Blue's schedule accidently has very good historical timing.

@itsvairen334

4 жыл бұрын

One might say his timing itself is...historical

@professorhistoire5349

4 жыл бұрын

@@itsvairen334 Very suspiciousss....... IS BLUE A TIME TRAVELER?!

@Jobe-13

4 жыл бұрын

42 Laxer yeah

@christopherrobinhood9802

4 жыл бұрын

Two more years and his 20 year rule will be all for naught.

@Crested_Hadrosaur

4 жыл бұрын

Coincidence?? I think not.... Has Blue been to hong kong recently?

*Sees Winnie the Pooh* Xi Jinping: I will bury you under an artificial island

@NPC-kv6ee

4 жыл бұрын

This comment has been removed on behalf of the Peoples Republic Of China Have a loyal day, Citizen.

@christopherrobinhood9802

4 жыл бұрын

Taiwan decides to make it their official motto.

@riddlie787

4 жыл бұрын

[REDACTED]

@pedrosampaio7349

4 жыл бұрын

That meme isn't actually censured in China

@FinMertons

4 жыл бұрын

Drowns in Philippines.

Hong Konger here! Most videos usually explain the wrong fact that the whole of HK was rented for 99 years but not this video! Props to you.

@hugo231929

4 жыл бұрын

Good to see I am not alone here

@TheKnizzine

4 жыл бұрын

I saw a video about bookstore owners critical of the government being disappeared then showing up on trial in China for treason and the like. Condolences you have to live under that.

@hugo231929

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheKnizzine currently studying abroad (but I really want to join the protest tbh)

@Bushflare

4 жыл бұрын

As a Brit I appreciate the recent shenanigans with our flag during the protests but I gotta agree with Blue here, the Orchid's pretty rad. Wish my nation was in less of a shambles so we could offer some kind of aid but we've got our own massive expansionist authoritarian superstate on our doorstep to worry about these days. I just hope y'all have as much success beating the Chinese as we did beating the Germans. (And the Chinese *dab*)

@hls6627

4 жыл бұрын

Yeehaw another Hong Konger

Watching this in mainland China with a VPN lolololololololololol

@RyelynCaster

4 жыл бұрын

Very cool

@thelinedrive

4 жыл бұрын

Absolute mad lad!!!

@Copyright_Infringement

4 жыл бұрын

Something Something [you need to not trash your social credit score dude] Something

@Udontkno7

4 жыл бұрын

you crazy man

@willnash7907

4 жыл бұрын

Fight the power! Freedom is irrepressible!

Blue: Not gonna comment * Showes picture of Winnie the Pooh* Me: That's not commenting?

@OverlySarcasticProductions

4 жыл бұрын

What does a cartoon bear have to do with communism? Who in their right mind would be offended by a cartoon bear? How on Earth could the simple mention of a cartoon bear have any bearing on the complex political machinations of such a powerful entity as China? That's crazy talk. -B

@hermanlai6035

4 жыл бұрын

@@OverlySarcasticProductions in all seriousness I see no correlation with Pooh and xi like why were they so triggered lmfao

@Ultrapyre

4 жыл бұрын

@@hermanlai6035 A quick explanation: seeing as mainland china has this almost knee-jerk reaction to anything that even resembles criticism against the Communist Party, anyone stuck in there needed ways to talk about Xi Jinping that wouldn't immediately raise alarm bells. There was a photo of Xi and Obama walking during political talks, it got compared to a picture of Pooh and Tigger walking with nearly the same positioning... And that's the story of how Winnie the Pooh became censored in Mainland China. Because apparently Emperor Xi cannot tolerate even juxtaposition.

@hermanlai6035

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ultrapyre haha ok

@shaitarn1869

4 жыл бұрын

If Xi Jinping is Winnie the Pooh, does that mean Kim Jong-un is Piglet?

This video got banned in China before 1 minute in, what a mad lad

@asd1234asd1234asd

4 жыл бұрын

This is youtube, the entire site is banned in China

@lordbiscuitthetossable5352

4 жыл бұрын

The more I hear about Hong Kong, the more I worry for its future. China really doesn't mess around when it comes to their intolerance. Even got some "re-education" camps to stick muslims. Truly horrific stuff.

@Bushflare

4 жыл бұрын

@@lordbiscuitthetossable5352 Intolerance is disapproving of someone else's behaviour. China is not intolerant, it is a left-wing authoritarian nightmare-state like the Soviet Union. They don't disapprove of people's behaviour, they actively want to control all aspects of society, including the way people behave. Intolerance doesn't do China justice. It's literally tyranny.

