Native American Castaway Gives First Description of Closed Japan (1848) Ranald MacDonald´s Adventure 

He was half Scottish, hence the unfitting name 😂

I think he might be the Lord of the Weebs!

My mom's Family is Native American! You wouldn't know by my Name but if you saw me in person you would be like WTF hahaha

@@jonmacdonald5345 That’s amazing! What state are you from if you mind me asking?

@@NorthSon I live in Cali but my tribes are from Midwest Choctaw and Blackfoot! Where do you call home?

I see you've never heard the legend of the first thanksgiving corn haggis

"o" -----------as in, O chit that was close. C what I did there... edit: Did you hear the part where he said the Japanese called him, "Renardo MacDonardo"? Hilarious. They got the "o" in the wrong place.

really unfortunate name, but an epic life

Maybe that's why the love French frys

Probly just vitimin difencincy

This saddens me, whoever you are I wish we were acquainted so you could have a chance to smile more. Keep your head up man, magic is alive.

しべるみちむべるす

@@velazquezarmouries sir that is not proper Japanese

It's even better. Imagine a Japanese man coming up to you and saying "I would like to inquire just exactly how timbers are shivered".

Sir, this is a Wendy's

Wellll him and every tourist in history 😅 clearly Disney World has only ever been visited by this rare breed… it’s amazing they’ve been able to stay open 😆

@@jerkfudgewater147 😂😂

Tbf some people have more than one motivation. But I agree with you.

@@jerkfudgewater147 As if you risk your life going to Disneyworld lmao (ignoring covid)

@@benbowland 1) you could die in traffic 2) Disney has a massive body count, but Disney drags the people off of it’s property before letting paramedics get involved so technically “noone has ever died there” all of those old people walking around in the hot florida sun being dragged around by screaming children have somehow managed to avoid having even one heart attack or aneurysm in 80 years… seems legit.

As a monolingual American, I find it impressive you can write in another language so well, so I wouldn’t feel too bad about it.

@@samurguy9906 Thank you for saying that! 🙂 It’s extremely difficult for me to pronounce words like “irrelevant”, “relieve”, “parallel”, etc. I’m certain that a random guy who lived somewhere in the British isles hundreds years ago invented the word “irrelevant” just to torture Japanese people. 😮

@@rukathehamsteratwork8896 I hear that the Germans feel the same way about the word "squirrel." And hey, if it makes you feel any better, the りゅ、りょ sounds are a nightmare to me. Always comes out as りよ when I do it; just can't get 'em to flow right.

@@Memphismastermind I hadn’t even imagined that the pronunciation of りゅ and りょ could be that difficult until you pointed it out ! 😮 Thank you. 🙂

@@rukathehamsteratwork8896 I read once that American sentries in the pacific theater of ww2 would use words like “lollapalooza” as the password for exactly that reason

Thank you.

his legacy went on to inspire the creation of a burger chain mascot clown that brought joy and hope to billions

Oh man, imagine being half scottish and half apache. that would been one hell of an aggressive attack helicopter. Thank god he was just a friendly chinook!

So you mean he was half salmon? Or half wind? Both are equally good ways to cross the ocean to Japan!

Ranald's brother Ronald was a real jerk, always playing with food like an ill-mannered toddler. Totally true story 🥴😁

Protestants don’t believe in “graven images”. So he would have no problem stepping on a Catholic icon.

@@Ditka-89 depends on the Protestant denomination.

