Explaining American Civilization 

You need to update your Us bases map Afhganistan shouldn't be incuded.

please include more sources/references in your videos.

*Explaining North American Civilization FTFY

So the only counter would be a Cinncinatus or a George Washington. The rarest authority. The Great Dictator. The kind that props up power instead of wielding it.

Hi Whatifalthist. I generally agree with your videos but I have heard rebuttals about the wage productivity gap (ie from actual justice warrior or the FEE, Yaron Brook and the whatnots). Not saying its on point but some say that the wage line only accounts for non-supervisory positions which the productivity doesn't. Also, the line regarding generational ownership is about percentages of wealth in the country rather than actual median incomes And of course boomers get more wealth as they are older and more in population compared to the smaller millennials and zoomers. I am not discounting the increase cost of living and housing in some areas and the jobs going overseas, but I believe those charts exaggerate the issue. And even if we take the graphs at face value, it's clear that a phone now is much better than a phone in 1971 or even 2001. So I believe the issue of stagnant incomes and wage productivity gap is exaggerate. Alec Stapp also had a very good chart that shows that millennials and boomers in terms of average incomes are not that different when they were at their age level. However there's more inequality now than when boomers were the age of millennials so i think that adds to some of the stress on the lower echelons of society. I'm not a libertarian so I do not agree with all of their talking points but on that issue, I believe they have a point and the populists on the right and the progressives on the left are wrong or at least exaggerate that issue.

So Americans later got jealous of that and wanted to re invent everything about themselves like the people visiting forgetting that it would basically mean downgrading Americans to immigrants

To be fair if that Spanish professor came to the UK or Poland no one would be able to tell from which part of Spain she comes either. And it's questionable whether the people would be able to identify her as Spanish and not e.g. Portuguese.

​@@Kubinda12345 the difference is about integration. Whatever your nationality is you can be seen as an American. You can be spanish American. You can not be spanish polish.

Meanwhile american dividing themselves into "clans", white, africa-america, china-america, irish, etc etc.

The opposite is just as true, Brits wouldn't be able to tell apart different American accents. That's nothing unique about America, they just have different accents

Globalist = Oh Vey!!!

Lol that's how dumb and ignorant your ppl are.

Why are modern american service men so dense? you guys aren't the honorable, stoically firm and philosophical warriors of the recent past but brutish roman like crayonn-eaters who blame citizenry and government for everything.

Most countries kinda suck

cough *socialists* cough cough

LA is run by Satan, it should be called Los Diablos.

If your a christian/ you need to repent of your sins PLZ

Facts. 818 (Granada Hills) here. What zip code are you repping? 😂

I find Dutch are quite a lot like us in many ways. Also our countries look similar in terms of geography, weather etc

@@Daniboi971 Cap. The Dutch share the most similarities with north western Germans, geographically, culturally and linguistically. There is little historical connection with the US although there is some with England due to some shared history.

​@@tristanthamm505 the Dutch literally colonized parts of New England until the British took over, though. They may have a small influence, but they undeniably have a role in American settlement. Ever heard of the term "Pennsylvania Dutch?"

@@Tyler_W A really minuscule influence at best. The Dutch were never able to establish a lasting presence in the North American continent and Pennsylvania Dutch is not derived from Dutch but from German. It has nothing to do with the Dutch it’s just that Deutsch and Dutch sound pretty similar and people got it wrong.

@@tristanthamm505 there Anglo progenitors so the culture comes from there 

Then your judgment and understanding is worst than his🤦🏽‍♂️

​@@dane.302Cry.

@@dane.302 i think you are brain washed more than anything you have no sense of understanding just judgment which what leads to stupid choices.

​@@dane.302 boy how u talkin about judgement when you're one of the Dr. Sebi retards 😂

@@dane.302 - Can you name a person that you have strong disagreements with but you also trust that they disagree with you in good faith? Please keep it to a person that I have a good chance of knowing. Thank you.

So it's true then that the USA is completely filled with nothing but obese racist maniacs? ...that's uhh... progressive of you sir.

We have culture. It is called TV and Netflix. Maybe some CNN and Fox.......

As much as Americans are culturally illiterate about the rest of the world, the rest of the world is culturally illiterate about American culture.

American culture is freedom That being said, they're also free from culture

Well, I happen to be an American, and I do not know a single obese maniac.

I sadly concur with you… the language, the culture, behaviors have shifted in the Deep South that I can hardly recognize it as the Louisiana of my youth. 😢

Yankee, for the rest of the world, is a derogatory term for every american, not an aknoweldgement that one is what american would call yankee. It's a bit the same way everyone only thing about Paris when they talk about France.

What’s that superior “Southerner” culture? Like slavery? Jim Crow? Or just voter suppression and gerrymandering? I think the video called it “white supremacy”. How woke.

@@rmzweig3972 I think you may have replied to the wrong thread. No one on this party line said anything about "superior Southern culture". Well, except for you, of course.

