Straight Line Borders AREN'T As Terrible As You Think
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- lol straight line borders are responsible for all the worlds evils am i right
Riding my scooter to the welsh border:
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Of course an englishman would make this video lol
we even try to use a straight line when we divide England into north and south
Bruh
facts
@@ibx2cat true north is best
@@Meerkat_2110 yeah, it’s further away from France
“I like my borders like I like my women: curvy.” - Geography chat up lines 101
I like my borders like I like my women: straight if possible, but it's okay if they're not too
@@ibx2cat this is gold
//o_o//
@@ibx2cat what if? There are no borders 🤔
@@ibx2cat LMFAO
the one dislike on this video was a welsh border control officer
aged badly
@@isyraqfirdaus5322 why what happened
0:58 people living in Saarland have been annexed by Luxembourg within a second. Nobody, including Luxembourg, knows what happened
I’m not complaining, Luxembourg deserve the world
And nobody in Germany really cared
Yes, he made a big mistake, as he pointed on the German-French border!
The area where he pointed at actually was Rheinland-Pfalz, not Saarland. Saarland is a bit more west, so its basically the same border with france
That wasn't even Saarland. That was Rheinland-Pfalz.
I knew a British person would like straight line borders
There not that bad 😩
@@someone.6259 american here and i disagree
@The last Bean bender A ton of those borders are straight lines
@The Master mind very funny
I can see the Guardian's headline tomorrow: A white Englishman breaks lockdown rules by illegally crossing the Welsh border just to prove that colonization wasn't "as terrible as you think"!
ibx2cancelled!
LMAOOOOOOAOAOO
LMAO MY ASS OFF
Weirdo
*straight borders
"if a camel's on this side of the border, he's a chad camel"
word
This man traveled to the England-Wales border for a second channel video he doesn’t care about.
@@smeggiamagarwine he actually rode an electric scooter lol
Second Chan probably care?????
A Straight Line Border in the middle of a desert is usually a good thing.
The US's borders being straight lines also doesn't matter all that much because nobody really lived in the border regions at the time. Most of the US-Canada border is a straight(ish) line through the middle of a huge-ass forest. Not too much to really worry about, is there?
I mean the us Canada border was actually very disputed with the british since the hudson bay company needed to use the river for their work so they proposed a border that let them both use the river but america being america rejected it for a straight line
@@Q75 bruh the British also rejected reasonable requests from the Americans but the Americans also rejected reasonable requests from the Brit’s
borders with straight lines aren't inherently a problem and in some cases are very sensible, the problem is dividing people across borders because a colonial power didn't understand where the different ethnic groups were.
The Problem was that they drew the border for administration and then when decolonizing there was no way to change it since where different groups actually live isn't defined by a rigid line and they would almost certainly fight over it.
Or even as maliciously as to do it on purpose to create ethnic hierarchies (divide and conquer) or empowered aristocratic minorities just because they're half a shade lighter pigmented.
@@MetanoiaMan nah you’re reading too much into it, they were just lazy
@@and_raw2036 Consider looking up the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi aristocracy by the Hutu majority.
Oh they knew. They did it intentionally so that the people would be too busy fighting each other to rise up against their colonizers.
7:13 The Middle East, its a place with some problems with uh everything.
killed me
I mean like he is not wrong.
All nations should be triangle shaped with all national capitals being squares.
What about city-states?
@@qbek_san City states shouldn’t exist.
@@efilwv1635 or maybe isosceles trapezoid?
@@plislegalineu3005 I’m for it!
Hello Efil, do you take criticism
you know you're home when you hear "i like this map too much, i'm sorry"
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ToyCat's girlfriend: unconvinced
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13:44 toycat really giving hope to those who’s borders may not be as large
Yep, as our (hopefully) to be new country's government has told us, land area doesn't matter, it's the people and their hard work that makes a country.
From a CapeXiteer (South Africa)
When you realize chad and Libya had fought over that useless border called the Aouzou strip
And Chad win. As always.