@yamiyomizuki

4 жыл бұрын

@@Bushflare china is probably the most capitalist country in the world right now

@Bushflare

4 жыл бұрын

@@yamiyomizuki Y'all don't know what capitalism is, fam. If you don't have private property rights then you don't have capitalism, you have Socialism. The Chinese government can and does commandeer property and assets at will. Lack of regulation does not make a system MORE capitalist. What is more, Communism isn't JUST Socialism. It's the politicisation of human life. Every aspect of life in China belongs to the state, and is essentially on lease to the population with the government free to retract access to it at any time for any reason. Speech? Money? Property? Socialisation? Transportation? Healthcare? Freedom? None of these things belong to the Chinese individual, they all belong to the Chinese state, headed by The Party, which means everything in China belongs to a handful of totalitarian ideological oligarchs. Get out of here with that "Most Capitalist country in the world" grade-school level political analysis. China's as Socialist as the dragon is long.

If you thought the Opium Wars were bad, you should have been there for the Deathstick Wars! Those were some messed up times let me tell you!

@rahmanmoncatar9675

4 жыл бұрын

Let me guess the clones wanted to go home and rethink there whole life during the war huh

@louisdimapilis

4 жыл бұрын

hello there !!!

@agihammerthief8953

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, I am not brave enough for deathsticks.

@thomas.02

4 жыл бұрын

this wasn't the video you're looking for then

@AquaRunner533

4 жыл бұрын

Or War of the Triple Alliance

Great Britain 🇬🇧: *looks at random island* It’s free real estate

@alex.harrison

4 жыл бұрын

They did that in Australia too (turns out they didn’t see a size limit to declaring land “free for the taking”)

@walsh9080

4 жыл бұрын

It was all of Europe, they sorta operated on the principle that if there isn't a flag already there, it would be the perfect place to plant their flag. It didn't matter if people were already living there or not. As long as there wasn't a flag, it's the perfect location for a flag.

@acebalistic1358

4 жыл бұрын

Great Britain 🇬🇧: looks at earth It’s free real estate

UK: “a hundred years sure is a long time, huh?” China: *stares at hundreds/thousands of years of empire and history before Christ* China: Sure, a year sounds fine.

@willv2746

3 жыл бұрын

Kermit Kenny if you have ever watched any videos from this channel you know Red and Blues opinions in Colonialism. Of course Britain very questionable...uuhhh.... acquisition of Hong Kong is highlighted, and it is clear they aren’t good here. However in an 8 minute video, not everything can be covered (especially when half is dedicated to modern Hong Kong). We can’t change the genocides of the past in a Hong Kong, but international awareness could prevent one in the future.

Don’t talk smack about my friend Pooh, he’s an amazing leader for China and Hong Kong

@xunk16

4 жыл бұрын

Somehow... I doubt this is anything else but a joke. However... just in case. *Waives at great leader, Depardieu style*. Good luck with the progress on creating a confederation of both ultra socialism and ultra corporatism. We'll probably be learning from the great social experiment of Korea in the next few centuries.

@myyoutube1979

4 жыл бұрын

Onion with honey. How sweet, I'm actually crying...

@jamesgors6650

4 жыл бұрын

Does that mean you are piglet?

@curemilkythecurebeanouwu9527

2 жыл бұрын

X doubt

Blue, can you teach us about macao too? Unlike their neighbor hong kong, people don't really talk about macao's history.

@galecarp

4 жыл бұрын

The government in Macau give 1000dollor for no reason to every citizen each year.

@realhawaii5o

4 жыл бұрын

It goes down to bigger pile of money diplomacy.

@copyrightso5199

4 жыл бұрын

ikr more ppl should talk about macau!

@jerry.m.valentine

4 жыл бұрын

Macanese here, I think the reason for that is because unless you’re into gambling (or investment of that)or history, or maybe you’re from Portugal or in the region, the tiny tiny city isn’t all that well known around world. When I told people I come from Macau, the most likely respond is “I haven’t heard of it or where is that”. Furthermore locals here don’t even care about its history, and most documents are either in Portuguese where most of the local don’t understand or in Chinese where others people don’t understand, not to mention those documents are hard to find online too.

@elimkwok938

4 жыл бұрын

Portugal

I am confusion is this not a city review B l u e e x p l a i n

@DanteTorn

4 жыл бұрын

I thought this channel was a city summarizing channel now too. We have all been duped.

@professorhistoire5349

4 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@roceb5009

4 жыл бұрын

I mean it's not a city review except for how it's a video where he talks about how awesome Hong Kong is for 10 minutes...

