Explaining South-East Asian Civilizations 

Hey can you ever do a video on Central Asia? I am Kazakh and would love to see our culture explained to people who don't know

Could you make more videos about others civilizations (current and extintic)? I find it one of the most interesting videos.

im from Indonesia and at the moment living in Australia. I personally agree on what you said regarding the difference between western and eastern cultural view and their impact on the people's mental and physical behaviour. Australians are mostly individualistic by nature, especially ones who lives in city. meanwhile in my hometown of Manado, everyone seems like my brothers or sisters the collectiveness runs deep in our psyche, same with other SEA countries i think

That comprasion of northern winter and topical equatorial summers reminds me a saying that me and my dad said “you can escape the cold, you can’t escape the heat

I just want to mention, I watched the original Video with my girlfriend from South-East Asia, specifically the Philipenes. She travelled thorugh most of the SEA Region and said, everything you said was just true. RU-vid is a joke sometimes.

As I commented on the last video, I'm Thai and I appreciate your research into this. It's not easily accessible information online.

I’m half-Vietnamese and half-European (English & German). I would say that the biggest difference between these two cultures is simply the idea of familial honor. The idea of “honor” does exist in the West, but typically is more individualistic. In Asian cultures, you strive to be an honorable person not so that you yourself are an honorable person, but so that your familial name gains “honor.” I’m sure it is more complicated than this but from my experience, this is the most simple difference.

I just started a Southeast Asian history class in college and my professor assigned this video as an introduction and overview of the region. Congratulations, you’ve gone from college dropout to being used in academia! =)

I’m half Filipino and can confirm that pride and respect is a HUGE deal in this culture. In my experience many filipinos have constant status anxiety. Very friendly but also can be extremely critical of self and others

As a Southeast Asian (Filipino), I am once again happy that you covered SEA. I was bummed that the OG video was taken down since I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to rewatch again. I hope you can cover more about Southeast Asia. Maraming Salamat! EDIT: I forgot to point this out but the only part of the video that bothered me was that you mentioned that Philippines is an extension of Latin culture which is really wrong since we are influenced by other cultures, especially Chinese and Indian who were longer influential figures way before the Spanish came. Unlike Latin America, we were able to keep almost if not all of our original culture intact.

Love the, videos man. Wanted to be an archeologist when I was a kid. Still enjoy learning about these things, even as life has worn down my expectations. Glad to see I'm not alone. Please keep up the spectacular work!

Honestly with how much this happens to various youtubers, I honestly feel like there is likely a problem with not enough oversight of the human moderators, where they can get away with taking down and restricting videos they dislike or disagree with too easily. Good on you for sticking it out though

"emphasis on outwards appearances, which California doesn't really have." gotta say they both do, it just manifests really differently

The reason why Java is so densely population is because it is a volcanic island with extremely fertile soil. Most tropical soils tend to be rather thin and infertile, but since Java has a number of highly active volcanos regularly depositing mineral rich volcanic ash over the island; it can support a huge population. The other islands have much less fertile soil which makes colonization of those island much less attractive.

I’m a Singaporean living and studying in the US, and SEA history is rarely ever touched on. I found nothing to be offensive in the original upload. In any case you’ve clearly presented a disclaimer in that you admit to be not the most versed in SEA history. So I don’t get RU-vid’s weird censorship protocols.

There was some idiotic statement about how the hot climate caused southeast Asians to be incapable of deep thought. As if people never get acclimated to their environment. Your analysis is always pretty weak though and you typically draw simplistic conclusions to justify the “west is best” perspective that you view all of history and other cultures from.

Say what's up notification squad! From what I can tell, age restriction is the way RU-vid shadowbans videos and comments, especially if they think you have the "wrong opinions". Portuguese here... Can I ask you, if I may, to one day do a few videos about the Portuguese discoveries and how it changed the mindset of Europe and history of the world. I know you've touched on the subject a few times, but I would like to see it from a non European perspective as we Europeans tend to be extremely biased towards our countries, colonies and empires. Either way, looking forward to enjoy this one.

Information -> Truth -> Power. Those in power don’t want others to gain power. Controlling information is key. That’s why China has the Great Firewall. You’re doing good. Having innocent videos taken down is a sign you’re doing good 👍

On the irrationality of RU-vid decisions, this is a direct consequence of AI use. I write software for another large tech company directly adjacent to some AI products (credentials). That plus the desire to police content, listings, or whatever else user supplied info. That’s just how AI models work, see the weird stuff ai art does for good easily understood examples.

