The video with the results and winners of the flag contest will be uploaded next week! Still going through all the submissions since there were close to 1000!
Take a look of South Africa's history. South Africa, at the time a british colony, took control over Namibia as a colony. Therefore making the only case of a 2nd order colony.
@@alanbstard4 WOW. Clearly you have a patriotic feeling witch clouds your intelligence and knowledge in regard of the Brittish Empire or you are simply uneducatet witch is fine. I suggest you should do sum research on Brittish Empire. Il give you a hint. (Over 150 million ppl DEAD).
In case the video didn't show this, america had most of its territories and colonies etc BEFORE 1919 and a majority of the territory was purchased from france, UK and Russia. Most of the invaded territories came from the spanish and mexican wars with exceptions such as Hawaii and uninhabited islands like Wake island. All of this happened before 1919.
@@KingDayDayDay00 Which is weird, because he clearly could use the help getting his nukes to actually launch successfully and present an actual threat to anybody east of Japan...
Some interesting fact here: Both Philippines and Puerto Rico were ceded to US from Spain on the same year. Philippines eventually became independent, totally dropped Spanish and English became widely spoken. Puerto Rico on the other hand remained a Commonwealth but the Spanish language is still retained.
@@TheLocalLt They use US currency, are protected by the US military, and are a US territory. Commonwealth has at least some legitimate usage in this instance. Same as Guam and American Samoa.
Yes, indeed. The name “Manifest Destiny” is just a poor fake mask to sound it better. US forced Native Americans to leave and killed them. They broke many treaties between Native Americans even though it was unfair treaty toward Native Americans.
@@budoumurasaki5856 *and here we go again* ... Listen here boy, sure the United States did all of that but still is no excuse to put it like is a big thing. The north america natives got pushed out of their former lands but they are the ones that got it easy out of their situation. What I mean? one sentence: *Spanish Empire and their conquistadores* : the ones that simply wiped out three natives empires (aka: The Aztecs, the Mayas, and the Incas) and hundreds of small tribes either by straightforward slaughter or the diseases they brought. You can bitch about the US and their treatment of the natives but can't deny one thing, that the US still have entire communities of natives alive with their culture preserved and being pay reparations from the government, on the other hand, how many natives descendent of Aztec, Maya, and Inca are still alive and getting reparations from the Spanish government?
Hate how videos like these brush aside the Philippine-American War that lasted like 3 years and killed 100 thousand filipinos:/ it always seems like a footnote to the shorter spanish american war with even fewer casualities. we gained our independence in 1898 and then lost it again to our supposed ally.
Americans were never our friends binahagi tlga nila ang sinasabing sumpa ng kasaysayan sa pinas. Sana mabawi na ang colonial mentality ng mga kababayan naten.
@@JoemamaGaming-md6je the thing that made us close with the americans was there colonisation. if they never invaded us we wouldnt really give a shit about them
American occupation of the Philippines was temporary only to keep it from falling into the hands of France Britain or Germany. If the Americans hadn’t occupied it, it would have just become a German French or British colony.
US: Recognized the Kingdom of Hawai’i as an independent nation. Also US: I know the Geneva Convention says we aren’t supposed to annex another country during wartime but we the American people have decided it’s free real estate
@@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 Palau was one of the ex-Japanese colonies that the US acquired in 1945. It, alongside Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands, was part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands until the 1980s and 1990s. Nowadays, Palau is a US associated state, like Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands
If you think the US colonial empire was weird, wait until you see Australia's. Australia uses the power of being nice and countries just give it land. 1884, The state of Queensland randomly annexes Papua for the British empire, the British were like, "What? Why would you do that?" Queensland replied, "So the Germans won't get it." 30 years later the British said, "It was nice of you to do that but we don't want it, you keep it." 1901, New South Wales was like, "Hey Britain, can we make a country with the other colonies." Britain replied "Yeah sure but New Zealand can't join you can have Fiji though" "Nah, we'll just have the Australian states" 1920, League of nations says, "Hey, Australia, good work in WW1, you can have New Guinea, the Solomon islands and Nauru." Australia replies, "Thanks guys, means a lot to me." 1931, Britain asks, "Hey Australia you want some islands..." 3 years later Western Australia replies, "Yes! We can turn them into a conservation area. 1933, Britain asks "Hey Australia, you want a land border with France?" "Where?" "Antarctica, we are thinking about giving New Zealand and South Africa some too." Australia replies, "How about you give us South Africa's bit too until they stop being racist?" Britain replies, "Great idea Australia!" 1947, "Hey Australia, you want some volcano islands above Antarctica too?" "Okay." 1955, "Hey Australia, how would you like to own the Cocos Islands?" "The What?" "They speak Malay and they are Muslim?" "...Sounds interesting okay." 1958, Australia asks, "Excuse me Britain can you make Singapore give me the Christmas islands?" "You gonna pay for them?" "yeah of course" "Sure then" 1969, Hold on a minute, the coral sea isn't part of Queensland? Get annexed fish. 1975, East Timor is like, "Hey Australia can we join your country, It's better you take us over instead of Indonesia" "Sorry buddy, but that ain't happening, we'll guarantee your independence instead." Also 1975, Australia to Australia, "Papua and New Guinea aren't really that Australian are they?" "Let's make a new country." Still 1975, Papua and New Guinea are like, "What's a good name for our country?" Solomon Islands are like, "I don't know guys but I'm out." Still in 1975, Nauru is like, "Hey Australia, you remember how we are part of New guinea? "Yeah" "well now we ain't."
Tbf the USA toppled the Hawaiian monarchy and the uk and France weren’t colonising Hawaii. The US annexed Hawaii in a kind of dodgy way. The whole reason why there is a uk flag on the Hawaiian flag is as a symbol of friendship
Yep....Bill Clinton offered an Official Presidential apology for the coup and stealing Hawaii. But that was it. You would think they would free the state again....but no....lol
@@Dangic23 after a century of being fully integrated core territory? That's like saying England should liberate Cornwall or France should give up the Normandy coast. Or that literally any country should give land back to someone. Cause every scrap of land and some point was owned by someone else at some other point
@@Dangic23 well after all this time without anyone really making an issue it doesn't really matter anyway, except to take note that USA is the type of friend you don't need nor want.
@@Dangic23 Yes, because the Hawaiian people are in a state of rebellion. They demand their independence. No, wait, that's not happening. They're just fine with being a state. Oh, and technically, the US didn't launch a coup in Hawaii. There were two main factions in Hawaii: those who supported the monarchy, and those who didn't. While the US didn't really have an issue with the monarchy, the faction opposed to it was run by people who had strong connections with the US...especially American businesses. When they decided they were about ready to make their move, they reached out to their business associates in the US. They in turn convinced the US government to back the coup. That backing primarily took the form of logistics and transportation, which allowed them to get into position and make their move before the Hawaiian government's forces could get organized for an effective response. Once the coup succeeded in taking control, the US government immediately recognized the new government and offered their protection to guarantee that no European power would try to remove them from power. So, America's backing made it possible for the coup to be as quick and clean as it was, but they weren't the ones that organized it. Having said that, the ones who DID organize the coup were the business partners of some powerful American companies, so it's kind of hard to prove whether or not the American businesses were moving to help their partners because they figured it would make it easier for them to do business in Hawaii, or whether they encouraged their Hawaiian partners to organize the coup for the same reason. Either way, it doesn't look good. On the other hand, everything turned out well in the end.
I'd like to add that at that time, the Philippines referred itself as "Islas Filipinas" or "Philippine Islands". It was part of the larger entity called "Capitania Generál de Filipinas" which comprised the Philippine Islands, Marianas Islands, Caroline Islands, and Palau
The US colonialism of the Philippines was strongly opposed by the natives, many of whom were killed in the struggle, after the US reneged on their promise for full Philippine independence. How Hawaii was annexed is also left out. I'm afraid everything seems so cerebral.
Incognito you may want it to be that way but like it or hate it we are currently under the U.K. Brexit may ignite interest in a border poll but in general the U.K. don’t want us and neither do ROI. Hopefully at the very least we will have the customs union and keep the border as unobtrusive as possible.
AssMonkey Gaming indeed. funny how mexico’s dictator but president even though a total dictator, at the time, signed the treaty ending the texan revolution, giving texas the land north of the rio grande. but since mexico was losing land to other latin american countries they wanted to hold onto as much land as they could claiming everything south of the san antonio river, theirs. but then mexico shot some us soldiers in disputed territory. and here we are today.
