How American is Liberia?

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[@ayadhyist]

I never understood why Americo-Liberians treated Indigenous Liberians the way they did. Did they not learn from their ancestors?

[@waffle6376]

they become what they hated

[@strechemall]

Because they went in with a total American mindset and we all know how the Americans behaved to their own natives during the 19th century.

[@vortigan9068]

they simply copied what they had seen of the previous society they had taken part in? whats so complicated

[@zpex8697]

Just because they're the same race doesn't mean they're the same heritage, plus it also doesn't help that Black American slaves were sold off by fellow Africans. It's like saying why Japanese and Koreans don't like eachother despite looking the same.

[@lapisdragon1237]

The thing is they did learn from their ancestors, the slaves. The only thing they knew was racial segregation and slavery, so they put that into their new government.

[@pikespice]

Greenville is the most American city name, so I wasn't surprised to learn there's a Greenville, Liberia. - me, a resident of Greenville, South Carolina

[@Treesinthesummer]

Hello fellow greenviller, I am from Greenville, Wisconsin

[@Godslayer5656]

Due to one famous revolution hero, Nathaniel Greene.

[@duckduckjedi]

@@Godslayer5656I am from Greenville Michigan and our town was named after John Greene who was our town founder

[@lunalingo4461]

Can we all agree, if this guy takes a while to upload, it's gonna be a banger of a video that's coming

[@lollius88]

Thats cool but why did he make his old videos member only??

[@MCCamels]

Oversimplified who hasn't uploaded in nearly a year:

[@qhayiya252]

@@MCCamels everybody hopes that its gonna be a banger

[@lunalingo4461]

@@qhayiya252 true

[@lunalingo4461]

@@qhayiya252 any guesses for the video topic???

[@Zepoz]

Many prior colonies struggle with racism within dark skinned groups. For example between several different tones of dark skin or creole/native differences in history. Very noticable in Suriname which used to be Dutch untill 1975 which has a very multicultural demographic with many different groups settling since the late 1800's whichis quite long for something like that. Always tensions between Hindu's, Javanese, Chinese, Creole, Native, Marron-relatives, whites, Jews, and surprising lot of Lebanese.

[@jmgonzales7701]

didnt jews look white

[@Polska_Edits]

​@@jmgonzales7701There are black Jews too

[@projectember728]

@@jmgonzales7701Jews are an ethnicity just like Hispanics so they can be any color tbh

[@NativeVsColonial]

India has a special term for them, it’s called ‘Brown Sepoy’, by skin color look Indian, but culturally colonized with the Anglo mindset. In this case of Liberia, they can be called ‘Black Sepoys’, by skin color African, but by culture, morality, and ethics, European.

[@projectember728]

@@NativeVsColonial just use ethnicity instead That’s like calling salt sodium chloride

[@xXxSkyViperxXx]

it's ironic that former poor slaves who were sold off now with freed descendants come back to africa richer and oppress the poorer natives

[@zanchiso1934]

Black thing the hood i guess

[@Mister100Percent]

It's about as ironic as those being persecuted in Europe coming to American colonies only to persecute other people there too. Regardless of race, religion, gender, sexuality, etc. everyone can be an asshole.

[@mitacestalia7532]

if you can't control your mind, wealth make you an asshole.

[@idkjb777]

​@@zanchiso1934bro

[@billikpe2718]

@@Mister100Percent good point

[@mitacestalia7532]

Remember folks, people who don't learn from history will repeat the same mistake! You become the one you hate the most!

