True, although a more recent poll showed that Indians have the biggest disconnect between how "great" they think their country is versus the reality.

hemmper well it makes sense .. their symbol is the rooster, the only animal that stands proud even when standing in shit .. at least that’s what one of my (French) teachers used to say

@@Iramico - LOL! (My French teacher had a rather large ... bosom. Her nickname: Madame Beaucoup de Balcon)

They're now in a month-and-a-half long strike because they want to be able to retire at 52... even after already having some of the best workers rights / conditions in the world

@@SuperSMT 62. It's 62.

I had to do a school project years ago on Burundi so it holds a place in my heart.

Jacob Hogan my relationship with Malawi be like: “a fellow soldier”

@@stephen9381 I have a Malawi shaped hole in my Malawi shaped heart... Iove Malawi for some odd reason

It's nice to see that other people love countries for not much of a reason. I like East Timor like that.

I like Hungary because it's one of my ancestry countries

Bruh

Is it just me, or will that be the first country to have ville in its name?

Bougainville

@@jeremyaugustine2838 Not sure it will be named after the island though

LMAOOOOOOO

meta jay 404 r/commedycemetery

*History of the entire world I guess*

Maybe he discovered it when looking for another way to India...

*i guess we’ll have to find a new wat to india*

r/unexpectedbillwurtz

With The countries of Venezuela Colombia Ecuador and Panama, thats why all except for Panama have similar flags nowdays

Brazil: Yes I know they are talking about the whole continent not just one country

Basically José de San Martin say that he shouldn't be a big douche, so that's why there's a statue of him in New York. Basically Argentina kinda do that but give the chance to each part of the colonies to be their thing or join, instead Bolívar wanted a big giant thing and be on charge.

Think at the national team of football 🤤 (MSN)

Well, there was Gran Colombia. There was also the Federal Republic of Central America.

ok

@@raxu3660 no u

He has another channel which is much bigger

I’m not talking about he’s first channel

@@HOVANA namely THIS channel is underrated, not first

Hahahhaa truee

Lincoln didn't want ro be the guy who oversaw the war either which is why he took almost 2 years to propose ending slavery in the territories STILL REBELLING, it wasn't until the end of his term that he began moving for full abolition, ie once the war had been well won.

@@jeremiahblake3949 Well, lets not forgett Lincoln didn't even finish the civil war because he, uh, got shot in the back of the head. But furthermore, while it is said it was over 'states rights' even that is a blantent half truth: The civil war did not start because the north tried to fight slavery or anything. Rather, is was due to the fact that the south was attempting to expand slavery and, and the north, realizing this would put them at a political disadvantage, said no. After that, the south literally started taking forts before open war had even been declared. It is VERY safe to say the south fired the first shots in the civil war in nearly all accounts.

@@BeyondtheBlade of course the South started the war. And it was about the states right to safeguard slavery which they thought the North would end once free states were the majority. My point is that it was likely an overreaction since even the abolitionist president didn't immediately end slavery when the war started

@@jeremiahblake3949 I mean we don't have slavery in the US anymore so it probably wasn't an overreaction. Not condoning their actions, just disagree that they overreacted to political/social events. I mean, they were kinda right in their fear that the US government would end slavery cause it did.

shhhh the more british people consider ulster irish the quicker we end up uniting.....

Toycat hates northern Ireland confirmed 😔

Don't you get the British? They hate Ireland because they know they can't take control of it.

They are voluntarily part of the EU suburbs, the EEA, meaning the have to comply just as a normal EU member, but don't have the veto on regulations that normal members have. It is membership without the sovereignty that comes with real membership, sort of being colonized by choice. There is a lot of unease about that with Swiss citizens who actually understand full membership compared to EEA brings more sovereignty.

It really shouldn't say: 'Even France' it should day: 'ESPECIALLY FRANCE'

@@beu9245 But to be fair getting recognized by one of the Security Council countries is a BIG DEAL

True

50.6 to 49.4 or something like that

If Canada didn’t do shady things like spending much more money than allowed Quebec would be Independent today…I’m sad

Yeah but at least we all know how to speak formal arabic

@@Thedimensionalwarrior ofc

As a saudi, can confirm 🤣

Toycat is always yes

Toycat is no cuz he is a bad kommiekat

@@badryaalamri3627 You are no

@@badryaalamri3627 really!!!

Me too

Also if Lincoln didn’t make the war about saving slaves some time in the war, the European powers would’ve joined the CSA in the war.

Also if the confederates had better manpower and more supplies. They would have probably taken Washington. They got very close during the battle of Gettysburg.

It could honestly be argued that the South lost as soon as they lost New Orleans in 1862, or at least lost in the west with that.

Basically if the winner didn't do the things they did to make them win, they would have lost? Imagine my shock!

The North had a much bigger population and was industrialized it was pretty much always going to win. The North really fucked up a lot of the early civil war with bad leadership. The Only way the south wins is with intervention form another country.

New Zealand should join Austria instead, that'll show them

@@chienbanane3168 Then finally unite the Kingdom of Australia-Hungary

@@Random_UserName4269 that made my day 🤣🤣🤣

lol

In a picture of eight people, surely it is undeniable that there are (at least) seven people in the photograph. Besides, one of them could be an alien.

@@graeme011 Well if there's a possibility that two of them are aliens then it's not quite undeniable that there's at least seven people.

Those are giants and the people are to small to be seen

I'm kinda uncomfortable with his strong knowledge of the u.s by 4 mins in

Long live the cali republic

yeah exactly, no one actually took the California independence thing seriously, California is a huge part of American identity no matter how different it might be from the other 49 states

Also, with the US constitution in the mix and revoking citizenship to those who vote no would never fly with the US.

