Coco's Feel-Good Oppression 

Drawings should work too, I think?

What about codex?

Hi, Mexican person here, the sugar skulls now used more as a decoration were used to represent the person on the ofrenda before pictures

DJ Mensil thank you :)

@@djmensil7303 OMG so that's why you need to put a name on every skull you place in a memorial, as a Mexican thanks

WSoulMoony dang ain’t that the harsh truth. Did you enjoy the film? Also you okay

@@Gaiwen_Li Yes, thanks ha! I'm usually not this bitter is just the video ingited some bad experiences. I loved the film in the end it's about family and all that, I still cry every time I rewatch it. My whole family loves it too.

I've heard the reason for that is because you would have a reason to go back to your country and not stay in the USA

Guau que duro!!

@@ErikAo5o4 yes, but is still really weird and an unfair requirement, I mean I don't have a property and I still have a lot of reasons to return to my country when I go on vacation. Even having the money to afford what is for me an expensive vacation abroad, I am no being able to buy a house in my country (Argentina) even if I save my hole salary for the rest of my life.

I'm not surprised. It's Disney.

Like another comment said, Disney successfully copyrighted "hakuna matata". Its so fricking disgusting...

WHAT, THEY DID THAT?

@@realglutenfree did they actually make that up or are they actual words

@@yellowteaspoond5507 dianey did not make the phrase hakuna matata is a very common often used swahili phrase in many eastern countries in africa such as kenya and uganda

what? they aren't border jumping, what are you on about? i get not liking disney but where in your ass did you pull this out of

Art imitates real life

but there is a choice in which part of real life they want to imitate@@RealSnuuy , as pointed out in the movies "this is the way things are" would be more justifiable if intead of police the system was just magic, the skeletons live as long as they are remembered and they can only come to the real world if someone wants them to come, no police, border control or slums were necessary

Y eso? Cuando la fui a ver al cine no pensé en eso, más bien me impresionó la interpretación del mundo de los muertos con influencias de principio del siglo XX en México

@@ufoesferico1050ah ya no manches, no te hagas p*ndejo, es una película bien p1nches racista

This hit hard.

paying and traveling within our country to get a visa that might be denied or for short term.

I feel like, as someone from England, I don't even really experience `hardships` when travelling apart from some minor stress that relates far more to my personal problem of just getting stressed easily. This is especially because English is my first language and it's shoved down people's throats in so many other countries, so I don't even have language issues most of the time. It's so unfair that other people get judged so harshly just because the system and the workers under it are so prejudiced; while I do feel very fortunate that due to my circumstances I've never experienced or even fully known the horrors of this harsh reality, it makes me so angry that people suffer because of it.

Truth 100%

As a Nigerian I completely agree

Yes! I hate seeing posts that venerate the outliers who beat the system. We shouldn't be praising people for having to fight tooth and nail for opportunities they should have never even been denied, and instead, critiquing the systems that would set someone so far back. What they did is amazing but they should have never even needed to do it. Late-stage capitalism at its finest

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" _Your_ suffering builds character. _We_ are just fine, thanks all the same."

Reminds me of those kids who had to use Taco Bell wifi to get all their online homework done every day.

This reminds me of a story in Malaysia, where a 19 y/o girl in Sabah had to climb on top of the tree just to get some internet connection to attend her university exams during the Movement Control Order. Some think of this as "inspirational" but it has opened a lot of people's eyes that there are states in that have little to no access on internet connection and have fallen behind technologically.

I guess art?

You gotta remember mexico has only existed for about 400 years. Most of the modern mexican culture only popped up in the last 200. Before mexico you had Aztec and dozens of other smaller civiliations with vastly different cultures that diluted and mixed with Catholistm. Technology also greatly efffects culture, just like how modern concept of weddings with glamouras gowns and diamond rings only became main stream in the last century.

@@notsans9995 And how memes are so prevalent in today's culture, ask somebody to find a cultural zeitgeist for the 2000's and onwards, and some popular videos and images will probably pop into their brains.

Oh, yeah, never thought of that. I think in the past they just left their offerings beside a candle. That *should* be valid.

​@@notsans9995you are wrong, that tradition existed far before the spanish people came, there is evidence of this celebration from totonaca, mexica, purépecha and maya.

Die goated

Yeah I hope he's doing alright, I would love to hear more from him

I feel you dude…. this channel is so good…

maybe he didn't make it out of airport customs and he's now in jail writing his autobiography...

I wonder if he's okay. His twitter is also inactive.

Same

So they say knowing is half the battle. But what about knowing for an hour, then forgetting?

Ah yes the borders 🇲🇽

a border to Canada, yes

Same here! I would love to hear more about his perspective on more topics and movies.

Same

me too lol

Me too, but still really nice to know.

SAME

I kinda remembered it at the end while thinking: "how did I get here?"

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I don't see how this addresses the plot. There are still people who wouldnt specifically make it onto that ofrenda. Also, culture changes. Movies always have had this power, even in their own culture.

Isn’t Heaven also a thing in Mexican culture?

@@freddiesimmons1394 You don’t understand because you share the same American view of what Mexican culture is. …just like the filmmakers

@@beetle998 how about you tell me what it is I don't understand, instead of brushing me off.

Papers, Please is a beautiful game

It's great too, cause it'll throw things at you which make you feel like what you're doing is justified, then a curveball will be thrown your way showing you why having to check 50 different papers just exacerbates the problem.

@@Jenna_Talia letting the mother in law didn't make me feel right, i was joking with a friends about leting her die but ... tough decissions

I didn't notice a message on how stupid the border control is? I don't think it had such a message actually.

Crossing a border used to be as simple as just walking across it. No one needed all this BS simply to step on an identical patch of earth that happens to be an invisible border of a country, a concept that only exists in human imagination. It's baffling to me.

I feel like that movie is too underrated, no one seems to talk about it even though it was a great movie. I loved when I was a kid

I think ot was directed by a Mexican director that had done other Mexican related projects before, I think the guy in this movie is too but Im not sure about it, maybe it was a Pixar edition...who knows, but you guys have never seen Las aventuras de Manny Rivera? The guy who made it made the book of life too.

