At this moment, an accurate description of this channel would probably be: an Asian-born Brit, living and working in Finland, making a video journal about obvious things he notices.
Also 7:19 skipped most important part 😥 Skipped part recap as follows: Tanja: I don't want to climb the corporate ladder. Tan: So you don't want power? Tanja: No, definitely not. I want to have a relaxed fun easy healthy work life. Tan: I think you need power to do that. I think power is the ability to manipulate and control your environment the way you want it to be.
Mr. Lee had a fair view of the country and the objective was to make it work despite the complexity and multiple conflicts of interests. But, determination to make things work for the greater good will prevail over time. Unfortunately, the governing body of Burma does not share the fair view of greater prosperity for those who had lived for multigeneration in the country. To this day, segregation and race discrimination are apparent after 60+ years of rulings. The middle class is depleting rapidly with only the elites/poors/ethic arms groups remain. How can such a society circling in this unending negative cycle continue to function? What is there left to be salvaged?
The generals were following LKY's advice with their 2008 constitution following indonesia's footsteps. But the ppl and politicians r impatience and I dun blame them. Country is in turmoil for too long already. But wht LKY said is true tho ...generals can be persuaded, they were quite eager to engage with international community from 2011to 2015. May be we need more patience n generals need to withdraw from their positions quicker too.
She may have nailed it. "Here people don't tell you what you have to do, so all you have to do is to figure out yourself. " It's not completely true of course, because the government, authorities, society, family and neighbours tell you many things what you have to do. But you always have the right to argue and pursue your own way, if it's not the government and the police or authorities in a situation you don't even have to listen anyone else. You may make other people unhappy, but it's their problem, not yours. You are allowed the freedom to make your own life.
@ 2:40 - Lee Kuan Yew was incorrect - it wasn't the British who brought all the different ethnic races together in modern day Burma. It was the Burmese, under the Kong Baung dynasty, in 1759, and before that, under Toungoo dynasty, and before that, by Bagan Empire. Also interesting that it was him who gave the current crop of generals the idea about military-controlled parliamentary democracy modelled after Indonesia. However, what Burma lacked were generals who have any semblance of interest in the prosperity of the nation.
Lee Kuan Yew was a prophetic leader! He could force the problem, analyze the circumstances objectively and arrive with definite solution. Though his way of governing has been labelled as autocratic! I prefer to see him as a benevolent dictator. In a society like ours (Asians) who have tribal or herd mentality- you need a hero! Lee Kuan Yew is the model!
Just learnt Singapore and Malaysia ued to be one as a country!!! WTF! Like Bangladesh India Pakistan Burma. Like North South Korea. WTF! Then Colonialism invaded the whole planet, divided everyone and made them independent. Then Colonialism CLAIMED THEM ALL 🤣🤣🤣. EXPLOITED ALL THE RESOURCES AND PEOPLE!🤣🤣🤣 BRITISH COLONIAL BALFOUR DECLARATION DIVIDE PALESTINIAN🤣🤣🤣. WAR WAS NEVER ABOUT RUSSIA URKAINE. IT WAS WESTERN COLONIAL NATO TERRORISTS ALL ALONG
Most people in the country don't how much weight democracy holds. Personally i take good dictatorship if it can bring the country to better standard of living and human rights. The country is in unfortunate position i don't see any one that could lead the country in better path. Lee is the result of the great war and the timing was perfect in that every country in East Asia was starting over. One thing for sure there wouldn't be lee kyan yu 2.0.
The question, “what happen next after the military is abolish?” is making me worry some. I just hope it won't be another civil war between ethnic armies backed by various big countries.😔
LoL...First entire world successy kill Hope in Future for young. Second Fiat Currency IST NOT money ! that's there reason why crypto rise to solve this fundamental problem. "You own nothing and will be happy" forced every way possible why should care ? No work, bad salary, height prices homes ,cars, food, electricity, Laws Horror, Tax nightmare, less privacy, more censorship, divorces, propaganda every where...Is more humanitarian to not bring any new life to literary hell. Why bring them to suffer get exploited live in worst conditions that we are isn't that cruel to do? sick of yours bulshit.