Manila and Mexico City is very different. Manila is more on glassy buildings since colonial buildings got destroyed during WW2. The only similarities are the Catholic Churches. Also, Philippines have our own “Bahay na Bato” style architecture which combines Chinese, Austronesian, and Spanish influences that you can’t find in any Latin/Hispanic countries.

Im a third Gen immigrant from SEA and this area has always been super fascinating to me. A perfect blend of the West, India, China and then tons of their own culture and ideas. Lots of biodiversity and the the rainforests are really something. Never knew that there was a trend of the mountain peoples of SEA, at least on the mainland, converting to Christianity, I thought that was an isolated thing to my people, the Hmong people.

Drag Queens: dance provocatively to highly sexual music for children RU-vid: this is fine Whatifalthist: This is southeast Asian cultures. RU-vid: abhorrent. We can’t let children see this.

Uh, Filipinos don't really find talking about our history or defeats or being colonized to be any more shameful or "dishonorable" than any other nationality would when talking about their defeats. I wonder where you got that from. Americans are not exactly fond of talking about the Vietnam War either.

For me personally, Southeast Asia is my favorite part of the world, the culture, the architecture design, the geography, wonderful people, it’s beautiful.

Glad to see it back up. I hope Hindu and Islamic civilization follow soon. Keep up the great work!

Good stuff. Massive input, both from observation and reading, and massive stream of consciousness output. Having spent a fair amount of time in Thailand and Vietnam, most of your observations seem spot on. Having walked hundreds of kilometers through central Bangkok, I concur that it’s incredibly clean. One hardly observes rats running around anywhere, in sharp contrast to HCMC (Saigon). Thanks!!

Correction - Not just the elite, Thai culture broadly emphasizes the importance of appearance and also respect for others, tradition, and property which in this case manifests as respect for their jobs, homes, and even the very streets which are ''theirs''. Also, they are nearly 100% recyclers, yet through a unique dynamic. The refuse collectors sort through every bag of garbage, curbside, separating every item categorically and even setting aside items which are still usable and/or can be resold. Thais are share comparatively more "intimacy, realness, and depth" as a culture than can be found in most other cultures. Total strangers, even from distant provinces, quickly refer to each other as older/younger sister/brother and automatically share food, drink, and cares with one another. Thais are also very charitable and their sense of social service is quite high in terms of tending to the elderly, youth, and others in need. They view themselves as a nation of extended family. Of course along with the benefits of extended family comes the lack of privacy, the ensuing neurosis and frustrations. However, the Thais do not suffer from a lack of individuality - they rather turn towards more subtle individualistic expressions and een humorous personality options - they tend to be much more aware of nuance than is commonly found in the West. They do frown upon assertive individualism that seems aggressive to them. This is primarily due to their practical sense that serves their ability to harmonize within a densely populated and highly cooperative culture. None of this is a primary driver of suicide. Rather it is hopelessness and the struggle to keep up, as modern economics desert them, which leads them to feel there is no hope of achieving even modest dreams...

“ rice agriculture involves bending over into muddy ground to pull out tiny grains of rice…“ @14:36 He knows rice doesn’t grow like potatoes, right?

I was really shocked to see the cultural similarities between us and Southeast Asia, our history books failed to teach anything about them. Most Indians wouldn't know and would be shocked to learn that earliest trading kingdoms in SEA were named rajas and Thailand celebrates ramayana mythology. I feel deeply connected with this land hopefully it becomes prosperous and helps the trade and culture thrive between us and the rest of east asia, just as like it always has been.

one hour of whatifalthist is so much better than a week of school history class.

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Some correction because a photo is incredibly misleading, The photo used for 'discrimination against the Chinese' is from a protest in the Philippines against the encroachment of the PRC in Philippine EEZ waters which includes Chinese naval vessels bullying local fishermen in the region and building artificial islands aka the nine dash line (the Hauge ruling has been won by PH). The diaspora is not the PRC. Also, as far as i know of, there is no anti-Chinese discrimination in the Philippines (there is, however, in the Spanish era). A good chunk of Filipinos have partial Chinese ancestry mostly from Southern China and because the country is inherently multicultural, intermarriage is not a big thing as in other cultures. Chinese New Year is also a non-working holiday here in addition to typical Catholic observations like Christmas and Holy Friday.

I can't say about malls in Bangkok as the last time I went there was in 2001, but malls here in the Philippines will not go away as we treat shopping mall complexes as large "indoor airconditioned parks" which is full people every weekends pre-pandemic and post-lockdowns.

