One note that ties into this video about the Puritans: ironically, the Puritans were actually very PRO sex. They believed that pregnancy was most likely if both parties enjoyed the whole experience, especially the woman. Which ironically turned out to be biologically true, more or less. They had very strict rules encouraging sex, even excommunicating a man for not consummating his marriage. They also didn’t really ‘punish’ young people who had sex before marriage, instead having them just get married when discovered. This plays into the high birth rates.
Quite prominent in the central-north region (MN, Iowa, North Dakota, etc.) where I'm from... many Norwegian and Swedes settled there because of the good farmland and similar climate to their homeland. My maternal grandpa showed me a picture of my Great-great-great grandfather from Norway, he said when he was a boy a lot of the older Norwegian-American men still had accents passed on by their elders. My great great grandmother on my dad's side was from Sweden. My brother and I recently visited a small cemetery not far from our family farm where we and our ancestors grew up over the past 150 years. Some of the epitaphs were in Swedish! We were fascinated as we thought about our ancestors burying one another in that cemetery speaking Swedish and probably other languages. There's museums that dot the landscape in MN, Iowa, etc. In Iowa where I'm from I know there's a Swedish museum somewhere south of Cedar Rapids and then Decorah has one that's all about Norwegian culture and immigrants, quite good. People still make traditional breads and foods and such from those places. I'm not sure how much other culture I can claim is still around... probably not much, but people definitely are aware of and respect that heritage from where I'm from
@@jrglenn2 how prominent is the language today since in sweden where many areas have finnish minorities from the 60s and 70s those said minorities still speak finnish 60 years later and i wonder if that has remained the case for the 110 years since the swedish came to america
The scandinavians mostly settled in the mid west (minnesota) Dakotas and I know Finns are completely unrelated but if you want to know they settled in upper penisula michigan
I’m from Louisiana and I’m descended from French Creoles, French Acadian refugees, Spanish soldiers, Swiss Germans, Danish farmers and British migrants as well as a little bit of Mi’kmaq Indian and a Senegalese slave from Portugal who got their freedom and immigrated to the Louisiana colony when it was ruled by Spain. You should do Louisiana next because we have a very diverse history as a state and my family as well as many others lineages reflect that.
aaaaaaa, explain to me why Americans sometimes talk about their ethnicity when communicating, indicate 5-10-15 nationalities. it's so wild, BECAUSE ETHNICITY CAN BE ONE, at most a mix of two by parents. it's very scary when a person says that, is it a complex of inferiority, a desire to please or a ranking of whites? is there not enough language, faith and culture to be an American... just an American??? I can, of course, say that I am 1/1024 French (an engineer who built railways in Russia), but this is so absurd and appropriate only in jest, and only if the conversation has become too symbolic, insightful and a person from Quebec, Louisiana and somewhere else. Explain, I can't understand it!!!
@@arsenantonyuk731 Honestly I have no idea why. I listed what I’m descended from just to show my states diverse history. Usually when people ask my ethnicity I simply say I’m Cajun. Other Americans however, you’ll have to ask them because I know some will be like “I’m Irish, English, German, Polish, Dutch, Scottish…” and just keep going when you simply ask their ethnicity.
I read an interesting book recently called "After Nationalism" that discusses various different phases of American identity. The author talks about how deeply Anglophilic the old Anglo-American elite used to be, particularly the leaders of Federalist Party. Even long after the revolution, English-American elites used to really venerate British culture and history, and view the United States as being largely continuous with "English Civilization," as opposed to some entirely new thing. This manifested not only in continued allegiance to the old English churches, but also a preoccupation with teaching the history of England and venerating English cultural ideals like Shakespeare, the Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution, and so on. There was also a deep obsession with viewing everything through a France-v-England or Spain-v-England lens, with England's traditional enemies presumed to be America's as well. It's interesting how much of this has faded now. I think we now associate Anglo-Americans as having been mostly subsumed into distinctly "American" cultural traditions that are entirely detached from any identifiably British heritage, including Evangelical Christianity and the culture of "the South" more broadly. Other than defensiveness about the English language, I am not sure what would be the most visible signs of an ongoing effort to preserve English culture in America. I can only think of small things, like the ongoing fascination with the British royal family, or perhaps what Christopher Hitchens once described as America's distinctive "Churchill cult."
Probably has to do with the USA outstripping the UK in every aspect, and yet the UK wanting to call the shots. After WW2, the son had to sit the old man down and tell him his time was over.
I was born in the US but both my parents are from El Salvador. They both left with their families at a very young age to escape the Civil War at that time. I'm really glad how you touched on the I guess "crisis" of Hispanic-Americans not knowing Spanish the further time goes on. I know a little bit of Spanish but I still decide not to speak it. I never really learned the language because from what my mother told me my dad's side of the family would bully me about how pale I looked and how my accent sounded when I tried speaking Spanish. Even now as a 22 year old man I still don't relate to "my people" all that much. Before me and my mom moved to Georgia I never got treated well by other Hispanic kids. I can honestly say that if I never moved to Georgia I would've ended up being completely racist towards Hispanics. I say completely because I do have a bias towards older Hispanics while not having an issue with younger ones. Even then it's not like I call them names out loud in public. I just tend to have a more defensive and negative mindset about them before talking to them. After that if they treat me with respect and don't look at me like I'm a race traitor for not knowing Spanish then they are alright in my book. It's honestly kinda sad because I still do somewhat relate to my culture but because of a lot of the negative experiences I've had from other Hispanics I've grown to relate more with White and Black communities. Hell one of the first movies I remember watchkng with my parents was Blood in Blood out. A movie about the Chicano culture in America. Even with my negative experiences I don't look away when someone else is treating them poorly. Nothing makes me more mad when someone tries to tell other person they shouldn't speak their native language. No matter how much I get treated like an outsider by my "own people" I would never trade my ethnicity and skin color for another.
As a Swede, it would've been fun to hear how much of an effect we had on the US, but I doubt we had much of an impact. From what I know, Swedes positioned them quite succesfylly as simply different white protestants to the English, moving up in soceity after a few generations.
@@8is Charles Lindbergh Jr., the world famous aviator, and Charles Lindbergh Senior were both Swedish. Senior was a direct immigrant from Sweden, a congressman, and he was a key political enemy of the Wilson Administration. He wrote two books which he had distributed for free to the American Public on issues he felt strongly about, "Banking, Currency, and the Money Trust," a polemic against Central Banking and the Federal Reserve System which is still pertinent to this day, and, "Your Country at War and What Happens to You After the War," about US entry into WWI and the way we were lied to to get us in, and the dangers we faced afterward. The latter book was actually censored by the Wilson Administration; Federal agents were sent to the publisher of the book, and all of the plates for the book were destroyed and all of the prints confiscated the likewise consigned to destruction. It seems that there was something in those books President Wilson didn't want the public to read, hmmm? In any case, Swedes have played an important role in my country's history, and I consider both Lindbergh's American heroes and patriots.
Whatifalthist, as I black man I can say that you did a great job showcasing our history in America. As for the shift that occurred in the 1960s you mentioned I suspect it was due to the Interstate Displacement. Around that time a large number of the middle-class black neighborhoods which were the heart of the black community were destroyed during the creation of the state highways.
Honestly there's probably a few things likely exacerbated by Great society programs which got rid of much of the financial reasons for marriage and decline in church authority in the world which started to rid some of the cultural reasons for marriage and weakened away some of the greatest gathering places for the community (the churches). These 3 things happened around the time of that interstate displacement meaning it's likely a confluence of these 3 events as homes were lost, stress caused homes to break, and the cultural factors which kept families strong withered away.
Also combined with the welfare state creating a large number of perverse incentives against prosperity (the same thing plagues poor white areas). It cuts out the bottom rungs of the path to prosperity (why get a minimum wage job when my welfare check will pay the same and I can't get both) trapping a large number of poor people in perpetual poverty. This is agreed upon left and right (solution differs vs removing welfare entirely or shifting to ubi)
I'm Norwegian. The only relative of mine who moved to Usa was the sister of my Grandmother. She married another Norwegian American. She had so many children and Grandchildren that her family line alone became almost as large as my Grandmothers and all the rest of her sibling staying in Norway combined. I should add that both my Grandmother and all her siblings had many children
I’m Finnish and I have 113 first cousins. And over 1000 second and third cousins. All my great grandparents are from Finland and Sweden. Seems like Russian and recent Scandinavian immigrants are having a lot of kids.
I am about 30% German but I grew up in Cincinnati with ancestors who were in the upper middle class, so German culture was extremely present. We would go to Oktoberfest each year, eat at German restaurants downtown (my favorite being Mecklenburg Gardens), and even still use my great-great grandmother's Goetta recipe written in Nedersassisch (Low Saxon, Westphalian precisely). I am also about 25% Hungarian and Carpatho-Rusyn, where culture was present as well with my mother's side in Pennsylvania including Kolacski and Kolbasz foods, and celebration of the conclusion of Winter Lent from Greek Catholic calendar (no meat on Christmas Eve!)
fun fact: "Paddy Wagon" was actually slang for Police car for a time because of the number of Irishmen who worked as Police that or for the number of Irishmen who got arrested
I mean, the Irish conquered more of the planet than anyone else, save the Spanish. It wasn't their choice, the English dragged the hermit nation out of their villages and forced them to populate the Earth. But it doesn't change the fact either
As someone from Western New York, there is a large number of ethnic Poles living here and people have immense pride in their heritage. I see some parallels with Italian Americans and Polish Americans. Poles were the poorest immigrants living on the East side in bad conditions, but we're able to pull themselves out and move all over Western New York. I knew they wouldn't be mentioned in this video, because outside of Western New York, there seems to be little Polish-Americans. But as someone from WNY the impact they made is very evident and feel it is important to mention.
Many of the points regarding Ireland are incorrect. “Ireland was incredibly overpopulated at the time.” The population of Ireland during the mid 1840s was 8 million. Not even half that of England’s population at the time. “The Irish came to America with no education or skill. They also came from a tribal warrior herding culture.” The tribal Celtic “warrior culture” of ancient Ireland was long over for hundreds of years….
Exactly, and as I'd understood it the potato blight was not the main cause of the famine - it was the way that English landlords controlled the land, Ireland remained in a system of surfdom which England stopped experiencing. This is why many in Ireland call the 'famine' the 'hunger', as there should have been enough food to go around, but it was overexploited by the English.
I know. As soon as This guy said he's an Irish American so he can speak best on the topic I knew he was going to be a typical yank. He said one third emigrated, one third died and one third stayed. This is just way off. About half survived and just 1 million of 8 emigrated and the rest dying. And saying we had no work ethic is just wrong. We are well known for having a good work ethic and doing the jobs others didn't want. Saying we didn't have work ethic because we were warriors was just ridiculous. That was about 400 years before the famine and is quite stereotypical
@@h.d.5194 One of those pieces of 'academic' research where the theorist will ignore evidence and nuance to prove their theory purely because it's an original idea. Didn't even bother to check wikipedia, just assumed what they'd been told by parents, teachers, whoever, was true.
As an immigrant from Japan interested in American history and politics, especially the role of religious belief and affiliation affecting immigration, I found this synopsis fascinating and largely accurate. I did note that Scandinavian immigrants like my great -grandfather were not addressed. Scandinavian immigration started when New Jersey was settled, but the big push came in the late 1800s to 3 regions: Minnesota and Iowa, Washington and Oregon, and Utah and Idaho, the last largely related to the conversion of Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, and Icelanders to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (nicknamed "Mormon"). The Salt Lake phone book has nearly a full page of Swensons (my last name).
My father's paternal ancestor was a Swede named Johan Welsun that was the ship's carpenter on a Dutch privateer that plundered the Spanish Main during the early 1600's. He retired with his swag at the northern end of the Delaware Estuary that later became the colony of New Sweden that was financed by Dutch merchants in the Netherlands. The colony couldn't turn a profit so the merchants had New Amsterdam take it over who then lost it to England. The English merchant shippers were leery of that region since the inhabitants had a long reputation for doing business with privateers and pirates so the Dutch authorities began rounding up and hanging anyone with known associations with those scalawags. Johan Welsun got wind of that so loaded up his family and tools into wagons then took off for the wild frontier where he changed his name to John Wilson. His descendants always married Scandinavian women while moving around in New York, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan building the first boat canals. My father's dad married a Swedish girl from Chicago that worn born in Stockholm just before her parent's boat left for the states in 1870. The US immigration clerk had to guess what their name was since her parents couldn't read or write so spelled their name as Honquest since that's what it sounded like. That was a common practice back then so US telephone directories ended up with plenty of screwy looking names of unknown nationality. The Honquest family went on to own a chain of successful funeral homes in Chicago.
Fun fact: There are still Gaelic speaking communities in North Carolina. The language is pretty unique and has a lot of english influences. Sadly there are probably only about 200 speakers left and they all live on the coastal islands.
I am Hispanic, this analysis for Hispanic Americans is spot on. This is just an anecdotal story. Both sides of my parents are from small mining towns in the Southwest: Superior, AZ and Silver City, NM. As far as I know, my great grandparents have history in the US/Mexico Southwest border area. 'Mexican-American' is the term we go by, being on the US side of the border but still Mexican in culture, food, family values, catholic, names, and accent. We never crossed the border, the border crossed us. The assimilation into US economic society is the goal. Pretty much all of our extended families have moved out of small towns and into big cities: Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, Albuquerque, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, etc. Economic mobility comes from education and college degrees. Family careers are common, everyone are in Education, tech sector, public service, etc. Make no mistake, everyone is American, all USA. We just happen to speak Spanish with Mexican names and can have browner skin than all the white people. Outside of AZ/NM, you will hear similar stories to people who live on the Texas border. People in Rio Grande Valley moving to San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Dallas, etc.
That’s about right. And, as for those of us who are not of Mexican descent and emigrated, economic mobility is absolutely the goal. And, yes, we’re all USA. We still have our accents and we still keep our language but, we assimilate and we integrate just fine. And everybody likes our food. That’s a huge plus. Much love from North Texas.
As someone from San Antonio and lived across Texas, I concur. Each state has a unique blend of Mexican indigenous and local indigenous tribes, and you'll find varying degrees of African descent as well. (Though my dad is from Indiana- Scots-Irish, Welsh, English)
Yeah, he was pretty spot on. Hispanics, or at least Mexicans adjust pretty fast to life in the U.S.. So fast that the children of said Hispanics up "too American", when visiting their extended family in another country they have trouble communicating due to their non-existant Spanish. It's sad to me that hundreds of thousands of Hispanics that immigrated to the U.S. can't have the freedom that that other Americans have due to absent Documents.
@@marcm.999 Not having documents comes with the territory of entering\staying in a another country illegally. It's not like they were denied documents for being Hispanic. I understand getting a work\immigrant visa is a difficult process. However, the difficulty is no different for someone coming from Asia or Africa than it is for someone coming from Spanish speaking countries. Should we reward those who enter the country illegally at the expense of those who apply through the proper channels (and get rejected mostly since the demand for immigrants is a lot lower than the number of people wanting to come here).
It's not a victim mentality for African-Americans. It's a recognition that every psychologist would support that they have been attacked by perpetrators for 100s of years, attempting to keep them down. In order to change the world you need to recognize the reality of the world.
A little fun fact about the hillbilly elegy, at one point I’m the book there’s reference to a bomb threat and a teacher who went in “because he knew that kid and he’s too stupid to make a bomb”. That kid who made the bomb threat had a massive crush on my mom as kids.
@@Sigmanovar moreso the way it was resolved. in the burbs they'd treat it like a terrorist incident and not let anyone near the school until the bombsquad detonates the kid's locker. Even though its obvious to everyone that this dumbass kid didn't really make a bomb
Not gonna lie this video kinda feels like an mmorpg race selection guide. "The Italian's lack charisma but make up for it with their high constitution".
It is, I'm Scottish and I have to say this video destroyed my confidence in this channel, the way they pin everything down to culture and don't factor in geographical and economic factors. Also the description of Scottish history in this isn't even surface level, its borderline stereotypical. The Highlands and lowlands aren't as divided as this guy makes out and in the modern day, the Highlands speaks English as well, only the Outer Hebrides have a Gaelic majority. And yet every scot Highlands or lowlands sees themselves as Scottish first, and most people see Scotland as being a celtic country as well.
I think you may have (inadvertently) fallen into some misconceptions that are often incorrectly drawn on by readers of Irish history. This may come across as pedantic, but saying that Ireland was "overpopulated" undermines the horrors of the Famine and the incompetence/unwillingness of the British politicians that controlled all matters in Ireland at this time. In Ireland we often refer to the Famine with its Gaelic(Irish language) alternative term, 'An Gorta Mór' (The Great Hunger). This is to acknowledge that the death and emigration of the native (mostly) Catholic population was man made, as there was plenty of wealth and food in Ireland at the time, but the bottom tier of our society, almost entirely Gaelic speaking native Catholics, were stuck in a cycle of subsistence farming, relying entirely on the potato crop. The failing of the potato crop was only the final nail in the coffin for Irish peasants who were born into a system that ensured they could just about survive and carry out labour for their landlords and employers. We are to this day the only country in Europe with a lower population now than in the 19th century. Ireland was and is one of the most food secure countries in the world, so saying that the island was overpopulated is incorrect and ignores the harsh reality of how Irish America came to be. Also, I would say that your statement on Irish culture at the time is misinformed at best and borderline racist at worst. Yes, Irish culture is an offshoot of Celtic culture, but we are talking about Ireland in the mid 19th century. Saying the Irish came from a "tribal, warrior, and herding culture" is akin to saying Germans arriving in America in the 1850's came from a Wodin worshipping, human sacrificing culture. Ireland had been under some form of English rule for hundreds of years at this stage and our culture was heavily Anglicised, be it with language, dress, culture, institutions, and economic systems. The old Gaelic societal system that encompassed Brehon Law, semi-nomadic agricultural living, and collective ownership of land was long gone at this point in time, and had no bearing on the psyche or lived experience of the people of the country. Saying the Irish had no work ethic is similar to the rhetoric of Giraldus Cambrensis, rhetoric that was used to dehumanise the Irish and excuse their mistreatment during the Norman incursions on the island. This sort of language was later used against Native Americans to justify their colonisation and mistreatment. Its a lazy assertion that has never had any basis, being entirely rooted in anti-Irish racism.
Very well said - this guy is really an American Know Nothing, isn't he. The Irish had a really strong work ethic: Its the Irish who built most of the housing and roads in Britain. And its the Irish who were there from the start in America, winning the war of Independence - NOT the Scottish.
I'm 100% Mexican American and proud of it but I don't let my pride get ahead of itself like MLK said "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"
I’m 100% German America became an American in 2023. I don’t consider myself German anymore only American. The way I see it if you had to leave your home country to Flurish somewhere else there is nothing to be proud of in your old home and instead you should be proud of what you are now
@@posyo2265I kinda don’t either but one thing about America is you can be from anywhere in the world and say your American and people won’t question it as long as you have American values
I’m a first generation Mexican American I can tell from my experience from growing up in a city full of children of Mexican immigrants is that a major fear we had was being “too American” being called “chicanos” or a “no sabo”kid. I had this fear myself until I left that community and joined the marine corps now I see it very different. I’m about to be a father and I really don’t care if my son will grow up as culturally involved in Mexican culture. I’m not saying forget where we came from, he will know the struggles we had on why we are here in America now and he will learn both Spanish and English at home but I’m not going to worry about him being “too Mexican or American” he will pick his own path
I am Colombian living in America and I think my future children will never be Colombian. They will be gringos who speak Spanish :v I know that because my family is from a different region of Colombia with different culture from the city I was born and I have a lot more to do with my born city than my parents towns
@@sobreinquisidor I know what you mean what adds to that identity crisis is that when we would visit Mexico you always heard the word “pocho” to describe us so the Mexicans don’t see us as Mexican and we come back to the states we are not exactly what “Americans look like” so we are stuck in that middle ground but I’ved learned to embrace both sides Chicano culture is a mix of both and I love that I have 2 cultures and traditions it makes us unique
Yeah I remember from a saying from Mexican American that goes “the annoying thing about being Mexican American your not Americans enough for Americans and your not Mexican enough for Mexicans
8:36 a few years back my dad and aunt pulled me aside and told me our "shameful" centuries old family secret that one of our ancestors was a hooker on the mayflower. I on the other hand, found it fucking hilarious and tell people whenever ancestors come up in conversation
my best friends are brothers, and they have an ancestor who was a rich older guy on the mayflower, so there is a significant non-zero chance that we're blood relatives several centuries removed
Hooker, as in she had sex with several dozen different men? Or was she a sugarbaby who gave GFE to 2 or perhaps as many as 3 different men throughout her entire career?
