How Denmark Destroyed Greenland: Brief History of Denmark's Colonialism in Greenland 

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@@FreddaYTOf course chairman Fredda, as always your words bring truth to this clouded matter 🫡🫡🫡

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@@uisce_ i'm gooning now

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​@@StoneworksYour videos are wicked ❤

Last time I checked the danes didn't have to make government-funded ads to prevent the inuits from sleeping on the road.

@@bosertheropode5443 The aboriginals dind ask to be colonised, genocided and have their land stolen from them

@@nicholasmwangangi6257 Their land wasn't stolen, it was conquered. Since they were still stuck in the paleolithic period when the british landed there a couple centuries I'd say they got it relatively easy. Not saying that the australians are blameless, but Australia was built and turned into a country by europeans, not at all by aborigines.

​@@bosertheropode5443this is such a backwards way of thinking -- why is it that you draw a difference between Inuits & Aboriginal peoples? Both groups went through horrific colonisation and forced loss of culture.

@@boopy3919 And for both groups, especially the aborigines, their colonization was and is a net positive for them in the end. Do you have any idea how rampant infanticide and cannibalism was in pre colonial Australia?

to Africa as well as Asia, it's very sad.

This video reminds me of the s*icide epidemic on Canadian indigenous reservations it was awful, this is how deep the extent of the damage is caused by colonialism. We're still struggling to get our politicians to take responsibility and take decolonial action and a lot of white non-indigenous Canadians deny it ever happened either openly or insidiously behind closed doors. inuqutivut sungagijauvut suraksimallutiglu, mamisalaaqtuksauvugut :(

​@21stcentury-schizoid-dude you can apologize all you want, but they will still hate you for being White.

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@@bestuan isntrael

The thule people are invaders and genocided the first people of Greenland. The came arond 1300, and is NOT native

Or you could just give us your sources, considering you've already done the research and it would make it 100x easier for interested people to verify your claims.

​@@raultoichoa1574 No problem! Here you go. The first people arrived in Greenland from the Canadian island of Ellesmere, around 2500 to 2000 BCE, from where they colonized north Greenland as the Independence I culture and south Greenland as the Saqqaq culture. The Early Dorset replaced these early Greenlanders around 700 BCE, and themselves lived on the island until c. 1 CE. These people were unrelated to the Inuit. Save for a Late Dorset recolonisation of northeast Greenland c. 700 CE, the island was then uninhabited until the Norse arrived in the 980s. Between 1000 and 1400, the Thule, ancestors of the Inuit, replaced the Dorset in Arctic Canada, and then moved into central and southern Greenland from the north around 1300. The Norse disappeared from southern Greenland in the 15th century, and although Scandinavians revisited the island in the 16th and 17th centuries, they did not resettle until 1721. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3116382/ www.researchgate.net/publication/254939336_The_Prehistory_of_Inuit_in_Northeast_Greenland www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-the-polar-regions/norse-settlement-of-greenland/374AA6805C6C4580A7E019224E354F25#

"The expedition from Iceland to Greenland was likely not mercantile in nature or intent, rather Erik the Red being exiled." This is an absurd thing to say, Erik the Red didn't arrive and then all migration to Greenland stopped hence. If you believe all Norse settlement on Greenland was motivated by Erik the Red's banishment, then please take that up with the archeologists I cited. I never claimed either the Thule or Dorset were present in southern Greenland the moment Norse first landed in Greenland, what are you talking about. I claimed both were present on Greenland when the Norse arrived. The source I cited said the Thule people were present in Greenland when the Norse arrived, the Norse did not just arrive once and then no Norse ever arrived hence, that's not how any of this works.

@@FreddaYT There was absolutely a mercantile aspect later on and there was mobility across the north sea including to Greenland that is absolutely true, but the INITIAL intent was due to exile. "I never claimed either the Thule or Dorset were present in southern Greenland the moment Norse first landed in Greenland, what are you talking about. I claimed both were present on Greenland when the Norse arrived." The Thule culture was not present in Greenland at the time the Norse landed and only the far northwest corner of Greenland was inhabited by the Dorset people, who would later be displaced by the Thule culture, the ancestors of the modern Inuit. The Dorset never moved south to get anywhere even remotely close to the Norse settlements, and it wasn't until 300 years later that the Thule culture would come in contact to the Norse, whose settlements they would run into while coming down from the north. The Thule people were actually not at all related to the Dorset peoples, using ancient DNA samples "It was found that the Thule people probably descended from the Birnirk culture of Siberia, and that they were genetically very different from the indigenous Dorset people of northern Canada and Greenland, whom they culturally and genetically completely replaced around 1300 AD." Greenland has a complex and multi-faceted history of human settlement and these groups cannot be lumped together. It's much more clear cut later when the Danes arrive, but early Greenlandic history is more complex.