[@Kasubaz]

Finally someone remembers Liberia

[@itz_richard]

Truthfully, Liberia wasn’t ever that American. The Americo-Liberians were a really small elite, making up only a few hundred families who held an iron grip on the government and national economy, leaving the native majority to suffer. While Liberia was technically economically prosperous like you said, that wealth was only experienced in the capital city of Monrovia and its surrounding cities. In these cities, the Americo-Liberians lived in mansions in gated communities, and had access to advanced hospitals and universities. The native towns and villages on the other hand looked like your typical improvised African slums. So while Liberia had a high GDP in the 60’s and 70’s, most of Liberia still remained poor because the Americo-Liberians were hoarding all the money. William Tubman, Liberia’s autocratic leader during the Cold War, was infamous for letting his family embezzle thousands of dollars of the national budget that they would waste on drugs and gambling in the United States. In other words, the economic disparities were obvious. The majority of Liberians had no connection to America, and by the time the 1980 coup and subsequent Civil Ward happened, the majority of the Americo-Liberians would flee the country (taking their fortunes with them, effectively making the country even poorer), and with them gone, that killed the little American influence that Liberia had. Nowadays, the only real American influence that can be seen in Liberia is language and religion. But even then, tribal languages and religions are still widely spoken/practiced.

[@domenico_ginny6164]

Very interesting

[@warriorman1708]

Can you also make: - Why Hungary and Romania hate each other? - Why Greece and Albania love/hate each other? - Why Spain and England/Britain hate each other? - Why Russia and Turkey hate each other? - Why Louxemburg exist? - Why Andorra exist? - Why Monaco exist? - Who are the BalkanCountries? - Who are the BalticCountries? - Why are Germany and the Netherlands not together? - Why are Cannada and USA not together? - How did Japan become powerful?

[@drin_237]

I would say why albania and greece hate/love each other

[@user-xw5xo3bv1n]

- Why Russia and Turkey hate each other? ---- Hate so much that Turkey is one of favorite vacation spots of russians, lmao. Nah, there is no hate rn. Just a rivalry for influence in Syria and Caucasus.

[@sagard.yenchilwar1379]

well magyars want to believe that romanians pickpocketed transylvania out of their pocket

[@bow-89]

Why China and Serbia love each other? Why Spain and Serbia love each other? (The second one is really simple to explain: Even though Spain directly bombed Serbia during the Kosovo war, it doesn't recognize Kosovo in fear that the independence movements (Here in Catalonia, in the Basque Country, there was even terrorism there, and in Galicia), also Spain is one of, if not the most supportive of Serbian EU access, also Serbia has clicked the [ Improve relations 🏦 *10* ] IRL

[@Qingep]

Russia and Turkey is love/hate eachother

[@epicbirdy42069]

You should do a video on how Argentina had a chance to be a superpower but ultimately fell short.

[@mixtapemania6769]

1:19 As a Haitian 🇭🇹🇭🇹, big ups for the shout out. Our history is the most badass on the planet, even though consequentially, our country is the most unstable in the west.

[@demarcomixon]

Haiti is like a one hit wonder, y’all did one cool thing and won’t shut up about it.

[@nightmarexgaming120]

⁠@@demarcomixonHaiti has done plenty of cool things and most Haitians I’ve most met aren’t the type that “won’t shut up about it”

[@gennadicole7102]

@@nightmarexgaming120and what do y’all have to show for it?

[@Mukden-v5b]

But Haiti's independence history is glorious.Love from China

[@mixtapemania6769]

@@demarcomixon lol to be fair that one "cool" thing is more than what most countries have done to present. You can't blame us, that shit is like a Quentin Tarantino movie IRL. If I had to compare it to an artist it would be as if prince released purple rain (one of the greatest songs in history) and then just never released anything again.

[@jmWolfe2585]

Liberia and Israel share some pretty disturbing similarities, especially with regard to the colonial mindset.

[@Kubifield]

Well, the Israel conflict also has a religious aspect for how Judaism and Islamic beliefs contradict on who is the rightful owner of Jerusalem.

[@abdior6961]

Only difference is Israel accomplished their objectives

[@rabbidcrazy787]

Arabs are only indigenous to the Arabian peninsula.

[@houseplant1016]

Trying to sabotage us from studying for the exams by dropping this suddenly?💀 Ofcourse this gets priority

[@slightyburntporkchop6644]

apush :sob:

[@xryphon]

@@slightyburntporkchop6644 no my monroe doctrine!!!