@@johnwotek3816 Yeah, I know. It's never really bothered me, especially when it's shortened to "Yank", but I like to let them know that we Americans are not a monolith. It's also helped get me a few dates when I've been overseas after the comment opened up the door to longer conversations. Good think to know when you're traveling😁

I wouldn't exactly call Canada a younger sibling. It achieved its independence later, but the basic civilization was started at the same time as the USA.

@@stevedavenport1202 America is definitely Canada's big brother

That is such an accurate analogy wow. I'm going to use that one haha

I live right on the US-Canadian border and we get several Canadian tv channels here. It is always funny to me how much of the national news on CTV and CBC is about the United States. We are definitely two countries that will always be linked not just physically but socially whether we like it or not, but have to say so far it has been a good relationship.

@@digitalfootballer9032 Join us as a states, and together we shall rule the world as big and lil bros

Nah mate most Europeans are most definitely way more culturally literate then a vast majority of Americans 😆 (That is the case for most of western Europe to say the least.)

@@jameslegrand848 Europeans know about their neighboring countries because Europe has like 30 of them in the space of just America. They know jack shit about anything outside Europe. The urban myth that the average Euro knows 4 languages or whatever is a crock of shit. Like half of continental Europeans can speak English, and maybe a tenth can speak the language of one neighboring country (typically French or German).

​@Jay unpseudo That's just not correct. Your entire continent is the size of our country. You might be the same distance from France that I am from Texas. So I learn about Texas history while you learn about French history. It's 100% geographical.

@@SacredCowStockyards I agree that Europe often sounds pretentious and arrogant about things which aren’t true, but the USA is a poor comparison regarding “neighbors”. Two American states hardly have to put in much effort to learn about eachother when 99% of it is the exact same and only consists of around 2 centuries. In contrast, France has its own history to learn since the year 987 AD (and any content prior such as Roman Empire) and you think they’d be able to learn about England and Germany? How much time do you think schools spend on history lol. I still 100% agree regarding Europeans and the geography point, but if they already dislike England, they obviously aren’t going to like the US

@@XXXTENTAClON227 The US states aren't really as similar to each other as you claim.

If your a christian/ you need to repent of your sins PLZ

Homeschooling is generally not good for society.

Sucks for all us peons that had to 'endure' public education, huh? We were never exposed to Western Civ classes or a diversity of opinions. Only wholesome Christian homeschooling that creates more conservative voters can do that. At least be honest.

I am also homeschooled, except not from a Christian standpoint. Everything you said rings similar!

As another homeschooled Christian, I couldn't agree more.

"genetic origins" hey now, are you trying to get his channel banned or something?

Just an extension of their colonial rape they incurred.

They don't. They are full of nut jobs. I give you Sarah Palin.

Basically colonized regions of America like the West except they were colonized later in American history so we didn’t kill all the natives but did flood both areas with White immigrants until the natives were outnumbered though they have remained large minorities. At least in Alaska that’s true due to the gold rush while Hawaiians still make up about 50% of Hawaii

Too remote to influence things. Hawaii is is just Asian shifted west coast in lot of ways.

Giant military bases

yep I agree! been travelling Europe for 4 + months now and prefer go move my family back to Spain , or the Balkans

Blame diversity and globalization

When I first visited/lived there for about 7 months, I was trying to get a sense of the place. It was difficult to get a feel for the foundation/root of the culture there. I identified more with the indigenous people/history. My background is Southwest US/Northern Mexican.

@@lifeonearth9261 I learned about Swedish culture recently and that is the closest I think Seattle (specifically) comes to another existing culture.

Could be me, but guess what, conditions aren't much better here in the Rust Belt. It seems this region followed a similar trajectory to its predecessor. Lots of room to go and play in the woods and crags where they haven't been stripped for resources and left to become fallow.

Dude you grew up in modern society so stfu

Have you ever been to America?

Except it could be just as likely that the suburban Mancusian (I almost wrote Manchesterite!) has an American 10th cousin who's living in a cramped, dilapidated house in a post-agricultural or post-industrial small town, or in inner-suburban Columbus.

​@@richardtaylor6341 yes went to Florida, stayed in a Motel/Hotel not to far away from Sea world.. when Hurrican Jean hit. Many talking 2 decades ago.

​@@CouchDoritos Tejanos are a perfect example of Americanization. A group of Mexican/Texans who became marginalized. Many were shunned to stop speaking Spanish publicly and keep much of the culture inside their homes. As they migrated towards California, many families from this barely speak any Spanish or have that thick culture. You can see the same thing currently happening with Asian-Americans.

@@Mr.Isquierdo boo hoo

@@barkley8285 there's nothing wrong with what I said, I was just giving an example as to how Tejanos have been significant in the south west. I feel fine not knowing Spanish, still eat tortillas and other Mexican food.