Hopefully won't be too long before constitutional rights extend to online platforms.

Whatifalthist : "put beheaded picture in video" Whatifalthist : this video is aged restricted for no reason!

whatifalthist's Vietnam praise is understandable because he's thinking just like other white liberals. Academic redefining Vietnam as a mass murderer colonial state itself: at the same time as European colonists annexed native American lands and assimilated indigenous peoples from 1450 to 1830, Vietnam underwent it conquests and annihilations of indigenous Cham and Khmer peoples. Similar to white colonial states, in Vietnam they were followed behind by massive Kinh settler colonists systematic destruction of indigenous communities and Vietnamese racial discrimination policies against native Cham, Khmer, and Montagnard peoples. the truth about the indigenous victims of Vietnam deserves to be learned.

It's the cultural phenomena where a man dresses in the clothing of another culture in America and ppl think he's racist and offensive while when he dresses in that clothing in the country that culture is from the locals are appreciative of him...

Having lived in Guam for several years, I can backup your statements on the jungle and climate. You have to plan around the noon sun and the daily rain. And if you walk the jungle, even established paths, you can be met by hand sized spiders camping at face height. 😮

Thai history books be like : Burmese invasion in 1XXX AD, looted and burned things blah blah

Stick to fiction --- it's what you're good at, not these attempts to "explain"... entire civilizations ... including their history in 45min.... All you've done is sprinkle in some claims and graphs to tie together all the subjective generalizations

As a explanation, it could be because the people in charge of revising the controversial videos are mostly employed from the philipines and if someone see it and don't like it that should be the reason.

What comes to mind when I think of Southeast Asia: Pol Pot Vietnam War Muay Thai Fighters

I always viewed the Thai's reverence for the monarchy as something similar to how the Japanese view their Emperor. The difference being that for the Japanese's it more reversed and quite but nevertheless deeply felt, but for the Thai's its more overt and emotional. Its something I always found kind of interesting.

Make a video on indian civilization please! I think its the only one left now

Why Thailand (Bangkok=Siam) therefore did not become a colony of England and France-Siam vs. Soviet Union, France, Britain, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OaN3bwXFtPY.html

17:29 the mountain ⛰️ are where you may find some relief if you get high enough. The greater your altitude, the lower the Temps, even in the tropics. It's a function of the atmosphere acting like a thermal blanket, it's thinner the the higher you go.

Hi! Just want to let you know that you have incorrectly labeled a significant part of southern Mindanao (the southernmost island chain of the Philippines) as Islamic when in fact it is not. Mindanao is largely Catholic-Christian and Islam is only predominant on the Central Western part of the Island. You might have to correct it the next time you make a video about PH, but nonetheless I like the video. Keep it up!

Here some mistake Filipinos studies history from Spanish colonization to first independence, Filipino American War and Japanese occupation. I am a college students we know all things and we usually talks about it. Unlike other countries such as Japan China whereas they never talks about dark history such as WW2 Japan. In the Philippines we studied it, also Philippines wasn't actually has a defeated mindsets. A matter of fact Jose Rizal the national hero of the Philippines was actually famous not only in the Philippines but also in the world. He has many statue around the world. He even had own park in China, Spain, in Latin America North America.. our history is actually very interesting.. it's not all about defeat. It just some Filipinos aren't educated probably some people that you ask don't know anything about history of their own..

40:58 the image of the 3 decapitated heads may have been one reason for the video to be age restricted; you could blur that image, maybe the algorithm won't mess the video up again. There's another channel dedicated to history which depicted naked women from a tribe and it happened the same: the content creator blurred the boobies and it worked. Since then violent and sex images appeared blurred and the videos are not age restricted.

My comment from the last video was something along the lines of "it sounds like a very compatible civilization to that of the Anglosphere with both being open and fairly curious of other cultures while also being in economic, geographic, and demographic situations that compliment very well"

It was one of my favourites and it was disappointing to find it disappeared. Nowhere to discuss about it being gone and it felt like it never existed. And thankfully it's now back!

