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Did an ethnography in ecuador, worked as a social worker in the us, worked in marketing in China, taught english in Korea, history and anthropology in Colombia, opened a successful coffee shop with emphasis in human interactions...and all of this thanks to anthropology and the skills /knowledge i gained at the university. Directly, It has giving me more satisfaction than cash. Indirectly, it has giving me both the same. If you love the subject...let it take you in a wild ride of discovering the world and yourself.

Videos like these really inspire me to find a career that will make me happy and enjoy waking up everyday. I recently graduated with a bachelor’s in communications and I found myself regretting it. I switched majors about three times and would take the required classes, but they never interested me. I ended up choosing communications because it was versatile and I didn’t really want to spend more time in school. So after graduating I was looking for jobs and I wasn’t excited for the jobs. I’m thinking of going back to school and doing something that interests me. For a while now I’ve been looking into marine biology and so far that is the only career path that has made me want to go back to school. I love learning about the ocean and the animals living in the ocean. The fact that there is still so much more that we can learn about the ocean and animals truly amazes me. I am like you in a way because I really want to make an impact. I don’t really care about making a lot of money because in the end of the day happiness is so important. 😊

I just found your video today. I teach intro anthropology courses at a small community college near Seattle. I too wandered into an anthropology course and fell in love with it. I've never once regretted getting my degree in anthropology. Literally changed my life in ways I couldn't have imagined back then.

I am a first year student majoring in Sociology & Anthropology and this video really motivates me!! thank youu!!

I always wanted a job where I could meet new people, learn about new cultures, about history and languages, while also being valid in this world of AI. My parents said taking HR would be a good option but I wasn’t sure. I came upon this video and now I am a hundred percent sure to take anthropology as a major

I've been thinking about starting an Anthropology major for months now! I just finished my Psychology major but honestly I love to learn and listening to your point of view about this major just embrace me so much about this decision omg I really needed this video

Hey there! I'm just a sophomore in high school rn but as in my country the next year we've to opt for specific subject related academic streams (like science, commerce, humanities, etc.) I've started developing interest in humanities, especially history, psychology and sociology. Anthropology is smth new to me but it really resonated with me what you said in the video. Thanks so much, liked and subscribed :)

This video helps me understand and get interested in and passionate about potentially taking Anthropology thank you so much

As an upcoming senior high student, I had to decide which track I'd take and when I stumbled upon anthropology, I found out that its really interesting. At first, I hesitated. However, watching this video helped me so much and now I'm quiet decided which course I'll take in college. Thank you so much!

Ong Alivia I’m so glad I found your channel!! I’m a sophomore in HS (in LA too!) and I been kinda thinking about my future, so the first thing I considered was what subjects do I like? And for me, it’s Science, History, and Spanish. I honestly feel like it fits perfectly with Anthropology, (of course, i’m not 100% set yet though) and i’m really inspired! Thank you for mentioning the fact that you’re not worried about getting a job because you love the field. That’s always been something I’m thinking about but ur right, I just have to find what I love

This video was so great! I am an incoming college freshman this fall with the hopes of double majoring in history and anthropology with a minor in archeology, and though I am passionate about the things I chose, I have been facing a lot of judgement and backlash from family members. I, like you, value being happy in my work over how lucrative my major is, and its so comforting to hear of someone who feels the same.

You have no idea how much this video has helped me! I recently switched from a nursing major to anthropology and I feel like I have found my niche within the anthropology field, thank you!

I'm based in the UK, applying to study for a Master's Degree. I received my Bachelors in Music :s but I absolutely adore everything about anthropology!! This has really helped me with my decision :D Thank you so much!!xx

I literally jumped when you mentioned Thailand because I'm from Thailand and people barely mention it lol. I'm studying anthropology too! Thank you for making all these videos. It's so cool to see what other anthropology students are doing 🥰

I'm literally so excited to have found your channel!! I'm a film student but last year I added an anthropology minor after taking an intro to cultural, and I am loving all of the different classes involved. The point you made about gaining a more global perspective is the exact reason I became interested in the first place and it is so powerful! Okay I'm going to go binge all of your videos now 🙏🙏🙏

Such a positive perspective! I thought I am the only one who is excited to study Anthropology.