@@CouchDoritos cant say for the other states but just because we got burning man in Arizona doesn’t mean we’re like that…so disappointed. Texas’s vaquero culture is the same as in NM and AZ…just unauthentic to say the least…ever heard of TexMex? Plus Chicano culture is seen throughout all the cities of the southwest

Like tbh I ain’t gonna keep growing up seeing Texas doing stuff like throwing saguaro everywhere, everybody thinking they the real deal, and then mfers don’t even have saguaro anywhere else than Arizona? “hiPpIEs” yeah f’ing right boy ya ought ya keep your mouth shut on sh*t you don’t know we the real deal out here tf?

It's so hard to see how Americans are compared to what we are capable of.

@@atheinasophiajade1044 isn’t this the case with all countries and all individuals. You seem to have too narrow a view of American’s interest in world affairs not grossly narrow but narrow nevertheless. Some of my people were white slaves or equivalent in Southern States in the 1800s and first half of 1900s . Most of my Scot’s ancestors were near slaves to middle income tradespeople and landed rich from 1600s until late 1800a when poor people were mandated eligible for education. Despite the educational laws, villages could go years without a teacher because the laird wouldn’t fill a post when a school teacher left because the richest landed peeps were responsible to pay the schoolmaster. They were paid poorly of course which is why they moved on. Government intervention nudged more and more reforms closer to 1900. Life became decent once UK adopted a social welfare system. I am 80 years old, lived a long life been up down and been around. Ive lived I’ve seen more poverty than I’ve known Thank God. My father knew dastardly poverty, my mom not but her mom came to USA at 20 after WW1. Her family on both sides were Clearance off their land, shuffled like cattle west to northeast and worked for little but a roof over their heads, a tiny potato plot and moved from farm to farm her entire life trying to improve their station. My grt grandmothers were early widows, my people died in Work Houses and Poor Farms. Plenty of Americans know poverty too regardless of their color. I’ve lived abroad enough to know we aren’t everything our media and politicians tell us we are. Our stats on world charts are tumbling in the main and most citizens I tell don’t believe me. My big gripe is our tendency to find a tv station and radio commentators out on the far left or right fringes and believe what they hear as tho their faves are preaching gospel from the heavens instead of the bile and lies. Our educational system in Calif was highest in the nation when I was in elementary school but now is trash country wide. our values are distorted, we are getting fat, lazy and we don’t read broadly, deeply or enough. We have lots of problems yes but you ticked the hell out of me by your narrow harsh judgements so stridently spoken. Your opinions aren’t totally off but they seem prompted by too narrow a reading list than by long and varied life experiences. Just felt like I needed to say, Take a breath man. Sit and reflect, maybe read more left, right and center, reflect meditate and laugh more. You were sounding like an angry mean hell fire and damnation preacher with a bad toothache. Laugh more, read widely, blow bubbles like you did as a child. Ask the great spirit or whatever you might believe in for lightness along with wisdom to inform and to be informed. Over, out and done with this granny’s comments. Tah! as the Brits say.

​@@Isleskye❤

In God we trust it's the best relevant

Brainwashed

We have one, though. Heck, we have multiple in congress. It's just a matter of overriding the political elites that tried to give us Hillary and ended up giving us Trump in the process. Bernie Sanders is the spark of the way forwards that needs to come to the forefront if America is to remain a democratic republic in the future. If we get more people like Trump and DeSantis, we'll end up like Rome did: Destroying ourselves with emperors and the loss of democracy. Same as how the Galactic Republic did in Star Wars when it became the Galactic Empire.

And I hope our next Garfield lasts a bit longer than the original. Underrated President is James Garfield because of his short tenure. For a man who didn't even want to be President, he had some big ideas and a shame he was assassinated before anything could really get going. I actually visited the Garfield estate in Ohio a few years ago and it was a really good experience. Learned a lot about somewhat of a forgotten President, and went on to watch several documentaries as well.

Corruption never stopped until the internet aired out the dirty laundry.

@@digitalfootballer9032 the man could’ve been truly a great president, but he did something amazingly important in his day, set a new standard for public office!

@@leggonarm9835 the corruption stopped?

This is a ridiculous piece of propaganda garbage! European invaders civilization is a pirate nomadic genocidal anglosaxon civilization. And they have the guts to brainwash children in schools how those kind and generous pilgrims fed the poor Indians. Where in fact pilgrims left their own diaries telling the story of real thanksgiving when they established this holiday to celebrate the massacre of native women and children they called savages. They came to this land to murder and rob and enslave people. They were digging out native peoples graves to get food left with the dead according to local traditions. Disgusting grave robbers and murderers should not even have civil in their characterization.

He's catastphroically wrong, however, on multiple, multiple points. It has the academic rigor of a super general HS sophomore's essay.