Someone in your family has a good sense of humor. There were obviously no prostitutes on the Mayflower. They were very religious Calvinists. The idea that they brought prostitutes along with their wives and children is nonsense. Read about William Bradford and the Plymouth Colony.
A major mistake Americans make is believing Scots-Irish were a mixture of Scottish and native Irish. They were not. They were Scottish Protestants (and some northern English) who migrated to Northern Ireland (Ulster) in the 1600s and then migrated from Northern Ireland to America in the 1700s. They did not usually mix with or inter marry with the native Catholic Irish during the century that they were in Ireland before moving on to America. Half of the population of Northern Ireland today is still ‘Scots-Irish’ (known as Ulster-Scots). They are the pro-British population and also pro-American…probably because they see great similarities in their much of American ‘country’ culture. It’s always funny to see Americans of ‘Scots-Irish’ descent focus on the Irish part like St Patrick’s Day, yet the original Scots-Irish who live in Northern Ireland focus much more on their Scottish and British heritage. There is actually a strong element of ant-Irishness amongst them (due to the British/Irish conflict over Northern Ireland)
Honestly, you are starting see more and more of cultural divide between black Americans by class. We have now had several generations of middle to upper class blacks being in more integrated areas so it’s a bit easier to see. Also, I do think with the internet more information is penetrating insular, poorer communities. Maybe it’s just me but I find even over my small lifetime I have seen poorer Americans in general become more knowledgable about the world simply from Internet exposure.
It honestly astounded me as a recent college grad in the social science to be able to discuss ancient history down to the details about the Romans in the teutonberg forest, the german's offensive plan in WWI and the structure of the Holy Roman Empire with a guy at my job who only has a high school education and not long ago was living in a homeless shelter
I was just speaking to my cousin about this last night, we need it. We have got to separate ourselves from those who don't want to progress or we will all continue to suffer.
And we clearly see what happens when less educated people are faced with information they don't understand or don't 'agree' with. This in a nutshell is what causes the whole social and political unrest we currently all over the world . In the past information and education went hand in hand, but since the wide availability of the internet people are drowning in information of all kinds without having the skills to place it in the a sensibel context. And to be fair also more educated people are struggling with this phenomenon.
One note I’ll make is that Native American ancestry and identification is rising in the US due to Latin American immigration, as many of us are of partial or majority indigenous ancestry, my mom being 70% while my dad for example only about 20%. In LA alone we have a growing community of indigenous language speakers like Nahuatl, Zapotec, and the various Mayan languages
Thats right. I say this all the time, "Spaniards are white, it is the native americans that were brown." If your brown in the Americans, chances are you have indigenious DNA.
@@siyiroancreint yeah. For some reason alot of people dont realize Spanish and latin period is a white European language. Yet, some how white people are racist against people that speak Spanish. When its a white language lol
I've got to take issue with something. The Roosevelts, Teddy and Franklin were not Scots Irish, they were old Dutch Patroon stock. Virtually American aristocracy without the hereditary titles. The Scots Irish tend to see themselves as just as good as any other man and have nothing but contempt for the "tall poppy" who thinks he can rise above the others.
The Roosevelt’s were originally dutch speaking patroons and the delanos were originally French speaking patroons but both of the families intermarried with a lot of Scots-Irish bc they shared American “WASP” sensibilities without actually having a Wasp last name which really only mattered in New England.
I noticed that too and this video completely ignored how the Dutch migrated to the northeast before the British. Also didn't like how this video didn't include Brazil as a Latin American country which is ridiculous. Also, not a word was said about the vikings who arrived in the northwest before Colombus even arrived. Nice video but too many important details left out for my liking.
Scots-irish/Native American from Appalachia here. I can trace my line straight back to the clan on my father's side, and my grandmother on my mom's side was a full blood native. You hit the nail on the head about the poverty and drug epidemic here in the mountains. That said, I've been all over the States and could never see myself living anywhere else but my home in WV. My girlfriend is from Utah and moved here and is just blown away by how , in her words "way to friendly and neighborly". She had a real culture shock being from the west.
I'm from northern Virginia but most of my family is from south west Virginia, which has lots in common with west Virginia, though not as extreme. The friendliness is I what I love most about the area, even if we have problems we have each other. I go to Liberty University and that is very apparent on campus, which has a large amount of Virginians and other southerners
I was born in Northern Virginia and eventually ended up in Los Angeles in my early 20s. I'm now 40 and plan on moving back to VA as soon as I can. I've been looking at buying land in West Virginia for a few years now. I feel called to the mountains and I think it has something to do with my DNA and heritage.
Well there's a clear divide between European ancestry from the South, and European ancestry from the North. The descendants of the "Old Stock" English Colonials in the Northern States & Canada are indeed responsible for colonialism, yet, are also descendants of people who didn't participate in African slavery nearly as recently as the Southern United States. There's no widespread German or Italian ancestry among European descendants in the U.S. south. There certainly is some French and Spanish from the "Old Stock" Spanish & French settlers in Southern Alabama's Gulf Coast. These are people they call "Cajun" and also "Spanish Creole" or "French Creole" , (depending on the tongue). It's close proximity to Mexico and the former Spanish Empire and New France is why there's such strong Spanish & French connections in the deep U.S. South. However, outside of that, the majority of Europeans from south of the Mason-Dixon are almost entirely descendants of the U.K. Whereas when you get into the Midwest, the presence of German and Italian backgrounds are strong .
For a 5th generation American, I am rather heterogeneous. I believe I am roughly 80% Norwegian and 20% Swedish, though that's just based upon where my ancestors came from, I think 3 of my 16 great-great-grandparents came from Sweden and the other 13 from Norway. I doubt they're super accurate, but I would like to take a DNA test, my grandpa did one and it said he is 98% Norwegian, ~1% British Isles, and ~1% something else I don't remember.
I love this. As a 3rd Gen hispanic American I wanna just add that Hispanic Americans differ in certain ways. For example, a good third to a half of my Dominican American family works in education and beauty salons r super common. Mexican restaurants and cultural blending (especially in the southwest) is super noticeable to the point that there were studies on how American accents were taking up Mexican and Central American qualities. I also have a lot of family in Florida and ur descriptions of their wealth and conservatism makes sense. I’ll say, like Italian Americans, there’s a HUGE value placed in family. This family value mixed in with what I could only explain as stoicism is what I believe to be the reason y Hispanic Americans r progressing so rapidly up the economic ladder as well as assimilating (I’ll probably be the last in my family to speak decent Spanish)
Yeah even us second generation hispanics hardly ever speak spanish when not talking to older family members. My high school was majority hispanic and nobody even spoke spanish besides the very recent central american immigrants.
@@shiny_teddiursa yeah though I think they underestimate how many of us will teach our kids Spanish. I know I'll teach my kids Spanish when I have them, both because it's advantageous and to perserve part of our culture
Bro I don't even speak decent Spanish despite living in Miami now. My family probably assimilated harder than even most of the rest of the Hispanic population since my grandmother was from New Jersey, went to Puerto Rico, had some kids, my mom, divorced, went back up to Florida and married a guy from Alabama (who to this day is my grandpa), and my dad is currently married to a woman from Illinois. I didn't even speak Spanish for years while I was living with my grandparents because it was all white and I needed English not Spanish in addition to the fact that my grandpa didn't speak a lick of the language. Also the Miami accent literally is mirrored in Spanish and a local phrase is "eating shit" because it's directly translated from Spanish.
It’s fascinating how these cultures can blend within individuals. My extremely Quaker family ended up in Atlanta, and I’m constantly pulled between the opposing cultural virtues of “minding my own god damn business” and “exchanging life stories with the person cutting my hair”
Another thing about the Quakers: it’s conventional to blame the Puritans or southern evangelicals for America’s squeamish attitude about sex and nudity, but really it’s mostly the Quaker’s fault. Quakers were all about self denial, even to the point that they worried about married couples enjoying sex too much. Wasn’t uncommon for couples to have no sexual contact unless they were intentionally trying to have a kid. Sometimes couples would even decide to be completely celibate within their marriage. also we invented solitary confinement. Sorry
Facts I'm half African American southerner, half WASP/German/Polish/Scandinavian Midwesterner. I'm so diverse my DNA test doesn't register my French and English heritage despite knowing that several family members immigrated from there. What's even cooler is knowing a ton of people that are even more diverse than me. America is a special place
@@thesilverreich3947 pshhhhhh, the only thing holding Mexico back from world power status was The history of its government (one that’s woefully totalitarian and oligarchic) And it’s geography. In America, they don’t gotta worry about that, so what’s the problem with “UnItEd StAtEs oF gReAtEr MeXiCo”?
I'm a Spanish American via New Mexico / Southern Spain, pretty sure my Spanish family has been here since the 16-17th century. Martin Serrano surname via Jaén province in Spain. My German/ polish side settled in 19th century , Wisconsin Thanks for the video, about to listen to it !
And what a good video it was. I think this the most balanced, even-handed video on race in America I’ve ever seen. Whatifalthist proves to be a A tier history TH-camr yet again.
250 years and we have the hubris to call it a "civilization". It has nothing compared to the Bronze Age civilizations that survived to modernity like the Greeks, the Chinese, the Persians and the Egyptians
@@dylanbuchanan6511 I don't disagree but... there is a lot of things that still irked me. At one point I even knee-jerk disliked the video before thinking better of it. I already commented on him saying indigenous Americans didn't have metal working. It is one of those things true of certain tribes on the great plains that get applied to natives in general and is patently false. They weren't making metal weapons and tools, at least in significant numbers, but gold, silver and copper jewelry was quite prevalent and no I don't just mean in mesoamerica. The Cherokee were reknown for their silver smiths. Then there is the whole segment on Africans which... I have critiques of from both right and left wing perspectives. That he will mention black America changed for the worse in the 60s but not go into why reeks of cowadice to me. The feds deliberately causing drug problems in their communities is very well documented at this point. Not mentioning it out of what I can only imagine is fear of being called a conspiracy theorist kind of gets my hackles up. The crack epidemic that followed is easily one of the worse things the US government has ever done this side of slavery and indian removal acts. But don't fret. It is being done to white southerners now with meth for similar reasons. They got to uppity and now we have to destroy their subculture too. He didn't really go into this in his Scots Irish segment which annoys me as well, but while the south (and midwest) has been disproportionately poorer compared to the west coast and north east that gap has been widening and I don't think it is an accident. I've seen it happening in front of me in real time. The there is the whole "black culture is where all/most American culture came from" bit which is so disingenious it drives me batshit, right up there with "the west steals its fiction from Japanese media". It would be entirely fair to say that in both cases the two go back and forth influencing each other, but oh no, it has to be a completely onesided relationship. Take him saying black music invented rock. 50s era rock and roll maybe, but ROCK as it has existed since the 60s is a very different thing. When the only influencial black rock musician I can think of is the infinitely talented Jim Hendricks this comes off as ridiculous. While rock and has a lot of influence from jazz and blues, to the point that rock and roll might have more in common with them than what it birthed, it IS its own distinct thing. But if we are to talk about influence we can talk about how big band and ragtime influenced the blues and jazz bands. Lots of white and black musicians there, but those two were influnced by EUROPEAN FOLK MUSIC. That shouldn't negate African influences but this whole idea that we owe all these cultural things exclusively to black people is infuriating. It seems to be part of a larger campaign to create this myth that white people aren't original and stole everything that is perpetuated by the worse people. It is what got the kneejerk dislike in fact. But I thought better of it because he is probably just regurgitating what others have told him and I doubt he holds that view given how much he shits on social justice crusader types. Then finally the white snowflake American comment when talking about illegal immigration. Because working six twelve hour days on a rotating shift while being paid half of a living wage should just be totally okay. But I guess working in a sweatshop is worth it for Mexican immigrants who totally knew that was what they were signing up for and are staying here totally of their own free will and not because of exploitive Californian businessmen who are so enlightened and progressive as to call me racist when I point out it also greatly benefits sex trafficking. What I think is most sorry about that comment is... actual American citizens, white or otherwise, don't have a choice. State regulations apply to us even if we disagree with them. I think minimum wage being constantly raised is just feeding inflation and overtime laws have forced me into some really shitty scheduling conflicts in an attempt to keep me at a 40 hour work week. There was a time when those laws were more flexible and I worked four 12hour shifts one week and three 12s the next without incurring overtime. 4 people could man a 24/7 position like that quite easily. But now we have this poor motherfucker doing a floating shift because the old way just made too much fucking sense. ... I did not mean for this to turn into a small essay and apologize. But now that I have typed it I am submitting it.
@@insertname11 I’m an American with some Croatian ancestry, one of my great-great grandfathers came from Krk, his wife came from Loski Potok in Slovenia.
If I’m not mistaken, the Vietnam War was ending during that time frame. Americans were returning with drug addiction. Also, the government began allowing drugs to flow into black communities. (These impoverished communities had no farms, laboratories, nor organized global distribution capabilities) This is when the War on Drugs (heroin & rock cocaine) was waged; it was synonymously a war on black people. With dwindling opportunity and the inability to relocate black communities victimized each other. During the 1990’s money was in the form of college loans were set aside for minorities to pursue higher learning. I personally took advantage of this opportunity. I suspect it provided alternative we needed to thrive in different sectors of the economy that didn’t involve such risk. I’m sure there may be other factors that I am leaving out and the fluctuation in stats may not be that simple and clear cut.
Probably one of my favorite and insightful videos on youtube in the 2020-30 decade given the great social influx that is ongoing. You sir are hacking the matrix, if only more folks knew about their lineages!
As a Chinese Canadian, it’s really interesting learning about the different white American ethnic groups!!! I had no idea about all that, really cool to dive deeper than the commonly dismissed “white label” and see how they have each shaped American culture and history in their own way 😳
I find it amusing - although it's understandable - that U.S. survey and application forms REALLY simplify America's ethnic diversity. In particular, they get "ethnicity" confused with "race," and so skin color itself becomes a cultural marker. "White" is considered a single ethnic group, when in fact it is composed of dozens of such groups from all across Europe, as well as (until recently) Southwest Asia and North Africa as well. Asian-Americans are at least distinguished by national origin in the way that "whites" aren't, but I find it a little crazy that, in a categorization system based primarily on race, Indian-Americans are considered Asian-American even though they are of mixed Caucasoid-Australoid racial stock, rather than the "Mongoloid" stock of East Asians. It's also funny to me that Pacific Islanders are also counted as Asian. If you don't think that's strange, take a Korean and a Fijian sometime, stand them next to each other, and try to convince people that they belong to the same race; you'll fail miserably. Both Koreans and Fijians speak languages that originated in East Asia, but they look nothing alike.
@@SeasideDetective2 lol who cares about that, pacific islanders can identify as black or mongoloid or even native if they want to in US just as Korean can be Japanese or Chinese or Indian they look same. Alternatively they are all just POC.
@@tarsy_revo1180 I don't really like the term "people of color." It assumes a connection between all those groups that just doesn't exist, except perhaps for a history of discrimination (and they all haven't experienced the same level of discrimination anyway). You might as well put out a census form that lists only two categories: "White People" and "Other."
Yeah, almost like people diverge into a lot of cultures and not really homogeneous even when physical characteristics are similar... Obligatory, fuck the Yankee carpetbaggers of New England.
Southeast Native American interactions have definitely been interesting to read about. Due to the matriarchal lineage, it was actually pretty beneficial to intermarry, as the children of white fathers and native American mothers would get the family heritage benefits of both (See Alexander McGillivray as an example). This means the Trail of Tears was a far messier separation than you'd initially think because it was ripping apart families, and there was a lot of "passing white" or "passing black" going on. That said, looking at the Creek War side of the War of 1812 (where Andrew Jackson fought in), the tactics of the Red Sticks at Fort Mims against other Creeks, and the retaliation at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend would really be a shock to the idealistic "no noncombatant causalities" approach of European ideal war, compounded by the fact that the leaders that encouraged some the worst actions were mixed and educated. So it's possible to see how Jackson could betray his former allies that he personally worked with (Not enough to actually justify the Trail of Tears in my eyes, though). That Black bit with the list of how slaves were dehumanized felt a bit weird. There's a mix of "legally true, but practically false" like skilled labor and education where slaveowners bent rules when the slave showed talent or had need (See Gaineswood, Horace King, etc. It was more up to the slaveowner moreso than the actual law) and "legally false, but practically true" like breaking up families (Alabama legally condemned "breaking up a slave family if able to keep it together," but that "if able" is key.). The aim for slaves was less of a "make labor robots" and closer to a more insidious "HR-like intent to keep them productive yet content with nothing" thing without the ability to quit. So it has this twisted resentment of "Why aren't you content with what I've given you" thing going on with it as well.
Isn't it actually a thing though where southerners assume they have Native American blood but it is very small or none at all? Iv seen several instances and been told in person by southerners who grew up being told of family stories of an ancestor marrying a Native woman but when they took a DNA test they found none. Elizabeth Warren being a famous example where she wasn't intentionally lying but was just told such a story as a child.
@@Spongebrain97 yea ur anecdote about false Indian heritage is a common one but I’ve only ever read one study on it in a college newspaper. It said white and black people who claim native heritage are more likely to have the opposite white or black dna than Indian dna. And it was true to me, my dads family says they’re part Indian but it turned out they were part black. And my moms family has been Episcopalian/Protestant forever but they were French and Spanish creoles who basically adopted the WASP identity because they had the advantage of owning property back before English speakers got there
@@voiceofreason2674 from what Iv heard in some instances white southerners actually had a black ancestor but due to Jim Crow laws such as the one drop rule and grandfather clause, they would've been discriminated against despite barely being part black. To get around this some would claim they had native ancestry to cover it up because on paper native blood was better than black blood. This also happened in Latin America which had an even more extensive caste system based on ethnicity
What I've learned from this is that my family is almost exclusively german then Irish, but only identifies as german. Also that my family is more like an Italian family than an Irish family.
Despite it’s rightward lean, this is a really interesting video. I suggest, if you’re going to make comments about the origins and nuances of different conservative sub-groups, that you do the same thing for more liberal sub-groups. For example, you could have mentioned where the ideas behind labor unions, public infrastructure and services, universal human rights and fairness, or collective responsibility for things such as taking care of the elderly, or the environment, come from.
I've always thought it was interesting that most regional culture is defined by what diverges from English American culture, and what is clearly English American culture is recognized broadly as not culture at all. I'm like 1/8th Scottish. My mom's grandfather was very Scots Irish and raised my grandmother to only recognize herself as Scots Irish, who then taught my mother, and now my mother taught me. I know the historical details of a clan I don't even share a name with. I know their rivalries dating back centuries, their claims , castles, and relation to English nobility, the story of traveling to Northern Ireland, the trek to the US every name and date. My christmas and family gatherings on my fathers side are all heavily PA German, food, traditions, and everything. I feel generally German and Scots Irish. However, I'm at least 66 % completely English when we delve into the details. I'd say 80% of my family traditions are English, but I don't even realize it because most of the stuff just seems so normal.
Scots Irish is such a bad term. Im Scots-Irish but from Northern England. I literally tell people something different every time they ask just because its such a confusing concept to get across unless you know the term. Im not really scottish, not really irish, not really english, I cant say Southern American without it sounding like South American. White is the only term that people seem to get.
@@sw3783 Most of them would have been Irish, from all over Ireland. "Scotch Irish RACE" was used by Queen Elizabeth to refer to the Irish people - in Ireland and Scotland.