[@nebularspace]

wow, I used to watch you all the time. still love your work, I should start binging it again

[@kadekyudhistiras]

The moment when I realized that their video about "Why Israel is Controversial?" is locked and can only access by join the channel, I admit this guy is seriouly smart mf with some pro gamer move

[@anubratabit3027]

All of his old videos are locked because there he frequently used cuss words.

[@kadekyudhistiras]

@@anubratabit3027 oh so there are more videos. Thanks for the information, dude

[@izzatsufian2796]

You're back❤

[@Xristoforos41493]

Ever hear of Linconia?

[@OGrandomunknownperson]

Nó

[@Xristoforos41493]

@@OGrandomunknownperson Well, check it out sometime

[@NativeVsColonial]

@@OGrandomunknownpersonSame project to deport Blacks to a Central American colony.

[@CSGhostAnimation]

I'm so excited for the sequel: How American is Malaysia?

[@epokcat7272]

Yay ball man is back

[@waffle6376]

Can you do Yemen or Oman

[@eriqmav]

Kinda unrelated but I love seeing people using the liberian flag emoji mistakenly during 4 of July it's so funny to me

[@PopEwLair]

forgot this dude existed

[@mappingshaman5280]

My girlfriend and hopefully future wife is liberian. Good video!

[@aircraft2]

3:50 Ethiopia was overrun by Mussolini's forces for a few years, making Liberia the only country in Africa which colonialism never touched.

[@robinrehlinghaus1944]

Yo, released 10 seconds ago? I've never been so early, I thought it impossible.

[@apuboi1527]

He has returned!

[@evv1978]

You're the best. Never give up. And keep the "voice" :D

[@user-tu3hh2gs5n]

OMFG HE MADE A VIDEO THATS FREE!??!?!?!??!?! also when did you make a memebers thing

[@Zepoz]

Ah yes, "anti-colonial" Usa

[@qhayiya252]

when a post 1800's colony does colonial stuff. But without a mainland that isn't at risk.

[@benzness]

They backed many of our independence movements and provided support in many instances. Something Europe, Japan and China failed at. No one told them to do that.

[@carlosanderson4479]

Some people just never learn from history not to be pricks.

[@darkflamemaster6541]

Now do it with Philippines on how American are them, well they've been a colony of the US for almost half decade

[@jamesbackstar8285]

This is Literally just Israel if you replaced the UK with the US

[@Joseph_mohaz]

Fact

[@Flomockia]

And remove religion

[@mr.blueitachi5258]

Oooooooh now i understand why Liberia always votes against ceasefire in Gaza

[@Ribbion_holder]

I'm the first one here nice video i seen it all

[@sploid1471]

THE GOAT

[@ColombiaballNASCARfan55]

Can you please bring back the old videos Kingdom only members only is really really unfair because really it gives the people who join your channel even more chances of watching those videos instead of some people who cannot watch those videos and cannot be a member because they don't have the money or the memberships are just really high and also you have to pay autonomy for every single month so you can please bring back?

[@jaedenb]

OMG BABE LOOK, COUNTRYBALLS EXPLAINED HAS UPLOADED ANEW ONE..

[@Itspapacritz]

Essentially it's just a mini USA but more ethical

[@xsongi2413]

video #65 of asking for a vid about the hungary-romania conflict

[@ianeons9278]

Liberia 🇱🇷 AKA the Israel 🇮🇱 of Africa

[@uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug7053]

Nah there's no conflict there and all past conflicts are settled.

[@somerandommen]

Ewwww, don't compare Liberia to Nazi Germany 2.

[@scarymonster5541]

Both countries hate other ethnicity make sense why And treat other ethnicity as second class citizen

[@uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweug7053]

@@scarymonster5541 But still Liberia can't be compared with Israel. Liberia stop the affairs while the Zionist are continuously bombing Gaza and apartheid regime on Palestinians

[@torii7797]

Omds the fact that y’all are comparing the two countries insaneee.