@greekmyths8804

4 жыл бұрын

@@roceb5009 exactly, they're completely different, there were no scores out of 10

@CorvinTheSwasian

4 жыл бұрын

We demand a hk city review!

I'm from Hong Kong and have been watching OSP for about two years, this video makes me honestly so happy. We're a small place (with a lot of people for it's size), but not very well known internationally, I think. So it just makes me hellllla happy to see that there are more videos talking about my city and our history. Thanks Blue!

"Why does it sound like I'm still talking about tea." Iroh would be proud of you

Covering Taiwan would be a very interesting video. The San Francisco peace treaty, the white terror incident, the fact that the Republic of China just took all the gold when they left China mainland, How there’s an entire generation of Taiwanese that identity as Japanese--Are all great bullet points.

@frankagizarro3069

4 жыл бұрын

I think most Chinese people including those in Taiwan and Hong Kong would love that video as would us expats. But judging from his comments on Winnie the Pooh I'm going to guess that doesn't fall in line with Blue's opinion of China.

@anqiren5345

4 жыл бұрын

@@frankagizarro3069 Yeah for a sinophobe he was relatively unbiased in this video. He admitted that Hong Kong was never du jure independent from China, to be incorporated in 50 years, even admitted that the city is Chinese in origin. We gotta appreciate the small things these sinophobes can offer from time to time.

@andro7862

3 жыл бұрын

To say an entire generation identified as Japanese is an overstatement. Not all Taiwanese people were Lee Deng Hui lol. Majority of the Han settlers identified with their language like Hakkas and Hoklos. Sure there were people who were assimilated by Japan like the aformentioned Lee, but they weren't the majority. Moreover Japan didn't even try to assimilate them until 1937, but by that point only 8 years of their rule was left.

@thesephiam

3 жыл бұрын

@@andro7862 honestly just covering the white terror incident would be enough. That said, I would really like to get his opinion on the de facto interpretation of the San Francisco peace treaty.

@eruiluvatar7155

2 жыл бұрын

@@anqiren5345 Calling blue a sinophobe means you might be shill for the chinese government, which would entail supporting genocide. That or you are very uninformed. What you said is a bad take either way

Blue: I will refrain from commenting on current events for the sake of analytical integrity. Also Blue: WINNIE THE POOH, WINNIE THE POOH.

@templarw20

Жыл бұрын

Look, if Pooh can't take a joke and some ribbing, he shouldn't have gone into politics. He brought it on himself by making it a deal.

I love that the British said "chop, chop! " since it is a phrase taken from Cantonese. Marvellous.

@frankagizarro3069

4 жыл бұрын

I think it surprises many people to know just how much influence China's had on the west that their governments will never admit to. Even growing up I wasn't allowed to know that tea wasn't from Britain until it became a little too obvious that tea was only able to be imported to the country from China "of all places" and for some reason Britain needed to war with that country just to secure those tea imports. But even then I was taught that "black" tea was somehow some kind of evolution of the type of teas that the orientals drank.

@lloyd9500

3 жыл бұрын

Same with word “Ketchup”. In Cantonese, ketchup literally means tomato sauce. “Kowtow” and “long time no see” are also borrowed from Cantonese. Pretty awesome stuff

@thomaskirkness-little5809

3 жыл бұрын

@@lloyd9500 I thought the origin of ketchup was a fish sauce called catsup.

@lloyd9500

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomaskirkness-little5809 think it’s disputed. But I find it far too convenient that “Keh” and “Tsup” mean “tomato” and “sauce” respectively, in Canto

@thomaskirkness-little5809

3 жыл бұрын

@@lloyd9500 It's always more interesting when the answer is uncertain.

Hong Kong **riots** France *_Im so proud of you_*

@adrikrotten880

4 жыл бұрын

Is this an Oversimplified reference?

@AncientAccounts

4 жыл бұрын

@@adrikrotten880 ...perhaps

@AncientAccounts

4 жыл бұрын

@Rui Ying Koh i feel as though storming the legislatuire building qualifies as a riot plus some protesters actually attacked police, if it wasn't before July 1st i think it is now

@Vinvininhk

4 жыл бұрын

Hong Kong: *Riot gently*

@greenoftreeblackofblue6625

4 жыл бұрын

It's called a revolution France created them molded by it.