AND it was made by a mexican (the dude who also made El Tigre)

they came out pretty close together right? I feel like coco totally stole its thunder

Yooo the book of life was lowkey inaccurate to Mexican culture, I remember watching it and being like are they representing Spanish or Mexican culture ?✨confusion✨ ooof I really hated that film though

I feel like a lot of child protagonists would get issues after their experiences

ironically that is also very reminiscent of the experience with border systems, if i want my kids to travel i have to work a lot so they have a good live and can have good connections, if my friends want to get a visa i would try to help all of them get the documents they need and i myself would try to look as righteous and wealthy as i could

Head canon time: he starts writing a book with short chapters that are each just short stories from a sertin persons life, at the end of the chapter there is a picture of that person, like Miguel just becomes a famous wrighter and gets people remembered by the entire world

And then when he does forget someone (because he will) he’ll probably never forgive himself for it and get even more mental issues

yeah only he can solve the wealth inequality of the dead world where we literally witness characters dying from malnourishment like. kind of a heavy responsibility

Or maybe it's a message to non-Americans. Obey the system without a fuss.

@@mikshinee87 Pretty fucked up message if so..

@@mikshinee87 It’s not that deep bozo.

I got the impression that the border patrol is there to fish people out the bridge, and also to double-check what they bring back (got anything to declare?) to make sure they weren't stealing.

@@Regfife wouldn't the magic bridge check for stolen goods and couldn't it (again, the *magic* bridge) just make the person sink then get them back to the other side? It's a fictional setting, love.

According to the rules of the movie, though, Miguel putting up an ofrenda for the forgotten people still wouldn't help to save them from being forgotten. Otherwise Hector would have been saved as soon as Miguel got back to the land of the living. They had to be remembered by someone who knew them in life. That's why he had to get Coco to remember Hector, because she was the last living person who knew him in life. However, the idea of Hector & the other Riveras going back to the slums and helping out the people there is wonderful and I could imagine it happening, although from a storytelling perspective I think it would have been hard to fit into the movie without reworking a lot of the ending; it would throw off the pacing & rhythm. So they chose to go for the big emotional moment of triumph for Hector rather than spending time wrapping up those loose ends.

In my family, we light a separate candle ( if I remember correctly) for those forgotten.

@@Dachusblot that's because it's not a loose end, the message that the film is trying to convey is that the people who are still alive must remember and pass the memory of the people who passed away, the problem is not that they cannot pass to the other side and receive the offerings, the problema is being forgotten. I am Mexican and the important thing about this tradition is to remember, and the film from beginning to end is spent all the time saying and emphasizing the importance of the living remembering the people that passed away. For that reason, it would not make sense to change this aspect of their society, this is what will drive people to remember and want to do something to be remembered.

@@jasdd2967 Next to my grandmother's grave, there's one that obviously hasn't been visited in years, so I've started buying one extra candle to put it on that one, since I know noone else will

@@nataliaborys1554 That is wonderful

@@lpsfankanr1 I mean... that's the problem with shorthand as writers. If we use a shortcut carelessly, we can often create a message and path that we didn't intend to. Intent matters, but it doesn't matter as much as the actual impact. People internalize that shorthand and lose the nuance overtime. That's how we end up with a society believing a systemic issue is just a matter of people not trying hard enough. After all, every inspirational story shows a hero winning against similar odds purely by a but of pluck and determination. If you can't win, you didn't try hard enough. Words are weapons, and a weapon fired recklessly can injure the innocent.

Yes! I thought about this, like poor people who can't afford camera phones (or the cost of cameras, film, and development back in the day), orphans who have no family to put up their pictures, the recluses who only interact with their mail carrier and food/essentials delivery drivers, even people who just think taking pictures is bad juju. Do drawings suffice for some of those people, and how good do the drawings have to be?

@@amiraameera8302 ignoring the social context completely, just in the fantasy setting obviously a drawing must suffice, or no one from before like 1880 could cross over. it seems like the system has been in place for way longer than 150 years so probably any representation deliberately meant to be that individual would work

Central america? Where are you from?

Well, we do see background characters in the movie from times where photographs weren't even a thing, most seemingly wealthy too (I'm sure I saw what I could assume to be a tlatoani). So I think it's safe to assume there are alternatives like using misc. illustrations representing the person (ranging from a child's drawing of a family member to paintings from back when) or maybe even written names.

Imagination being limited by the society you live in is something that happened since the first tribes thought, but i'm still glad that you realized it , since is always good to realize these sort of things no matter how late

Considering Elemental is suppose to be a metaphor for/commentary on Immigration (seemingly Immigration to America) it kind of makes sense in that context to depict the Border Control and Rich/Poor, no?

@@ryanjapan3113 I was referring to Coco when I said that.

@@NJdaniels96 Ah ok, gotcha

I feel like the difference between Coco and Elemental is that Elemental at the very least draws upon inspiration from the creator, who's Korean-American.

9/11 left a lot of people with so much prejudice against certain ethnicities (especially towards people from the Middle East) that this stuff happens. I get being cautious but “random selection” is total bs.

@@SpecterNeverSpectator why would you even write this ? I mean, of course you have the right, but i do not understand the point. What he wrote doesn't seem fake, why would he say it otherwise ? Maybe it is uncommon where you're from, or maybe you aren't concerned and fail to see it. People have empathy, you know, and they might feel genuinely sorry if something negative happens to their friends, or to people in general who didn't deserve it.

@@SpecterNeverSpectator what a loser

​@@SpecterNeverSpectatoryou really just outing yourself as a shitty person huh

@@SpecterNeverSpectator this is the internet. there is no obligation to reply to everything. people do not offer their condolences for "image" because there is inherently no risk in inaction

Ew

no fucking way.... wtf disney

honestly the more I grow up the less I like Disney....

Thats evil theyre scum

The sad thing is this doesn't supries me

Their big mistake was normalizing the flawed

Because every society is flawed, and if they didn't make it flawed we wouldn't believe it.

@@cortster12 more like ~flawed in very similar ways~

This is intentional any made up world needs to have some sort of tethering similitude to our own world

yeah dude. pretty much how you can count in one hand the alien races in fiction that aren't humanoid, don't speak english and have a culture that doesn't resemble ours. it's sad but creating things is harder than transforming them.

Have to tried going to Africa?

Blood tests? Holy shit dude

What's in Africa?

What? I didn't know they made people do that

Blood test ??? , why they need that anyways?

He rrally did! I been checking since this one came out every week now every couple months i come to check on this to. Still nothing but oo the feel good opression one is a banger tht keeps making me come back

Like Nerdonymous

“How can global warming be real if its snowing right now, huuuh?”

The fact people actually say stuff like that, is really sad.

"If white people are priviliged, than why is there this ONE white guy who aint a millionaire but is homeless?"

“Racism doesn’t exist. I see POC around me every day.” Clowns, clowns everywhere. 🤡

@@canvas_125 I mean like tbf Asians do make way more money on average than whites do in the USA. So if there were only 5 Asians living in the USA but they're all ultra billionaires than the argument falls apart ya clown

I'd like to say I implicitly noticed it too, but I think I just disliked it because it wasn't my thing.

its amazing, it happened the same to me. i wanted to love it but only the coco scene had any effect of me.... everything else was just pleasant.