As a Filipino myself who knows too much about Philippine history, (especially the parts before the Spaniards came) I still sharply disagree on the classification of Philippines being a cultural extension of Latin America. We’re too unique to really be properly classified to any civilizational category just due to the sheer amount of foreign influence we took in. Classifying us as part of Latin American civilization would be like classifying Japan as part of Chinese civilization. There’s also the fact that unlike Latin America, we kept our original Austronesian language and don’t speak any of the Iberian languages (in fact, they’ve been dying out due to internal and external factors over the last century to the point only Chavacano and the massive amount of Spanish loanwords in Filipino are left) Plus, our level of development wasn’t really “tribal” as he claims, it was more similar to…. Greece in early antiquity, with many small city-states and the occasional large kingdom. (Such as the sultanates in Mindanao and Tondo) We had boats that I’m told were faster than even the Spanish warships at the time, and some areas of the Philippines had already figured out cannons made of bamboo, which if I’m correct was used against the Spanish conquistadors when they tried to take Manila. In fact, assuming my info is correct, we probably had more literate people than the Spaniards of Spain at the time. (Correct me if I’m wrong on this one) Whatifalthist here has a good general level insight of the Philippines for a foreigner, but it doesn’t change the fact that it remains surface level. *I urge everyone, both Filipino and non-Filipino, to think twice about what he says about the Philippines, and to do their deep research.* While what he said about our politics and inequality are undoubtedly true, but we’re also in a far better position than most Latin American are. Competition, proximity, and influence from our SEA neighbors, and powerful countries like China (who btw is just nearby and also still aggressively claims our islands) that threaten our security will in time force us to snap out of it (whether we like it or not), and improve our society for the better. Whatifalthist stated in other videos that he doesn’t see Latin America changing for the next century, but I don’t think this applies to the Philippines at all, and if my predictions go correctly, we could be in a very good economic position within the next century. (Although that’s assuming nothing really bad will happen in a way that damages the Filipino psyche in the coming future) (Also, a commenter by the name of Dayang Marikit pointed out in the original video that he used racist paintings made by Europeans that depicted the Filipinos as inferior to them, not knowing what we truly are, which I agree. The scenery in those paintings look to me more like something out of New Guinea than really, the Philippines. She went on to cite the Boxer Codex and all, I suggest people reading this comment to check that codex out.) PS, Rudyard if you happen to see and have read this comment, thanks for the reupload~

Anthropology is basically racism for YT at this point and I think this will get much worse in the future when more and more AI will be used to block "racist" videos from uploading full automatically.

You mentioned that Vietnam didn't produce any Mao Zedong-tier tyrants, which I guess is fair, but Pol Pot was right next door to them.

"A guy talking about other cultures with facts and knowledge? Must be a racist." - RU-vid, probably 🙄

When I went to school, most of the history classes that I took in School in Atlantic Canada focused mostly on British History starting with the Viking Age, William the conquer, war with France, battle of Quebec city, Confederation, The boer wars, the World Wars and ending with the late Trudeau years. Very little American history was mentioned other than arrival of the United Empire Loyalists in the Maritimes. I don't recall anything on Asia and Africa was only mentioned in relation to the slave trade.

there is so much wrong with this video, i don't know where to start.

Could you explain the cultural differences between the Ingvaeones, Istvaones, and Irminonic cultures then and now, as well as theorize what an East Germanic culture would be like if it had survived pls

I highly recommend a trip to Madagascar…having visited over 70 countries….Madagascar is definitely one of the most culturally unique/memorable….stay out of the capital if you can though, Antananarivo is the most impoverished/horrid city I’ve ever seen

I hope any southeast asian watching this, take all of these (even the good points that he made) with a grain of salt. Arguably, this area is the most diverse area in the world! A 45mins video from a few weeks in Thailand and reading some books (granted, books by serious scholars) would never do it justice! Specially, this guy started by treating an area of 1000 languages and thousands of islands like its a monolithic culture.

You really should read the Trial by Kafka. It embodies all that you were saying about RU-vid.

You have absolute zero knowledge about caste system yet you talk the most about it while making outstanding claims about caste system implications .

Malay civilization is its own civilization, they are the ones who influenced other regions in Southeast Asia

As a Vietnamese person I agree on your take on Thailand, wonderful country but the people are much more complicated than just "nice". They are very polite people and avoid conflict but it's to save face and not cause trouble despite their true feelings. It's really a lot more fake than nice. People give me shit for that but its just true. Very different from Vietnamese who just let out whatever they feel at others.

Keep up the good work man. You do a great job. It’s disheartening that creators get their videos taken down or demonetized. ESPECIALLY channels like yours that are simply giving people history lessons.

44:33 pliss no. We won peace. Not Influence

I don't know if you already made a video covering this topic, but I think a video about the US relationship with the different regions of the world would be very interesting. I believe it is important to talk about how the US as a nation is very influential in the world, be it as a good, bad or controversial influence. I'm not sure if you are american (but I believe you are), and I would like to know how an american sees the relationship between his own country and others. I don't know if you put your research material in the description and I forget to check, but could you say a little more about the books/documents that you use to make the videos? Thank you for covering topics about history and politics that are not very well covered in school, this makes me even more interested in it.

