American Reacts to Kon-Tiki
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As an American I am not familiar Norwegian history. Today I am very exited to learn about a very famous part of Norwegian history called the Kon-Tiki expedition. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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Tyler, he did not only sail with Kon-Tiki. He also sailed the Atlantic Ocean in ships made of bundled reeds - twice!
Ra and Ra2
We should tell him Boney M did a song about the rafts.. Ra Ra 1 and 2 they where rafts that we all knew.... 😂
You should also check out Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen when it coms to norwegian explorers.
The story of Thor Heyerdhal and his Kon-Tiki expedition is known far beyond Norway. The book was one we studied in Yr 6 when I was at school in England (aged 10). Today, my oldest twin grandsons (aged 14) have watched the later film and discussed the impact this expedition had on anthropology during their senior school geography classes in Australia. My grandsons in BC did a report on the 2015 Kon-Tiki 2 expedition for their geography project when they were 12. Everyone knows Kon-Tiki.
He hasn't heard about this, or Nansen or Amundsen - or Ibsen for that matter - so therefore they are famous in Norway. 😂🤦♀️
Anne Kristine og Helge Ingstad...
@@Kari.F. Yup, HE doesn't know it so.. Ah its a big Norway thing..
Instead of.. Its a big European thing. He doesnt get that Europeans tends to know about each other's stuff. So you can have a dane talking to a Fench guy about the horrible terror attacks on the rock concert in Paris some years back. Or the bombing of the train in Spain. Or a brit saying something about the fishing wars with France.. We know each other's troubles and also amzing things being built here... We dont do one country news we have global news. You can hear about 10 big things in 10 different countries when living in Europe. I think we all do the whole.. And today in Palestine. Or in Holland today.. Germany have made... This is the norm, not a coincidence. 😑
Kon-tiki won the Oscar for best documentary, but of course that is not known 75 years back in time. I think everyone over 50 has learned something about TH and his adventures
In Victoria BC Canada we were read this book in 1957 in school. Memorable story.
I think it's time you did a norwegian movie reaction video :P Start with Kon-Tiki :P
You should also check out his other "raft endevours" like RA- and Tigris expeditions
Growing up in Mississippi in the 1950s, I an everybody else knew about the Kon-Tiki becaus it was one of the most famous exploits in the world and just about everybody saw the documentary. Sorry the news never made it to Indiana.
Apart from his many expeditions, one thing Thor Heyerdahl was famous for in Norway was his English spoken with a distinct East Norwegian accent. Some years ago, I heard the reason for this. Apparently, he could speak English with both a 'proper' English 'accent' or an American accent. His work during WWII led him to have frequent transatlantic travels, and he didn't always change his accent in time. He was supposedly often ribbed for having the wrong accent, so in the end, he just gave up and decided to speak English only with his native East Norwegian accent.
All Scandinavians learn this story when they're kids. My mum told me about Heyerdal when I was 8 or so. But he turned up in school at the same time. And with all the documentaries about him.. Well i would say it would be like not knowing Donald Duck in America.
Ive met people from Germany and France that knew about the Kon Tiki. So to say famous in Norway is like saying Marvel films are only known in Alabama.
Nope..
The Kon Tiki is globally known. There's stories about the raft from every country on the planet Tyler. It's too big a thing to be a Norway thing only. Most Scandis had books about Heyerdal and the Kon Tiki in the 70's i would say.. 😎
He did other sea exploration as well like Ra I and II
Norwegians do like exploring.
The actual raft is in a museum in Oslo! It's worth a visit if you find the story interesting.
Its a good movie 😁
FINALLY, I've been waiting for you to get to him!
Guess i would watch the movie to get the grasp on how crazy this feat was, Kon-Tiki
Oh, I would love to see the slow TV version of this trip 👍
Get yourself a GoPro and do it! :)
You should watch the KonTiki movie, it's actually a pretty good movie 😁👍🏻
They travelled almost 8000 km in 101 days 👍🏻
Modern DNA analysis of the polynesians actually proved Thor Heyerdahl theories to be wrong. The polynesians came from south east Asia - rather than South America.
-Partly Wrong- The people living there might have ancestry coming from Asia, but that doesn't mean that he didn't prove that South Americans could have done the trip, visiting the islanders.
