Oklahoma should do the same.. 'and of course our Native American (Cherokee) Reservations'* . Always read the fine print.

@@chibiromano5631 LOL, no. Native reservations are not even close to gulags in any way. They're not penal labor colonies. They aren't forced to stay there. Most reservations are self-governing by the specific tribe, even the Bureau of Indian Affairs which has jurisdiction over them is majority native-american.

@Dylanrules22 At the same time, the reservations are the worst farm lands, and native Americans _were_ forcibly relocated there. With no economy to speak of (no wealthy investor to start a local factory, and lack of infrastructure and communications of course) these quickly became to poorest pars of the US. Gambling is lucrative, does not require any natural resources or fancy education to profit from. Sure, there are a lot of problems with gambling as well, but for many nations it was the only viable source of income. Money that can be used to build a school system, roads and railroad connection. To pay for imported food.

@@chibiromano5631 What was done to the Natives is far worse than gulags. It's safe and suffice to say the American penitentiary were gulags. They served the same purpose. Soviet prison filled with criminals and domestic reactionaries. American gulags filled with criminals, the poor and colored.

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New video: list of fun things legally considered to be genocide

@@ibx2cat I would watch that!

@@hereward3411 #2 genocidal crimes

@@ibx2cat #3: genocide

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I mean it was an oppressive society so… yay I would support as an American.

@@anonymityaddictsanonymous5978 Americans... 🙄

We will defend ourselves from terrorists, fictional and domestic.

@@militantman R/Woooosh

It was literally 150 people. I’m absolutely positive you could also find 150 Brits or Frenchmen who think Agrabah is a country too.

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wikipedia is like tvtropes light

Exactly

Bro it's not a Province. It's a District that is a collection of Provinces. Ugh. Why don't people get this. It's Head of State is called a Presidential Envoy.

Well, duh. Siberia is a specific geographic region, it's just the westerners got it wrong. Idk why Russians should adjust their correct view to someone's incorrect view.

Wikipedia is interestingly equivocal: they acknowledge a broad use of "Siberia" to encompass the Russian Far East, but identify both an official and a "historical" Siberia that do not include it.

they are not really split on what they want to do. statehood has won the last 3 elections... also a lot of colonies send their teams to the Olympics is nothing special.

We should make up lost tax revenue by taxing their Olympic team for not joining Team USA. :D

​@@TheSecondgreen Meh, statehood is the direction that things are headed but they are still quite split with statehood winning only 52.5% of the vote in 2020. In 1967, 69.5 % voted to maintain the Commonwealth status. In 1998, 50.5% voted to maintain Commonwealth status. The 2012 and 2017 referendums both had anomalies that made it difficult to fully understand the will of the people; in 2012 there was a two-part question, 54% voted to end the Commonwealth status but the vote on whether to pursue statehood or independence was muddied by the fact that almost all of the people who wanted to maintain the Commonwealth status did not vote on the second question. In 2017, statehood won with over 97% (not a typo) but only because the opponents of statehood boycotted the referendum. Finally, in 2020 they had a simple yes/no vote on statehood and statehood won but only with 52.5% in favor. Regardless, of course statehood is not entirely up to Puerto Rico. They would still have to also get Congress* to agree with them and in our hyper-polarized politics, that would be a tall order. (Edited to correct erroneous claim that "38 of the current states (75% of the current 50 states)" would need to approve statehood. Only an act of Congress is needed to admit a new state.)

@@TheSecondgreen The 2012 referendum actually got more votes for status quo, statehood only won because status quo wasn't included in the second ballot, noone voted in the 2017 referendum, and the 2020 referendum was a split result with almost half of voters voting against statehood

@@joeb4294 I wouldn't say "where things are headed" only because most younger puerto ricans are pro-independence and against statehood, but than again we have an aging population cus many people leave to the US as soon as they have children and than return as retirees.

Quebec! Unreal countries on earth are to be liberated after WWIII which would end Colonization. 🤔 For truths, pls read the insightful multi-pages 'Ole Fella' comment (on KZfaq) at.,"China-US tensions: A closer look at the Five-Eyes intelligence partnership / CGTN"

It’s similar situation in BC too, we kinda forget the rest of the country exists and Victoria is seen as THE capital.