[@TheLeniwiec022]

Well well well...

[@dan27032]

5:04 I feel sorry for all the grown adults that think this way. I was lead to believe this kinda stuff as a kid to an extent (e.g. Africa poor Europe rich) but after having grown up and realised more about history, countries, and how different people are I don't get how any academic/pseudo-intellectual can push for this and expect to be taken seriously

[@hjalmarfreidenvall1655]

Neat

[@kk_hotdogconsumer5959]

How do you get the robotic voice?

[@86kickass]

A slave doesn’t dream of the day of freedom as much as he dreams of the day when he can have his own slave

[@xXxSkyViperxXx]

it's ironic that a malaysian is making this flag joke 0:15

[@TheSanityInspector]

Can't abide that robot narrator.

[@NON155]

LIGHT BROWN SKIN DUDE... (.Am One Of Them .)

[@PatSmashYT]

The argument that blacks aren't capable of building a society is to an extent true but it stems from blacks being a lot less educated than whites which effectively doomed a lot of black countries to fail. Meanwhile Botswana which was first led by a more educated black man and didn't adopt more black people into government until education improved has seen a lot of success being the richest sub-saharan African country

[@houseplant1016]

It's literally only geography, it has nothing to do with education. First civilisations were founded by farmers. If your state will be successful or not is purely just geography.

[@jmgonzales7701]

he didnt adopt more black people?

[@makutas-v261]

@@jmgonzales7701 Until they were educated at large.

[@mitacestalia7532]

I don't even trust my own island to be independent lol. It just building a society or country is very damn hard.

[@makutas-v261]

@@mitacestalia7532 Which island?

[@loriscol-chambon5068]

Can you make colombia🇨🇴

[@stargazer-elite]

America 2

[@BlockieBlockster]

ok

[@user-cn8cz3qz6z]

The differences between the races run a lot deeper than just "light-skin" or "dark-skin", and I think we all know that.

[@erfan6322]

2:22 we the people blah blah blah 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MsMimo07]

Funny to see that the opressed immediately turned into the opressors once they had the chance🤷🏼‍♂️

[@NativeVsColonial]

India has a special term for them, it’s called ‘Brown Sepoy’, by skin color look Indian, but culturally colonized with the Anglo mindset. In this case of Liberia, they can be called ‘Black Sepoys’, by skin color African, but by culture, morality, and ethics, European.

[@Selangorean]

I have a question? How did Albania became muslim

[@collar1967]

ottoman empire

[@thanhhoangnguyen4754]

​​@@collar1967 Well let just said that Albania and Bosia just got tired with the Christian ( mainly the Catholic Pope in Rome) trying pillaging, war and demanding more taxes. So it a good reason. The Balkan at that time was a mess which also contributed why the Byzantine downfall for Ottoman to take over them. What with all of the roman legacy having a civil war with their own anyway?

[@user-io7sh7nx7c]

Also there were tax benefits of converting to Islam as there were taxes supposed to be paid by non-muslims called jiziya and judicial discrimination when there was any dispute between a Muslim and a non-Muslim

[@jmgonzales7701]

ottomans

[@iandoster4680]

4:03

[@Ziafiz]

Make Liberia Great Agan

[@mohmoudahmed4531]

Why you deleted some your old videos?

[@JcDizon]

He deleted some older videos?

[@mohmoudahmed4531]

@@JcDizon yes

[@VMF-rj8qo]

Doubt he deleted, probably privated or unlisted.

[@GBArmyNation]

​@@mohmoudahmed4531His older videos are there... Ya need a membership to watch those videos unfortunately

[@canadiankiwigaming]

Apparently they are members only videos now... Which I think is quite dumb

[@AnderJaxi]

Who is Oman

[@OnTheVergeOfLosingIt]

🇴🇲

[@joeflores8062]

One of Americas stadiums in Dallas Texas uses more electricity than the entire country of Liberia

[@weetytoaster1835]

My question is why don’t they use American weapons because I look up the military and they use AK-47s

[@mappingshaman5280]

Have you seen the liberian economy recently? Ak 47s are a lot cheaper than American weapons.