That's funny, the original draft had a "You may not have noticed it, but your brain did" reference in it haha

You like pizza rolls?

I've never liked the entire Ernesto plot angle and resolution. Though my issues with it were never based upon the inequality aspect in this society or the border control issues here (hell, as an American I hadn't even thought to analyze the border control aspects of this fantastic video). It was always about how he doesn't ACTUALLY ever have any consequences. Yea, the people in the afterlife hate him for that year and probably wont see his concert the next year, but he's still obscenely wealthy and his lifestyle doesn't actually have to change. People are still going to party it up at his rich mansion in the after life, just like they would with rich people alive. People are still buying his albums and visiting his grave site in the real world. It's nice that Hector's museum of who wrote the songs was ADDED to the community so he could get some recognition, but Ernesto was the one in the movies, selling the records, went on concert tours, he was the face of the entire operation. His albums are still selling. It's his face on others' ofrendas. He's the Mexican version of Elvis. How many people STILL in 2020 worship Elvis and how many ACTUALLY KNOW the black artists who wrote the songs he stole? Elvis is still king. And Ernesto had 0 consequences. Nothing changed outside of the immediate family - and then only really for the dead characters.

Simple, they want the poor to remain poor so they can donate almost nothing and say they are so kind

as someone from a country from the eu, im glad to be part of it for some reasons, but also fucking hate the eu for shit like this. If only they were fucking consistent with making sane, good decisions, rather than being contradictory all the damn time...

​@@killme6715 one thing I've noticed is that it's always so stupid seeing one EU country do something so arbitrary, like with what Orban did by lying about allowing refugees and immigrants only to expel them out of the blue, what the hell did he expect by doing that????

​@@killme6715As EU is made up of dozens of countries with different immigration policies there must be compromises and sometimes those have quite negative consequences like the mentioned Spanish problem But things can always be improved and Union changed lives of many for the better Where I am from 30 years ago trying to leave the country will get me shot. Now I can go anywhere in EU I want

Cartels and the explosion of drug exportation since the coke craze in the 70’s

I thought Canada had open boarders?

What do you mean by that? That's my dream, to live in Canada someday, and it's very disheartening to know that. I hope you're okay now

​@@Hi-jw7oqWe had open borders, but that was before 2001 and that was only with the US, unfortunately. It's easy for Americans and Europeans to migrate here. It's also fairly easy if you are married to someone born in Canada.

Oh no, paperwork, how horrifying.

​@@joecrazy9896You have to remember that these people see consent as something they don't have to receive. It only exists as something they can offer to others.

I've been waiting for this comment

BRRRO I'M NIGERIAN AS WELL. My gosh I cant tell you what travelling is like with that green passport. Its like everyone thinks I wanna scam them. Like no I just want to get on my flight in peace. This is why most time I use my American passport, no one ever questions me then.

Same here, I'm Igbo 🤟🏾

Is this specific to Nigerians or is the experience similar for Ethiopians, Tanzanians, Kenyans?

@@bananaborz1 I wouldn't know, but my guess is yes.

I've become concentrated heat

i'm pretty sure my blood evaporated

yeah they were trying so hard to find a problem with her, when there clearly wasn't.

do you know where a link to the video is or info about it? Maybe her perspective?

Honestly most of the situation was for the sake of the TV show... argh

Class Traitors 🤯

But it's established that people no one remember die a second death, so they do have people that know who they were

Dumbest shit to ask.

My struggle to be a decent human Bruh. Up-Vote of the century Bc of how relevant it is to the content.

100% agree

Really? Because I definitely can . .

M D elaborate, please

@@hannalowercase5928 ok, easy: everybody and their brother hops on youtube with critiques. The poster is both self-derogatory but tries to use very surface sociological lenses to interpret the movie. It is about the easiest thing to rant for 30 minutes about the scan scene and the offrenda wealth, comparing it to modern policing and income inequality. But he did basically over and over again, becoming pedantic if you already read about and study daily economic articles. This video might be mind-blowing for a 13 year old though.

@@spaghetti8338 safe of what?

@@lafea7364 osea que todas y cada una de las personas de color, incluso familias, son terroristas? Si no, no entiendo la obsesión con registrar meticulosamente cada persona que no sea blanca, que por cierto, no significa que no haya ningún blanco terrorista. Por la culpa de unos pocos sufren muchos, y así funciona el racismo, piensan que porque un grupo de personas de otro país son malas, eso convierte a toda esa sociedad en peligrosa. Y si encima tienen que hacerles más controles de los que YA HACEN (porque no creas que no controlan a todos por igual desde un principio), entonces tiene que ser por sospechas reales y no porque tú nombre o apellido es "diferente" o por tu pasaporte. La misma chica que escribió arriba tenía 16 años cuando pasó por todo eso, acaso piensan que una sola persona y menor de edad puede remotamente llegar a ser terrorista?

@@spaghetti8338 which people? Clearly, OP didn’t feel safe.

@@incanusolorin2607 They are trying to save the brown people from themselves! Letting them know to "be less brown" lol. The privileged will create and believe any excuse to keep the systems that favor them in place.

Spaghetti that may help you sleep at night but don't kid yourself. For Western countries people of MENA origin don't actually present greater danger than actual white people

Yup haha Working on the next one :) It's proving to be really, really fucking long (by my standards at least)...so yeah Hopefully you'll like it when it's out

@@eliquorice that's fantastic! It's alright, please take your time. And I hope pandemic hasn't been too hard on you.

@@eliquorice the longer, the better. Keep up the good stuff man 👍.

@@eliquoricealive?

Are you going to change life and death because death is totally unfair? lol, good luck on your noble quest.

@@osakawayne Bruh it was a tldr of the video talk to the creator if you don’t like it lol

@@osakawayne border control is not a natural process like life and death is. humans made it up, we control how fair it is

@@osakawayne do you know what you said makes no sense right?

That’s so fucking stupid. That isn’t the point of the movie, it’s just supposed to be used as world building. Not every movie with a systematic obstacle is required to have the character completely derail the plot to tear it down.

Can you imagine having a loved one in a different country and it turns out they had an accident and are in critical condition or have a terminal illness? You can't even be by their side at those moments.

I love the quotes on the "first world and third world country" because it is bullshit

so basically what you're saying is, the americans took a cultural and religious tradition about love, and made it about money... sounds familiar...

Trish!