A knowledgeable friend from Puerto Rico told me that Puerto Rico had obtained its independence from Spain a year BEFORE Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the United States after the Spanish-American war. So Spain did not have it to give, but the US took it anyway, as a spoil of war.
Another time PR got independence was during El Grito de Lares revolt. The Republic of Puerto Rico was basically a thing for one day, and then Spain defeated the rebels and ended the revolt.
He was probably just quoting him before he was the president but he is better known as the President although it would of been better if he never was the prez.......he ruined everything 😑
@@franzjoseph1837 He truly did - this was the true turning point of America - the election of an activist, progressive, former professor and a racist...
@@rusoviettovarich9221 wasnt he a Democrat? Progressiveness wasnt at all a bad idea 100 years ago as they concerned mainly on equal rights and preservation of nature, modernization. Kept USA out of war for a while, and tried to established a worldwide association for peace. I dont think he was at all bad.
@@Yoi-n5k Actually he was a member of the KKK and he helped them organized a parade in DC. He also watched the first film in the White House, Gone with the Wind a pro-Confederate Civil War Movie. A lot of bad policies came out during his Presidency including the Federal Reserve Bank and the IRS Income Tax. As for the war, if he gotten involved sooner or not at all, Hitler would probably not have gotten into power. That last bit is a long story, but worth looking up. Basically his influence on the Versailles Treaty messed up Europe. Wilson is even quoted saying "I have unwittingly ruined my country." Although a professor and academic, he let his advisors run the Administration. He was way in over his head. He even suffered a stroke and was disabled at the end of his term, which his wife and staff hid from the public.
@@silverletter4551 yes, my point being that the Gadsden purchase is overlooked because the land was incorporated into the already existent American settler colony of New Mexico, as opposed to forming a new territorial entity on its own.
@@ExpensiveHeadphones So we're just going to pretend that there weren't already millions of human beings living in North and South America? Or do they not matter because they weren't Europeans?
Kaiser Amadeus first off she wasn’t talking about that all she said was before America was discovered as in saying before America became the route for colonization and trade
Puerto Rico, a US territory, voted a few times on independence, and rejected it each time. The terms of being a territory are actually quite good, with access to live and work in America, but when at home pay no federal income tax, while getting some federal funds for, say, superhighways. No vote in federal elections, except for a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives. But Puerto Rico rejected statehood too multiple times. (It eventually voted to seek statehood, but after it had run up debts that it couldn't extinguish except by becoming a state.)
None of those votes have ever been valid. US Constitution does not require the consent of the inhabitants of an Unincorporated Territory to decide if it's made a state, a free country, or to cede it to another country. It only requires a simple majority vote in Congress. That's it. They can do this anytime....even next monday. But if you read the Insular cases.....you will learn that the US has never intended to add any Unincorporated Territory as a state. Only "Incorporated " Territories have a guaranteed pathway to statehood. PR has always been Unincorporated.
Dangic23 exactly. Unincorporated aka a permanent resource and/or military colony, as opposed to incorporated aka a colony primarily for settlement by citizens of existing American states, as part of a path to eventual statehood.
Did you know that Philippines and Puerto Rico (both former colonies of Spain) played in FIBA World Cup 2014 which was held in Spain? Spain: I'm proud of my former colonies. Puerto Rico won the game btw.
PR. even plays in the PanAmerican games. Watch this short video of the raising of the PR. flag in the 2019 PanAmerican games held in Peru - th-cam.com/video/D4dv1fO6RuA/w-d-xo.html
Spain didnt had colonies, they had viceroyalties and these viceroyalties werent part of Spain, they were Spain, there's also no flag of Spain's colonialism
Puerto Rico was finally a province of Spain for a very short time until U.S.A. came along and made it a colony again. I suggest you make a video of the history of Puerto Rico and how the U.S.A. keeps it as a colony (calls it a "territory") for its own economical and military power. Don't forget to talk about the Jones Act.
Why the double standard about manifest destiny? It sort of feels like you are defending the American conquest and subsequent subjugation of native lands by arguing that it was "kind of imperialism but not really". Just because it wasn't an overseas expansion doesn't disqualify it from counting as colonialism. Russia's expansion into Siberia is often rightfully called out as an example of imperialism and colonial expansion, so why can't America be held the same standards? The indifferent attitude towards the crimes commited by Americans in the name of manifest destiny is indicative of a widespread ignorance of historical understanding. When put in historical context, the conquest of the continental US can very easily be viewed as a continuation of the european-style colonialism that Britain, France and Spain brought to the American continent. I am not American, and I want to make it clear that I don't blame the descendants of European settlers for something that happened before their lifetime. But by not confronting the bloody history of your nation, you uphold the ignorant and dangerous idea of American supremacy that to this day continues to be used as justification for American military action towards other nations and the economic imperialism that involves the exploitation of the natural resources and industrial capacity of weaker countries by American companies. I apologize for the rant, but I am of the opinion that crimes committed by a society at the very least should be recognised and condemned by that same society before a process of reconciliation can begin.
You kind of forgot to include Russia as a colonial power. Unlike the other European powers, Russia colonized East, by land, and still have almost all their colonies.The Eurasian steppe is as historically Slavic as the Americas are historically European.
Aren't the Americas historically non European? Then after they were invaded the "Europeans" imposed harsh conditions on the original inhabitants, and before you all start saying what about you - yes my country had a similar and brutal history.
@@aussiejim1616 Yes, and the Eurasian steppe is historically Iranian, Turkic, and Mongolian, not Russian. The Russians were probably the 4th biggest European colonizer after UK, France, and Spain. All their territory east of the Ural mountains is colonial territory and a good chunk of the territory west of them is too. And just as the US has little national enclaves for the original inhabitants, Russia does too.
@@williedavis9465 If we are nitpicking technically almost all of Russia inside Europe is colonised land since the original Muscovites who formed Russia only lived and controlled areas around Moscow. You can guess how they got to hold all the territory from Kola to Caucasus Mountains.
aussie jim sure the spaniards invaded the america’s. but not the french nor british. they were focused more on materials not conquered peoples. also there aren’t any “true” inhabitants to the americas. bc just like the europeans, afro-eurasian nomads followed their food sources all the way to the america’s, and settled there just like the pilgrims did.
As a Puerto Rican I will say this, Puerto Rico is going through a quiet and slow political shift. If you look at a age group pov, you will see that most statehood supporters are usually boomers/xers, while many, if not most nationalists are millenials/Zoomers. There are going to be big political shifts in the next 20-30 years. PS I've seen many people use the referendums as a source. Take them with a GRAIN OF SALT, since they were either boycotted(2017), or modified to make statehood look on top (2012)
@@TerryTerius simple, most of those leaving are statehood supporters. Look at a Florida PR poll, 80% of those that left support that. As more leave, and as more young people support nationhood, you will soon see nationalists take key positions in PR government (like Scotland's SNP.) Population is also not a factor for independence
Well I wish you luck if you guys go that route. Our congress sucks and it's bullshit your representatives don't get to vote on policy that affects you there.
I don't see why America wouldn't give you guys independence, no offense but your island is quite useless and the Americans already have a bunch of military bases in the Carribean. If you don't align with China otherwise I literally see no point in owning that territory.
As an American on the mainland who is interested in the territories, thanks for the information! I will now be observing not just the pro-statehood and pro-territory factions, but also the _independentistas_ as well!
The difference between Alaska or Hawaii with Puerto Rico is that Puerto Rico has not beeen assimilated during the last century, and they keep their nationality. Yes, it also happens in Quebec inside Canada, and Puerto Rico could be a kind of Quebec, but there is also an strong sense of Indepdendence in Puerto Rico.
Quebec is a province of Canada, French is also one of the 2 official languages of Canada, Quebec even at the time of British colonization are having their special laws already such as but not limited to freedom for them being Catholic. Not of which exist in Puerto Rico, Puerto rico was better under the Spanish crown than under oppressor Washington DC
general Knowledge : "invade land with peoples living there againts that is'nt colonisation if it's in the same continent and connected by land" general Knowledge : "Hawaii is in North America" What are you saying, stop drugs.
Mexico didn’t cede any territory it was taken, Puerto Rico wasn’t ceded it was taken, Guam wasn’t ceded was taken, Hawaii wasn’t anexed was taken, all without consulting the people that lived in those territories
In the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo Mexico formally ceded its northern territories to the U.S. Also, Mexico barely had any control over those territories even when it was a colony of Spain, they were seen as near ungovernable so they probably saw the treaty as an opportunity to get rid of it.