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Even rather recent childrens books still carry that colonial paternalist view. Michael Ende - whom I thoroughly adore - and who was a really progressive liberal thinker in most things, was not above using "childlike native" or "noble savages" tropes in his works. Or Lindgreen - also a deeply emacipatory author of high standing - making the father of Pippi Langstump a white sailor who got to be "king of a negro island tribe". Those authors where formed by their time, and racism is even today usually not recognize by those who espouse it.

It was written by the later actor Flemming Jensen about his own experiences as a school teacher in Greenland. It's been a long time since I read it and I wasn't very good at spotting colonial mindsets back then, but the way I perceived it, he was poking way more fun at the Danish visitor clumsily trying to adjust to Greenland culture, than the culture itself. But maybe a re-read may change my mind about that...

John Fowles had many years of unpublished diaries when they were published it turned out he was writing disparaging remarks about his publisher and other writers like Edna O’ Brien

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that seal hunting, sled dog thing is actually pretty funny

What is weird to me is how that the examples of those colonial opressions that have since largely been ceased - like the clearing of the scottish highlands - are now considered barbaric practices of long.dead time. While those still going strong or at least reverbating in living memory - canadian and australian boarding school systems, US reservation legislation, han chinese supression of conquered minorities like the uygurs or tibetan peoples - are still at least downplayed or outright justified with the same arguments colonialists have always used. Current conflicts _(cough, middle east, cough)_ can also be viewed under that perspective.

Greenland future is hopeful because they have a chance at full independence, and their land wasn't really comepltly stolen, there wasn't mass migration to the place by Danes, and many Danish families there start to see themselves more as greenlandic than Danish. They just drafted an idea for a constitution recently, completely in their native language, where they had to invent a lot of new vocabulary for all the legal phrases that were usually done in Danish. It's slso very modern and progressive, having gay rights and more in it, unlike Denmark where human rights are attached later and not properly enshrined

​@@wile123456is "independence" all you guys think about nowadays?

@@wile123456​land can be stolen without mass migration, there wasn’t mass migration to most European colonies in Africa either, and many aftikaaners also saw themselves as more southafrican than Dutch - it sadly doesn’t mean the impacts of colonialism were less. I’m sure most Dutch people would not want to move to a rural island where the cost of living is so expensive - just like most Americans wouldn’t choose to move to Alaska, it doesn’t mean the Dutch/ Americans don’t benefit from the huge amount of wealth generated from those lands or the exploitation of the indigenous peoples. Independence hardly seems like restitution when Greenland has been contaminated with plutonium particulates.

​@@wile123456Mass migration you say, interesting, wonder where that happens rn

Ngl having medical bills in greenland would probably double the suicides.

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@@DefinitelyACircle American states can establish their own state-owned healthcare, example Medi-Cal. Most Americans when polled don't opt for a Federal system due to the high taxes required to fund it. Also a large percentage of Americans are insured via the businesses they work for.

@@GuyShōtō I would rather kms than be in america

Sad thing it isn't recent. It was public knowledge and openly discussed in parlament. The only recent thing is the media in Denmark shining a light on it.

@wile123456 I meant 'recent' in terms of the investigation but yes, it absolutely is sad that these women have been forced into silence for so long

You know, if true it could be be considered an act of genocide. Taking measures to restrict births within a group is an act of genocide.

And interestingly enough! When the going got tough, further south for the colony of Roanoke, the European settlers did join a semi nomadic group :$

Yeah I think the professor's characterization of the colonization of the Americas was a little off, but he was just trying to make a point in a live interview I think.

