Actually, pretty much none of the "Indian" tribes were the original settlers. Our "Indians" displaced a first wave or indigenous peoples thousands of years ago. We know this because of modern genetic science which can trace which part of the world genes came from and thereby trace human movements.
Do I not count as 'indigenous' because my first ancestors arrived here in 1631? This works both ways. Fact is very few tribes or genetic groups alive today were truly the first to be anywhere. So what?
@@17losttrout agreed... did the person who showed them the video leave the room? didn't they look at it beforehand to be prepared? very weird occurence.
@@silkwesir1444 its always respectful to watch the ad since that's how they make money from that content and not showing it is pretty rude if you're just using their videos for react channels especially.
@@Jappanb I understand where you are coming from, but I think your view is rather one-sided. The creator of a video, as well as the creator of a react channel, should also have respect for their viewers. (and in this case, the participants in the video as well). Ads are always rude.
I love how personally they take it - applauding when good things happen to the U.S. and moaning at the Great Depression - "why did it have to happen!?"
I've known extremely intelligent people who were illiterate. They were just too poor and had a too hard life to be able to go to school, but this doesn't mean that they couldn't be intelligent. Conversely, I've also known people with Ph.D.'s who were completely dumb for anything outside a very narrow field. But when you get a combination of intelligence and study, people shine. That's why it's so important to foster education everywhere for everyone. We can't afford to waste those great brains.
They may have landed on the continent of North America, but they don't seemed to have transmitted that knowledge, which is a very important aspect of discovery. What good is a discovery if nobody knows about it?
@@THEREALSOURCE it's call white washing history to make the European not feel so guilty of how they destroyed a beautiful land and f@#$d over it's native people
@@adityathakur6435 : Which is why there are no Native Americans alive today and no trace of their culture remains. You make me sick with your misuse of words.
Thank you Babu for understanding "nothing becomes great easily". The words of our great President John Fitzgerald Kennedy "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, *not because they are easy, but because they are hard* , because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
That ad took up much of the gentlemen’s time after saying how eager they were to learn something new. They don’t need to be taught how to play a game. I’m extremely disappointed you didn’t edit that out. Hope this isn’t a harbinger of things to come. If so, you would have destroyed one of the best platforms on RU-vid.
They can't edit it out due to copyright purposes, if you wanna blame someone, blame youtube's monetization policies before making an ignorant statement.
@@TheRealTorG What I'm gathering is that you parroted the Common Man Show reply to a comment a bit further down, and despite it not being based on anything, you then proceeded to call someone else ignorant for not knowing about a part of the law they made up?
The holocaust against the American natives is kinda left out of this video. It is estimated that between 40 and 50 million people lived in this Western hemisphere before 1490; that is, before European settlement began. By 1900, the Indigenous population had reached its lowest point of about 237,000 people.
In truth, a lot has been left out. Also, while settlers were completely intolerant and discriminatory toward the indigenous population, it is historically inaccurate and frankly disrespectful to compare it to the Holocaust. The Holocaust was 100% systemically institutionalized injustice. There are much smaller examples of the US doing similar things (the Trail of Tears, for one), but the reason behind the native decline in population was primarily due to disease. Why do you think they bothered shipping Africans across a massive ocean for slavery when there were millions of natives who could provide the same labor? Because they couldn’t. Africans, Asians and Europeans had been in contact for centuries and millennia, so Africans had built up immunity to common European diseases. The indigenous population had none of this. The Europeans tried to bring Natives back to Europe to show them to Europeans, but they almost always all died on the journey. A European could have a face to face conversation with a native, carry on with life, and find out they died of some illness in a few days. This isn’t a problem for the current descendants of the indigenous anymore for the same reason it wasn’t for Africans, but it’s the primary reason for that decline in population.
