An Unfortunate Fact About British Universities
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ม.ค. 2021
- Zing Tsjeng visits Oxford to examine the ongoing controversy as universities across the UK reckon with their unsavoury connections to colonialism. People like slave owners, slave traders and white supremacists have historic connections to some of the UK’s finest universities. They don’t put that bit in the prospectus, but it’s the truth.
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Empires of Dirt is a show about Europeans getting rich at the expense of everyone else. VICE World News host Zing Tsjeng uncovers the ugly history of the European colonial empires they don’t teach us in schools. Countries around the world were looted for their treasures, people were oppressed and exploited and European powers relentlessly profited. The far-reaching repercussions of colonialism are all around us, from our financial institutions to the food we have in our cupboards at home - and it’s about time we took notice.
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They never tell their kids in school what they did to their colonies...
@cevom Mate we do learn about our bad history, what are you talking about?
British also don't learn British war crimes during WW2, Iraq and Afghanistan. They glorify war criminal Churchill as hero.
@@narvaromer8516 Well he was a hero and a scumbag. Same as Stalin and Lenin as well as Mao and many other leaders. What's your point?
Wikipedia about University of Oxford: th-cam.com/video/CW7degjqUdc/w-d-xo.html
You vermin will all be driven into the sea.
Britain participated in the slave trade, it also banned it and enforced that ban throughout the empire. Other western countries quickly followed our example. History is murky. It is not always black and white.
As someone who has always dreamed of studying in Oxford, I am so grateful for this!
Don't let her misrepresentations sway you.Every great institution has a dark history, that is and Was the Natural Way of Things.If You Want to Change That, You Can Do It in Your Life, After Graduating
@@Rowlph8888 truth is bitter for Nation of shopkeeper.
@@UPAKHOSALA If this is the truth to you, then you are a complete charllatan, Just like this Woman distortting the truth in these videos
@@UPAKHOSALA - don’t hate. It will eat you.
The whole history all over the world is full of unfortunate facts, even the present day is full of unfortunate facts and future will be full of it too!
they trynna remove history cus they dont like the truth and want to ignore real shit
True you can pick any country or leader in the world and discover horrible fact. Its like the West is the only monster here. Dive into the arab slave trade its estimated that 14 million Africans were made slaves and many men was castrated. That insane, you never hear ANY criticism ( from the left) or we want retribution. I read an article about Tibetan society 100 years ago it was brutal, no love & light, we never kill a living being. And take Gandhi, look into his life, you will find things there that shocks you. The list goes on and on, because its just history of humanity, sex, money and power. No one is pure and innocent. So don't blame or erase history, learn from it and become better. Be the change you wanna see in the world.
@@larsstougaard7097 absoultely true.....the slave markets of Damascus funnelled millions and millions into slavery...we won't hear about that of course....heck millions of people who perished in gulags in the 20th century.....its slavery when it suits the left's agenda....
@@VentureHolly yes i agree....but the problem is when its selective history which plays to a narrative....twisting facts, showing half truths and avoiding whole sections to make a particular community or race to appear bad....
@@VentureHolly let me tell you do you know who sold the black slaves to the European traders, what is the barbary slave trade, only a very small portion of whites owned slaves....the vast majority of people were impoverished....while Britons land-owning nobles grew rich from colonialism....children of poor British workers lived in poverty and worked in factories....these same landlords and rich nobles in colonial countries, the kings and serfs...they sold their own people to slavery and themselves grew rich.....so just because someone's skin colour is white doesnot mean their ancestors were slaveowners and just because someone's skin colour is dark doesn't mean they were enslaved
The unpleasant thing is that this is true almost everywhere in the world, for example Colosseum in Rome. I personally think that the best thing to do, instead of tearing down this stautes in the universities is fighting for social justice, like granting public education and health to disadvantaged children
Nope. It's much easier to fight statues and stones.
