Explaining America s Nine Nations part 1
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Date: 2022-08-18
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grace4five
Nice video. I fell like Acadiana could've been given a sentence or two more (though I 100% understand why it wasn't, since it isn't terribly influential, so I'll just point out some stuff about that region.
A big distinction between Acadiana and the rest of the Deep South is it's Catholicism and the Cajun culture, and I've noticed when talking with others from neighboring states, such as Mississippi, that the differences are indeed real.
Around the 1920's, there was a big push by the Louisiana state government to destroy the Cajun culture, and almost succeeded.
Children were beaten in schools for speaking any French, so kids would wet their pants rather than asking to use the restrooms. They would speak English at school and French at home. Still, the government successfully got rid of the Cajun French dialect for the most part. Though there is a lot of local slang derived from Cajun French, only the elderly still can really speak it fluently.
In the 70's, Cajun culture made a resurgence, as discrimination ended. There is still a Cajun accent, Cajun traditions (such as crawfish boils, Cajun music and dance, and Cajun cuisine still remain despite attempts to destroy it.
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Nice video. I fell like Acadiana could've been given a sentence or two more (though I 100% understand why it wasn't, since it isn't terribly influential, so I'll just point out some stuff about that region.
A big distinction between Acadiana and the rest of the Deep South is it's Catholicism and the Cajun culture, and I've noticed when talking with others from neighboring states, such as Mississippi, that the differences are indeed real.
Around the 1920's, there was a big push by the Louisiana state government to destroy the Cajun culture, and almost succeeded.
Children were beaten in schools for speaking any French, so kids would wet their pants rather than asking to use the restrooms. They would speak English at school and French at home. Still, the government successfully got rid of the Cajun French dialect for the most part. Though there is a lot of local slang derived from Cajun French, only the elderly still can really speak it fluently.
In the 70's, Cajun culture made a resurgence, as discrimination ended. There is still a Cajun accent, Cajun traditions (such as crawfish boils, Cajun music and dance, and Cajun cuisine still remain despite attempts to destroy it.
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Ryan
I grew up in the 3rd poorest town in Massachusetts, it was a huge factory town 150 years ago, now has a few niche small machine shops and not much else. All of the old factory buildings are abandoned. But in towns closer to Boston and other cities they new rehab the building and make them into tech offices and colleges and apartments and they are pretty great. I also lived in upstate NY where I went to college for farming and lived in Midwest in Madison and Minneapolis and New England people NEVER travel around the country they fly to SF, LA NY or Chicago or go abroad and they think Wisconsin is very poor and backwards but it's actually quite nice and yes you may make less money but the cost of living is 1/3 that of Boston. I would say it's most of what your saying about New England is more or less true although I wouldn't hardly say rural New England is poor look at New Hampshire one of the most rural states (where I now live) that is one of the richest states and has by far lowest poverty rate of any state. Like I would remote for a SF tech company and I also farm and I am so much happier in NH than a big city but that's just me.
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I grew up in the 3rd poorest town in Massachusetts, it was a huge factory town 150 years ago, now has a few niche small machine shops and not much else. All of the old factory buildings are abandoned. But in towns closer to Boston and other cities they new rehab the building and make them into tech offices and colleges and apartments and they are pretty great. I also lived in upstate NY where I went to college for farming and lived in Midwest in Madison and Minneapolis and New England people NEVER travel around the country they fly to SF, LA NY or Chicago or go abroad and they think Wisconsin is very poor and backwards but it's actually quite nice and yes you may make less money but the cost of living is 1/3 that of Boston. I would say it's most of what your saying about New England is more or less true although I wouldn't hardly say rural New England is poor look at New Hampshire one of the most rural states (where I now live) that is one of the richest states and has by far lowest poverty rate of any state. Like I would remote for a SF tech company and I also farm and I am so much happier in NH than a big city but that's just me.
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Devil
I think the reason 9 nationalities exist in the first place in NA is because of the extreme lack of European intervention in the New World following the Treaty of Paris in which the USA was recognized and Manifest Destiny where the US, Canada, and Mexico agreed on their now modern day borders and vowed to declare war on any nation that claims the land that they claimed themselves. The only identity that had to fight for its survival was the general American Identity from 1760 to 1780, and that general American Identity gave birth to most of the 9 sub-nationalities and secured the existence of said nationalities. Kurdistanis (for example) constantly have to worry about the Iraqi's and Turkish wiping them out forever at the shot of one gun, but the American Deep South will exist forever so long as the United States exists and can guarantee its survival.