I really like the way you explained Italian Americans and how you compared them to the Irish, we are very similar in many ways in how we reacted with American culture and life. Also, the analogy of your mother crying for leaving the family is quite accurate, we're very family oriented people
@Mahdio I wanted to ask what is the relationship with Italian immigrants as a Italian-American your self because I hear stories that the Italians stick to themselves it looked down upon Italian-American
@@IAmGlutton4Life It honestly depends, a lot of Italians came to the USA in "waves", being from the 1890s to the 1950s. Other factors were a lot of Italian families intermixed with groups already in America (especially the Irish), while some families didn't. My family is pretty monocultural and we still have a lot of old Italian customs and traditions (language, food, celebrations, etc.) My family is much newer to America compared to some of the older generations, but I don't think we "look down on eachother." At the end of the day, we are descended from the same country. As a result of this "intermixing" with other immigrant groups it sort of lost the Italian culture in a way, that's why many people that have Italian-American ancestry aren't exactly "in touch with it" as much as others. The main point is however, that it varies drastically from family to family.
I laughed when I heard him say that. I’m not Italian. I’m a Latino man. We’re the same way. When I went off to college, my mother was distraught. I was leaving the house and I wasn’t even getting married! Same thing when my sister moved out. She hated it. I consider myself pretty assimilated into the American culture but, I have to admit, I would love it if my kids decided to live with me until they got married. It’s a crazy world out there. I can protect them best when they’re with me. Maybe you guys have the same reason? Anyway, lots of cultures do this. People from India, a lot of the middle Easterners, some of the people from Southeast Asia too. The whole idea of getting happy when your kids move out when they’re still so young is just so alien to us. I mean, Dios mio, anything could happen!
I always felt that WASPs, Blacks, and Amerindians are the only peoples with strong cases to the title of being the 'real' Americans insofar as such a distinction can be had.
The Scots-Irish were not considered WASPs and they've been in America as long as the English have, are they not real Americans? Same with the Dutch who had been in New York before the English came.
The video was great up until the Black American section. I appreciate the fact that you said you don’t fully understand what happens there but literally every black person does. It’s not everyone telling us we can’t do anything and that this is all pointless, it’s how when we we tried to rise above anything, we were put down. Just because Nigerian Americans have higher incomes then white ppl does not disprove foul play. That’s an incredible flawed and ignorant statement to make. It’s like no critical thought occurred at all. Black Americans, thise who are descendants of the horrific American chattel slavery, have made constant attempts to move forward, only for our progress to be stalled and cut down. The way you frame it is like we just decided to stay in the bottom rung of society and take whatever hand outs we can get. You should definitely do more research before making video with so much ignorance in it.
See.. im GLAD i read the comments before watching the video. I just KNEW he’d have ZERO knowledge of our history in this land. Not to mention Black American comes in multiple southern Creole ethnicities also.
@@LATEIR Yea, I didn’t see any comments addressing this so I just had to make one myself. Don’t get me wrong, the first part of his section of Black Americans is alright, it’s just the second half. He talks about a sudden switch in focus and direction of the black community and how it came out of nowhere. He then makes it seem like we just wanted to be at the bottom and not move forward. Like, collectively, the black community decided to just beg for hand outs and be bottom tier while other communities rose up. It’s the literal talking points of the “Model Minority” myth. It’s what whites have used to try and isolate the black community by telling other minorities that they are better than blacks because they are “making something of themselves” while blacks aren’t. Looking back at it, I don’t know anymore if I can say this wasn’t an unintentional play by this guy.
He also completely ignored the whole "War on Drugs" and mass incarceration that wrecked our communities, beginning in the 70's and increasing over the last 50 years.
Exactly. Being black American and being Nigerian American are fundamentally different things. Just because they're the same color doesn't mean they come from the same human background. If you're Nigerian American then that means you came from Nigeria to settle in the US, meaning you had both the financial means to get here, and most likely a job or other asset that provided you stability and a reason to come. Nigerian Americans mostly descend from the upper classes of one of the already "richer" countries of Africa. (Not that Nigeria is rich, but it isnt as poor as the rest of the region). They're not "black", they're established migrants from another continent. Black Americans descend from generations and generations of systemic poverty and lack of social mobility. Poverty is a cycle that repeats itself.
@@cienfu_egos exactly, same reason why being of arabic descent in Mexico usually means you are fairly wealthy, to make such a big leap you need atleast some wealth, complete blind jumps by immigrants are usually reserved to humanitarian crisis, absolutely horrid living condition or conflict. But in the case of many african americans that came to the USA they straight up had nothing, not even their own culture was allowed to come with them.
"...the native peoples [...] didn't have metalworking..." Nitpick; I don't know the full extent but at least the Pacific Northwest Coast natives and the Cahokia you mentioned had coppersmithing as worked copper plates were important symbols and the Purépecha in Mesoamerica had ironworking.
They also had the wheel, there are several examples of wheeled children's toys. It's commonly thought that it wasn't utilized in transportation because of the general lack of draft animals. Only the Incan Empire had llamas, but the wheel isn't useful in rocky mountain passes with millions of stone steps.
@@DesertRat1997 " there are several examples of wheeled children's toys. " Idiot. They still did not have the wheel. They did not make us elf the wheel for practical purposes. "" because of the general lack of draft animals." You don't need draft animals to make use of the wheel. In japan humans pulled carts by hand, and it made life easier. "but the wheel isn't useful in rocky mountain passes with millions of stone steps." The Inca empire had lots of places without mountain passes.
That Italian family but really got me lol, I’m no Italian I’m Greek but both people react the same when it comes to leaving the family, I told my mom she wouldn’t have to worry about money in a few years when I move out, and she looked at me as though i stabbed her in the heart and then she said “your not leaving until your married” 😂
I remember being related to the neighborhood , we don't move to far away , that is why I married a Irish man cause the majority of Lations were my cousins
Your mothers (southern Europeans) want you to stay while my mom (basically a Briton) prays everynight that Walmart accepts my job application so I could move the fuck out eventually
This is a great production. Presenting, a brief but concise overview of different ethnic groups in America. It should be mandatory viewing for grade school children.
“While the colonization in Canada was almost entirely peaceful” no we didn’t brother document our massacres and they were often done by local militia. Talk to any descendants of the native Americans that allied themselves with the French in the 7 years war, including me, and we’ll tell you that our ancestors had it either worse or on par with the wounded knee experience.
I'm flabbergasted that you skipped over the Dutch Americans. Between being the founders of the American capitalist/banking systems and even more importantly laying the groundwork for the freedom Americans hold most dear, between styling the country as a republic and including things like religious freedom in the ethos of these States, United.
I agree but if we truly thought about all of the cultures and peoples that have created the American identity...We're going to be here awhile watching a I don't know a list of 50 or so. Maybe a part two down the line or a dedicated video would be good.
Western Michigan has a huge Dutch community, and there’s a town called Holland that retains a strong Dutch heritage (including a tulip festival and a windmill donated by the Dutch government back in the 60s).
It seems like he just lumped the Germans and Dutch together, seeing as he listed Trump as a German-American, when I'm pretty sure his ancestry is Dutch.
Jewish American here, absolutely spot on my ancestors came here with absolutely nothing and yet now I could afford to go to college. I like that you mention we are just as American as everyone else because I find it hard to explain to people especially non Americans that.
@@hermanreid not true. Anyone can be an American and that’s what makes our country beautiful. However, nobody can just be European growing up there as an outsider you’ll never fit right in. I’ve seen it with my white relatives in Germany they don’t feel or consider themselves Germans because they’ll never be. However, anyone and everyone can be an American no matter where they are from.
@@hermanreid America was named after a person that did not exist the entire time the landmass did. Being "American" is being of "America." America being this big old continent. The Chocktaw are American. The Canadians are American. Everyone on the continent is American. This isn't like Europe. Virtually every group here settled on the continent from somewhere else. I won't lie to you and act like these new Mexican immigrants are doing the exact same thing our white ancestors did, because the new migrants aren't really building any new stuff, but objectively they were already American. They just weren't United States Citizens. This isn't Europe, where your German family has lived in Germany since it became a family.
@@hermanreideh, bet yours didn’t either. Funnily enough, I’d say the impact of Jews on pop culture (mafia crime and producing music to name 2) make them pretty American. The East Coast metro is inherently American, and certainly part of its flavor comes from Jews.
I’m American, and I agree with that sentiment. My family has always known we were English because we came from the English Aristocracy in the 17th Century, but most Americans have forgotten that and now claim to be German even though most will only find 20% French-German and 70% British ancestry when they get a DNA test. 🤦🏼♂️😂
I'm a English American and I agree. The English are seen as not exotic and boring generic white. Which is sad because someone in America could be like 80% English, 20% not English, ignore the details of a family tree and focus emphasize on the non English ancestry and ignore the English ancestry. As a American I love my English ancestry very so much.
@@DTL0VER yea agreed. It's sad English is seen as default or boring. Before the 1930s most Americans identified with a Anglo-Saxon culture. Its sad that stopped in the 60s. Or even 50s.
Something that warmed my heart was the first meeting between John Adams and King George, as well as the Petition to the King… made me realise it was not long ago that the Englishman, Welshman, Scot and Irishman did not differentiate between the population of the USA, UK, and Ireland. I have always wondered how confused foreigners must feel when they see multiple countries stemming from England claiming to be completely independent sovereign states… even when I moved to England , other kids unironically had no idea that the UK colonised these areas but thought it was a result of good relations 🤦♂️🤦♂️ lmao
As a Hispanic American, I can tell you that older folks vote more - and they are more Catholic - therefore lean conservative. BUT young Hispanic Americans are very liberal. They literally turned Arizona blue.
Yeah that seems about right, Hispanic Americans voting demographics are pretty similar to European/white American. old vote republicans, while young vote democrat. I think when comes to immigration both the old and the young are for immigrantion.
The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where feed and seed both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Fuck and Suck".
Wonderful video, clear and concise. Where you make huge sweeping generalisations as required for such a very short presentation on a massive topic : they are mostly fair and balanced. Well done
36:44 this is what I’m scared about most. My tex-mex ethnicity is on the brink of being forgotten. My immediate family is not fluent in Spanish and do not speak Spanish at home. I don’t think they care as much as they should, but I do, enough to teach myself Spanish and reintegrate what little fragments of my heritage are left back into my family.
I live in the U.P. Of Michigan and have a heavy amount of Finnish in my blood. I love how you included the Finnish on your map, we hardly get represented when describing all the cultures that shaped American society. The Finns overwhelmingly worked in the biggest copper mining operations in the world in the 1800’s and early half of 1900’s.
My best friend is half Finnish American and half black Caribbean. People treat him as African American even though, in real terms, the closest link he has to African American culture is me, a white guy who spent 7 of my formative years living in North Minneapolis. He's just a hick from central Minnesota.
Hey just something to note: some native Americans around the Great Lakes had the ability to do metalworking. They made copper arrowheads which are still being found by metal detectors.
Yeah but those are ANCIENT and the technology was either lost or barely there by the time Europeans had touched the continent. By the Columbian period the only metal working was copper and gold in Mesoamerica. But yeah a,"What if the Old Copper Culture took off?" would be good video.
@@k_tess It wasn't so much lost as largely irrelevant. Copper working is very easy, the Great Lakes region has large amounts of native copper, which is highly pure ore that you can literally just hammer most of the impurities out to get the metal into usable condition and until the shape you want it. There's a reason humans first started working with copper in the old world too. It's only once you have a sufficiently dense population, usually only possible with agriculture, that you have a demand for copper that exceeds the capacity of only cold working native copper can supply you, and this is with the Great Lakes copper cultures supplying copper artifacts that have been found as far away as southern Mexico. Now, if you want a really impressive example of native metalworking that was sadly lost in colonization, look at the Tarascan culture of northwestern Mexico. These people were actually working with bronze, which requires smelting technology.
You left out that large swaths of the modern U.S. South was once settled by "Old Stock" French & Spanish colonials before the Americans claimed those region, and incorporated the descendants of that population into the U.S.
Well I do see that the majority of your portion on Black America was influenced by Sowell. You really underscore some major factors. It’s lazy to blame the state of Black America on lack of work ethic and the woke culture. The 1920’s-40’s the black middle class was strong and growing, in the 1950’s-60’s white families left in droves from existing neighborhoods taking entire industries with them (white flight) to newly built suburbia that entirely denied black families looking to move in and new interstate highways were paved through entire black middle class neighbourhoods. This practice was called Redlining, it kept black middle class families in poor areas and outright denied them from loans to purchase homes and upward social mobility. Redlining along with broken single parent homes from over incarceration, large percentages of black men joining up the Vietnam War, drugs, the growing welfare state all destroyed the middle class. I suggest anyone who’s looking to learn more to read The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. All things said great video, very informative !
This guy obviously has a right-wing bias. I am on the center and think most of his videos are okay, but it is easy to detect the fallacies and bias in his content
@@BlessedBanter I agree. Since I’ve read a lot of Sowell, I can tell he just repeats his viewpoints but he’s choosing not to mention things that actually happened and facts in favor of a biased viewpoint. It’s intellectually dishonest and I expected more from him.
@@sosman2715 Sowell isn't right wing (nor McWhorter, who was not mentioned but who seems to have also influenced his views). He's barely right of center. The "controversial" opinions in this video regarding the current social justice movement reflects the views of a majority of the black population. Other than his commentary regarding everything outside the current state, everything mentioned is entirely inline with the entirety of historical experts outside of a handful of the post-modernist "antiracist" "historians" (i.e. people who claim to be experts on the history of America despite not having any actual formal education in history) who tend to view objective fact as a false construct and tool of colonialism. His opinions (which he clearly stated were only his opinions) are only (partly) contrary to the mostly white, most upper middle class left who seems to think justice is a performance art (and one to be performed as visibly and as online as possible).
The interstates were built for commercial trucking so often followed existing state highways thru cities where a lot of commercial truck traffic passed thru. Those routes went thru Black neighborhoods and White neighborhoods. The industries didn't follow people moving to suburbia! Those didn't have any reason to since the infrastructure needed to operate was in place (water, electric, natural gas, rail service, rivers/canals for barge traffic, roads and bridges for heavy truck traffic). People were moving out to the suburbs to get away from noisy smelly industries and live in new modern neighborhoods for a change. Most large cities didn't have vacant land suitable for new home developments since most of those were zoned industrial or were floodplains.
I am a transplant from the hills around Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to rural central wisconsin. People who claim that there are no cultural distinctions at all among pasty skinned americans are insane. People unabashedly do things in Wisconsin that would elicit an angry, physical response in Alabama. Parking is a perfect example. There's no real consequence to parking like a complete douchebag here, so everybody does it. Half the cars in any given parking lot are over the lines or taking up more than one spot in some way, shape, or fashion. Meanwhile, try that in Alabama, you'd have your car keyed in a week. Meanwhile, poltiics in the south can be brutally dirty, while here in the upper midwest, that would never fly. That's why trump lost wisconsin, btw. Not because people in rural wisconsin are any more liberal than people in rural alabama, bur rather because the bombastic hotheaded campaign style that wins in Alabama gets you publicly shunned in WIsconsin.
@@600micsofacid he’s from Alabama that’s just how they talk. Also you’re right, they’re cultural differences. which is probably what he means. people tend to use “cultural” and “ethnic” interchangeably Edit: lol just realized OP doesn’t use the word ethnic, you’re the one who swapped that in
Honestly it comes from in part due to modernisation of the world due to the internet (people tend to group according to interest, less so religion/history) and few traditions held over from previous settler generations (new ones are made but they are more generally American and less so from a specific ethnic group). Its not a bad thing, it just means that there is less diversity from state to state than countries in Europe, Asia, Africa etc. You still have the cultural boom of movies, music, art, technology etc etc that isn't just from Texas or from New York, its American.
I wished you covered French Americans because I’m part Cajun. If anyone wants to know, I’m also Irish, English, and German, with a little bit of Scottish, Portuguese, and Italian and a very tiny bit of Coushatta.
@@muatheluafi6816 so in the 1870s Silesian German protestant fled Germany to Australia. They arrived in the city of Adelaide and then marched out to make towns in the hills around the city. Literally built towns out of nothing and started farming.
I heard Barossa is basically a downstream of German culture. Adelaide also seems to have a massive Greek influence, particularly in their politics where a lot of MPs e.g Xenophon, Marshall, Kounstantinos and the current Premier are of Greek descent.
@@Dwzonbell What do you mean out of nothing ? You're making it sound like they pulled the building materials out of their assholes or something . You mean like they went to a place and cut trees and dug wells and built houses and shelters and started farming ? Yeah that's standard human behavior there is nothing German about it
This might be my favorite video that you’ve released. I wish ethnicity in America was tackled through this lense, rather than strictly through race and discrimination
Ethnicity and race are two separate things. Even among Latin Americans, you still have racial distinctions being made, with darker skinned Latin Americans, descended in part or in whole from African slaves, being discriminated against by lighter skinned Latin Americans descended from European settlers. It makes sense to talk about both
You forgot French, who were already settled on a large part of today's US. Some remained in Louisiana even today, and some waves of millons came from Canada about 100-150 years ago.
Amazing video! The one thing you missed about Mexican migration was that during WW2 the US government made the “braceros” program which opened up a LEGAL avenue for migration into the US as the US population was off fighting and couldn’t attend to the farms.
It's slightly incorrect to refer to the areas of majority black Americans as "Angolan" as their ancestors came from all up and down the West Coast of Africa in a very mixed plural background, from Senegambia (modern Guiana) to West Central Africa (the northern part of modern Angola).
Yes the mali empire sold many of their neighbors to slavery they learned to do so with the trans-saharan slave trade during the middle ages, particularly west african slaves to the arabic nations of north africa and europeans including the portuguese and english.
Yea most Angolans ended up in Brazil since the Kongo kingdom traded mainly with Portugal. British Colonies ( the former U.S. Colonies) mainly traded with African states farther to the North.
If your U.S. ancestry can be traced back to the colonial era, what you are really depends on what colony your ancestors lived in. For instance, if they were from New England, there is a very high probability that they were originally from the British Isles. If they were from Pennsylvania, there is a very high probability that they were from the historically German speaking Rhine River area that included parts of eastern France, western Germany, and parts of Switzerland. I have friends in Pennsylvania who thought they were mostly German because their first ancestors spoke German, only to find out they were really from historically German speaking towns in eastern France or Switzerland! This stuff is always not cut and dry and can get very muddy.
@@AlexandertheGreat99 Yes, people from same ancestral area can be different in DNA. Especially if that area had a history population change. It really depends on where the ancestors originated. Some people, even back in the middle ages, moved around depending on work, result of wars, or food supplies. It also depends on how far back in your linage these ancestors were. After about 5 generations, a human can completely lose all DNA from a certain ancestor. It is a totally random on what DNA is kept and what is thrown out when a human is conceived. You get offered 23 pairs from each parent, for a total of 46 pairs, but in the end you only get to keep 23 pairs. In just one generation, a human looses a sizable chunk of their total ancestry. Ancestral DNA can be randomly passed down through the generations, or it can be randomly lost in the same way.
I can trace my ancestry to the colonial era. My 10th great-grandfather, Jasper Crane, co-founded New Haven, Branford, CT, and Newark NJ. My Dutch ancestors came to NYC back when it was a colony of Holland back in the 1630's, and it was called New Amsterdam.
Germany lost a lot of soil especially after WW2...today's eastern "France" was inhabited by Germans and so was today's Czech Republic, Poland etc...they were forced to flee their ancenstral communities throughout several periods of time and mostly after ww2 when they abandonded their towns and cities being replaced by other nationalities
@@nikgeo8690 Very true. Most people from the Rhine River area are very similar in overall DNA, regardless whether they live in France, Germany, or Switzerland. The entire area is very "Germanic" as far as ancestral DNA is concerned.
This video was better than I expected, but still some overly-broad generalizations here. One crucial note about Ireland: it wasn’t “overpopulated” except in the context of English foreign occupation taking all the arable land except that which was unsuitable for farming cash crops for export, where only potatoes could be grown. That is the land (and the food) the native Irish were forced to live off of to such an extreme degree that when the potato blight hit, millions died of starvation. But to be clear: the English always had enough food to feed the Irish population notwithstanding the blight- they just chose not to, and to export the crops and keep the money instead. So the famine was as much a result of dispossession and classism (if not moreso) than it ever was about “overpopulation” or a potato blight. But the Irish were taught it was their fault and to be ashamed of their own poverty, which is why it’s rarely talked about, even to this day. And this dispossession isn’t too far different from what our nation did to Native Americans: forcing them off all the most arable land, and into scrubland “reservations” where scarcely anything could be grown, then violently crushing all forms of resistance and rebellion to that enforced impoverishment. Just my $0.02 for an otherwise excellent review of American demographics and migration which could probably benefit from including more critical reflection on the classist nature of our society, which is really baked-in at the very core of our culture, ever since the landed English gentry of the Jamestown colony nearly starved to death because they didn’t want to work (because they saw hard work as beneath them) before kidnapping, enslaving, and “importing” slaves from Africa to do the work for them, from 1619 onwards, because they didn’t have serfs anymore and didn’t want to have to pay people to work their fields (and the attitude hasn’t changed much, unfortunately, in many quarters of our country).