Even more modern DNA analysis has proven there is a mix of South Americans genetics in Polynesian people. So Heyerdahl can have partial right. The question is more about who was first and when did their genetics blend together.
Heyerdahl's theory was that it journey was possible, despite the anthropological ideas and theories at the time. He was an archaeologist, not an anthropologist, and there were some really old archaeological finds made that led him to believe that there must have been a connection there a lot earlier than believed. The mixed DNA certainly does nothing to disprove that. He wanted to prove that it was POSSIBLE. He proved that it was POSSIBLE. That sounds more like a success than a failure to me.
You should watch the 2012 movie. It`s really good:) Gustaf Skarsgård, that plays Floki in vikings is is playing the swedish guy.
We need more people like Thor. But I guess it's impossible now. The world has changed. We are growing up with so much safety that just going to the playground is considered a dangerouse expedition for our kids (a tiny joke😂). Every adventure we undertake is packed in safety regulations. I guess that 's a good thing, maybe. I don't want to loose a husband or kid to dangers on sea, in jungles or on mountains. But at the same time it takes so much away from us... from humanity as a whole.
People are still doing brave things, of course. Like standing up to evil goverments or standing in line to reach the top of Himalaya. But it's not the same as in those golden days when they risked their lifes for what they believed in, I think. Their ideas had such positive basis. Well, at least some had😊
Since you were talking about Ålesund and also covered the KonTiki-video, I reccomend to check out "brudeegget" - That is an insane story. from Ålesund of the covered lifeboat Uræd-in English, the Unafraid- the “egg that crossed the Atlantic.” Ole Brude was a Norwegian sailor, who designed his lifeboat to sail across the Atlantic for the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Mo. When he encountered a powerful storm off the shore from Gloucester, Mass., the lifeboat functioned as planned. Brude never made it to the World’s Fair, but when he returned to Ålesund, he was hailed as a hero.
It never cease to amaze me that Americans have no idea about anything outside of America.
But this was also a long time ago. I had never heard of the Glava Ice Block Expedition even though I actually knew the man who led the expedition. But it was in 1956 and I was born in 1980, so I think that's natural.
If you check comments above you'll see Americans telling how big this was when they grew up. Also I really doubt winning an Oscar would happened if it was unknown to Americans. But it illustrates how each time or generation have their own stories and older stories fades away from the public mind and into the history books.
I recommend everyone who is going to Norway to visit the Kon-tiki museum. There you can really see it and see its history
Great reaction but I'm a bit surprised that Thor Heyerdahl's expeditions not are common knowledge to Americans. After all the documentary won an Oscar and Thor was a member of the Geographical Society.
He grew up in a small town in southern part of Norway called Larvik. He went to school with my grandmother. She used to tell me about him when I was a kid but her stories didn't make any sense until I started school and we learned more about him and his many adventures.
The two directors of the modern movie comes from the neighbor-town called Sandefjord.
The replica of the Kon-Tiki is still stored in a warehouse in Larvik. Anyone can just drop by and watch it. It's pretty amazing to step on board. The original Kon-Tiki is at the Kon-Tiki museum in Oslo.
He was kind of exentric and a bit crazy for doing things like this expedition and he didn't stop with that expedition, he also did several more expeditions. In Larvik, the town he grew up we have a school named after him, but I don't think people actually think much of what he did or even understand what kind of achievement this was, and no one has done it again as far as I know. I don't think we even learned much about him at school, we saw him at the winter Olympics in Lillehammer back in 1994 and people was just talking about his bad english pronunciation, no one thinked about that he didn't learn english in school until maybe university level, now the kids learn english from they are 6 and they're very good by the time they reach university. There are a group of comics called "raske menn" (quick men) that has this sketch about Norwegian history (and some world history) in 5 minutes and they always meet Thor Heyerdahl who arrived in his fantastic boat Kon Tiki V (5) as he was always there first even when they landed on the moon there he was... it's quite funny for Norwegians to make fun of Americans and people from other countries who made historical events. He actually was the guy who found the easter Island and the statues with the scary stone faces, I believe they were called Aku Aku.