Mexico lost a war with the US and as was the custom they lost land. Oh well so sad for them. Puerto Rico was taken from the Spanish again as a result of war and thus is the same case as the Texas territory. Oh well so sad. And Hawaii was annexed because of its strategic location within the Pacific. Point is this is how countries have always grown and developed over the centuries; swallowing up smaller people and nations in their dominance. It's human nature.
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Tale is the invasion of the azores islands didn't go through because of England. As they told America that Portugal was their ally. And they basically sent a letter to Portugal under the Anglo-Portuguese alliance asking permission for America the have a base there or something like that. To which the Portuguese dictator agreed. Basically English bros being bros! Ps: cheers lads for that 🥂
8:54 I used to live in Panama and this was a heavy topic in my school. In 1964 some high school students protested against the US controlling the canal and some army soldiers started shooting at them :(
@Stephen Jenkins None of us know the exact amount of deaths occurring do we? The number of deaths are always changes based on propaganda. The thing is both did the same so.
US bases are there at the Request of the Host Government, (With the technical exception of Okinawa, though how true to treaty the US will be with that is questionable. Since closing it down has been seriously considered.) and should either side of the Agreement decide to end it will be dismantled, as happened with France the first time they freaked the fuck out and left NATO because it didn't do exactly what they wanted at all times. More importantly in Europe, those bases are the primary defense, as they allow the US to get a massive concentration of forces there in days to weeks rather than months. Since those bases are primarily logistics and communications hubs.
During its expansion, the USA tried to take the area north of the Great Lakes. That failed, twice (1775-1783)(1812-1814). So much for Manifest Destiny.
@@samgibson7218 Some reason?! Land theft (Joseph Brant and other UEL, Tecumseh, Sitting Bull) , slavery (abolished in Canada in 1793), abuse of native populations (Seminole, Cherokee, Tuscarora, Shawnee, Lakota). People were fighting for their lives and livelihood against "Manifest Destiny".
@@allanlank congratulations. You've manage to ruin A JOKE. A joke is a sentence said often with sarcasm, humor, or irony. You see the joke is most people often don't think of Canada as particuly strong and always think of the U.S. as a very strong coutry. So it would be found humorous to think about how America struggled so much with Canada at one point. I hope you can take my teachings and use them to keep from making the same mistake agian.
@Rick K Blacks escaping slavery would have been executed for merely crossing the border. General Harrison put a bounty on the head of every white man that fought on the side of the Indians. My own family left North Carolina just ahead of the hangman's noose in 1780, leaving behind their lands, property and corpses of family members who had been caught by the rebels. THAT IS FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIVES! Read a history book before making a dumbass statement.
actually, the US and Hawai’i did not agree to cooperation and annexation. US insurgents kidnapped queen Lili’uokalani by force and imprisoned her in her own bedroom, forcing her to sign the treaty. the natives of Hawai’i wanted to kill the armed US insurgents and free the queen. knowing that the Hawaiian people were extremely inexperienced in combat and would likely die by the hundreds or thousands to American firepower, the queen encouraged her people to stand down and not die. a little bit of Hawaiian history for you all. Aloha 🤙🏼
Awesome presentation man🙌 The facts are simplified and easy to catch on🤓 Bro do you mind doing a video on american history, american revolution and also a separate video on american civil war?
Fat Yoshi Guatemala has always claimed all of the Belize territory. The Brits usurped that territory. Guatemala will settle for the southern half though. It will be settled by the International Court in The Hague’s
And if you asked any of these territories if they would like to sever ties with America and become completely independent and self-sufficient, they would all say no.
I doubt any country would at the moment. Well maybe except North Korea, but they also used dollars and yuan since North Korean currently is so unstable at this point
Bruh what? The united states killed any natives they saw or they just rape them, i'ts a shame how the black legend affected you and millions of people, Spain built hospitals, universities and gived rights to natives, all the Spanish territories were Spain, not part of Spain. (Te recomiendo el canal de TH-cam llamado pax hispánica, ahí solo dicen verdades, hermano hispano ^^)
wow, truly sad how this is even a statement. Before white men came and killed off half of the continent with diseases. South America & Central Americans (indigenous people) lived simply, the way we are suppose to live and they would have evolved on their own into their own civilizations. Even though they did not expand they monopolized the central americas economy, responsible for every issue in Central America.
Seems to me this video while presenting facts tries to distort things to paint USA in a manner that its colonialism/imperialism wasn't particularly a bad thing compared to European imperialism... typical hypocritical Yanks. First and foremost Manifest Destiny was a colonial conquest by the USA.
I don't think at any point morality was brought up, nor the conditions that the people lived in under US rule vs European. Just that, in most cases, US possessions were temporary vs European powers permanently settling land. I guess you can interpret that to say that it's "not a bad thing" but that's literally just stating a difference of time and purpose.
Matt Finkel neither colonialism was “bad” they were natural evolutions of the human condition and also in my opinion partly the legacy of Rome. America wouldn’t have forced the European powers to get rid of their empires if the Soviet Union wasn’t there to exploit them. In fact I believe the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, along with anti-terrorist operations in Africa, are indications of annoyance that western power no longer extends directly over large sections of the globe. But they did what was politically convenient at the time to get a heads up on the Soviets.
@@TheLocalLt america had nothing to do with getting rid of our colony's (dutch). In the carribean a couple are still part of our kingdom (curacao, sint maarten, aruba and a couple more.) The rest we granted independence ourself.
robin97rv America did force the Euros to get rid of colonies in areas of the world where the Soviets were sponsoring the “anti-colonial” movements. The Caribbean was an exception, as even after Cuba went communist there was less of a threat in the region, with the Cubans mainly sponsoring communist movements in South America instead. But for example America made the Netherlands get rid of the Dutch East Indies because they thought the Dutch destroying the rebellious local government would cause the rise of communism, which had been widespread on the islands 2-3 years earlier.
I have estimated the total area of the greatest territorial extent of the United States to be 4,111,000 sq mi (10,647,441 sq km), including the occupied countries of Japan, South Korea, parts of Germany and Austria. This territorial extent lasts for approximately 300 days when the United States begins the occupation of South Korea on September 8, 1945 and it ended when the Philippines was granted independence on July 4, 1946. The United States would have been the world’s second largest country by area, covering 2.09% of the world’s total land area, or 47.53% of the area of all of the former Soviet Union combined.
I find this size to be quite impressive! Didn't know the US could be considered the _second_ largest country! Thanks for the information! Also, maybe I could do some more research into _how_ large the US has become over time!
Adam Latosiński see Washington State where I’m typing this from. Seattle is America’s Vladivostok. But it’s perfectly legitimate, conquest is conquest, battles draw borders.
Good point! After all, just about everyone agrees that Russia's expansion into Siberia was colonization. The official name of Russia from 1721 to 1917 was even "the Russian Empire"! Hence, Russia can easily prove that a colony _can_ be attached to the mainland... and hence, the US's own expansion during _manifest_ _destiny_ can be called colonization!
I think you should mention Mahan. His influence on US policy was critical in the expansion beyond the continent. The territories were primarily taken for naval purposes as a strong navy was thought to be able to project power in international affairs.
There is a lot of Western Provinces that are pushing to join the U.S. , or at the very least want to become an American protectorate after succeeding from Canada . It will be called the Nation of Buffalo and be the west half of Canada .🇨🇦
The current US states were populated by settlers from the other states that moved West. They were mostly Anglos/Europeans. No so Guam, Samoa, PR., USVI. and so on. So to get the US congress to approve those non-Anglo/ mostly non-European territories for Statehood is an uphill battle especially with PR. which for all intended purposes is a Spanish speaking Latin American nation. When it comes to Independence, some US states do plenty of business with some of these territories. Cutting them lose means losing trade which is a no no. For example, the US economy makes much more from PR. then it gives them so some say they have dragged there feet when it comes to deciding there political status.
12:49 I'm puertorican and I can say that yes there have been politicians that have wanted Puerto Rico to be a state One of this politicians was Ricardo Rosello but after the population had been tired of his poor management after the absolute disaster of the Irma and Maria hurricanes (I had no electricity for around 2 months!!!!) (and other reasons that would take too long to explain) there where marches in the capital city of San Juan to make him leave and he did after many weeks of marches so I can't say for sure if Puerto Rico will become a state.