A Hongkonger here, have loved you two's work since the summary on Iliad and Odyssey and Rome, really glad to see a summary on Hong Kong, even without mentioning the current state, it's just good to see you guys summarising how it led up to the conflict now

Me: *Sees video on Hong Kong* TIP TOP! TALLY-HO! THEY'RE WITHHOLDING THE TEA SO IN WE BLOODY GO! *IMPERIALISTIC EXPANSION INTENSIFIES*

@1blackice1

4 жыл бұрын

*ships blasting Rule Britannia*

@PsychShrew

4 жыл бұрын

ᴾˡᵉᵃˢᵉ ᶜᵒᵐᵉ ᵇᵃᶜᵏ

@caspianhorlick4529

4 жыл бұрын

With the power of tea, anything is possible

@maanyasaluja8043

3 жыл бұрын

*starts crying in indian*

@lillianna.0221

3 жыл бұрын

This made me laugh harder then it should have -fellow HKer

Hm. Hey Blue, you like where culture converges? Try coming to Singapore... YET *another* former British Empire.....thing. good vid on Hong Kong.

@duckie192

4 жыл бұрын

@@CorvinTheSwasian But you can and/or should, though. (too much and you'll still be stopped by customs.) Regular chewing gum is just not able to be SOLD in Singapore. you can still possess it... and chew it. in fact, Singaporeans frequently cross over to Malaysia to get gum. (along with, you know, tourism).

@Dave_Sisson

4 жыл бұрын

Singapore would be an interesting topic because it's also (effectively), a one party city state where political dissenters are destroyed. Is the lack of protest due to a cultural difference in the local Chinese, is it because there are also lots of Malays and Indians there or is it because the Singaporean regime is more discreet in suppressing dissent?

@duckie192

4 жыл бұрын

Dave Sisson destroyed is a strong word, but the government doesn’t tolerate civil unrest of any sort, not that there really is a reason to (for now); racial harmony is taught and practiced in Singapore, and we have friends of different ethnic backgrounds and religions. I wouldn’t say everyone is like that, but the general populace is at least tolerant of other people’s customs and cultures.

@MariaRodriguez-dx6sm

4 жыл бұрын

@@Dave_Sisson I guess that is also that singaporeans have a really good quality of life, as long as you don't mess with the government: afforable healthcare and housing, one of the best educations in the world, economic freedom, high wages, safety, a perfectly clean city and modern infraestructure, etc.

@satriakurniawandjaenal9676

4 жыл бұрын

@@Dave_Sisson It's economically very powerful and stable for its size, and there is really not much to complain about in the country, that's why there has been few, if any, political dissent.

China:please stop selling opium Great Britain:give me the plant

@mann_man8556

4 жыл бұрын

Moth Moth, *MOTH*

@jasonchang8601

4 жыл бұрын

Fuck the British drug enforcers, i would love to see them come back for round 3.

@walsh9080

4 жыл бұрын

@@jasonchang8601 China sold Britain tea. Caffeine is also a drug, just a less harmful drug than opium. They got Brits hooked on caffeine, Britain got them hooked on opium. Fair's fair really.

@jasonchang8601

4 жыл бұрын

@@walsh9080 Go fuck yourself. You seriously comparing tea to opium? They fucking plundered my peoples land and made majority of the people extremely addicted and poor as a result. The Brits didnt only get tea, they killed our people and stole hong kong and vaious other land from China. You dont jack shit about fair. If one day China ever gets strong enough to oppress your nation and do the same things to your people, i'll come tell you its fair since we got tea in return for fucking up your people.

@fluffycat1293

3 жыл бұрын

Walsh 90 you, sir, are a disgusting human being. Would you say being a tea or coffee addict is the same as being a opium or meth addict? Even dumbasses know that that’s not true

"Everything not all shiny and cyberpunk." Poverty and dense unregulated urban populations, so it is all cyberpunk.

@molihua354

4 жыл бұрын

@Electro_blob 2 *laughs in ROC

@oldcowbb

4 жыл бұрын

@Electro_blob 2 but singapore is a dictatorial country

@quanyuan6760

4 жыл бұрын

Hong-Kong is not cyber punk, cyberpunk is Hong-Kong

@parzivalthehero1147

3 жыл бұрын

@Electro_blob 2 HK is only free if you have money. Of course, in HK you are free to not have money too. It really Isaac libertarian utopia.

- Refrains from commenting directly. - Fincher's us with Winnie the Poo memes.

"Come on Pooh. Let's do some history." Your social credit score just took a dive. You lost bus and airport privileges. Please report to your nearest re-education camp to rectify this issue.

@lukmasterjr

4 жыл бұрын

He will have to move out of his fishing shack, because of losing his job and move into a smaller fishing shack

@noahjohnson935

4 жыл бұрын

History not approved by the People will be erased from the public mind

@FadedXenox

4 жыл бұрын

Whew I’m glad I left China before they implemented the social credit score

@danielvona8118

4 жыл бұрын

I want to laugh but I’m to scared

@briansendpie448

4 жыл бұрын

This is not funny.

