As a person from Latin America who could ever think our culture is not Western? We all speak Romance languages from Europe, have always been influenced by European ideas about the world and how things should work, we haven't had much connection to any Eastern culture at least not in any major way.

I found the Hair colour map very intresting.

3:38 Omg!! Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova in Asia?

3:30 continents: I understand Russia is straddling Europe and Asia, and it's tempting to include it in Asia, but why do you also " Asianize" the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova?

8:10 i love how Hitler has completely dried up the Medditeranean sea. Also why is Canada unoccupied?

i am shocked you used a map that classifies Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic countries as asian (at 3:33)

At 2:33 when you divide the world into "West" and "East", what you really mean are the cultural areas divided between western Europe, including areas settled by Western Europeans outside of Europe, and the rest of the world, which is not necessarily the "East" (all that is not "West" is not necessarily "East"). Which raises the question, what is the cultural West? As answer, we can refer to a shared historical experience: In Europe, they are essentially the areas that were part of the Western Roman Empire, including a zone of influence beyond the borders of the Empire, that then collapsed and was overrun by Germanic tribes, then experienced 1000 years of feudalism and Catholicism. So by this definition Western Europe includes Iberia, Italy, France, the Low Countries, England and Wales, and the western and southern parts of Germany. Because of the expansion of the Carolingian Empire and Catholicisms into Eastern and Western Europe, we can include the rest of Germany, including the parts that are now the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, as well Scotland and Ireland, the last two who were integrated into the West first by Christianity, then by the Normans. Scandinavia and what are now the the Baltic Republics were integrated into the West during the middle ages by conversion to Catholicism, instoration of feudalism and trade with the West and the spread of Western Law (including immigration of Western, mainly German, traders) through the Hanseatic League. The main political characteristic of Western Europe was a very decentralized political system as opposed to "Eastern" civilizations that tended to have emperors and central bureaucracies. Western Kings would often have to negotiate with their barons, who would meet in parliament to contest the King's power. In the West, tradesmen, artisans and local aristocrats were relatively independent, as were cities. They were typically governed by independent guilds and corporations. There was also a separation between secular and religious power, as the Catholic church always defended its autonomy from the King. This meant that education and social services, provided by the church, were relatively free from royal control. After the invention of the printing press, double-entry accounting and the adoption of Arab numerals, Western Europe experienced the Renaissance, fought wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants, experienced the Enlightenment, developed sophisticated navigation and shipping technology that allowed Western Europeans to sail around the planet by the 1500s, experienced a scientific and revolution in the 1600s and 1700s with a rapid advancement of weaponry, especially of guns and canons that gave them military superiority, then experienced a revolution in Liberal political thought in the 1700s, then experienced an industrial revolution in the 1800s. By the late 19th and early 20th Century Western Europeans (including settler nations outside of Europe) ruled the world. By 1940 only Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, the Soviet Union, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia were not ruled by Western Europeans or settler nations of Western European origin. in 1920, 20% percent of the World's population were descended from Western Europeans (it's less than half that today). I include those Latin American countries, that although the majority of their populations are not of European origin, were generally governed by Spanish-descended aristocracies. By the 1920s, all the richest nations with the most advanced technologies were Western European or Western European Settler nations, except for Japan and maybe the Soviet Union. So by that definition, the "West" would include Western Europe, with the boundary between east and west matching the religious boundary between Orthodox Christianity on one hand and Catholic and Protestant Europe on the other had (or the political border between Germany and Austro-Hungary on one hand and Russia and the Balkans on the other hand), and would include all the settler nations of the Americas and Oceania that are at least culturally dominated by people of Western European origin. And I would not call the rest of the world the "East". I would call them the rest of the world, or the non-Western world, because they include very disparate cultural groupings.

Some of these maps are problematic because they are not based on data but assumption or extrapolation. For example the average Irish person has lighter hair and skin that the average English person but these maps say the opposite.