@@chesterolson9242 Before Ricardo left the position of governor he did a referendum to see how many people wanted Independence Statehood or To things to stay the way they are, but from what I remeber Statehood won 62% but before, statehood wasn't that popular so I guess times are changing Also I don't know how many people went to make their choice so I can't say definetively if the people want Puerto Rico to become a state. If you ask me, I'm still not sure but statehood does bring some benefits but Puerto Rico wouldn't have their own teams in sports because they'd be playing to represent the USA not Puerto Rico (yes Puerto Rico's athletes represent Puerto Rico instead of the US) Side note:Puertoricans like sports specially baseball basketball and boxing
Alexander S. I would have to disagree with that. I think they would be better off being the 51st state. But that is not up to me but it’s their decision
It does not matter what the people in PR want. Current law says that US Congress has full power over the Unincorporated Territories. With a simple majority vote in Congress, they can decide to make PR a state, a free country, or cede it to another country. The consent of the inhabitants of the Island is not required as stated by the SCOTUS in 1901-1902 Insular Cases.
If the United States own CENTRAL AMERICA that would benefit the US in so many ways not only Central America has tropical agriculture like sugar cane coconut Coffee beans corn and so much more tropical agriculture produce but also Central America has the Second largest coral reef in the world the heart of the Mayan World land of volcano LAKES and Rivers and beautiful beaches from the Caribbean sea to The Pacific coast
Most of the western US was basically empty or extremely sparsely populated. It's a bit different. Also the vast majority of those Pacific islands are glorified sandbars captured from the Japanese in ww2, not colonialism.
The video with the results and winners of the flag contest will be uploaded next week! Still going through all the submissions since there were close to 1000!
I commented on the video for Bolivia
I made mine
Why countryballs her
Louisana was not "purchased" lmao i just purchased all of europe from saudi arabia without europe knowing lmao
"Conquered"? More like broken treaties.
When a former colony makes new colonies
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@@Heavy-metaaal Thanks
@WeebSloth YT Yeah pretty much
Take a look of South Africa's history. South Africa, at the time a british colony, took control over Namibia as a colony. Therefore making the only case of a 2nd order colony.
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USA: has colonial empire
England: You've become the very thing you swore to destroy...
British empire needs to be restored
Bruh underrated ! 😂😂😂
@@alanbstard4 Thats fucking Crazy. No empire`s have caused more death and destruction then Great Britian Empire.
@@odina3688 not really
@@alanbstard4 WOW. Clearly you have a patriotic feeling witch clouds your intelligence and knowledge in regard of the Brittish Empire or you are simply uneducatet witch is fine. I suggest you should do sum research on Brittish Empire. Il give you a hint. (Over 150 million ppl DEAD).
America: Yo that colonialism thing is kinda wack
Also America:
Why is it when i click on your pfp it's pixel?
*w a c k* you say?
Liberia was an interesting one for America tho
@@plarteey1316 that wasn’t a colony . Ask Puerto Rico if they don’t want to be apart of America
"America: Yo that colonialism thing is kinda wack"
America was never anti-colonialism, historylet.
I feel like some British dude is going to say “Ha, you call that an empire” or something along those lines...
Connor White you call that an empire
@Eric Kim *Laugh in ballistic missiles*
@Jason Bailey *pulls* *out* *historical* *loses* *that* *have* *lead* *Britian* *to* *where* *it* *is* *now*
@@forbesupnxlous8681 **Pulls out a list of reasons as to why most countries hate the US**
@@Aml_07 *pulls out reason of why does don't country dont hate the USA and only about most middle eastern countries hate usa*
America 1919: stop imperialism
Also America: IMPERIALISM🎉
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In case the video didn't show this, america had most of its territories and colonies etc BEFORE 1919 and a majority of the territory was purchased from france, UK and Russia. Most of the invaded territories came from the spanish and mexican wars with exceptions such as Hawaii and uninhabited islands like Wake island. All of this happened before 1919.
@@craycraykian508 yes but the moral is that america "hated" imperialism while it conducted it.
USA: "Don't bother us and we won't bother you."
Other nations in the Americas: *Doesn't bother USA*
USA: "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
US: You must be in need of freedom.
@@mirzahamzabaig5667 Please do not resist
And people wonder why Kim Jong Un womt give up his nuclear weapons
It appears that your people are interested in the importation of some *F R E E D O M.*
@@KingDayDayDay00 Which is weird, because he clearly could use the help getting his nukes to actually launch successfully and present an actual threat to anybody east of Japan...
The country is El Salvador, San Salvador is the capital of El Salvador.
Maybe it went back and forth similar to San Juan and Puerto Rico.
San Salvador was the name of the territory.
they called the territory san salvador
@@ppaaccoojrf I was not able to verify this in a cursory search. Would you mind citing a source where I can check this?
Santo Domingo was also the name of the whole Dominican Republic and also for a while even Haiti.
USA: Imperialism
Netherlands: *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*
You spelled North-Belgium wrong
King Leopold II of Belgium your are south holland and another district of France 🇫🇷 so shut up. Don’t even have your own language
@@TheRealKingLeopoldII What's that, Southern Netherlands?
Martijn Ooms and Northern France
He is legit everywhere lol
Wilson was President from 1912-1920; McKinley was the one who started the Spanish-American War.
Yeah wilson was pres during ww1
1913-1921*
They kind of lose all credibility after that.
@@Charlie-jf4en ikr. You can't make a history video and get crucial facts wrong and not even address it anywhere in the comments.
No that war was started by William Pulitzer newspaper owner, he even bragged about it.
Some interesting fact here: Both Philippines and Puerto Rico were ceded to US from Spain on the same year. Philippines eventually became independent, totally dropped Spanish and English became widely spoken. Puerto Rico on the other hand remained a Commonwealth but the Spanish language is still retained.
* puerto rico are not commonwealth
Puerto rico will become the next state
Gaming For A Day okay but until then they are a territory (commonwealth has no meaning in American law it’s just a name)
@@TheLocalLt
They use US currency, are protected by the US military, and are a US territory. Commonwealth has at least some legitimate usage in this instance. Same as Guam and American Samoa.
Philippines sounds like the place for me (a bilingual)
As far as I am concerned the expansion of the US to the west was the same kind of imperialism/colonialism as the Russian Empire expanding east.
Americans actually tried to continue Manifest Destiny in the Russian Far East.
Alaska?
@@hendrikdependrik1891 American Vladivostok, that will be interesting. And the State of Primorsky
Yes, indeed. The name “Manifest Destiny” is just a poor fake mask to sound it better. US forced Native Americans to leave and killed them. They broke many treaties between Native Americans even though it was unfair treaty toward Native Americans.
@@budoumurasaki5856 *and here we go again* ... Listen here boy, sure the United States did all of that but still is no excuse to put it like is a big thing. The north america natives got pushed out of their former lands but they are the ones that got it easy out of their situation. What I mean? one sentence: *Spanish Empire and their conquistadores* : the ones that simply wiped out three natives empires (aka: The Aztecs, the Mayas, and the Incas) and hundreds of small tribes either by straightforward slaughter or the diseases they brought. You can bitch about the US and their treatment of the natives but can't deny one thing, that the US still have entire communities of natives alive with their culture preserved and being pay reparations from the government, on the other hand, how many natives descendent of Aztec, Maya, and Inca are still alive and getting reparations from the Spanish government?
Hate how videos like these brush aside the Philippine-American War that lasted like 3 years and killed 100 thousand filipinos:/ it always seems like a footnote to the shorter spanish american war with even fewer casualities. we gained our independence in 1898 and then lost it again to our supposed ally.
Americans were never our friends binahagi tlga nila ang sinasabing sumpa ng kasaysayan sa pinas. Sana mabawi na ang colonial mentality ng mga kababayan naten.
@@kikojavier3804 yeah no country would ever be friend, the only things that make them close was interest.
@@JoemamaGaming-md6je the thing that made us close with the americans was there colonisation. if they never invaded us we wouldnt really give a shit about them
Well that's the point of the video. It's about the colonial empire but it doesn't talk about each event in detail.
American occupation of the Philippines was temporary only to keep it from falling into the hands of France Britain or Germany. If the Americans hadn’t occupied it, it would have just become a German French or British colony.
US: Land of the free
Also US: I know we made a bunch of treaties with your tribes but we the American people have decided it's free real estate.