This video does a good job exposing the emptiness of phrases such as “people of colour” to unify an experience of oppression. As an Indian (actual India) i find it amusing how many of us, particularly around the Bay area, ally with woke progressive causes despite coming from wealthy tech and medical professions. Pramila Jayapal, Ro Khanna, Kamala Harris etc. A lot of them derive from upper caste Indians such as Brahmins who moved to US as affirmative action programs for lower castes in India called “reserved categories or reservations”, locked them out from creamy Indian civil service jobs and elite colleges .
Aa an european I agree with your take about the "person of colour" phrase. It's very american centered and stupid. I can't imagine referring to people as white and non-white instead of their actual ethnicities
@@michabodnar7739 haha yeah it makes even less sense in a European context. Yes in America it was white settlers that came in and evicted native americans, did slavery etc. but in Europe while participating in colonialism was also occupied by North African muslims (Spain), occupied and oppressed by Turks (Greece, Balkans) and Mongols (Russia). We were often taught to believe warfare and violence is the domain of the whites but thats a distortion of history thats flowed from American centrism which is one of the least representative histories for the world given its sheer uniqueness and the fact some houses in Europe are older than post Native America.
@@rohanindra6401 all of it is very complicated, especially people ignoring the opression that happened between the white europeans at the time. Much of polish culture since the end of the 18th century was defined by seeking independence from the german and russian empires. Same for other smaller nations(and the invasion of Ukraine happening as we speak). At the end of the day it's not only "white opressors", just the strong looking to exploit the weak as always. They just happened to fill that role at the time.
This is a good point. Reservations in India are unfortunately a huge factor behind brain drain. Also, it's especially bad for Indian-Americans to ally too closely with the wokes because those are the people that crap on India the most, particularly since the current government came to power.
I’ve been ‘German’ all my life. At age 70, I found out I’m 42% Scandinavian and 33% English, the rest mostly Scotch, Irish and Welsh! Thank you Mom’s family. Ha! I was always drawn to the music from those parts. Must be something to it . . . ? 😄
All of those are Germanic Tribes.. so, you've been correct. It's just that all these little pockets of smaller German tribes and areas were labeled with other names.
Scandinavians and Germans have the same roots and the early english were basically Saxons who came from Northern Germany so I'd say you are still german. And not to forget that some of these companies offering DNA tests often try to paint a wrong picture depending on where the company comes from. Did the same and suddenly have 1-5% the ancestry of the region in which the company has it's base xD Next time trying an israeli company, always wanted to be one percent jewish
Big truth said in the intro. Some people act like the US has no cultural diversity and other people act like no other place is diverse. It's better to capture the nuances and heterogeneity.
Love your videos, you're a bit shortsighted when it comes to African Americans. I think you should do a lot more research on how and why the decline happened in the black community after the civil rights movement. I would love to see you make a video on that. Also I want to point out that the success of Nigerians doesn't mean discrimination wasn't a MAJOR factor (still is but that's neither here nor there). Nigerian immigrants tend to do well because the best of them are the ones that are coming over. The same is true for immigrants from other countries: Asian Americans do better than most Americans because they’re almost all 1st and 2nd gen immigrants. For example, they’re self-selected: they’re choosing to move to the U.S. That means they have unusual drive and determination. People without that drive stay home. African Americans that come from slavery have no such filter. (Nigerians never experienced black wall street, redlining, mass incarceration etc btw)
Exactly my brother! When it comes to African Americans, he sounds way too patronizing. He hasn't pointed out that African Americans are the only group in America whose identity was completely ERASED, he mentions they erased their identity but does not make a comparison. You can't compare a black person raised in Nigeria to a black person raised in USA. A Nigerian students has identity and has a solid family unit. In addition, the wealthy Nigerians are the ones who can afford travelling to America. Are these wealthy Nigerians going to get a house in the projects? No! I really find offensive that he mentions the presence of African Americans in media and music! Really? I am pretty sure African Americans have contributed to American cuisine, science, literature etc. The cartoons were borderline racist! He finally gives his opinion on issues affecting the black community and gives recommendations yet he does not challenge or give recommendations to white America who is the main responsible of this mess.
@@biokomalabo9468 It seems that the Black American community does a have strong identity and pride. Perhaps young Blacks should be encouraged to adopt mindsets like that of the Nigerian immigtant. Still the situation is tragic and the American policing system is seriously incompetent & hazardous.
@@biokomalabo9468 it’s almost impossible to find a neutral rational white male when it comes to issues like this. It’s either some batshit crazy left winger. Or someone who will never acknowledge that the problems of the black community were caused by white Americans and it’s their job to fix it
Come on w/ the facts! They gone stop using Nigerian “success” as a cover up for their wrong doings generationally to Black American - Descendants of American Chattel Slavery.
I thinking the point he was trying to make was that (and I'm speculating here since I'm not in his head) I guess since a black immigrant would face the same discrimination as an ancestral black american, yet are successful, that discrimination must not be the issue. Like you said and in addition to the other flaw you brought up in that argument, it puts the focus on current day discrimination rather than the role historical discrimination (an understatement) played in economic and social development leading up to today. He mentioned not fully understanding the declines that happened within the community after the 60s and I agree that if he dug more into them it would inform his opinions a bit better. I'll give him this: i think hes on the right track with his overall understanding of it (for example, the analogy of the abusive adoptive parent) and I dont completely disagree with him that more work needs to be done in recovering from past atrocities, but I think he presented it in a condescending/out-of-touch way even if it was unintentional. Not a good look (and he acknowledges this) for a white american guy to tell black people essentially to "move on" and suck it up and not at all his place to say so.
Ok, so I can provide some clarity around the black plight as a woke white man that has studied this stuff (only bachelor's in urban planning) myself. The black community's migration to the north oriented itself around manufacturing, which peeked in the 60s. Around this same time, 50s-60s you had the destruction of many african american wealthy neighborhoods in the rust belt for highways and slum clearance for public housing projects, destroying a lot of social frameworks that had been built up and providing long term shaky foundation in terms of underfunded and poorly designed public housing. Once cars and suburbs really take off throughout the nation, jobs flee the black neighborhoods and they're legally and socially prevented from following. Then the war on drugs craters their younger generation suffering from lack of employment and thus you get the chips on shoulders exemplified in rap. White people basically separated our economy from the black community's. The more money you start off with the better you'll end up, unless you and your community gets purposefully targeted and economically beaten down during the greatest period of economic growth, the whole 20th century, when you finally get "equality." Not to mention blacks couldn't use WW2's GI bill to get higher education easily like whites.
Absolutely incredible you are saying exactly what I was thinking it painful to see him not mention or know, what lead to our downturn in though 60s-80s thank you
@SocialMoth some states had a rule where you wouldnt receive benefits if a man was in the home. Which on top of the job loss during the 60s from de industrialisation, was particularly devastating
Good take. I also had similar issues with his part on African Americans and felt it honestly lacking. Honestly I feel like nay attempt by non-Black (and even many Black people) to explain 20th century Black History is almost always either through a political lens or a "who can we blame, Black people or White people?" sort of lens. He tried to somewhat go in the middle but leaned towards the ladder around the end. Something I found to be very meh imo. It's hard to find anything objective but knowing whatifalthist's political leanings, I'm not shocked he fumbled this part.
True, calling white people snowflakes is very derogatory and wouldn’t be accepted if derogatory names were used for other races… It was uncalled for in this video….
It should be noted that up till the industrial revolution the English tended their woods the same way that you say the Natives did in the Americas. The reason being of course the same, to maintain them properly so they can provide for generations. It really wasn't until the first industrial revolution that the practice died out an England's woods were decimated to feed industry. Prior to that the forests were harvested with care and tended, burned, sickness was cleaned out, under brush cleaned up plants and sundry chosen for the environment. In many ways the old English forest keeping kept forests healthy and full of game for centuries, could be thought of as environmentally aware in a way that to this day we are not. Our keeping of the forests to this day in the USA is horrific, unproductive, promotes unbalanced ecosystems, and then when we decide to "do something about it" strip harvest to the highest bidder ripping up the land and causing further damage. No balance only insanity and greed. One side making bad policy to convince people to elect them where such policies are myopic at best geared to get the voter to vote for them in THAT election, not the next or the next, that is for other policies, or at worst intentionally destructive for profit.
Very interesting video - but what about the Dutch and French? They played a significant role in the settlement of America. Also - the Irish. European History grad here... in Britain in the 19th century, NOBODY was allowed to vote unless they paid taxes, and only landowners paid taxes. The Freedom of Religion Act had driven the Puritans to leave England in 1620 and Catholics were indeed permitted to own land. The landowners of Ireland were IRISH nobility, not English, and they did live on the land. The population of Ireland had boomed due to the British Empire giving a massive market for Irish agriculture, however ALL agricultural labourers were poor, and dependent on the potato. (Van Gogh did a series of paintings of Dutch peasants, called "The Potato Eaters.") The potato blight hit all of Europe and rules were laid down to deal with it: eat the seed potatoes, and plant another root vegetable for one season. Everyone did this and recovered, but the Irish refused to change their planting habits, despite being given alternative seeds by the British government. A total of £48,000 was raised to help the Irish through this, plus £10,000 donated by Queen Victoria personally (at the time, the average wage was £26 per year.) Still the Irish refused to alter their behaviour, and terrorised those who kept their families alive by accepting food aid from Protestants. It was this terror which overwhelmingly drove many to emigrate - most settled in Britain. things became even more dire, due to the evictions of small-holders - this was caused by the bankruptcy of the land-owning farmers. When they tried to export their goods, the docks were attacked by the Irish, so the income of landowners dried up (in the mythology of the Irish American, the sale of Irish food is described as "theft" - imagine this being applied to, say, Idaho farmers when they try to sell potatoes.) The Irish settling in America had horrific crime rates and remain poor. Is this also the fault of the British? A side note - you mention that 22% of the genome of African Americans is European - 30% of this is Scottish. To this day, the Scots have the highest rate of rape, of any of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom. Likewise, the success in business of Germans, while not being frequently presidents, also reflects German culture - they are very industrious but not risk-takers, and politics involves risk.
Most Jews in the Pale lived not in ghettos, which were in cities, but rather in small villages called 'shtetlach' or 'shtetls', Yiddish for 'small towns' (see the modern German 'Stadt'). Most of the Chinese in America who took up clothes-cleaning did that well before dry-cleaning existed-it mostly consisted of boiling clothes in alkaline/soapy water, rinsing them, then ironing or pressing and (in many cases) them. Cooking, both in restaurants and in households, also was important. I find credible the argument that Chinese men were thought less threatening when doing what were stereotypically 'womenʼs work'.
As an African American, I think I may have a hunch as to what went wrong in the 60s: LBJ's "The Great Society" and feminism. 1. The Great Society offered us welfare as a sort of "apology" for past transgressions. And even said they would give the women more if the father wasn't present. I don't think anyone knew what would come out of that deal, but it was devastating. Married couples agreed that if they care about their kids they should do what's best for them. The fathers started to leave (the Vietnam War, and the war on drugs did a number on black father absence as well). Families can't really operate well at all without competent fathers in the picture. Good communities are built with good, nuclear families. Without that communities tend to fall. 2. Black women also accepted the feminist ideology which served to remove the black father as well. White women launched the second wave of feminism, but this time it wasn't about suffrage, but about fighting against "The patriarchy" (oppressive male power). So black women joined the movement based on essentially a lie. Black men had no power to oppress anyone. But nonetheless black women started to turn against the men in their communities accusing the men of cheating and abusive behavior (which wasn't really all that prevalent in black homes). But black women were sort of on an empowerment high and they began adopting very anti-male sentiment: "I'm strong and independent. I don't need a man" "I'm tired of put the culture on my back" "Ni🅱️🅱️as ain't 💩" "Men are trash" "Women need men like fish need bicycles" All degrading quotes meant to undermine men's place in society. This has led to tragedy in the black community with high abortion rates, high homicide rates, high dropout rates etc etc... If the men in our communities hold the men accountable for crime and women hold the women accountable for dating and procreating with criminals, the brokenness this can begin to reverse. But "snitching" is looked down upon and hooking up with criminals get you social points so people aren't incentivized to change and its quite depressing. Obviously there are more things that factor in to our collective dysfunction, but those are two of the largest problems in my opinion that we have to address and correct. Until then we will remain in a horrific viscous cycle. Pray for my people as we seek to heal.
Yeah, systemic problems are hard to even address, let alone work to solve. It takes a collective shift in consciousness, and in this case, fighting against a mainstream ideology.
It's ironic that the welfare that was put in place is undo the racism of the country is what is keeping yall down. The people that are trying to push this huge welfare state are racist, but this racism doesn't come from malice, but from generosity
I Just had an epiphany: some day people are going to read youtube videos comments like this the way we read medieval monks' margin notes in old manuscripts today.
A possible reason for the increase of crime and drug use in black families in the 1960’s could be from the war on drugs and high incarceration rates that targeted black people, id like to hear ur take on that. Edit: it would also be cool if u made a video on the native Americans living in present day eastern united states during pre colonization (maybe focusing on the technology and social structure)
Crime and drugs seem to be typical in any social underclass, so I would assume increasing drug use came before the war on drugs rather than the other way around. I've heard the war on drugs originally did have racist motivations, because they saw drug use rising among the black underclass and they wanted to prevent drugs and black culture generally from spreading to the white underclass. Conservatives in the 1960s were strongly and openly opposed to racial assimilation, whereas modern conservatives now hold exactly the same beliefs that 1960s leftists did, with some corporate globalism sprinkled in just to really piss everyone off.
One note that ties into this video about the Puritans:
ironically, the Puritans were actually very PRO sex. They believed that pregnancy was most likely if both parties enjoyed the whole experience, especially the woman. Which ironically turned out to be biologically true, more or less.
They had very strict rules encouraging sex, even excommunicating a man for not consummating his marriage.
They also didn’t really ‘punish’ young people who had sex before marriage, instead having them just get married when discovered.
This plays into the high birth rates.
True more or less? What?
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@@susanm7925 how?
Why gross?
Which probably was the reason for the practice.
Timestamps:
2:05 - Native Americans
7:23 - English Americans
11:06 - African Americans
17:10 - Scottish Americans
19:40 - German Americans
22:10 - Irish Americans
24:32 - Italian Americans
27:23 - Jewish Americans
30:24 - Asian Americans
33:47 - Hispanic Americans
Sadly no mention on Welsh Americans but that's ok.
No mention of the polish American as there 8th biggest European immigrant group(both non Jewish and Jewish)
33:47 and 2:05 are the same thing. Haplogroup Q.
@@11conormcloughlin combined English, Welsh, Scots and the Irish, combined America is technically majority "Anglo-Celtic"
@@starmaker75 He lumped it together with the Italian-Americans with the “after steamships” era.
I would be interested to hear about the Scandinavian American heritage, and how prominent it is.
Quite prominent in the central-north region (MN, Iowa, North Dakota, etc.) where I'm from... many Norwegian and Swedes settled there because of the good farmland and similar climate to their homeland. My maternal grandpa showed me a picture of my Great-great-great grandfather from Norway, he said when he was a boy a lot of the older Norwegian-American men still had accents passed on by their elders.
My great great grandmother on my dad's side was from Sweden. My brother and I recently visited a small cemetery not far from our family farm where we and our ancestors grew up over the past 150 years. Some of the epitaphs were in Swedish! We were fascinated as we thought about our ancestors burying one another in that cemetery speaking Swedish and probably other languages. There's museums that dot the landscape in MN, Iowa, etc. In Iowa where I'm from I know there's a Swedish museum somewhere south of Cedar Rapids and then Decorah has one that's all about Norwegian culture and immigrants, quite good.
People still make traditional breads and foods and such from those places. I'm not sure how much other culture I can claim is still around... probably not much, but people definitely are aware of and respect that heritage from where I'm from
@@jrglenn2 Thank you for sharing.😀
@@jrglenn2 how prominent is the language today since in sweden where many areas have finnish minorities from the 60s and 70s those said minorities still speak finnish 60 years later and i wonder if that has remained the case for the 110 years since the swedish came to america
The scandinavians mostly settled in the mid west (minnesota) Dakotas and I know Finns are completely unrelated but if you want to know they settled in upper penisula michigan
@@jrglenn2 There are a lot of Scandinavians in Nebraska, specifically Danish. No idea why.
I’m from Louisiana and I’m descended from French Creoles, French Acadian refugees, Spanish soldiers, Swiss Germans, Danish farmers and British migrants as well as a little bit of Mi’kmaq Indian and a Senegalese slave from Portugal who got their freedom and immigrated to the Louisiana colony when it was ruled by Spain. You should do Louisiana next because we have a very diverse history as a state and my family as well as many others lineages reflect that.
I’m from Louisiana to :D
@@ItalianCountryball11I was born in Indiana but I have Louisiana creole heritage
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aaaaaaa, explain to me why Americans sometimes talk about their ethnicity when communicating, indicate 5-10-15 nationalities. it's so wild, BECAUSE ETHNICITY CAN BE ONE, at most a mix of two by parents. it's very scary when a person says that, is it a complex of inferiority, a desire to please or a ranking of whites?
is there not enough language, faith and culture to be an American... just an American???
I can, of course, say that I am 1/1024 French (an engineer who built railways in Russia), but this is so absurd and appropriate only in jest, and only if the conversation has become too symbolic, insightful and a person from Quebec, Louisiana and somewhere else. Explain, I can't understand it!!!
@@arsenantonyuk731 Honestly I have no idea why. I listed what I’m descended from just to show my states diverse history. Usually when people ask my ethnicity I simply say I’m Cajun. Other Americans however, you’ll have to ask them because I know some will be like “I’m Irish, English, German, Polish, Dutch, Scottish…” and just keep going when you simply ask their ethnicity.
"Most scottish americans are lowlanders" - well yeah of course. When it comes to highlanders there can be only one.
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I read an interesting book recently called "After Nationalism" that discusses various different phases of American identity. The author talks about how deeply Anglophilic the old Anglo-American elite used to be, particularly the leaders of Federalist Party. Even long after the revolution, English-American elites used to really venerate British culture and history, and view the United States as being largely continuous with "English Civilization," as opposed to some entirely new thing. This manifested not only in continued allegiance to the old English churches, but also a preoccupation with teaching the history of England and venerating English cultural ideals like Shakespeare, the Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution, and so on. There was also a deep obsession with viewing everything through a France-v-England or Spain-v-England lens, with England's traditional enemies presumed to be America's as well.
It's interesting how much of this has faded now. I think we now associate Anglo-Americans as having been mostly subsumed into distinctly "American" cultural traditions that are entirely detached from any identifiably British heritage, including Evangelical Christianity and the culture of "the South" more broadly. Other than defensiveness about the English language, I am not sure what would be the most visible signs of an ongoing effort to preserve English culture in America. I can only think of small things, like the ongoing fascination with the British royal family, or perhaps what Christopher Hitchens once described as America's distinctive "Churchill cult."
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Probably has to do with the USA outstripping the UK in every aspect, and yet the UK wanting to call the shots. After WW2, the son had to sit the old man down and tell him his time was over.
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I was born in the US but both my parents are from El Salvador. They both left with their families at a very young age to escape the Civil War at that time. I'm really glad how you touched on the I guess "crisis" of Hispanic-Americans not knowing Spanish the further time goes on. I know a little bit of Spanish but I still decide not to speak it. I never really learned the language because from what my mother told me my dad's side of the family would bully me about how pale I looked and how my accent sounded when I tried speaking Spanish.