Pero es verdad que sí no pones la foto en la ofrenda, o no vas a la tumba, no vienen :(

@@MsCrowRaven Pues no, solo hace falta recordar a la persona, por ejemplo poner su nombre en un papel con la ofrenda.

@@MsCrowRaven de acuerdo a lo que sé, la gente con foto o no viene, para eso está la vela, para que encuentren una luz que los guíe de vuelta. También, la luz sirve para invitar a personas que no están en tu ofrenda y "pasen a comer", incluso si no son de tu familia. Eso me explicó mi madre :p

I guess I don't have a soul. Because the only thing this story told me is "people can be terrible, even if they are in your family or friendgroup, even if you are a good person." and if that is eye-opening I'm surprised people don't know that already.

I genuinely don't understand how people can say shit like "not being born in [country] makes you less than human" without batting an eyelid. I'm lucky enough to be australian and white but BECAUSE I'm Aussie and white 100% of my ancestors are immigrants or colonists. And it's the white people here saying "stop the boats" and shoving these people desperate to find somewhere halfway safe into torturous camps where they're treated worse than dogs in pounds because they haven't immigrated "the right way" it's so fucked up.

people like that frustrate me so much because how do you change their opinion? they're obviously not using logic, so using logic in your argument is useless. it makes me so mad because I cant just walk away from someone who thinks like that and let them think they're right. but I don't know how to change their opinion.

Everyone, no matter what colour they are or where they're from, has at least one racist family member.

I think that thinking those people don't have souls is part of the problem. It makes it easy to hate them and to not try to bring them around. Every human being is capable of great evil, it merely takes the right circumstances to bring it out. We are all of us equally human.

I keep coming back every once in a while to see if there's been an update :/

Fr bro dropped three masterpieces then dipped

even his twitter has been dead since 2021. i hope hes ok

Shit is he dead?

@@nelonwa7754 maybe. At this point anything is possible.

Their job is literally check your vibe and if you cannot be vocalized but they just have the wrong feeling that's their job to identify that. If you don't like it make your government better so they can negotiate on the global stage

​@@WillBilly.The problem with that argument is that "they have the wrong feeling" opens the door for a whole host of prejudices. It rests on the assumption that these people are unbiased and are not acting on any racist, classist, or xenophobic motivations. They can just say one thing when they really mean another. Putting the fate of a person's life in someone else's hands with nothing to keep the power in check is wrong

@@kaylaisnothere4397 thats why you hire the right people, there will be bias still but less and we cant get rid if that realistically. At the end of the day nobody is owed entry into any country besides their own.

​@@WillBilly.Jesus christ man

@@WillBilly....that's the thing though, you CAN get rid of bias. If a country (like America) has a problem with "immigration" or "terrorism" or whatever they're campaigning for at the time, then just make everyone go through this! Everyone now has to get a visa through the same processes and everyone now has to deal with insanely tight-security border patrol inspections! Obviously no one would priviliged would like that, but that's the point. If the system is so fundamentally broken than an entire nation of people would find it inhumane and unjust if it were also applied to them, then that means it needs to be changed for everyone including the unpriviliged groups. And if it were somehow applied to everyone, even for just a few weeks, it definitely would change to be better. People vote for politicians who agree with their views (or are just really good at marketing but we won't get into that), and those politicians want to make sure they get elected again, so they'll actively be pushing for reforms in the system. You mentioned "hiring the right people" would fix this problem, but the problem is that the system is made so that those doing the hiring are hiring the wrong people because they get paid to hire the wrong people. If you were not racist, classist, xenophobic, or otherwise against certain people groups, then you would not be hired since you would be empathizing with these people coming in and could not be "objective" about your rulings and do your job effectively. No amount of bandaids will fix it, the problem is the system and our attitudes towards it.

Well, they had to use something tangible for the movie so it makes sense.

@@ivetterodriguez1994 yeah, i know, its very credible, but thanks to the photo literally all changed :(

@@sherlockgirl1234 I don’t remember the ending too well so I could be wrong, but did the photo ever actually come into play with the offering? What got Coco to ultimately remember Héctor was his song to her, after all.

I noticed this too. I loved the whole family part and perphaps this is why I don't mind much about the picture thing, the family aspect seemed to me like the "heart" of the film. But what you say is true. One thing I have noticed in a lot of American films is that they lean towards "hard magic systems" with highly specfic rules and systems. Día de Muertos, being a very syncretic tradition and being different in every single state of the country, is very far from having such a strict set of rules. It has a lot of symbolisms from prehispanic cultures but even those are varied. Still gotta admit I loved the film!

I was taught that we need to have a sugar skull or a picture so I guess it may vary a bit on that part

Chilling is exactly the right word for it. Just....DAMN.

For real. Unfortunately most people won't be willing to listen or understand how fundamentaly problematic these films are. Either because of nostalgia or fear from 'pc culture'

It's very, very american to think that way. "F*** you, I got mine".

The rules of the world are not arbitrary though-it’s set by a real life culture so of course the system cannot be changed as that would require undermining Mexican practices. Sorry the movie wasn’t as revolutionary as you’d like 🙃

Saggy Old Bagpuss no one was asking for a revolutionary ending and also who sets these “rules of the world,” you say it’s set by real life culture, so is it culture that decides which country this passport has access to or human culture that sets up border control

I hope he's ok.

@@cigarettesmoke7636still no updates on his Twitter :(

Nope its really different haha, I am on year 10 of 22 years of a waiting list to get my green card for the US. I meet this english guy in Los Cabos working in a cafe, he told me that he moved to the states, I ask him how, apparently it only took him around one year to get his papers and find a place in the US, I still have 12 years left in waiting in Mexico :)

Going from the USA to Australia, even impoverished and on my partner's dime, was still mostly easy and took about three months. It's just expensive as fuck. In "first world" countries they brick the poor in still and I would never have been able to make the trip at all with minimum wage working for the hospital. Yeah I'm a healthcare worker and can't afford to leave. Frankly I hate passports and the evil fuckers who came up with it. Used to be you could just hop in a boat and land wherever you wanted in the world. I missed the margin of getting to be a nomad by less than 100 years. Keeping people caged in their countries is barbaric and inherently exploitative. If they can't pay your fees to leave you have indentured servitude for life no matter where in the world. I envy Europeans so much, those open borders where you can just take a fuckin day trip to Denmark and go back home to France pisses me off that the rest of the world can't have that because the government wants to keep their slaves.

As someone from the US who as never left the country (since I was a baby, at least) and has heard the horror stories from everyone else, i kinda assumed so too tbh-

This happened to me when I was in Europe: I am average height and Black. I get hard stares from the immigration patrol. But as soon as the immigration sees my passport- "Welcome friend!"