Living in Thailand, the binary stars of the Orient is a beautiful way to describe the orbit of Indian and Chinese cultures upon the region. Well done

Age restricted: History Not age restricted: Pride month celebration with drag queens on the official Blue's Clues channel

You are oversimplifying many things which altho made your explanation broader. It turned your overall understanding missed many important parts. One onf them is by generalazing many events in history os SEA. One of them is having profesional armies only in 1500. And saying that Java ramin overpopulated while not colonializing neighboring island. Dude Java influence can be traced from mainly Kris, Batik, Jong/Junk. Even undang undang melaka found in Malaysia was made by Javanese ships owners. Just fine those Items I mentioned and you can see how java colonize other parts of the seas, Interms of colonializing, by anthropologic standards, Javanese did not outright replaced the Native language and tradition. Intsead their Tradition inflitrated the native culture very subtly, mixing the with them. And prior to 1500, at least since Javanese Medang-Srivijaya, they had A profesional army. Even The Majapahit had a standing Navy simce 1350. Come on. Dont say "it pretty much the same with other places in the region .." statement like this is the reason your explanation mislead many people without them Knowing the exact event and details in each nation. SEA is Even more diverse and distinct than what India and China could ever be.

do a video on Bantu/subsaharan civilisation(s) !

i love how he turned his issue with youtube to a lesson on how it works and how it functioned and how it compares nowadays, love that, thanks rud! i watched the og version but imma watch this one to see what you left out!

the concept "face" is actually popular in America, not too different especially at a job or school or social situations

In my opinion, in the next 2 decades, those many ethnicity in the Philippines and Indonesia probably would just died out and form a big "ethno-race" like the Han in China. Why would i say this? Many families in Indonesia that doesn't even migrated to another region or cities had their children and grandchildren stopped speaking ethnic languages, Much less the people that migrated to other region or major cities, the languages just died out in one generation. The School and Institution singlehandedly creating nation state like in France or Germany. Unity and Diversity would just be a slogan, since the difference between people is just their religion and political belief, they look the same, speak the same languages, eat the same thing, and goes through the same bureaucracy and institution everyone into.

I want to do some corrections as I am from Eastern India. Firstly, rice is more laborious but it traps most calories per unit area than all other crops. Secondly rice cultivation was also once in a year and farmers got 5 months off for leisure. Until recently modern seeds came which can be grown in winter-summer also. 3 times a year is very rare. So rice farming was worth it. Besides you can't grow wheat in tropical regions.

39:16 What you said here is generally and fundamentally true. Despite many Filipinos disagreeing, what you mentioned is actually historically and factually true. Take this from a Filipino who've visitted some countries in Southeast Asiansuch as Malaysia and Singaore. Most Filipinos will get irked by you saying that not becuse what you've said is wrong but because in The Philippines, you'll see a lot favoring ethnocentric indigenist narrative more than historical facts. The general identity of The Philippines is fundamentally hispanic-asian. A beautiful dance between the east and the west. Just like what our former President Osmeña said, Filipinos are joth comfortable between the civilizations of the east and the west. And that Filipinos are the most occidental of the orient and the most oriental of the occidents. In us, the orient and the occident meets.

My theory. RU-vid probably has alerts based on speech-to-text transcriptions of the videos, and alerts get generated based on keyword matches in the video. Your Southeast Asia video (which I loved) mentioned authorities owning and trading young women, which survives today with the bar girl industry. So their alert system assumed your video was about human trafficking, hence the age restriction. Then, you questioned why your video was flagged. The anonymous moderator decided to teach you a lesson in obedience. I remember something similar when I said a more or less non-controversial thing on LinkedIn (the Nazis were both evil and, from a strategic point of view, stupid). The comment was banned and I was warned. When I appealed, I got another warning. I doubt they were Nazis (well ...), so what I suspect is that they did not bother to read the comment, and when I pointed this out to them it was easier to just shut me down than correct their mistake. On the other hand, there was a video where you show a body in a morgue. It was a bit gross. But because it was not text, it wasn't flagged. You mention legal rights and free speech, but these are privately owned companies who have no obligation to apply these values to their own content. It would require a regulatory intervention on the part of Congress to change this.

