Greenland - The Nation Explained
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This video is the first release from a month-long international filming and research trip I took this summer. It's a project that's been long in the making. I had the privilege of spending a week in Nuuk, meeting locals, doing research, making observations, and exploring a beautiful and fascinating city. Myself and my brother, Quinn the Cameraman - / @quinnthecameraman - have been working on a number of films about our trip and the countries we visited. Many, though not all, of the photos of Nuuk, Iceland, and Denmark included were taken by us on location. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did making it.
-Carter
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As a Kalaaleq, I must say that this is one of the most detailed, accurate, and well researched documentaries about Kalaallit Nunaat I’ve seen on TH-cam. This hour just flew by
Totally agree 👍
If climate change is real then Greenland will get a huge boost! Warmer weather (though still cold) and less ice in the way of navigation. Also would open up new areas to agriculture and allow more access to all the precious metals and rare earth elements currently locked beneath the ice.
@@derekwest4245Its bad for the rest of the world (people, ecosystems, infrastructure, farming, etc)
Props to you for not doing something already covered extensively. Love it when you stand out. Greenland is super cool.
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& no music 😃👍
I also like no music so I can hear better. Usually music is loud and distracting.
its been covered many times actually lol.
This video is the first release from a month-long international filming and research trip I took this summer. It's a project that's been long in the making. I had the privilege of spending a week in Nuuk, meeting locals, doing research, making observations, and exploring a beautiful and fascinating city. Myself and my brother, Quinn the Cameraman - th-cam.com/channels/QwL-gGt4xxUnqKbpXPRZgw.html - have been working on a number of films about our trip and the countries we visited. Many, though not all, of the photos of Nuuk, Iceland, and Denmark included were taken by us on location. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did making it.
-Carter
Oh... yeah!
Great info, do you want to pin it to the top of the comment section?
This is a masterpiece. A definitive work.
@@Running4DazeApparently Brilliant paid for the pinned comment.
This was super interesting, thank you.
Love this! As a linguist and Greenland enthusiast, I love that you went out of the way to check the pronunciations of words instead of just making the "sorry for butchering these names lol" joke. I can help you check pronunciations of names for your future videos if you're interested!
Hear, hear. Carter is to be commended.
People shouldn't change their accent every time they say a word from a different region. It makes for poor continuity - an unpoetic flow - and it's difficult for listeners who don't speak the other language to comprehend.
It's better to approximate the pronunciation using phonemes and stresses/tones that exist in the language you're speaking. Or if an established way to say the word exists in your own accent, just say it like that.
Pronouncing something differently from how locals say it is not wrong - it's your accent. Variety is good! Everyone instinctively knows internal phonic rules that make their speaking style coherent. Breaking that structure creates unattractive speech.
Make the effort to study pronunciations so you can approximate them, yes, but repeatedly jumping in and out of your own accent sounds forced and awkward.
The golden rule is this: Don't use a sound in a sentence unless it exists in your accent.
If you do have the ability to switch into another language, it can add colour to the piece, but it needs to be in "inverted commas". (In spoken terms, that means there needs to be a pause before and after delineating it.)
Don't change language mid-sentence without alerting the listener's ear to the fact you're doing so.
@@george474747 I come from a culture where code switching mid sentence is very normal so I don't really see a problem with it
@@vatnidd If most of the listeners have some familiarity with both languages, and the speaker can use them together elegantly, that makes sense. When most of the audience can only identify and comprehend the sounds of one of them, it makes less sense.
If most listeners in the target language can't repeat back the word just said to them, and therefore can't identify and remember it, then it hasn't really been successfully communicated.
This really is a masterpiece of detail and a huge bonus that you actually visited. Amazing clip art and maps, really an exemplary statement about the educational potential of TH-cam.
I lived in Qaanaaq Greenland for 5 years, it’s the northern part of Greenland. The life in Greenland was extremely hard, due to extreme climate , 5 months of polar night total darkness 24 hrs and of course the midnight sun during summer ( 24 hrs daylight) there are no two towns that are connected by roads . Our transportation is by plane / chopper , and during summer boats and dogsled to nearby settlements.
From where I'm sitting in Portland, OR 2024 this sounds perfect.
Thank you! I'm almost 37 and ever since I was a kid, I would always take the one Greenland book out from the library, found a VHS tape travelougue online in the 90s, and information was so limited, but I made do with what I could find. I built up quite a collection of vintage books and Greenlandic language music CDs after getting into contact with Altantic Records that was in Nuuk. I always dreamed of going myself, but now I am disabled and would be unable to. Your information and video is the next best thing for me, and I greatly appreciate that.
excellent video as always-and as a linguist who studied kalaallisut for some time, i can say you did a good job with the pronunciations! keep up the great work, i love your videos!
Also, kudos to you Carter for the excellent pronunciation of names from such a complicated language
I knew nothing about Greenland. This was a fantastic introduction. Thank you!
