a country.

[@dologongpoloponobonotongpo235]

13:33 literally the lyrics to a filipino folk song 😂 "Magtanim ay di biro, maghapong naka yuko" - "Planting rice is never fun · Bent from morn till the set of sun"

[@diego-rwix]

40:58 the image of the 3 decapitated heads may have been one reason for the video to be age restricted; you could blur that image, maybe the algorithm won't mess the video up again. There's another channel dedicated to history which depicted naked women from a tribe and it happened the same: the content creator blurred the boobies and it worked. Since then violent and sex images appeared blurred and the videos are not age restricted.

[@cadr003]

I was gonna comment the same thing...

[@sidbid1590]

I was shocked by the image when I realized what it was. It's probably a good idea to blur it out because I honestly don't know if I agree with KZbin that it breaks multiple guidelines. On KZbin's part, they should've communicated clearly what they didn't like instead of giving vague statements like "your video violates our rules" or something.

[@arthurbriand2175]

You really should read the Trial by Kafka. It embodies all that you were saying about KZbin.

[@senorswordfish6019]

Hi! Just want to let you know that you have incorrectly labeled a significant part of southern Mindanao (the southernmost island chain of the Philippines) as Islamic when in fact it is not. Mindanao is largely Catholic-Christian and Islam is only predominant on the Central Western part of the Island. You might have to correct it the next time you make a video about PH, but nonetheless I like the video. Keep it up!

[@darky1595]

It was majority muslim back in the last century before it was settled by catholics from Northern philippines, anyway, Muslims Still make about 1/4 of it at very least.

[@wenderis]

Not until very recently. Most of the Christians are Hiligaynon, Waray, or Cebuano migrants. It was largely Muslim dominated region with a significant amount of pagan/animist.

[@paul5475]

Here some mistake Filipinos studies history from Spanish colonization to first independence, Filipino American War and Japanese occupation. I am a college students we know all things and we usually talks about it. Unlike other countries such as Japan China whereas they never talks about dark history such as WW2 Japan. In the Philippines we studied it, also Philippines wasn't actually has a defeated mindsets. A matter of fact Jose Rizal the national hero of the Philippines was actually famous not only in the Philippines but also in the world. He has many statue around the world. He even had own park in China, Spain, in Latin America North America.. our history is actually very interesting.. it's not all about defeat. It just some Filipinos aren't educated probably some people that you ask don't know anything about history of their own..

[@conradojavier7547]

We Filipinos were Brainwash to think that a Communist Monster named Ninoy Aquino was a Hero, by in Reality he Bomb a Plaza for his Communist Ambition.

[@rjtholl]

I agree, as far as repelling major colonial powers in the 16th-20th century the philippines had a pretty rough go. However, there is a strong culture of resistance to colonial powers, many revolutionaries who are esteemed and widely discussed, a toughness to the people of the philippines despite being known for being so friendly and "nice". I spent a month in Antique near Bugasong and read alot about the revolutionaries of the region of which there have been many. Off topic: The Datu's and familial lineage to them does seem to lend a slightly caste like feature to the culture of the philippines.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

@@rjtholl yes, we doesnt like our colonizer, except malaysia and singapore who are pupprt of the west.

[@hijodelsoldeoriente]

39:16 What you said here is generally and fundamentally true. Despite many Filipinos disagreeing, what you mentioned is actually historically and factually true. Take this from a Filipino who've visitted some countries in Southeast Asiansuch as Malaysia and Singaore. Most Filipinos will get irked by you saying that not becuse what you've said is wrong but because in The Philippines, you'll see a lot favoring ethnocentric indigenist narrative more than historical facts. The general identity of The Philippines is fundamentally hispanic-asian. A beautiful dance between the east and the west. Just like what our former President Osmeña said, Filipinos are joth comfortable between the civilizations of the east and the west. And that Filipinos are the most occidental of the orient and the most oriental of the occidents. In us, the orient and the occident meets.