Shit, now that I think about it immigration does get a lot more friendly with me when they see me with my German passport or hear me speaking English/German/French fluently than the moments before when they just see someone with brown skin... never really thought about it before. Just goes to show how privileged we are in that aspect

I'm peruvian. I never travel before, but my grandma try to get the visa two times before. They didn't give her the visa. I feel sad everytime i remember it, cuz she just want to see her sister and family again. Hopefuly she would get the visa someday. As for me..i don't know how, but someday i gonna get out of here. Whatever it takes.

This happened to my family when we were coming back from Colombia. We went there to visit family of course, and my parents, sister and I are all US citizens, my parents originally being citizens of Colombia and Cuba. So of course we were in the US citizens line among a lot of white people coming in from Colombia too. We were the ONLY ONES pulled out from the line, and it took like 40 minutes for them to check all our passports to assure that yes we were all in fact, US citizens. Our passports were real, we were in the right line, and no we didn’t have fruit on us. I was pissed and kinda sassed the customs officers. I was like 15-16 years old so they all laughed at me and it made me even more angry, that they laughed at my anger and fear for pulling us out of line, only us, checking our passports, and really not explaining what they were doing after they had finished and sent us off to get back in line! Or they might have taken us to the front, I don’t remember anymore. it took them at least 30 minutes for them to get my disabled dad a chair, and some of the officers were Hispanic and talked to us in Spanish! Systemic racism is real and even something like an American passport doesn’t save hyphenated Americans of other ethic backgrounds from it.

Woah. That's really fcked up.

WTF is wrong with these people. 11 year old saying dangerous stuff. hahahhahahaahahah Out of my usual goofery tho, why does the border control keep hiring people with the detective skills of half a carrot and the intelligence of a waterballon in the middle of Sahara.

@@vali_bg5234 I feel like it’s quite obvious (I’m not trying to come off condescending and am sorry if I do)

@@m.josena4485 Well, I actually don't see what's obvious. I genuinely can't can you explain, please.

@@vali_bg5234 The answer is institutional racism.

"U.S.A is the freest country" FUCK. NO.

Mano, esta fuerte

Wepa, somos mucho

Can’t let *too* many brown people in /s

@@june4135 The thing is , i'm not even brown.

@@diegorivera5291 wtffffff

Same to all three points. I travel often between Spain and Italy with a third-world-country passport, and you would think since these flights are within the Schengen zone then everything should be fine but no. I've had my luggage checked so many times that I got used to account for one extra hour of "random checks" when planning my transportation to and from the airport.

I never connected my neurodivergence with the way I was being treated at checkpoints and by cops, but it makes it make a lot more sense. Doesn't make it any less stupid, though, and there isn't much I can do about my ADHD, DID, Anxiety, and Depression symptoms, but maybe I will be able to manage the situation better armed with this knowledge. Also, I don't get what the issue is with taking only a small amount of luggage with you on a trip is? I don't want to pay baggage fees. If I can't carry it on, it's not going. :shrug:

As somebody with ADHD myself, any situation where I'm being judged for how "normal" I'm acting is downright terrifying for me. I don't act "normal" on a good day, add the stress of some unknown consequence and I probably look like an absolute nutter

TL;DR For some reason people have a problem with people who are from poorer places.

Ugh yea, many neurodiverse behaviour are associated with dishonest behaviour and it’s just so frustrating

Probably because mass immigration causes brain drain

Still not over it, gonna miss this guy :/

Well, I mean, yea... but is being trapped under a bell for all eternity really a good fate? Also, even if he got out, everyone hates him, so he'd probably just live in the slums or worse.

@@underplague6344 for a while yeah, but eventually people would forget, like every celebrity that gets "cancelled". woody allen who asdfggh

@@Sofia-re3hj Yea I guess, but he'd probably be pretty messed up after being stuck under that bell for so long. Probably would have some serious mental issues he'd struggle with for awhile, especially since he was already unstable enough to kill his best friend for his songs.

I get your point but it wasn't that he was just a bad person it was also that it WASN'T his art. You can't separate the artist from the art if that person isn't the actual artist that created it. I guess peopld could like his version of it but idk if they'd "remember" him in a way that keeps him on top in the afterlife

Yeah even Infamous people are still widely remembered. EG Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ted Bundy, etc. And it's just so sad that we remember the perpetrators more than the victim.

.I come from a small country that has been NATO's buffer against Russia since the 90s. It's clear that we will be the ones to die so that Germany and France are kept safe. My countrymen fought alongside Americans in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria. Yet we only got a US tourist visa under Trump (ironically). It was so humiliating to be denied that right by so many different American presidents. You won't travel here, peasants. This is where privilege really shows. Don't listen to the BS about tolerance and freedom they are spouting, look at their actions instead. That you can die for America's interests but you cannot visit. Yet Americans can travel to my country any time they want without visas.

Honestly, I'm sorry. It's devastating, I didn't actually know this happened. As a white person from a first world country, when we have the money, it's easy to go on holiday. I'm not rich, so we don't go often, but I can't imagine how much harder it is to have even more restrictions.

Don't mean to spread hate or toxicity, But the comment above me just reminds me of the consistent clip playing across the video of the random Skeleton woman wondering how it feels to not have a photo. It feels so embarrassing when people first world countries gawk at our troubles and could only look at it and say "Oh, I'm sorry it must be hard for you". There's nothing "sorries" and "it must be hard for you" can do to help anymore.

@@pivotalpancake5454 i mean to be fair what do you really expect them to say even

@@CreeketsCreek replying to this because I genuinely want to know what their answer is lol

Families do are toxic

Nah man that toxicity is accurate to mexican families, a whole chunk from my dad's side hates my mom and by extension me and my sisters, simply because my dad's mom told them to, which has caused multiple problems and fights between my mom and my dad's family to the point where me and my sister agreed to throw a party the day we hear about the old hag kicking the bucket

That's sort of the intended conflict lol

Well yeah? That’s part of the plot my guy

Thats the set up for the conflict, there needs to be flaws in characters for there to be a plot

I completely agree with this comment (I'm also Hispanic too). ^^ I didn't realize this either, despite knowing of people struggling to come to the U.S. (my grandma had to wait for ages for her Visa to visit) or trying to fix their situation in the U.S. But this is a good video on Coco. :)

I'm latina and I really did get wrapped up in the feel-good narrative. I'm disappointed I didn't notice any sooner, but glad this showed up in my recommended

fr. i never realized how bad the movie portrayed these things until this video

Happened to me too, this hurt. I guess, when you're just used to being treated unfairly daily in an unfair system, any sort of kindness (like a movie that focuses on your traditions and not on your violence problems for once) feels so much like a breath of fresh air you cling to it, feeling gratitude towards people who were willing to look to your good side for once. You just stop noticing all the wrongs until someone from the exterior points it out and tells you that's not normal. But then again, it's disheartening when you remember people can only look at your good side by forgetting or burying all your flaws.