I clicked so fast that Hong Kong was still British.

@fawwazn.1244

4 жыл бұрын

I clicked so late that Hong Kong has already been Annexed

@orestpaja2531

4 жыл бұрын

Your comment is as generic as the quality of products manufactured by China.

@dominic4311

4 жыл бұрын

@@fawwazn.1244 So, like, now?

@pingdragonify

4 жыл бұрын

@@dominic4311 It didn't, the 99 years contract between China and British ended and British had to give Hong Kong back to China.

@fawwazn.1244

4 жыл бұрын

@@dominic4311 Accurate

Bruce lee was truly an epic man from and epic country, may the spirt of dragons be with him.

@christopherrobinhood9802

4 жыл бұрын

The dragon gates were actually to let Bruce Lee pass peacefully through Hong Kong so that his utter power doesn't destroy the city with his presence.

@noahjohnson935

4 жыл бұрын

Make sure to burn Incense after watching his movies so he favors thee

@yamiyomizuki

4 жыл бұрын

Bruce lee was a good actor and an interesting person, but as a martial artist he was not terribly impressive, even for the time when he lived.

@christopherrobinhood9802

4 жыл бұрын

@@yamiyomizuki have you see the video were he almost hits another person, but he did it so fast the guy didn't even flinch. Also there's the invention of the one inch punch, and more...

@yamiyomizuki

4 жыл бұрын

@@christopherrobinhood9802 bruce lee was a mediocre martial artist, his body mechanics were sub par and his speed was not exceptional, also didn't invent the inch punch, nor was he especially good at it.

Everyone: Is this China or not? China: Yes

@leliel6767

4 жыл бұрын

No, but China is trying to get its hand legally on them

@flwrchild

4 жыл бұрын

tragically

@n.a.7883

4 жыл бұрын

NOTICE: Please don't argue over the status of Hong Kong here.

@austro-hungarianegonomist9049

4 жыл бұрын

@@leliel6767 yes its Chinese land

@noahjohnson935

4 жыл бұрын

Hong Kong: kinda but not really.

If you like places where culture collides, look into the Canadian city of Richmond, a 70-something percent Asian city, mostly comprised of, you guessed it, people fleeing from the 1997 turnover. Their stories continued in very interesting ways.

@iiiiitsmagreta1240

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, I live a Skytrain ride away from Richmond! I also didn't know anything about that.

@1224chrisng

Жыл бұрын

Nowadays, here in Richmond, it's mostly Mainlander, tho it does depend on the generation. Even the local Walmart have Chinese signs, Simplified Chinese mind you, not Traditional. Tho, I'm sure that, as the Mainland closes up, and as more of us move in, the place will become Hongkonger again.

Can you do a separate video explaining your opinions on the protests from a historical perspective please?

@nr5076

4 жыл бұрын

Also pretty sure they haven't broken into roits yet

@bloodstoneore4630

4 жыл бұрын

@@nr5076 give it time

@maycafeng7563

4 жыл бұрын

@@nr5076 hi from Hong Kong, and I'm pretty sure we're super close to a riot now, if not already

@frankagizarro3069

4 жыл бұрын

Well now its in full riot mode. Going on 6 whole months too. And just before Christmas at that. Congratulations HK. You ruined yourself.

Thanks so much for doing this video! I grew up in Hong Kong as an Australian expat just after the handover (I lived there from 1999-2009) and the place still means the world to me, even a decade after I moved away. I'm glad you did this city and it's unique history justice!

Hong Kong:who are you Donkey Kong: you but stronger

@whoknows7968

4 жыл бұрын

King Kong: Don't listen to this guy, he's a little strange about barrels.

2:15 I like the fact that Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong airport’s artificial island shown next to Lantau , is there even though it was built and completed way after the Qing in the 90s.

@Vinvininhk

4 жыл бұрын

With all the other modern reclaimed land most of Kowloon, the entire Shatin, most of HK Island's northern shoreline.

Blue, can you do a video on polish history? When they weren’t being eaten they did some really amazing stuff, like the winged hussars driving back the ottomans at Vienna!

@austro-hungarianegonomist9049

4 жыл бұрын

russia and germany do it again

@sentientwaffle535

4 жыл бұрын

That’s the eaten part. They did that.

@roceb5009

4 жыл бұрын

Idk how much of a video they could do on the history of polish. I mean you have shoe polish, silver polish, furniture polish and you're pretty much done

@knightartorias4487

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there's even a song about that and everything. It's pretty great.