It’s on their state flag and everything. They were really going for for a while. Now everyone just brings it up every few years.

The UN will most likely intervene if they try to stop it, like they did with East Timor.

They have formally agreed to honour the result. If they don’t the UN would step in.

@@harsimaja9517 the UN are a joke. What would they do

@@eyesup4156 not related, but the UN wasn't made to stop all wars, it was to keep peace, not peace enforce

@@ancsuther Yes I know. That's precisely why it is a joke

This. I'm still salty

Portgas D. MinHee that’s a bruh moment if I ever see one

Israel: *Sigh* Here we go again...

It's actually very sad because a lot of Arab countries are now supporting Israel, so the hope of the Arab countries uniting to eliminate the neo-settler colonial state of Israel is gone.

Yes. It's way more real than California independent 😂 Mas que barbaridade, tchê

To be fair, Riograndense Republic got to be de facto independent from Brazil for some time, it was just unrecognized

Malcolm X had nothing to do with Africa and Gaddafi wanted to be king of Africa.

@@edgelord8337 Malcolm had everything to do with Africa, and Gaddafi was a Ba'athist, we are Socialist Republicans

The same reason why Europe can’t be one country

rct3LP Europe can’t unite because of ideology Africa however is different with Culture being the reason Edit: what i meant by different is the difference of reason why they cant unite

KirbyFan3210 - and also thousands of different languages

Just speak fusha lol

There are no real secessionist movements at least in the actual states. Texas and California are memes and the Native Hawaiians who actually want sovereignty make up like 10% of the Islands population even if they all agreed.

Quebec is possible but another canadian provinces? how?

@@naa5972 - Alberta & Sas aren't too happy these days; Trudeau's party doesn't have a single MP from either one.

i live in Spain and all the media outside Catalonia report that it is most definitely not likely to become independent in the short or medium term. The politicians who attempted a breakaway were convicted in abstentia. The rest of Spain will not allow the region to separate.

@@lycian123 Why aren't they allowing catalonia to secede???? Isn't that just colonialism at this point

SilvanaDil I would put 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 high.

Molossia?

In 10-20 years, the median age in Europe will almost equal the retirement age (unless you count Middle Eastern and African migrants).

@Stacey Raven no we're not stupid, we need sovereignty over our lands, cos fuck a Euro empire

@@maherhamadouch2005 To be honest, your nation will have no sovereignty as a small, puny state. The only way to save your people is to unite with others. Take it from an American: a federal Europe will be a superpower.

@@KenrickBrown75 right. No sovereignty when it is it's own state? You don't know what the word means.

@@KenrickBrown75 I won't take lessons from any American: 1 you began life as a colony, then began colonising other lands 2 the US is too diverse to stay as 1 nation

damn our founder was grandson couldn’t win a rebelling

By your own words, that doesn’t make him related to George Washington. Only his wife would be related to George Washington (assuming he was the father of the line of children that Robert E. Lee’s wife supposedly descends from). There is a stark difference between having a distant family member and being related by blood.

Yorkshire party for the boys

YeeeeeAaaaaaah

Anybody from Yorkshire who might be able to help me on this - why is "Yorkshire" such a strong identity marker? I find this particularly strange as the counties of North Yorkshire (rural, middle-class) and South Yorkshire (post-industrial places that haven't recovered from Thatcher) are very different from each other.

​@@alexpotts6520I think it's just because it's historic.

Berkeley, California would be an independent country too FYI

California would annex Baja California if it could. Mexicans would hate that.

@@paulhartson1 yeah ever heard of the border war?

I'm not arrogant :(

La france iz ze land of ze hairy baguette and the UK is land of the stuck-up tea drinkers

Maybe you should learn how to spell ‘British’ before you affirm that entire nations arrogant.

@@Aarontlondon they're talking about people from Brittainy, what the fock you mean.

Velkayne of Lorvaesch Nojaeiro People from Brittany aren’t called ‘British’ or ‘Brittish’ you fucktard. Get your facts straight before getting involved in shit you don’t know

*PRUSSIAN GLORY* *I N T E N S I F I E S*

Well that existed, it was the Kalmar Union

*Vatican city left the chat

I am from the south of England and i do think the north and the Midlands sucks but England is stronger United both halves need eachother im sorry your area sucks like a 3rd world Welsh town

@@niensaddestofthesad8151 England, in my opinion, is stronger when the entire country is looked after, as oppose to just London, Kent and Essex being looked after, because the politicians live there. Not that I can hold them entirely responsible, I'm sure they see the problems further South more because they're based their, as I'm sure I do in the North, but if the North and South both raise their own money and attend to their own problems, I feel it works out better and fairer for all parties really

​@@lewisblackwiththenicehair Places are better when the people look after themselves and don't look to politicians. The North didn't move out of raw materials because London softened the blow, it needs businesses to take advantage of the lower wages and for government not to get in the way.

@@jwadaow I believe they're looking to put a 0.5% increase on large corporations while reducing it for small and medium businesses

Shia verse Sunni

Soma Hanikeri the continental plate of Australia also includes India. But I don't think that stops us being a continent in our own right. There's a lot of sea bed between us and them!

@@tealkerberus748 Actually India is on its own plate. The Australian plate only includes Australia, New Guinea, the north island and part of the South Island of New Zealand, and the smaller islands in between those landmasses. You are right that tectonic plates don't define continents, though; Europe and Asia are considered different continents, but they mostly share a plate, and India and Arabia are each on their own plates, but are considered part of Asia.