Exactly, they should focus on helping those who are suffering now & preventing it from occouring. It seems like they'd rather wait 100 years & then complain about the atrocities committed in this day & age.
@damien chall I don't think (and I do hope so) that Vice doesn't care about them. It Is more likely that it is a news that does not sell
@damien chall racist
@@alessandro.calzavara vice does not care about anything, they are there just to chat shit and make profit
I mean, about every rich person in those times was connected to slavery in some way or another; what did you expect?
EVERY civilization has a history of “slavery!” In the Arab world, they still regularly enslave their domestic workers by confiscating the passports of their mostly “imported” help. Oh WAIT, American imported its slaves TOO. Nobody can criticize the precious Muslims though.
@@funDAYsmilingif you think this is a valid argument to excuse this abominable behaviour that is STILL affecting a contient and it’s diaspora- I know not WHAT to say to you!
We need an episode about the Russian empire and how they expanded by killing natives
So Russian is not native in Russia country?
@@zaidzarani5643 Siberia
I think context matters. For example in Bristol taking the statue down was appropriate because it was placed in such a way the it was like the whole city approved of and loved him and it wasn’t true any more.
Whereas with the Rhodes one his scholarship still exists. In that case personally I think it’s more appropriate to have plaques explaining what he did in plain view. To take the staue down would be, I think, to pretend that the college wasn’t associated with him. Which is more insulting in my opinion.
Yes I agree. Taking down statues is like erasing and forgetting history. It would be better to put up plaques explaining what these people did and how they got there wealth.
a credible suggestion.
Expecting a lot more episodes like this from VICE. They don't teach this aspect of history in school.
Teaching intersectionality, self loathing and critical race theory? I should hope not.
@@jimthompson9370 why truth has to be so complicated that u need to go thru the veneer of words and phrases like urs
@@UPAKHOSALA - because this is a manipulated truth by the openly biased ‘news source’ Vice News. You sound like the sort of western-hating pawn this channel feeds.
If a black student finds it offensive seeing a statue iconic of racism in Oxford, why doesn't he/she switch to a Nigeria university immediately and pay the £9000 fee to the African prestigious university which badly needs funding instead of continuously financing a racist one?
From an ethnic Asian
Racist to assume all black people are black; as an ethic person yourself, what an absolute discrace you are.
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Zing is a journalist who tells the truth the way it should be told! An accurate series on capturing Britain's colonial ways and how it's detrimentally affected people of colour globally.
No it wasn’t. Objectively, it wasn’t. It was biased, emotive and manipulative. She’s not a journalist , she’s an activist.
Isn´t this the same video as The Unfortunate Truth About Oxford University | Empires of Dirt?
Yes
It is
I mean a lot of European countries are thriving off of what they stole from the colonies for centuries while the colonies are now poor and are "third world countries". The British Empire has terrorised about one third of the entire globe but they get away with it and have never apologised for it so far. They should seriously return all the stolen artifacts and should pay a compensation for all the harm they've done to countries.
Britain has given said countries vast amounts of money in aid. Not to mention how multi cultural Britain has become.
@@xant27if you colonise countries then you must pay
They also change the goal posts, borrow the money to pay for the high prices. There will be no interest on payments !! Untill a year or so later when they said you now have to pay it. Listening g
to this makes me sick. Terrible.
great history lesson, thank you
No it wasn’t. Objectively, it wasn’t. It was biased, emotive and manipulative. That’s not an historian, it’s an activist.
Great revelation by Vice! Thanks.
I never knew where the money for rhodes scholarship came from before I saw this video
After all we all have to Admit that thats a Bussines. Education is Bus
I am not English. I have never lived in the UK. My home land has never been invaded by the British. Hence, I have no axe to grind against the British. Still, I always find it strange that if one is to read any history book about England written by an English historian, one would always find the English catergorize the arrival of the Normans on the shore of England in 1066 as the Norman invasion. However, I have yet to come across a history book about England written by an English historian who would categorize the arrival of the English on the shores of Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand as the English invasion of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and so on despite native resistance against the British newcomers and the many massacres of the natives by British newcomers. Instead, the arrival of the English to these lands was always categorized as British settlement in Canada, British settlement in Australia, and so on.