@@FreddaYT yes for sure! Sorry I just wanted to add that, didn’t mean to be pedantic :) Beautiful video I loved it ! Thank you for sharing

But but moving around means you are barbaric😢

​@@FreddaYT yeah; this reminds of Anti-Roma discrimination, Swedification and Norwegianization of the Sami en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegianization_of_the_S%C3%A1mi

Wow thank you very much for this much needed context. I have been interested in the history of colonialism in Greenland for a while, i did find it odd that there was no mention of the movement for Greenlandic self determination which has quite a long history by now, but i actually had no clue about the involvement of Norway.

I literally did mention it.

Great comment, had many of the same thoughts. A lot of missing information regarding the topic, and a general bias towards telling how Denmark singlehandedly destroyed Greenland

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@@FreddaYTmention what exactly? you have to be clear cause you missed a lot of detail for clicks

cultural genocide bad

I'm Sámi by descent, though my part of the country saw pretty aggressive Norwegianization and so any sort of Sámi culture was pretty much wiped out in my family generations ago. The results of the injustices on the Greenlandic Inuit in the present are far worse than those presently visited upon the Sámi, but the Sámi are still continually oppressed and their interests made secondary to those of Scandinavian states. Both peoples have been subject to Scandinavian colonialism, and both are victims of ethnic cleansing campaigns.

@@FreddaYT I feel the same can be said for all Inuit. Canadian Inuit experience similar challenges with high suicide rates, food shortages, loss of culture/lifestyle, intergenerational trauma, etc.

@@nathangillingham5734It is the same in the US. Our governments suffer no "inconveniences" such as truth.

* looks around innocently in Swedish *

The Danish state definitely is the villain of this story, but it's not a simple as saying independence now. Denmark made Greenland a colonial subject with all that entails, and part of that is making Greenland entirely dependent on Denmark. While Greenlandic independence is something that should be pursued, Denmark has a serious responsibility to facilitate that on Greenlandic terms, not on Danish terms.

But like we are bad in the situation, and have done and keep doing horrendous stuff while dehumanizing them. The ways and reasons for our actions might be complex, but we did it to further our economic and geopolitical standing in the world, not for the good of anyone in Greenland.

@@FreddaYT Was sure the Danish state, would be the villain, in a video called "How Denmark Destroyed Greenland" :) - and I'm looking forward to watch the video, as I said, your work is great, and I'm sure you did you research. But alot of the moden problems here in Greenland are hard to find out about, f.ex the internal racisme between East og West. The central govenment in Nuuk don't even acknowledge the language here on the eastcoast they call it "A dialekt" and the kids in out schools are not yet allowed (by the govenment in Nuuk) to use it in and offecial setting (Schools, books, meetings ect) - Here in the east, many people hate the people on the wastcoast more then Denmark, because Denmark was never "a problem" here, like the central govenment in Nuuk has been. And I love this place an it's people, all I want is what's best for Greenland, and it's not for me to decide, what the "best" is. Qujanar for the response, means the world.

@@olo4704 But that's the thing, saying "to further our economic and geopolitical standing" is making a complex thing way to simple - a lot of good was done by Denmark, to help, it almost always went wrong, but you can't say, nothing good was done, for the good of the people. Otherwise, this would be a very different place to live (Plumming, housing, schools, food, hospitals ect.) The stat did some horrendous stuff yes, very true, but not only horrendous stuff. An a lot of danes (not the stat) are trying to do good here. But I do agree, the Danish state done fucked up waaaay to frequent, an still do, no excuses.

@@CHagnM Danes are still bad tho. Sincerely a Swede.

Some day yes

@@FreddaYT glad to hear

​@@FreddaYT Great idea

Did they though? Have you not read a single story of Inuit folklore and mythology? That’s some of the darkest shit you will ever read, terrifying and dark stories. Not that alcohol and alienation helped, that’s true.

It's not the white man's fault

In Greenland there is good reason to believe that both play a factor. Suicidality can be determened from three main factors. Alchoholism, Distance from equator, and access to lethal weaponry. Greenland is already one of the most prone contries, but that dosen't mean that any one of these reasons should be ignored. Colonialism has been traced to causing alcoholism in a vast amount of cultures, and Greenland is no exception. Lastly colonialism would still be bad even if it had no consequence on sucidality, so i see no harm in examining the multiplitous causes of the subject.