@Copyright_Infringement

4 жыл бұрын

Poland Lithuania was kinda rad too

Next talk about hong kong's smaller cousin with a gambling problem , Macau

blue: I'll go to hong kong later me in november of 2019: blue you dun goofed

To put how much construction happened in Hong Kong in perspective, my mom grew up in hong kong, leaving in the late 80's (for obvious reasons) and visiting in the 90's. The shoreline was landfilled in so far that between the time she spent as a student in the US and when she visited, where once was the ocean was now just more buildings as far as you could see.

"Come on Pooh!" *Xi Jinping wants to Know your location*

@curemilkythecurebeanouwu9527

2 жыл бұрын

*OH GOD-*

Calling Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang "democratic dissidents" is a really big stretch of the imagination, in my opinion.

@kazaddum2448

4 жыл бұрын

Fascists calling themselves "democratic dissidents (tm)" is nothing new. Gotta love the power of propaganda :D

@henriquemelchiorgomes8750

4 жыл бұрын

Kuomintang at least tried some democracy in 1947

@a-drewg1716

4 жыл бұрын

They tried to be democratic and held some general elections in 1947, but due to political turmoil before and after they were kinda forced to be a dictatorship to have any kind of stability

@adr1686

4 жыл бұрын

@@a-drewg1716 I don't agree with this argument, the same could be said in regard about the Communist Chinese Party. If the Kuomintang dictatorship is justified, why the communist dictatorship is not? Is interesting to read the thoughts and impressions of general Geroge Marshall about the Kuomintang during his mission in China in 1947.

@baronofbahlingen9662

4 жыл бұрын

ADR They were founded as a Democratic Party before Chiang took over and stagnated the movement through establishing a military regime.

Historian here, thoroughly rejecting the so-called 20 year rule. I wrote my senior thesis on Vladimir Putin. You just gotta go with the most supported facts, and include the contesting opinions. As history becomes increasingly studied, it'll become hard to find subjects that nobody has already done to death. Plus, I would argue that in this Digital Age, history moves more quickly.

YOU PRONOUNCED SHANGHAI CORRECTLY!! BLUE I LOVE YOU FOR THAT

@siekensou77

4 жыл бұрын

seung hoi?

@frankagizarro3069

4 жыл бұрын

@@siekensou77 Sh in mandarin Chinese isn't pronounced like sh like it is in English but more like a s with I guess a lisp? is the closest I'm going to get describing it. Then the a sound in Shang is more like the a in Shawn instead of the a in Bang. It would sound more like if Sean Connery were to say the word sung so maybe like s-ah-ng high.

@siekensou77

4 жыл бұрын

@@frankagizarro3069 seung hoi. fyi, canto reading of 上海

@frankagizarro3069

4 жыл бұрын

@@siekensou77 I know that. But it might be more confusing if you start throwing dialects around. lol

Poor Macau. Always overshadowed by her big sister.

@isaacwong1465

4 жыл бұрын

Not always. Macau is sometimes also famous as a casino city like Las Vegas(well im from hk so i know that XD)

@timothymclean

4 жыл бұрын

@@isaacwong1465 Isn't that a bit like saying Buffalo isn't overshadowed by New York City? They're both well-known among people familiar with the region, but one definitely still gets more attention and awareness.

@isaacwong1465

4 жыл бұрын

@@timothymclean ermmm... you're right XDDD

@s0so328

3 жыл бұрын

It’s good tho. Macau is a lot less a crappy place than Hong Kong. It’s a lot more peaceful and clean

@lillianna.0221

3 жыл бұрын

I thought _Macau_ was the big sister...?

I’m new to this channel, and I never expect to see a detailed history video about where I come from,being posted on time.Congrats for one more new subscriber from Hong Kong!

Please do the persephone myth in greater detail! I love your visuals and it keeps the story more interesting!

Hearing you talk about china, Hong Kong and the like I'd really love it if you could look at the history of Singapore. It's an incredible story from its beginning all the way to more modern history and totally worth its own video. Though that might be bias as I'm from there.

I clicked this video so fast! Good job, great explanation! Side note: all of the close up maps of the area left out Macau like 7:22

Surprisingly modern for you Blue, proud of ya for incorporating it in!

Great way to start my day. Thanks B.

Democraticly minded dissidents? I thought you were talking about the republic of china? At the time of them running to taiwan with everything not bolted down, they'd still be decades away from democratizing. Incidentally quite some of the Komintang stayed in china and the party exists there still.

