One note that ties into this video about the Puritans: ironically, the Puritans were actually very PRO sex. They believed that pregnancy was most likely if both parties enjoyed the whole experience, especially the woman. Which ironically turned out to be biologically true, more or less. They had very strict rules encouraging sex, even excommunicating a man for not consummating his marriage. They also didn’t really ‘punish’ young people who had sex before marriage, instead having them just get married when discovered. This plays into the high birth rates.
As a Swede, it would've been fun to hear how much of an effect we had on the US, but I doubt we had much of an impact. From what I know, Swedes positioned them quite succesfylly as simply different white protestants to the English, moving up in soceity after a few generations.
@@8is Charles Lindbergh Jr., the world famous aviator, and Charles Lindbergh Senior were both Swedish. Senior was a direct immigrant from Sweden, a congressman, and he was a key political enemy of the Wilson Administration. He wrote two books which he had distributed for free to the American Public on issues he felt strongly about, "Banking, Currency, and the Money Trust," a polemic against Central Banking and the Federal Reserve System which is still pertinent to this day, and, "Your Country at War and What Happens to You After the War," about US entry into WWI and the way we were lied to to get us in, and the dangers we faced afterward. The latter book was actually censored by the Wilson Administration; Federal agents were sent to the publisher of the book, and all of the plates for the book were destroyed and all of the prints confiscated the likewise consigned to destruction. It seems that there was something in those books President Wilson didn't want the public to read, hmmm? In any case, Swedes have played an important role in my country's history, and I consider both Lindbergh's American heroes and patriots.
I read an interesting book recently called "After Nationalism" that discusses various different phases of American identity. The author talks about how deeply Anglophilic the old Anglo-American elite used to be, particularly the leaders of Federalist Party. Even long after the revolution, English-American elites used to really venerate British culture and history, and view the United States as being largely continuous with "English Civilization," as opposed to some entirely new thing. This manifested not only in continued allegiance to the old English churches, but also a preoccupation with teaching the history of England and venerating English cultural ideals like Shakespeare, the Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution, and so on. There was also a deep obsession with viewing everything through a France-v-England or Spain-v-England lens, with England's traditional enemies presumed to be America's as well. It's interesting how much of this has faded now. I think we now associate Anglo-Americans as having been mostly subsumed into distinctly "American" cultural traditions that are entirely detached from any identifiably British heritage, including Evangelical Christianity and the culture of "the South" more broadly. Other than defensiveness about the English language, I am not sure what would be the most visible signs of an ongoing effort to preserve English culture in America. I can only think of small things, like the ongoing fascination with the British royal family, or perhaps what Christopher Hitchens once described as America's distinctive "Churchill cult."
Probably has to do with the USA outstripping the UK in every aspect, and yet the UK wanting to call the shots. After WW2, the son had to sit the old man down and tell him his time was over.
Quite prominent in the central-north region (MN, Iowa, North Dakota, etc.) where I'm from... many Norwegian and Swedes settled there because of the good farmland and similar climate to their homeland. My maternal grandpa showed me a picture of my Great-great-great grandfather from Norway, he said when he was a boy a lot of the older Norwegian-American men still had accents passed on by their elders. My great great grandmother on my dad's side was from Sweden. My brother and I recently visited a small cemetery not far from our family farm where we and our ancestors grew up over the past 150 years. Some of the epitaphs were in Swedish! We were fascinated as we thought about our ancestors burying one another in that cemetery speaking Swedish and probably other languages. There's museums that dot the landscape in MN, Iowa, etc. In Iowa where I'm from I know there's a Swedish museum somewhere south of Cedar Rapids and then Decorah has one that's all about Norwegian culture and immigrants, quite good. People still make traditional breads and foods and such from those places. I'm not sure how much other culture I can claim is still around... probably not much, but people definitely are aware of and respect that heritage from where I'm from
@@jrglenn2 how prominent is the language today since in sweden where many areas have finnish minorities from the 60s and 70s those said minorities still speak finnish 60 years later and i wonder if that has remained the case for the 110 years since the swedish came to america
The scandinavians mostly settled in the mid west (minnesota) Dakotas and I know Finns are completely unrelated but if you want to know they settled in upper penisula michigan
fun fact: "Paddy Wagon" was actually slang for Police car for a time because of the number of Irishmen who worked as Police that or for the number of Irishmen who got arrested
I mean, the Irish conquered more of the planet than anyone else, save the Spanish. It wasn't their choice, the English dragged the hermit nation out of their villages and forced them to populate the Earth. But it doesn't change the fact either
As someone from Western New York, there is a large number of ethnic Poles living here and people have immense pride in their heritage. I see some parallels with Italian Americans and Polish Americans. Poles were the poorest immigrants living on the East side in bad conditions, but we're able to pull themselves out and move all over Western New York. I knew they wouldn't be mentioned in this video, because outside of Western New York, there seems to be little Polish-Americans. But as someone from WNY the impact they made is very evident and feel it is important to mention.
Fun fact: There are still Gaelic speaking communities in North Carolina. The language is pretty unique and has a lot of english influences. Sadly there are probably only about 200 speakers left and they all live on the coastal islands.
I am Hispanic, this analysis for Hispanic Americans is spot on. This is just an anecdotal story. Both sides of my parents are from small mining towns in the Southwest: Superior, AZ and Silver City, NM. As far as I know, my great grandparents have history in the US/Mexico Southwest border area. 'Mexican-American' is the term we go by, being on the US side of the border but still Mexican in culture, food, family values, catholic, names, and accent. We never crossed the border, the border crossed us. The assimilation into US economic society is the goal. Pretty much all of our extended families have moved out of small towns and into big cities: Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, Albuquerque, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, etc. Economic mobility comes from education and college degrees. Family careers are common, everyone are in Education, tech sector, public service, etc. Make no mistake, everyone is American, all USA. We just happen to speak Spanish with Mexican names and can have browner skin than all the white people. Outside of AZ/NM, you will hear similar stories to people who live on the Texas border. People in Rio Grande Valley moving to San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Dallas, etc.
That’s about right. And, as for those of us who are not of Mexican descent and emigrated, economic mobility is absolutely the goal. And, yes, we’re all USA. We still have our accents and we still keep our language but, we assimilate and we integrate just fine. And everybody likes our food. That’s a huge plus. Much love from North Texas.
As someone from San Antonio and lived across Texas, I concur. Each state has a unique blend of Mexican indigenous and local indigenous tribes, and you'll find varying degrees of African descent as well. (Though my dad is from Indiana- Scots-Irish, Welsh, English)
Yeah, he was pretty spot on. Hispanics, or at least Mexicans adjust pretty fast to life in the U.S.. So fast that the children of said Hispanics up "too American", when visiting their extended family in another country they have trouble communicating due to their non-existant Spanish. It's sad to me that hundreds of thousands of Hispanics that immigrated to the U.S. can't have the freedom that that other Americans have due to absent Documents.
@@marcm.999 Not having documents comes with the territory of entering\staying in a another country illegally. It's not like they were denied documents for being Hispanic. I understand getting a work\immigrant visa is a difficult process. However, the difficulty is no different for someone coming from Asia or Africa than it is for someone coming from Spanish speaking countries. Should we reward those who enter the country illegally at the expense of those who apply through the proper channels (and get rejected mostly since the demand for immigrants is a lot lower than the number of people wanting to come here).
I’m a first generation Mexican American I can tell from my experience from growing up in a city full of children of Mexican immigrants is that a major fear we had was being “too American” being called “chicanos” or a “no sabo”kid. I had this fear myself until I left that community and joined the marine corps now I see it very different. I’m about to be a father and I really don’t care if my son will grow up as culturally involved in Mexican culture. I’m not saying forget where we came from, he will know the struggles we had on why we are here in America now and he will learn both Spanish and English at home but I’m not going to worry about him being “too Mexican or American” he will pick his own path
I am Colombian living in America and I think my future children will never be Colombian. They will be gringos who speak Spanish :v I know that because my family is from a different region of Colombia with different culture from the city I was born and I have a lot more to do with my born city than my parents towns
@@sobreinquisidor I know what you mean what adds to that identity crisis is that when we would visit Mexico you always heard the word “pocho” to describe us so the Mexicans don’t see us as Mexican and we come back to the states we are not exactly what “Americans look like” so we are stuck in that middle ground but I’ved learned to embrace both sides Chicano culture is a mix of both and I love that I have 2 cultures and traditions it makes us unique
Yeah I remember from a saying from Mexican American that goes “the annoying thing about being Mexican American your not Americans enough for Americans and your not Mexican enough for Mexicans
I was born in the US but both my parents are from El Salvador. They both left with their families at a very young age to escape the Civil War at that time. I'm really glad how you touched on the I guess "crisis" of Hispanic-Americans not knowing Spanish the further time goes on. I know a little bit of Spanish but I still decide not to speak it. I never really learned the language because from what my mother told me my dad's side of the family would bully me about how pale I looked and how my accent sounded when I tried speaking Spanish. Even now as a 22 year old man I still don't relate to "my people" all that much. Before me and my mom moved to Georgia I never got treated well by other Hispanic kids. I can honestly say that if I never moved to Georgia I would've ended up being completely racist towards Hispanics. I say completely because I do have a bias towards older Hispanics while not having an issue with younger ones. Even then it's not like I call them names out loud in public. I just tend to have a more defensive and negative mindset about them before talking to them. After that if they treat me with respect and don't look at me like I'm a race traitor for not knowing Spanish then they are alright in my book. It's honestly kinda sad because I still do somewhat relate to my culture but because of a lot of the negative experiences I've had from other Hispanics I've grown to relate more with White and Black communities. Hell one of the first movies I remember watchkng with my parents was Blood in Blood out. A movie about the Chicano culture in America. Even with my negative experiences I don't look away when someone else is treating them poorly. Nothing makes me more mad when someone tries to tell other person they shouldn't speak their native language. No matter how much I get treated like an outsider by my "own people" I would never trade my ethnicity and skin color for another.
Not gonna lie this video kinda feels like an mmorpg race selection guide. "The Italian's lack charisma but make up for it with their high constitution".
It is, I'm Scottish and I have to say this video destroyed my confidence in this channel, the way they pin everything down to culture and don't factor in geographical and economic factors. Also the description of Scottish history in this isn't even surface level, its borderline stereotypical. The Highlands and lowlands aren't as divided as this guy makes out and in the modern day, the Highlands speaks English as well, only the Outer Hebrides have a Gaelic majority. And yet every scot Highlands or lowlands sees themselves as Scottish first, and most people see Scotland as being a celtic country as well.