If you move to the middle of the sahara desert and dies of thirst, whose fault its it?

@@mysampson284no its the danes fault

It’s also wrong to consider the modern Inuit as being the same as the Dorset people whom the Norse traded with. There is almost no relation between the Dorset and the Proto-Inuit, and the former were probably either wiped out by the latter or died en masse during the little ice age.

I'm not sure how much it matters for today.

@@SophiaAstatine You're right, that's actually the point, the Norse settling of Greenland doesn't actually matter very much to the situation in Greenland today, however I felt the video implied otherwise.

@@WretchedRedoran The more important point should be to make things better if anything and for Denmark to treat the people of Greenland like equals rather than dependents. Especially if it in turn can help remedy the divisions that exist within Greenland itself.

@@SophiaAstatine The video already addresses that, and I don't mean to take away from that point either. I just mean to provide a clearer picture on the topic the video starts on.

I guess you haven’t heard about the home rule, Greenland can take over several areas to control themselves, so start with going through the list of areas that is controlled by Inatsisartut at the moment and which they can just take but doesn’t want too www.retsinformation.dk/eli/retsinfo/2023/9001 www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2009/473 The list of areas already being govern in Greenland www.stm.dk/media/12119/gr-oversigt-over-sagsomraader.pdf Furthermore Greenland can tomorrow take a vote on leaving the Kingdom of Denmark - chapter 8 par. 21 www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2009/473

it's a tankie community trying to fud social democracy it seems. youtube algorithm doing what it does best

The problem of lacked of skilled/specialised labour continues to this day. I know a legal practioneer ("jurist" in danish) who went to greenland for some time, because the conditions were relatively handsome, for the first job after completing law school. They ended up not staying for more than some years, because an opportunity to work in something they wanted to specialize in, presented itself in Denmark. Likewise with the lack of doctors and other health professionals.

@@theonlydkdreng and sad enough this like school and social system is under Greenlandic sovereignty, they have taken those areas home - home rule

I also support giving more money to Greenland and its people i found Them cool but i must also admit i have another reason pride and the fear Of lossing the last lands thats not our cores Denmark as lost land after land and war after war We only have Greenland and the faroe islands left If giveing Them more money to improve there Living standards and keep Them happy in our kingdom i say do it

@@YehWNoU so We shuold just let Greenland go free and stop giving Them money

@@YehWNoUit literally will? Your gonna lose the last bit of empire if you don’t change

There absolutely is specific racism aimed at Greenlanders but it isn't as prevalent anymore as it was just 10-20 years ago, a lot of this is due to the BLM movement which ended up leading mostly to a focus on Greenland in Denmark. However on the other hand I remember when I was a child seeing DR children's television making explicitly racist jokes about Greenlanders so that also shows just how recently things were still pretty bad.

Yeah, as a Dane I also think should be helping Greenland more. But right now it just seems pretty hard as Greenland wants to rule themselves and Denmark doesn't want to help to the point that they could selfsustain and leave the kingdom. Greenlanders in poles have admitted that the majority would leave Denmark if it didn't mean quality of life would faulter, and in that sense I kind of get why the state and a lot of danes don't want to invest more, why put money into a place that will just leave? In that sense, it's kind of hard to get any political incentive to help Greenland out.

Oh was Puerto Rico has it so bad that they are literally the richest per capita Latin America region on the planet.

@@AL-lh2ht you googled that one pretty quick didnt you? I bet you didnt even know shit about puerto rico before you read my comment. Dont speak on shit you dont know anything about.

​@@Milk-jy1knIt's telling how you didn't say he is wrong.

@@bosertheropode5443 he is wrong, the numbers on those graphs are a gross misrepresentation of the precarity people live through.

@@Milk-jy1kn Compared to proper US states they are quite poor of course, but for carribean standards it really isn't bad.

We learn more about ancient Egypt than colonial Nigeria, and that is not ok.

Greenland voted to stay. Greenlands have the right to leave pretty much at any time and have extreme autonomy.

@@AL-lh2ht They literally voted against staying.

​@@AL-lh2htI highly doubt the people of Greenland would vote yes to stay in conditions so bad they would rather commit suicide

@@PlatinumAltaria that seems pretty ok to me. I don't want to learn about a contienent that hates me and my race.