​@@asdf-iq1ei okay, so even if he *is* wrong, where are your counterexamples? How is he catastrophically wrong? Not that I'm disagreeing necessarily, but if you're gonna make a claim like that it's good form to back it up

i dont think your "great"country will have a future. Especially considering Americans tend to have discussions about basic biology.

@@asdf-iq1ei ok so provide some counter evidence keyboard intellectual.

You mean the "cattle"

Exactly he has this all wrong if I'm going to be honest really he should be talking about the caste system that was set in the United States he only told part of the story he doesn't explain the reasons why the places looks like that in Black areas such as red lining

@@horaceharris1855 the tail doesn't wag the dog. one is a symptom of the greater issues, the other is the greater issue.

Um if that's true Mr Gates forgot to mention that our first Dominican president banished and killed many founding fathers and mothers and sold us to Spain so he can get nobility titles. President Santana stabbed us in the back dude.

The Dominican Republic is not in South America, but the Caribbean. Still a very interesting post!

​@@kingben1216 the Caribbean is part of south America, no? Tectonic plates and all that

@@jacksonsmiler8028 No, I don't think even Panama is considered S. America

Nosotros nunca fuimos colonia Española😅, fuimos parte de un mismo imperio organizado administrativamente en Virreinatos, Capitanías y Provincias. 😀 💪🇩🇴🤝🇪🇸 Evidence: ru-vid.comniJdcegalEQ?feature=share ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_9aDUwEx0k0.html ru-vid.comHyBnBD9iFwk?feature=share ru-vid.comOKLRheyaFDU?feature=share

My dad is from new orleans and Ive vistied quite a few times the gulf coast of louisiana has a weird thing where french are viewed as super cool and in some ways the social elites there "french quarter" of the city is the wealthiest as well but it still is far more southern with huge southern influence compaired to the rest of cajun area. Id personally consider it a grey area with still alot of southern influence but still a tiny bit of cajun influence.

NOLA and the Louisiana bayous are very much their own thi n g

@@Newbmann New Orleans fundamentally comes from a mix of cultures, but it was French Catholics who founded and ran the city for the first hundred years; this is distinct from the rural, protestant culture of nearby Mississippi and Alabama. A majority of its citizens still spoke some French up until the late 1800s. Free people of color also had a lot of power in the city, which further separated it from the rest of the South. So i would say that New Orleans is best grouped in with the rest of South Louisiana, rather than with the “Deep South”, although NOLA has its own quirks for sure

I've been to New Orleans its definitely unique but it was pretty damn similar to Birmingham.

@@kenshin891 Yes, if I had made the map I would’ve divided Louisiana into a “Deep South” northern half, a “Cajun” southwestern portion, and then with the New Orleans area being its own small region. But then again its a map of the whole country, and generalizations are needed, so I wouldn’t expect such fine detail haha

What was conservative?

He actually is pretty conservative leaning... But he also understands it, and does correct it the best he can. I'd call him a traditional center right politico. And when he is bias, he brings receipts, and explains in great detail why he feels it's simply objective thinking. I respect it. I'm a libertarian lite populist, with liberal views on social etiquette, and religion. With conservative views on economic policy, family, and relationships. So really, I have no damn clue what party I belong to lol.

w take

@@kurtisgonzales37n the same boat in regards to political identity.

What a fine response. I have listened to a few, and plan to listen to more, I especially appreciate references to books to expand on his synopsis' of the ideas. Consider your use of the words "conservative political slant" and "bias" you have used to characterize his arguments and compare with how you identify yours as a "moderate liberal point of view". They are both points of view; one conservative and one liberal. But you have negated his while applauding yours.

What, you don’t like WAPs and processed food fueled diabetes? Lol

We'll need to put women back in the kitchen and established far greater state sovereignty if we're going to fix anything.

This is true. The Cidiots & their leftist nonsense has became a plague on most of the globe already.

It's a nightmare. The collapse to come will be apocalypto.

Conservative live and let live? The GOP wants inside every bedroom and bathroom in the country

this is interesting to think about, another thing i would add is that america started much more religious than rome, with roman religion being more ritual and story compared to how the west's religion christianity is a very personal reliationship with god, giving existential and social stability. personally i think rudyard is too much of a doomer. he spends too much time reading books where the authors write about the problems with american society instead of seeing how things could go better. im not saying tough times aren't ahead, but i believe everything will sort itself out.

Are you from the past? World doesn´t need more American hegemony since decades of conflicts and inestability. At last you think you are special and what you have done is following the colonialist english policies in an undercover way.

@@sovietunion7643 i think he and many others are just telling us now to prepare for the worst which is warranted considering the conditions the world is in. there were many instances in history that disaster would strike out of nowhere. we just had a pandemic and the world is still recovering.

​@@toledochristianmatthew9919 There will come a day when Her majesty and Her glory will drop the kindled torch. Civil war is coming.

I do not think America can isolate without increasing the cost of everything. American dollar is the America's biggest export. Without it, America needs to export real goods and services which America lacks or make them locally. Things will be a lot expensive.