[@connorohare229]

You spoke truth to power Doesn't matter if it's benign as simply stating the sky is blue, the backers of KZbin found your content threatening to their agendas

[@SacredCowStockyards]

2:00 the usual argument is "it's a private corporation they can do whatever they want with their own platform". But then if you try to make a competitor that doesn't do these things, it gets deplatformed immediately. Either Amazon stops hosting it, or at the extreme end Visa and Mastercard stop accepting payments for it. Not to mention, modern people live online, so this is the public square. An argument that old judges out of touch with the modern world disagree with.

[@kenshin891]

Don't tell the lolbert boomers, you'll shock them so much they'll forget their daily donation to their Greatest Ally

[@SacredCowStockyards]

@@kenshin891 I'm a libertarian. Wanna try that again?

[@Swuiddy0086]

16:37 I love this part for just how simple yet true it is

[@michaelseybold1743]

Could you explain the cultural differences between the Ingvaeones, Istvaones, and Irminonic cultures then and now, as well as theorize what an East Germanic culture would be like if it had survived pls

[@deacon6221]

Isn’t Poland just a mix of Slavs and the Germans?

[@Me-fr7yj]

Drag Queens: dance provocatively to highly sexual music for children KZbin: this is fine Whatifalthist: This is southeast Asian cultures. KZbin: abhorrent. We can’t let children see this.

[@xp7575]

Why do you find kids music sexual? Weirdo

[@Solaris_Paradox]

@@xp7575 KZbin can recommend you some WTF stuff.

[@xp7575]

@@Solaris_Paradoxyou misread my comment, I didn't ask you HOW he found kids music, I asked you WHY he thinks of it in a sexual way

[@Solaris_Paradox]

@@xp7575 Oh I see

[@jordanmadison6924]

whatifalthist is far more damaging to the youth

[@johannesmuller727]

Thanks for the great video, just a tiny mistake in the picture at 45:16: Hainan Island is coulered as an American ally while Taiwan is not, those two probably got mixed up.

[@AlexaRobin21]

You mentioned that Vietnam didn't produce any Mao Zedong-tier tyrants, which I guess is fair, but Pol Pot was right next door to them.

[@yux.tn.3641]

probably because China supported Kampuchea and Pol Pot did like Mao

[@lifelessperson1993]

It is interesting to note that the Malayan inhabitants never really feasted on rice. They were mostly into tubers like tapioca.

[@thomasdevine867]

It might be that the very traits Graham Green saw as negative in "The Quiet American" actually stand in our favor here. Mr. Green's hero used the Vietnamese woman he called his "Mistress" as a hooker, housekeeper, and personal drug runner. The American of the title fell in love with the same woman and offered her marriage. This offended both Mr. Green and the novel's narrator. Mr Green was writing a series of articles on the subject of Vietnam at the same time he was writing the novel. The articles and their arguments make up a large part of the novel. In these articles Graham Green argued against Vietnamese independence and for continued French control of Vietnam as a means to make the Vietnamese into good Catholics. Graham Green feared that Americans would respect the local cultures and want to learn from them. Instead of enforcing conversion to Christianity. This is not what most people think this novel is about.

[@meneither3834]

3:10 for the actual start of the video. The first three minutes are him talking about youtube and the video getting taken down.

[@DKUnhinged]

Make a video on indian civilization please! I think its the only one left now

[@normanclatcher]

There's still the polar cultures, too.

[@FF-ch9nr]

i dont think hes done a Central Asian civ video yet….he has too! For the Khan and the Horde!

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

oceania culture?

[@amusementguy]

You post some of the best content on this platform.

[@jordanmadison6924]

you need to watch more videos

[@Fahrenheit4051]

Age restricted: History Not age restricted: Pride month celebration with drag queens on the official Blue's Clues channel

[@jordanmadison6924]

shut up

[@Kristof1]

I know that feeling dude, i've had my videos being age restricted, but when i applied, they actually made it make money again

[@malikshabazz2065]

great video :-)

[@donkeysaurusrex7881]