It sounds crazy that Heyerdahl did this although he couldn't swim, but if you think about it; nobody can swim thousands of miles, so it doesn't really matter. You may also want to react to the Glava ice block expedition from 1956. It's the greatest commercial of all time and even got the Pope in Rome involved. The movie lasts about 20 minutes and it's really fascinating.
You may want to be able to swim well enough to get into the boat again, then again, if it is drifting the chance of catching up isn't great.
@@trulybtd5396: Well, if you're in the water intentionally, then you have rope. If you fell into the water because of the weather, then you would have no chance anyway. Doing something like that, is all or nothing. To think anything else, I think is delusional.
Thor literally went to ends of the earth to prove a point. How typically Norwegian?
Then there was RA and RA2.. hehe
So true. We can be a bit stubborn.
You should do a video about norwegian myths and folk beliefs.
Love your videoes
This was a great one, Tyler 👌
Check out Roald Amundsen and Fridjof Nansen. Pioneers and heroes of their time.
Don't bother commenting. He doesn't read them, or at least never replay.
Up until about the turn of the century(/his death in 2002), Thor Heyerdahl was arguably the most internationally recognizable living Norwegian. He got some competition when Ole Gunnar Solskjær solidified his reputation as "The baby faced assassin" at Manchester United (footsoccerball). :)
He had some wild ideas when it comes to trade and/or the spread of cultures, most of which don't hold up to any/much scientific standards, but he did alot of cool things with his (several) journeys!
Somewhat proud to say Thor Heyerdahl was from my hometown, and the local high school is named after him. But not surprised that Americans doesn’t know the story.
Heyerdhal med several trips with primitive rafts.
RA 1 & RA 2 from Africa to the Americas and Tigres along the East African coast. You might fid some of this interesting
You should also take a look at Fridtjof Nansen, another famous norwegian explorer
He did four of these expeditions, with four different rafts. Ra, Ra2, Tigris and KonTiki. He lit one of the Ra's on fire as a protest against something... I can't remember
Like a 1492 Ridley scott movies from 2012
Glad we didn't hear him try to speak English. Even Jens Stoltenberg sounds fluent compared to him :) But he was a real dude, for sure.
Heyerdahl was very _fluent_, but he had a very strong Norwegian accent. :)
@@jeschinstadVery, yep. A bit of an understatement in a way :)
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Love it ❤
I wish that all Americans were like (as average) as you. The fact that you are so interested in other cultures is probably not completely (as average) normal.
Greetings from the Black Forest.
You should watch the movie, it's pretty good.
We went to the north, and we Went to the South… we Were allso in the U S as wikings…
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15:54. Heyerdals theory is pretty much debunked with DNA samples. Still an amazing feat.
Realy like your ytube. Check out about Nansen and the first ever human on the s.pole. Norwegians are aweson. Allways and ever.
Please see the movie! Think you would love it💜
You dont find to manny norwegians that can't swim. It was basicly mandatory to have swimming at kids schools when i grew up not sure if it still is. But everyone has their fears and i guess fear of water willl make you not wanting to learn how to swim.
You should check out the kon-tiki movie
U should reacted to the movie trailer after that.
Your next reaction video should be about this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage
he should check out the weed situation in norway i am sure alot of americans need to see that since they uselly are weed smokers
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did they all survive? to an old age? parrot?
You should watch the 2012 movie.
While the adventure was pretty epic, DNA testing has later proved that he was wrong about where the peoples of polynesia originated, as the population in the Polynesian Islands originated in the area around current day Taiwan. Researchers are, however somewhat in agreement that there was contact between the islands and South America in some way or another.
you should watch the movie
Aku Aku.
Wow you have8 nev
Er hearo.9d about him nor Kong tipi?.?...
you shoud react to the movie
brave vs insane crazy? sounds like a bet
fram viking ships
American ships end WWII in Europe and Asia.
Norwegian Thor, whose country had been under N*zi occupation: "I'll sail on a raft to show that something was possible (though not that it actually happened)."
watch the movie if you want... but do yourself a favor- watch the documentary FIRST
"Big budget" movie?
It certainly wasn't a big global box office hit.
Leaving a comment l requires you to actually read those
Why are you laughing constantly?
Big deal. Thor couldn't swim.
My dad enlisted in the navy in Dec. 1941.
My dad served aboard destroyers until the end of WWII.
My dad couldn't swim.