@@samurguy9906 Yeah. It wasn’t all. In Gulliver’s travel written by Jonathon Swift, who was himself a firm Protestant, derided Protestants like the Dutch who stepped on Christian images and his main character who ends up in Japan refuses to do so. It’s very satirical and typical Jonathon swift. His main character is an Englishman, but he pretends to be Dutch while in Japan and when he refuses to step on a crucifix, the Japanese emperor begins to doubt that he’s a “Hollander” and thinks he might actually be a “Christian.” The Japanese emperor then promises that he will keep his refusal to step on a crucifix a secret so that his fellow Dutchmen don’t cut his throat for it. *This interpreter was a person employed to transact affairs with the Hollanders. He soon conjectured, by my countenance, that I was a European, and therefore repeated his majesty’s commands in Low Dutch, which he spoke perfectly well. I answered, as I had before determined, “that I was a Dutch merchant, shipwrecked in a very remote country, whence I had travelled by sea and land to Luggnagg, and then took shipping for Japan; where I knew my countrymen often traded, and with some of these I hoped to get an opportunity of returning into Europe: I therefore most humbly entreated his royal favour, to give order that I should be conducted in safety to Nangasac.” To this I added another petition, “that for the sake of my patron the king of Luggnagg, his majesty would condescend to excuse my performing the ceremony imposed on my countrymen, of trampling upon the crucifix, because I had been thrown into his kingdom by my misfortunes, without any intention of trading.” When this latter petition was interpreted to the Emperor, he seemed a little surprised; and said, “he believed I was the first of my countrymen who ever made any scruple in this point; and that he began to doubt, whether I was a real Hollander, or not; but rather suspected I must be a Christian. However, for the reasons I had offered, but chiefly to gratify the king of Luggnagg by an uncommon mark of his favour, he would comply with the singularity of my humour; but the affair must be managed with dexterity, and his officers should be commanded to let me pass, as it were by forgetfulness. For he assured me, that if the secret should be discovered by my countrymen the Dutch, they would cut my throat in the voyage.” I returned my thanks, by the interpreter, for so unusual a favour; and some troops being at that time on their march to Nangasac, the commanding officer had orders to convey me safe thither, with particular instructions about the business of the crucifix.*

@@joellaz9836 "whether I was a real Hollander, or not; but rather suspected I must be a Christian" so true. those who step on the fumi cannot call themselves christian

@@Ditka-89 Protestants stepping on an icon that depicts Christ because they have some petty beef with the Virgin Mary

'Never in my wildest dreams I imagined leaving the Japans as an otaky', bows head in shame.

That's how I read it too.

The Japanese governor probably didn't want to waste his chance to learn from a foreigner over a breach of court etiquette. He could still save face by dismissing it as a foreigner's ignorance.

the interpreter just said heart probably, while the governor said balls in japanese 😆

Absolutely amazing

Probably meant heart as in courage rather than heart as in generosity or kindness

It's called the Bering landbridge, you didn't pay attention in grade school.

@@zeitgeistx5239 no part of my comment displays a lack of that understanding. If you don't think it's amazing they potentially preserved an art style on two continents, that's your problem

Funny, Ainu have been described as looking more European than what one thinks of when thinking of Japanese people.

@@zeitgeistx5239 chill the fuck out, jeez

Agreed

Lol

You didn't even watch the full video did you lol

@@Ennocb I’m just making fun of the name - Ronald McDonald is a clown

@@ChessedGamon Fair enough!

He was chasing the Ham Burglar across the Pacific.

Makes a body wonder if the Radical Japanese who say "They gave us two, we will give them two thousand" are not really expressing how Japanese feel about the US.

the japanese are still here today after the emperor surrendered.. thus they were not annihilated

However upon facing actual annihilation they surrendered so he was not right.

@@MrScigeek101 it wasn't the annihilation but the horror for the survivors that led to surrender

Talk about foreshadowing

Accept when he wants sex for money. That's how they got "lady's fever".

Not when they’ve been aboard for two years and get some dolphins

I'm glad I'm not the only one who found this tidbit when surfing Wikipedia. Super cool.

"Grog yes"

@@TheInfidel_SlavaUA But it's probably not completely normal English when a waitress hands you a piece of paper that she calls "the check please". Not sure, though.

By each other, too. Just like humans have been doing forever. People love to say this kind of thing because they think it makes them sound compassionate. You're complicit too, just by using a Google service.

@@screwgoogle4993 it's amusing that you assume I'm a liberal or care for Google. On Facebook, i was just arguing about CRT being racist and explaining that race is real and not a Eurocentric anything

No Africans never did this. This is a European thing.