I'd say that the ultimate key is that the US of the mid-20th Century had an unshakeable faith in the idea that mutual cooperation is both mutually beneficial and the right thing to do. There's definitely a sense in which Americans love seeing their money feed the hungry, educate the ignorant, and free the oppressed. It's that "almost-chosen nation" thing -- we really do want to see ourselves as an instrument God uses for good in the world (even if our historical ignorance sometimes results in naive attempts to act in that regard which do much more harm than good). But there's also a sense in which Americans don't actually see a difference in the long run between the right thing to do and the thing that's going to bring about the best long term consequences. It's hard to separate the two impulses when considering the sort of world America's assistance brought about. Turning western Europe and Japan into valuable economic and military partners, reducing the barriers to economic development, multiplying the cost of war to the point where it became all but unthinkable -- all those things were in the interest of America and its people, but they were also in the interest of both western Europe/Japan as nations and the humanitarian interest of the people of those nations.

An insidious part of this is that they stripped the British treasury to pay to rebuild their old enemies homelands while not rebuilding the U.K.

I'd say it was a bribe to be the front line against the soviets....and it worked

The US didn't need the Marshall Plan to rebuild its economies. Its primary motive was to shore up Europe to deter the Soviets and foster its interdependence to prevent having to go back and fight in another one of their wars. Being so interventionist ironically sprang from a desire to be left alone.

@@kkpenney444 their meaning Europe

Nope they dont, they speak peasant french (patois du poitou) 💀

​@@pierren___ pretty sure Quebec French is actually based on various French coastal dialects

@@gabrielethier2046 yeah

@@nicholasphelps3872 It's not France, it has his own culture, like Australia or Canada is not british, far away cultures tends to diverge ya know

Pre-19th century France, French wasn't the vernacular language at all, only part of the elites and parisians spoke french as a mother tongue. But why Québec speak french is from the fact, all the settlers spoke different kind of regional languages and so they had to use french as a way to communicate to each other, french that evolved is own way, and the regional languages of the atlantic coast influenced it. And I'll say between Québecois french and Continental french there is no closer to the Ol' french in terms of linguistics, using archaic words doesn't mean all.

The biggest reason for the national disdain for Californians is mostly to do with the people that they elect into office. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just state and local officials who were crazy or corrupt. What makes most of us resent California is the fact that it sends so many of those corrupt crazies to D.C. to try and force the rest of the country to follow it's horrible policies!

The same can absolutely be said about New York.

What is America these days? Is it the country that our wonderful Founding Fathers fought for or is it some perversion of alphabet degeneracy mixed with both male hating and God hating?

You also have the oddball like Florida. Where the more north you go, the southern it gets and the southern tip being Little Havana. I hate the snowbirds moving to Florida because they are causing property values to skyrocket and they bring their horrible traffic habits with them.

@@kosmosXcannon Yeah, pretty familiar with both north and south Florida. You're exactly right! Lynyrd Skynyrd in Jacksonville and Miami is so cosmopolitan and Latin.

The Tidewater Aristocracy settled well…in the Tidewater region. Establishing plantations and farms through the use of slave labor. Their culture is similar and yet different from the Scots-Irish frontiersmen culture of Appalachia.

Yea I've always broken southern accents down into 2 broad types. A Drawl versus a Twang. And generally the coastal areas are Drawl the inland areas are Twang but it's never that simple. Like James Carville is a Twang but Bill Clinton is a drawl even tho their home regions suggest the inverse. And when I say drawl don't think of like the movies think of like Peyton Manning

@@voiceofreason2674Peyton Manning is a really funny example of a coastal drawl considering he’s from a North Mississippi family. Not saying you’re wrong, just that that is a funny example of it.

The Han Chinese folk traditionalists when they read the Five Classics

I kid you not, I think I found that book and got it for Christmas. I think it was called The U.S. Constitution & Other Writings. It was a hardcover book with an engraved stars and stripes on it. It has basically every major written document in American history. I haven't read it yet, but it's so cool.

we need exceptions on free speech... criticizing private property should unironically be considered treason it should be more of a crime than literal murder

@@Tyler_W Holy fuck yes, I love the design. I would unironically use it as my bible.

​@@adolfchadermien LMFAO.

I think the decadent coastal technocratic elite will get thrown out by the interior peoples who will become a new elite. As he said, we are in that process already. Big tech and Silicon Valley are collapsing.

All men is not created equal.

@@Kaiserboo1871 Silicon Valley isn’t imploding just moving to the Midwest for more eager/cheaper labor/affordable-ish housing and (educated guess here) tax perks.

@@Kaiserboo1871 The libertarian propaganda is rather strong on conservatives. Even Trump espoused some libertarian views. The woke CRT dialectic is bringing many races together to fight for their children. This is to further divide up states. I hear many talking about making the USA into the Canton system in Switzerland.