8:36 a few years back my dad and aunt pulled me aside and told me our "shameful" centuries old family secret that one of our ancestors was a hooker on the mayflower. I on the other hand, found it fucking hilarious and tell people whenever ancestors come up in conversation
my best friends are brothers, and they have an ancestor who was a rich older guy on the mayflower, so there is a significant non-zero chance that we're blood relatives several centuries removed
Hooker, as in she had sex with several dozen different men? Or was she a sugarbaby who gave GFE to 2 or perhaps as many as 3 different men throughout her entire career?
Someone in your family has a good sense of humor. There were obviously no prostitutes on the Mayflower. They were very religious Calvinists. The idea that they brought prostitutes along with their wives and children is nonsense. Read about William Bradford and the Plymouth Colony.
Honestly, you are starting see more and more of cultural divide between black Americans by class. We have now had several generations of middle to upper class blacks being in more integrated areas so it’s a bit easier to see. Also, I do think with the internet more information is penetrating insular, poorer communities. Maybe it’s just me but I find even over my small lifetime I have seen poorer Americans in general become more knowledgable about the world simply from Internet exposure.
It honestly astounded me as a recent college grad in the social science to be able to discuss ancient history down to the details about the Romans in the teutonberg forest, the german's offensive plan in WWI and the structure of the Holy Roman Empire with a guy at my job who only has a high school education and not long ago was living in a homeless shelter
I was just speaking to my cousin about this last night, we need it. We have got to separate ourselves from those who don't want to progress or we will all continue to suffer.
And we clearly see what happens when less educated people are faced with information they don't understand or don't 'agree' with. This in a nutshell is what causes the whole social and political unrest we currently all over the world . In the past information and education went hand in hand, but since the wide availability of the internet people are drowning in information of all kinds without having the skills to place it in the a sensibel context. And to be fair also more educated people are struggling with this phenomenon.
I am about 30% German but I grew up in Cincinnati with ancestors who were in the upper middle class, so German culture was extremely present. We would go to Oktoberfest each year, eat at German restaurants downtown (my favorite being Mecklenburg Gardens), and even still use my great-great grandmother's Goetta recipe written in Nedersassisch (Low Saxon, Westphalian precisely). I am also about 25% Hungarian and Carpatho-Rusyn, where culture was present as well with my mother's side in Pennsylvania including Kolacski and Kolbasz foods, and celebration of the conclusion of Winter Lent from Greek Catholic calendar (no meat on Christmas Eve!)
One note I’ll make is that Native American ancestry and identification is rising in the US due to Latin American immigration, as many of us are of partial or majority indigenous ancestry, my mom being 70% while my dad for example only about 20%. In LA alone we have a growing community of indigenous language speakers like Nahuatl, Zapotec, and the various Mayan languages
Thats right. I say this all the time, "Spaniards are white, it is the native americans that were brown." If your brown in the Americans, chances are you have indigenious DNA.
@@siyiroancreint yeah. For some reason alot of people dont realize Spanish and latin period is a white European language. Yet, some how white people are racist against people that speak Spanish. When its a white language lol
It’s fascinating how these cultures can blend within individuals. My extremely Quaker family ended up in Atlanta, and I’m constantly pulled between the opposing cultural virtues of “minding my own god damn business” and “exchanging life stories with the person cutting my hair”
Another thing about the Quakers: it’s conventional to blame the Puritans or southern evangelicals for America’s squeamish attitude about sex and nudity, but really it’s mostly the Quaker’s fault. Quakers were all about self denial, even to the point that they worried about married couples enjoying sex too much. Wasn’t uncommon for couples to have no sexual contact unless they were intentionally trying to have a kid. Sometimes couples would even decide to be completely celibate within their marriage. also we invented solitary confinement. Sorry
Facts I'm half African American southerner, half WASP/German/Polish/Scandinavian Midwesterner. I'm so diverse my DNA test doesn't register my French and English heritage despite knowing that several family members immigrated from there. What's even cooler is knowing a ton of people that are even more diverse than me. America is a special place
@@thesilverreich3947 pshhhhhh, the only thing holding Mexico back from world power status was The history of its government (one that’s woefully totalitarian and oligarchic) And it’s geography. In America, they don’t gotta worry about that, so what’s the problem with “UnItEd StAtEs oF gReAtEr MeXiCo”?
As an immigrant from Japan interested in American history and politics, especially the role of religious belief and affiliation affecting immigration, I found this synopsis fascinating and largely accurate. I did note that Scandinavian immigrants like my great -grandfather were not addressed. Scandinavian immigration started when New Jersey was settled, but the big push came in the late 1800s to 3 regions: Minnesota and Iowa, Washington and Oregon, and Utah and Idaho, the last largely related to the conversion of Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, and Icelanders to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (nicknamed "Mormon"). The Salt Lake phone book has nearly a full page of Swensons (my last name).
My father's paternal ancestor was a Swede named Johan Welsun that was the ship's carpenter on a Dutch privateer that plundered the Spanish Main during the early 1600's. He retired with his swag at the northern end of the Delaware Estuary that later became the colony of New Sweden that was financed by Dutch merchants in the Netherlands. The colony couldn't turn a profit so the merchants had New Amsterdam take it over who then lost it to England. The English merchant shippers were leery of that region since the inhabitants had a long reputation for doing business with privateers and pirates so the Dutch authorities began rounding up and hanging anyone with known associations with those scalawags. Johan Welsun got wind of that so loaded up his family and tools into wagons then took off for the wild frontier where he changed his name to John Wilson. His descendants always married Scandinavian women while moving around in New York, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan building the first boat canals. My father's dad married a Swedish girl from Chicago that worn born in Stockholm just before her parent's boat left for the states in 1870. The US immigration clerk had to guess what their name was since her parents couldn't read or write so spelled their name as Honquest since that's what it sounded like. That was a common practice back then so US telephone directories ended up with plenty of screwy looking names of unknown nationality. The Honquest family went on to own a chain of successful funeral homes in Chicago.
I love this. As a 3rd Gen hispanic American I wanna just add that Hispanic Americans differ in certain ways. For example, a good third to a half of my Dominican American family works in education and beauty salons r super common. Mexican restaurants and cultural blending (especially in the southwest) is super noticeable to the point that there were studies on how American accents were taking up Mexican and Central American qualities. I also have a lot of family in Florida and ur descriptions of their wealth and conservatism makes sense. I’ll say, like Italian Americans, there’s a HUGE value placed in family. This family value mixed in with what I could only explain as stoicism is what I believe to be the reason y Hispanic Americans r progressing so rapidly up the economic ladder as well as assimilating (I’ll probably be the last in my family to speak decent Spanish)
Yeah even us second generation hispanics hardly ever speak spanish when not talking to older family members. My high school was majority hispanic and nobody even spoke spanish besides the very recent central american immigrants.
@@shiny_teddiursa yeah though I think they underestimate how many of us will teach our kids Spanish. I know I'll teach my kids Spanish when I have them, both because it's advantageous and to perserve part of our culture
Bro I don't even speak decent Spanish despite living in Miami now. My family probably assimilated harder than even most of the rest of the Hispanic population since my grandmother was from New Jersey, went to Puerto Rico, had some kids, my mom, divorced, went back up to Florida and married a guy from Alabama (who to this day is my grandpa), and my dad is currently married to a woman from Illinois. I didn't even speak Spanish for years while I was living with my grandparents because it was all white and I needed English not Spanish in addition to the fact that my grandpa didn't speak a lick of the language. Also the Miami accent literally is mirrored in Spanish and a local phrase is "eating shit" because it's directly translated from Spanish.
As a Chinese Canadian, it’s really interesting learning about the different white American ethnic groups!!! I had no idea about all that, really cool to dive deeper than the commonly dismissed “white label” and see how they have each shaped American culture and history in their own way 😳
I find it amusing - although it's understandable - that U.S. survey and application forms REALLY simplify America's ethnic diversity. In particular, they get "ethnicity" confused with "race," and so skin color itself becomes a cultural marker. "White" is considered a single ethnic group, when in fact it is composed of dozens of such groups from all across Europe, as well as (until recently) Southwest Asia and North Africa as well. Asian-Americans are at least distinguished by national origin in the way that "whites" aren't, but I find it a little crazy that, in a categorization system based primarily on race, Indian-Americans are considered Asian-American even though they are of mixed Caucasoid-Australoid racial stock, rather than the "Mongoloid" stock of East Asians. It's also funny to me that Pacific Islanders are also counted as Asian. If you don't think that's strange, take a Korean and a Fijian sometime, stand them next to each other, and try to convince people that they belong to the same race; you'll fail miserably. Both Koreans and Fijians speak languages that originated in East Asia, but they look nothing alike.
@@SeasideDetective2 lol who cares about that, pacific islanders can identify as black or mongoloid or even native if they want to in US just as Korean can be Japanese or Chinese or Indian they look same. Alternatively they are all just POC.
@@tarsy_revo1180 I don't really like the term "people of color." It assumes a connection between all those groups that just doesn't exist, except perhaps for a history of discrimination (and they all haven't experienced the same level of discrimination anyway). You might as well put out a census form that lists only two categories: "White People" and "Other."
Yeah, almost like people diverge into a lot of cultures and not really homogeneous even when physical characteristics are similar... Obligatory, fuck the Yankee carpetbaggers of New England.
I've got to take issue with something. The Roosevelts, Teddy and Franklin were not Scots Irish, they were old Dutch Patroon stock. Virtually American aristocracy without the hereditary titles. The Scots Irish tend to see themselves as just as good as any other man and have nothing but contempt for the "tall poppy" who thinks he can rise above the others.
The Roosevelt’s were originally dutch speaking patroons and the delanos were originally French speaking patroons but both of the families intermarried with a lot of Scots-Irish bc they shared American “WASP” sensibilities without actually having a Wasp last name which really only mattered in New England.
I noticed that too and this video completely ignored how the Dutch migrated to the northeast before the British. Also didn't like how this video didn't include Brazil as a Latin American country which is ridiculous. Also, not a word was said about the vikings who arrived in the northwest before Colombus even arrived. Nice video but too many important details left out for my liking.