Yeah, Libya invaded that area because of the Oil resources in the Aouzou strip
There was oil what do you expect. Its not just the Americans who do it
Straight lines aren't the issue, it's the location of those lines that creates problems. Sykes and Picot could have drawn straight lines in the Middle East and created a stable, culturally and economically sturdy regions, but their borders were designed for the opposite reason to this, dividing resources and people groups in order to prevent strong local nations forming/consolidating and therefore improving the strength and power of the European powers in those regions.
Some animals actually DO have borders among their own species but humans dont care about those borders nor they ours
You know what would be interesting? Have someone try and map out the "borders" so to speak between wolf packs or gorilla troupes. Would be a real eye opener.
I wanna se like a history of a street and see what dogs conquered what by pissing on it
I live in Germany near the Czech Republic. A physical border doesn't exist hear anymore. But the red deer heards still don't cross the old cold war boarders even though there is not a single deer which lived during the cold war still living today.
Apes will declare independence and make their own country.
@@Opanker_ Apes. Together. Strong
Australia and New Zealand also didn't change their borders.
Same with Canada, I think.
@@spencergraham-thille9896 They get that little piece of land from the US in northern Minnesota.
The Chad Camel Vs the Virgin Human Citizen
Toycat "zooms at saudi arabia/ iraq border and sees 4 cities near the border".
Also toycat : "as you guys see nobody lives here"
europe 1000 years ago: Messy Borders
europe 100 years ago: functional borders
europe now: no borders
of course it does, it just has free access, and eventually the european federation might form and in that case, no there won’t be borders, but what’s the problem with that?
6:58 "you see a border that is very precise"
*Shows an arc of a circle with a random section cut out*
It doesn’t matter how you pronounce “Grande”, you just have to say “Rio Grande”, NOT the “River Grande” or “Grande River”
It's actually called Río Bravo now
@@eddie-roo not in the US
This comment be like:
O, say, can you see
The Grande River?
Oh no! I can't see,
I see only the Rio Grande.
"Rio Grande River"
Its Río Bravo
New idea for the countries which have borders around the Sahara: make the border line spell out “send nudes”
In Arabic or English?
@@bruhz_089 BOTH
In french
Autocorrect: did you mean sand dunes?
@@KornalyUr genius
Didn't Libya invaded Chad over the placement of that straigth line? "Toyota Wars" or something.
They did...
You can not stop Chad. Chad can not be defeated
"Let's Go Places"-Toyota motor company Dec/31st/2012
They did and won because they used Toyota instead of tanks which Lycia had but there toyotas were so quick they dodged the tank amno and run over minefield without blowing up
“It’s not the size of your border; it’s how you use it.” Lol.
Saying the ENTIRE french-german border is the rhine, then pointing to germany and saying "this is luxemburg"
@@vo4zw-vo4zw I know, I just found it funny, no ill intention :)
Fun fact, the border between Sweden and Norway; it is defined at a resolution of about 5 km, marking points of where the line should go through. Since the border is 1630 km long, that makes it 326 segments of 5 km straight lines. This is unlike most borders that follows natural elements which are very squiggly. It also means that the border is exactly 1630 km since it doesn't have a fractal pattern.
0:58 germans find themselves living in Luxemburg
Wait, just how did you say Mauritania?
It's called the Rio Grande, even in English. Nobody says River Grande.
The sections of the US Mexican border that are unprotected are in incredibly inaccessible and inhospitable areas where there is a good chance of death if you attempt to cross. If it was easy to just walk across, people wouldn't be paying coyotes thousands of dollars to smuggle them in.
The US also has a 1,300 mile dead straight border with Canada that doesn't seem to cause any problems.
Because why would you want to leave Canada for the US
Parts of the U.S/Canada border are definitely problems
“Non hospitable” as you zoom up on the hundreds of towns in Saudi Arabia
The English/Welsh border isn't just difficult to define, it's got loads of minor roads and country lanes passing through it. Most of these don't even bother with a sign telling you the county, so I'm impressed you found that quiet country road that actually tells you you're at the border.