Same thing with Bronisław Piłsudski. A Polish exile first sentenced to death by torture by the russian imperiale and łatwe changed to exile in the east. He also came across Ainu first. Poles were also conquered and displaced

@@Strawhalo Africans were not an exception to this. Egypt was subjugating people in Africa and the Middle East long before Europe was even a concept. The Moors conquered Spain. African slaves in the Transatlantic Slave Trade were prisoners of war and criminals sold to Europeans by other Africans. Bantu settlers displaced the Khoisan in southern Africa 1,000 years before any Europeans reached the region. The Rwanda Genocide. The countless wars still being waged in Africa as we speak. Need I go on?

@A J where do you think Mac saw the tentacle?

Where does he say that? I think I missed it.

@@samurguy9906 I'm pretty sure he's joking. I am not entirely uncertain you're joking, but I think it's much less likely.

A true ween wouldn't be worried, but excited by tentacles

Bruh , hes 1/2 weeb. His other 1/2 is literrally related to the ainu. So hes

@DustMaster 2: Return Of Flex 🤨 You obviously don't know that most history channels on YT have been demonetised for inexplicable reasons? - I've never seen an advert run run on a Voices of the Past vid. A channel with 1 million subscribers Ouch! - > ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t4VRkE01mi4.html

@DustMaster 2: Return Of Flex 🙄 ok now I'm using a confused emoji. You got me

@DustMaster 2: Return Of Flex sorry about that- I'm not formally trained in Emoji usage. So why exactly are your eyes rolling? There must be thousands of people viewing this comment thread waiting on baited breath for a stunning conclusion to this mystery

@DustMaster 2: Return Of Flex yea, so tell.

Inherent good within people? You did hear the part about the guy who got executed just for introducing his wife to the foreigner, right?

Must be proud to know one of your ancestor are one of the first people of significance in history

omg what he’s my relative too that’s cool

So what?

Even sharks need water

Our boy Mac ain't even remotely interested in the women either. And his adventure ends with him hopping on a boat with a bunch of -semen- seamen...

@@juliec5151 but his place was called the "lions den." surely a name of such stature has a backstory of epic proportions to justify this namesake?

This comment is gold hahaha.

Is that why modern day Mac carries so much religious guilt ? Because of what his ancestor did ?

Holy crap yeah! Damn bro

If his last name was "McDonald" not MacDonald you'd be closer to being right

@@TheSavageJetdiRustySpooner didn’t realize Ronald was a mic. Although he does have red hair.

Foinest of jokes here.

Though he would introduce Ronald to the art of the hambagō suteaki Wich he would betray by putting them between two buns and adding cheese inventing the cheeseburger

That was deff the reason.

I expect the primary reason was due Ranald obviously being an educated man, of sorts, as indicated by his collection of books which the Japanese officials doted over. He was valuable in that they could learn about the outside world from him. His being tasked with training interpreters is a perfect example.

tbh the government officials seemed to like him and thought him useful

As long as you didn't come in there with a Bible...

Thats because northern Japan at that time was somewhat loose in terms of its isolation policy. The northern Japanese domains at that time would often disobey rules from the shogunate and trade among neighboring tribes and with Russia secretly. The Ainu would often become the mediator for trading.

would've been better if that was written anonymously

Stop complainijg

Fumiko Kaneko sounds like a bit of an edge-lord.

😌 I like this, it shares my feelings but I could never put it into words so graciously. Maybe that’s the blessing of education

Fumiko sounds like they had a breakdown after studying for 5 hours straight or whatever japanese students go through

I can only speculate as to what they actually said at the time, but there are a couple of phrases in Japanese (首になる and 傘の台が飛ぶ) which would literally translate as being decapitated but are used as an expression meaning to be fired. Assuming those expressions existed back then, I'd like to think that's what they meant.

@@ValkisCalmor It's not exceptionally common, but I think we have that in English as well. Like, someone could say "his head's on the chopping block" to suggest someone is at risk of being fired. Also, "terminated" could be taken the wrong way. Hell, "fired" could mean "set on fire."

I hope he was just fired

@@ValkisCalmor They did exist, so more likely than not that is what they meant.

@@Mythraen When I was four I heard my dad tell my mom in dire tones that he had been "fired" that day, and could tell it was bad news. My 4 year old brain put 2 and 2 together: my dad had been set on fire as punishment for something, how painful. Very quick recovery, though.