Keep telling it like it is!!!
Loved that ending sentence!
‘They don’t put THAT but in the prospectus👀, but it’s the truth!’
Can you please do this in North America?
I think that the OP should start the protest herself. I will take this seriously if she rips up her Cambridge degree as it is tainted by the University's past.
Of course she will never do this as she's all about scolding others.
But nowhere in this video did she stop anyone from applying/attending oxbridge, the content of the video is fact whether you like it or not, her job is to be the mediator & provide viewed with the facts
@@solefreakks7905 Well it's not fact. She/her family paid tuition costs of £9,000 per annum to attend the best Uni in the world. The rest of her tuition was subsidies by the British taxpayer.
She is not scolding others, she is just telling the truth and I believe you and others that believe that she is, are just butt hurt on how the universities and white supremacist gained wealth from slavery and white supremacy.
@@lblackwood95 I am not in the least bit 'butt hurt' about anything. The British Empire was a remarkable achievement with enduring value. That wealthy men went on to endow a Uni such as Oxford - probably the best in the world - is to be welcomed and is very much an 'Empire Dividend'.
The presenter is one of the ones who benefited from our top-class universities and had her education subsidised by British taxpayers such as me. If she had the power of her convictions she'd either hand her degree back or pay the full, unsubsidized cost of her education rather than displaying crass hypocrisy.
@@Alan_Mac Those wealthy men benefited hundreds or thousands, if not, millions of dollars from colonialism, white supremacy, and slavery; with the millions that they placed in those universities and themselves. Also, if what she saying isn't true, then why were there students or people of the public protesting to have the statues of the racist rich figures who owned slaves to be taken down from the universities that were funded by slavery?🤔
Thats why I never applied😉😉😉.
Good job by Vice
shall we educate the world so they can blame us for all human history ?
things are being said as they are... nothing exaggerated here.
If I see her in London she won't be making another doco
Better save that money to buy a house or save up for old age!
Preach. #facts
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I think statues are not whats wrong with our society and the issues of the past. I think what we need to do is properly educate today's kids about slavery and colonisation and apart from talking about what good the big powerful men did also talk about the faults too. We do have to remember that we cannot change or erase our past, unfortunately these things happened and its best for us to acknowledge them and learn from it. Instead of taking the statues down, why don't we add more statues of people of colour and different ethnicity that brought good to our society.
If a black student feel offensive on seeing a statue of figure who accepting racism in Oxford, why doesn't he/she switch to a Nigeria university immediately and pay the £9000 fee to the African prestigious university which badly needs funding instead of continuously financing a racist one?
From an ethnic Asian.
@@ericluk68 So you're basically saying is to Go back where one comes from? It is??
@@hustler212 not go back! but what you act should be honest to what you speak. If those "racist" university is that bad as you claim, why all these 3rd countries students vote for them with their legs.
@@ericluk68 by asking the people to not visit any premises just because the premise owner happen to stand racist statues would only lead to more segregated society, And I am pretty sure, nobody wants apartheid. And also, any decent person (irrespective of race) would be smart enough to understand that uplifting racist ideologies is not going to benefit the university as well...
@@hustler212 to use today's values to condemn an individual of a times that occurred hundreds years ago is as dogmatic and discriminatory as racism.
Fucking Money can make your name a memorabilia.
0:12 Not exactly. They are nonprofits for the most part, but they need funding, so sometimes they will try and appease their overwhelmingly wealthy, mostly conservative donors...
statues are like trophies, we should give them to winners, not sinners.
Winners are sinners! No sinless person beside Jesus ever walked on this earth!