Thank you so much, I will

I sidste ende er det lidt som at bede om en præmie for at være den "mindst værste koloniherre".

@@EyeoftheU hørt. det kan ikke forsvares. ikke at forglemme vest indien

Greenland is a place with large amounts of natural resources. And countries with much economic muscles could help to extract those resources and bring that place out of poverty. But Denmark has not got the economic resources to do that. It should then just step aside to help Greenland, but little Denmark rather cling ons to whatever little global influence it could get, like deciding over the resource extraction in the artic, deciding over trade routes for ships there, and deciding over military matters, and offering USA the ability to fly over Greenland to drop atomic bombs over russia in exchange for giving favors to Denmark in return. Denmark has never been a succesful colonial power. Iceland was driven into poverty by Denmark. The rule over Norway was mixed with Danish plundering of the country with Danish help to Norway to expand its mining industry. So Norwegian nationalists complaints about Danish rule are exaggerated, but some of them holds a little merit. It was however much more succesful to create colonies and to keep them than Sweden, but that was perhaps more a blessing than a curse that Sweden never really got involved into the slave trade and the historical guilt that comes with that. And nor are there any shameful histories of colonial opression either. Denmark did wisely sell off its colonies in the Baltics during the middle ages, and later on they sold its colony in India to Britain after it became impossible to do much with it. And the colony in the west Indies was an unnusual economic success story compared to all failed Swedish colonies. However its profitability fell when new ways of producing sugar was invented, and there no longer was any need for that island. And then it was sold off to USA. And Denmarks colony in west africa never really found any profitable crop it could produce after slavery became forbidden, so Denmark got rid of it later on. In the end did the main flaw of the Danish empire never got solved in its thousand year history. The empire sucked at assimilating its territories. There really was no glue keeping all its areas togheter. It was an old useless feudal state like the Austro-Hungrian empire in that regard. All its many territories had nothing in common with each other not the same language, not the same laws, not the same economic model, not the same culture, not the same anything except religion. It lost its Baltic provinces when the empire became over-stretched. And the area was not enough assimilated to wanna belong to Denmark anyways. It also lost control over England and France. It lost Sweden when it left the Kalmar union - which I think was almost inevitable to happen given that Danish control over Sweden was never strong. It later on also lost Norway in the 1800's. And despite all silly Putin style claims by Danish nationalists that all Norwegians are Danes with an odd dialect, just like all Ukrainians are really russians - Do I on the contrary think that Norway always was its own country. It was only tied to Denmark through a tradition of royal marriage, where the Danish King traditionally also would inherit the throne of Norway. Its remarkable that this union managed to hold for as long as it did. Denmark also had a problem with keeping Schleswig and Holstein. Danish nationalists followed their burning passion in their hearts instead of using their brains and realizing the hopeless situation of fighting Germany and provocing it into war with unreasonable demands. Denmark tried to make people into Danes by force in Germany, Iceland and Greenland... but it didn't work out. And the weak royal power, in Denmark was a big road bloc that prevented the Danish state from ever becoming strong and centralized to be able to solve problems when nobles opposed every such iniative. However not all blame could be put on them. I think it noticable how extremely little interest Danish Kings took in all the provinces he owned. For 1000 years did not a single Danish King for example set his foot on Iceland, which I think is extremly nonchalant and even arrogant towards the Icelandic subjects of the empire. This island was poor, sparesely populated and distant, however it provided Denmark with hunting falcons that Danish Kings could use as diplomatic gifts to mighty world leaders, and Iceland produced much sulphur for gunpowder for the Danish military. I think one can compare this all to Swedish Kings who regulary visited even the poorest and unpopulated regions of Sweden, like Finland that only had 20% as many people as Sweden back in the 1500s. Travelling by boat was much easier than travelling on land back in those days, so Finland was very distant from Stockholm. But Gustavus Adolphus would spend much time listening to common Finnish people and their complaints on corrupt and power abusing local rulers and punish them and replace them. For that reason is Gustavus one very loved Swedish King in Finland. In the end did Denmark also lose control over Iceland and Greenland. And those areas was really never Danish to begin with either. They were founded by Norwegian vikings, had norwegian culture, and remained part of Norway until the union between Denmark and Norway ended, and Denmark took those islands after the divorce. My words on Denmark has been harsh in this long speech. But in the end did little Denmark achieve an impressive empire, especially during the viking age. Had Denmark had not suffered from the shaky political crisis and murders during the 1300s and 1400s do I think that the country could have taken another path and became centralized, and the Kings would hold much power and not the nobles. And provinces could have become assimilated and Danish. And Denmark would then likely have succesfully have conquered Sweden, Finland, northern Germany and the Baltics and colonialized the world. However its flawed construct made it almost certain that the empire would get eaten up by Sweden and other powers in the future.