Even now as a 22 year old man I still don't relate to "my people" all that much. Before me and my mom moved to Georgia I never got treated well by other Hispanic kids. I can honestly say that if I never moved to Georgia I would've ended up being completely racist towards Hispanics. I say completely because I do have a bias towards older Hispanics while not having an issue with younger ones. Even then it's not like I call them names out loud in public. I just tend to have a more defensive and negative mindset about them before talking to them. After that if they treat me with respect and don't look at me like I'm a race traitor for not knowing Spanish then they are alright in my book.
It's honestly kinda sad because I still do somewhat relate to my culture but because of a lot of the negative experiences I've had from other Hispanics I've grown to relate more with White and Black communities. Hell one of the first movies I remember watchkng with my parents was Blood in Blood out. A movie about the Chicano culture in America. Even with my negative experiences I don't look away when someone else is treating them poorly. Nothing makes me more mad when someone tries to tell other person they shouldn't speak their native language. No matter how much I get treated like an outsider by my "own people" I would never trade my ethnicity and skin color for another.
Wow. Nice story
Do you have an Anglo first name like Edwin or Franklin by any chance?
Where what cities have you lived in?
As a salvo your probably more related to native Americans than to “hispanics “
@@MonarchPoolPlaster I was supposed to be named Alexander, but my Tia took that name and gave it to my cousin. So my mom named me David
I'm happy to have someone be more honest about history.
Based?
Semi based!
It’s bizarre how Norwegians, Swedes, and Finns settled exactly in the same arrangement as in Europe from west to east, and in the center north.
Old habits die hard it would appear.
As a Swede, it would've been fun to hear how much of an effect we had on the US, but I doubt we had much of an impact. From what I know, Swedes positioned them quite succesfylly as simply different white protestants to the English, moving up in soceity after a few generations.
@@8is Nords do extremely well here in the USA. The highest income in many regions. I live in Washington state and they’re very powerful here.
Yeah I would’ve loved to see a section on Scandinavians :((((
@@8is Charles Lindbergh Jr., the world famous aviator, and Charles Lindbergh Senior were both Swedish.
Senior was a direct immigrant from Sweden, a congressman, and he was a key political enemy of the Wilson Administration. He wrote two books which he had distributed for free to the American Public on issues he felt strongly about, "Banking, Currency, and the Money Trust," a polemic against Central Banking and the Federal Reserve System which is still pertinent to this day, and, "Your Country at War and What Happens to You After the War," about US entry into WWI and the way we were lied to to get us in, and the dangers we faced afterward.
The latter book was actually censored by the Wilson Administration; Federal agents were sent to the publisher of the book, and all of the plates for the book were destroyed and all of the prints confiscated the likewise consigned to destruction. It seems that there was something in those books President Wilson didn't want the public to read, hmmm?
In any case, Swedes have played an important role in my country's history, and I consider both Lindbergh's American heroes and patriots.
Whatifalthist, as I black man I can say that you did a great job showcasing our history in America. As for the shift that occurred in the 1960s you mentioned I suspect it was due to the Interstate Displacement. Around that time a large number of the middle-class black neighborhoods which were the heart of the black community were destroyed during the creation of the state highways.
100%
You are black but your name is white 🤣
Honestly there's probably a few things likely exacerbated by Great society programs which got rid of much of the financial reasons for marriage and decline in church authority in the world which started to rid some of the cultural reasons for marriage and weakened away some of the greatest gathering places for the community (the churches). These 3 things happened around the time of that interstate displacement meaning it's likely a confluence of these 3 events as homes were lost, stress caused homes to break, and the cultural factors which kept families strong withered away.
Saw a video about a highway that was built in New Orleans directly through a black neighborhood. It’s crazy shit.
Also combined with the welfare state creating a large number of perverse incentives against prosperity (the same thing plagues poor white areas). It cuts out the bottom rungs of the path to prosperity (why get a minimum wage job when my welfare check will pay the same and I can't get both) trapping a large number of poor people in perpetual poverty. This is agreed upon left and right (solution differs vs removing welfare entirely or shifting to ubi)
I'm Norwegian. The only relative of mine who moved to Usa was the sister of my Grandmother. She married another Norwegian American. She had so many children and Grandchildren that her family line alone became almost as large as my Grandmothers and all the rest of her sibling staying in Norway combined. I should add that both my Grandmother and all her siblings had many children
I’m Finnish and I have 113 first cousins. And over 1000 second and third cousins. All my great grandparents are from Finland and Sweden. Seems like Russian and recent Scandinavian immigrants are having a lot of kids.
I hope you guys still keep in contact. Sad to lose family no matter the distance.
@@jordanseppala4369how many siblings did your parents have wow
the Nor way is a lot like the Gal way
I am about 30% German but I grew up in Cincinnati with ancestors who were in the upper middle class, so German culture was extremely present. We would go to Oktoberfest each year, eat at German restaurants downtown (my favorite being Mecklenburg Gardens), and even still use my great-great grandmother's Goetta recipe written in Nedersassisch (Low Saxon, Westphalian precisely). I am also about 25% Hungarian and Carpatho-Rusyn, where culture was present as well with my mother's side in Pennsylvania including Kolacski and Kolbasz foods, and celebration of the conclusion of Winter Lent from Greek Catholic calendar (no meat on Christmas Eve!)
fun fact: "Paddy Wagon" was actually slang for Police car for a time because of the number of Irishmen who worked as Police
that or for the number of Irishmen who got arrested
or both
That's funny, how both work :)
@@lucianboar3489 It was likely Irish police officers doing their jobs in Irish communities (with great frequency)!
I mean, the Irish conquered more of the planet than anyone else, save the Spanish. It wasn't their choice, the English dragged the hermit nation out of their villages and forced them to populate the Earth. But it doesn't change the fact either
@@cornpop3159 many Imperial Spaniards were also Irish adventurers with Hispanicized names
As someone from Western New York, there is a large number of ethnic Poles living here and people have immense pride in their heritage. I see some parallels with Italian Americans and Polish Americans. Poles were the poorest immigrants living on the East side in bad conditions, but we're able to pull themselves out and move all over Western New York. I knew they wouldn't be mentioned in this video, because outside of Western New York, there seems to be little Polish-Americans. But as someone from WNY the impact they made is very evident and feel it is important to mention.
I think Chicago has a significant Polish-American population.
Dyngus Day comin up soon!
he should have said Slavic American
Buffalo?
@@Irk828 I mean the Poles started out in Buffalo, but spread all over Western New York
Many of the points regarding Ireland are incorrect.
“Ireland was incredibly overpopulated at the time.” The population of Ireland during the mid 1840s was 8 million. Not even half that of England’s population at the time.
“The Irish came to America with no education or skill. They also came from a tribal warrior herding culture.”
The tribal Celtic “warrior culture” of ancient Ireland was long over for hundreds of years….
Exactly, and as I'd understood it the potato blight was not the main cause of the famine - it was the way that English landlords controlled the land, Ireland remained in a system of surfdom which England stopped experiencing. This is why many in Ireland call the 'famine' the 'hunger', as there should have been enough food to go around, but it was overexploited by the English.
I know. As soon as This guy said he's an Irish American so he can speak best on the topic I knew he was going to be a typical yank. He said one third emigrated, one third died and one third stayed. This is just way off. About half survived and just 1 million of 8 emigrated and the rest dying. And saying we had no work ethic is just wrong. We are well known for having a good work ethic and doing the jobs others didn't want. Saying we didn't have work ethic because we were warriors was just ridiculous. That was about 400 years before the famine and is quite stereotypical
@@h.d.5194 One of those pieces of 'academic' research where the theorist will ignore evidence and nuance to prove their theory purely because it's an original idea. Didn't even bother to check wikipedia, just assumed what they'd been told by parents, teachers, whoever, was true.
As an immigrant from Japan interested in American history and politics, especially the role of religious belief and affiliation affecting immigration, I found this synopsis fascinating and largely accurate. I did note that Scandinavian immigrants like my great -grandfather were not addressed. Scandinavian immigration started when New Jersey was settled, but the big push came in the late 1800s to 3 regions: Minnesota and Iowa, Washington and Oregon, and Utah and Idaho, the last largely related to the conversion of Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, and Icelanders to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (nicknamed "Mormon"). The Salt Lake phone book has nearly a full page of Swensons (my last name).
My father's paternal ancestor was a Swede named Johan Welsun that was the ship's carpenter on a Dutch privateer that plundered the Spanish Main during the early 1600's. He retired with his swag at the northern end of the Delaware Estuary that later became the colony of New Sweden that was financed by Dutch merchants in the Netherlands. The colony couldn't turn a profit so the merchants had New Amsterdam take it over who then lost it to England. The English merchant shippers were leery of that region since the inhabitants had a long reputation for doing business with privateers and pirates so the Dutch authorities began rounding up and hanging anyone with known associations with those scalawags. Johan Welsun got wind of that so loaded up his family and tools into wagons then took off for the wild frontier where he changed his name to John Wilson. His descendants always married Scandinavian women while moving around in New York, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan building the first boat canals. My father's dad married a Swedish girl from Chicago that worn born in Stockholm just before her parent's boat left for the states in 1870. The US immigration clerk had to guess what their name was since her parents couldn't read or write so spelled their name as Honquest since that's what it sounded like. That was a common practice back then so US telephone directories ended up with plenty of screwy looking names of unknown nationality. The Honquest family went on to own a chain of successful funeral homes in Chicago.
You immigrated from Japan but your great great grandfather is Scandinavian… that makes no sense
@@twinkjakdoomer i think his great great grandfather married a japanese woman in japan and had children with her.
Fun fact: There are still Gaelic speaking communities in North Carolina. The language is pretty unique and has a lot of english influences. Sadly there are probably only about 200 speakers left and they all live on the coastal islands.
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@@kekster5408 Israel... famous for it's unmistakeable gaelic language...
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@@kekster5408 cringe
I am Hispanic, this analysis for Hispanic Americans is spot on. This is just an anecdotal story. Both sides of my parents are from small mining towns in the Southwest: Superior, AZ and Silver City, NM. As far as I know, my great grandparents have history in the US/Mexico Southwest border area. 'Mexican-American' is the term we go by, being on the US side of the border but still Mexican in culture, food, family values, catholic, names, and accent. We never crossed the border, the border crossed us. The assimilation into US economic society is the goal. Pretty much all of our extended families have moved out of small towns and into big cities: Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, Albuquerque, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, etc. Economic mobility comes from education and college degrees. Family careers are common, everyone are in Education, tech sector, public service, etc. Make no mistake, everyone is American, all USA. We just happen to speak Spanish with Mexican names and can have browner skin than all the white people. Outside of AZ/NM, you will hear similar stories to people who live on the Texas border. People in Rio Grande Valley moving to San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Dallas, etc.
That’s about right. And, as for those of us who are not of Mexican descent and emigrated, economic mobility is absolutely the goal. And, yes, we’re all USA. We still have our accents and we still keep our language but, we assimilate and we integrate just fine. And everybody likes our food. That’s a huge plus. Much love from North Texas.
As someone from San Antonio and lived across Texas, I concur. Each state has a unique blend of Mexican indigenous and local indigenous tribes, and you'll find varying degrees of African descent as well. (Though my dad is from Indiana- Scots-Irish, Welsh, English)
The border crossed you, true that!
Yeah, he was pretty spot on. Hispanics, or at least Mexicans adjust pretty fast to life in the U.S.. So fast that the children of said Hispanics up "too American", when visiting their extended family in another country they have trouble communicating due to their non-existant Spanish. It's sad to me that hundreds of thousands of Hispanics that immigrated to the U.S. can't have the freedom that that other Americans have due to absent Documents.
@@marcm.999 Not having documents comes with the territory of entering\staying in a another country illegally. It's not like they were denied documents for being Hispanic. I understand getting a work\immigrant visa is a difficult process. However, the difficulty is no different for someone coming from Asia or Africa than it is for someone coming from Spanish speaking countries. Should we reward those who enter the country illegally at the expense of those who apply through the proper channels (and get rejected mostly since the demand for immigrants is a lot lower than the number of people wanting to come here).
This video was funny at times confusing at times and frustrating at times as well. I think you did a decent job with this. Cant wait to see more
It's not a victim mentality for African-Americans. It's a recognition that every psychologist would support that they have been attacked by perpetrators for 100s of years, attempting to keep them down. In order to change the world you need to recognize the reality of the world.
A little fun fact about the hillbilly elegy, at one point I’m the book there’s reference to a bomb threat and a teacher who went in “because he knew that kid and he’s too stupid to make a bomb”. That kid who made the bomb threat had a massive crush on my mom as kids.
This is the most Appalachian thing I’ve ever heard
Excuse me, what?
I need to finish the book lol
@@Ornolu1337 which part? The bomb threat? 😂
@@Sigmanovar moreso the way it was resolved. in the burbs they'd treat it like a terrorist incident and not let anyone near the school until the bombsquad detonates the kid's locker. Even though its obvious to everyone that this dumbass kid didn't really make a bomb
Not gonna lie this video kinda feels like an mmorpg race selection guide. "The Italian's lack charisma but make up for it with their high constitution".
"Wow this African class has like zero INT stat"
Yeah but... more like a very ill informed second hand account by someone who's watched videos of the game but never played it
Ulster-Scots have a high attack stat and anglos have a great health buff
It is, I'm Scottish and I have to say this video destroyed my confidence in this channel, the way they pin everything down to culture and don't factor in geographical and economic factors. Also the description of Scottish history in this isn't even surface level, its borderline stereotypical. The Highlands and lowlands aren't as divided as this guy makes out and in the modern day, the Highlands speaks English as well, only the Outer Hebrides have a Gaelic majority. And yet every scot Highlands or lowlands sees themselves as Scottish first, and most people see Scotland as being a celtic country as well.
@@euanstokes2828 Ew a scot.
I think you may have (inadvertently) fallen into some misconceptions that are often incorrectly drawn on by readers of Irish history. This may come across as pedantic, but saying that Ireland was "overpopulated" undermines the horrors of the Famine and the incompetence/unwillingness of the British politicians that controlled all matters in Ireland at this time. In Ireland we often refer to the Famine with its Gaelic(Irish language) alternative term, 'An Gorta Mór' (The Great Hunger). This is to acknowledge that the death and emigration of the native (mostly) Catholic population was man made, as there was plenty of wealth and food in Ireland at the time, but the bottom tier of our society, almost entirely Gaelic speaking native Catholics, were stuck in a cycle of subsistence farming, relying entirely on the potato crop. The failing of the potato crop was only the final nail in the coffin for Irish peasants who were born into a system that ensured they could just about survive and carry out labour for their landlords and employers. We are to this day the only country in Europe with a lower population now than in the 19th century. Ireland was and is one of the most food secure countries in the world, so saying that the island was overpopulated is incorrect and ignores the harsh reality of how Irish America came to be. Also, I would say that your statement on Irish culture at the time is misinformed at best and borderline racist at worst. Yes, Irish culture is an offshoot of Celtic culture, but we are talking about Ireland in the mid 19th century. Saying the Irish came from a "tribal, warrior, and herding culture" is akin to saying Germans arriving in America in the 1850's came from a Wodin worshipping, human sacrificing culture. Ireland had been under some form of English rule for hundreds of years at this stage and our culture was heavily Anglicised, be it with language, dress, culture, institutions, and economic systems. The old Gaelic societal system that encompassed Brehon Law, semi-nomadic agricultural living, and collective ownership of land was long gone at this point in time, and had no bearing on the psyche or lived experience of the people of the country. Saying the Irish had no work ethic is similar to the rhetoric of Giraldus Cambrensis, rhetoric that was used to dehumanise the Irish and excuse their mistreatment during the Norman incursions on the island. This sort of language was later used against Native Americans to justify their colonisation and mistreatment. Its a lazy assertion that has never had any basis, being entirely rooted in anti-Irish racism.
Very well said - this guy is really an American Know Nothing, isn't he.
The Irish had a really strong work ethic: Its the Irish who built most of the housing and roads in Britain.
And its the Irish who were there from the start in America, winning the war of Independence - NOT the Scottish.
I'm 100% Mexican American and proud of it but I don't let my pride get ahead of itself like MLK said "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"
I’m 100% German America became an American in 2023. I don’t consider myself German anymore only American. The way I see it if you had to leave your home country to Flurish somewhere else there is nothing to be proud of in your old home and instead you should be proud of what you are now
@@BF4ClanTBS agreed
Dont agree with you brother.@BF4ClanTBS
@@posyo2265I kinda don’t either but one thing about America is you can be from anywhere in the world and say your American and people won’t question it as long as you have American values
@@BF4ClanTBScongratulations my German Friend,
Welcome to America 🇺🇸🙏🏽
I’m a first generation Mexican American I can tell from my experience from growing up in a city full of children of Mexican immigrants is that a major fear we had was being “too American” being called “chicanos” or a “no sabo”kid. I had this fear myself until I left that community and joined the marine corps now I see it very different. I’m about to be a father and I really don’t care if my son will grow up as culturally involved in Mexican culture. I’m not saying forget where we came from, he will know the struggles we had on why we are here in America now and he will learn both Spanish and English at home but I’m not going to worry about him being “too Mexican or American” he will pick his own path
I am Colombian living in America and I think my future children will never be Colombian. They will be gringos who speak Spanish :v
I know that because my family is from a different region of Colombia with different culture from the city I was born and I have a lot more to do with my born city than my parents towns
Heck, I don't even know if I am Colombian enough anymore. I am adopting American culture pretty quickly and forgetting some Colombian traditions
@@sobreinquisidor I know what you mean what adds to that identity crisis is that when we would visit Mexico you always heard the word “pocho” to describe us so the Mexicans don’t see us as Mexican and we come back to the states we are not exactly what “Americans look like” so we are stuck in that middle ground but I’ved learned to embrace both sides Chicano culture is a mix of both and I love that I have 2 cultures and traditions it makes us unique
Yeah I remember from a saying from Mexican American that goes “the annoying thing about being Mexican American your not Americans enough for Americans and your not Mexican enough for Mexicans
@@sobreinquisidor Welcome to your new home. (: I hope you enjoy it here.
8:36 a few years back my dad and aunt pulled me aside and told me our "shameful" centuries old family secret that one of our ancestors was a hooker on the mayflower. I on the other hand, found it fucking hilarious and tell people whenever ancestors come up in conversation
my best friends are brothers, and they have an ancestor who was a rich older guy on the mayflower, so there is a significant non-zero chance that we're blood relatives several centuries removed
The fact that you guys still know what your ancestor did means they left a big impact
They werr all predestined for heaven or hell so why not?
Hooker, as in she had sex with several dozen different men? Or was she a sugarbaby who gave GFE to 2 or perhaps as many as 3 different men throughout her entire career?
Someone in your family has a good sense of humor. There were obviously no prostitutes on the Mayflower. They were very religious Calvinists. The idea that they brought prostitutes along with their wives and children is nonsense. Read about William Bradford and the Plymouth Colony.
Dude as a black man, you’re straight up spitting facts
A major mistake Americans make is believing Scots-Irish were a mixture of Scottish and native Irish. They were not. They were Scottish Protestants (and some northern English) who migrated to Northern Ireland (Ulster) in the 1600s and then migrated from Northern Ireland to America in the 1700s. They did not usually mix with or inter marry with the native Catholic Irish during the century that they were in Ireland before moving on to America. Half of the population of Northern Ireland today is still ‘Scots-Irish’ (known as Ulster-Scots). They are the pro-British population and also pro-American…probably because they see great similarities in their much of American ‘country’ culture.
It’s always funny to see Americans of ‘Scots-Irish’ descent focus on the Irish part like St Patrick’s Day, yet the original Scots-Irish who live in Northern Ireland focus much more on their Scottish and British heritage. There is actually a strong element of ant-Irishness amongst them (due to the British/Irish conflict over Northern Ireland)
Honestly, you are starting see more and more of cultural divide between black Americans by class. We have now had several generations of middle to upper class blacks being in more integrated areas so it’s a bit easier to see. Also, I do think with the internet more information is penetrating insular, poorer communities. Maybe it’s just me but I find even over my small lifetime I have seen poorer Americans in general become more knowledgable about the world simply from Internet exposure.
It honestly astounded me as a recent college grad in the social science to be able to discuss ancient history down to the details about the Romans in the teutonberg forest, the german's offensive plan in WWI and the structure of the Holy Roman Empire with a guy at my job who only has a high school education and not long ago was living in a homeless shelter
I was just speaking to my cousin about this last night, we need it. We have got to separate ourselves from those who don't want to progress or we will all continue to suffer.