Many of the points regarding Ireland are incorrect. “Ireland was incredibly overpopulated at the time.” The population of Ireland during the mid 1840s was 8 million. Not even half that of England’s population at the time. “The Irish came to America with no education or skill. They also came from a tribal warrior herding culture.” The tribal Celtic “warrior culture” of ancient Ireland was long over for hundreds of years….
Exactly, and as I'd understood it the potato blight was not the main cause of the famine - it was the way that English landlords controlled the land, Ireland remained in a system of surfdom which England stopped experiencing. This is why many in Ireland call the 'famine' the 'hunger', as there should have been enough food to go around, but it was overexploited by the English.
I know. As soon as This guy said he's an Irish American so he can speak best on the topic I knew he was going to be a typical yank. He said one third emigrated, one third died and one third stayed. This is just way off. About half survived and just 1 million of 8 emigrated and the rest dying. And saying we had no work ethic is just wrong. We are well known for having a good work ethic and doing the jobs others didn't want. Saying we didn't have work ethic because we were warriors was just ridiculous. That was about 400 years before the famine and is quite stereotypical
@@h.d.5194 One of those pieces of 'academic' research where the theorist will ignore evidence and nuance to prove their theory purely because it's an original idea. Didn't even bother to check wikipedia, just assumed what they'd been told by parents, teachers, whoever, was true.
That Italian family but really got me lol, I’m no Italian I’m Greek but both people react the same when it comes to leaving the family, I told my mom she wouldn’t have to worry about money in a few years when I move out, and she looked at me as though i stabbed her in the heart and then she said “your not leaving until your married” 😂
I remember being related to the neighborhood , we don't move to far away , that is why I married a Irish man cause the majority of Lations were my cousins
Your mothers (southern Europeans) want you to stay while my mom (basically a Briton) prays everynight that Walmart accepts my job application so I could move the fuck out eventually
Well I do see that the majority of your portion on Black America was influenced by Sowell. You really underscore some major factors. It’s lazy to blame the state of Black America on lack of work ethic and the woke culture. The 1920’s-40’s the black middle class was strong and growing, in the 1950’s-60’s white families left in droves from existing neighborhoods taking entire industries with them (white flight) to newly built suburbia that entirely denied black families looking to move in and new interstate highways were paved through entire black middle class neighbourhoods. This practice was called Redlining, it kept black middle class families in poor areas and outright denied them from loans to purchase homes and upward social mobility. Redlining along with broken single parent homes from over incarceration, large percentages of black men joining up the Vietnam War, drugs, the growing welfare state all destroyed the middle class. I suggest anyone who’s looking to learn more to read The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. All things said great video, very informative !
This guy obviously has a right-wing bias. I am on the center and think most of his videos are okay, but it is easy to detect the fallacies and bias in his content
@@BlessedBanter I agree. Since I’ve read a lot of Sowell, I can tell he just repeats his viewpoints but he’s choosing not to mention things that actually happened and facts in favor of a biased viewpoint. It’s intellectually dishonest and I expected more from him.
@@sosman2715 Sowell isn't right wing (nor McWhorter, who was not mentioned but who seems to have also influenced his views). He's barely right of center. The "controversial" opinions in this video regarding the current social justice movement reflects the views of a majority of the black population. Other than his commentary regarding everything outside the current state, everything mentioned is entirely inline with the entirety of historical experts outside of a handful of the post-modernist "antiracist" "historians" (i.e. people who claim to be experts on the history of America despite not having any actual formal education in history) who tend to view objective fact as a false construct and tool of colonialism. His opinions (which he clearly stated were only his opinions) are only (partly) contrary to the mostly white, most upper middle class left who seems to think justice is a performance art (and one to be performed as visibly and as online as possible).
The interstates were built for commercial trucking so often followed existing state highways thru cities where a lot of commercial truck traffic passed thru. Those routes went thru Black neighborhoods and White neighborhoods. The industries didn't follow people moving to suburbia! Those didn't have any reason to since the infrastructure needed to operate was in place (water, electric, natural gas, rail service, rivers/canals for barge traffic, roads and bridges for heavy truck traffic). People were moving out to the suburbs to get away from noisy smelly industries and live in new modern neighborhoods for a change. Most large cities didn't have vacant land suitable for new home developments since most of those were zoned industrial or were floodplains.
@@insertname11 I’m an American with some Croatian ancestry, one of my great-great grandfathers came from Krk, his wife came from Loski Potok in Slovenia.
I'm 100% Mexican American and proud of it but I don't let my pride get ahead of itself like MLK said "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"
I’m 100% German America became an American in 2023. I don’t consider myself German anymore only American. The way I see it if you had to leave your home country to Flurish somewhere else there is nothing to be proud of in your old home and instead you should be proud of what you are now
@@posyo2265I kinda don’t either but one thing about America is you can be from anywhere in the world and say your American and people won’t question it as long as you have American values
Things to research: Tuskegee experiment Black panthers How many of the civil rights movement leaders were compromised by the feds Kanye's weird outbursts about Jewish people (it relates to how rappers are held up by moneyed interests in a similar way to how modern artists were assisted during the cold war)
Southeast Native American interactions have definitely been interesting to read about. Due to the matriarchal lineage, it was actually pretty beneficial to intermarry, as the children of white fathers and native American mothers would get the family heritage benefits of both (See Alexander McGillivray as an example). This means the Trail of Tears was a far messier separation than you'd initially think because it was ripping apart families, and there was a lot of "passing white" or "passing black" going on. That said, looking at the Creek War side of the War of 1812 (where Andrew Jackson fought in), the tactics of the Red Sticks at Fort Mims against other Creeks, and the retaliation at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend would really be a shock to the idealistic "no noncombatant causalities" approach of European ideal war, compounded by the fact that the leaders that encouraged some the worst actions were mixed and educated. So it's possible to see how Jackson could betray his former allies that he personally worked with (Not enough to actually justify the Trail of Tears in my eyes, though). That Black bit with the list of how slaves were dehumanized felt a bit weird. There's a mix of "legally true, but practically false" like skilled labor and education where slaveowners bent rules when the slave showed talent or had need (See Gaineswood, Horace King, etc. It was more up to the slaveowner moreso than the actual law) and "legally false, but practically true" like breaking up families (Alabama legally condemned "breaking up a slave family if able to keep it together," but that "if able" is key.). The aim for slaves was less of a "make labor robots" and closer to a more insidious "HR-like intent to keep them productive yet content with nothing" thing without the ability to quit. So it has this twisted resentment of "Why aren't you content with what I've given you" thing going on with it as well.
Isn't it actually a thing though where southerners assume they have Native American blood but it is very small or none at all? Iv seen several instances and been told in person by southerners who grew up being told of family stories of an ancestor marrying a Native woman but when they took a DNA test they found none. Elizabeth Warren being a famous example where she wasn't intentionally lying but was just told such a story as a child.
@@Spongebrain97 yea ur anecdote about false Indian heritage is a common one but I’ve only ever read one study on it in a college newspaper. It said white and black people who claim native heritage are more likely to have the opposite white or black dna than Indian dna. And it was true to me, my dads family says they’re part Indian but it turned out they were part black. And my moms family has been Episcopalian/Protestant forever but they were French and Spanish creoles who basically adopted the WASP identity because they had the advantage of owning property back before English speakers got there
@@voiceofreason2674 from what Iv heard in some instances white southerners actually had a black ancestor but due to Jim Crow laws such as the one drop rule and grandfather clause, they would've been discriminated against despite barely being part black. To get around this some would claim they had native ancestry to cover it up because on paper native blood was better than black blood. This also happened in Latin America which had an even more extensive caste system based on ethnicity
I always felt that WASPs, Blacks, and Amerindians are the only peoples with strong cases to the title of being the 'real' Americans insofar as such a distinction can be had.
The Scots-Irish were not considered WASPs and they've been in America as long as the English have, are they not real Americans? Same with the Dutch who had been in New York before the English came.
And what a good video it was. I think this the most balanced, even-handed video on race in America I’ve ever seen. Whatifalthist proves to be a A tier history RU-vidr yet again.
250 years and we have the hubris to call it a "civilization". It has nothing compared to the Bronze Age civilizations that survived to modernity like the Greeks, the Chinese, the Persians and the Egyptians
@@dylanbuchanan6511 I don't disagree but... there is a lot of things that still irked me. At one point I even knee-jerk disliked the video before thinking better of it. I already commented on him saying indigenous Americans didn't have metal working. It is one of those things true of certain tribes on the great plains that get applied to natives in general and is patently false. They weren't making metal weapons and tools, at least in significant numbers, but gold, silver and copper jewelry was quite prevalent and no I don't just mean in mesoamerica. The Cherokee were reknown for their silver smiths. Then there is the whole segment on Africans which... I have critiques of from both right and left wing perspectives. That he will mention black America changed for the worse in the 60s but not go into why reeks of cowadice to me. The feds deliberately causing drug problems in their communities is very well documented at this point. Not mentioning it out of what I can only imagine is fear of being called a conspiracy theorist kind of gets my hackles up. The crack epidemic that followed is easily one of the worse things the US government has ever done this side of slavery and indian removal acts. But don't fret. It is being done to white southerners now with meth for similar reasons. They got to uppity and now we have to destroy their subculture too. He didn't really go into this in his Scots Irish segment which annoys me as well, but while the south (and midwest) has been disproportionately poorer compared to the west coast and north east that gap has been widening and I don't think it is an accident. I've seen it happening in front of me in real time. The there is the whole "black culture is where all/most American culture came from" bit which is so disingenious it drives me batshit, right up there with "the west steals its fiction from Japanese media". It would be entirely fair to say that in both cases the two go back and forth influencing each other, but oh no, it has to be a completely onesided relationship. Take him saying black music invented rock. 50s era rock and roll maybe, but ROCK as it has existed since the 60s is a very different thing. When the only influencial black rock musician I can think of is the infinitely talented Jim Hendricks this comes off as ridiculous. While rock and has a lot of influence from jazz and blues, to the point that rock and roll might have more in common with them than what it birthed, it IS its own distinct thing. But if we are to talk about influence we can talk about how big band and ragtime influenced the blues and jazz bands. Lots of white and black musicians there, but those two were influnced by EUROPEAN FOLK MUSIC. That shouldn't negate African influences but this whole idea that we owe all these cultural things exclusively to black people is infuriating. It seems to be part of a larger campaign to create this myth that white people aren't original and stole everything that is perpetuated by the worse people. It is what got the kneejerk dislike in fact. But I thought better of it because he is probably just regurgitating what others have told him and I doubt he holds that view given how much he shits on social justice crusader types. Then finally the white snowflake American comment when talking about illegal immigration. Because working six twelve hour days on a rotating shift while being paid half of a living wage should just be totally okay. But I guess working in a sweatshop is worth it for Mexican immigrants who totally knew that was what they were signing up for and are staying here totally of their own free will and not because of exploitive Californian businessmen who are so enlightened and progressive as to call me racist when I point out it also greatly benefits sex trafficking. What I think is most sorry about that comment is... actual American citizens, white or otherwise, don't have a choice. State regulations apply to us even if we disagree with them. I think minimum wage being constantly raised is just feeding inflation and overtime laws have forced me into some really shitty scheduling conflicts in an attempt to keep me at a 40 hour work week. There was a time when those laws were more flexible and I worked four 12hour shifts one week and three 12s the next without incurring overtime. 4 people could man a 24/7 position like that quite easily. But now we have this poor motherfucker doing a floating shift because the old way just made too much fucking sense. ... I did not mean for this to turn into a small essay and apologize. But now that I have typed it I am submitting it.