@@alahiri2002 Way to go. Changing the topic for your joy of whataboutism. The etymology of a term is not its meaning. The word refers to any destruction or slaughter on a mass scale. There was no historical comparison in mind. Also: that genocide was, of course, purposefully. The Europeans wanted the land and power. So they killed and chased and raped and burned and starved the indigenous people to death. From tens of millions to less than 300 thousand. Collective intend to wipe out a people does not require a political direction to be collective intend to wipe out a people. Cultural direction works just fine.
@@krakendragonslayer1909 wow you lol ancient greece, roman empire, kiev rus empire, polish lithuanian commonwealth, the crusades, the napoleonic wars, the 100 years war between france and england, the holy roman empire, the first world war, the vikings expansion, the spanish and portuguese sea conquest, the black plague do i need to go on?
This history reminds you of yours because these lands were also colonized by the British. Native Americans already had an established civilization here. And funny enough (not really funny) called "Indians"as well.
@@cleoc136 Correction, almost none of it was. Native tribes were small and settlements were also rather small, they were still in the stone age when colonists came across them, it wasn't even a civilization. They had a rudimentary culture, but people really overestimate how advanced and robust Native society was. I'm not saying their treatment was always above board, but most of what happened was genuinely just shitty circumstances and unintentional spreading of disease to a people who had very little understanding even of their own history.
Seeing these fine gentlemen always brightens up my day, and seeing their genuine thoughts on my home country really moved me. As an artist, i always love seeing Babu and Sarru, especially when they react to music and other kinds of art. I know it would be a huge undertaking, but could you please show them the Prince of Egypt animated film by DreamWorks? I'd love to see and hear their thoughts on the art of animation, and telling a religious story with art in a very human way. And I'd love to see what they think of the music in the film
If they are interested in more US history, the American Revolution Oversimplified, and Civil War Oversimplified are both very educational and entertaining.
@@sanSDI I'd really like to recommend them history of entire world as well, but it will be just way too much information for them, they'll miss like 80-90%
I feel like whatever term the translator used for used for "The Great Depression" must carry A LOT of weight in their language, based on the reaction. 10:39
I don't really like the original video used for this, I think it was a little too vague and confusing plus had that obnoxious ad. I do always enjoy the guys though, they are so great and positive attitudes.
the you are Americanizing too much, there is not only USA or things made in USA, many of the nations in the world have much more to show from a nation formed quite recently and with very little history to show
Good grief that was a long ad. When I see an ad that long embedded within the video, that channel will never get me to click their 'subscribe' button. Crazy.
Come for the USA history...but first, Villagers React to a Raid Shadow Legends ad. -I am glad that Babu recognized parallels between the US fight for independence and the Indian fight for independence. In the family of countries, India and America are step-brothers, and Britain is our father (though adopted in India's case). -Yes the USA has been involved in many wars in our short history. This is mostly due to our geographic isolation. Only Canada and Mexico share a land border with the USA and neither country has the interest, or the ability, to maintain and invasion of the United States. As a consequence, America typically fights wars in other places and so our home does not suffer much damage as a result of war. This is one key reason why Americans tend to be less averse to entering a war because we know that it is unlikely to cause damage at home. That being said he are tired after Iraq and Afghanistan so unless someone attacks a NATO country or China invades Taiwan, we are not interested in entering a war at the moment. -The United States of America is a relatively young country, I can see why Babu would be surprised by that.
I think that honestly, America has been involved in relatively few conflicts (depending on how you define it anyway, is giving one guy a gun in Africa the same as sending troops?) compared to Old World countries within a similar timeframe. I think we forget just how common wars were. Historically speaking, peace was more of an abnormality than war was. However, with America, several conflicts are much more modern and people tend to be much more focused upon that, and more critical.
Oh god, I'm glad I"m not the only one who thought of that--but yeah, the humor, slang, witty turns of phrase and _why_ they're witty in English, etc. would be...interesting to translate.