@@a.wadderphiltyr1559 Ok.
And we clearly see what happens when less educated people are faced with information they don't understand or don't 'agree' with. This in a nutshell is what causes the whole social and political unrest we currently all over the world . In the past information and education went hand in hand, but since the wide availability of the internet people are drowning in information of all kinds without having the skills to place it in the a sensibel context. And to be fair also more educated people are struggling with this phenomenon.
@@huseynhajiyevakif Why shouldn't he?
One note I’ll make is that Native American ancestry and identification is rising in the US due to Latin American immigration, as many of us are of partial or majority indigenous ancestry, my mom being 70% while my dad for example only about 20%. In LA alone we have a growing community of indigenous language speakers like Nahuatl, Zapotec, and the various Mayan languages
It depends since some of us also have other mixtures other than just Native and Spaniard
Thats right. I say this all the time, "Spaniards are white, it is the native americans that were brown." If your brown in the Americans, chances are you have indigenious DNA.
as it should be
@@siyiroancreint yeah. For some reason alot of people dont realize Spanish and latin period is a white European language. Yet, some how white people are racist against people that speak Spanish. When its a white language lol
But they are not native Americans who have actual history in the united states. Completely different cultures and languages
God bless America from Belfast, North Ireland 🇮🇪🇺🇸, Love American people 🙏
One of the most interesting videos about this topic I've seen in a while. Eloquent, detailed and unbiased, well done
I've got to take issue with something. The Roosevelts, Teddy and Franklin were not Scots Irish, they were old Dutch Patroon stock. Virtually American aristocracy without the hereditary titles. The Scots Irish tend to see themselves as just as good as any other man and have nothing but contempt for the "tall poppy" who thinks he can rise above the others.
So true. I'm Scots-Irish on my dad's side, and we appreciate humility like no other virtue.
The Roosevelt’s were originally dutch speaking patroons and the delanos were originally French speaking patroons but both of the families intermarried with a lot of Scots-Irish bc they shared American “WASP” sensibilities without actually having a Wasp last name which really only mattered in New England.
Thx fer catchin that Rooseveldt gaff
I noticed that too and this video completely ignored how the Dutch migrated to the northeast before the British. Also didn't like how this video didn't include Brazil as a Latin American country which is ridiculous. Also, not a word was said about the vikings who arrived in the northwest before Colombus even arrived. Nice video but too many important details left out for my liking.
@@takingdumponpresidenttrump669 Did the Vikings add to the current N American gene pool ?
Scots-irish/Native American from Appalachia here. I can trace my line straight back to the clan on my father's side, and my grandmother on my mom's side was a full blood native. You hit the nail on the head about the poverty and drug epidemic here in the mountains. That said, I've been all over the States and could never see myself living anywhere else but my home in WV. My girlfriend is from Utah and moved here and is just blown away by how , in her words "way to friendly and neighborly". She had a real culture shock being from the west.
I can't pay the bills but at least the meth head next door is friendly
Same here man, for all the problems we have here I would not want to live anywhere else in the long term
I'm from northern Virginia but most of my family is from south west Virginia, which has lots in common with west Virginia, though not as extreme. The friendliness is I what I love most about the area, even if we have problems we have each other. I go to Liberty University and that is very apparent on campus, which has a large amount of Virginians and other southerners
There is a drug problem everywhere. The Appalachian mountain chain is not different.
I was born in Northern Virginia and eventually ended up in Los Angeles in my early 20s. I'm now 40 and plan on moving back to VA as soon as I can. I've been looking at buying land in West Virginia for a few years now. I feel called to the mountains and I think it has something to do with my DNA and heritage.
Well there's a clear divide between European ancestry from the South, and European ancestry from the North.
The descendants of the "Old Stock" English Colonials in the Northern States & Canada are indeed responsible for colonialism, yet, are also descendants of people who didn't participate in African slavery nearly as recently as the Southern United States.
There's no widespread German or Italian ancestry among European descendants in the U.S. south. There certainly is some French and Spanish from the "Old Stock" Spanish & French settlers in Southern Alabama's Gulf Coast. These are people they call "Cajun" and also "Spanish Creole" or "French Creole" , (depending on the tongue). It's close proximity to Mexico and the former Spanish Empire and New France is why there's such strong Spanish & French connections in the deep U.S. South. However, outside of that, the majority of Europeans from south of the Mason-Dixon are almost entirely descendants of the U.K. Whereas when you get into the Midwest, the presence of German and Italian backgrounds are strong .
For a 5th generation American, I am rather heterogeneous.
I believe I am roughly 80% Norwegian and 20% Swedish, though that's just based upon where my ancestors came from, I think 3 of my 16 great-great-grandparents came from Sweden and the other 13 from Norway.
I doubt they're super accurate, but I would like to take a DNA test, my grandpa did one and it said he is 98% Norwegian, ~1% British Isles, and ~1% something else I don't remember.
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They are basically the same as Germans , Dutch and English as well ,
I love this. As a 3rd Gen hispanic American I wanna just add that Hispanic Americans differ in certain ways. For example, a good third to a half of my Dominican American family works in education and beauty salons r super common. Mexican restaurants and cultural blending (especially in the southwest) is super noticeable to the point that there were studies on how American accents were taking up Mexican and Central American qualities. I also have a lot of family in Florida and ur descriptions of their wealth and conservatism makes sense. I’ll say, like Italian Americans, there’s a HUGE value placed in family. This family value mixed in with what I could only explain as stoicism is what I believe to be the reason y Hispanic Americans r progressing so rapidly up the economic ladder as well as assimilating (I’ll probably be the last in my family to speak decent Spanish)
Yeah even us second generation hispanics hardly ever speak spanish when not talking to older family members.
My high school was majority hispanic and nobody even spoke spanish besides the very recent central american immigrants.
@@shiny_teddiursa yeah though I think they underestimate how many of us will teach our kids Spanish. I know I'll teach my kids Spanish when I have them, both because it's advantageous and to perserve part of our culture
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@@anthonyenriquez6309 Kids should learn as many languages as possible. The lucky ones can just learn from family. Peace
Bro I don't even speak decent Spanish despite living in Miami now. My family probably assimilated harder than even most of the rest of the Hispanic population since my grandmother was from New Jersey, went to Puerto Rico, had some kids, my mom, divorced, went back up to Florida and married a guy from Alabama (who to this day is my grandpa), and my dad is currently married to a woman from Illinois. I didn't even speak Spanish for years while I was living with my grandparents because it was all white and I needed English not Spanish in addition to the fact that my grandpa didn't speak a lick of the language.
Also the Miami accent literally is mirrored in Spanish and a local phrase is "eating shit" because it's directly translated from Spanish.
It’s fascinating how these cultures can blend within individuals. My extremely Quaker family ended up in Atlanta, and I’m constantly pulled between the opposing cultural virtues of “minding my own god damn business” and “exchanging life stories with the person cutting my hair”
Truly what makes an American an American is cycling through these options
Another thing about the Quakers: it’s conventional to blame the Puritans or southern evangelicals for America’s squeamish attitude about sex and nudity, but really it’s mostly the Quaker’s fault. Quakers were all about self denial, even to the point that they worried about married couples enjoying sex too much. Wasn’t uncommon for couples to have no sexual contact unless they were intentionally trying to have a kid. Sometimes couples would even decide to be completely celibate within their marriage. also we invented solitary confinement. Sorry
The United States of grater Mexico nowadays
Facts
I'm half African American southerner, half WASP/German/Polish/Scandinavian Midwesterner. I'm so diverse my DNA test doesn't register my French and English heritage despite knowing that several family members immigrated from there.
What's even cooler is knowing a ton of people that are even more diverse than me. America is a special place
@@thesilverreich3947 pshhhhhh, the only thing holding Mexico back from world power status was
The history of its government (one that’s woefully totalitarian and oligarchic)
And it’s geography.
In America, they don’t gotta worry about that, so what’s the problem with “UnItEd StAtEs oF gReAtEr MeXiCo”?
I'm a Spanish American via New Mexico / Southern Spain, pretty sure my Spanish family has been here since the 16-17th century. Martin Serrano surname via Jaén province in Spain.
My German/ polish side settled in 19th century , Wisconsin
Thanks for the video, about to listen to it !
Excellent in the large amount of information you've included, an organized and accessible presentation, and helpful and well chosen images. Thank you.
You’ve alluded to this so many times in so many videos so excited to watch this one the anticipation has been real
And what a good video it was. I think this the most balanced, even-handed video on race in America I’ve ever seen. Whatifalthist proves to be a A tier history TH-camr yet again.
250 years and we have the hubris to call it a "civilization".
It has nothing compared to the Bronze Age civilizations that survived to modernity like the Greeks, the Chinese, the Persians and the Egyptians
@@slslbbn4096 Yeah those "Bronze age civilizations" are all mongrolized. The greeks Chinese persians are in name only.
@@dylanbuchanan6511 I don't disagree but... there is a lot of things that still irked me. At one point I even knee-jerk disliked the video before thinking better of it.
I already commented on him saying indigenous Americans didn't have metal working. It is one of those things true of certain tribes on the great plains that get applied to natives in general and is patently false. They weren't making metal weapons and tools, at least in significant numbers, but gold, silver and copper jewelry was quite prevalent and no I don't just mean in mesoamerica. The Cherokee were reknown for their silver smiths.
Then there is the whole segment on Africans which... I have critiques of from both right and left wing perspectives.
That he will mention black America changed for the worse in the 60s but not go into why reeks of cowadice to me. The feds deliberately causing drug problems in their communities is very well documented at this point. Not mentioning it out of what I can only imagine is fear of being called a conspiracy theorist kind of gets my hackles up. The crack epidemic that followed is easily one of the worse things the US government has ever done this side of slavery and indian removal acts.
But don't fret. It is being done to white southerners now with meth for similar reasons. They got to uppity and now we have to destroy their subculture too. He didn't really go into this in his Scots Irish segment which annoys me as well, but while the south (and midwest) has been disproportionately poorer compared to the west coast and north east that gap has been widening and I don't think it is an accident. I've seen it happening in front of me in real time.
The there is the whole "black culture is where all/most American culture came from" bit which is so disingenious it drives me batshit, right up there with "the west steals its fiction from Japanese media". It would be entirely fair to say that in both cases the two go back and forth influencing each other, but oh no, it has to be a completely onesided relationship.
Take him saying black music invented rock. 50s era rock and roll maybe, but ROCK as it has existed since the 60s is a very different thing. When the only influencial black rock musician I can think of is the infinitely talented Jim Hendricks this comes off as ridiculous.
While rock and has a lot of influence from jazz and blues, to the point that rock and roll might have more in common with them than what it birthed, it IS its own distinct thing. But if we are to talk about influence we can talk about how big band and ragtime influenced the blues and jazz bands. Lots of white and black musicians there, but those two were influnced by EUROPEAN FOLK MUSIC. That shouldn't negate African influences but this whole idea that we owe all these cultural things exclusively to black people is infuriating. It seems to be part of a larger campaign to create this myth that white people aren't original and stole everything that is perpetuated by the worse people.
It is what got the kneejerk dislike in fact. But I thought better of it because he is probably just regurgitating what others have told him and I doubt he holds that view given how much he shits on social justice crusader types.
Then finally the white snowflake American comment when talking about illegal immigration. Because working six twelve hour days on a rotating shift while being paid half of a living wage should just be totally okay.
But I guess working in a sweatshop is worth it for Mexican immigrants who totally knew that was what they were signing up for and are staying here totally of their own free will and not because of exploitive Californian businessmen who are so enlightened and progressive as to call me racist when I point out it also greatly benefits sex trafficking.
What I think is most sorry about that comment is... actual American citizens, white or otherwise, don't have a choice. State regulations apply to us even if we disagree with them.
I think minimum wage being constantly raised is just feeding inflation and overtime laws have forced me into some really shitty scheduling conflicts in an attempt to keep me at a 40 hour work week.
There was a time when those laws were more flexible and I worked four 12hour shifts one week and three 12s the next without incurring overtime. 4 people could man a 24/7 position like that quite easily. But now we have this poor motherfucker doing a floating shift because the old way just made too much fucking sense.
... I did not mean for this to turn into a small essay and apologize. But now that I have typed it I am submitting it.
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As a European who's been fascinated by America for a long time now, this is an absolutely phenomenal video. Seriously fascinating stuff.
Why not just say you’re Slovenian?
@@DivinesLegacy I'm Croatian lol
@@insertname11 yeah that was my second guess lol, I just hoped I was correct in my first one.
@@insertname11 I’m an American with some Croatian ancestry, one of my great-great grandfathers came from Krk, his wife came from Loski Potok in Slovenia.
If I’m not mistaken, the Vietnam War was ending during that time frame. Americans were returning with drug addiction. Also, the government began allowing drugs to flow into black communities. (These impoverished communities had no farms, laboratories, nor organized global distribution capabilities) This is when the War on Drugs (heroin & rock cocaine) was waged; it was synonymously a war on black people. With dwindling opportunity and the inability to relocate black communities victimized each other. During the 1990’s money was in the form of college loans were set aside for minorities to pursue higher learning. I personally took advantage of this opportunity. I suspect it provided alternative we needed to thrive in different sectors of the economy that didn’t involve such risk. I’m sure there may be other factors that I am leaving out and the fluctuation in stats may not be that simple and clear cut.
Probably one of my favorite and insightful videos on youtube in the 2020-30 decade given the great social influx that is ongoing. You sir are hacking the matrix, if only more folks knew about their lineages!
As a Chinese Canadian, it’s really interesting learning about the different white American ethnic groups!!! I had no idea about all that, really cool to dive deeper than the commonly dismissed “white label” and see how they have each shaped American culture and history in their own way 😳
Which ethnic group are a good role model in Canada? Or in other words which group contributed most to the Canadian identity?
I find it amusing - although it's understandable - that U.S. survey and application forms REALLY simplify America's ethnic diversity. In particular, they get "ethnicity" confused with "race," and so skin color itself becomes a cultural marker. "White" is considered a single ethnic group, when in fact it is composed of dozens of such groups from all across Europe, as well as (until recently) Southwest Asia and North Africa as well. Asian-Americans are at least distinguished by national origin in the way that "whites" aren't, but I find it a little crazy that, in a categorization system based primarily on race, Indian-Americans are considered Asian-American even though they are of mixed Caucasoid-Australoid racial stock, rather than the "Mongoloid" stock of East Asians. It's also funny to me that Pacific Islanders are also counted as Asian. If you don't think that's strange, take a Korean and a Fijian sometime, stand them next to each other, and try to convince people that they belong to the same race; you'll fail miserably. Both Koreans and Fijians speak languages that originated in East Asia, but they look nothing alike.
@@SeasideDetective2 lol who cares about that, pacific islanders can identify as black or mongoloid or even native if they want to in US just as Korean can be Japanese or Chinese or Indian they look same. Alternatively they are all just POC.
@@tarsy_revo1180 I don't really like the term "people of color." It assumes a connection between all those groups that just doesn't exist, except perhaps for a history of discrimination (and they all haven't experienced the same level of discrimination anyway). You might as well put out a census form that lists only two categories: "White People" and "Other."
Yeah, almost like people diverge into a lot of cultures and not really homogeneous even when physical characteristics are similar...
Obligatory, fuck the Yankee carpetbaggers of New England.
Southeast Native American interactions have definitely been interesting to read about. Due to the matriarchal lineage, it was actually pretty beneficial to intermarry, as the children of white fathers and native American mothers would get the family heritage benefits of both (See Alexander McGillivray as an example). This means the Trail of Tears was a far messier separation than you'd initially think because it was ripping apart families, and there was a lot of "passing white" or "passing black" going on. That said, looking at the Creek War side of the War of 1812 (where Andrew Jackson fought in), the tactics of the Red Sticks at Fort Mims against other Creeks, and the retaliation at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend would really be a shock to the idealistic "no noncombatant causalities" approach of European ideal war, compounded by the fact that the leaders that encouraged some the worst actions were mixed and educated. So it's possible to see how Jackson could betray his former allies that he personally worked with (Not enough to actually justify the Trail of Tears in my eyes, though).
That Black bit with the list of how slaves were dehumanized felt a bit weird. There's a mix of "legally true, but practically false" like skilled labor and education where slaveowners bent rules when the slave showed talent or had need (See Gaineswood, Horace King, etc. It was more up to the slaveowner moreso than the actual law) and "legally false, but practically true" like breaking up families (Alabama legally condemned "breaking up a slave family if able to keep it together," but that "if able" is key.). The aim for slaves was less of a "make labor robots" and closer to a more insidious "HR-like intent to keep them productive yet content with nothing" thing without the ability to quit. So it has this twisted resentment of "Why aren't you content with what I've given you" thing going on with it as well.
Isn't it actually a thing though where southerners assume they have Native American blood but it is very small or none at all? Iv seen several instances and been told in person by southerners who grew up being told of family stories of an ancestor marrying a Native woman but when they took a DNA test they found none. Elizabeth Warren being a famous example where she wasn't intentionally lying but was just told such a story as a child.
I’d agree with that sentiment on the black portion
Human interactions and behavior coupled with group think. It’s crazy world
@@Spongebrain97 yea ur anecdote about false Indian heritage is a common one but I’ve only ever read one study on it in a college newspaper. It said white and black people who claim native heritage are more likely to have the opposite white or black dna than Indian dna. And it was true to me, my dads family says they’re part Indian but it turned out they were part black. And my moms family has been Episcopalian/Protestant forever but they were French and Spanish creoles who basically adopted the WASP identity because they had the advantage of owning property back before English speakers got there
@@voiceofreason2674 from what Iv heard in some instances white southerners actually had a black ancestor but due to Jim Crow laws such as the one drop rule and grandfather clause, they would've been discriminated against despite barely being part black. To get around this some would claim they had native ancestry to cover it up because on paper native blood was better than black blood. This also happened in Latin America which had an even more extensive caste system based on ethnicity
What I've learned from this is that my family is almost exclusively german then Irish, but only identifies as german. Also that my family is more like an Italian family than an Irish family.
Your names are both definitely Irish
Despite it’s rightward lean, this is a really interesting video. I suggest, if you’re going to make comments about the origins and nuances of different conservative sub-groups, that you do the same thing for more liberal sub-groups. For example, you could have mentioned where the ideas behind labor unions, public infrastructure and services,
universal human rights and fairness, or collective responsibility for things such as taking care of the elderly, or the environment, come from.
I bet you love the left leaning biased videos tho. 😂😂
Nobody cares, you are bald
Strange comment, since I heard some potentially alarming left leaning...
Well that's also a whole different video?
Taking care of the elderly is left-wing?
I've always thought it was interesting that most regional culture is defined by what diverges from English American culture, and what is clearly English American culture is recognized broadly as not culture at all.
I'm like 1/8th Scottish. My mom's grandfather was very Scots Irish and raised my grandmother to only recognize herself as Scots Irish, who then taught my mother, and now my mother taught me. I know the historical details of a clan I don't even share a name with. I know their rivalries dating back centuries, their claims , castles, and relation to English nobility, the story of traveling to Northern Ireland, the trek to the US every name and date.
My christmas and family gatherings on my fathers side are all heavily PA German, food, traditions, and everything. I feel generally German and Scots Irish. However, I'm at least 66 % completely English when we delve into the details. I'd say 80% of my family traditions are English, but I don't even realize it because most of the stuff just seems so normal.
Scots Irish is such a bad term. Im Scots-Irish but from Northern England. I literally tell people something different every time they ask just because its such a confusing concept to get across unless you know the term. Im not really scottish, not really irish, not really english, I cant say Southern American without it sounding like South American. White is the only term that people seem to get.
@@maxvarjagen9810 in Ireland we call them Ulster Scots, a less confusing term in my opinion. Feel free to use it if it helps!
@@sw3783Scotch Irish is a recent term
@@sw3783
Most of them would have been Irish, from all over Ireland.
"Scotch Irish RACE" was used by Queen Elizabeth to refer to the Irish people - in Ireland and Scotland.
I really like the way you explained Italian Americans and how you compared them to the Irish, we are very similar in many ways in how we reacted with American culture and life. Also, the analogy of your mother crying for leaving the family is quite accurate, we're very family oriented people
Yup if I told my dad I was leaving he’d be happy and tell me to fuck off meanwhile my mother would cry for days 😂😂😂
@@IAmGlutton4Life what?