7:37 just so you know, the first map was at a time when the whole land was under british control, the second map was a UN partiton plan that the jews agreed to, the arabs declined, the 3rd map is the proposal after the 6 day war in 1967. once again, the jews agreed and the arabs declined, and finally, the 2012 map is not showing the context that the west bank is divided into areas A, B, and C, area A which is shown under israel, area B which is also shown under israel (although the palestinian authority controls most of it except for security), and area C is showing the control of the palestinian authority and hamas. i just wanted to let you know that the map that you showed is very misleading and can be interpreted by most to show mostly false information. otherwise great video!
as an israeli i will add to this by saying that gaza and the west bank were fully part of israel too, taken from egypt and jordan (reminder that jordan and egypt annexed gaza and the west bank, hence the name "west" bank, back when israel was just born. on a A-Political map, israel does control most of the west bank with only some minor places by the others. so this map on that time stamp is mostly false. arabs declined so the 1947 borders never existed. in their name it says it is a proposal. and the small dots of the west bank and gaza were the actual first time they gained somewhat land by the oslo accords. the british mandate of palestine was actually the jewish country (changed it's name from a european one to the old one) since if you will see posters of it back then, you see football groups of palestine with a magen david and posters saying "free palestine" by the zionist organization. the more you know
@@Gearkiller25 :) עם ישראל חי
@@jaxrippon2106 ברור :)
when this guy goes on a tangent, he truly flourishes and becomes incredibly fun to watch
Breaking News: 90% Of England Votes to Become Welsh, leading to people looking back on the ancient Brittonic Cultural Lands and the British Isles before the Germanic Invasions, Where the "Welsh" were the primary occupants of the English Region.
Though Its much more likely that "the North" would join Scotland for That sort of argument, their benefits are generally better than ours (the welsh) - though Celtic/Brittonic influence is still kind of prevalent in Northern England I believe in that they can use some Welsh-Descendent words in their local dialect to a greater degree than normal English.
My father has Welsh family, and so used random bits of Welsh.
but since the Germanic invasion most of north england became anglo's and tbh the idea that wales and Scotland are still celtic is a weird imo they are pretty much identical to the english in culture apart from a few minor bits
2:50 "European sphere of influence" isn't that the earth?
Straight line borders usually need less troops to control than curvy ones, because they are shorter. This works over flat empty terrain. Where you have rivers and mountain ridges, using the natural features may be more efficient.
“Precise lines” can still be very bad, like when the europeans carved up africa . Yes, they are “precise” but it disregards the cultures and traditions there.
@Wind Rose yup, the concept of "nation" and "nation state" is a European export item that doesn’t really apply everywhere
Perhaps a better example of what your trying to say here would be the example of the middle east. In the wake of the collapse of the ottoman empire, Britain and France carved up its southern territories among themselves. With zero disregard for the ethnicities and people living in the region When those places gained independence. They almost immediately collapsed to authoritarian regimes backed by the USA and Soviet Union because there was valuable oil there and it would be important to have control of the region in the future. When the cold war ended and interest in the region collapsed, The dictators there almost immediately fell victim to large revolts widespread throughout the country. And in Syria those revolts escalated to a full civil war. All because some white men with little knowledge of the region and its peoples; used a ruler to draw the borders.
The title just sounds like something Africa would say to Europe.
I’d think that it would be the reverse as it was the Europeans who propped up those borders in the first place
@@empirus8732 yup balkans destroyed africa 👍🏻
@@empirus8732 Ah, true true
"The only countries that look vaguely the same is Papua... Egypt, and Oman"
Japan, Australia, Cuba, Philippines, New Zealand, and the rest of countries with no land border: hmmm
all borders straight: lesotho: aight i'mma head out
Swaziland simply vanishes.