Guns beat paper
US: Recognized the Kingdom of Hawai’i as an independent nation.
Also US: I know the Geneva Convention says we aren’t supposed to annex another country during wartime but we the American people have decided it’s free real estate
@@ganjasayjuh imperialism is only good when America does it
That's a fact
@Stephen Jenkins For white male Americans. But they don't like to talk about that
Lumberjack 2016 what are you implying?
10:40 "They took control of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands."
Palau: Am I a joke to you?
please the french oun you.
when the marshall islands were claimed by germany: *sad hitler noises**
Palau wasn't colonized by America tho. If they were, they would've been part of the Philippines, would they not?🤔🤔
@@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 Palau was one of the ex-Japanese colonies that the US acquired in 1945. It, alongside Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands, was part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands until the 1980s and 1990s. Nowadays, Palau is a US associated state, like Micronesia and the Marshall Islands.
For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands
Yes
If you think the US colonial empire was weird, wait until you see Australia's. Australia uses the power of being nice and countries just give it land.
1884, The state of Queensland randomly annexes Papua for the British empire, the British were like, "What? Why would you do that?" Queensland replied, "So the Germans won't get it." 30 years later the British said, "It was nice of you to do that but we don't want it, you keep it."
1901, New South Wales was like, "Hey Britain, can we make a country with the other colonies." Britain replied "Yeah sure but New Zealand can't join you can have Fiji though" "Nah, we'll just have the Australian states"
1920, League of nations says, "Hey, Australia, good work in WW1, you can have New Guinea, the Solomon islands and Nauru." Australia replies, "Thanks guys, means a lot to me."
1931, Britain asks, "Hey Australia you want some islands..." 3 years later Western Australia replies, "Yes! We can turn them into a conservation area.
1933, Britain asks "Hey Australia, you want a land border with France?" "Where?" "Antarctica, we are thinking about giving New Zealand and South Africa some too." Australia replies, "How about you give us South Africa's bit too until they stop being racist?" Britain replies, "Great idea Australia!"
1947, "Hey Australia, you want some volcano islands above Antarctica too?" "Okay."
1955, "Hey Australia, how would you like to own the Cocos Islands?" "The What?" "They speak Malay and they are Muslim?" "...Sounds interesting okay."
1958, Australia asks, "Excuse me Britain can you make Singapore give me the Christmas islands?" "You gonna pay for them?" "yeah of course" "Sure then"
1969, Hold on a minute, the coral sea isn't part of Queensland? Get annexed fish.
1975, East Timor is like, "Hey Australia can we join your country, It's better you take us over instead of Indonesia" "Sorry buddy, but that ain't happening, we'll guarantee your independence instead."
Also 1975, Australia to Australia, "Papua and New Guinea aren't really that Australian are they?" "Let's make a new country."
Still 1975, Papua and New Guinea are like, "What's a good name for our country?" Solomon Islands are like, "I don't know guys but I'm out."
Still in 1975, Nauru is like, "Hey Australia, you remember how we are part of New guinea? "Yeah" "well now we ain't."
Are you sure because they're being nice and not because they got a lot of dangerous animals that can breed in rapid rate?
Are you sure that’s because of being nice and not because of Daddy UK doing everything for Australia while Australia is a bootlicker?
Kers1 sounds like you’re australian
Now Australia "colonize" East Timor by exploiting the country's oil and natural gas reserves
@@DJuuJ uk, usa, aussie are in a same gang
10:54 : Palawan, Philippines: *am I a joke to you?*
yes here are 15,000 women's shoes.
Hahahahah..😂
Tbf the USA toppled the Hawaiian monarchy and the uk and France weren’t colonising Hawaii. The US annexed Hawaii in a kind of dodgy way. The whole reason why there is a uk flag on the Hawaiian flag is as a symbol of friendship
Yep....Bill Clinton offered an Official Presidential apology for the coup and stealing Hawaii.
But that was it.
You would think they would free the state again....but no....lol
@@Dangic23 after a century of being fully integrated core territory? That's like saying England should liberate Cornwall or France should give up the Normandy coast. Or that literally any country should give land back to someone. Cause every scrap of land and some point was owned by someone else at some other point
@@travishenty1113
A coup is different.
Hawaii was an internationally recognized sovereign country.
@@Dangic23 well after all this time without anyone really making an issue it doesn't really matter anyway, except to take note that USA is the type of friend you don't need nor want.
@@Dangic23 Yes, because the Hawaiian people are in a state of rebellion. They demand their independence. No, wait, that's not happening. They're just fine with being a state. Oh, and technically, the US didn't launch a coup in Hawaii. There were two main factions in Hawaii: those who supported the monarchy, and those who didn't. While the US didn't really have an issue with the monarchy, the faction opposed to it was run by people who had strong connections with the US...especially American businesses. When they decided they were about ready to make their move, they reached out to their business associates in the US. They in turn convinced the US government to back the coup. That backing primarily took the form of logistics and transportation, which allowed them to get into position and make their move before the Hawaiian government's forces could get organized for an effective response. Once the coup succeeded in taking control, the US government immediately recognized the new government and offered their protection to guarantee that no European power would try to remove them from power. So, America's backing made it possible for the coup to be as quick and clean as it was, but they weren't the ones that organized it. Having said that, the ones who DID organize the coup were the business partners of some powerful American companies, so it's kind of hard to prove whether or not the American businesses were moving to help their partners because they figured it would make it easier for them to do business in Hawaii, or whether they encouraged their Hawaiian partners to organize the coup for the same reason. Either way, it doesn't look good. On the other hand, everything turned out well in the end.
I'd like to add that at that time, the Philippines referred itself as "Islas Filipinas" or "Philippine Islands". It was part of the larger entity called "Capitania Generál de Filipinas" which comprised the Philippine Islands, Marianas Islands, Caroline Islands, and Palau
you forgot the line I'M SO PROUD TO BE FILIPINO.. this is really incomplete
Make Philippines great again
Everyone forget the Maharlika Empire
WTF maharlika? Pilipino kaba walang maharlika noon
Emisor Anonimo Mabuhay ang Republika ng Katagalugan! Lmao
The US colonialism of the Philippines was strongly opposed by the natives, many of whom were killed in the struggle, after the US reneged on their promise for full Philippine independence. How Hawaii was annexed is also left out. I'm afraid everything seems so cerebral.
Map at start of video: Northern Ireland is an island!
Definitely the strangest way I’ve seen NI be depicted on a map. Is that what’s gonna happen to us after a no deal Brexit?
Siddif haha
Incognito you may want it to be that way but like it or hate it we are currently under the U.K. Brexit may ignite interest in a border poll but in general the U.K. don’t want us and neither do ROI.
Hopefully at the very least we will have the customs union and keep the border as unobtrusive as possible.
"Mexico CEDED..." hmmm...
Nacho Qualsevol well they technically did after getting whooped by the US
well they did, they just didnt have much of a say in the matter...
Lorenzo Panza “whooped”
More like was forced to give up. We baited Mexico into war by occupying disputed territory
AssMonkey Gaming indeed. funny how mexico’s dictator but president even though a total dictator, at the time, signed the treaty ending the texan revolution, giving texas the land north of the rio grande. but since mexico was losing land to other latin american countries they wanted to hold onto as much land as they could claiming everything south of the san antonio river, theirs. but then mexico shot some us soldiers in disputed territory. and here we are today.
When you colonize so hard that your colonies have a colony.
Amit Kumar haha
A knowledgeable friend from Puerto Rico told me that Puerto Rico had obtained its independence from Spain a year BEFORE Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the United States after the Spanish-American war. So Spain did not have it to give, but the US took it anyway, as a spoil of war.
Another time PR got independence was during El Grito de Lares revolt. The Republic of Puerto Rico was basically a thing for one day, and then Spain defeated the rebels and ended the revolt.
Spain was forced by the selfish Americans to cede Puerto Rico though
@@kingleo7281 sadly
1898 President Woodrow Wilson? He wasn't elected until 1912
He was probably just quoting him before he was the president but he is better known as the President although it would of been better if he never was the prez.......he ruined everything 😑
@@franzjoseph1837 He truly did - this was the true turning point of America - the election of an activist, progressive, former professor and a racist...
@@rusoviettovarich9221 wasnt he a Democrat? Progressiveness wasnt at all a bad idea 100 years ago as they concerned mainly on equal rights and preservation of nature, modernization. Kept USA out of war for a while, and tried to established a worldwide association for peace. I dont think he was at all bad.