Well said!

It's a curse, your raising both stupid and easily manipulated people by hammering this fake virtue into their heads.

The curse is that there’s literally no rules on how things like marriage, weddings or etc should go. Which is somewhat good as it allows for people to do their own thing but there’s literally no cultural norms for stuff meaning people have no real guide when they’re stuck on how to go about certain things, there’s also like no value system making people also have no idea what they’re doing.

It really is a hell of our own making isn’t it? I wish it could be a heaven of ours to share with the world.

Sadly, this has all changed in the last decade or so. These days, there are consequences but only if you are of a particular political leaning, and if you are with the current regime you are basically untouchable. There have been spells of this throughout our history, but this time seems particularly bad. I would like to think things will even out as they always have, but this time I don't know.

I'll always remember how back in college, visiting international professors and students from the UK and Europe would always talk about how they felt so free in the United States. A visiting Spanish professor talked how great it felt that nobody in the US could identify her Andalusian (Southern Spain) accent, and therefor couldn't assess her regional or economic class. A student from the UK said the same thing- that nobody in the States could tell if she was from Liverpool, or Manchester, or Oxford. We couldn't tell if she was "posh" or a "chav"- she was just BRITISH! Thats when I realized that the "American Dream" is just the opportunity for foreigners to re-invent themselves.

Also, America’s system of government is the second oldest continuous government (the first being the UK) in the West. USA is the oldest with a written constitution.

_"So... Should we make slavery illegal?"_ "... Nah. That one's already on its way out. No need to outlaw slavery in our new constitution." _"Alright. Next point: Shall we allow states to leave the union if their elected officials see no other way to preserve the interests of their constituency?"_ "Sure. We're aiming to unite the states of America. Not draft them into service. But that's pretty much self-explanatory as well. No need to waste space and ink on that one." _"Good call. Now let's get back to our citizens for a bit. We all agree that we are going to create the greatest and wealthiest nation in the history of mankind, right?"_ "Do you even have to ask that? Of course! We're going to have the healthiest, most long-lived, happiest citizens on Earth one day." _"So... Should we put in some paragraphs regarding affordable Healthcare for everyone? Just in case? A right for a basic home and enough food to prosper? High-quality education for all the children? What about job security? Or the universal right to vote as a..."_ "Details... Details... They're easily gonna figure those ones out. No need for us to do everything for them." _"Oh, I don't know. This constitution draft still looks a bit unrefined... Unfinished somehow."_ "Who cares? We've got 30 minutes left on the assignment. Let's all sign this draft and publish it already. We can make a new, better one in a couple of years anyways." _"Okay, I guess you're right."_

If you were to interpret it literally, you would realize that we have no inherent right to bear arms.

I believe that's called paganism

You do understand a large.amount of people including legal scholars would point out it is a living document which can and has been changed over the man years it is been around.

Where are the rich and influential moving to? Texas and Florida. That's what he means.

Yea I'm gonna say thought that's more north Carolina research triangle, Austin tx and Atlanta GA lol.

I personally think the future elite will be centered around the Rust Belt once again. The Rust Belt is a prime spot to avoid global warming, and many of these states are seeing lots of migration from the west (for better and worse). My home state of Michigan is predicted to have the 2020 census be the last time we go down in population for likely a long time. An ""internet-based elite centered around the Gulf" sounds possible, but with climate change hitting that area of the US especially hard, I doubt it's plausible.

​@@bitcoinzoomer9994 No they are not. The Middle class tax dodgers are moving there. Money, especially tech money is overly represented in Northern California and New York city.

@@ihatejpmorgan New York City is a zombie, having been critically injured about the time that Google took over basically all media. Books, advertising, music, TV (RU-vid), all that money is flowing through Silicon Valley now, with some branching off to Amazon in Seattle. The collapse of Europe will only accelerate the slide into irrelevance of the old East Coast Establishment.

I’m glad people don’t know about the south. Keep our place free from invaders.

He didn't make any of those maps? Those are just ones you find on the internet.

I'm from the Pacific Northwest but have lineage to the old south. I am proud of it and will never apologize for it and hollding it in high regard. Also my ancestors fought for Confederate America, they were American as me and fighting for what they thought was right or had to fight for. There are many aspects of the South that I wish we had up hear, especially with southern culture, and food of course

@@jamesleyda365 muh hErItAge

Granted, I've only ever been to Florida and Tennessee for any significant length of time (althoigh I've been to the more Alabama and Georgia-feeling parts of northern Florida), but the extent to which I've been to the South, I mostly quite like it. I'm from the Midwest, and while the Midwest and the South are very different in many ways, I can't help but feel like both regions have the most in common in a lot of ways, that we pretty much make up the heart and gut of whatever's left of "real America."

This is a reference to something?