I think a few things you’re missing one rice based agriculture not fueling armies of conquest: 1. Horses vs Water Buffalo: Horses do poorly in soft, muddy soils because there aren’t rocks to grind down their hooves so humans have to do all that work. Similarly, having one toe like a horse isn’t ideal for working in a rice paddy as it makes slipping more likely. Now some of the southeast Asian kingdoms did field Buffalo Calvary, but just look how much wider the chest of a Buffalo is compared to a horse. You can’t ride it the same way, and without stirrups you don’t have fast horse mounted archers, couched lances, or even saber wielding cavalry. 2. You don’t see a lot of rice flour bread. Pretty much every other grain is more used for making bread when compared to rice. Being able to hand out loaves is likely much easier logistically compared to filling the rice bowls of an entire army. 3. There’s a lot rain in these places. A lot of rain. Wet clothes are one of the biggest drains on morale for an army. Another big one you sea is being cold. My guess is being stuck in humid heat can be almost or even just as bad as extreme cold, but there haven’t been a ton of wars there recently for people to study. Though if you read about fighting in New Guinea in WWII, the climate bedeviled both the Japanese and ANZAC forces, and both turned to what are now illegal drugs most places to try to help their soldiers cope with the heavy exertions of war in hot, humid weather.

[@donkeysaurusrex7881]

All of which when you get down to it has less to do with rice based agriculture than with the sort of environment that is ideal for it. It might be interesting to compare to parts of west Africa the lands on the western shores of the Great Lakes in North America which both also had native rice cultivation. In the Great Lakes are at least some of the rice cultivators took to horses and became rather impressive warriors though this was immediately after other native peoples who had firearms drove them even further west and out of the area where the could cultivate rice.

[@lovemaker2060]

I think Indosphere is the most common official name. South Asian countries (Indian cultural groups) are core Indosphere and Southeast Asian countries are extended Indosphere. (Except Vietnam and Singapore) 😅

[@cocaineminor4420]

Singapore is mix with eastern culture+ western culture

[@TingTong2568]

To add Brunei and the Philippines too. These countries also has a very low Indian influences if compared to the rest of South East Asian countries

[@basilbrushbooshieboosh5302]

Hey Rudi, what's your secret to being able to seemingly read so many books so quickly? Are you a speed- reader for example? Or do you consume heaps of audio- books? However you do it.......I am way way way impressed. Thanks for your great efforts.

[@justinenglish3660]

If I had to hypothesize, it is because SE Asia is a competing civilization. It is uncontrolled by the West. Simultaneously, it is a pathway for young men to find a partner at a level above what they are offered in the west. It could lead to a complete loss of a generation of western men finding east asian partners instead of contributing to the economic system in the west.

[@andyc9902]

You're quite right

[@danielwatcherofthelord1823]

For what's it's worth Whatifalthist, I love your videos! And I don't even agree with everything in them! Imagine that! Somebody can like something by somebody else even if they don't agree with ever viewpoint that they come across!

[@ThatMans-anAnimal]

The problem with historians is that they tend to think historical events are the causative process by which civilizations turn out the way they do, when those events are blinks of an eye compared to the environmental pressures and resultant evolved psychology of the people living in and animating those civilizations.

[@adurpandya2742]

That’s how algorithms work. Finding out why the video was taken down requires digging into the data. And rather than watching the whole video to clarify and double-check, they’ll just take the safe route and remove the video.

[@dylantwists]

A comment on the intro; Since social media companies facilitate many components of our society, like finding employment, they should be reclassified by the USG as public utilities. The bill of rights should also extend on these quasi public utility entities as well as any "dimension" inhabited by U.S. Citizens

[@snakey934Snakeybakey]

Rudyard be rockin that leather jacket!

[@haroldfarquad6886]

Anyone else think Whatifalthist would be a fantastic teaching tool in high school history classes? At a minimum as a starting point for certain periods in history?

[@satyakisil9711]

No

[@juliandamen9804]

No.

[@mj6463]

I think public school sucks because they have to pretend to be unbiased, so no. But my kids will definitely learn from this content and I certainly have.

[@haroldfarquad6886]

@@satyakisil9711 Why not? Real question. I'm not saying treat him like some infallible authority, but his analysis and explanations are good conversation starters, imo.

[@satyakisil9711]

@@haroldfarquad6886 "Why not?" Well, because he is just above-mediocre, rather than being fantastic. He throws data after data after data without pausing to explain how different contexts matter and it would take a lot of information gathered beforehand to analyse what he's up to.