The French-German border doesn’t follow the Rhine river, it only makes up a small section of the border. Most of the Rhine is entirely within Germany and the Netherlands
Oh sorry I'm late I was busy watching someone go to the Welsh border on a scooter
Why does he say Maurishitania?
Must be one of those shithole countries Trump complained about.
@@gotham61 ahaha good one
probably confused pronunciation with Mauritius
Mauritius Mauritania Union
Sounds he mashed up Mauritius and Mauritania
im glad he made a comment about northern ireland critiscizing the brits
Really enjoy your videos,love to learn things I don't need to know. Greets from Germany.
That first map showing which countries were colonized by Europe is disappointing to me because Ethiopia was never really colonized. Sure Italy was stationed there for a few years but they were constantly being fought back against for the duration of the time and never had any actual governmental control of the region.
Same with marking Ireland as not being colonised even though we were… we even had our own language other than English which was systematically educated out of our children…
Canada's borders would only be slightly changed if the borders were straight lines
Hungary is the only country in the world that's only bordered by itself. You should make a video about that. If nothing else, it would trigger some *insert 7 nations*-ian people :D
You mentioned european borders and how people on each side are q different group of people, but you forgot Hungary where everyone near the border on both sides is Hungarian, thank you treaty of trianon
are you kidding me?? you say that the middle east dosn't have straight line borders and start arguing about the "curviness" of the border saying "I'ts alll desert so it dosn't matter". Straight lines in the middle east is not a huge problem BUT you completely ignored talking about difrent ethnic groups like tf. When people say the sykes - picot agreement is bad they don't talk about the fucking "curviness" of the border, the brittish and the french litterally made the borders as to create infighting in the arab world so that they could exploit them.
You are not wrong about the strait lines but if you are going to bring up the sykes - picot agreement as a brittish person try atleast to menshion why it could be bad.
6:38 how would you know? Also there's animals who have borders between rival groups of their species, this have been documented by humans
DENMARK WASN'T CHANGED WHEN YOU MADE THE BORDER STRAIGHT?!
What is this "Denmark" you speak of?
Part of the border changed.
Thank you for giving us Pattburg back! You get Kobbermølle in return.
0:57 Not even an entire minute in and he already gave away the entire palatinate (or even everything east of the Rhine), to Luxembourg of all countries!
Andrew uploading a video on his 2nd and 3rd channel at the same time
Absolute madman
Absolute madman
Could you do a video explaining what Belgium is?
it’s a country
@@louw-h3754 in Africa
Toycat breaking lockdown restrictions to make a video. Our hero
At least he did not exhaled into other persons inhaling zone, vice versa.
Australia isn't affected by straight lines lol
But still, most of the borders in african, even those that aren't straight are drawn with no regard for locals just like the middle east
That’s why you find different people living on the other side of the border than their native ancestral land.
hi
For the Anglophones, it's the river "grand", for the Mexicans, "grand-ay".
actually in spanish the E is not pronounced as "ay" but as "e" (I don't really know how to explain the E pronunciation to an English speaker)
@@e.moonbound2420 "alglophones" máquina 😎
The straight line border for Northern Ireland actually follows the demographics much better than the option imposed by the British bureaucrats at the time. Of course that's the only place the British Empire went with the alternative.
2:51 "fought by mostly Europeans"
I think you're stretching the truth beyond it's capability to handle there. Maybe WW2 was fought mostly by Europeans, and the fighting in Korea that first created that border was between the Japanese and the Soviets (the latter could be called "European"), and the south was then occupied by Americans (who are sort of maybe "European"). The "Korean War"* of the early 1950s was fought mostly by Koreans, Americans, and Chinese.
*That's what we call it in the U.S., since it's the only war we've ever fought in Korea, but it would be pretty confusing for Korean history students if they had to call every war in their history the "Korean War", so I doubt they call it that.
"Straight line borders aren't as terrible as you think," says the Brit.
Border between Austria and Czech is heavily divided between Austrians and Czechs...
you're purposefully ignoring the Sudetenland aren't you?