@@DRKTROOPER15 Marcus Aurelius talking about Rome from the movie Gladiator

@@DRKTROOPER15 America was 80 percent white in 1970. Now it's 80 percent sh**

Dude this was never going to work ever since they started mass importing immigrants. He likes to say that the people here are assimilating to our culture. That is only partially true. First of all, the culture they are assimilating to is the leftist and liberal culture, and most hispanics here are still keeping their primary allegiance to their land of origin. Historically this cannot last. China and Russia, even though not perfect are playing their cards right for the long term. Live in california, I see this every day. Learn your culture, stick to it, do not get comfortable and lazy, and rely on consumerism as little as possible.

That sounds like a nightmare. Like washing ashore in a foreign land with nobody to translate

If your a christian/ you need to repent of your sins PLZ

Get to work man!

His facts are interesting, but his opinions on what to do about these facts seem to contradict his self described political identity. Whenever I hear someone use the word woke unironically , I immediately knock that persons credibility model down a notch or two. He mentioned in another video that he didn’t go to college, which , if you’re wise enough, can be spotted when he talks about all these historical flash points that were right wing caused problems, and then blames them on the left ? The last president we had that was decidedly left wing was like FDR. I’ve lived under right wing economic policies 38 years as of tomorrow , and the graph that shows the problems that he cites stemmed from the switch from a lefter perspective to a right wing perspective. I get way too much of a “smartest guy in the room” vibe from this dude,I’m not even political but this guys whole aura and the subtle jabs at everyone who may think differently, leads me to believe that there is likely tons of misinformation in his videos. Shrug, I suppose y there are worse out there but this guy points out problems caused by his own side and then twists it around.

@@reffa2858 NEVER

@@agny369 Could you give any examples of when he contradicts himself and blames the left for a right wing policy? I'm not familiar with American politics so it would be helpful to know more about the shortcomings of right wing ideology in America.

@@bonesy7190 This guy is pulling shit out of thin air. To say that we haven't had "true left" presidents since FDR is laughable. Especially when we just had Obama who got through quite literally the biggest reform to healthcare (notably massively increasing its public industry) in the country's entire history all the while 70% of the political front was raking him tooth and nail for revisions for every last drop of blood they could get. Or his social pushes such as, you know, legalizing same sex marriage. This guy is the type of guy to call anything short of his fetishized autosophistry of the Scandinavian countries "not actually left." Utterly out of social sync in terms of beliefs. As well, people that claim that anyone who uses "woke" is biased, uninformed, bad faith, whatever, is being absurd themselves. The fact of the matter is that wherever you are on the US political spectrum, there has been a true, impactful, and noticeable change in terms of socioeconomic beliefs held in the US since roughly 2012, peaking in 2016-18, and existing strong today. Whether we want to call it "wokeism" or "communist lunacy" or "the morally right thing to do" is irrelevant. Hell, at this point even people who are woke unironically call themselves woke. Of the things that can be disagreed with WIAH on, this really is the silliest one. As for his last paragraph, frankly, kind of true, but also as he self admits he's not into politics and I'm going to keep it real here and make it known that in actual polisci classes (or even philosophy classes), this is how the instructor will sound. Somewhat condescending, somewhat know-it-all, somewhat insane. That's just par for the course. Also, it's important to keep in mind WIAH actually has autism which certainly accounts for some of his odder speech behaviors.

Interesting... I believe, is these massive urban sprawls, that are driving our depersonalization, dehumanizing, and downright indifference to our fellow country men. It reminds me of the mouse utopia experiment... The parallels are terrifying.

​@@kurtisgonzales37its "intentional"

I wouldn't say countries like Germany are part of the free world. Developed world, maybe, but not free.

Haha. Why did you despise him?

@@trustmeits610pm2 I was a retarded soc dem and neglected how my politics turn my country into a pensioners' home and ruin my society in the long run. I saw US foreign policy as imperialistic and neglected how much it helps us maintain our freedom

As a Gen Z, it saddens me to agree with you about it.

That actually sounds dope I wish this was the way people communicated more often. Less chatter and more wisdom in silence

If your a christian/ you need to repent of your sins PLZ

Quakers are a joke and should not be a sect. You don’t have to create a whole new sect, just attend a Holy Hour at a Catholic Church. Simple

He's catastphroically wrong, however, on multiple, multiple points. It has the academic rigor of a super general HS sophomore's essay.

@@asdf-iq1ei Elaborate.

@@asdf-iq1ei you woke?

@@anthonyc7116 it’s a bot, it keeps posting this same exact worded message under every other comment thread.

@@2hotflavored666 its a bot. This same message literally verbatim appears under other comments in this video.

This is a good one. I’ve noticed these parallels too. Even it’s biggest city, sao pualo had the original Portuguese and black settlers replaced with Italian immigrants, just like New York City

Brazil would be a fantastic country to look at. It has always had so much potential, both as a state and as a civilisational construct, but for the longest time seemingly hasn't quite managed to successfully capitalise on its immense potential, it would be great to learn more about how it got into its current situation.