Decline is okay, collapse is not. The decrease rate of 0.2% would be good. But in current trends it might reach over 1% a year for many countries, with some easily reaching 2% like South Korea in 15 years. The society will be unable to exists at such trend.
Good point - I added 3 quite useful and informative links into the description (the PDF is very detailed but if you just scan the graphs/images you will get the picture)
@@WilliamSantos-cv8rr exactly, people who have kids are miserable. They just are stuck with them, so they tell themselves anything they can to basically not kills themselves ir the kids, especially the women, not the dudes that do nothing, just give sperm. It’s messed up
15:37 This lady is lovely. However, I can't imagine my wallet to be drained to 0 each month and having no time for hobbies or travel. It's a stress and sleep deprivation for YEARS (and who knows how many). No, to me it's not worth it.
As someone who decided I will not have kids... I understand the social aspects, also economic aspects. But it was a social relationships that made up my mind at the age of 12. There is not enough good things going on in the world or this hype of living that I would ever dare to condemn someone to be here.
obvious that poor countries are currently still reproducing at a high rate and developed nations have slowed down, but the resource consumption required for the developed nation lifestyle is much larger than those in developed nations. It goes without saying that having everyone living with high living standards with current energy sources would not work. This obsession with never ending growth in the economy in first world nations is short sighted, with current emissions is a good way to make the planet less habitable. I feel there is an emphasis on reproduction because capital wants a larger pool of labor. Everything else seems to be largely BS. People might have more children if raising them was secured financially but even then people may just not want them, and the resources required for a developed lifestyle is not insignificant. I think the optimal rate would be just around replacement not much more of drastically less.
Lee Kuan Yew dreamt of going to Rangoon University but couldn't. Now Myanmar young people dream of going to Singapore and many can't. 70 years of military foolishness and mismanagement has ruined Myanmar and millions of futures.
I am a Singaporean, i have never in my entire life, ever heard of anyone in this living, breathing world, ever "want" to enter or join "rangoon univrsty." I myself have never hear of such a place, but i personally know that myanmar is so undeveloped, poor, impoverished and weak, that even the neighboring Bangladesh and the Thailand border, don't want myanmar to enter their country (including MALAYSIA not accept myanmar people.) That is how weak and poor myanmar until today and in future.
Myanmar's Coup D'etat happened in Feb 2021 - 6 years AFTER LKY DIED... When will rational people wake up..???..that NO ONE can speak from the grave 😅😂😅😂😂
The problem is that the Myanmese military junta's goals are completely unaligned with that of the general population. Their #1 goal is to protect themselves and their interests at all costs, even to the detriment of the people of Myanmar. No amount of advice from Lee Kuan Yew is going to change that basic fact.
Burmese downfall begins with ultra racist nationalism which kicked out many skill workers(Chinese and Indians) at the time. It also makes the many ethnic groups within the country hate the majority(Burmese) ethnic group.
Myanmar is a very different and unique case compared to other Southeast Asian countries with so many ethnic groups scrambling for power and some financially supported by the US and UK. Opening up for tourism like other SouthEast Asian countries is not viable unless the fighting among the ethnic groups are settled. Tourism will let in people from countries that have intention to upsurge Myanmar for their benefits.
I think the only closest analog to Burma/Myanmar in the region was Indonesia. This seems quite counter-intuitive at first until one checks their colonial (especially from early 20th century) and post-colonial history were almost identical up until late 1970s. One dominant ethnic group with ~60% population within super-diverse population? Check. Repeated genocides and famines inflicted by colonizers (thus the resentment against outsiders even much later after decolonization)? Check. Various political entities and local militias that initially backing two sides of colonizers (Japan and Western powers) united and turned against them to resist recolonization? Check. These entities later went into each other's throat afterwards and ended up on juntas' hand? Check. The only watershed moment was that in Indonesia their junta wasn't become as despotic as that of Tatmadaw's due to widespread protest in late 1970s. The military rule was still there and the demonstration was squashed, but alas the junta relented and gave some freedom to non-military sectors, which paved the way to transition to democracy later on.