@Mahdio
I wanted to ask what is the relationship with Italian immigrants as a Italian-American your self because I hear stories that the Italians stick to themselves it looked down upon Italian-American
@@IAmGlutton4Life It honestly depends, a lot of Italians came to the USA in "waves", being from the 1890s to the 1950s. Other factors were a lot of Italian families intermixed with groups already in America (especially the Irish), while some families didn't. My family is pretty monocultural and we still have a lot of old Italian customs and traditions (language, food, celebrations, etc.) My family is much newer to America compared to some of the older generations, but I don't think we "look down on eachother." At the end of the day, we are descended from the same country.
As a result of this "intermixing" with other immigrant groups it sort of lost the Italian culture in a way, that's why many people that have Italian-American ancestry aren't exactly "in touch with it" as much as others. The main point is however, that it varies drastically from family to family.
I laughed when I heard him say that. I’m not Italian. I’m a Latino man. We’re the same way. When I went off to college, my mother was distraught. I was leaving the house and I wasn’t even getting married! Same thing when my sister moved out. She hated it. I consider myself pretty assimilated into the American culture but, I have to admit, I would love it if my kids decided to live with me until they got married. It’s a crazy world out there. I can protect them best when they’re with me. Maybe you guys have the same reason? Anyway, lots of cultures do this. People from India, a lot of the middle Easterners, some of the people from Southeast Asia too. The whole idea of getting happy when your kids move out when they’re still so young is just so alien to us. I mean, Dios mio, anything could happen!
I always felt that WASPs, Blacks, and Amerindians are the only peoples with strong cases to the title of being the 'real' Americans insofar as such a distinction can be had.
The Scots-Irish were not considered WASPs and they've been in America as long as the English have, are they not real Americans? Same with the Dutch who had been in New York before the English came.
Why? That's such a strange mix
@@kevinmurphy5878we are the only groups to exist in the 13 colonies prior to the revolution, is what I think he’s getting at
The video was great up until the Black American section. I appreciate the fact that you said you don’t fully understand what happens there but literally every black person does. It’s not everyone telling us we can’t do anything and that this is all pointless, it’s how when we we tried to rise above anything, we were put down. Just because Nigerian Americans have higher incomes then white ppl does not disprove foul play. That’s an incredible flawed and ignorant statement to make. It’s like no critical thought occurred at all. Black Americans, thise who are descendants of the horrific American chattel slavery, have made constant attempts to move forward, only for our progress to be stalled and cut down. The way you frame it is like we just decided to stay in the bottom rung of society and take whatever hand outs we can get. You should definitely do more research before making video with so much ignorance in it.
See.. im GLAD i read the comments before watching the video. I just KNEW he’d have ZERO knowledge of our history in this land. Not to mention Black American comes in multiple southern Creole ethnicities also.
@@LATEIR Yea, I didn’t see any comments addressing this so I just had to make one myself. Don’t get me wrong, the first part of his section of Black Americans is alright, it’s just the second half. He talks about a sudden switch in focus and direction of the black community and how it came out of nowhere. He then makes it seem like we just wanted to be at the bottom and not move forward. Like, collectively, the black community decided to just beg for hand outs and be bottom tier while other communities rose up. It’s the literal talking points of the “Model Minority” myth. It’s what whites have used to try and isolate the black community by telling other minorities that they are better than blacks because they are “making something of themselves” while blacks aren’t. Looking back at it, I don’t know anymore if I can say this wasn’t an unintentional play by this guy.
He also completely ignored the whole "War on Drugs" and mass incarceration that wrecked our communities, beginning in the 70's and increasing over the last 50 years.
Exactly. Being black American and being Nigerian American are fundamentally different things. Just because they're the same color doesn't mean they come from the same human background.
If you're Nigerian American then that means you came from Nigeria to settle in the US, meaning you had both the financial means to get here, and most likely a job or other asset that provided you stability and a reason to come.
Nigerian Americans mostly descend from the upper classes of one of the already "richer" countries of Africa. (Not that Nigeria is rich, but it isnt as poor as the rest of the region). They're not "black", they're established migrants from another continent.
Black Americans descend from generations and generations of systemic poverty and lack of social mobility.
Poverty is a cycle that repeats itself.
@@cienfu_egos exactly, same reason why being of arabic descent in Mexico usually means you are fairly wealthy, to make such a big leap you need atleast some wealth, complete blind jumps by immigrants are usually reserved to humanitarian crisis, absolutely horrid living condition or conflict. But in the case of many african americans that came to the USA they straight up had nothing, not even their own culture was allowed to come with them.
"...the native peoples [...] didn't have metalworking..."
Nitpick; I don't know the full extent but at least the Pacific Northwest Coast natives and the Cahokia you mentioned had coppersmithing as worked copper plates were important symbols and the Purépecha in Mesoamerica had ironworking.
Exactly, which is why Purépecha were never conquered by the Aztec-Alliance.
They also had the wheel, there are several examples of wheeled children's toys. It's commonly thought that it wasn't utilized in transportation because of the general lack of draft animals. Only the Incan Empire had llamas, but the wheel isn't useful in rocky mountain passes with millions of stone steps.
And the Muisca people in what is now modern day Colombia are known for their decorative work with gold and platinum
@@DesertRat1997 " there are several examples of wheeled children's toys. "
Idiot. They still did not have the wheel. They did not make us elf the wheel for practical purposes.
"" because of the general lack of draft animals."
You don't need draft animals to make use of the wheel. In japan humans pulled carts by hand, and it made life easier.
"but the wheel isn't useful in rocky mountain passes with millions of stone steps."
The Inca empire had lots of places without mountain passes.
Súlean. I think that Whatifalthist meant that they didn't have metalworking *for weapons, tools, cooking utensils , etc.*
That Italian family but really got me lol, I’m no Italian I’m Greek but both people react the same when it comes to leaving the family, I told my mom she wouldn’t have to worry about money in a few years when I move out, and she looked at me as though i stabbed her in the heart and then she said “your not leaving until your married” 😂
Im Turkish and its same here. My mom says wherever you go ill come with unless youre married 😂
@@u9477 😂😂😂
Same for all balkan I assume I’m Albanian and they look like they’ve been offended personally. 💀
I remember being related to the neighborhood , we don't move to far away , that is why I married a Irish man cause the majority of Lations were my cousins
Your mothers (southern Europeans) want you to stay while my mom (basically a Briton) prays everynight that Walmart accepts my job application so I could move the fuck out eventually
This is a great production. Presenting, a brief but concise overview of different ethnic groups in America. It should be mandatory viewing for grade school children.
But ignorance is so much better for creating conflict.
“While the colonization in Canada was almost entirely peaceful” no we didn’t brother document our massacres and they were often done by local militia. Talk to any descendants of the native Americans that allied themselves with the French in the 7 years war, including me, and we’ll tell you that our ancestors had it either worse or on par with the wounded knee experience.
I'm flabbergasted that you skipped over the Dutch Americans. Between being the founders of the American capitalist/banking systems and even more importantly laying the groundwork for the freedom Americans hold most dear, between styling the country as a republic and including things like religious freedom in the ethos of these States, United.
I was a little surprised by this as well. The Dutch were the first in to New York, so had a profound founder effect on the area.
I agree but if we truly thought about all of the cultures and peoples that have created the American identity...We're going to be here awhile watching a I don't know a list of 50 or so. Maybe a part two down the line or a dedicated video would be good.
Western Michigan has a huge Dutch community, and there’s a town called Holland that retains a strong Dutch heritage (including a tulip festival and a windmill donated by the Dutch government back in the 60s).
It seems like he just lumped the Germans and Dutch together, seeing as he listed Trump as a German-American, when I'm pretty sure his ancestry is Dutch.
@@Great_Olaf5 Trump’s Grandfather was Friedrich Trump, he was born in Bavaria Germany.
That shift in the black community has a name. Two names, actually. Here they are:
FBI
CIA
Jewish American here, absolutely spot on my ancestors came here with absolutely nothing and yet now I could afford to go to college. I like that you mention we are just as American as everyone else because I find it hard to explain to people especially non Americans that.
I don’t get how maybe bc I grow up in NYC Metro area I’ve always known Jewish Americans have been here longer than my family.
No, you are not "just as American," as your bloodline had nothing to do with the founding of this country.
@@hermanreid not true. Anyone can be an American and that’s what makes our country beautiful. However, nobody can just be European growing up there as an outsider you’ll never fit right in. I’ve seen it with my white relatives in Germany they don’t feel or consider themselves Germans because they’ll never be. However, anyone and everyone can be an American no matter where they are from.
@@hermanreid America was named after a person that did not exist the entire time the landmass did. Being "American" is being of "America." America being this big old continent. The Chocktaw are American. The Canadians are American. Everyone on the continent is American. This isn't like Europe. Virtually every group here settled on the continent from somewhere else. I won't lie to you and act like these new Mexican immigrants are doing the exact same thing our white ancestors did, because the new migrants aren't really building any new stuff, but objectively they were already American. They just weren't United States Citizens.
This isn't Europe, where your German family has lived in Germany since it became a family.
@@hermanreideh, bet yours didn’t either. Funnily enough, I’d say the impact of Jews on pop culture (mafia crime and producing music to name 2) make them pretty American. The East Coast metro is inherently American, and certainly part of its flavor comes from Jews.
"Oh I am 50% Italian, 25% Irish, 12.5% French, 6.25% German, 3.125% Romanian, 1.5625% Serbian, 1.5625% Albanian"
As an Englishman I find the USA’s obsession with not having an English ancestry so odd…
I’m American, and I agree with that sentiment. My family has always known we were English because we came from the English Aristocracy in the 17th Century, but most Americans have forgotten that and now claim to be German even though most will only find 20% French-German and 70% British ancestry when they get a DNA test. 🤦🏼♂️😂
@@DillonRust anglos saxon were Germanic ultimately
I'm a English American and I agree.
The English are seen as not exotic and boring generic white. Which is sad because someone in America could be like 80% English, 20% not English, ignore the details of a family tree and focus emphasize on the non English ancestry and ignore the English ancestry.
As a American I love my English ancestry very so much.
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 Thanks mate, appreciated. I find it really odd behaviour... Especially considering how close friends/allies we are?!?!
@@DTL0VER yea agreed. It's sad English is seen as default or boring.
Before the 1930s most Americans identified with a Anglo-Saxon culture. Its sad that stopped in the 60s. Or even 50s.
Im Scottish and in History we are doing the impact Scots had on America and why the left in the first place, this actually helps
I'd look for a better source if I were you
You didn't have to use your free time to learn about my country but you chose to anyway, and I think that's really cool. Thanks.
@@sw3783 Thanks
@@charliehogg1639 Look at the highland clearances as for one of the main reason why and don't use this video as a source
@@MonTheWell1886 Oh no im not going use this as a direct source or anything it just helps summarise Scots in America
No mention of Portuguese, Scandinavian or French Americans
Something that warmed my heart was the first meeting between John Adams and King George, as well as the Petition to the King… made me realise it was not long ago that the Englishman, Welshman, Scot and Irishman did not differentiate between the population of the USA, UK, and Ireland.
I have always wondered how confused foreigners must feel when they see multiple countries stemming from England claiming to be completely independent sovereign states… even when I moved to England , other kids unironically had no idea that the UK colonised these areas but thought it was a result of good relations 🤦♂️🤦♂️ lmao
As a Hispanic American, I can tell you that older folks vote more - and they are more Catholic - therefore lean conservative. BUT young Hispanic Americans are very liberal. They literally turned Arizona blue.
Yeah that seems about right, Hispanic Americans voting demographics are pretty similar to European/white American. old vote republicans, while young vote democrat. I think when comes to immigration both the old and the young are for immigrantion.
Social issues or economics as well?
Kinda cringe and unfort
@@JK-gu3tl What do you mean?
@@marcm.999 Are younger folks turned off by weed prohibition, laws against same sex marriage, or do they also support redistribution and regulations.
The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where feed and seed both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Fuck and Suck".
Nigga what
lmao
Smart
Was this video posted on /his/ or something?
sneed
Wonderful video, clear and concise. Where you make huge sweeping generalisations as required for such a very short presentation on a massive topic : they are mostly fair and balanced. Well done
36:44 this is what I’m scared about most. My tex-mex ethnicity is on the brink of being forgotten. My immediate family is not fluent in Spanish and do not speak Spanish at home. I don’t think they care as much as they should, but I do, enough to teach myself Spanish and reintegrate what little fragments of my heritage are left back into my family.
nah its good you speak english America is a nation under one god, and language.
@@richardbug3094speaking only one language is pathetic 😂
I live in the U.P. Of Michigan and have a heavy amount of Finnish in my blood. I love how you included the Finnish on your map, we hardly get represented when describing all the cultures that shaped American society. The Finns overwhelmingly worked in the biggest copper mining operations in the world in the 1800’s and early half of 1900’s.
Finland Americans really do need more representation!
My best friend is half Finnish American and half black Caribbean. People treat him as African American even though, in real terms, the closest link he has to African American culture is me, a white guy who spent 7 of my formative years living in North Minneapolis. He's just a hick from central Minnesota.
Hey just something to note: some native Americans around the Great Lakes had the ability to do metalworking. They made copper arrowheads which are still being found by metal detectors.
Yeah but those are ANCIENT and the technology was either lost or barely there by the time Europeans had touched the continent.
By the Columbian period the only metal working was copper and gold in Mesoamerica.
But yeah a,"What if the Old Copper Culture took off?" would be good video.
Super cool, did not know.
@@k_tess It wasn't so much lost as largely irrelevant. Copper working is very easy, the Great Lakes region has large amounts of native copper, which is highly pure ore that you can literally just hammer most of the impurities out to get the metal into usable condition and until the shape you want it. There's a reason humans first started working with copper in the old world too. It's only once you have a sufficiently dense population, usually only possible with agriculture, that you have a demand for copper that exceeds the capacity of only cold working native copper can supply you, and this is with the Great Lakes copper cultures supplying copper artifacts that have been found as far away as southern Mexico.
Now, if you want a really impressive example of native metalworking that was sadly lost in colonization, look at the Tarascan culture of northwestern Mexico. These people were actually working with bronze, which requires smelting technology.
@@k_tess I’m pretty sure the Andean societies also had copper and gold metal working.
@@shiny_teddiursa bruh How cold I forget! The Inca were awesome.
You left out that large swaths of the modern U.S. South was once settled by "Old Stock" French & Spanish colonials before the Americans claimed those region, and incorporated the descendants of that population into the U.S.
Best video on ethnicities, should be talked about in school
Well I do see that the majority of your portion on Black America was influenced by Sowell. You really underscore some major factors. It’s lazy to blame the state of Black America on lack of work ethic and the woke culture. The 1920’s-40’s the black middle class was strong and growing, in the 1950’s-60’s white families left in droves from existing neighborhoods taking entire industries with them (white flight) to newly built suburbia that entirely denied black families looking to move in and new interstate highways were paved through entire black middle class neighbourhoods. This practice was called Redlining, it kept black middle class families in poor areas and outright denied them from loans to purchase homes and upward social mobility.
Redlining along with broken single parent homes from over incarceration, large percentages of black men joining up the Vietnam War, drugs, the growing welfare state all destroyed the middle class. I suggest anyone who’s looking to learn more to read The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. All things said great video, very informative !
This guy obviously has a right-wing bias. I am on the center and think most of his videos are okay, but it is easy to detect the fallacies and bias in his content
@@BlessedBanter I agree. Since I’ve read a lot of Sowell, I can tell he just repeats his viewpoints but he’s choosing not to mention things that actually happened and facts in favor of a biased viewpoint. It’s intellectually dishonest and I expected more from him.
@@BlessedBanter Can you help explain to me what you mean by right-wing bias in this case? Genuine question, not being controversial.
@@sosman2715 Sowell isn't right wing (nor McWhorter, who was not mentioned but who seems to have also influenced his views). He's barely right of center. The "controversial" opinions in this video regarding the current social justice movement reflects the views of a majority of the black population. Other than his commentary regarding everything outside the current state, everything mentioned is entirely inline with the entirety of historical experts outside of a handful of the post-modernist "antiracist" "historians" (i.e. people who claim to be experts on the history of America despite not having any actual formal education in history) who tend to view objective fact as a false construct and tool of colonialism.
His opinions (which he clearly stated were only his opinions) are only (partly) contrary to the mostly white, most upper middle class left who seems to think justice is a performance art (and one to be performed as visibly and as online as possible).
The interstates were built for commercial trucking so often followed existing state highways thru cities where a lot of commercial truck traffic passed thru. Those routes went thru Black neighborhoods and White neighborhoods.
The industries didn't follow people moving to suburbia! Those didn't have any reason to since the infrastructure needed to operate was in place (water, electric, natural gas, rail service, rivers/canals for barge traffic, roads and bridges for heavy truck traffic). People were moving out to the suburbs to get away from noisy smelly industries and live in new modern neighborhoods for a change. Most large cities didn't have vacant land suitable for new home developments since most of those were zoned industrial or were floodplains.
I am a transplant from the hills around Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to rural central wisconsin. People who claim that there are no cultural distinctions at all among pasty skinned americans are insane. People unabashedly do things in Wisconsin that would elicit an angry, physical response in Alabama. Parking is a perfect example. There's no real consequence to parking like a complete douchebag here, so everybody does it. Half the cars in any given parking lot are over the lines or taking up more than one spot in some way, shape, or fashion. Meanwhile, try that in Alabama, you'd have your car keyed in a week. Meanwhile, poltiics in the south can be brutally dirty, while here in the upper midwest, that would never fly. That's why trump lost wisconsin, btw. Not because people in rural wisconsin are any more liberal than people in rural alabama, bur rather because the bombastic hotheaded campaign style that wins in Alabama gets you publicly shunned in WIsconsin.
Those are not ethnic differences. This sounds like a rant.
@@600micsofacid he’s from Alabama that’s just how they talk. Also you’re right, they’re cultural differences. which is probably what he means. people tend to use “cultural” and “ethnic” interchangeably
Edit: lol just realized OP doesn’t use the word ethnic, you’re the one who swapped that in
@Graf von Losinj ping me when it comes in please
Honestly it comes from in part due to modernisation of the world due to the internet (people tend to group according to interest, less so religion/history) and few traditions held over from previous settler generations (new ones are made but they are more generally American and less so from a specific ethnic group).
Its not a bad thing, it just means that there is less diversity from state to state than countries in Europe, Asia, Africa etc. You still have the cultural boom of movies, music, art, technology etc etc that isn't just from Texas or from New York, its American.
@@600micsofacid He’s referencing the descendants of the Scotts-Irish.
I wished you covered French Americans because I’m part Cajun. If anyone wants to know, I’m also Irish, English, and German, with a little bit of Scottish, Portuguese, and Italian and a very tiny bit of Coushatta.
Guys, who let Whatifalthist talk about ethnicities?
For German Australians, they came and settled in the Adelaide Hills. Just marched straight in and built entire towns. Simply Incredible.
What are you talking about
For Irish Aussies we built our identity around Ned Kelly
@@muatheluafi6816 so in the 1870s Silesian German protestant fled Germany to Australia.
They arrived in the city of Adelaide and then marched out to make towns in the hills around the city. Literally built towns out of nothing and started farming.
I heard Barossa is basically a downstream of German culture. Adelaide also seems to have a massive Greek influence, particularly in their politics where a lot of MPs e.g Xenophon, Marshall, Kounstantinos and the current Premier are of Greek descent.
@@Dwzonbell What do you mean out of nothing ? You're making it sound like they pulled the building materials out of their assholes or something . You mean like they went to a place and cut trees and dug wells and built houses and shelters and started farming ? Yeah that's standard human behavior there is nothing German about it
This might be my favorite video that you’ve released. I wish ethnicity in America was tackled through this lense, rather than strictly through race and discrimination
In other words, empirically, scientifically, rather than based on foregone ideological conclusions that must not be questioned.