The questions she made 💀💀💀 us needs geography classes asap on school geez

I have recently started my educational journey and have gone back to college. I currently work in the medical field as a Pharmacy Tech and although I was considering becoming a Pharmacist I have always LOVED Anthropology. It s a very holistic field and after working in a very fast-evolving field I found myself not feeling full-filled and I hope to transfer to UCLA and go for a degree in Anthropology. I loved that you mentioned all the branches that Anthropology really has to offer, from Paleoanthropology, Cultural, linguistic, and my favorite Archeology. My current professor was a UCLA alumni and she mentioned the great Anthropology department that the university has to offer. Thanks for your video!!! ❤️

I am also in my 3rd year taking Anthropology. That was such a nice video, I can relate to the points which you have made. I also came across Anthropology by accident. I was taking a bunch of random classes at my University when I first started. Thanks for sharing :)

Love this! I am currently a student from China who is struggling to decide on the major for the graduate program I am about to apply. I'm so impressed by your word "love", which seems to assure my passion on anthropology (feeling the same!) without being bothered by other voices telling me to major in business to earn much money. Hope to know books on anthropology you recommend and any other feelings on this great major! (Actually my first comment on KZfaq hahaha)

the most helpful Anthropology channel on KZfaq.

As a high school student, an aptitude test I took suggested a career in the life sciences or social sciences. I took the first path and followed it for 20 years - studying and working in medicine and pathology. In the last year, I felt I needed to widen my horizons. I’ve just enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts program with a dual major in Anthropology and English here in India. I’m not planning on switching careers at this point but I’m looking forward to learning as much as I can. I’ve enjoyed your videos very much!

Thanks for this! I'm questioning if I should go into anthropology. I am 27 and was majoring in Drawing and then Illustration and I dropped out. But my minor has always been Art History. Anthropology is the more scientific sister of Art History but is, surprisingly, MORE marketable and has more job opportunities lol I am also a fantasy writer and worldbuilding is one of my favorite hobbies. The study of anthropology is sort of....reverse worldbuilding which is super cool to me. I'm still not sure if I'm going to major in anthropology when I return to school, especially since I'm already 30k+ in debt, but I'm leaning toward it. This information helps a lot!

love this video

I’m a Psychology major first year. I actually take my first Anthropology class next week. Great 👍🏽vid!

I am considering on studying anthropology when I get into college or university (in two years time, I'm 16 now and already cracking my head on what to pursue in)... but you just got rid of my insecurities about getting a job or job security in this field!! Thank you so much!! I would love for you to continue making your video's and I know you will turn out to be successful in any job whether that is an anthropologist or anything else! You're good at what you do please continue motivating everyone around you...I'm all the way from Malaysia and I've watched your video today... you-are-awesome!!p.s. I also love inspiring people and that's what's important to me not about the money cause we can make it at any time!

OMG ...I was searching for this video for a long time and finally got you 😊..Thx a lot for this ...its stupendous ...Can you share some of ur views and. Some videos with people majoring in LINGUISTIC anthropology ..

Trying to decide on whether I should major in history or anthropology. I like ancient history but there is not a definitive degree for it however I am also very interested in cultural anthropology as I love learning about different cultures and their customs. I have a very inquisitive personality as well.

I made $39,600 in a year my first stable position after I graduated and I thought that was more than enough to survive. I also consider myself very service oriented and have put the people that I serve before my salary. I've worked in healthcare and I now actually work as an assistant teacher.

I'm still in my early years of high school, but I think anthropology is something I want to pursue after high school, so thank you.

I really agree with you are saying . Same thing anthropology is amazing and I'm also majoring in it 😊

Great video, thank you so much.