They did not😅😂

That division goes back roughly 30,000 years in Siberia so it's not like they are closely related man even the Sami people of modern day northern Scandinavia are from that line

Wait what im native anerican and found out about the ainu a few years ago this is first time im hearing about this ?

they not that closely related actually. ainu's are an isolated genetic pool now. they're not too closely related even to siberian tribes

Hahahah yes, I'm scrolling through all the comments for these

Based

Heretics. Heathens. Savages.

Protestants hate the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. No surprises there.

@@myrmidonesantipodes6982 Catholic hands wrote this post.

@@TheSonOfDumb yeah Catholic hands wrote the Gospel too you despicable heretic

"I'm lavin' it." -Ranald Macdonald

And thus was able to keep his head over his shoulders lmao

I mean he did say him and the captain were "close friends" and he was also close with one of his interpreters and enjoyed to company of men sooo... I thought perhaps he is one of us.

@@kirinschlabitz4085 That’s not implied in the slightest

@@kirinschlabitz4085 People when someone in history had male best friend and liked hanging out with people with the same gender as them: Oh they must be gay

@@creativepop8196 I’m not saying people of the same sex can’t be friends lol I just said it was a possibility they were gay or queer in some way? I think it’s rather silly to always assume people are straight or always assume they are gay given the range of orientations. I was mostly joking but also slightly hopeful for some representation.

I wonder if this was litteral or actually meant that he was just dismissed. “To cut the head” in Japanese means to fire a person, at least in modern Japanese.

@@kedbreak136 They killed him. Back then a Lord's honor and reputation were at stake. He was responsible to ensure the Shoguns rules were being enforced. And someone who violated the rules was made an example to all others. Because the rules/laws of a dictator is grounded in obedience and fear. Without obedience he is just another man and can be replaced/killed.

@@paulstone3590 The issue with that would be there's no mention of public commotion. A servant being executed is not just held within the castle ground, but also open to the public. Furthermore, there is an expression that says "Kubi ni Naru" (首になる) which could either mean "be beheaded" or "be dismissed". With these in mind, I assume that is a figurative speech.

​@@TheDeisasoriThe earliest known recorded use of one of the variants of this phrase for getting fired instead of a more literal sense was in 1802, so chances are good that's what they meant.

Reflective of the different standards in education. Practically anything you read that makes use of proper grammar will sound like poetry these days. Thank our shockingly poor education system and so called "higher education". Then again, it's to be expected when universities spend more time teaching kids that they're victims, that there are unlimited genders, and to hate all men, anyone with white skin, and anyone straight... Just saw some schools trying to work drag queen courses into their curriculum. The fall of empires indeed. Lol

Moreso commenting on it, as the Meiji Restoration began to happen within his own lifetime.

Reject shogun. Embrace borgar.

It basically does

After visiting Japan he invented the Big MaC

You are not alone there and I momentarily suspected a file name mixup.

Ronald McDonald came later to Japan.

I prefer the fabulous tale of Captain Long John Silver.

Theres some pretty badass protestants in history.

@@robertharris6092 badass? that heathen, along with the other heretics in that land, should all be brought to their knees before the armies of Europe

@@highonlife2323 dont be angry just because people arnt insane enough to belive a book some people wrote talks of a magic man floating in the sky. Lol

@@robertharris6092 fool. they step on the sacred crest of the Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of God and call it the sign of the devil. this is blasphemy of the worst kind. it is not enough to make me angry that they do not believe, but they further their hell sentence and my anger by voluntarily defiling Her name. I have every right to be angry

@@highonlife2323 To your faith... She's just as blasphemous to plenty of other Christian faiths to worship, not to mention the sheer not even related she is to Shinto or Buddhism. Besides, frankly, saying that if they don't agree with you, they should all die really just proves them right that you are an embodiment of some sort of devil. Just some perspective to consider

Hear, hear.

Yup

he's a pioneer not a fricking weeb.

He's 1/2 weeb because of his dad ; his other half is PNW native american which means hes related to the Ainu. This account doesn't state it . But he actually met a crew of Japanese shipwrecks when he was a kid in British Colombia, he noticed that they looked a lot like his own native american people so he learned japanese from them. This trip was him trying to confirm the relation to the Ainu and the Native Americans.