@@jamescoulson7729 Yeah but to be fair. BC really is a bubble for other reasons. I've never been there though and would love to visit since my dad is originally from British Columbia. I heard Prince George is a nice place with all the mountains and stuff

I don't consider Quebec a country. Its just another province here.

@@KingAgniKai based

I think "GREXIT" rolls off the tongue better

@@jeremyhillaryboob4248 GREXIT was used in the € crisis when GREECE was unable to refinance its national debt and was tipped by many a pundit to be better off leaving the EU

Parts of Prussia and Austria were part of the HRE/German Confederation while others were not.

@@jimmyle2447 which is the good answer to my erstwhile question , pointing to the fact that *neither the HRE nor the EU are states in their own right but conglomerates serving another purpose*

I really don’t see your point

Yugoslavia lived until 2003 and croatia gained independance in 1991 so both country exsted at the same time

google maps was hard to find right? or just normal google? why look at videos when you can: 1- see on google maps that Montenegro, albania,croatia,bulgaria are independent and arent in a communist state? or 2 google if yugoslavia still exists and you'll be greeted with a welcoming no it dosent exist anymore or maybe couldve heard about the second balkan war that colapsed yugoslavia? i swear from what you said you play games all day and use a globe from when your mom was a teen to learn geografy and when asked about estonia you whouldve said "do you mean the ussr?"

@@SussyTalk 1:albania and bulgaria were never under yugoslavia so talking about them here is totally off topic 2:can tell me then last time you googled if Krasnoyarsk became an oblast or stayed a krai?

@@SussyTalk Yeah exactly right! :) In America we learned world history for two years and american history for the rest. Europe and the rest of the world in no way mattered to young me. I was into science not history, so any nerd tangents went in that direction. In high school I had a history essay that literally said "and then some things occurred and stuff happened" and got an A on it. I didn't sit there studying the globe, just played with it here and there over time and picked up the info on it. It wasn't until I met and started playing games with Europeans a few years back that I actually learned it, since it actually became relevant to me. People think Americans are too dumb to learn things, but, and I cannot stress this enough, we just don't care to a profound level. No American is going to waste their time learning about random 3rd world countries if it isn't in some way relevant. Europe just isn't as important to the rest of the world as they'd like to believe.

@@tritojean7549 interesting, TIL!

There are two Virgin Islands next to each other... I was going to make some joke, but it’s obvious enough

The local government calls the territorial status a "free associated state" its a constant theme of political debate.

There are also the Spanish Virgin Islands which are now a part of Puerto Rico, these being Vieques and Culebra

@@glauberglousger6643 3, Spanish Virgin Islands also

I've always wondered if the majority vote to unite with each other, I've never talked to anyone from those tiny island countries so I wouldn't know.

several thousands or tens of thousands is still a lot of people

There's a very small island between Greenland and Canada. Canada and Denmark have been arguing for a long time over which country actually owns it.

Yeah he was wrong about Aruba, Netherlands being a countey during one of them. Fucking irked me

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I’m also Puerto Rican, and I’m pretty mad to hear Puerto Rico is a territory..all my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and almost all of my cousins live there. I vacation there every summer break (yes, right now) and it’s a territory? Back then, I thought I was cool going to Puerto Rico, calling it a “Cool Country”. Though. I wasn’t born in Puerto Rico like my whole family was. I was born in Nebraska, and I am in North Carolina. The reason all my family lives there is because they have low taxes. Yes..my grandparents and uncles aunts so and so are poor. But they do save enough money to visit us in North Carolina. As much as I want it to be a country, if it did become a country…I don’t want to explain..just to top this off, Puerto Rico is a beautiful territory!

@@skysparkler PR natives call the island a country. And that is all that matters. It helps maintain the identity and the fact that we don’t recognize the US and it’s culture part of ourselves.

Just know Aruba is not an independent Country. Major mistake he made.

Same in Croatian: USA is *Sjedinjene* Američke Države but UAE and UK are *Ujedinjeni* Arapski Emirati and *Ujedinjeno* Kraljevstvo.