My dude, RU-vid literally never gets a damn thing correct. Ludicrous and other than strictly for it's function. RU-vid, Google and ABC have ENTIRELY lost their ways in our lifetimes. 24 years old, on RU-vid since 2005 and holy cow did they start the second decade as a parity. Unfunny opposite to the first, shameful, restrictive and embarrassing. Think about the old motto "RU-vid, Broadcast yourself" Now by action it's "RU-vid, we define how you communicate. If you aren't careful, who we let you be" (By the twiddling of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes 😈)

13:33 literally the lyrics to a filipino folk song 😂 "Magtanim ay di biro, maghapong naka yuko" - "Planting rice is never fun · Bent from morn till the set of sun"

I can see why your video was taken down. It is full of false and inaccurate information borderline on being racist, but certainly offensive. A lot of generalization and assumptions of a region with thousands of history, tons of different languages, many many different ethnic groups. You act like they are all the same. Won't even go into your take on other subjects, the inaccurate statistics, pictures that do not even match up or is accurate with the event described. It is terrifying that people think this is good history or anthropology. Fucking yikes.

Tbh I watched the original vid before it was age restricted and literally nothing in it was offensive to me at all. Dunno why they did it

Austronesians descend from Taiwan indigenous aboriginals, not Chinese. this is huge error in your video.

This... was... fascinating! I wish I'd found your channel sooner! The ideas that this video carries you through ( my favorite being that these cultures engage in a "Peaceful Selection" to root out the best and most amicable forms of foreign philosophies and religions ) have my mind buzzing! I'm gonna have a great time with this series!

Thank you for all the maps, as a visual learner, it really brings the past to life!

You spoke truth to power Doesn't matter if it's benign as simply stating the sky is blue, the backers of RU-vid found your content threatening to their agendas

A comment about what you said on Filipinos getting insulted if a foreigner mentions the Spanish colonialism - we absolutely would not lmao. We are still proud of our spanish roots, and more.proud of the fact that we "beat" the spaniards. Its like we stole their culture, assimilated it to our own, and like to talk shit to them lmao. Also, also, if you ever plan to visit the Philippines, visit Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. These areas have vastly different cultures and temperaments. Just don't visit the major cities, visit the minor ones. Get "adopted" by three families in luzon, visayas, and mindanao to truly experience the country.

As a hindu myself, I can say that he's absolutely right when he speaks of its complexity, hell I dont even understand or know half the stuff of hinduism inspite of growing up within a "hindu" home

@whatifalthist Never seen any tradition dress like that of the girl at 28:30. Not Vietnamese! Looks Japanese more than anything else.

I made a video talking about what it's like working inside of the Pfizer Factory and they took that down saying I was spreading covid misinformation so I totally understand where you're coming from I love your videos by the way good job

Why was it taken down? That’s so ridiculously stupid!😡

TIL RU-vid is the government. but for real that's some bs, I'm sorry you gotta deal with this crap. keep up the good work, I love how your videos challenge my ideas and occasionally convictions, while it very seldomly causes me to change my mind it does make me analyze and think out why I think something is right or wrong, and I think that's really valuable and vital for useful selfawareness

40:58 duuudeee..... is that decapitated head?

I would love to watch you break down singapore more. I both admire their achievements and am shocked by their punitive legal system and lack of individual rights and freedoms. It almost as if china had gotten rich early and had a better PR team.

nice leather jacket at the beginning, so much for always dressing uncasually. looks cool on you and ironic considering you have the voice of a someone narrating a dictionary and the apparel of a biker i really hate what is happening recently with youtube i swear its half the youtubers i watch now. its not even "controverisal" content anymore it just seems to be anything that COULD possibly offend or go against the norm. i feel like its especially because they want to appease investors, also possibly fear of being canceled due to twitter SJW types god knows.

I think Indosphere is the most common official name. South Asian countries (Indian cultural groups) are core Indosphere and Southeast Asian countries are extended Indosphere. (Except Vietnam and Singapore) 😅

Love how he analyzes culture through the material conditions that created it!

Yeah, truth is, the Vietnamese wanted an alliance with USA since the beginning.

45:15 Who knew Hainan was an American ally.

your problem seems to be that you said southeast Asia is your favorite part of Asia... you're dealing with RU-vid, you're supposed to say that China is your favorite part of asia, and that all of Asia has been China since ancient times.

Southeast Asia: Always subverting your expectations. Example: VIETNAM! Vietnam has perhaps more reason than any other country, in Southeast Asia, to hate America/Americans. And yet... They LOVE America!! Trust me, you're not the only person who finds this reality baffling!