Some of those maps could do with gradients or half-shaded regions. Like where does Europe/Asia split and especially the east/west divide, which arguably has shifted in meaning also.

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The one of the "7" continents and "5" climates were kind of disappointing. 7 continents is what's taught in some countries but the number varies in others because it's really up for debate where one starts and one ends. Jay Foreman did a good video on it. Also there are much more interesting climate maps that have a few more categories, those two maps kinda felt like throw aways

Maybe a map showing what countries have an economic surplus each year and those that just live off increasing debt?

Mrs Philips is legit and her method works like magic I keep on earning every single week with her new strategy

Just found this channel. Fun!

I’m surprised the % of Blondes map did not highlight the Nuristan province of Afghanistan. My family comes from there and this province is known for having mostly blonde people, or a significant amount ranging anywhere between 35-60%.

Earth is 3rd planet in solar system Thus every country on earth is a 3rd world country

Love this ❤

such high quality geography content, keep it up

About the east/west one. There is no way that map isn't old. Because poland and other central/eastern european countries are most certainly western now, along with japan and south korea.

love the videos, keep them coming!!

This title is so similar to ibx2cat's videos "12 different ways to divide the world in half" and " These 13 Maps divide our world" lol. Totally different video styles but made me do a double take when I got this notification

The Earth's ROTATION on its axis is close to 1,000 mph. Its REVOLUTION around the sun is about 66,700 mph.

Hitler seriously????😂😂

I would put the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile - but not the rest of Latin America necessarily - on the same pedestal as South Africa, in being just sometimes considered part of the Western world in a socioeconomic or geopolitical sense. Like South Africa, the Southern Cone countries straddle the divide between the Global North and the Global South.

The earth travels round the sun at approximately 67,000 mph. It rotates at approximately 1,000 mph (at the equator, 0 mph at the poles).

As for your what if hittler won the war map, i know why Canada is shown as still independent and i know why its coloured in this light blue as well. First the colour is the colour of Québec, the rebellious province of Canada. (French Canada) at the time Québec was led by Duplesis and he was pro-Nazi. Most french Canadians did not want to join the war either. Thats the facts i know. Now the next part is my assumption: I think Hitler was planning to give the rest of Canada to Québec.

Use a globe , a flat map is wrong, more than right. Only accurate at the equator

2:25 Russia is also intersected by East-West hemispheres. The extream East of Russia is so far that it is in Western Hemisphere! 5:57 You could mention that an asian border of blond/non-blond from Black Sea to sea of Japan clearly determines the limits of ethic russian area.

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The equator passes through Arusha in Tanzania.

Nicely done. 👍

TIL the origin of first, second and third world as phrases. Hopefully we can phase em out next

Europe is not a continent

Where are the gingers?

2:07 what are color meaning?

Very old maps in use here.

In the "three worlds" map (at 4:16), shouldn't Cuba have been colored in red, as it was part of the Communist bloc (and thus, the Second World?) Similarly, several European countries were neutral and thus technically Third World, including Sweden and Switzerland, even though nobody ever thinks of those as "Third World" countries.

We find your maps ,that depict Greenland larger than the continent of Africa, to be illogical.

Russia also spans on both east and west hemispheres (the far east is located on the western hemisphere)

Tectonic plates get me so pressed

Эмм.. на западное и восточное полушарие планету делит не только 0 меридиан, но ещё и 180 вообще-то, так что список стран, которые находятся и в восточном, и в западном полушариях явно не полный.

How big is Greenland? If you want people to take this seriously, please show maps that are proportionately accurate. In some of the projections shown, it appears to be the same size as Africa when in reality it's about 7% of the size of Africa.

the Middle East is Western Asia just like how Eastern Asia is the Far East... just putting that out there

Iceland is not part of North America! 😅

1:14 why that map has a crack on kola peninsula?

How is Ireland not in considered a western country?? That seems very strange to me!