It's still a pretty solid movie tho

I feel the same, I am from Venezuela too. I have a huge fear of getting send to “el cuartico” ,like my family calls it, to be interrogated and even in statewide trips I can’t shake the fear of being deported.

When you wrote “I know I should feel proud of my country and bla bla bla but...” it really hit me. If the reality explained in this video isn’t bad enough, another horrible side of it is that most third world countries internalize that feeling of inferiority. I’m from Mexico and it destroys me every time someone feels superior because of our closeness to the U.S and not for our actual culture .

I have this, I feel shouldn't have because White, because I'm HoH and freshly found out autistic. That's why I find these situations stressful. I feel like I'll mishear a question (easy for me to do when I'm not tuned into an unfamiliar voice and/or accent), say yes and end up with 12 guns in my face. And that's my final answer. I cannot ask them to repeat the question and give the correct one because Too Late. I don't feel I have the ability or time to stand there for a few extra seconds and process anything said to me, I just have to know what they said and give the correct answer immediately first time. But honestly I can't imagine the anxiety it gives to hearing neurotypical peeps of different ethnicities who travel a lot more than I do, given the societal pre-programmed(????) nonsense we tend to be given in a lot of countries? And also I'm Brit. So I dunno what that does for me. I can't follow the stereotype whatever it is besides having my Ps and Qs. (Manners basically.)

yeah, my parents are from venezuela and when we travelled my dad got sent to what my mom called el cuartito and he spent the entire trip nervous and telling me to act american(?) so we wouldn’t get deported, he’s always gotten suspiciously checked and he was interviewed, it really blew my mind cause it was my first time traveling and my friend (white ofc) told me the airport was fun

@@rebeccadroplet5953 yeah and we have internalized it so much that we say stuff like "saquenme de latinoamerica" (get me out of latinoamerica) on a daily basis, my country is in an economic crisis and we can't blame the pandemic because we are paying for decisions that were made more than 50 years ago! And decisions that corrupt people keep making

Chile?

"Being this privileged" -🤓

At least she has more compassion than you lil brownie@@RealSnuuy

​@@RealSnuuy Your legacy on this earth is Ankha zone uncensored 18+

@@oligarchies wrong this isn't my main my legacy is gonna be for exposing a roblox predator

Yes it makes sense as I’m Mexican and I feel the same

*If feel like it wasn't made for the mexicans* and yet it was the highest grossing film in Mexico in that year and was beloved by most mexicans that watched it so what are you saying?

When I’m older I REALLY want to be a lawyer and work in immigration law. Just reading this is breaking my heart :(. I find it horrible that so much in the system is so unjust just because of the color of our skin and where we were born.

My family was blessed to have my uncle. He was a lawyer who helped my dad, grandma, and many other relatives get their papers. I wish I could help other families in the way he did because it took me too long to realize how lucky we were.

While I hate being one of those people, immigration law needs to be strict to ensure we know who is in our borders, how long, and why. With a country as prosperous as the U.S. there are many people who want to come, some with good intentions, some with bad. Marriage fraud and family visits are sadly common ways to get people in illegally (sometimes for human trafficking). And even among those with good intentions we can't take everyone. The world has more poor and unfortunate people than the US could ever support. It's not fair to people who are here legally to lose opportunities because someone else skipped the process and it actually causes resentment between legal and illegal immigrants. We need to know if the person coming in is in a drug cartel or if they actually have family, and if they have family that they are actually going to return home after the visit. Is it way too convoluted and needs to be simplified? YES. But many of those rules are in place largely because immigration crimes are so common. - child of a legal immigrant

That sucks, I'm a white man born in Canada with an american last name, of course its going to go smoothly went I'm gonna move there. But I can't imagine how hard it must be for some, but do understand Americans are really proud of their country and protective of their territory because of history

@@Psychesrose Calling a human being illegal is immoral and supports an us vs them mentally. Don't fall for it. You can say you are a child of a legal immigrant but frankly that's irrelevant. What our parents had to do to come here to start a new life is NOTHING like what anyone has to do now. I know people who have crossed the desert and nearly died to see their children again because everyone knows getting to the United States legally is a joke. You and I are a couple of the luckiest people in the world. Had we been born a few years later we could have very different lives. If you hate being one of "those people" just dont be.

same here, it's outrageous

I mean... I don't wanna sound like a dick or anything, but I just burst out laughing at how ridiculously bullshit it is. And how the fucking TV show frames it as like a sensible, morally just thing to do. It's insane.

You know whats ironic? Mexicans we dont need visa to get into Japan lol

My jaw just dropped when I saw that...!

Umm you’re point?

Yeah, that's a common technique to pacify criminals who were resisting arrest. It's a thing before you-know-who.

劉木 this is very true, but it’a still a cruel way to do so.

@@cc-bk4cy in exese i agree especially given what happened to you know who but it usually isn't used in such an evil disgusting way most of the time its just to incapacitate a "dangerous" person

You are not alone. I too was lucky to learn english at a young age, but that came with the task of being a translator for your family. The pressure that came with understanding the importance of translating accurately for the sake of everyone was tough. I'm so happy my mom has greatly improved her english and I have another sibling who can help.

Musict I wish. My sibling is a bitch he doesn’t want to translate shit for my family. That bitch isn’t gonna translate till the day I die

Same, my mom doesnt know a bit of english The guys in immigration always said mean stuff, how Mexicans are lazy and mooch off America, among other things, certainly not stuff that I fully grasped as a child I just translated what I understood, o was just trying to help my mom, but even then they made fun of her for relying on a child

this is so relatable, the pressure of being the one (in my case, i was also the youngest) kid in the family with the bilingual skills and translate everything for everyone at every single waking point during a vacation or other issues is real. I'm an adult now but have travelled with my family fairly regularly since I moved for college, and my parents still rely on me to be their translator. I don't want this to sound ungrateful because I do thank them for the education they provided for me, and I know how valuable it is. It's just that sometimes it's too much stress and pressure and I'm also not a professional translator so sometimes I'm not the best at translating on the spot. And I think that's a problem many friends have also gone through, we are not professionals/are not trained in the field and being a translator is an actual job/career path that people train themselves for, so it's bound to be mentally exhausting for us family translators lol

bruh

Oh my wtf?? That's absolutely horrible!!!!