"...the native peoples [...] didn't have metalworking..." Nitpick; I don't know the full extent but at least the Pacific Northwest Coast natives and the Cahokia you mentioned had coppersmithing as worked copper plates were important symbols and the Purépecha in Mesoamerica had ironworking.
They also had the wheel, there are several examples of wheeled children's toys. It's commonly thought that it wasn't utilized in transportation because of the general lack of draft animals. Only the Incan Empire had llamas, but the wheel isn't useful in rocky mountain passes with millions of stone steps.
@@DesertRat1997 " there are several examples of wheeled children's toys. " Idiot. They still did not have the wheel. They did not make us elf the wheel for practical purposes. "" because of the general lack of draft animals." You don't need draft animals to make use of the wheel. In japan humans pulled carts by hand, and it made life easier. "but the wheel isn't useful in rocky mountain passes with millions of stone steps." The Inca empire had lots of places without mountain passes.
If I’m not mistaken, the Vietnam War was ending during that time frame. Americans were returning with drug addiction. Also, the government began allowing drugs to flow into black communities. (These impoverished communities had no farms, laboratories, nor organized global distribution capabilities) This is when the War on Drugs (heroin & rock cocaine) was waged; it was synonymously a war on black people. With dwindling opportunity and the inability to relocate black communities victimized each other. During the 1990’s money was in the form of college loans were set aside for minorities to pursue higher learning. I personally took advantage of this opportunity. I suspect it provided alternative we needed to thrive in different sectors of the economy that didn’t involve such risk. I’m sure there may be other factors that I am leaving out and the fluctuation in stats may not be that simple and clear cut.
As a Hispanic American, I can tell you that older folks vote more - and they are more Catholic - therefore lean conservative. BUT young Hispanic Americans are very liberal. They literally turned Arizona blue.
Yeah that seems about right, Hispanic Americans voting demographics are pretty similar to European/white American. old vote republicans, while young vote democrat. I think when comes to immigration both the old and the young are for immigrantion.
I've always thought it was interesting that most regional culture is defined by what diverges from English American culture, and what is clearly English American culture is recognized broadly as not culture at all. I'm like 1/8th Scottish. My mom's grandfather was very Scots Irish and raised my grandmother to only recognize herself as Scots Irish, who then taught my mother, and now my mother taught me. I know the historical details of a clan I don't even share a name with. I know their rivalries dating back centuries, their claims , castles, and relation to English nobility, the story of traveling to Northern Ireland, the trek to the US every name and date. My christmas and family gatherings on my fathers side are all heavily PA German, food, traditions, and everything. I feel generally German and Scots Irish. However, I'm at least 66 % completely English when we delve into the details. I'd say 80% of my family traditions are English, but I don't even realize it because most of the stuff just seems so normal.
Scots Irish is such a bad term. Im Scots-Irish but from Northern England. I literally tell people something different every time they ask just because its such a confusing concept to get across unless you know the term. Im not really scottish, not really irish, not really english, I cant say Southern American without it sounding like South American. White is the only term that people seem to get.
@@sw3783 Most of them would have been Irish, from all over Ireland. "Scotch Irish RACE" was used by Queen Elizabeth to refer to the Irish people - in Ireland and Scotland.
I'm flabbergasted that you skipped over the Dutch Americans. Between being the founders of the American capitalist/banking systems and even more importantly laying the groundwork for the freedom Americans hold most dear, between styling the country as a republic and including things like religious freedom in the ethos of these States, United.
I agree but if we truly thought about all of the cultures and peoples that have created the American identity...We're going to be here awhile watching a I don't know a list of 50 or so. Maybe a part two down the line or a dedicated video would be good.
Western Michigan has a huge Dutch community, and there’s a town called Holland that retains a strong Dutch heritage (including a tulip festival and a windmill donated by the Dutch government back in the 60s).
It seems like he just lumped the Germans and Dutch together, seeing as he listed Trump as a German-American, when I'm pretty sure his ancestry is Dutch.
The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where feed and seed both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Fuck and Suck".
@@muatheluafi6816 so in the 1870s Silesian German protestant fled Germany to Australia. They arrived in the city of Adelaide and then marched out to make towns in the hills around the city. Literally built towns out of nothing and started farming.
I heard Barossa is basically a downstream of German culture. Adelaide also seems to have a massive Greek influence, particularly in their politics where a lot of MPs e.g Xenophon, Marshall, Kounstantinos and the current Premier are of Greek descent.
@@Dwzonbell What do you mean out of nothing ? You're making it sound like they pulled the building materials out of their assholes or something . You mean like they went to a place and cut trees and dug wells and built houses and shelters and started farming ? Yeah that's standard human behavior there is nothing German about it
“While the colonization in Canada was almost entirely peaceful” no we didn’t brother document our massacres and they were often done by local militia. Talk to any descendants of the native Americans that allied themselves with the French in the 7 years war, including me, and we’ll tell you that our ancestors had it either worse or on par with the wounded knee experience.
Hey just something to note: some native Americans around the Great Lakes had the ability to do metalworking. They made copper arrowheads which are still being found by metal detectors.
Yeah but those are ANCIENT and the technology was either lost or barely there by the time Europeans had touched the continent. By the Columbian period the only metal working was copper and gold in Mesoamerica. But yeah a,"What if the Old Copper Culture took off?" would be good video.
@@k_tess It wasn't so much lost as largely irrelevant. Copper working is very easy, the Great Lakes region has large amounts of native copper, which is highly pure ore that you can literally just hammer most of the impurities out to get the metal into usable condition and until the shape you want it. There's a reason humans first started working with copper in the old world too. It's only once you have a sufficiently dense population, usually only possible with agriculture, that you have a demand for copper that exceeds the capacity of only cold working native copper can supply you, and this is with the Great Lakes copper cultures supplying copper artifacts that have been found as far away as southern Mexico. Now, if you want a really impressive example of native metalworking that was sadly lost in colonization, look at the Tarascan culture of northwestern Mexico. These people were actually working with bronze, which requires smelting technology.
If your U.S. ancestry can be traced back to the colonial era, what you are really depends on what colony your ancestors lived in. For instance, if they were from New England, there is a very high probability that they were originally from the British Isles. If they were from Pennsylvania, there is a very high probability that they were from the historically German speaking Rhine River area that included parts of eastern France, western Germany, and parts of Switzerland. I have friends in Pennsylvania who thought they were mostly German because their first ancestors spoke German, only to find out they were really from historically German speaking towns in eastern France or Switzerland! This stuff is always not cut and dry and can get very muddy.
@@AlexandertheGreat99 Yes, people from same ancestral area can be different in DNA. Especially if that area had a history population change. It really depends on where the ancestors originated. Some people, even back in the middle ages, moved around depending on work, result of wars, or food supplies. It also depends on how far back in your linage these ancestors were. After about 5 generations, a human can completely lose all DNA from a certain ancestor. It is a totally random on what DNA is kept and what is thrown out when a human is conceived. You get offered 23 pairs from each parent, for a total of 46 pairs, but in the end you only get to keep 23 pairs. In just one generation, a human looses a sizable chunk of their total ancestry. Ancestral DNA can be randomly passed down through the generations, or it can be randomly lost in the same way.
I can trace my ancestry to the colonial era. My 10th great-grandfather, Jasper Crane, co-founded New Haven, Branford, CT, and Newark NJ. My Dutch ancestors came to NYC back when it was a colony of Holland back in the 1630's, and it was called New Amsterdam.
Germany lost a lot of soil especially after WW2...today's eastern "France" was inhabited by Germans and so was today's Czech Republic, Poland etc...they were forced to flee their ancenstral communities throughout several periods of time and mostly after ww2 when they abandonded their towns and cities being replaced by other nationalities
@@nikgeo8690 Very true. Most people from the Rhine River area are very similar in overall DNA, regardless whether they live in France, Germany, or Switzerland. The entire area is very "Germanic" as far as ancestral DNA is concerned.
I really like the way you explained Italian Americans and how you compared them to the Irish, we are very similar in many ways in how we reacted with American culture and life. Also, the analogy of your mother crying for leaving the family is quite accurate, we're very family oriented people
@Mahdio I wanted to ask what is the relationship with Italian immigrants as a Italian-American your self because I hear stories that the Italians stick to themselves it looked down upon Italian-American
@@IAmGlutton4Life It honestly depends, a lot of Italians came to the USA in "waves", being from the 1890s to the 1950s. Other factors were a lot of Italian families intermixed with groups already in America (especially the Irish), while some families didn't. My family is pretty monocultural and we still have a lot of old Italian customs and traditions (language, food, celebrations, etc.) My family is much newer to America compared to some of the older generations, but I don't think we "look down on eachother." At the end of the day, we are descended from the same country. As a result of this "intermixing" with other immigrant groups it sort of lost the Italian culture in a way, that's why many people that have Italian-American ancestry aren't exactly "in touch with it" as much as others. The main point is however, that it varies drastically from family to family.