Excellent video as usual. One of my favourite channels

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In the U.S, most people just text from their phones text messages

Video starts with an inexplicably inverted Gaspe Peninsula.

7:15 I do not use WhatsApp I also do not use facebook messenger. I use iMessage text messaging, the most, by far. And for video chats I use Marco Polo.

Tibet has polar climate?

Fun fact: the earth moves around the sun closer to 60,000 rather 1000 mph.

The map of the 7 continents you showed is wrong because it includes all of Russia as Asian, when some of Russia is actually in Europe.

If Shanghai is not in China where is it?

is it just me or I have brown hair in a country that mainly has blonde hair?

Did Italy landfill the Mediterranean??

8:21 Mexico, Central America, Caribbean and Canada pretty well get left alone, by Hitler's map, I noticed.

What's app eats a lot of memory and is a bit complicated I gave up.

3:30 You know The Pirate Saying "Sail The Seven Seas"? What if "Seas" is actually "C"s, like an acronym for "Continents"? There are only 5 oceans after all, and many more "Seas" than just 7 of them. Also, if Australia gets to be a continent, all on its own, as well as Antarctica; why can't Greenland be one, too? It's The Largest Island on Earth, while Australia is a bit smaller, yet somehow Australia is called a continent, and Icy Antarctica is called one, not a mere island; so, why not Greenland? That would make 8 continents, but it would still make more sense, technically speaking (When it comes to definitions of a Continent).

In reality, ALL maps divide us. That's their main purpose, to justify the divisions.

Latin America is not "Western" because these countries are not fully alligned with the "USA and friends" block. Despite speaking Romance languages, being catholic and having all the Iberic culture well rooted into its social composition, Latin America is a region that still is not much involved in the world's alliances or blocks such as NATO. Therefore, the Anglo countries just ignore the region from their "Western" mentality, which tbh should be fine for the Latin American countries. Turns out that China is taking very good advantage from this situation in South America 👀

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0:03 - 0:11 🤦‍♂️ points awarded to anyone who can spot what's wrong

The hair colour map is a bit wrong !

3:30 I don't think I've ever seen a map with the baltic countries listed as asian..

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In Ethiopia, the most used messaging app is definitely Telegram.. not WhatsApp!!

0:13 "...1000 mph..." wrong. Earth orbits the Sun at an average speed of 67,000 mph, or 18.5 miles a second.

Not 1000 m/h, that's the orbital speed, it's more like 67000 m/h

I liked how you included Hungary in the Soviet block. Bella Kun would be very proud.

There are so many mistakes in your video, I won't bother correcting all of them. There is, however, one commonly accepted mistake which you have repeated. Europe and Asia are actually one continent. The ancient Greeks made up a pretend division, but it is actually Eurasia. Every textbook is wrong.

"Australia" is not a "Continent" it is an island, "Oceania" is the continent. Just as "Canada" is not a continent but "North America"

No, black Africans didn't wander into Europe 40,000 years ago. Caucasians were isolated for about 80,000 years during the last ice age until the sudden warming 13,000 years ago. No, olive skin isn't the product of race mixing. Olive skin, black hair, and brown eyes are the features of the people who first migrated out of the Caucasus way back then. Thousands of years later, the people who remained in the Caucasus evolved to have lighter skin, blond hair, and blue eyes. Even later, there was another migration out of the Caucasus of people with very pale skin, brown or red hair, and blue and green eyes. Nowdays, we call these three groups Mediterranean, Nordic, and Celtic and Slavic. There are other minor groups, and yes there has been some mixing of varieties in the last few decades. However, the differences among Europeans are most definitely NOT due to gradations of mixing with black Africans. Many Europeans with darker appearance have a complete absence of African genes. Dark-skinned people could not have survived in primitive conditions far from the Equator. They would have been afflicted with rickets and died at a high rate until extinct. What's far more likely is that modern black Africans originated in a lighter-skinned group in Eastern Europe or the Fertile Crescent some hundreds of thousands of years ago. Over a very long time, those in Africa became completely isolated and adapted to the stronger sun, as did American Indians. Please notice the average 103 IQ of Irish, of whom quite a few have Mediterranean features, compared to about 90 IQ average of mixed-race Southwest Asians who are partly mixed with African genes and express a mostly-Mediterranean appearance.