@henriquemelchiorgomes8750

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, Kuomintang did general elections in 1947. They reverted to dictatorship in Taiwan most because of the political turmoil

@sisyphusvasilias3943

4 жыл бұрын

And HK didnt see democracy until it was handed back to China. Residents of colonial HK had no vote and were ruled by Govenors appointed ny London.

@sisyphusvasilias3943

4 жыл бұрын

@Electro_blob 2 Kowloon

@walsh9080

4 жыл бұрын

@@sisyphusvasilias3943 Mostly because Communist China repeatedly threatened to annex Hong Kong if Britain instituted a democracy there. The way you phrase it makes it sound like Britain just decided it and weren't pressured into it. This is evident by all the baby steps to democracy Britain had already instituted before 1997 such as allowing for half of the council to be elected (something mainland China scrapped after 1997).

@sisyphusvasilias3943

4 жыл бұрын

@@walsh9080 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HORSESHIT Just so you know how stupid that lameass smear was. The System of Government UK used in HK was installed 50+ years BEFORE the CCP EXISTED. And what "the council"? There was no "The Council". There was a body of rich male land owners that was allowed to meet and talk with the HK Govenor but they had ZERO power Nada, ZILCH. Until the day he flew out the HK Govenor was ALWAYS a white male Brit appointed by Westminster who had 100% absolute rule. In the 1990s UKHK Police released a White Paper on control protests where Police were instructed to carry live ammunition rifles and shoot into the protestors.That was Britain HK's crowd control policy in the 1990s!!! Thanks for the lulz, fucking hilarious.

I'm a Hong Konger - thank you so much for doing this video, and at such a crucial time too :)

@frankagizarro3069

4 жыл бұрын

Our hearts are with you. Hopefully the bad actors will leave sooner or later and Hong Kong can start rebuilding. Its sad to see that it's been used by certain countries to destabilize China.

Hongkonger here! Haven't been back since 2013, but it was a nice city. Thanks for the little nostalgia trip!

Always love learning about Hong Kong as my family is from there. Great video~

Hey local resident of Hong Kong here, thanks for doing a video on my city! Love your vids. Also thanks for paying attention to the political situation here.

A deep dive into the whole Walled-City-Thing would be neat.

Love the channel

Mad props for being obviously passionate about the current situation but not letting it taint the integrity of your analysis (but also pointing out where you can find out more about the other stuff). I know how hard that can be.

Hey Blue! After 1997 HK was given a lot more rights than under the british government. I don't think western media talks about this a lot but I think you will still find some with your history sources.

Not to brag (or wake you up) but the Chilean National Congress building has a dragon gate =P Also, only China could make Pooh a scary nickname...

I love your KZread channel and your videos can you keep making more.

Awesome Video, Maybe you can do another history video on Macau next?

We need a video of Blue just ranting about Hong Kong and China. Give Pooh the attention he deserves.

Can you do an episode about the war of the roses

@VenomousCompany

4 жыл бұрын

O dear. That is a headache....

Thanks so much for making a video about the city I was born in and currently live in :)

Nice video, Do one on Macau to! :D

My mom lived in Hong Kong while the walled city was there. Apparently it had a reputation for being filled with bad dentists

This may be apocryphal but one of my favourite stories of symbolism is about the opium war and dragons. During the war, a brand new iron-clad steam powered British war ship, clashed with several Chinese ships and won handily. The symbolism involved is the flags. The British ship flew the St George's cross (as well as the Union Jack). Whereas, the Chinese ships flew under the banner of a dragon. For those unfamiliar with St George, he's famous for allegedly slaying a dragon.

@whafflete6721

3 жыл бұрын

That's a interesting fact,where can I read more about the story

Wow the perfect timing

you should cover more modern history like this!

I live in hong kong so I study this in school, btw im a 7 th grader

@TheMindofRa

4 жыл бұрын

and soon whatever history you learned up to this point will have to be forgotten or it's off to the camps with you... 2 + 2 = 5 n all that.

@loobh2070

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheMindofRa I don't get it

@nickmalachai2227

4 жыл бұрын

@@loobh2070 it's a reference to some pretty horrible events in European if not global history. Ignore them.

@RaymondChan119

4 жыл бұрын

great I’m in the 5th grade and everyone keeps trying to shove the extradition bills into daily prayers and speeches and also my classmates keeps trying to discuss it in the morning as if they actually really saw the law. Yay.

@gameing5357

4 жыл бұрын

@@nickmalachai2227 no, it's a reference to the fact that mainland china sends people to camps

Am doing a frustrate. I always watch all of your videos when they come out but haven’t gotten a notification or even seen a video of yours on my subscription box until today. I hate how KZread’s blocking certain notifications from going through.

