Migration: Crash Course European History #29
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Pedro
First and foremost, as a historian and archeologist, I must say that I consider myself a fan of your History videos. Your videos help disseminate historiographic knowledge to the wider population, something that must be undoubtedly celebrated. Anyhow, I believe this video should be renamed -Migration to the United States: Crash Course European History #29-. Simply no words about european migration to Central and South America, which constituted a major part of this demographic flow. To put things in perspective, Brazil and Argentina alone received almost twice as many italians than the United States throughout the period you mention in the video. No words about Iberian migration as well, though millions of portuguese and spanish immigrants reached the Americas between 1840 and 1914.
It saddens me in particular because this radically american centrist perspective deforms the very historical process you were trying to speak about. At the same time, your video follows a wider and unfortunetly traditional trend of turning Latin American history invisible when it comes to World History. It seems this modus operandi won't fade out easily, giving the fact that even well educated and well meaning north americans seem to comprehend History through colonialist lens.
In any case, I hope my commentary didn't cross the fine line between criticism and offense, another common internet trend. As I've said in the beginning, I really enjoy and admire your work and sincerely wish that you keep doing good videos about History and other subjects.
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First and foremost, as a historian and archeologist, I must say that I consider myself a fan of your History videos. Your videos help disseminate historiographic knowledge to the wider population, something that must be undoubtedly celebrated. Anyhow, I believe this video should be renamed -Migration to the United States: Crash Course European History #29-. Simply no words about european migration to Central and South America, which constituted a major part of this demographic flow. To put things in perspective, Brazil and Argentina alone received almost twice as many italians than the United States throughout the period you mention in the video. No words about Iberian migration as well, though millions of portuguese and spanish immigrants reached the Americas between 1840 and 1914.
It saddens me in particular because this radically american centrist perspective deforms the very historical process you were trying to speak about. At the same time, your video follows a wider and unfortunetly traditional trend of turning Latin American history invisible when it comes to World History. It seems this modus operandi won't fade out easily, giving the fact that even well educated and well meaning north americans seem to comprehend History through colonialist lens.
In any case, I hope my commentary didn't cross the fine line between criticism and offense, another common internet trend. As I've said in the beginning, I really enjoy and admire your work and sincerely wish that you keep doing good videos about History and other subjects.
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lauren
46% of the dem party? His endorsed candidates can-t even make it out of a primary. Bernie and his cult just keep pulling this numbers out of delusional polls or just out of nowhere and that-s part of the problem y-all keep overestimating that little revolution that-s been failing since the day Bernard announced his first run. The addition of progressives to the dem party would be good but is not some big number of ppl we have to beg to be in the party.
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46% of the dem party? His endorsed candidates can-t even make it out of a primary. Bernie and his cult just keep pulling this numbers out of delusional polls or just out of nowhere and that-s part of the problem y-all keep overestimating that little revolution that-s been failing since the day Bernard announced his first run. The addition of progressives to the dem party would be good but is not some big number of ppl we have to beg to be in the party.
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Jonathan
I love these videos! I just wish you hadn't focused too much on the US (as you usually do, even though it's not a series about the US at all) and had mentioned how migration affected the WHOLE continent, because - shockingly - the American continent isn't made up of only the USA. Migration affected Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and the whole of South America profoundly and it was worth a mention - to say the least.
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I love these videos! I just wish you hadn't focused too much on the US (as you usually do, even though it's not a series about the US at all) and had mentioned how migration affected the WHOLE continent, because - shockingly - the American continent isn't made up of only the USA. Migration affected Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and the whole of South America profoundly and it was worth a mention - to say the least.
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Ben
More free people came on the first fleet to Australia than convicts. It is a mythological false image some Aussies take pride in and is largely used to treat us as descendants of criminals and provincial by the English. Convicts themselves were virtual slaves, with the difference that they were still legal under the British rule, and everyone sees slaves as having been wronged, but convicts as wrongdoers.
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More free people came on the first fleet to Australia than convicts. It is a mythological false image some Aussies take pride in and is largely used to treat us as descendants of criminals and provincial by the English. Convicts themselves were virtual slaves, with the difference that they were still legal under the British rule, and everyone sees slaves as having been wronged, but convicts as wrongdoers.
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Morgan
My ancestor was dispossessed of his land in Scotland and sold into serfdom in the colonies. I wonder how history looked to him? The people in my family largely seem to think it was a good thing, because now we have some places named after us and such, but you know, cultural genocide doesn't seem worth it (to me. I wish we could just ask our ancestors these things!
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My ancestor was dispossessed of his land in Scotland and sold into serfdom in the colonies. I wonder how history looked to him? The people in my family largely seem to think it was a good thing, because now we have some places named after us and such, but you know, cultural genocide doesn't seem worth it (to me. I wish we could just ask our ancestors these things!
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Jessica
My mother family is entirely descended from migrants - her fathers grandparents came from Ireland around the famine (though that would-ve been internal migration from Ireland to London) and her mother-s family is Spanish.
Networks is how my mother-s Irish family ended up in London. Their local priest in Ireland had a sister who was a nun in London.
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My mother family is entirely descended from migrants - her fathers grandparents came from Ireland around the famine (though that would-ve been internal migration from Ireland to London) and her mother-s family is Spanish.
Networks is how my mother-s Irish family ended up in London. Their local priest in Ireland had a sister who was a nun in London.
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Secureteam55
Extreme left, globalist propaganda as an history class. check! Well done PBS, interesting way to fill in the propaganda with cherry pick stories as well as mix in twisted fact of history. too bad, most intelligent people won-t stop at your piece, and actually make real research for the self.
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Extreme left, globalist propaganda as an history class. check! Well done PBS, interesting way to fill in the propaganda with cherry pick stories as well as mix in twisted fact of history. too bad, most intelligent people won-t stop at your piece, and actually make real research for the self.
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F.
This episode is almost about American history. What about European immigration to other regions, like Africa and Latin America? What about colonial immigration?
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This episode is almost about American history. What about European immigration to other regions, like Africa and Latin America? What about colonial immigration?
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Natalia
american tail with the mice or whatever they were? yeah, i remember it. i had the little baby girl mouse as a child - the one with the bow in her hair.
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american tail with the mice or whatever they were? yeah, i remember it. i had the little baby girl mouse as a child - the one with the bow in her hair.
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jenny
Thankfully, Europeans did not migrate en mass into South and Southeast Asia or else they would have slaughtered the natives like they did in the Americas
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Thankfully, Europeans did not migrate en mass into South and Southeast Asia or else they would have slaughtered the natives like they did in the Americas
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