@@Yoi-n5k Actually he was a member of the KKK and he helped them organized a parade in DC. He also watched the first film in the White House, Gone with the Wind a pro-Confederate Civil War Movie. A lot of bad policies came out during his Presidency including the Federal Reserve Bank and the IRS Income Tax. As for the war, if he gotten involved sooner or not at all, Hitler would probably not have gotten into power. That last bit is a long story, but worth looking up. Basically his influence on the Versailles Treaty messed up Europe.
Wilson is even quoted saying "I have unwittingly ruined my country." Although a professor and academic, he let his advisors run the Administration. He was way in over his head. He even suffered a stroke and was disabled at the end of his term, which his wife and staff hid from the public.
Uh, GWTW was made in 1939. You are thinking of Birth Of A Nation, 1915.
To put it in the eloquent words of Bill Wurtz, “The US ran out of destiny to manifest, so they’re looking for more.”
“Our country is populated by Colonists and Pioneers”
Native Americans, African Americans: ☹️
so-called "evil empire"
@acammtt Mexicans are colonizers as well.
They don't count
so called pioneers
acammtt yes mexicans are pioneers and colonizers. They had territorial ambitions like The US but didn’t work well
Im learning about this in civics and economics right now
everyone just brushes over the gadsden purchase. it was the last time the us expanded its boarders in the lower 48.
SuperCookieGaming right but no new territories were created because of it. It expanded the already existing southwest colonial territory
@@TheLocalLt colonial territory?
@@silverletter4551 yes, my point being that the Gadsden purchase is overlooked because the land was incorporated into the already existent American settler colony of New Mexico, as opposed to forming a new territorial entity on its own.
For now...😈
@@attackhelicopter6811 ok
Its a good day when General Knowledge uploads
Well its every Friday around 6pm he uploads them
True
everyone gangster till the colony stars colonizing
The last time I was this early
America wasnt even discovered....
me too
By Europeans or just anyone?
@@rydemk4168 Anyone, even the Vikings
@@ExpensiveHeadphones So we're just going to pretend that there weren't already millions of human beings living in North and South America? Or do they not matter because they weren't Europeans?
Kaiser Amadeus first off she wasn’t talking about that all she said was before America was discovered as in saying before America became the route for colonization and trade
Youre incredibly forgiving in this commentary lol
Puerto Rico, a US territory, voted a few times on independence, and rejected it each time. The terms of being a territory are actually quite good, with access to live and work in America, but when at home pay no federal income tax, while getting some federal funds for, say, superhighways. No vote in federal elections, except for a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives. But Puerto Rico rejected statehood too multiple times. (It eventually voted to seek statehood, but after it had run up debts that it couldn't extinguish except by becoming a state.)
None of those votes have ever been valid.
US Constitution does not require the consent of the inhabitants of an Unincorporated Territory to decide if it's made a state, a free country, or to cede it to another country.
It only requires a simple majority vote in Congress.
That's it.
They can do this anytime....even next monday.
But if you read the Insular cases.....you will learn that the US has never intended to add any Unincorporated Territory as a state.
Only "Incorporated " Territories have a guaranteed pathway to statehood.
PR has always been Unincorporated.
Dangic23 exactly. Unincorporated aka a permanent resource and/or military colony, as opposed to incorporated aka a colony primarily for settlement by citizens of existing American states, as part of a path to eventual statehood.
@@TheLocalLt
So simple.....yet.....nobody seems to understand.
Did you know that Philippines and Puerto Rico (both former colonies of Spain) played in FIBA World Cup 2014 which was held in Spain?
Spain: I'm proud of my former colonies.
Puerto Rico won the game btw.
PR. even plays in the PanAmerican games. Watch this short video of the raising of the PR. flag in the 2019 PanAmerican games held in Peru - th-cam.com/video/D4dv1fO6RuA/w-d-xo.html
Let’s go
Philippines and most especially Puerto Ricoo is better under the crown of Spain
Spain didnt had colonies, they had viceroyalties and these viceroyalties werent part of Spain, they were Spain, there's also no flag of Spain's colonialism
Great and well presented! Plosives are a bit startling. But tyfti.
I wish General knowledge would one day make a vid about the history of PR but I don’t think it would happen
Puerto Rico was finally a province of Spain for a very short time until U.S.A. came along and made it a colony again. I suggest you make a video of the history of Puerto Rico and how the U.S.A. keeps it as a colony (calls it a "territory") for its own economical and military power. Don't forget to talk about the Jones Act.
Then either vote for statehood or independence. Make up your minds already.
@benn454 their only option is independence because they owe the USA way to much money to become a state
@@bradlygamez4549 I would support an independent PR.
They aren’t a colony since they had voted for independence and rejected it.
@@thatsaboat2882 as if puertorrican independence hasn’t been reached yet because of colonialism itself
Why the double standard about manifest destiny? It sort of feels like you are defending the American conquest and subsequent subjugation of native lands by arguing that it was "kind of imperialism but not really". Just because it wasn't an overseas expansion doesn't disqualify it from counting as colonialism. Russia's expansion into Siberia is often rightfully called out as an example of imperialism and colonial expansion, so why can't America be held the same standards? The indifferent attitude towards the crimes commited by Americans in the name of manifest destiny is indicative of a widespread ignorance of historical understanding. When put in historical context, the conquest of the continental US can very easily be viewed as a continuation of the european-style colonialism that Britain, France and Spain brought to the American continent. I am not American, and I want to make it clear that I don't blame the descendants of European settlers for something that happened before their lifetime. But by not confronting the bloody history of your nation, you uphold the ignorant and dangerous idea of American supremacy that to this day continues to be used as justification for American military action towards other nations and the economic imperialism that involves the exploitation of the natural resources and industrial capacity of weaker countries by American companies. I apologize for the rant, but I am of the opinion that crimes committed by a society at the very least should be recognised and condemned by that same society before a process of reconciliation can begin.
Excellent point.
USA is as bad, maybe worse than, Russia but the US is just good at hiding it
Its comparable to Hitler wanting to take over Europe, Africa, Russia.
Expansionism is colonialism and imperialism.
That land was already claimed by Mexico, Britain, Spain, Russia, France, and others.
You kind of forgot to include Russia as a colonial power. Unlike the other European powers, Russia colonized East, by land, and still have almost all their colonies.The Eurasian steppe is as historically Slavic as the Americas are historically European.
Aren't the Americas historically non European? Then after they were invaded the "Europeans" imposed harsh conditions on the original inhabitants, and before you all start saying what about you - yes my country had a similar and brutal history.
@@aussiejim1616 Yes, and the Eurasian steppe is historically Iranian, Turkic, and Mongolian, not Russian. The Russians were probably the 4th biggest European colonizer after UK, France, and Spain. All their territory east of the Ural mountains is colonial territory and a good chunk of the territory west of them is too. And just as the US has little national enclaves for the original inhabitants, Russia does too.
@@williedavis9465 If we are nitpicking technically almost all of Russia inside Europe is colonised land since the original Muscovites who formed Russia only lived and controlled areas around Moscow. You can guess how they got to hold all the territory from Kola to Caucasus Mountains.
@@mlgsty8880 All people should return to the Rift Valley!
aussie jim sure the spaniards invaded the america’s. but not the french nor british. they were focused more on materials not conquered peoples. also there aren’t any “true” inhabitants to the americas. bc just like the europeans, afro-eurasian nomads followed their food sources all the way to the america’s, and settled there just like the pilgrims did.
As a Puerto Rican I will say this, Puerto Rico is going through a quiet and slow political shift. If you look at a age group pov, you will see that most statehood supporters are usually boomers/xers, while many, if not most nationalists are millenials/Zoomers. There are going to be big political shifts in the next 20-30 years.
PS I've seen many people use the referendums as a source. Take them with a GRAIN OF SALT, since they were either boycotted(2017), or modified to make statehood look on top (2012)
If PR's population continues to plummet, mostly due to effects from US policy, I don't know how long independence can even be a viable option.
@@TerryTerius simple, most of those leaving are statehood supporters. Look at a Florida PR poll, 80% of those that left support that. As more leave, and as more young people support nationhood, you will soon see nationalists take key positions in PR government (like Scotland's SNP.) Population is also not a factor for independence
Well I wish you luck if you guys go that route. Our congress sucks and it's bullshit your representatives don't get to vote on policy that affects you there.