I laughed when I heard him say that. I’m not Italian. I’m a Latino man. We’re the same way. When I went off to college, my mother was distraught. I was leaving the house and I wasn’t even getting married! Same thing when my sister moved out. She hated it. I consider myself pretty assimilated into the American culture but, I have to admit, I would love it if my kids decided to live with me until they got married. It’s a crazy world out there. I can protect them best when they’re with me. Maybe you guys have the same reason? Anyway, lots of cultures do this. People from India, a lot of the middle Easterners, some of the people from Southeast Asia too. The whole idea of getting happy when your kids move out when they’re still so young is just so alien to us. I mean, Dios mio, anything could happen!
A major mistake Americans make is believing Scots-Irish were a mixture of Scottish and native Irish. They were not. They were Scottish Protestants (and some northern English) who migrated to Northern Ireland (Ulster) in the 1600s and then migrated from Northern Ireland to America in the 1700s. They did not usually mix with or inter marry with the native Catholic Irish during the century that they were in Ireland before moving on to America. Half of the population of Northern Ireland today is still ‘Scots-Irish’ (known as Ulster-Scots). They are the pro-British population and also pro-American…probably because they see great similarities in their much of American ‘country’ culture. It’s always funny to see Americans of ‘Scots-Irish’ descent focus on the Irish part like St Patrick’s Day, yet the original Scots-Irish who live in Northern Ireland focus much more on their Scottish and British heritage. There is actually a strong element of ant-Irishness amongst them (due to the British/Irish conflict over Northern Ireland)
This might be my favorite video that you’ve released. I wish ethnicity in America was tackled through this lense, rather than strictly through race and discrimination
Ethnicity and race are two separate things. Even among Latin Americans, you still have racial distinctions being made, with darker skinned Latin Americans, descended in part or in whole from African slaves, being discriminated against by lighter skinned Latin Americans descended from European settlers. It makes sense to talk about both
It's slightly incorrect to refer to the areas of majority black Americans as "Angolan" as their ancestors came from all up and down the West Coast of Africa in a very mixed plural background, from Senegambia (modern Guiana) to West Central Africa (the northern part of modern Angola).
Yes the mali empire sold many of their neighbors to slavery they learned to do so with the trans-saharan slave trade during the middle ages, particularly west african slaves to the arabic nations of north africa and europeans including the portuguese and english.
Yea most Angolans ended up in Brazil since the Kongo kingdom traded mainly with Portugal. British Colonies ( the former U.S. Colonies) mainly traded with African states farther to the North.
I live in the U.P. Of Michigan and have a heavy amount of Finnish in my blood. I love how you included the Finnish on your map, we hardly get represented when describing all the cultures that shaped American society. The Finns overwhelmingly worked in the biggest copper mining operations in the world in the 1800’s and early half of 1900’s.
My best friend is half Finnish American and half black Caribbean. People treat him as African American even though, in real terms, the closest link he has to African American culture is me, a white guy who spent 7 of my formative years living in North Minneapolis. He's just a hick from central Minnesota.
I’ve been ‘German’ all my life. At age 70, I found out I’m 42% Scandinavian and 33% English, the rest mostly Scotch, Irish and Welsh! Thank you Mom’s family. Ha! I was always drawn to the music from those parts. Must be something to it . . . ? 😄
All of those are Germanic Tribes.. so, you've been correct. It's just that all these little pockets of smaller German tribes and areas were labeled with other names.
Scandinavians and Germans have the same roots and the early english were basically Saxons who came from Northern Germany so I'd say you are still german. And not to forget that some of these companies offering DNA tests often try to paint a wrong picture depending on where the company comes from. Did the same and suddenly have 1-5% the ancestry of the region in which the company has it's base xD Next time trying an israeli company, always wanted to be one percent jewish
'Mostly due to the fact Native Americans didn't access to any easily domesticated plants...' bruh they had maize AND potatoes, the latter of which caused a massive population boom in Europe.
Yeah, just the animal bit is true. Horses were a game changer in Eurasian war causing intense warfare which created more unified states that had to innovate defenses. This didn't happen in the Americas until the Bow & Arrow was invented.
It should be noted that up till the industrial revolution the English tended their woods the same way that you say the Natives did in the Americas. The reason being of course the same, to maintain them properly so they can provide for generations. It really wasn't until the first industrial revolution that the practice died out an England's woods were decimated to feed industry. Prior to that the forests were harvested with care and tended, burned, sickness was cleaned out, under brush cleaned up plants and sundry chosen for the environment. In many ways the old English forest keeping kept forests healthy and full of game for centuries, could be thought of as environmentally aware in a way that to this day we are not. Our keeping of the forests to this day in the USA is horrific, unproductive, promotes unbalanced ecosystems, and then when we decide to "do something about it" strip harvest to the highest bidder ripping up the land and causing further damage. No balance only insanity and greed. One side making bad policy to convince people to elect them where such policies are myopic at best geared to get the voter to vote for them in THAT election, not the next or the next, that is for other policies, or at worst intentionally destructive for profit.
I Just had an epiphany: some day people are going to read youtube videos comments like this the way we read medieval monks' margin notes in old manuscripts today.
I grew up in a shithole town on the west coast that had only two major demographics. There were the Mexicans who mostly lived inside the town and the white folk who lived on the outskirts and in the hills. Basically everyone in the town was poor especially compared to the next town over that everyone viewed as the "rich people" even though in reality they were probably just middle class. Of course it didn't help that my town was basically a giant crack den. There were only like 500 people in my whole school and out of all of them maybe 3 or 4 were anything other than Mexican and White. I like to think we all got along at least I didn't really see much fighting or racism. Probably because we were all poor and really had nothing on the other.
For a 5th generation American, I am rather heterogeneous. I believe I am roughly 80% Norwegian and 20% Swedish, though that's just based upon where my ancestors came from, I think 3 of my 16 great-great-grandparents came from Sweden and the other 13 from Norway. I doubt they're super accurate, but I would like to take a DNA test, my grandpa did one and it said he is 98% Norwegian, ~1% British Isles, and ~1% something else I don't remember.
Thomas Sowell often portrays Italian Americans Culture as a cross between Irish and Jewish culture. Which I think this video also points to. Growing up as an Italian-American in the suburbs of NYC, I can attest that this comparison is apt.
Thomas Sowell sucks. I know y’all think he “keeps it real” but he also thinks if you wanna get ahead you should start speaking with the same accent as rich people. That’s impractical clown shit. And he thinks that people have done that
This video does a good job exposing the emptiness of phrases such as “people of colour” to unify an experience of oppression. As an Indian (actual India) i find it amusing how many of us, particularly around the Bay area, ally with woke progressive causes despite coming from wealthy tech and medical professions. Pramila Jayapal, Ro Khanna, Kamala Harris etc. A lot of them derive from upper caste Indians such as Brahmins who moved to US as affirmative action programs for lower castes in India called “reserved categories or reservations”, locked them out from creamy Indian civil service jobs and elite colleges .
Aa an european I agree with your take about the "person of colour" phrase. It's very american centered and stupid. I can't imagine referring to people as white and non-white instead of their actual ethnicities
@@michabodnar7739 haha yeah it makes even less sense in a European context. Yes in America it was white settlers that came in and evicted native americans, did slavery etc. but in Europe while participating in colonialism was also occupied by North African muslims (Spain), occupied and oppressed by Turks (Greece, Balkans) and Mongols (Russia). We were often taught to believe warfare and violence is the domain of the whites but thats a distortion of history thats flowed from American centrism which is one of the least representative histories for the world given its sheer uniqueness and the fact some houses in Europe are older than post Native America.
@@rohanindra6401 all of it is very complicated, especially people ignoring the opression that happened between the white europeans at the time. Much of polish culture since the end of the 18th century was defined by seeking independence from the german and russian empires. Same for other smaller nations(and the invasion of Ukraine happening as we speak). At the end of the day it's not only "white opressors", just the strong looking to exploit the weak as always. They just happened to fill that role at the time.
This is a good point. Reservations in India are unfortunately a huge factor behind brain drain. Also, it's especially bad for Indian-Americans to ally too closely with the wokes because those are the people that crap on India the most, particularly since the current government came to power.
Well there's a clear divide between European ancestry from the South, and European ancestry from the North. The descendants of the "Old Stock" English Colonials in the Northern States & Canada are indeed responsible for colonialism, yet, are also descendants of people who didn't participate in African slavery nearly as recently as the Southern United States. There's no widespread German or Italian ancestry among European descendants in the U.S. south. There certainly is some French and Spanish from the "Old Stock" Spanish & French settlers in Southern Alabama's Gulf Coast. These are people they call "Cajun" and also "Spanish Creole" or "French Creole" , (depending on the tongue). It's close proximity to Mexico and the former Spanish Empire and New France is why there's such strong Spanish & French connections in the deep U.S. South. However, outside of that, the majority of Europeans from south of the Mason-Dixon are almost entirely descendants of the U.K. Whereas when you get into the Midwest, the presence of German and Italian backgrounds are strong .
As an African American, I think I may have a hunch as to what went wrong in the 60s: LBJ's "The Great Society" and feminism. 1. The Great Society offered us welfare as a sort of "apology" for past transgressions. And even said they would give the women more if the father wasn't present. I don't think anyone knew what would come out of that deal, but it was devastating. Married couples agreed that if they care about their kids they should do what's best for them. The fathers started to leave (the Vietnam War, and the war on drugs did a number on black father absence as well). Families can't really operate well at all without competent fathers in the picture. Good communities are built with good, nuclear families. Without that communities tend to fall. 2. Black women also accepted the feminist ideology which served to remove the black father as well. White women launched the second wave of feminism, but this time it wasn't about suffrage, but about fighting against "The patriarchy" (oppressive male power). So black women joined the movement based on essentially a lie. Black men had no power to oppress anyone. But nonetheless black women started to turn against the men in their communities accusing the men of cheating and abusive behavior (which wasn't really all that prevalent in black homes). But black women were sort of on an empowerment high and they began adopting very anti-male sentiment: "I'm strong and independent. I don't need a man" "I'm tired of put the culture on my back" "Ni🅱️🅱️as ain't 💩" "Men are trash" "Women need men like fish need bicycles" All degrading quotes meant to undermine men's place in society. This has led to tragedy in the black community with high abortion rates, high homicide rates, high dropout rates etc etc... If the men in our communities hold the men accountable for crime and women hold the women accountable for dating and procreating with criminals, the brokenness this can begin to reverse. But "snitching" is looked down upon and hooking up with criminals get you social points so people aren't incentivized to change and its quite depressing. Obviously there are more things that factor in to our collective dysfunction, but those are two of the largest problems in my opinion that we have to address and correct. Until then we will remain in a horrific viscous cycle. Pray for my people as we seek to heal.