I love this little reality show especially when this happy little group has fun with what we think are minor pleasures. These people move me and make me realize how spoiled we are. However, be careful not to fall into the excess of videos that represent the USA as the only point of reference for reality (history, culture, cuisine, etc.). This anchors in the minds of learners that there are only 2 realities: the USA and the rest of the world.
You're not wrong about the US centric videos, but I assume this is their largest viewership. Considering India's history, I'd love to see more on Great Britain myself.
To be fair, it kind of is like that right now. You have America and then whatever the rest of the world is up to. America is just that powerful. That will naturally change over time, but it would be sort of like expecting people to stop focusing so much on Rome during its peak. Sure, other stuff was going on, too, even other empires, but that was the happening place, at its zenith. As it dies down, focus shifts elsewhere too. But until then, America is the most culturally important place in the (first) world.
The video they are watching is not very good. It has graphics at times where the voiceover is talking about something else. Not to mention the Raid ad.
This is a very American-centric version of history. It wasn’t like Indian history at all because the people living in the colonies weren’t native either and were part of the invasion and oppression of the Native Americans. The tax imposed was minuscule, and the revolt was more of an excuse to break away and start profiting from the vast amounts of land that were “available” - as the British had passed a law that any land acquisition had to be properly negotiated with the native tribes. The colonists didn’t like this. Independence from the British Empire simply meant they could do as they pleased and ride roughshod over the Native Americans. Also, the US then hypocritically went on to do exactly as the British, French, and Spanish had done to the natives and stole part of Mexico to expand their own “empire”; therefore, trying to defend the War of Independence as a point of principle definitely does not stand up.
It was principle though, The colonists were Englishmen who wanted to be taxed in accordance to English legal traditions.The idea of being able to expand westward may have helped persuade some to join the revolution, however, the revolution its self was brought upon the ideas of the rights of the governed vs the rights of the governing. Whatever expansion that happened after is largely irrelevant to the actual cause of the revolution. Also, the early American empire is not hypocritical to principle because the revolution was about English men breaking away from the English state and forming a new state, that is, state was no longer in the best interest of its citizens. The whole world was still constantly waging wars of conquests against each other and taking land by force was not yet seen as some form of shameful act yet and so the Americans were just as ready to fight to expand as they were to fight to defend against other would be expansionists. The natives they subjugated were not US citizens, just as the Spaniards subjugated by the French were not citizens to France.
Always love there guys' reactions. So wise. Sad this video barely mentions Native Americans, for they were there first, if I'm not wrong, and for they were first called "Indians" because C. Columbus thought he'd reached India in the first place.
Simply put, Native American history is mostly dead. It was never well researched and Natives tended to refuse to share their history outside their tribes. What they would share wasn't historical, it was allegorical and spiritual. You wouldn't get anything like, "Our tribe was formed 500 years ago at such and such place, for these reasons." It would be more along the lines of some spirit creature created them an eternity ago at the same time it created the world. Unhelpful for actually knowing what happened. So in short: History was never something Native Americans considered to, honestly, keep track of, and so it died with each generation. If you take the history away, you basically only have what the video covered: How you think they got there and when, the culture groups, the fact that they were often in conflict with settlers, the wars, and maybe the fact that they all either integrated with the settlers, moved to their reservations, or died off. Mostly that latter one. There just isn't much to say that can also be reasonably fit into a video that's skin-deep. The video doesn't explain the culture of the Americans, Spanish, British, French, or other settlers, for instance, so it isn't just that the video is being biased, it skimped on everyone.
@@JDTHEONEANDONLYORIGINAL No he thought it was India because he was trying to sail to India. He didn't think it was India just because he met brown people. It was the other way around. He decided he had found India because he was looking for India, so when he found natives, he decided they must be Indians (because this must be India). Do yourself a favor and quit racializing history, that's a very modern mindset.