Fredda never replied..

Exactly what a kurd would do…

Fredda has become a proud citizen of Rojava

Fredda will never beat the Kurdish allegations

Free Kurdistan?

"@taiwanisacountry" lmao

Yes unique or, maybe the Greenlanders are "just" part of a colonial power who quite often cleanse out their own...(every time the state is broke) and, have become quite "smart" using new methods" every time...😰 I wonder if Denmark is using MK-Ultra in Greenland every time as we now see done (committed) within Denmark!?!? I don't know but, I do know they've clearly "educated" the Danish "suicide"-method within the EU during the past 20 years...😱 I have shadowed "teacher" - Danish Mr. Vedsted-Hansen and his 2 colleagues on their way around Europe, teaching the Danish method!! From the very same Vedsted-Hansen family who was part of the horrible subjects who started the Holocaust 😰😰😰

I'm finnish and the days without night are the absolute best

Is that true?

You mean Greenlanders wanting to profit it for themselves. You…do know they voted to stay themselves right? And that they could leave pretty much any time.

Just a hit of awareness: Greenland has full autonomy over its mining and fishing industries, apart from having to pay Danish taxes and follow EU legislation on those industries. Their privatization of their fishing industry created a massive monopoly in which 3 Greenlandic families own all industry and pay pathetically poor wages compared to other Nordic countries. Turns out an Inuit can be just as much of a capitalist bastard as a European. This would only get worse if they separated from Denmark, which is why that idea always gets rejected by Greenlanders every time they consider voting on it. I suppose their alternative is being stuck with America or Russia as partners, which would be an utter disaster for the country.

​@@MrTheWaterbearIs this autonomous Greenland being led by the Inuit tho?

​@@joaquinvideo2959 It's ruled by a Greenlandic parliament, that to my knowledge isn't directly influenced by the Danish one, and is of course only voted in by citizens of Greenland

@@MrPhilipleifYes, but that Greenlandic parliament could be ruled by the colonizers who live in greenland

I mean your saying colonialism is bad because you are letting emotion get to you but consider all the innovations colonialism bring. I mean yeah some people died but we all die

Greenlanders have it pretty good. Massive welfare state, half the economy is free money from Denmark. Extreme well educatedz

@@AL-lh2ht if that mattered greenland wouldnt have such a high suicide rate.

​@@badabing3391A lot of it has to do with the lack of Sunlight during the winter months.

@@AmongUs-sy5ct Innovation which was not requested nor asked for; you speak from a Eurocentric "saviour" point of view. The Inuit had their own traditions, culture, and societies, all of which were self-sustaining up until the arrival of the Danish, where now almost all of these have been eradicated and what remains is unhappy. The Inuit are unable to enjoy the same luxury from innovation as the Danish, for the Danish frequently kept them FROM benefitting from it. Even in the modern era, the Danish shut down villages and force them to assimilate with larger cities. Innovation can only be called as such when it helps.

I stopped taking this comment seriously at the "colonialism ended in 2009" part

Take it up with the experts I sourced, also I do not put much stock in Jared Diamond's theses

As far as I know, it was (even up to) more like eugenics, systemic racism and unequality decades past it being a fad in e.g. Germany (the treatment of Samis in Scandinavia comes to mind)

@@A-A_P that's false, the Nordic countries never really championed behind the Germans Nordic superiority thing

@@berjoxhn5142Sweden created the State Institute for Racial Biology

did you watch the rest of the video?

@@thepakistanipotato Yes, and I dont trust it.

​@@EvilTwin8888colonisation isn't the same as conquest. So your lack of trust in this video comes from ignorance

​@@MohammedAli-hl4mr Colonization: is the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area. This is the modern laymans understanding and it implies much. The video needs to explain if it uses the word in a different way.