Yeah, systemic problems are hard to even address, let alone work to solve. It takes a collective shift in consciousness, and in this case, fighting against a mainstream ideology.
It's ironic that the welfare that was put in place is undo the racism of the country is what is keeping yall down. The people that are trying to push this huge welfare state are racist, but this racism doesn't come from malice, but from generosity
Idk this dude’s reason for the lack of discrimination as a cause of the income gap between white and Black Americans doesn’t add up. He says discrimination can’t be the reason because Nigerian Americans have higher incomes. This doesn’t matter since Nigerians migrated here much later than the slaves and did not face the same problems as the salve’s descendants throughout Jim Crow.
@@captain.carcrash7207 A good example of discrimination affecting the income gap is the housing/property ownership discrimination in the mid 20th century. Many contractors expressly excluded black people from opportunities of ownership and in many cases black people were refused loans. Today, the descendants of the white home owners who owned houses thanks to discriminatory contracts are rich while the descendants of those potential black home owners are poor (mostly). This is an example of discrimination directly affecting the income gap today. Obviously there are many other factors that go into this, but discrimination is one of the main elements.
As someone who's parents migrated to the states 25 years ago, I find it absolutely hilarious how I am thrown in certain groups as if my ancestors lived and profited from what happened over the last 2 centuries. There really needs to stop being such a blanket statement of "Whites" and "Blacks" when it comes to these debates. Other people exist and have migrated since then, but Americans are too self-absorbed to care that a large portion of their current population hasn't even been here for more than 3 generations. Also to the other comment saying, immigrants are "high achievers" undercuts the stupid amount of effort many of them put in because they don't have an education themselves. Maybe we have a leg up on those who have lived here for generations while being discriminated against. But we came here dirt poor, and seeing how hard my parents had to work just to get me an education and a chance in life is not something you should simplify as if it's some huge advantage compared to anyone born and raised here.
On the Asian American group and assimilation, I am half Chinese and half English American. In less three generations my family went from literal Chinese peasants in my Grandfather, to me a member of the Society of the Cincinnati (One of the most prestigious American Hereditary Societies). That is some fast assimilation.
@@tkdmike9345 You shouldn't abandon your Chinese heritage though. Hopefully you marry a Chinese wife otherwise in a few generations your Chinese grandfather's heritage will be lost forever and that would be tagic.
@@lawbringer9857 I don't think you shouldn't be forcing people to marry someone of their own race just for the sake of cultural preservation And again, he said he already assimilitated into American society
@@lawbringer9857 With all due respect, I married my wife because I love her and not because she was of a certain race. Im an American who happens to be part Chinese rather than Chinese who happens to live in America. And with respect to my Grandfather’s culture, he has 10 kids and ~30 grandkids most of who are still culturally Chinese, so his legacy will live on regardless to what I do.
What I've learned from this is that my family is almost exclusively german then Irish, but only identifies as german. Also that my family is more like an Italian family than an Irish family.
My grandfather was entirely german and yes, he was forced as a small child to go “crypto” and denying his ancestry and “pretending” that he was Anglo. He spoke German with his mother, and his mother taught my own mother german, otherwise there is no cultural basis aside from some recipes
Regarding the Natives, a couple of points: 1. Their population was smaller than what was originally estimated based on genetic analysis done in the Caribbean (which can be extrapolated to the rest of the America's). See the National Geographic article on this or Wikipedia links on the Taino's (I don't know if YT will let me post links). This is another reason why the Europeans were able to defeat them over time. 2. The Amerindians do not have the lowest total fertility rate (TFR) in the US, Asians do, then followed by Whites and Amerindians at about 1.55. Interestingly, the Amerindian TFR in Canada is still above replacement level, though Canadian statistics are hard to gather on this. 3. Amerindian populations are still growing in the US, ironically due to immigration of Mayans and other Amerindians from Central and South America. These groups are of course not interchangeable with US Amerindians, but they are related. (It would be analogous to Slavs moving to France in European terms). Currently, there are more Amerindians in Peru than in all of the America's in 1500. Bolivia and Guatemala are probably the first majority Amerindian nations, or will be. Nunavut and Greenland are majority Inuit. 4. I am of the belief that at least one state should have been for the Amerindian people (Straddling Oklahoma - New Mexico perhaps), though we need to remember that Amerindians thought of themselves as different nations (like Asians and Europeans do) and so mixing all these groups to one area could still cause significant strife.
Yeah Native/Indian Americans culture can be very different. The native tribes here I Pacific Northwest are very different then the one in the plains, the northwest, etc and even then there are some noticeable culture difference in the northwest
I think you need to make a separation between left leaning whites and right leaning whites. The left whites have low birth rates barley 1:1. were as the right leaning whites are around 2.5 or 3/1
European settlers in North America gave no quarter to Native Americans so no region in the United States would be safe for the First Nations. Even to this day, they suffer huge economic barriers of poverty, land thefts, hostile state governments, and suffer higher rates of all forms of disadvantages. Sadly, I can't imagine them rebounding unless the Hispanic populations are mixed with the local indigenous people. As percentage Latinos have higher to almost 100% indigenous ancestry and could share with their gene pool. Though, I think language and history would be a barrier for such unions. I do believe that Oklahoma should be honored as an indigenous state as it was originally intended until white settlers stole even that parcel of land. At least indigenous admixture will live on in Latin America.
I find your first point pretty contentious. You ought to be careful assuming the demographics of an entire continent based off of an island. The native pre-columbian populations have had upper estimates and lower estimates around europe, bur regardless, they would still be comparable to the Old World. Small pox was the absolute defining factor of american history, as without it, the histories of the americas would more closely resemble that of colonialism in africa.
@@nameredacted7622 Whites as a whole have TFR well below replacement, that's what matters. The only groups that have above replacement levels are very religious groups like the Amish now.
I guess my Dutch ancestors didn't leave much of an impression in the Northeastern US. The Dutch claimed the area from Connecticut to Delaware calling it New Netherlands. The New York , Connecticut and Northern New Jersey were called New Amsterdam while Southern New Jersey and Delaware were New Amstel. There were three sisters who came in 1627. Two of the sisters are my great grandmothers. One pair is also great grandparents to Theodore and Elenore Roosevelt. The other pair were the painter Edward Hopper's great grandparents. The third sister was married to Jan Aertsen van de Bilt. There were others, de Groot, van Deusen etc. In 1653 my Huguenot ancestors sailed in on the Bonte Koe. One was to be the magistrate of Haarlem, the other Governor General Peter Stuyvesant's adjutant. They lost their jobs in1664 when England stole the colony and preceded to rename everything. The magistrate David de Marest bought 5000 acres from the Leni Lenape to build a sawmill. A small part of it is now the town of Demarest. The adjutant was in Southern New Jersey trying to chase the Swedish out of New Amstel. He too bought lots of land and founded the city of Woodbury in New Jersey. The Demarest home is one of the last Dutch Colonial homes in New Jersey. About 150 years later my family went back to New York, to Brooklyn. We lived in Wycoff Heights where the Wyckoff family home still stands. We belonged to The Reformed Church of South Bushwick. For an unmentioned ethnic group the Dutch left an awful lot of historic properties around New York and New Jersey. Dutch Reformed Churches, town names, English administration districts. and thousands of us descendants from New York to California, even Canada. The Wall Street Financial District, The Tappan Zee Bridge. The exogamous Huguenots were Dutch within two generations. They changed from The French Reformed Church to the Dutch Reformed Church.
Historians have also attributed importance to the Dutch contribution to the pragmatic, relatively tolerant, business focused approach that drove New York's and, subsequently the US's, success.
those Leni Lenape and others laughed at people buying land from them, as they said later they didn't own the land, but they were happy to receive trade goods or money etc for it.
Culturally, the Dutch really should be considered. They were a global economic powerhouse for the formative centuries leading up to independence and afterward. There were many coastal trading towns and cities where almost everyone spoke Dutch (regardless of their ethnicity) due to the pervasive sea trade of the Dutch. They were even responsible for the majority of slaves transported and sold here in the US before the importation of slaves was outlawed. Their influence in the Caribbean was even greater. Population-wise, however, the Dutch generally did not come here to settle, and as a result are a quite small percentage of the ancestry of modern day Americans (so I could see why they might not have made the cut for this video). Most who lived here were on contract to do things like run harbors, warehouses, and manage the logistic side of foreign trade (before returning home with a nice chunk of money when their contract was up).
Dutch merchants financed the colony of New Sweden. The Scandinavians that settled there failed to make it profitable so had a small detachment of soldiers sent down from New Amsterdam to take it over, which was fine with the settlers. The residents along the estuary were known for doing business with pirates and privateers so the Dutch began rounding up anyone known to have dealings with them to hang in front of British merchant shippers that expressed concerns over piracy in the region. My father's paternal ancestor was a Swede that served as the ship's carpenter on a Dutch privateer licensed by the English Crown to plunder the Spanish Main. He retired with his swag on the Delaware River just north of where the new colony became located. Had a wood and blacksmith shop plus a family when news spread about the Dutch hanging people. He promptly loaded up his tools and family into wagons then headed out for the New York frontier where he changed his name from Johan Welsun to John Wilson.
I am an Israeli Jew and I'm gonna go to Chicago this summer for a delegation and I gotta say I loved the video and I found your part on the Jewish American community to be very accurate and educating I also really liked that you recognized the fact that Jewishness is an ethnicity and not just a religion Love your videos keep up the good work!!!
You forgot about the Japanese in California, Native American DNA throughout the US. Most Europeans in the US are so mixed with other Europeans that you can't even categorize it.
The main cause of the famine wasn't really the overpopulation, it was the fact that no irish people owned their land, and were therefore forced to grew cash crops they couldnt eat to keep the brits happy so they didn't take the land away.
That's similar to what drove much emigration from German speaking European lands to the US, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Ukraine,etc. In the 19 century (except for the part about the potatoes)
Yeah it was persecution that starved the Irish. In fact famine is probably the most "cop out" excuse for starvation by any government. If land was truly incapable of providing food for a given population it would simply be barren or uninhabitable. It's some weird combination of persecution, poor government policies that made it hard to grow food etc. You can even look at other goods and services as well. You see prosperous times and less prosperous times. The difference between food and those goods is they can't use "famine" as an excuse for why supply of steel, oil, coal, whatever decreases. But with that said the Potato did really prosper in Ireland since it required such little upkeep that they'd simply grow naturally. Didn't need any robust farms for it to flourish in the landscape. Some could say it was an ideal food for a population on its knees.