@@hpsauce1078 I have a friend from the south Santa Catarina and he compared it to the American Midwest. Safe enough to walk small towns at night, but has a fair amount of inner city poverty. Interesting enough it hasn’t translated to high crime like the rest of Brazil. I wonder what’s so different about southern Brazil compared to the north🤔🤔 they were so different that they tried to succeed from Brazil in the failed knickerbocker rebellion. Much like the American south even though the north were the slave owners

This is a topic that most Americans are oblivious to. The Hamiltonian vision of America, essentially predicted the path Americans travel on today. That being an America that would cast off the old world to such a degree that we become a civilization unto ourselves. Similar to how Chinese society is a civilization unto itself despite being lumped into eastern civilization.

@@Farfignewton so much so that China and it’s nearby countries is basically what Americans mean when they say “Asia”

No only but even places like Portland that prides itself as a city. Hell there a bit of cascade identity and something that both the left and ring like.

They drew on us as much as the other way around. Cattleherding as its own culture existed clearly and independently in Scotland in the 16th and 17th century.

The actual word cowboy is a derogatory term imported from Britian

We definitely adopted mexican style, but I know Mexicans, and we didn't adopt much of their culture. In fact we fought a series of wars because we didn't like the way they ran things.

@@laststand6420 why is it important to note that you know Mexicans?

@@badbunnyfan8271 Because I have firsthand experience with their culture.

Similar experiences and observations. Alas, most Americans do know shockingly little about the rest of the world, but of America, too. Cliff's Notes/Trivial Pursuit-level knowledge at best and that's not the average but the exception.

More's the pity, that has very likely been the truth throughout our history, down all the generations. In God we trust (but ignorance is bliss).

I mean, we don't really need to know about the rest of the world. America is so big compared to most countries and we don't have neighboring countries so close to each other like in Europe.

If your a christian/ you need to repent of your sins PLZ

Correct

So am I Scottish? I mean, look at my name!

“Ethnically Irish” is as broad as Wales claiming to be “ethnic Briton”. You would have to commit an enormous amount of incest to remain more “ethnic” than the others. It’s easier to understand when you consider the English invaders of Ireland (Tudors) were met with resistance from the PREVIOUS English invaders (Normans). Claiming that they are exclusively “Scots” makes no sense. Is every American an Englishman?

just wait till y8u find out where the Scots came from before Scotland was a thing

Administrators, landlords and professionals would be a stretch. They were mostly farmhands, shepherds and cattlemen. Most of the fancier jobs during the plantation of Ulster were done by English.

The benefits gained from it was immense though, generous or not

@@ramoncastaneda8432 Of course

Delusional in what way?

It's a shame, really. Outside of the areas surrounding San Fran and LA (and maybe Sacramento) there are a lot of really cool people in California who are tied to the hip with the crazies. I, for one, hope that the movement to divide CA into multiple different states is successful.

@@Tyler_W I live in California outside of the major cities and I can confirm we have a more Appalachia/Quaker -esque culture here. I went to Sacramento earlier this week (I don't visit cities much) and it gave me a depressing, fake vibe

There are many people living in coastal California who've never shoveled snow, but somehow they're convinced that CA should be a model for other states. And they seem to take their water for granted , without giving much thought to how much water needs to be moved to support enormous communities in the desert.

@@Tyler_W ballot-harvesting of which all forms of are legal in CA is why the dems win all the elections there and have taken over, dems have mastered BH but Repbs rarely even use it...if we dont change something the whole nation will be like CA eventually because BH is legal in 49 states.

Right he is definitely an incel. Gotta lotta hate

@Prasanth Thomas John Calvin was a Huguenot though

we have been drilled on how poor, ignorant, and racist we are since I was a child. If you need to say something derogatory about a section of the country take your pick Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and no one will contradict your words

Keep in mind this is the same guy saying the U.S isn't based off oppression while dismissing Native American genocide as inconsequential in his next breaths despite it being one of the largest campaigns of genocide the world has ever seen.

@@e.j.wizerd2000 I should have clarified largest proportionally in terms of effect on world population. Human populations have since climbed into the billions, but it was not so between 1776 and 1890.

@@noway8259 i get what you mean

I think it's important to differentiate between "widespread crop failure that caused serious economic dislocation" and famine as it was experienced historically. The Dust Bowl was miserable, certainly. But I don't remember Steinbeck writing about mothers being so famished that they ate their children the way historical famines are described. It's kind of like how the US has had to deal with war, but it lost less men in all its wars combined than were lost in the single battle of Stalingrad. We've been very fortunate in our ability to avoid the worst of the horrors the world tends to throw at humanity.

It was, but it was also fairly localized, affecting the great plains, a frontier zone not being the powerhouse of US food (it's one part in a larger zone which makes the breadbasket), and thus not the whole culture. It's also notable in basically being the only famine the US has ever known.