I dont see whats so foreshadowing about it. Thats how most of Japanese history is in terms of warfare. Nothing new really.

no weeb would cut themselves loose on a dingy and hope to float over and learn more about Japan or die trying. actually, maybe.

Compared to the rest of the East at that time it's not hard to understand.

They also can't pronounce the letter R. Instead the letter Japanese use is somewhere between an R and L this makes it seem to western ears like they pronounce L as R and R as L because our ears hear what we don't expect more.

I mean, it is different than the racial stereotype of today. The thing is that the pronounciation in japanese doesn't include an exact parallel to the L, thus they had no practice of pronouncing it the way it is pronounced in english. This happens with other languages too, I'll give an example I've seen by my own account: I speak spanish, we have a particular pronounciation of the letter J, this pronounciation doesn't exist in Italian, when I went to Italy to visit family, I noticed those who didn't speak spanish had a hard time pronouncing it.

Its true. All of it

oooo mai gaaaa

Yep, it's less a matter of "not being able to produce the sound" and more the fact that they struggle to create the sound consistenly more than one time, since they never had to use it integrated in language. A Chinese friend had a rough time with the spanish "R" but if you asked him to imite a chainsaw he managed to do it.

prophetic??? why??? Japan had been a militarized society for centuries by then, and honor suicide was a long traditional practice. idk why people keep?saying somehow this factual description was "prophetic" since there's nothing to predict here. maybe you just don't know Japan at all

@@larshofler8298 wtf dude chill out. So mad lol

@@larshofler8298 And maybe I've been studying Japan for 50 years. I use the term "prophetic" in the sense of describing something and making a true inference. His words were prophetic.

@@476429 prophetic means you reveal something that would come in the FURURE, not something that needs no revelation because it's been a tradition for 1000 years. You may know your Japanese but your English is terrible

@@amicableenmity9820 just mad at how ignorant people can be, and they act like they know something

Lol

Makudonarudo

LMAO

Wrongomacdonaldo

@@mirzaahmed6589 All the skuruguru's love to eat there :D

"That time I reincarnated as a clown"

Disproven as they surrendered instead of facing anihillation.

@@MrScigeek101 they prove that on the battlefield

@@MrScigeek101 Hirohito the war criminal wanted to save his own skin. If he had been a fanatic they would have gone down fighting and tens of millions more Japanese would have been killed and millions of Allied soldiers.

@@paulstone3590 well, maybe… however the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings would actually prove that (hypothetically speaking) there would’ve been exponentially more casualties on the Japanese side had they not surrendered after the bombings…

@@marisolamaya159 Yes. There had been more Japanese civilians and military killed in Okinawa and during the island hopping campaign. But the US had used up both of it's atom bombs. And what people don't realize is that the B2 bomber air raids killed a lot more Japanese than the atomic weapons. One raid in Tokyo killed 100k Japanese civilians. But if an invasion had taken place estimates were one million US soldiers would die. And that is something the US public could not stomach.

1800s Japan is always overlooked 🤷🏿‍♂️

You didn't even watch the video

@@GrigRP She most likely did

@@FlamingBasketballClub She clearly didn't. Makes generic comments like this everywhere to get more subscribers. Embarrassing.

@@GrigRP You do realize this channel is known for narration right? Just because she's interested in the story that was provided in this video doesn't mean she didn't watch it.

Hmm for many reasons yes but vs truth channels since its so important right now not exactly for me anyways.

@@frequencyoftruth2303 So how exactly is actual first hand narrated accounts of Japanese-Western contact not truth?

Mark Felton channel is on that list.

@@frequencyoftruth2303 tRuTh

ainu came from the north and are a mixed people themselves

They don't have _'Indians'_ in Japan, hero.

@@quidam_surprise They look like Native Americans plus they’re the original natives of Japan.

now that you mention it... yeah , probably 😂

🤣

Albeit the man was half white & a Christian, back then, Native men were kind of expected to stand strong, disregard discomfort & deal with the consequences of their actions. I kind of think, by his plan & that he refused allowing anyone else to come with him, that he kind of expected that he would die trying to do this, but hoped he would be pleasantly surprised.

Oh! They knew about other Christians, but it was specifically Catholics that got their goat...