I don't see why America wouldn't give you guys independence, no offense but your island is quite useless and the Americans already have a bunch of military bases in the Carribean. If you don't align with China otherwise I literally see no point in owning that territory.
As an American on the mainland who is interested in the territories, thanks for the information! I will now be observing not just the pro-statehood and pro-territory factions, but also the _independentistas_ as well!
The difference between Alaska or Hawaii with Puerto Rico is that Puerto Rico has not beeen assimilated during the last century, and they keep their nationality. Yes, it also happens in Quebec inside Canada, and Puerto Rico could be a kind of Quebec, but there is also an strong sense of Indepdendence in Puerto Rico.
Quebec is a province of Canada, French is also one of the 2 official languages of Canada, Quebec even at the time of British colonization are having their special laws already such as but not limited to freedom for them being Catholic. Not of which exist in Puerto Rico, Puerto rico was better under the Spanish crown than under oppressor Washington DC
general Knowledge : "invade land with peoples living there againts that is'nt colonisation if it's in the same continent and connected by land"
general Knowledge : "Hawaii is in North America"
What are you saying, stop drugs.
Nice! I liked the countryballs!
Mexico didn’t cede any territory it was taken, Puerto Rico wasn’t ceded it was taken, Guam wasn’t ceded was taken, Hawaii wasn’t anexed was taken, all without consulting the people that lived in those territories
It was ceded in a treaty.
Hawaii was annexed
In the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo Mexico formally ceded its northern territories to the U.S. Also, Mexico barely had any control over those territories even when it was a colony of Spain, they were seen as near ungovernable so they probably saw the treaty as an opportunity to get rid of it.
Mexico lost a war with the US and as was the custom they lost land. Oh well so sad for them.
Puerto Rico was taken from the Spanish again as a result of war and thus is the same case as the Texas territory. Oh well so sad.
And Hawaii was annexed because of its strategic location within the Pacific.
Point is this is how countries have always grown and developed over the centuries; swallowing up smaller people and nations in their dominance. It's human nature.
Tale is the invasion of the azores islands didn't go through because of England. As they told America that Portugal was their ally.
And they basically sent a letter to Portugal under the Anglo-Portuguese alliance asking permission for America the have a base there or something like that. To which the Portuguese dictator agreed.
Basically English bros being bros!
Ps: cheers lads for that 🥂
We call it Colonialism. They call it Freedom. So ironic.
Yeah
You say your general knowledge while brushing over very important stuff like the Philippine American war
China: no fair, I started way too late to the party. Why can't I colonize Hong Kong, Taiwan, or the entire South China Sea?
hong kong is a part of china tho as for taiwan, its constitution says its part of china
Good work! Very interesting
Native Americans were colonialists in their time as well, some 30-40K years ago they came from Asia through Beringia!
Cuba, PR, Guam and the Philippines were taken by the United States in 1898
1:42 Definitely going to start calling the rebel states "the revolting 13 colonies"! 😂
You forgot about the Navassa :) but in all seriousness , love your vids!
The U.S controlled the Panama Canal Zone until December 31, 1999
0:36 I swear that map of Europe detached North Ireland from the rest of Ireland
I didn't notice till just now! Thanks for mentioning it!
How many times has a "USA ship" been sunk to justify a war?
8:54 I used to live in Panama and this was a heavy topic in my school. In 1964 some high school students protested against the US controlling the canal and some army soldiers started shooting at them :(
That really sucks
...Even this "Freedom" country kills people
I support Panama independence. Greetings from Brazil.
US: Hey look guys Tinanmen bad!
Also US: YoU kNoW wHaT wOuLd Be A gOoD iDeA?
@Stephen Jenkins
None of us know the exact amount of deaths occurring do we? The number of deaths are always changes based on propaganda. The thing is both did the same so.
I'm sorry but I need proof to believe something as fragile as that.
Hey There! Your video seems to imply that Wilson was president in 1898?...
GLP:
American Colonization by the GLP (1673-1934)
*“Britain made a colony so big it made other colonies”*
Britain: Pathetic
Also Britain: how are you gonna do colonization when you broke away from it.
And about the territories in Europe, Germany, Italy and also in Asia in Japan
and Korea, too
Those bases are there with blessings of the government
US bases are there at the Request of the Host Government, (With the technical exception of Okinawa, though how true to treaty the US will be with that is questionable. Since closing it down has been seriously considered.) and should either side of the Agreement decide to end it will be dismantled, as happened with France the first time they freaked the fuck out and left NATO because it didn't do exactly what they wanted at all times. More importantly in Europe, those bases are the primary defense, as they allow the US to get a massive concentration of forces there in days to weeks rather than months. Since those bases are primarily logistics and communications hubs.
During its expansion, the USA tried to take the area north of the Great Lakes. That failed, twice (1775-1783)(1812-1814). So much for Manifest Destiny.
In the end they did reach the pacific which was the main goal. This was more of a side quest that was unreasonably difficult for some reason.
@@samgibson7218 Some reason?! Land theft (Joseph Brant and other UEL, Tecumseh, Sitting Bull) , slavery (abolished in Canada in 1793), abuse of native populations (Seminole, Cherokee, Tuscarora, Shawnee, Lakota). People were fighting for their lives and livelihood against "Manifest Destiny".
@@allanlank you are a complete moron and us didnt try to take lake areas they tried to beat British army there
@@allanlank congratulations. You've manage to ruin A JOKE. A joke is a sentence said often with sarcasm, humor, or irony. You see the joke is most people often don't think of Canada as particuly strong and always think of the U.S. as a very strong coutry. So it would be found humorous to think about how America struggled so much with Canada at one point. I hope you can take my teachings and use them to keep from making the same mistake agian.
@Rick K Blacks escaping slavery would have been executed for merely crossing the border. General Harrison put a bounty on the head of every white man that fought on the side of the Indians. My own family left North Carolina just ahead of the hangman's noose in 1780, leaving behind their lands, property and corpses of family members who had been caught by the rebels. THAT IS FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIVES! Read a history book before making a dumbass statement.
Cant wait to see the triggered people in the comments
Thank goodness U.S. leaders had the foresight to expand.
@@Account-jn7xu no we don’t give puerto rico independence already
and kill a bunch of native americans as well
i'm watching this right now during our indipendence day (Philippines)
“In 1898, president ‘Woodrow Wilson.’” Lose all credibility when you can’t even state the correct president at the time.
yes but I think he meant that Wilson wrote it in 1898 but he was President later, he was not trying to name who was President at the time!!!
Nice vid, thank you
2:58 Outside of North America: HE POINTS ALASKA.
he meant outside of not america
Yes but they bought it off russia
Many of those colonies who went independent we have many bases them 5 in the Philippines if I remember.
Why dislikes? People, this is incredible content
Because they forgot to put palawan island in their ilustration of philippine archipelago 😅 i think
Maybe some people don't like learning
True
There are factual errors
krispy kreme this bruh. you can’t have bias if there was already non factual claims at the very start of the video.
Not gonna lie i would love to see much country grow
0:49 William McKinley was president of the US in 1898, NOT Woodrow Wilson.
bruh i guess woodrow wilson only wrote it when HE WASNT A US PRESIDENT yet in 1898
USA: Has Colonial Empire
Britain: **cries** I raised that boy
actually, the US and Hawai’i did not agree to cooperation and annexation. US insurgents kidnapped queen Lili’uokalani by force and imprisoned her in her own bedroom, forcing her to sign the treaty. the natives of Hawai’i wanted to kill the armed US insurgents and free the queen. knowing that the Hawaiian people were extremely inexperienced in combat and would likely die by the hundreds or thousands to American firepower, the queen encouraged her people to stand down and not die. a little bit of Hawaiian history for you all. Aloha 🤙🏼
Giving up the Canal for nothing but brownie points was a monumental mistake
10:26 Cape Verde was a Portuguese colony, not Spanish 😬
Graças ao teu alerta, revi o mapa. Parece-me que identifica as Canárias como sendo Cabo Verde, e CV como sendo colónia espanhola, são 2 erros.
Awesome presentation man🙌
The facts are simplified and easy to catch on🤓
Bro do you mind doing a video on american history, american revolution and also a separate video on american civil war?