This naming reminded me of another inconsistancy. In Africa there's two countries which names are just Africa with a geographic indicator and therefore can be very ambiguous. The Central African Republic 🇨🇫 and South Africa 🇿🇦. In English, the CAR 🇨🇫 is always named with "Republic" at the name and with an acronym, but the RSA 🇿🇦 is always just named South Africa. In French, the RSA 🇿🇦 is also just named South Africa (Afrique du Sud), but Central Africa is called without the "Republic" but with a combined name so it's not ambiguous either (Centrafrique) 🇨🇫. And in Russian both use acronyms (ЦАР 🇨🇫, ЮАР 🇿🇦) - which in both cases include the word "Republic" without any other name, it's the only case when it's not ambiguous for both and also it's consistent.

I didn't know that about the UAE, but I did know that the United Nations are Объединённые.

@@pierreabbat6157 not exactly, it is ООН - Организация Объединённых наций, organization of united nations

Spain tries to go against any form of separatism in other counties because they want to keep their own nation together.

@@CyberchaoX I know, that's why i stopped there. 😉 Or better, it was technically never right.

Tf? Why do u care about mid america so much?

@@pjp7316 mid America 💀

Because Yanks are famously so good at naming countries outside of North America

@@Nathan-jt8zt Both aren’t good at geography so I wouldn’t have expected a US citizen to do it either.

@@Jorge-lh6px wdym theyre not good at geography? U make the most random and biggest generalizations ever. Geography is a huge ass field of study and ur here saying people from 2 continents are simply bad at it

And an awesome one at that! I find it interesting how many find him here first.

@@RavenFilms i did! just started playing minecraft a few days ago and realized i recognized the voice from somewhere

How the fuck are you not mentioning HOW *ARUBA, NETHERLANDS* IS ACTUALLY APART OF *THE NETHERLANDS?* Him saying it was independent was so annoying!

@@shonenjumpmagneto No, he's just questioning why the names of non-independent territories are highlighted in the same way as independent nations. He did the same with Curaçao as well. Hence why he then goes onto say that "Bonaire can't be an independent country," because it doesn't have that same, bold name as the others. After this he says that they're all part of the Netherlands. Edit: Also found it funny how you wrote *"apart* of the Netherlands," since apart implies that it is not a part of it

Yes, i live there and i was like wut.

@@shonenjumpmagneto we are semi independent. We, Curacao and the Netherlands make up the kingdom of the Netherlands

@@dezdeenz4482 semi-sovereign is the term you want. Yeh. *Aruba 🇦🇼* is a Constituate Country of *Netherlands 🇳🇱* the same way *Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿* is to *Britain* 🇬🇧. Constituate Countries seem to get the Nationality treatment like Territories do. (Except in Russia for some reason. They have 22 Constituate Countries AKA Republics. Where's a Chechnya Flag Emoji? Lol.)

agreed, im pr

This sort of ethnic-biased teaching based on a school's demographics shouldn't happen. Everyone should be learning the same things.

@@xviper2k This is an almost universal thing, most schools talk about puerto rico as a country because of how culturally distinct we are from the US. Unless your referring too those little cultural events schools do but I dont see the problem with that.

@@xviper2k My school was famous for teaching opinions over facts, but most of the time it was clear (to me at least) when it was opinion. Clearly not in this case though

​@@calebrivera8913 I'm referring to schools in general. I've heard of American schools whose curriculums differed wildly from everyone else's just because they wanted to cater to a particular minority. So instead of changing other schools' curriculums to spend a bit more time covering certain subjects, these schools will make those topics such a large priority that they won't even find the time to properly go over the things that most Americans would consider more important to know. Then you end up with students who might as well have received their education in an entirely different country. Frankly I don't recall Puerto Rico ever being talked about at length when I was in school, so I'm not even sure what terminology they would use. This was in Florida, in a city with a large Puerto Rican population.

wrong! americans can name every mexican country and communist country, but you have to bribe them first.

Only because you heard that song from Yakko Warner.

I did that for flags and maps, also i can guess where flags originate from by looking at the style

Americans who are not geography nerds. (please don't kill me I'm addicted to geography too) Casual people from other countries can name a lot of countries.

It would be great if some Americans not located in Hawaii could wrap their heads around the fact that their non-Hawaiian/non other island possession is NOT "overseas" from Canada. Some idiot in the southwestern U.S. tried to tell me that I was "overseas" from them, and I said, "Look, if I wanted to walk to where you are, I could do so without getting anywhere near the ocean. It would take a long time, but it could be done."