Yeah, a friend of mine suffered that… She felt raped but didn’t complain for fear of losing her visa

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@@Clown_the_Clown [X] Idiot, only two types of people work as Border Guards. People who actually care about doing their jobs, and people who are more than happy to abuse their position.

@@Clown_the_Clown woow aren't you edgy as balls mate.

Ok. I finished the video..... great work on a topic that needs to be talked about. Would also like to point out that these systems are so normalized that when you call out what’s wrong about them people look at you as some lunatic. It’s hard having these conversations because many aren’t willing to hear something so unpleasant because they haven’t been affected by it - and even sometimes those who are affected by the system the worst learn to excuse it as a coping mechanism because they don’t know anything better to compare it with (kinda like not knowing what dirty water you’ve been swimming in your whole life until you get out of it). Alright I’m done. This shit is painful.

By any chance, have you read "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" by Oscar Wilde? It has much the same argument, arguing that the issue with charity is that it papers over problems instead of solving them. Wilde argued, "Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good." So it seems this concern is not new, and maybe it'd help to read the previous arguments people have made on the subject?

It's like when you see those "uplifting" stories on the news - "10 year old decides to open lemonade stand to help pay for mother's cancer treatment" - and everyone in the comments is saying how inspirational and heartwarming it is. But that should NOT be heartwarming. A young child shouldn't have to worry about how their mother will pay for treatment, and that mother shouldn't have to worry about going into debt so that she can LIVE. Just as you quoted, it's a small-scale response to systemic failures. No one should have to worry about either going into medical debt or dying. No one should die or have to be ill without treatment in this country because they cannot afford healthcare. It's ridiculous that there are so many in this country that have become desensitized to the absolute injustice of our current healthcare system. How can we not see that it's a human right and not a privilege??

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Yea, but we’re clearly stepping in the right direction

Yeah! And what about arachnids! And the fish are at a BIG disadvantage

@@tetrofita1787 Don't the fish get eaten and used as food for predators due to them not being sentient? We saw a fish market in Tundra Town.

same 😞

I feel similar. Only I've resolved to change that by, hopefully, helping my birthplace be that "superior country". The rules of the game have been set: the strong rule and the weak suffer. The world at large has no pity or reason to care about anyone outside their circles or immediate community. And in my mind that will _always_ be the case. Shaming, guilting, pointing it out isn't going to do shit to the simple minds of the common folk that make up the majority of the population. Trying to change a world built by creatures that are little more than upjumped apes is ultimately pointless, because it takes just one idiot or bored, rebellious generation to ruin everything. The only reliable factor that determines good treatment is power in its various forms. So either we become powerful? Or we get used to the taste of boot.

What refugees lmfao. Moving to another country isn’t a right, it’s a privilege. They can reject you if they want.

Lex Bright Raven South America has always been a shit heap, nice deflection.

@@someguy9970 Are you going to deny that CIA coups fucked up latin america just like that?

@Lex Bright Raven 👏👏👏

The best type of education

It was just a parody of the show cops, not of any particular incidents.

First of all, it's Shrek 2 Second of all, Floyd may have died in 2020, but Rodney King suffered police brutality in 1991

@@MorganKing95 I forgot they turned Shrek into a human for the second one too

@@cosmicspacething3474 What do you mean by "too"? It was only in "Shrek 2" that he was turned into a human

@@MorganKing95 I must be going fucking crazy then. Guess I’ll change it

"Just get your fricking passport, alien!" Me: ... ... You have 3 seconds to get tf out of my face!

The best part is when they deny your tourist visa but refuse to tell you why so all you can do is pay again to apply with sightly different forms and hope you got it right this time with no indication of what you need to get approved!

The "just come legally" argument are only uttered by the ignorant and privileged and incredibly irritating.

L Lin Exactly! I sometimes wonder whether this problem would be fixed if only the privileged wouldn't be so ignorant...?

@@liberpolo5540 Yeah, but I would argue apathy is a much more devastating problem especially when people are comfy. I myself have to admit that I'm not an activist, all I can do is donate and be vocal about these issues...

They work if you are a guard who wants to sexually assault people. ;)

Class system, not caste

@@ericktellez7632 Sorry about that typo

but she will always be remembered 🙏🏽💗

Sadly a lot of things regarding borders-like, even the concept of "crossing illegally" literally exist because of racism in many countries, like the US. They invented the idea of illegal immigrants because they wanted to force "undesirable ethnicities" to have the lowest possible immigration numbers during the Gilded Era, and it only got worse around the 30s... which led to Jewish people being murdered when they literally already crossed the Atlantic to America but were sent back.

@@idrisa7909 :,(

@@idrisa7909 You said that perfectly.

@Kab Plummer do you know why we have the distinction of legal vs illegal immigration? Because it only became a thing during the 1930s. A massive part of it being implemented was because at the time there were quotas limiting certain ethnicities and races from immigration. These quotas were implemented in the gilded age- around 1880-1890. These were literally implemented bc of racism and ethnic discrimination and led to the distinction of legal vs illegal, and they got people killed. In this case, especially Jewish people. They might not think they're being racist but this only exists because of white supremacy.

@Kab Plummer like I said it before, but the core is, if something wasn't a problem until a white dominated society got worried about its power weakening, racism is involved. Id love to believe it was about the safety of immigrants or some crap but I've been around long enough to know better. If you know why a thing was implemented and can't see the racism and other problems involved, that's a you thing, especially if you make excuses.

@Lexdrillo in Brazil, the amazing way our president was elected was by acting like your old uncle drinking bear and sitting in the sofa saying homophobic shit and dumb jokes.

God, this is gutwrenching. As a hopeless brazilian with no perspective for the future, I feel seen by this video and it's comments.

That's exactly it. I don't think the fact that the system itself doesn't change is a bad idea, since "victory" in Latin America for the middle and lower classes is appearing to be better in the eyes of the system. Everyone hopes that one day the system will be different, but that change never comes, so you better try to do the best you can with what you have, that way you won't have it as hard as the others. Society is constantly telling us that society itself isn't the one that has to put in the effort, but us, and we are promised that if we work as hard as we can, we will someday be benefitted by that same society that once turned its back to us. The bad part doesn't go away when you succeed, you just stop living it.