The penal laws that were revoked 20 years before the famine were a major factor. The penal laws that were in Ireland for nearly 120 years. Deposed every Irish Catholic of their lands and left the majority of the island's population destitute and tenant farmers that depended on the potato because it was by far the cheapest crop.
@@renaldoawesomesauce1654 It came down to policy: the policy was the destruction, even elimination, of the Irish - that is why the food was shipped out and any foreign aid prevented from getting to the starving people.
there’s a huge population of those descended from Germans and Czechs in Texas. Huge! Though I do understand that this is supposed to be a more broad, generalized video and obviously you’re spot on with all the Latino heritage too.
This video was better than I expected, but still some overly-broad generalizations here. One crucial note about Ireland: it wasn’t “overpopulated” except in the context of English foreign occupation taking all the arable land except that which was unsuitable for farming cash crops for export, where only potatoes could be grown. That is the land (and the food) the native Irish were forced to live off of to such an extreme degree that when the potato blight hit, millions died of starvation. But to be clear: the English always had enough food to feed the Irish population notwithstanding the blight- they just chose not to, and to export the crops and keep the money instead. So the famine was as much a result of dispossession and classism (if not moreso) than it ever was about “overpopulation” or a potato blight. But the Irish were taught it was their fault and to be ashamed of their own poverty, which is why it’s rarely talked about, even to this day. And this dispossession isn’t too far different from what our nation did to Native Americans: forcing them off all the most arable land, and into scrubland “reservations” where scarcely anything could be grown, then violently crushing all forms of resistance and rebellion to that enforced impoverishment. Just my $0.02 for an otherwise excellent review of American demographics and migration which could probably benefit from including more critical reflection on the classist nature of our society, which is really baked-in at the very core of our culture, ever since the landed English gentry of the Jamestown colony nearly starved to death because they didn’t want to work (because they saw hard work as beneath them) before kidnapping, enslaving, and “importing” slaves from Africa to do the work for them, from 1619 onwards, because they didn’t have serfs anymore and didn’t want to have to pay people to work their fields (and the attitude hasn’t changed much, unfortunately, in many quarters of our country).
Sad to see that the French have been ignored. 400 years of presence, half of the country was New France and several cities were French, including Detroit and Chicago.
The French didn't want to colonize. They didn't settle in numbers like the English did. It's actually similar to the English in Canada. Canada only exists as a country today because the losers of the US revolutionary war went north.
36:51 As a Mexican I can provide somewhat of an explanation, most of us are tough skinned, we prefer conservative candidates since they offer hard and conventional work and values, instead of the pats on the back the left offers, we dont buy that much into the woke narrative since strong catholicism keeps us away from things the left preaches such as trans, homosexual and socialist stuff, at some extent, also, we hook up with people outside our race since we just like all kinds of people
I wouldn’t say we prefer conservatives based on voting as I most of us tend to be very independent thinking and vote on who we think will be the best for us but seeing Hispanics as a whole we are very different
This an exaggeration. I’m Hispanic American and I can say for most of Hispanic Americans it comes down to the candidate. Not to mention that young Hispanics are very liberal. (They turned AZ blue) But the older Hispanics lean conservative because of they are very Catholic like Italians.
Majority of young next gen Mexican Americans are liberal and proud to be of Mexican heritage but would absolutely dislike a recently immigrated Mexican who is conservative and Catholic and practically is against homosexuality etc I see this when interacting with my grand uncles/aunts and zoomer nephews
The reason the black community was degraded in from the 70s onwards is pretty obvious. Legal equality was achieves, however this does not mean that police and prosecutors do not have the discretion to choose who to enforce laws on. The criminalization of widely used drugs like cannabis is enforced on blacks at rates 3x of whites even if use of cannabis is slightly higher among whites. Drugs that were clearly used more by blacks like crack carried much steeper penalties than drugs like cocaine which are essentially the same thing. The Nixon administration openly admitted that they only criminalized drugs to go after their political opponents and to remove their power. It is not only drug laws that are disproportionately enforced against blacks, teenage boys around the world are prone to fighting in middle school and early high school, white children simply do not face the same kinds of penalties and prosecutions that black children do. Most laws that are enforced by police in the US are disproportionately enforced against blacks. Every study into this proves the point, black people are even more likely to receive harsher sentences from judges for the same crime when everything else is equalized. Over time, this has added up to 1/3 of black men with felonies(thus they cannot vote to change the police / city officials who created these conditions). Felonies also mean that one cannot access scholarships and go to universities and most black men receive these felonies around the time they should be going to university. An inability to get a good paying job because of a felony leads to more criminality, poverty, and homelessness. This also means that it is more difficult to form effective familial structures because people are always in/out of jail, there is also a lack of role models. There is also the lag in black wealth due to their legal inability to participate in the post WW2 housing loans. Black American poverty is due to government polices coupled with a lack of a safety net for black families. It is usually possible to overcome these kinds of issues, black African immigrants in the US thrive, but it is difficult and this is plaid out through the statistics. To be clear, similar trends can be seen for lower middle class / poor whites in the mid west and south, but blacks clearly have beared the brunt of it as a group in a way that others have not
It's not a victim mentality for African-Americans. It's a recognition that every psychologist would support that they have been attacked by perpetrators for 100s of years, attempting to keep them down. In order to change the world you need to recognize the reality of the world.
We whites, american or european, etc NEED TO UNDERSTAND.. Reparations SHOULD FIRST BE FOR FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS (BY LINEAGE AND HERITAGE NOT A RACIAL ISSUE), NOt ILLEGALS, IT'S NOT ABOUT A HANDOUT. Europe and America and their corporations/govts DESTROYED Foundational Black Americans' wealth, families and health for GENERATIONS! IT'S ABOUT AMERICAN JUSTICE FOR ITS ORIGINAL CITIZENS!! Foundational Black Americans were not paid their pensions for civil war yet the plantations were. FBA were not paid pensions for Civil War, WW1/WW2(as well as locking Foundational Black American veterans/warriors out of the GI BILL and housing grants), and MANY not for Korean war. Plus jim crow, criminal leasing laws, black codes, gentrification, redlining, eminent domain, sundown towns, horrible schools/school-to-prison-pipeline, anti-black hating judges/cops, given poor health care and dirty tap water (FLINT MICHIGAN) MUCH higher than average interest rates/usury bank loans for the same bank savings and collateral as whites. VERY HIGH INCARCERATION FOR THE SAME CRIMES AS OUR WHITE POPULACE FOR THE SAME OFFENSE. Horrible music(mysoginistic and violence and drug culture) and media pushed to target the destruction of the multigenerational Black American family. Taking their hard fought-for and hard-won scholarships, grants and govt grants for all purposes and giving them to Africans, Latinos, Asians, Europeans, White American females, etc. Our christian american GOVT both state and federal owe its black citizens.
You can still find an overwhelming amount of British Cultural influence and architecture on the East Coast of the United States. From South Carolina to Maine, but basically the original 13 Colonies. North Carolina is particularly interesting with Anglo Ancestry dominating the Piedmont, Scotch-Irish in the Appalachian Mountains, and Anglo-Nigerian along the East Coast. The Native Powhatan Tribe and the Cherokee Tribe live mostly integrated with the Europeans to this day in NC, making it the most friendly Colonial State to the Natives, historically speaking.
@@anthonyodonnell6105 Yeah, I went to it back in the 90’s near Banner Elk or Boone I believe. Men wearing Kilts and playing bagpipes all over, it really was a magical experience that I will never forget. 🏴
Please, please do not minimize Canada's treatment of our indigenous people. They went through literal hell with residential schools and forced assimilation and to this day, dozens of indigenous communities have no access to clean drinking water and have not for a very long time.
14:34 - it was the Welfare State created by LBJs Great Society that caused it. Incentives matter and if you incentivize behavior that destroy families (intended or otherwise) you get family destroying behavior.
Can we also get a video covering the corruption going on in America right now? It is one of the reasons America is so ineffective on the world stage right now
It's simple, since the 1980s, America's conservative movement displaced the New Deal liberal order of the 1930-1970s which provided stability, new infrastructure from roadways to all sorts of public works to even getting a man to the moon. When Conservatives took over this caused a brain drain as America became increasingly hostile to its own national interests due to the racism, general bigotry and neoliberal policies of Reagan's revolution. Neoliberalism basically supplanted the beliefs of both parties leaving only narrow margins of differences based on perceived identity politics. Conservatives rely on white evangelicals and racial resentment from them, and liberals rely on a hodgepodge of competing interest groups mostly of mixed identities and ideologies from LGBT to Black, Jewish, Hispanic, Muslim, and sympathetic whites who would identify as liberal. The problem of America's ineffectiveness is due to corporate control of the media, government oversight, and general hostility towards taxation and regulation. This creates a country that won't act or react unless its corporate oligarchy allows it, and without a strong progressive framework to ensure taxation and regulation society fractures into tribalistic competing interest while the true malefactors remain in control. Lobbying power, overextension in foreign wars like Iraq and Afghanistan, generally divided society, and economic stagnation for most people while corporate profits balloon and wealth accumulation for the top 15% of society grows. Most Americans will not see an effective agenda in the near future.
The book 'Albion's Seed 'covers the different major cultures influencing American people very thoroughly. A very engrossing read for history buffs and those interested in how cultures develop.
Colin Woodard's "American Nations" is very good as well. It does a similar analysis dividing the US in 11 geographic regions: the Puritan northeast, the Dutch-founded greater New York, the Cavalier Tidewater region, the Quaker Midwest, Scotch-Irish "Appalachia", the plantation-based Deep South, French Louisiana, the "old" Hispanic southwest, the Rocky Mountains "colony", the urban West Coast, and the Native American remnants. Highly recommended!
Mexican American here, what I find fascinating in terms of the assimilation question compared to my black, descendant of slaves, friends and family, is that we can trace our Latin and indigenous heritage, where much of African American lineage is severed historically, and people don’t often fully know their roots. When you know your roots and can see and feel them being shifted away from your family’s identity, you can feel threatened. If you are holding on to what identity you have known to survive with in a nation that has disenfranchised and enslaved your people, I’m sure you’re less able to find your roots, the system won’t let you.