Countries shouldn’t be drawn on ethnic lines unless those groups hate eachother, in which case they need to grow up.
That is why I propose uniting the Balkans into one superstate and if there are any ethnic conflicts, tell them to cut it out.
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You should have a look at the border at Baarle-Nassau. A beautiful mess of borders.
okay but your youtube channel is your job. You doing the goofy thing with crossing the boarder added to the content therefore it was essential for your job. you are a liar you commited no crimes this video, commit a real crime in one.
Fun fact Europeans when they defeated the arabs caliphates they draw weird borders between them to make them fight each other and doesn't unite again 😥and that what happened that's why there is so much problems in the middle east
''it's not the size of the border, it's how you use it'' lol
to be fair on africa, the sahara has like almost no rivers, almost nobody lives at these borders, so how why would you make a complicated border
1:48 Wait what?? The British and Russians did Occupy and divide Iran among them and the British also managed to conquer Afghanistan for a few years in 1800s. I don't get this map
The Chad Libya border actually does have significance, they fought over it after all.
0:53 The city on the left is actually the city of Passau and it's located in south-eastern Bavaria near borders of Austria. The river is Danube and far into the picture u can see river Inn joining Danube. and behind the tunnel, bridge and building on the left is another river, river Ilz, joining the mighty Danube. I just wanted to make clear, that this isn't any French city, but pure German city near borders of Austria.
"People on this side are from Liechtenstein" Literally points at saarbrucken🤣
If I see a straight line border my first thought is
"those guys are good friends"
As a Belgian I'd like to know how and when Lille was a part of Belgium
Hey. Great video. I do wish you would include american states, because they have a lot of straight line borders that are ment to be very functional. Maybe for an No. 2 video.:)
Spain and Portugal in the treaty of Tordesillas:YES
Its not the shape, its where you put it.
And the brits put it in baddddd places😂
”I like my borders like I like my women: straight.”
13:19 Oh no he did the bad thing
There is a town called Saltney where the England Wales border runs through a road. Boundary lane.
"It's not the size of your border, it's how you use it." - ibx2cat, 2021
It's for 'work' purposes - so OK :o)
"Most people don't choose to swim from Ukraine to Turkey."
Yeah, say that to the guy who I saw in a dream couple of days ago
I was in your dream i know what your talking about 100%
isnt every border straight but the straightness is just too short that you cant visibly see it
I come from Australia so the idea of borders between countries is completely foreign to me
When he points between Yemen and Oman three times and says Oman would be mostly unaffected by his new borders.
Oman would lose quite a few towns at the UAE border.
2:00 shows iran as not binging invaded
Sad alexander the grate noises
Africa: i got the most straight lines
Antarctica:🗿
These people are luxembourg
*points at germany*
What's ironic about this is that Libya and Chad fought a long bloody war in the 1980s over their border in the Sahara. I notice the town of Wath is right on the Libya-Chad border. I don't think that's the reason they were fighting, though. The land Libya claimed is drawn as part of Chad on your map. I also think it was probably actually about something other than the border dispute it was supposedly about. Supposedly it's somehow it's connected to a Chadian civil war, the Cold War, the Arab Cold War, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Minute 0:53 is the German town of Passau. Both sides in that picture are thus Germany. Interestingly the hill in the background is Austria :)
19:36
That wasn't really going to work as all the religions literally lived together in a lot of cases as in the same villages or towns.
I guess those people in that village really took being 'Welsh' to a whole new level.
If I were a rich man,
Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum.
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.
If I were a welshy man.
20:52 Toycat likes to get a little controversial here :)
nobody :
british empire cat man : straight line are bad
also them : release bunch of country and made chaos in africa
Wasn’t his fault!
@@dinoxman8584 wait, are you telling me that the man making TH-cam videos in 2021 wasn’t around for the Berlin conference of 1878? Unbelievable
@@congealedbox7854 yes
I don't wanna be american :( (straight line map puts me in america)
why does he say maurishtania instead of mauritania?