I’ve been an avid youtuber for 6 years now and this is among my favorite videos ever. Hell yeah dude. Your format and delivery is phenomenal. Videos like this not only teach me about the topic, but make me think more broadly about the world. You gained a subscriber for life. Can’t wait to check out your other videos
Carter, your output is more professional all the time. Thanks for striving.
I went in August 2010...it was about 62 degrees...flowers right next to permafrost ...people are nice, I it not overly outgoing...buying souvenirs , very costly. I LOVE fish, no problem there...but eating seals, NO THANKS ...but I was visiting and it's there way of life...I really enjoyed staying there...yes they do have a hotel...
Let's do a deep dive into the Faroe Islands next!
I should be studying but instead I'm watching videos about Greenland and Nunavut for some reason lol
You clearly put a lot of time and effort into producing this documentary. Really well done all around!
I can't believe that I just happily sat through this hour long video on a Friday night when I was about to go out for the night. Great research and presenation. Cheers!
This is such a good video and your dedication to pronunciation is super appreciated!
Fascinating! You did a great job on this! My father almost served at the now defunct Air Force base. He applied but was instead stationed only 40 miles from home. I've asked him why he wanted to go to Greenland and he only said "It was far and i knew nothing about it."
Thanks Carter and Quinn. Please make videos on other Nordic countries such as Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Finland...
I appreciate you!
Congrats man. I subbed to you a few years back when you were a kid just trying to be like the TH-camrs you liked. Now you're out here with 200k subs taking sponsorships from education companies. Glad you stuck with it and found success!
By far the best geographic and historic documentary on Greenland. There are 2 Greenland presentations as introductions, yours, and, of course, "Smillas Sense of Snow" about the only major movie about Greenland. My dad was an ironworker who worked at Thule constructing the first of the BEMEWS antennas in the later 1950s. Greenland has been a part of my life ever since. Thanks for this excellent presentation, Wendover should be nervous.
It’s always a great day when you post! Thanks for the commitment you put into all your videos.
This is such a standout cover of Greenland I learned so much from your video and appreciated the care of proper pronounciation. Its clear you put in a tremendous amount of information compiling and pride into these videos. Wishing u peace and health and success man.
This was an AMAZING video, of a place I have often thought about! Thanks for the indepth work you put into it!
Excellent job on this! Very thorough and your examples of size, population, and location were done perfectly. I feel strongly that I understand how big the place is and where it’s located better than many places I’ve actually traveled. Really really excellent job, man.
I appreciate your effort in pronunication of placenames. Hat's off to you. Great video. The language seems familiar to me, I'm central asian Tatar.
Watching this episode now, and just bravo Carter-really! Talk about raising the bar on what a creator can craft and upload on TH-cam.
Thank u so much for such a substantive, informative, and yes very interesting episode.
Learned a lot and definitely enjoyed it. You and Quinn keep up the great work!
I just watched a medieval Greenland documentary yesterday and here you drop a modern one today, all your docs are amazing!
Do you have the title to the other one by chance?
Thank you
Only thing to add would be more people pictures
Excellent , well researched and presented. Thank you
This was dope
I really wish the Canadians and the Danes had kept up that tradition with the flags and the booze...
I’ve always dreamed of visiting Greenland- thank you for doing this beautiful video, as it is very educational and fascinating!
Great work. This was really informative and something I wasn’t too knowledgeable about. I enjoyed the whole thing and I look forward to more like it
Really well done.... And the respect you show for the country, it's people, and the language, is plain to see.
Many you tubers could take advice from you on how to construct excellent content and delivery. Your effort is appreciated...
Hats off, sir!
It's great to find a well-researched, high caliber documentary on TH-cam. Thank you for your great work, I now know a lot more about the conditions in the North Atlantic. As a Dane living in the south, of course I knew some of it, but it is also remarkable how much I did not know. For example, I had no idea about the linguistic differences in Greenland.
Love this series… amazing details and keep up the great work! 🎉
What an incredible video! I learned so much about this semi-obscure place that I've also been fascinated by for ages! This series is so cool; I'd love to see an episode of The Nation Explained on the Navajo Nation someday!!
Brilliant video. Thanks for making.
Outstanding video. Thanks man.
Amazing topic. Ty for covering this, I’ve been very curious about Greenland
this is so cool, truly quality content. you really love to see it.
Very well done. Tons of info. I’m a Norwegian-American-Texan so it all relates in some way, especially the size of Greenland. 😊
Woohoo! I love it! Greenland is full of interesting places. So happy you visited!
Very well done one of the most interesting and alot of information. Love Greenland and you have made a wonderful video of a beautiful place and it's people. Thanks 👏👏👏👏👍
Greenland is really interesting!
It would also be cool if you went into subdivisions of some other places like India Russia China Spain France Germany etc!
Thorough and articulate combination balance between experience and research...That is interesting !!! Thanks !
That was fascinating, thank you
With full internal self governance, Denmark protecting their interests in the arctic against other arctic players, free EU travel, yearly subsidies, free access to education in Denmark, NATO protection as a part of Denmark, etc I find it strange so many would want to leave.