@@EvilTwin8888 words like colony, colonization and colonialism mean many different things, there is settler colonialism, building a colony, and conquest of a people for the purpose of keeping them as a captive market to use in a mercantilist economy. the confusion you had was because you apparently couldn't figure out that settling in a region is colonization and that for something to count as colonization there doesn't need to be anyone conquered and subjugated. you thus inferred some nefarious intent in the video through ignorance which you excuse by saying "modern layman's understanding" which it just isn't, you just don't understand much about the subject and invent conspiracy to fill in the gaps and explain away your lack of knowledge on this particular subject without having to acknowledge that the majority of people in this comment section didn't have the same difficulty in understanding something which was pretty clear.

People in Denmark recognize the similarity too so it goes both ways, I know a few Australians online and it's something that comes up rather often.

Yeah I can imagine both nations did fucked up things @@hedgehog3180

This guy has always had an anti-european bias. If he can find anything bad he will try to attribute it to europeans.

Well yeah, but still. It's kind of like wanting a price for being the least worst.

@@EyeoftheU im not danish

Det er uheldigvis ikke så mange utlendinger som vet at Skandinavia en gang har urbefolkninger

Denmark was the very first country in planet Earth, to start human slavery and, Denmark never stopped but, are still trafficking and exploring in the utmost extreme...😰😰😰

​@Jetmab04 denmark was the first country to ban the slave trade in 1792. African and Middle East nations still practice slavery today.

@@BryceV817 According to our written History, you are correct....however, when/if you start digging, you'll find very different knowledge... My diggings started many years ago, when I by chance, participated in a History lesson on a different continent...fascinating and afterward I started trawling archives, checking up on the information I found...did it again in a new place and so on... My "thing" has always been to question what I hear ..called critical thinking 😊..absolutely worth the effort..especially when you start finding information which clearly were meant to be hidden (below the carpets) or just, "something we don't talk about,". These things in History, are often worth persuing - not because we want to hurt anyone but, simply to find facts - often hidden in plain sight.. Have you ever visited the Virgin islands??

@@Jetmab04ancient Egypt and pyramids is earlier, and the pyramids where not build with paid labor 😂

Since 1979 Greenland has controlled its own school laws, you forget Greenland has 3 distinct languages, West (majority decided this is the official), East and Thule, as Greenland controls the school laws and decided that west is official school books is made in this language, so East and Thule speaking is left as a minority. I can’t comment on the Welsh, but before Greenland chose to take home school laws, there weren’t that big of issue with language, but in 79 the decided to exclude east and Thule, at the same time the quality of Danish learning plummeted, higher learning is limited on Greenland so you would go to FREE universities in Denmark, but with limited proficiency in Danish and English it is hard. But the issue is self created

as a dane i think greenland would be worse if. USA were in charge of Greenland

I WAS JUST THINKING THE SAME THING. As colonized peoples, we tend to think our experience is uniquely abhorrent, little did we know they all used the same fucking textbook.

Puerto Rico is the richest per capita Latin American region in the world.

​@@AL-lh2ht yet we are still extremely poor and see none of the profit that American and other foreign companies reap. We went without a power grid for over half a year at some points due to colonial admin incompetency. Please dont base your presumptions off pure numbers. It makes you seem ignorant.

@@1GentleGiant1if PR was independent it would just be like Cuba, or mexico, or any of the other dumps in Latin America. Maybe if your people can’t build a proper society, given rain or snow, island or landlocked, its time to stop blaming every1 else.

@@bummerdrummer1649Cuba is literally exporting doctors to other countries. It enjoys longer life expectancy than the Inbred States of Obesity, lower inequality and higher government satisfaction even despite the constant embargo.

This is a story about Denmark so I focused on the norse, which was their rationale for saying it was still Danish despite not having been there for centuries. By this sort of logic, nobody is indigenous to anywhere. The Dorset didn't spawn out of the ground in Greenland.

That's right but this isn't a case like the USA or Africa where certain peoples had been for thousands of years before colonizers arrived. Greenland was colonized by the Norse only around 2 centuries after it was colonized by the Thule. I don't think there's any argument to be made they can call themselves any more indigenous than the Norse who came right on their heels.@@FreddaYT

they can join China instead.Become naval base etc...