Probably would have been better if Coco’s ending wasn’t handled as if it was a completely happy and positive one. But that’s not the sort of ending kids and their parents have come to expect from Pixar, and I’m not sure if the guys at Pixar were comfortable having anything less than a happy ending in a story about a real culture different from their own, which I think is a sign that they at least tried to have good intentions.

talkng about Brazil specifically, the "progress" only related to optics is so ingrained in our culture, its since the colonization. when we stopped being a colony, it was bc the Portuguese royal family needed to run away for a while. when we became independent, it was still a monarchy run by Dom Pedro. when we became a republic, coronelismo was still rampant. then just a few decades later we had the Vargas dicatorship. and a few decades later another dictatorship. these systems are so long standing, i can see why theyre treated as "natural"

fr

Do you happen to know the name of the song that starts at C the beginning of 24:01?

You're actually incorrect. As someone from a first world country I can assure you that my fellow countrymen definitely do not have to be from the upper middle class or even the lower middle class to be able to travel abroad without a hitch. I'm personally too poor to travel, but if I wanted to buy a ticket, even I could just wave around my passport and I'd be fine.

Correct me if I'm not wrong, but whether or not it is easy to travel from country to country is dependent on how "strong" your passport is, and is also affected by the relationship the country you're travelling to has with your country right?

@@courier772 That is correct, sometimes diplomatic crises can make things worse for travelers.

I haven’t been able to quite put my finger on my wariness around more recent Pixar films. I’ve felt a bit cynical, like people mistake them for great movies because they’re great at making you cry. But even while I was sobbing at Coco or Inside Out I felt a bit resentful. I mean I cry in Wall-E during the space dance, because it’s so transcendent and joyous and imaginative and beautiful.... it makes me feel good about being alive and human. And I think, now that this video has helped me articulate it, that there’s something increasingly depressing about Pixar giving the impression of not being able to imagine beyond the depressing systems of our own world. So I feel a bit cheated in these more recent moments of high emotion because they’re not GIVING me anything, they just know how to really effectively say “isn’t that SAD?”. And I think fiction can do better than that.

@@kathrynmiller4240 agreed. I think this tendency started with Toy Story 3, an attempt to revive a franchise special for its creativity by bringing back themes from the second movie in a depressing note. The ending is beautiful, but the threat of abandonement persists, looming in the imortality of the toys. What was a problem easily solved in the simple story of the second movie turns into an unsolvable and almost cynical dilema in the very existence of the toys: the more "realistic" approach explicits the curse of seeing the kids you were made for lose interest in you, and ultimately die. What was almost a fairy tale turns into a nihilistic world, where your very existence is absurd. OK, I took it too far, but this is so different from the delightful (pun intended) view of life in Ratatouille! And how powerful is The Incredibles! There isn't a lot of emotional moments, the stories don't pull your crying cords, but they mesmerize you in a chilling way, opening new worlds before you. Finding Nemo, UP and Wall-e, on the other hand, have their heart-wrenching moments, but they always build up to it, offering scenes of wonder and almost transcendent beauty, as you rightly put it.

@@kathrynmiller4240 my thoughts exactly

Actually, in the mexica mythology the Mictlan is part of the underworld, kind of the beginning of the journey

when i (eventually) die, if the afterlife is like the coco one , i think i'd neck myself tbh

@@WhaleManMan Because this is a video about the systems in coco and the later half of the video is about systems in real life. The flaws of the system are already obvious to the original commenter seeing as they are from a third world country and watching a video that so seamlessly illustrates the issues is worth complementing. To then passive aggressively suggest that they aren't doing enough to fix a multinationally funded system is absurd.

@Kiki M. you sound like a judgmental person. You may think that traveling equals money. Guess what? When you have a "shitty" passport or have traveled to many "third world" countries, your money and your whiteness are irrelevant. They will treat you like garbage at the border. They will make you feel like they can take your papers away at any moment. They will insult you and your identity, and get zero consequences for it. I guess it's something that you have to experience to understand. Or be open minded/empathetic, who knows.

@Kiki M. wtf is with you dude? Getting mad over a comment shh

I used to have a "third world" passport, my parent's payed a lot to change it to the one I have now, I still remember how much more we were questioned by border petrol...

same. i applied for a US visa twice. saved. got turned down both time. nada.

Never give up!!!

Do it!

@@Ghidorah96 lmao what

I agree, don't give up. There are more ways than one to get your goals. However you worship, bring your goals to God or however you know divine love. Pray how you will about them and be aware of changes in your life and opportunities. Take up those opportunities that point you to love and your goal. I have seen this happen in my life. More than once. I would like to see you reach your goals! Much love and success to you!

Your passport is literally an Item of segregation. Depending on how friendly your country is with others and what kind of reputation you have as a whole nation. I have two passports, that isn't possible for many people. But I am fortunate enough to have a German and a Russian passport. The German Passport is on of the passports with the most privileges. I can travel all over Europe and for a certain amount of days to many other places. I also have the Russian passport, which is also beneficial but no where nearly as the German. My mom doesn't have the same privileges. I can travel anywhere. Trip to London, no problem. My mom on the other side has to get a visa like 3 months in advance. She has her to travel to London... She always wanted to go. But it's hard to plan with 3 month or more planning beforehand. Thanks to her I have my Russian passport and thanks to that I can visit my family. Without that passport it would be very tedious. However if my mom decided to take on the German passport... She wouldn't be able to visit her family without a visa. 3 months or more in advance. She would like to vote her. She has lived here for over 22 years but then she couldn't visit her family easily... Which would be especially bad, since we have a lot of family that is older. It's unfair. And I am so privileged in that regard but I can't really change that.

@@natnuss98 Three months? That's it? When we want to plan a vacation, it's about a year in advance to make sure everything is booked, time off acquired, everything is taken care of. Even then, we never leave the country because the U.S. is a massive place. Seems like the height of privilege and affluence.

I think it is unfair but if your country isnt doing so well and has a lot of criminality people are gonna be suspicious. It isnt against you specificly just against the country

clara ao melody my passport is Canadian and I have an expired Norwegian one for some odd reasons, but like I went to usa by car and they didnt even ask how many days I was going in.

@@aaronbrown8377 it's possibly the opposite, if you're poor your job might tell you on the day when you'll be getting weeks without work next. If you have to work any time there is work then you can't know these things that far in advance. Two groups of people don't plan ahead, the rich who can do whatever they want, and the poor who are at the whims of every richer person and broken system above them and have no say over their breaks.

I'm a christian and I don't know what you be talking about

@@joshuagregoire9504 ok, I think I got what they meant: They're comparing Coco's afterlife with the Christian one. They're saying that your stay in Coco's afterlife is controlled by many factors. For example: Not being remembered, not having a photo, no one giving you an ofrenda, etc. ;; Meanwhile, to go to the Christian afterlife you have to be a nice person while alive. In short: Coco's afterlife: You gotta be remembered to stay there Christian afterlife: You have to be nice and help others to be there