Here's the thing dude: the idea of America is that everyone is created equal and we all have the same rights and opportunities. The reality is much different. You'll understand better in about 10 years.
@@dongately2817 also the “created equal” thing doesn’t fly in the “nation of immigrants” sentiment. Like we must abscond of our heritage for an American way of life. It doesn’t fly because we can’t say we’re equal and start evenly in a land of opportunity when the we in concern has been eradicated through genocide, or brought to this land as a product. There is no clear way to rectify the notion that we’re created equal, because it doesn’t matter how we’re created, it’s how we’re treated in an unjust system that counts.
I know my heritage and my lineage. I'm a proud ADOS black man. ADOS means American Descendant of Slavery. I'm not ashamed of my ancestors as they went through hell and torment, so that I could be here today! I'm not African, even though my first ancestors were from Africa. That bloodline has long since been bred out through several generations.
@@ryanleethomas - Any system benefits those who can best game or manipulate it. Some people in this country have been dealt a winning hand just by their birth, others have to work harder. My point was that even though the system is unjust, you can still use it to your benefit, no matter who you are (as long as you’re not afraid of becoming a jaded cynic).
Why was there a collapse of black America in the 1960s? I suggest you study the creation of the welfare state under LBJ. The system initially wouldn’t help married women. Yet, if they divorced, they could live far better off the welfare system. After this point, marriage was not a priority for many poor black women. Later changes to the system caused more poverty trying to eliminate these “incentives” to reject the nuclear family. Yet by this point, the idea is single mothers was socially acceptable and has yet to reverse.
It’s amazing how a country as big as the EU can stay alive when it is such a mix of different parts that, instead of self separate, only add together to be a part of the greater whole.
You left out that large swaths of the modern U.S. South was once settled by "Old Stock" French & Spanish colonials before the Americans claimed those region, and incorporated the descendants of that population into the U.S.
Dude, how can a channel this big have audio engineering this bad? Your asides have so totally different volume and tones it's laughable. Please seek some guidance or help in this
Also worthy of note, many neighborhoods in New York city that were majority Italian, or Black were, for a really long time through the 20th century, often represented by the Irish.
Something you should have covered is the high number of women from the U.K. that married American servicemen during and after WWII and then moved to the USA. My father was in the AirForce in the 1960’s and after serving in Vietnam was stationed in the southeast of England. While there he married my mum and 1 year later I was born. 2 years after that my family moved to the USA and eventually lived in California. Interestingly my fathers family had immigrated to the USA and 2 years later he was born, the youngest of 10 children. So he was the only one in the family to be born in America until my son was born. I am a dual national holding a passport from the U.K. as well as USA. There is actually a rather large community of people in the same situation as me and they established the “British-American” club. My parents were active in that club for decades and I have as well. Maybe you could cover this in a later video. There are a rather large number of people in this group of people. It could almost be called a British invasion of sorts lol. It took place from the 1940’s to the 1980’s mainly due to the fact that America had so many air bases in the U.K.
Probably one of my favorite and insightful videos on youtube in the 2020-30 decade given the great social influx that is ongoing. You sir are hacking the matrix, if only more folks knew about their lineages!
Never seen your other content but after this video I just had to subscribe. This video hits the nail on the head every time. Now I demand a follow up video on Scandinavian, French, Polish, Greek, Filipino, Hmong, and Indian-Americans. Please 🙏 🥺.
14:32 - "However, some shift that I don't fully understand..." 2nd wave feminism was in full swing by the 1960s. Divorce became common, and the breakdown of the family resulted. Black America was targeted by feminists of the era, in particular.
Expansion of the welfare state + sexual revolution made the fathers leave. No fathers predicts literally every other bad thing with the black community
This is not true, the crack epidemic affected the black community more than your theory. There were less divorces, more married people, and more 2 parents houses before the crack epidemic. I don’t how you came to that conclusion. Maybe feminism played a role partially, but not as much as you’re making it seem.
@@TJ-qm2qx - CIA had an active role in crack, and 2nd wave feminism. I get my theory by analyzing data. Edit: the smoking gun for feminism, is fatherlessness. It started in black America, because black America was targeted. Early feminists knew exactly what they were doing, and many of them hated black America (Margaret Sanger, I think it was... very enlightening quotes from her). And given the times, white America wasn't paying too much attention. So that's how it started. But don't worry, white America, and brown America are both quickly catching up. Fatherlessness will be had for all.
@@yomomz3921 feminism? Most black Americans hold conservative values and would be republican if they weren’t swooned over by the media. I doubt that feminism was primarily the cause.
@@TJ-qm2qx - I think you might be confusing "mistrust of govt and authority" for conservatism. And lgbt is less accepted, sure. But that's about as far as it goes in most of black America. Just go there, and bring up welfare reform or getting rid of section 8, or letting affirmative action expire. No, I don't think 'conservative' is the word that applies - superficially on odd social issues perhaps, but that's it. After all, what is "the media", if not a govt approved information distribution network. If black America is generally being swooned by the media... then what's the message that's swooning them? Is it a conservative message? - doubt it. There are a lot of dots to be connected when it comes to causality. Feminism is the primary cause. But there are secondary effects of Feminism and fatherlessness, that can have a dramatic impact that might outshine the base cause... but if not for the base cause, the secondary effect would never have had the impact it did. In this case, Feminism and more properly the breakdown of the family, or more properly still fatherlessness... is the base cause. Without fathers and strong families for guidance, many more fell into crack dependence (selling or using) than otherwise would have. It's a commonly held dogmatic principle in Western culture that egalitarianism, and gender equality in particular, is a virtue. But I would argue that history says otherwise. Edit: And to your original dismay, it's not very well known (certainly not publicized), but early abortion clinics were established disproportionately in black neighborhoods. The destruction of black America was a conscious goal of feminists. And it made a convenient testing ground for policies and ideas that would be brought to the entirety of America. Also, you don't even have to take my word for it, that many early feminists were racially motivated. A lot of them wrote it down. There are lengthy quotes on record. And I'm not talking about zoomer clout-chasing virtue-signalling "racism". It's pretty legit and undeniable (disgusting too, of course).
@@shorewall He claims that the left-wing idea that discrimination is what holds black people back is rebutted by the success of Nigerian Americans. The issue is that while the left does claim discrimination is a problem, they tend to believe the issue is more systemic in nature, with stuff like redlining, the drug war, and what’s known as the preschool-to-prison pipeline among others being barriers. I’m not arguing that this idea is correct, I’m only arguing that he fundamentally does not understand the arguments being made by his opponents in the first place.
@@ShnoogleMan Pretty sure you're wrong. He's saying that the Nigerians are relatively new migrants and thus aren't subject to the same drawbacks as those who are descendants of West African slaves. That the Puerto Ricans who have lived in impoverished areas for a long time aren't doing as well as some more recent darker skinned Latino migrants, because this isn't just a skin color issue but a cultural/socio-economic issue.
@@waynewalters426 That first sentence affirms what I’m saying. The statement that Nigerians as recent immigrants are doing better supports the argument that leftists actually make, and if he understood the leftist argument he would understand that it is not a good rebuttal.
Jewish American here, absolutely spot on my ancestors came here with absolutely nothing and yet now I could afford to go to college. I like that you mention we are just as American as everyone else because I find it hard to explain to people especially non Americans that.
@@hermanreid not true. Anyone can be an American and that’s what makes our country beautiful. However, nobody can just be European growing up there as an outsider you’ll never fit right in. I’ve seen it with my white relatives in Germany they don’t feel or consider themselves Germans because they’ll never be. However, anyone and everyone can be an American no matter where they are from.
@@hermanreid America was named after a person that did not exist the entire time the landmass did. Being "American" is being of "America." America being this big old continent. The Chocktaw are American. The Canadians are American. Everyone on the continent is American. This isn't like Europe. Virtually every group here settled on the continent from somewhere else. I won't lie to you and act like these new Mexican immigrants are doing the exact same thing our white ancestors did, because the new migrants aren't really building any new stuff, but objectively they were already American. They just weren't United States Citizens. This isn't Europe, where your German family has lived in Germany since it became a family.
@@hermanreideh, bet yours didn’t either. Funnily enough, I’d say the impact of Jews on pop culture (mafia crime and producing music to name 2) make them pretty American. The East Coast metro is inherently American, and certainly part of its flavor comes from Jews.
What's the reason for so many Americans vehemently denying English ancestry in favor of German/Scottish/Irish ect.? Is it because the English are viewed as the oppressors with the other British nations as the oppressed? That I can understand, but then why Germany? Does it all just stem from independence? I find it odd that Americans seem to, at best, be neutral about the English, whilst venerating the Scottish and Irish as some sort of wonderful, mythical people that they all descend from. The average person from Scotland or Ireland utterly despises the US, possessing true venomous hate for anything even remotely resembling American culture, whereas the English have, and this has been studied, the highest opinion of the US and it's people than any other European nation.
It is actually true that Germans make up a larger percentage of the population in places like the Midwest and Pennsylvania, but even there it’s only like 40%. Thanks to DNA Testing Americans are becoming more aware of the fact that the majority of “Non-Hispanic Whites” in America are like 60%-100% British/Irish ancestry. Making it the majority ethnicity of Americans to this day. I wouldn’t worry about it, it seems like things are heading in the opposite direction today with the Anglo-Sphere reuniting across the globe from the USA to the the AUS. Probably the strongest Alliance on Earth tbh.
@@chaosXP3RT The problem is that the statistic comes from the US Census which asks people to “self-identify” and in the past no one wanted to identify as English because they blamed our negative history aspects on British people, or simply because they thought being British is too boring, and identifying as Irish or German sounds more exciting. DNA Testing proves that it’s a much larger part of the population than some want to admit. However, OP is wrong about the Scotch-Irish thing, they love Americans over there, especially in Scotland. I know that they love the USA for a fact.
I'm glad you touched upon how quickly Hispanics assimilate and are still doing so in America. My parents came from Mexico in the late 70's, now their grandkids can't even speak Spanish.
We are doing well, considering the fact that our ancestors come from not much relative to recent immigrants from Asia or any other part of the world far enough you have to take a plane.
@conker bad day Well that’s arguable, But if it was true it wouldn’t be unexpected, Due the recent anti-Mexican sentiment amongst many Americans who wanted to build a wall. 😂