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I think the reason 9 nationalities exist in the first place in NA is because of the extreme lack of European intervention in the New World following the Treaty of Paris in which the USA was recognized and Manifest Destiny where the US, Canada, and Mexico agreed on their now modern day borders and vowed to declare war on any nation that claims the land that they claimed themselves. The only identity that had to fight for its survival was the general American Identity from 1760 to 1780, and that general American Identity gave birth to most of the 9 sub-nationalities and secured the existence of said nationalities. Kurdistanis (for example) constantly have to worry about the Iraqi's and Turkish wiping them out forever at the shot of one gun, but the American Deep South will exist forever so long as the United States exists and can guarantee its survival.
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The
Rudyard: This piece. is. timely. Because between social media, mainstream media, the woke movement, and living in isolation, your reminder that we live in a federation of sub civilizations, spread across a federation of states, with ongoing culture and border political conflicts similar to the middle east or africa (and not europe, counters the illusion created by the discourse of discontent. And the entire time I kept thinking, that an even more detailed description of the 'nations', and how we might devolve the imperial government we evolved to conquer the continent back to a federal government, and even one with new borders and city-states might do more to provide a vision of the future than all our political thrashing that's deterministically driving us to civil war.
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Rudyard: This piece. is. timely. Because between social media, mainstream media, the woke movement, and living in isolation, your reminder that we live in a federation of sub civilizations, spread across a federation of states, with ongoing culture and border political conflicts similar to the middle east or africa (and not europe, counters the illusion created by the discourse of discontent. And the entire time I kept thinking, that an even more detailed description of the 'nations', and how we might devolve the imperial government we evolved to conquer the continent back to a federal government, and even one with new borders and city-states might do more to provide a vision of the future than all our political thrashing that's deterministically driving us to civil war.
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Neolithic
In terms of Europeans creating a society in the south, a few important points.
1. Most of the deadly disease was brought by Europeans, originally from Asia and Africa. Malaria being a key example.
2. For exactly the above reason, the civilization in the south was entirely dependent on African slaves. This wasn't just the white peasantry refusing to be a lower class, they simply died of diseases African slaves were immune to. Without this labour force the european society couldn't survive labouring outdoors, and as such wouldn't have existed.
3. To talk about the south without talking about hook worm is a huge missing segment. A large part of the reason southerns are seen as lazy etc is that they were chronically ill with parasites until the 1950s.
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In terms of Europeans creating a society in the south, a few important points.
1. Most of the deadly disease was brought by Europeans, originally from Asia and Africa. Malaria being a key example.
2. For exactly the above reason, the civilization in the south was entirely dependent on African slaves. This wasn't just the white peasantry refusing to be a lower class, they simply died of diseases African slaves were immune to. Without this labour force the european society couldn't survive labouring outdoors, and as such wouldn't have existed.
3. To talk about the south without talking about hook worm is a huge missing segment. A large part of the reason southerns are seen as lazy etc is that they were chronically ill with parasites until the 1950s.
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Jacob
In the thumbnail I see you have a huge part of the West grayed out. waiting to see whether you're choosing ignorance or if that's not accurate to the maps in the video
(Edit) I do see there's a part 2 apparently coming, but I don't have a lot of faith in your East Coast ability to categorize things this side of the Rockies. This video was 50% just you nutting over your home region, which you spent like twenty minutes talking about. And yeah, I understand the same kind of bias is what brings me to comment this now, but dude, if you're gonna push yourself as being impartial and professional could you at least afford to be self-aware?
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In the thumbnail I see you have a huge part of the West grayed out. waiting to see whether you're choosing ignorance or if that's not accurate to the maps in the video
(Edit) I do see there's a part 2 apparently coming, but I don't have a lot of faith in your East Coast ability to categorize things this side of the Rockies. This video was 50% just you nutting over your home region, which you spent like twenty minutes talking about. And yeah, I understand the same kind of bias is what brings me to comment this now, but dude, if you're gonna push yourself as being impartial and professional could you at least afford to be self-aware?
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Karakzanskruff
36: 53 bro did he just say the south started the civil war and wanted to peacefully abolish slavery in the future?
look you need to stop with your I'm not racist, but I'm going to say the black people suck everytime thing. its rather sad to see a guy so completely convinced that he's not racist, yet everytime he talks shit about black people and then blames white people for making them that way, as if black people can't make their own identity, so much for you cultural acceptance in the forge.