Ethnicity and race are two separate things. Even among Latin Americans, you still have racial distinctions being made, with darker skinned Latin Americans, descended in part or in whole from African slaves, being discriminated against by lighter skinned Latin Americans descended from European settlers. It makes sense to talk about both
that would just cause more division if we divide people even more wouldnt it
@Juan Ocampo If love is the answer, you’re home 💛🤍
@@onesob13I don’t use “race” when I’m having a conversation about. Race is skin deep, ethnicity is culture and heritage.
You forgot French, who were already settled on a large part of today's US. Some remained in Louisiana even today, and some waves of millons came from Canada about 100-150 years ago.
Amazing video! The one thing you missed about Mexican migration was that during WW2 the US government made the “braceros” program which opened up a LEGAL avenue for migration into the US as the US population was off fighting and couldn’t attend to the farms.
It's slightly incorrect to refer to the areas of majority black Americans as "Angolan" as their ancestors came from all up and down the West Coast of Africa in a very mixed plural background, from Senegambia (modern Guiana) to West Central Africa (the northern part of modern Angola).
Yes the mali empire sold many of their neighbors to slavery they learned to do so with the trans-saharan slave trade during the
middle ages, particularly west african slaves to the arabic nations of north africa and europeans including the portuguese and english.
Yea most Angolans ended up in Brazil since the Kongo kingdom traded mainly with Portugal. British Colonies ( the former U.S. Colonies) mainly traded with African states farther to the North.
If your U.S. ancestry can be traced back to the colonial era, what you are really depends on what colony your ancestors lived in. For instance, if they were from New England, there is a very high probability that they were originally from the British Isles. If they were from Pennsylvania, there is a very high probability that they were from the historically German speaking Rhine River area that included parts of eastern France, western Germany, and parts of Switzerland. I have friends in Pennsylvania who thought they were mostly German because their first ancestors spoke German, only to find out they were really from historically German speaking towns in eastern France or Switzerland! This stuff is always not cut and dry and can get very muddy.
Yes, i have German ancestors from Bohemia, now the Czech Republic, as well as Alsace, France. They spoke German, and my DNA shows no French or Czech.
@@AlexandertheGreat99 Yes, people from same ancestral area can be different in DNA. Especially if that area had a history population change. It really depends on where the ancestors originated. Some people, even back in the middle ages, moved around depending on work, result of wars, or food supplies. It also depends on how far back in your linage these ancestors were. After about 5 generations, a human can completely lose all DNA from a certain ancestor. It is a totally random on what DNA is kept and what is thrown out when a human is conceived. You get offered 23 pairs from each parent, for a total of 46 pairs, but in the end you only get to keep 23 pairs. In just one generation, a human looses a sizable chunk of their total ancestry. Ancestral DNA can be randomly passed down through the generations, or it can be randomly lost in the same way.
I can trace my ancestry to the colonial era. My 10th great-grandfather, Jasper Crane, co-founded New Haven, Branford, CT, and Newark NJ. My Dutch ancestors came to NYC back when it was a colony of Holland back in the 1630's, and it was called New Amsterdam.
Germany lost a lot of soil especially after WW2...today's eastern "France" was inhabited by Germans and so was today's Czech Republic, Poland etc...they were forced to flee their ancenstral communities throughout several periods of time and mostly after ww2 when they abandonded their towns and cities being replaced by other nationalities
@@nikgeo8690 Very true. Most people from the Rhine River area are very similar in overall DNA, regardless whether they live in France, Germany, or Switzerland. The entire area is very "Germanic" as far as ancestral DNA is concerned.
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This video was better than I expected, but still some overly-broad generalizations here. One crucial note about Ireland: it wasn’t “overpopulated” except in the context of English foreign occupation taking all the arable land except that which was unsuitable for farming cash crops for export, where only potatoes could be grown. That is the land (and the food) the native Irish were forced to live off of to such an extreme degree that when the potato blight hit, millions died of starvation. But to be clear: the English always had enough food to feed the Irish population notwithstanding the blight- they just chose not to, and to export the crops and keep the money instead.
So the famine was as much a result of dispossession and classism (if not moreso) than it ever was about “overpopulation” or a potato blight. But the Irish were taught it was their fault and to be ashamed of their own poverty, which is why it’s rarely talked about, even to this day.
And this dispossession isn’t too far different from what our nation did to Native Americans: forcing them off all the most arable land, and into scrubland “reservations” where scarcely anything could be grown, then violently crushing all forms of resistance and rebellion to that enforced impoverishment.
Just my $0.02 for an otherwise excellent review of American demographics and migration which could probably benefit from including more critical reflection on the classist nature of our society, which is really baked-in at the very core of our culture, ever since the landed English gentry of the Jamestown colony nearly starved to death because they didn’t want to work (because they saw hard work as beneath them) before kidnapping, enslaving, and “importing” slaves from Africa to do the work for them, from 1619 onwards, because they didn’t have serfs anymore and didn’t want to have to pay people to work their fields (and the attitude hasn’t changed much, unfortunately, in many quarters of our country).
This video does a good job exposing the emptiness of phrases such as “people of colour” to unify an experience of oppression. As an Indian (actual India) i find it amusing how many of us, particularly around the Bay area, ally with woke progressive causes despite coming from wealthy tech and medical professions. Pramila Jayapal, Ro Khanna, Kamala Harris etc. A lot of them derive from upper caste Indians such as Brahmins who moved to US as affirmative action programs for lower castes in India called “reserved categories or reservations”, locked them out from creamy Indian civil service jobs and elite colleges .
Living in the Bay Area I get the feeling that the wealthy are the most ardent wokesters.
Aa an european I agree with your take about the "person of colour" phrase. It's very american centered and stupid. I can't imagine referring to people as white and non-white instead of their actual ethnicities
@@michabodnar7739 haha yeah it makes even less sense in a European context. Yes in America it was white settlers that came in and evicted native americans, did slavery etc. but in Europe while participating in colonialism was also occupied by North African muslims (Spain), occupied and oppressed by Turks (Greece, Balkans) and Mongols (Russia). We were often taught to believe warfare and violence is the domain of the whites but thats a distortion of history thats flowed from American centrism which is one of the least representative histories for the world given its sheer uniqueness and the fact some houses in Europe are older than post Native America.
@@rohanindra6401 all of it is very complicated, especially people ignoring the opression that happened between the white europeans at the time. Much of polish culture since the end of the 18th century was defined by seeking independence from the german and russian empires. Same for other smaller nations(and the invasion of Ukraine happening as we speak). At the end of the day it's not only "white opressors", just the strong looking to exploit the weak as always. They just happened to fill that role at the time.
This is a good point. Reservations in India are unfortunately a huge factor behind brain drain. Also, it's especially bad for Indian-Americans to ally too closely with the wokes because those are the people that crap on India the most, particularly since the current government came to power.
I’ve been ‘German’ all my life. At age 70, I found out I’m 42% Scandinavian and 33% English, the rest mostly Scotch, Irish and Welsh! Thank you Mom’s family. Ha! I was always drawn to the music from those parts. Must be something to it . . . ? 😄
All of those are Germanic Tribes.. so, you've been correct. It's just that all these little pockets of smaller German tribes and areas were labeled with other names.
Don't believe stupid DNA Tests. There is absolutely no DNA difference between central european people.
Scandinavians and Germans have the same roots and the early english were basically Saxons who came from Northern Germany so I'd say you are still german. And not to forget that some of these companies offering DNA tests often try to paint a wrong picture depending on where the company comes from. Did the same and suddenly have 1-5% the ancestry of the region in which the company has it's base xD Next time trying an israeli company, always wanted to be one percent jewish
You're part Whisky?? Interesting.
well your last name is german
Big truth said in the intro. Some people act like the US has no cultural diversity and other people act like no other place is diverse. It's better to capture the nuances and heterogeneity.
Love your videos, you're a bit shortsighted when it comes to African Americans. I think you should do a lot more research on how and why the decline happened in the black community after the civil rights movement. I would love to see you make a video on that. Also I want to point out that the success of Nigerians doesn't mean discrimination wasn't a MAJOR factor (still is but that's neither here nor there). Nigerian immigrants tend to do well because the best of them are the ones that are coming over. The same is true for immigrants from other countries: Asian Americans do better than most Americans because they’re almost all 1st and 2nd gen immigrants. For example, they’re self-selected: they’re choosing to move to the U.S. That means they have unusual drive and determination. People without that drive stay home. African Americans that come from slavery have no such filter. (Nigerians never experienced black wall street, redlining, mass incarceration etc btw)
Exactly my brother! When it comes to African Americans, he sounds way too patronizing. He hasn't pointed out that African Americans are the only group in America whose identity was completely ERASED, he mentions they erased their identity but does not make a comparison. You can't compare a black person raised in Nigeria to a black person raised in USA. A Nigerian students has identity and has a solid family unit. In addition, the wealthy Nigerians are the ones who can afford travelling to America. Are these wealthy Nigerians going to get a house in the projects? No!
I really find offensive that he mentions the presence of African Americans in media and music! Really? I am pretty sure African Americans have contributed to American cuisine, science, literature etc. The cartoons were borderline racist! He finally gives his opinion on issues affecting the black community and gives recommendations yet he does not challenge or give recommendations to white America who is the main responsible of this mess.
@@biokomalabo9468 It seems that the Black American community does a have strong identity and pride. Perhaps young Blacks should be encouraged to adopt mindsets like that of the Nigerian immigtant. Still the situation is tragic and the American policing system is seriously incompetent & hazardous.
@@biokomalabo9468 it’s almost impossible to find a neutral rational white male when it comes to issues like this. It’s either some batshit crazy left winger. Or someone who will never acknowledge that the problems of the black community were caused by white Americans and it’s their job to fix it
Come on w/ the facts! They gone stop using Nigerian “success” as a cover up for their wrong doings generationally to Black American - Descendants of American Chattel Slavery.
I thinking the point he was trying to make was that (and I'm speculating here since I'm not in his head) I guess since a black immigrant would face the same discrimination as an ancestral black american, yet are successful, that discrimination must not be the issue. Like you said and in addition to the other flaw you brought up in that argument, it puts the focus on current day discrimination rather than the role historical discrimination (an understatement) played in economic and social development leading up to today. He mentioned not fully understanding the declines that happened within the community after the 60s and I agree that if he dug more into them it would inform his opinions a bit better. I'll give him this: i think hes on the right track with his overall understanding of it (for example, the analogy of the abusive adoptive parent) and I dont completely disagree with him that more work needs to be done in recovering from past atrocities, but I think he presented it in a condescending/out-of-touch way even if it was unintentional. Not a good look (and he acknowledges this) for a white american guy to tell black people essentially to "move on" and suck it up and not at all his place to say so.
The "minding their own god damn business" line had me laughing, can't lie.
The story of the USA in one sentence
Sometimes using simple emotional quotes conveys the whole story. Also yes that was hilarious.
The world would've been a better place if everyone just did that
@@starmaker75 the United States of grater Mexico nowadays or Africa if you prefer white Americans are a minority now
@@thesilverreich3947 I certain cities and states yes. Whites are still the majority.
Ok, so I can provide some clarity around the black plight as a woke white man that has studied this stuff (only bachelor's in urban planning) myself. The black community's migration to the north oriented itself around manufacturing, which peeked in the 60s. Around this same time, 50s-60s you had the destruction of many african american wealthy neighborhoods in the rust belt for highways and slum clearance for public housing projects, destroying a lot of social frameworks that had been built up and providing long term shaky foundation in terms of underfunded and poorly designed public housing. Once cars and suburbs really take off throughout the nation, jobs flee the black neighborhoods and they're legally and socially prevented from following. Then the war on drugs craters their younger generation suffering from lack of employment and thus you get the chips on shoulders exemplified in rap. White people basically separated our economy from the black community's. The more money you start off with the better you'll end up, unless you and your community gets purposefully targeted and economically beaten down during the greatest period of economic growth, the whole 20th century, when you finally get "equality." Not to mention blacks couldn't use WW2's GI bill to get higher education easily like whites.
Absolutely incredible you are saying exactly what I was thinking it painful to see him not mention or know, what lead to our downturn in though 60s-80s thank you
I have often heard the welfare expansion at that time cited as contributing to the downturn because it incentivized single motherhood.
@SocialMoth some states had a rule where you wouldnt receive benefits if a man was in the home. Which on top of the job loss during the 60s from de industrialisation, was particularly devastating
ttypical white libtard, never study on how to help black americans nt gotta find way to blame whitey.
go get a real job.
Good take. I also had similar issues with his part on African Americans and felt it honestly lacking. Honestly I feel like nay attempt by non-Black (and even many Black people) to explain 20th century Black History is almost always either through a political lens or a "who can we blame, Black people or White people?" sort of lens. He tried to somewhat go in the middle but leaned towards the ladder around the end. Something I found to be very meh imo. It's hard to find anything objective but knowing whatifalthist's political leanings, I'm not shocked he fumbled this part.
this video is 50% interesting facts, 50% weird creepy cultural stereotypes
True, calling white people snowflakes is very derogatory and wouldn’t be accepted if derogatory names were used for other races… It was uncalled for in this video….
Stereotypes are often rooted in reality
@@KolchaksGhost incomplete at best and very unscientific
@@StayFreshMyFriends well culture and traditions are hardly ever scientific
This was an amazing video! Thanks to the creator for that 37 minute informative unbiased content.
You're doing some important work that no one else is doing right now. As one radical centrist to another, THANK YOU.
im a leftist, but i think radical centrism is crimminally under represented.
Hahaha radical centrist, love it
he's more right wing than centrist to be honest
what the hell is radical centrism?
He doesn’t strike me as a centrist, he strikes me as someone more on the right
It should be noted that up till the industrial revolution the English tended their woods the same way that you say the Natives did in the Americas. The reason being of course the same, to maintain them properly so they can provide for generations. It really wasn't until the first industrial revolution that the practice died out an England's woods were decimated to feed industry. Prior to that the forests were harvested with care and tended, burned, sickness was cleaned out, under brush cleaned up plants and sundry chosen for the environment. In many ways the old English forest keeping kept forests healthy and full of game for centuries, could be thought of as environmentally aware in a way that to this day we are not. Our keeping of the forests to this day in the USA is horrific, unproductive, promotes unbalanced ecosystems, and then when we decide to "do something about it" strip harvest to the highest bidder ripping up the land and causing further damage. No balance only insanity and greed. One side making bad policy to convince people to elect them where such policies are myopic at best geared to get the voter to vote for them in THAT election, not the next or the next, that is for other policies, or at worst intentionally destructive for profit.
Very interesting video - but what about the Dutch and French? They played a significant role in the settlement of America. Also - the Irish. European History grad here... in Britain in the 19th century, NOBODY was allowed to vote unless they paid taxes, and only landowners paid taxes. The Freedom of Religion Act had driven the Puritans to leave England in 1620 and Catholics were indeed permitted to own land.
The landowners of Ireland were IRISH nobility, not English, and they did live on the land. The population of Ireland had boomed due to the British Empire giving a massive market for Irish agriculture, however ALL agricultural labourers were poor, and dependent on the potato. (Van Gogh did a series of paintings of Dutch peasants, called "The Potato Eaters.")
The potato blight hit all of Europe and rules were laid down to deal with it: eat the seed potatoes, and plant another root vegetable for one season. Everyone did this and recovered, but the Irish refused to change their planting habits, despite being given alternative seeds by the British government.
A total of £48,000 was raised to help the Irish through this, plus £10,000 donated by Queen Victoria personally (at the time, the average wage was £26 per year.) Still the Irish refused to alter their behaviour, and terrorised those who kept their families alive by accepting food aid from Protestants. It was this terror which overwhelmingly drove many to emigrate - most settled in Britain. things became even more dire, due to the evictions of small-holders - this was caused by the bankruptcy of the land-owning farmers. When they tried to export their goods, the docks were attacked by the Irish, so the income of landowners dried up (in the mythology of the Irish American, the sale of Irish food is described as "theft" - imagine this being applied to, say, Idaho farmers when they try to sell potatoes.)
The Irish settling in America had horrific crime rates and remain poor. Is this also the fault of the British? A side note - you mention that 22% of the genome of African Americans is European - 30% of this is Scottish. To this day, the Scots have the highest rate of rape, of any of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom. Likewise, the success in business of Germans, while not being frequently presidents, also reflects German culture - they are very industrious but not risk-takers, and politics involves risk.
Most Jews in the Pale lived not in ghettos, which were in cities, but rather in small villages called 'shtetlach' or 'shtetls', Yiddish for 'small towns' (see the modern German 'Stadt').
Most of the Chinese in America who took up clothes-cleaning did that well before dry-cleaning existed-it mostly consisted of boiling clothes in alkaline/soapy water, rinsing them, then ironing or pressing and (in many cases) them. Cooking, both in restaurants and in households, also was important. I find credible the argument that Chinese men were thought less threatening when doing what were stereotypically 'womenʼs work'.
As an African American, I think I may have a hunch as to what went wrong in the 60s: LBJ's "The Great Society" and feminism.
1. The Great Society offered us welfare as a sort of "apology" for past transgressions. And even said they would give the women more if the father wasn't present. I don't think anyone knew what would come out of that deal, but it was devastating. Married couples agreed that if they care about their kids they should do what's best for them. The fathers started to leave (the Vietnam War, and the war on drugs did a number on black father absence as well). Families can't really operate well at all without competent fathers in the picture. Good communities are built with good, nuclear families. Without that communities tend to fall.
2. Black women also accepted the feminist ideology which served to remove the black father as well. White women launched the second wave of feminism, but this time it wasn't about suffrage, but about fighting against "The patriarchy" (oppressive male power). So black women joined the movement based on essentially a lie. Black men had no power to oppress anyone. But nonetheless black women started to turn against the men in their communities accusing the men of cheating and abusive behavior (which wasn't really all that prevalent in black homes). But black women were sort of on an empowerment high and they began adopting very anti-male sentiment:
"I'm strong and independent. I don't need a man"
"I'm tired of put the culture on my back"
"Ni🅱️🅱️as ain't 💩"
"Men are trash"
"Women need men like fish need bicycles"
All degrading quotes meant to undermine men's place in society.
This has led to tragedy in the black community with high abortion rates, high homicide rates, high dropout rates etc etc...
If the men in our communities hold the men accountable for crime and women hold the women accountable for dating and procreating with criminals, the brokenness this can begin to reverse. But "snitching" is looked down upon and hooking up with criminals get you social points so people aren't incentivized to change and its quite depressing. Obviously there are more things that factor in to our collective dysfunction, but those are two of the largest problems in my opinion that we have to address and correct. Until then we will remain in a horrific viscous cycle.
Pray for my people as we seek to heal.
Yeah, systemic problems are hard to even address, let alone work to solve. It takes a collective shift in consciousness, and in this case, fighting against a mainstream ideology.
"I don't think anyone knew what would come out of that deal, but it was devastating."
I have a hunch that the white political elites knew
It's ironic that the welfare that was put in place is undo the racism of the country is what is keeping yall down. The people that are trying to push this huge welfare state are racist, but this racism doesn't come from malice, but from generosity
Fathers started to leave because of Medicaid, Head Start and Title 1?
@@hahafunnyman-on5rq Haha, indeed very strange
I Just had an epiphany: some day people are going to read youtube videos comments like this the way we read medieval monks' margin notes in old manuscripts today.
Sad to inform u that ur epiphany is a pretty old meme
I was gonna say I had the same epiphany like 10 years ago.
If the data survives. In the future maybe just the code survives and they'll have to mine information.
No they'll read important stuff
somebody gonna transcribe all youtube comments on to parchment and place in a cave
That’s crazy lumping south and East Asians together as one ethnicity. Ridiculous.
A possible reason for the increase of crime and drug use in black families in the 1960’s could be from the war on drugs and high incarceration rates that targeted black people, id like to hear ur take on that.
Edit: it would also be cool if u made a video on the native Americans living in present day eastern united states during pre colonization (maybe focusing on the technology and social structure)
Crime and drugs seem to be typical in any social underclass, so I would assume increasing drug use came before the war on drugs rather than the other way around. I've heard the war on drugs originally did have racist motivations, because they saw drug use rising among the black underclass and they wanted to prevent drugs and black culture generally from spreading to the white underclass. Conservatives in the 1960s were strongly and openly opposed to racial assimilation, whereas modern conservatives now hold exactly the same beliefs that 1960s leftists did, with some corporate globalism sprinkled in just to really piss everyone off.