I can easily imagine Greenland falling prey to mega mining corporations, arctic super powers and corruption if they have to guard their interests alone with around 60k people.
This is fascinating: I learned a lot! Thank you SO much. You earned a subscription!
Starting in 2024 you can fly from Iqaluit to Nuuk in the summer - 2 hours on a Dash 8
Tourism ads lotsa carbon. All LIBS love vacations and are energy PIGS. Liberals ALL support John Kerry s private jet. They love it.
this is really awesome, fr thank you
Great descriptions of life on the island. But a little lacking in terms of public infrastructure. Where do the cities and towns get their drinking water, how is wastewater and garbage disposed of? How is electricity generated? How do they communicate between cities and within cities, cell or satellite phones? All these questions are easily answered for most cities and towns around the world but must be unique in Greenland.
Same questions I have
Well done young man. That was really interesting and so very well constructed
Fascinating video, I learned so much! You should do more videos o countries that are remote like this!
awesome and informative presentation. thank you!
Cool video. Learned a ton! I hope to go to Greenland one day. Thanks!
This is amazing content. You deserve far more attention than you get
Well that was a surprise! I saw one of your earlier videos "Why Millions of People Left the Rust Belt - American Migration" and found it very interesting.
And now the algorithms made me aware of this new video.
As a kaalaleq (greenlander) I was very impressed by the research you made, wich was very accurate, and the attempt to pronounce our rather difficult language.
By and large it was not mangled more than your pronounciation of Danish.
I'm no linguist, but I think much have to do with the spelling vs pronounciation, that is different that other languages I know of.
K and T are pronounced very soft, Tunu (meaning the backside, as in the backside of a coin, not as in your ass) is pronounced Du-nu.
Nuup Kangerlua is pronounced Gánger-sslua
Q is pronounced Gra, so Qasigiannguit, that you really strugged with (I'm laughing with you man, not at you) is Grass-si-i-ann-uit.
The sheer number of letters in greenlandic, often make people stutter, as is "Qeqertarsuatsiaat"
Lastly is was nice to see some pictures from home, I'm part of the diaspora living in Denmark (Copenhagen) for example
37:00 where you in the middle of the shot can see my parents house where I grew up. It is the dark yellow orangeish building.
If you follow a horizontal line the building closest to the beach, a small lightgrey building with a lightgrey roof, and bigger building just behind it is the Moravian mission built in 1749.
Keep up the very good work, I'm now a subscriber for life.
Simply brillant, Sir !
Great video! Your hard work definitely shows!
Wow this was a truly indepth video….learned way more here then any website. Great job.
Excellent research and presentation, thanks so much for this interesting video
Very nice and educational!!! Thank you very much for this video.
Highly interesting video! All I wanted to learn about #Greenland is right here! Subscribed!
This was ridiculously well done 🤯 Nice job ❤ Wow 🤗💯
I like the architecture ❤
Beautifully done! 🏆
This was a great video I watched the whole thing while doing a mountain of dishes
The way you put the names on screen for the cities looked like a dark souls title card. Please do it again
Terrific video - attention to detail and level of discourse far above what I have come to expect on other geography channels.
Really comprehensive overview! I've always been interested in Greenland and Iceland
Hey Carter, long time fan here. I actually just had a quick request, could we bring back the music being a bit louder? I always liked how relaxing it was alongside the narration. No worries if not.
Amazing content and very informative!
Great and very detailed documentation… enjoyed it very much 😊
The flag almost makes me think 'Mars'
Thank you for this excellent content. Your attempt at getting as many pronunciations correct as possible is admirable.
Just discovered your channel and really enjoyed it… well done 👍. I myself have always been fascinated about Greenland and Iceland.
Very good video Carter.
Amazing video!
Very interesting and informative, thanks
This video is very well done. I find Greenland, and Nuuk in particular, to be pretty interesting.
Greenland would be an amazing experience. I truly enjotyed my 45days TDY to Iceland.
Very interesting. Thank you.
That's an interesting video. Thanks.👍
After watching this, you have gained a new subscriber ❤
So fascinating! Really appreciate your deep dive into all things Greenland. Was hoping to do some motorcycle touring there, but apparently that's not happening. 😢 But would still love to visit.
Fascinating content 👍🏻🔥🔥
I am very impressed with your ability to speak the words what seem fluent to me.
He's doing pretty good. Much better than all others I've heard that aren't Greenlandic.
Well done.
Im gonna add so many of these town and region names to my scrabble list.
Greenland is beautiful and wonderful!❤ Nice video
I was stationed at Thule for the a year and loved it
Kudos to you for trying to pronounce the Greenlandic names. Very interesting video.
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
Lots of good info delivered in an encyclopedic way. I expected that to be woven into something more than still pictures from Greenland. But thank you for the facts and figures.
As a Danish person, I did learn something new. Thank you.
Only country that is half a national park, also did you guys know that we are still technically living in an ice age?