4:11 Why is Belize there? Wasn't it British
British Honduras was its name at the time. And today, Guatemala claims half of Belize's territory.
yes
Fat Yoshi Guatemala has always claimed all of the Belize territory. The Brits usurped that territory. Guatemala will settle for the southern half though. It will be settled by the International Court in The Hague’s
@@Roca005 the law has always favoured Guatemala's claim but thing's are not that easy specially if they were under brithis rule.
You are everywhere
And if you asked any of these territories if they would like to sever ties with America and become completely independent and self-sufficient, they would all say no.
Well Puerto Rico partially wants to be independent partially wants to be a state
I doubt any country would at the moment. Well maybe except North Korea, but they also used dollars and yuan since North Korean currently is so unstable at this point
@@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 ?
@@wowthatsucks3646 "completely independent" from America is hard to do when everyone relies on them.
@@wowthatsucks3646 "self sufficient" is also hard to do since your country will run out of resources eventually
Puerto Rico, Guam & American Virgin Islands are technically still Colonies, so it never ended
@S E P puerto rico is a colony
Superb video
So.......whens Guam going to start making colonies
Soon , need to build more Islands first , then go rogue with U.S. backing !
I’m Guatemala and I wish they would’ve expanded. America is great and if Central America would have been part of America it would be greater as well
I wish the independence never happend
Bruh what? The united states killed any natives they saw or they just rape them, i'ts a shame how the black legend affected you and millions of people, Spain built hospitals, universities and gived rights to natives, all the Spanish territories were Spain, not part of Spain.
(Te recomiendo el canal de TH-cam llamado pax hispánica, ahí solo dicen verdades, hermano hispano ^^)
wow, truly sad how this is even a statement. Before white men came and killed off half of the continent with diseases. South America & Central Americans (indigenous people) lived simply, the way we are suppose to live and they would have evolved on their own into their own civilizations. Even though they did not expand they monopolized the central americas economy, responsible for every issue in Central America.
Seems to me this video while presenting facts tries to distort things to paint USA in a manner that its colonialism/imperialism wasn't particularly a bad thing compared to European imperialism... typical hypocritical Yanks. First and foremost Manifest Destiny was a colonial conquest by the USA.
I don't think at any point morality was brought up, nor the conditions that the people lived in under US rule vs European. Just that, in most cases, US possessions were temporary vs European powers permanently settling land. I guess you can interpret that to say that it's "not a bad thing" but that's literally just stating a difference of time and purpose.
Matt Finkel neither colonialism was “bad” they were natural evolutions of the human condition and also in my opinion partly the legacy of Rome. America wouldn’t have forced the European powers to get rid of their empires if the Soviet Union wasn’t there to exploit them. In fact I believe the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, along with anti-terrorist operations in Africa, are indications of annoyance that western power no longer extends directly over large sections of the globe. But they did what was politically convenient at the time to get a heads up on the Soviets.
The uploader isn't an American. So try again instead of jumping on your "I hate the US" soapbox.
@@TheLocalLt america had nothing to do with getting rid of our colony's (dutch). In the carribean a couple are still part of our kingdom (curacao, sint maarten, aruba and a couple more.) The rest we granted independence ourself.
robin97rv America did force the Euros to get rid of colonies in areas of the world where the Soviets were sponsoring the “anti-colonial” movements. The Caribbean was an exception, as even after Cuba went communist there was less of a threat in the region, with the Cubans mainly sponsoring communist movements in South America instead. But for example America made the Netherlands get rid of the Dutch East Indies because they thought the Dutch destroying the rebellious local government would cause the rise of communism, which had been widespread on the islands 2-3 years earlier.
Woodrow Wilson was not President in 1898. That would be William McKinley
I have estimated the total area of the greatest territorial extent of the United States to be 4,111,000 sq mi (10,647,441 sq km), including the occupied countries of Japan, South Korea, parts of Germany and Austria.
This territorial extent lasts for approximately 300 days when the United States begins the occupation of South Korea on September 8, 1945 and it ended when the Philippines was granted independence on July 4, 1946.
The United States would have been the world’s second largest country by area, covering 2.09% of the world’s total land area, or 47.53% of the area of all of the former Soviet Union combined.
Damn the USSR surely was big
I find this size to be quite impressive! Didn't know the US could be considered the _second_ largest country! Thanks for the information!
Also, maybe I could do some more research into _how_ large the US has become over time!
Reason we "forget" about colonization, is because we teach it as if the US didn't do it, and it was a European thing. 🤷
One humble request. Please increase the volume of your voice
You see that weird long bump on the side of your phone? Keep hitting the upper part of it and he will speak louder
Totally glossing over the Mexican-American war...
Colonies don't have to be oversea, see Russian Siberia.
I'm still not sure the asia part is Russia overall size or other country
Adam Latosiński see Washington State where I’m typing this from. Seattle is America’s Vladivostok. But it’s perfectly legitimate, conquest is conquest, battles draw borders.
Good point! After all, just about everyone agrees that Russia's expansion into Siberia was colonization. The official name of Russia from 1721 to 1917 was even "the Russian Empire"! Hence, Russia can easily prove that a colony _can_ be attached to the mainland... and hence, the US's own expansion during _manifest_ _destiny_ can be called colonization!
I think you should mention Mahan. His influence on US policy was critical in the expansion beyond the continent. The territories were primarily taken for naval purposes as a strong navy was thought to be able to project power in international affairs.
The last time I was this early Logan Paul felt like he won
They’ve also made attempts to buy Greenland in order to annex Canada
There is a lot of Western Provinces that are pushing to join the U.S. , or at the very least want to become an American protectorate after succeeding from Canada . It will be called the Nation of Buffalo and be the west half of Canada .🇨🇦
Can u do South Africa fun with flags pls🙏
Join his discord and ask him for this to get done link in the description
The difference is that us territories can become equal states or gain independence if they want to
The current US states were populated by settlers from the other states that moved West. They were mostly Anglos/Europeans. No so Guam, Samoa, PR., USVI. and so on. So to get the US congress to approve those non-Anglo/ mostly non-European territories for Statehood is an uphill battle especially with PR. which for all intended purposes is a Spanish speaking Latin American nation. When it comes to Independence, some US states do plenty of business with some of these territories. Cutting them lose means losing trade which is a no no. For example, the US economy makes much more from PR. then it gives them so some say they have dragged there feet when it comes to deciding there political status.
12:49
I'm puertorican and I can say that yes there have been politicians that have wanted Puerto Rico to be a state
One of this politicians was Ricardo Rosello but after the population had been tired of his poor management after the absolute disaster of the Irma and Maria hurricanes (I had no electricity for around 2 months!!!!) (and other reasons that would take too long to explain) there where marches in the capital city of San Juan to make him leave and he did after many weeks of marches so I can't say for sure if Puerto Rico will become a state.
question does the people of Puerto Rico want to become a state
@@chesterolson9242 Before Ricardo left the position of governor he did a referendum to see how many people wanted Independence
Statehood or
To things to stay the way they are, but from what I remeber Statehood won 62% but before, statehood wasn't that popular so I guess times are changing
Also I don't know how many people went to make their choice so I can't say definetively if the people want Puerto Rico to become a state.
If you ask me, I'm still not sure but statehood does bring some benefits but Puerto Rico wouldn't have their own teams in sports because they'd be playing to represent the USA not Puerto Rico (yes Puerto Rico's athletes represent Puerto Rico instead of the US)
Side note:Puertoricans like sports specially baseball basketball and boxing
Puerto Rico should just become independent
Alexander S. I would have to disagree with that. I think they would be better off being the 51st state. But that is not up to me but it’s their decision
It does not matter what the people in PR want.
Current law says that US Congress has full power over the Unincorporated Territories.
With a simple majority vote in Congress, they can decide to make PR a state, a free country, or cede it to another country.
The consent of the inhabitants of the Island is not required as stated by the SCOTUS in 1901-1902 Insular Cases.
If the United States own CENTRAL AMERICA that would benefit the US in so many ways not only Central America has tropical agriculture like sugar cane coconut Coffee beans corn and so much more tropical agriculture produce but also Central America has the Second largest coral reef in the world the heart of the Mayan World land of volcano LAKES and Rivers and beautiful beaches from the Caribbean sea to The Pacific coast
Well thanks to US interventions in Central America they are still poor and are more easily to be exploited by US American capitalist
Most of the western US was basically empty or extremely sparsely populated. It's a bit different. Also the vast majority of those Pacific islands are glorified sandbars captured from the Japanese in ww2, not colonialism.