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

Expensive and harder to find

[@matheussobral5044]

The OG zionists

[@ryanoconnor5176]

Sounds eerily similar to how israel was created.

[@OFFIZERANTIDUOLINGO]

Ameribia

[@frustationoverloaded5976]

Lol at the end, america called them nigerian scammers 😂

[@user-fw5pk5qp3q]

Natives have rights, they should have respected the Natives too

[@Marco-kl7ds]

hi.

[@Saudi-Ball8]

love Malaysia From Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦❤️🇲🇾

[@erfan6322]

Is this about Malaysia or Liberia?

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

@@erfan6322 about saudi arabia.

[@erfan6322]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 the video is about Liberia bro loves Malaysia

[@jmgonzales7701]

saudi discriminates on southeast asians

[@NativeVsColonial]

South Asians, and South East Asians are all becoming Ex-Muslims, after learning about how Is’lam as a religion was invented to colonize Non-Arabs and extort them for pilgrimage and fund Arabia.

[@drin_237]

Do you read books?

[@crossfire7474]

This history shows why Communism was invented.

[@nihiqallam5616]

Yes it for the better

[@mappingshaman5280]

Lmao no. Communism was invented because some fat j€w was living off of his friend's money and wanted to justify that by claiming he was oppressed when, like his modern followers, he never worked a day in his life. It should also be noted he was pro colonialism seeing it as a way to develop africa and eventually allow it to reach a stage of civilisation where it could embrace communism.

[@TotalTruth-yu8lk]

@@mappingshaman5280 take your meds kid

[@oxcaxx]

Imagine the quality of these videos if it didn’t use a stupid sounding robot voice

[@AbidurRahman2212]

Make a Video about Bangladesh 🇧🇩

[@AbidurRahman2212]

@@themaltesemalt2274 what??

[@AbidurRahman2212]

@themaltesemalt2274 what does Radicalism mean??

[@SOULAANI_]

@@AbidurRahman2212being pushed more to the extreme, in this context i think hes taking about islamic extremist

[@NativeVsColonial]

@@themaltesemalt2274Yes, currently USA wants to interfere in the elections of Bangladesh and topple the current secular government with a radical extremist one, to leverage pressure on India.

[@mainaccount4585]

What is WASP?

[@Zepoz]

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

[@liampetersen4853]

Basically white folks of english descents

[@jmgonzales7701]

the insect

[@Onlyloss69]

A dating app lol

[@SuperCaptainFail]

AI generated content

[@lokkomotive8153]

This is exactly what happened in Israel

[@Talinight]

Yo

[@mightyx5441]

hate the robotic voice either use your own voice or google slides

[@goodmusic4673]

Love that despite liberia beeing a prime example here that leting blacks alone wouldnt fix shit. there are people that insist that it would fix every problem africa has

[@davidbowie5023]

American colonial empire in Africa did exist. Except in the form of an African country. 😂

[@Elite_Eric]

Long live the king

[@Mineyina1172]

That's Not America

[@NativeVsColonial]

Black Sepoys Vs Blacks

[@flavor_text8757]

Bro just say black americans or african americans

[@NativeVsColonial]

India has a special term for them, it’s called ‘Brown Sepoy’, by skin color look Indian, but culturally colonized with the Anglo mindset. In this case of Liberia, they can be called ‘Black Sepoys’, by skin color African, but by culture, morality, and ethics, European.

[@jamesalexander6139]

Idk why you have white supremacist talking points in the middle of your video, without providing any context or counter arguments, and instead trying to add more evidence to this talking point. Really not needed and really suspicious my friend.

[@Russian_reich]

Rip Maryland 😢

[@Ribbion_holder]

I'm the first one here nice video i seen it all