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36: 53 bro did he just say the south started the civil war and wanted to peacefully abolish slavery in the future?
look you need to stop with your I'm not racist, but I'm going to say the black people suck everytime thing. its rather sad to see a guy so completely convinced that he's not racist, yet everytime he talks shit about black people and then blames white people for making them that way, as if black people can't make their own identity, so much for you cultural acceptance in the forge.
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TheOGNaz
This video makes me sad as someone from Baltimore. The politicians don t care about attracting more jobs, lowering crime rate, or better education for user served community s. I really do love Baltimore, it s my home but I want a future in business and because of the corrupt political class I feel for my success I ll have to move to Texas or Florida. The sad thing is everyone knows their being oppressed on one way or another but the same people keep getting electing so things just stay the same
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This video makes me sad as someone from Baltimore. The politicians don t care about attracting more jobs, lowering crime rate, or better education for user served community s. I really do love Baltimore, it s my home but I want a future in business and because of the corrupt political class I feel for my success I ll have to move to Texas or Florida. The sad thing is everyone knows their being oppressed on one way or another but the same people keep getting electing so things just stay the same
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Don
I can definitely confirm what you said about the Rust Belt as the son of two Pennsylvanians from Erie who moved out to California. Growing up, my parents always struck me as different from the other adults I knew and that upbringing is why I find myself thinking very differently than most in my old state. It probably also explains why I tend to agree with you more often than not in your videos, with our similar cultural background. Lol
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I can definitely confirm what you said about the Rust Belt as the son of two Pennsylvanians from Erie who moved out to California. Growing up, my parents always struck me as different from the other adults I knew and that upbringing is why I find myself thinking very differently than most in my old state. It probably also explains why I tend to agree with you more often than not in your videos, with our similar cultural background. Lol
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Johnny
22: 10 thats a picture of Broadway Street in Jim Thorpe aka Mauch Chunk! I live in Summit Hill. The antracite coal thay fueled Philadelphia would be mined alond those mountains and sent down the Lehigh River. The industrial decay is absolutely crushing. Lansford is now a ghetto. All the indistry in the area is gone, now that Kovatch's fire truck factory in Nesquehoning has been bought up and is closing.
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22: 10 thats a picture of Broadway Street in Jim Thorpe aka Mauch Chunk! I live in Summit Hill. The antracite coal thay fueled Philadelphia would be mined alond those mountains and sent down the Lehigh River. The industrial decay is absolutely crushing. Lansford is now a ghetto. All the indistry in the area is gone, now that Kovatch's fire truck factory in Nesquehoning has been bought up and is closing.
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BJ
I thinking you discount how French south Louisiana is. Culturally it's alot similar to Quebec then Haiti imo. They same alot of folktales just in a hot and humid setting. Also I didn't know it's was 80% black which is kinda amazing because there are alot of whites now but I'm sure the great migration played a large role in that
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I thinking you discount how French south Louisiana is. Culturally it's alot similar to Quebec then Haiti imo. They same alot of folktales just in a hot and humid setting. Also I didn't know it's was 80% black which is kinda amazing because there are alot of whites now but I'm sure the great migration played a large role in that
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Elijs
You know, it was just an intro joke aside, but as a European, I would like to see your take on the triple-K, past and present. B/c nowadays it's kind of hard to tell if they've become just a niche underground fringe remnants, or if they are pervasive and basically run the police, local gov't etc. in south/center of US.
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You know, it was just an intro joke aside, but as a European, I would like to see your take on the triple-K, past and present. B/c nowadays it's kind of hard to tell if they've become just a niche underground fringe remnants, or if they are pervasive and basically run the police, local gov't etc. in south/center of US.
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Bernardo
One little Correction: American cowboy culture didn t come from the scots-irish, it came from those people picking up the Vaquero and Charro horse cultures from Mexico when they went west. Btw that would be a very interesting future video on Horse cultures of the world like the Cowboy, Charro, Llanero, Guacho, etc
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One little Correction: American cowboy culture didn t come from the scots-irish, it came from those people picking up the Vaquero and Charro horse cultures from Mexico when they went west. Btw that would be a very interesting future video on Horse cultures of the world like the Cowboy, Charro, Llanero, Guacho, etc
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