It's funny how Babu compares it to India. Well I suppose they are taught that Britain is the enemy and the US is great. But that's very much the populist history of the US and not the academic history. The 'revolution' split colonists, it wasn't simply US v UK. And the colonists wanted to take more Indian land (which they did in the 19th century) and it was actually Britain that carried out actions v slavery first with the movement starting by the end of the 18th century. In the US some still lived a slave life into the 20th century. And anti-discrimination laws were only passed in the 60s. All of these things relate more to US history than to people who never left Britain. The free land was a major draw for people and meant more people had freedom (but at the expense of Indians) and led to depopulation in areas of Europe.
Yep exactly. The Americans learn such a narrow version of events. With some of the comments here, anyone would think THEY were the natives fighting for THEIR land 😂 😂 😂 After winning their independence, they were able to acquire the land from the native Americans without fair negotiation (as per the law passed by the British) and THEN steal more off the native Mexicans. It’s hilarious that they all agree with Babu’s paralleling it to Indian history. With all due respect to Babu, he doesn’t know anything about the context.
@@penname5766 It's the 250 years of the marketing of America globally. An earlier video on facts or stereotypes about countries had one for the US as representing freedom. That's a cliche that very largely comes from Americans describing the US, it's what they are taught. And of course part of that is transferring slavery and the taking of Indian land onto British people. No matter that these things actually defined American society, not British society. America didn't just start after the 'revolution', it started well before that. They had plenty of independence, had their own laws and representatives. They didn't like paying taxes, well I suppose nobody does, but they really had quite a cushy life in the colonies, people in Britain were taxed far more. And after the war they got way higher taxes from their new government.
Would be nice if they had mentioned that Columbus didn't even know that he had discovered something new but thought he was really in India, and that native Americans were therefore called "Indians" until fairly recently.
We might be a young country compared to a lot of others, but we got fight in us lol like Lin Manuel Miranda said "I'm just like my country, young, scrappy, and hungry."
@@SweetBrazyN They aren’t winning and most certainly won’t win (probably), but they sure as shit are doing better than anyone expected. I assumed the invasion would take like a week or 2. Were over a month in now, and the Russians haven’t taken Kyiv yet.
To watch them react to the history of my homeland is really special. It was very great when he said it reminded him of his own country story of independence as I've always seen all countries from former British colonies as brothers. Great vid. I would love to see them react to the history of India and the region.
But the people who founded the United States WERE the British colonisers, so this is nonsense. And to compare yourselves to oppressed people when you WERE the oppressors, and responsible for the genocide of the natives is disingenuous. It’s not a judgement, but to think this parallels the experiences of other indigenous peoples who were colonised by the British - or French, or Dutch, or Spanish, or Portuguese etc (as if Britain was the only one) is delusional.
@@starrynight1657 wtf are you talking about? Nothing said was false. The info could have covered more topics in depth, but that doesn't mean the info is false. You know you can feel free to start your own comment and don't need to piggyback to spread your foolishness
@@MaYkO-WWH It was nothing like India it was more a civil war in which American society was split. I suppose not all Indians hated Britain either, many fought in WW2 for the Allies, nationalism would ignore that too. However it was a peaceful transition in which they got democratic institutions. America already had plenty of independence, some just wanted a complete split. Populist retelling of history should be confronted because in the US at least there are actually objective academic historians. And I did start another thread actually.
@@starrynight1657 everything you just said had nothing to do with your original post. You said the information was false in your original post. I think this is a situation where you are incapable of seeing this from outside of your own head and understanding why your initial comment was unnecessary, and your follow-up comment was unrelated to what I'm talking about and what you brought up in the first comment. I'm not saying anything that you said isn't true, but it doesn't make the video false either.
Raju...maybe if I had studied more I'd have learned more...says a big percent of American students, too! :) I wish the "history" had also included things that America gave the world besides war. Mass production of automobiles, genres of music, movies, etc. This simply is like a look at America's wars. I guess that would have taken more than 10 minutes, though.
No - they only mention Mexico because the US took part of it. If it was about the North American continent, it would’ve mentioned Canada, Alaska, Greenland etc