Thanks Alivia for this video. :) I enjoyed hearing about your experience and passion that you have for the field of anthropology. :)

Love it ! Keep making more videos :D

Thank you so much for sharing this video that helps me explore the major! I have one confusion about Anthropology is that you seem always can find a subfield of it that is more detailed explained by another major; such as, how orders formed in the society is a question for Anthropology but it seems to be detailed in politics, so I am wondering how can I make sure that I am interested in the macroscope of human instead of a microscope like politics. Thanks again and I am so impressed by your passion and the way you find where your passion lies~

Oh my god I can't tell you how much I needed this😭 you literally spoke my mind on anthropology and why I love it.❤️ I just found out your channel and sis you've got another subscriber 🥳 I don't have many people around me that know much about this field or ones that have a major on anthropology or archeology etc and also I haven't found much on the internet ( idk may it's just me). Your channel is sooo informative thank you so much 🥺❤️ I have soo many questions about anthropology and it would be wonderful if you could help me. Sorry this comment is going to be super long and I appreciate your patience and taking time to read this ❤️ So I have been OBSESSED with Ancient Egyptian History from like my 4th grade. Iam so fascinated by Ancient Egypt that I literally wouldn't leave any thing related to ancient Egypt unread that I can get my eyes on. Then I started searching about Egypt and jobs related to it and that ended up with Archeology. When I was in my 6or7 th grade I fell in love with chemistry and biology. So then I looked for something that connects biology chemistry and History and ended up with ✨ Anthropology ✨ on my mind. I love knowing about our history but with a scientific perspective. For example I love to know more about say 'our evolution' through what got to change or what changes were made to our genetics,cells and DNAs as we became homo sapiens. I like more of the molecular/ biological / cellular part of anthropology.(idk if I am expressing this correctly 🙄) I hope you get the idea. I kinda want to end up working on prehistoric studies & Ancient civilizations (especially Egypt) like on more of the Laboratory work (like dna analysis etc so that I can have all biology chemistry and history on my hands🙃) I want to know which major should I be taking ( keeping the job opportunities in mind) - anthropology, biological anthropology, archeology or straight up egyptology or do you have any other options that you would recommend to a person like me with the above mentioned crazy interests 😁 Also what minors could/should I be taking and the requirements. I also wanna know whether mathematics is important for taking a bsc in anthropology or what major you suggest cuz I suck at maths. I have taken the option at my school that offers science+English+2nd language on 11&12th grade so that I don't have to study maths( narrow escape 🥲)I'm studying ISC syllabus. I'll be coming under the category of 'international student' cuz I'm not from the US 🇺🇸 I'm from India 🇮🇳. Just so you know. Once again thank you for reading this and hope you'll be responding to it❤️ Please keep on making more videos I love'em ❤️

Me too Anthropologist, specialised in Biological Anthro......

Great video!

I didn’t know what anthropology (the term that is) until my senior year of high school. However ever since I was a small kid, I loved studying cultures, especially at that point in time Asian culture mainly Japanese, Korean and Chinese (I never had much access to other Asian cultures and my sister was taking Chinese and Japanese language classes while growing up). I grew up watching you know the typical exposure stuff like anime and manga. However I think I took it too far and may have been unknowingly annoying and doing ignorant stupid stuff (nothing racist thankfully) until some kid basically insulted me and said I was annoying. It killed me and I immediately stopped looking into cultures. My senior year I had IB cultural anthropology. And it exposed me to other cultures around the world mainly indigenous cultures. I really liked it, but I still was not looking much into cultures anymore. After graduating I took cultural anthropology in my first semester of college. I loved it again. Great professor. However I had some problems within the years. I felt a lot of pressure. 1. Anthropology was a useless degree and there’s no money 2. We need STEM majors; they’re more important 3. Family hoping I’d be an engineer due to being in Robotics in high School and having engineering classes while there There was other issues but those were the main ones. This last year and this year, I was trying hard to be an EE/Stem major but honestly it’s way too overwhelming and not for me. I’m not excited over it nor too interested in it. I’m going back to Anthropology and going to redo bio anthropology and finish it with my favorite professor. Everyone who I know and worth their salt has countered the “this or that major is useless” talk is that almost every major is useless and doesn’t have a direct path. I’m hoping to go beyond a bachelors but I’m going to see what paths to take with anthro. Thanks for reading this long comment

I agree with the quote, no ones sense of humanity is the same as another's. We will never know the full scope of humanity. Also I would love to know what lab classes are like in anthopology.