@@nikolamilicevic1040 Yeah, that would be the worst possible outcome. China is NOT a kind ally. In fact, they’re never an ally. They’re a stakeholder. Without being under the current EU and North Atlantic regulations they have to follow under Denmark, China would put them in a squeeze and make sure they’d pump out all their natural resources. And then there’s the existing US base… somehow don’t think they’d ever let China become a factor. But not in any way that would benefit Greenlanders, particularly.

@@MrTheWaterbear China is NOT a kind ally ?who tells you that?Western merdia. China would put them in a squeeze and make sure they’d pump out all their natural resources. like cina woudl have other reasons to be there or that is that desperate fro greenland resources. And then there’s the existing US base… it can be removed.Niger ousted french troops even under coup gfovberment usa woudl have even lss possiblities to make case about greenaldn goverment,... But not in any way that would benefit Greenlanders, particularly. All under china are profiteering.

China is not an ally? But Western colonial powers are? The ones who committed so may atrocities against the native peoples as well as the settlers? Westoids are truly beyond redemption

​@@MrTheWaterbearChina has never really participated in the form of colonial exploitation that you describe here. No the worst thing that could happen if Greenland gained independence would be the USA coming in. They already expressed that they want Greenland more than once in the past.

You mean "health-care" in marks I assume 😰 Exactly the same "programs" as Denmark have "teached" to other European countries during the past 20 + years 😰

@@Jetmab04 What do you have against the Danish healthcare system?

@@hedgehog3180 I'm sure it's a good system - when and if the people behind it, decide to treat people in a professional way...we've unfortunately seen everything but professionalism from Denmark for many years and, I don't like to experience that. I simply don't respect or accept Eugenics which sadly seen to be, exactly what - especially the Danish public system now (again) practice and, to see this in the place in which I was born, doesn't just hurt me...makes me condemn the people involved 😪

And a little sad PS...And, just for your information: The MK-Ultra* now tortured into people by the state of DK (and her Religions) as well as the 100% false medical journals made about, - especially us Danes who no longer live in the place, as well as the raped of innocent people .....these things among other completely horrific "methods" sadly tells us here, the very, very sad condition our old country is in. Like, when people from other continents ask - quote:" Denmark...that's where they crush their own in vaste insenerstors, right?" End quote. Knowing, that this is just one torture method in Denmark by now, tell me more about the condition of both your medical, legal and government "system".. And, the child-sex-trafficking...whst kind of a medical/legal/government system commit such pure evil!?!?!?.....Certainly not a place to ever come to again. That's for sure..I thankfully have my own medical record (the original) for all my life but, not the point here....😰😰😰 * When CIA introduced MK-Ultra the population of the world condemned it....I am 100% sure the population of the world, haven't changed our minds about such evil..where does all this hate come from Danes in Denmark???

@@Jetmab04 you are crazy lmao stop reading conspiracy theories

Good thing I never conflated different Greenlandic peoples and always referred to them as "The Greenlandic peoples" "Greenlanders" or "Greenlandic Inuit" (plural) "The Dorset Culture encountered the Norwegian Culture and their cousins; the Inuit Culture encountered the Danish Culture only 300 years ago." This makes absolutely no sense. The Norse settlers were Icelandic for the most part, not Norwegian. Anything approximating a modern Norwegian or Danish culture did not exist at this time. "The Danish culture" was Danish-Norwegian as I established, and viewed its colonization of Greenland as a recolonization, a reclaiming of what the crown had viewed as a dependency, I was quoting word for word from the source. "The economic focus implies that the state of Denmark made a profit. This couldn't be further from the truth." Please educate yourself somewhat on colonialism and the way resource and profit extraction functions independently of anachronistic GDP per capita statistics and public expenditure statistics. There is no contradiction between the Danish state operating on a loss in Greenland using very specific definitions and statistics, and Denmark extracting profit out of Greenland.

i was personally only taught "oh we brought civilization while trying to preserve their culture!!" and that was it absolutely no nuance and only the occasional "well some danes were kind of mean but most were neat!" they really do attempt to hide how much denmark profited of off greenland

Simply not true.. I have learned a lot about dk history good and bad parts of it when i went to school in dk

@@icu6661Guess you went to a better school than I did!