The East/West political divide map (at 2:32) looks more like a racial divide map: white countries/non-white countries. Why is Japan politically East? Why is S. Africa is sometimes West? It that because SA used to be ruled by the whites. Countries like Singapore and S. Korea are ahead of many Euro-nations like Spain and light-years ahead of Greece in terms of industrialization, technology and income. Yet, they are classified as the 3rd world in the development map (4:41). Why? In the pre-Columbian euro-centric world, there were 3 regions: Europe, Africa, and the rest of the world called ASIA, until Australia and the "new world" were "discovered". I have no doubt that Australia would be a part of ASIA if it were not settled by the whites. This video lacks accuracy & explanation.

As a lifelong (since around age-5) geography fanatic/nerd, I still find it hard to accept the definition of "Asia" which has some fairly ambiguous lines. The most obvious is Russia, which in some cases is considered to be entirely in Asia, but in other cases (what I was taught in school) only east of the Ural mountains is in Asia with the other part belonging to Europe. Also some maps show the Sinai peninsula of Egypt as being in Asia while others say it's Africa. Another trans-continental nation is Turkey, where west of the Bosphorus is Europe and the other side is Asia. And finally, when I and many others think of "Asia" it is mostly oriental in nature, so China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, etc. but not Saudi Arabia or Israel. So to set things right I propose there be another "continent" called something like "Arabastan" which includes the Middle East and all the countries who's name ends with "stan". Sound good? So let it be written, so let it be done. ;-)

Very surface-level, basic information with hardly any discussion or interesting information provided to illuminate any particular point.

Why the F. are Europe and Asia diffèrent continents !?

This has probably already been asked, but did Hitler not have a plan for Canada or did he just decide to let the country be?

2:41 That map is clearly wrong. "East" in this context is current or former communist nations and nations that at some point in time was aligned with the USSR. Northern Africa and the middle east shouldn't be red on this map. It's a lot more complicated then this.

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6:04 mistake here. Ecuatorial climate is very rainy while the tropical climate is the same as the dry one. Also it says tropical throughout the Ecuator which doesn't make sense

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Australia a country?😅

It doesn't make sense How is Australia in the western world And completely forgetting Countries in the western hemisphere

The hair color map is wrong because i am from south america and i am readhead from ecuador ? 😲

3:34 Except that there's more then one model for how many continents there are and what's a part of each. Apart from å famous one (North and South America as one or two continents), you also got things like Australia vs Oceania as one of the continents, Asia and Europe as one or two continents, and of course Africa could be considered a part of it too. Different countries teach a different number of continents. Some teach 7, some 5, some 6 etc.

Hair color of South Korea is black?😑 Plz show rainbow 🌈 in the map over korea. Hair Colors: blue, green, red, white, yellow, black, pink, orange, purple, grey 👍🏼

Argentina is west

Horrible...so many errors where to begin...Ireland is no longer Western? And Japan is full Eastern now, even though it lives in the West as a G7founder?nSouth Korea is third world now? Lordy...I realise some of these maps are pulled from other sources but they are just feckless garbage.

NGL these divisions are kind of stupid.

Wow i wonder why there so much blonde hair in germany

You really need to learn how to pronounce Oceania

I've always seen Europe as a peninsula. It's just an extension of Asia, this Eurasia. The concept of "European continent" just doesnt make sense to me.

Can you pronounce Oceania the way it's supposed to be pronounced? Oceana is such an annoying thing to hear.

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Oh well I’m a white ass African with light skin and hair 😐 🇲🇦

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This is one of the shallowest analyses I'm every seen.