I'm about to be 26 in Christmas eve. Anthropology is something I'm so fascinated by in every way. I'm not the smartest nor do I have the money for it . I wish I would of know about how interesting it was back when I was in high school. Then I would of tried in school.

question- how did you know you wanted to major in it like did you have questions? etc. Im a high school freshman and have absolutely no clue what I am doing or wanna major in but I really enjoy anthropology and have a lot of questions about our existence etc.

Hi there I'm a 16 year old from South Africa and I'm completely in love with anthropology. One day I'd like to become an Anthropologist because of my passion for culture, history, heritage and development. Yet at the same time, I have a passion for my faith as a Christian. Preaching the gospel has always and will always be my first priority. I can't decide between these 2 careers. At one stage, I thought about combining a degree in anthropology with a theology degree. That way I could focus my anthropological research with a Christian perspective. Is there such a thing as Christian anthropology? Could I grow successfully in this way? Please let me know. It would be greatly appreciated 😊

How did you get into UCLA?

but do i need to travel?

Hi I’m Colombian Speak Spanish My English isn’t good at all however I’m learning about this wonderful human science Please keep going uploading content I already subscribed Can you make a video about the equality It's the equality a natural system? Or is it just an utopia?

Hey! I loved your video! I am thinking of majoring in Anthropology because it sounds so interesting. Are you getting a bachelor’s or masters? If bachelor’s, do you plan to go to grad school? Which field in anthropology do you want to go in? Linguistic anthropology sounds so interesting!

hi alivia. how are you? I am finishing my dissertation in the anthropology of fishing.. im thinking if you might be interested to have a little intellectual conversation about it?

Hello, I want to study Anthropology in Mphil. I have studied Defense and Strategic Studies in my Masters degree, now I want to shift my my field as I don't want to continue the previous field. Can I create any relevance between these two fields? Will my previous degree help me in understanding the new field? Anyone here can give me suggestion please

Does Anthropology have a course with learning a language or culture? Because I am very interested in learning more about cultures and their history as well as their language.

Uhhh, I'm pretty sure they've already named all the different spiders.

Hi! I will be an upcoming freshman this fall and currently majoring in global studies. I have been thinking of switching it or double majoring in something else, do you think that global studies and anthropology are similar in a way and if it would be worth it?

are there any Universities in WV that provides masters in anthropology

I've got this feeling that American college is on European middle school level

Fantastic video! So, I'm 28 and pretty late to the college game 😅 but I fell in love with Anthropology and so far, I've learned a lot. One class I'm taking that counts towards it is a women's studies class and that alone has taught me so much more than I thought. Like you, I'm not too worried about the money. I just want to help. I want to help where I can and travel the world and talk with new people and cultures. Thank you so much for the content and I hope you keep making these videos. You've given me another reason to love this field.

Is there higher level math such as calculus, linear algebra, statistics, trigonometry in anthropology, like there is economics?

Get your Phd in Anthropology and Starbucks will make you a Manager!!!!

Hi! I'm at UCLA and I'm pre-HBS, I've been considering minoring in Anthro because it seems interesting and there's some overlap with my major. However, I don't really know much about anthro and the way my classes are going so far I probably won't have a chance to take an anthro class until my third year. Do you have any suggestions on ways I can learn more about anthro until I have a chance to take a class on it? Do you know anything about minoring in anthro/have any suggestions regarding it?

i like anthroplogy, i dont like the theories im taught to believe though. we are never given the other side of the coin or an answer which lies in the middle. since the beginning of social science and anthropology, its all been about stripping away the wests cultural and moral frameworks. durkehim, malinowski hated christian religion, no wonder one of them was considered a father of anthropology. anthropology hates any notion that one thing might be better than another. on the one hand you have an esteemed evolutionary biologist like richard dawkins saying their is no reason you cannot breed humans if you wanted too, to be better runners or more intelligent over a few generations. yet in anthropology we are told impossible, why? because it doesnt fit the ideology. we are also told that you cannot rank cultures, because we all exist in our own relative time line. yes but we also exist on a world wide timeline, so why can i not say that living in a fully plumbed house with electricity is clearly better than a tent in the woods. its nonsensical. anthropology was begun by marxists over a century ago, and now in the last 60 years its been hijacked by far left ideologues again.