Are economy is higher than many european countries, but our standard of living isn't, we have a far higher crime rate, a non-functional electrical grid than in tern effects our water supply, a surprisingly high highschool dropout rate, a very high unemployment rate, and a high malnutrition rate.

So fix the problems. Vote in people who can actually solve the problems.

@@ab9840 if only it were that simple

If you're a Siberian, what's your ethnic group? If you're ethnic Russian you're not true Siberian.

@@modmaker7617 half Russian, half Tartar. Born and raised in Siberia as well as my parents. Siberian is not only an ethnic group, this term is also used for all inhabitants of Siberia.

@@UnderTheSummerSun I never implied Siberian was an ethnic group. It's just a geographic descriptor. Siberia is full of many diverse Turkic (Tartars are Turkic) & East Asian/Mongolic ethnic groups. I also added the not ethnic Russian to my comment because I want to prove that Siberians aren't Russians just under Russian control.

@@UnderTheSummerSun BTW; I'm 1/4 ethnic Kashubian & 3/4 ethnic Polish. My dad is half Kashubian so that's why in quarters. I never leard the Kashubian language which is basically just a dialect of Polish that diverged to much to become it's separate thing to it's not that special. Not everyone is just one ethnic group is my message here.

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Our population will definitely get lower how thing are going in the island. Especially after hurricane Maria since a lot of people simply left the island and didn’t come back.

@@Nanoedi I mean, IK alot of my family members are coming back, but most of them are retirees, if we want working age puerto ricans to come back we'll have to raise the average salary, but yeah are governments too shit for that.

Also, el salvador along with bitcoin? for some reason.

Hey, I can tell you a fun fact too. Your username looks like the hungarian word for "frog", which is "béka", only without the accent on the second letter :)

@@matra21 Thanks for the idea for avatar picture

@@beka4080 If you do actually set a frog as an avatar, you'll be the ultimate agent haha

@@matra21 he did ☺️🇭🇺

Same, over lockdown I learnt all the counties in the world. And yes, I agree, really fun.

i assume that means the 193 UN member states and the 2 UN observer states?

@Quizzing bot there’s 197 countries count Taiwan and Kosovo

@@magicalmelon4390 Them count Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria too. Unless you're just biased and think that pro Western secession is cool but not anti Western secession

@@gamermapper I don’t think it’s a bias I just don’t think anyone cares

British people are no longer real

theyre nations, though.

ya obviously

@@shrekeyes2410 depends on what u mean by nation

And then there's the Channel Islands, Isle-of-Mann & Sealand.

we were kind of traded with cuba and philipines by usa and spain like trading cards in the second grade exept usa lost cuba and philpines and now usa barley takes care of us

That's right. You're not my countrymen and you should be independent so America can have nothing to do with you

@@silverletter4551 Oh yeah? Well go to DC and tell that to Congress. They're the ones with the power to decide whether or not we can be a state, independent or continue being a Commonwealth.

Yeah he said Aruba, Netherlands was an independent Country and was way fuxking wrong.

The Spanish Virgin islands (Vieques and Culebra) are part of PR. But the USVI. are not. The Spanish might have claimed them once but the Danes were the last European nation to control them and sell them to the US (for $25 million). The US took official control at the end of March 1917. A few days later the US entered WW I.

I think I prefer "taken care of" or "looked after" by China. Because of course all the Tibetans love being looked after by China. That's why it's not controversial at all. No siree.

...THANK YOU. i scrolled through 400 comments looking for a correction. Aruba, Netherlands is a Constituate Country / State / Province of The Netherlands. Note: Netherlands (State), Netherlands (Country) are 2 seperate entities. Note: Dutch "Provinces" are equal to American "Counties".

Constituate Country is what they're all called! Netherlands, Britain & Russia have them but Russia uses another term.

Same with the British empire and Australia. A big chunk of nothing in the middle of nowhere

The US is a signatory to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which establishes the bodies of the solar system as having common status similar to Antarctica. There was an extension of it, the Moon Treaty, that nobody with a human spaceflight program has signed, but the earlier one stands.