@@SmallDrives aint talking about "sins" like sex before marriage mate. Talking about slavery, murder, torture, etc....
Oxford and Cambridge!
Cassius College!
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What is the big deal these people are all dead and gone
just get a 50bmg incindieary tracer and shoot the statue from 1000 yards away the bullet will explode on hitting no students will be harmed statue will be destroyed....:D just a theory i read too much manga i suppose
I would have thought that even Manga was a little out of your intellectual league.
Why does the BBC not have a contestant on it about The Empire. The Opium War against China. Famine in India is new to me due to U Tube. All western European nations committed crimes in Africa . Asia . East Timor. Sad for poor minorities.
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00:06
Critical theory is cancerous. Also, it's boring.
Really biased
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If the public is going to have a discussion about the slave trade, let's have a discussion. Were British citizens involved? Yes. If the government thinks that means statutes and other honors given these individuals should be taken away so be it. However, many others not from the UK were also involved in slavery so let's follow suit and also take away their honors.
For instance Islam and its prophet Mohammad were involved in slavery. Islam was involved in slavery for over 1,000 years as it spread over the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. Millions of people were killed and enslaved during the spread of Islam.
Should the UK government therefore order the removal of anything associated with Islam? Should mosques be ordered shut? Should burqas and other Islamic coverings be banned because of their association with Islam? Should halal products be removed from stores?
Should the UK stop trading with Muslim majority countries? Should the UK government stop sending all foreign aid to Muslim majority countries? Should the UK government stop immigration from Muslim majority countries?
What? Islam was involved with slavery, that is true, but Islam does not ENCOURAGE slavery. Slavery will exist as long as humans do, Infact, treating a slave badly is a extremely huge sin, and the only compensation for that is freeing them. Infact it's written that the class of the slave and the owner should be the same. the same clothes, food and amount of work.
@@rainbowisticfarts The prophet Mohammad kept slaves. He kept female sex slaves. If the the prophet Mohammad, the perfect man, kept slaves and gave slaves to his followers that's encouraging slavery.
People are starting to wake up
Biased
Reality check. Thank you.
Boo hoo, cry me a river
World history made in many writer author in the world,, then and now Vs Jesuchrist who the author of the Bible who dosnt ever,, never took any prestigious school ,,but the Bible were telling us of what happened in the future,, end of the world and before thou art and heaven in genises,,humans knowledge power,,derived from collection of knowledge ,,Vs the ' wisdom of God ' who came out Jesuschrist mouth,, to write down in the book,, bible,, is the authentic manual book of instruction ' of God to humanity,, how to live,, accoradance in God's law,, how to get wife and husband,, how to make friends,, how to put business,, how to avoid don't and do,, etc. And how to have an everlasting life,,, in heaven
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Rhodes is dead and his money educates people of all races. Get over your pettyness. GROW UP!
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Ok... So what? I like your puppy pic though.
Don't judge history with moral standards of the present.
Where did you hear that?
Exactly
Those Africans were already “enslaved,” before the British bought them off of whichever tribal chieftain was taking slaves that week, so it’s inaccurate and outright incorrect of you to state that these long-dead men actually did the enslaving! How sloppy
So what? It was in the past!
Learn from it and move on. Vice is getting boring.
the point is that we shouldn't be celebrating these people and giving them any sort of praise as the result of there success is because of the suffering of others. Instead we are asking that we leave them behind in the past
@@JordanTelezino nobody cares anyway. It's history bro. You can't erase it.
This lady looks more like a domestic helper
Ironically when discussing abuse domestic helpers are not usually covered. I'm hoping Vice will get around to covering it eventually...
I don't like the anchor and her mouthful accent... She needs braces...
Malicious person. Don't know what her problem is considering she is enjoying life in the very same country she's spouting hate about.
childish
@@xant27 you can love your country and still critique it.
@@dellabella3644 True. Just seems a bit much.
@@xant27 I get that