0:32 Ah, I see what you did there. Mind you, 3:59 is playing some dangerous games and I absolutely respect that.

Thanks for talking about my home. Love from Hong Kong!

Twenty years? Crap, when I wrote a history of Colombia for Spanish 1, I just summed up ongoing problems of the past (admittedly twenty years) and decided that three years ago was the point where History starts to become The News.

*Sees the report at the beginning* O h B O y Y but seriously, this is awesome thanks blue for talking about my home uwu

Awesome!

0:32 *PRC has left the chat*

Blue seeks to avoid the 21st century to heap historical praise while including imagery which ensures current events' regional blocking of said video. Well snarked, sir.

4:33 shhhh don't tell him that it's actually for ventilation in real life ps. RIP Neon Cyberpunk look, murders by LEDs

@xunk16

4 жыл бұрын

*Remembers documentary on the death of the Hong Kong neon industry... still cries.* These were real lights... They did not project single wavelength photons that hurt your eyes and eventually prevent clown fishes to reproduce... RIP the neon indeed.

I was born and raised for six years in Hong Kong. I didn’t know anything about the history of it. This is helpful.

THANK YOU RED AND BLUE FOR THISSSSS Hong Kong people are all greatful for this

I hope everything goes well for them

@wheresmyeyebrow1608

4 жыл бұрын

@transylvanian I cannot tell if you are being ironic or not.

@wheresmyeyebrow1608

4 жыл бұрын

@Timothy Wei It's quite sad and hilarious to see at the same time. Thankfully Taiwan at least has a chance of remaining independent after its date is up due to the threat of complete war breaking out. Hong Kong on the other hand is not so lucky. And Macau is too rich to care.

@wheresmyeyebrow1608

4 жыл бұрын

@Timothy Wei That's its name though. It is the Republic of China. Across the strait is the People's Republic of China. So as you can see, they are two separate nations.

@wheresmyeyebrow1608

4 жыл бұрын

Timothy Wei Uh no, because the CSA was never recognised and was then defeated in the American Civil War. Taiwan is recognised by other nations and de facto exists to everyone outside of China. Ask anyone outside of your bubble and they’ll say that Taiwan is independent, regardless of what China thinks.

@wheresmyeyebrow1608

4 жыл бұрын

@Timothy Wei No, you do not seem to understand that while the PRC says that Taiwan is its own (Chinese Taiping), literally no one else believes this. Almost every other nation as well as its people know Taiwan is its own country and laugh at how petty China is in terms of its foreign policy to 'reunite the motherland'. PRC and ROC are two distinct entities that exist side-by-side and not as one.

When you were thinking this would be a perfect place for pirates and blue says that makes you morally corrupt *PERHAPS*

Woah only 33 minutes since this was uploaded, and I didn't even get here from a notification, just from the autoplay while going through a bunch of OSP videos!

Could you do a look at the rise and fall of various political ideologies pretty please? I figure that would make an interesting series, but monetising certain view points might be tricky...

Blue: let's go Pooh Xi Jingping: I'm about the end this means whole career

Blue does history, Red does literature, can we get a Green to do philosophy?! I’m a philosophy student and would be happy to contribute!

@animalia5554

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Wu What about Yellow? Or are we doing Primary colors of light instead of Primary Colors of Paint?

Thank you.

I think this is the best and funniest Hong Kong history video. I linked to it in my own video about Hong Kong in case my millions of viewers want to learn more about the city's history.

Wait Venice isnt real Blue. WHERE ARE YOU REALLY GOING

@noahjohnson935

4 жыл бұрын

The Hotel, obviously.

@FadedXenox

4 жыл бұрын

Venice is the city that submerged under the ocean? Or was that Atlantic

@noahjohnson935

4 жыл бұрын

@@FadedXenox Venice supposedly sank in the Adriatic. But we all know it is a myth. Atlantis existed and Poseidon sank it in the Atlantic

@whoknows7968

4 жыл бұрын

@@noahjohnson935 Don't you mean the Venatic?

History summarized for Pyongyang, my capital and Korea’s oldest city would be fascinating.

@mehmetersahin9602

4 жыл бұрын

Our supreme leader kim jong-un excuse my disrespectfull actions but why arent we nuking the worst south korea.?

Me , watching this at midnight at Hong Kong when my summer holiday started : the best way to start it off!

quite timely this video is

OMG Blue is talking about my city, love you Blue... Just one thing though, Chek Lap Kok airport island wasn’t that shape back in 1800s (not like anyone cares about that though 😂)

@tannedanimegirl

4 жыл бұрын

it was just an island

"democratically inclined dissedents" bruh moment

can i just say from all my time watching this series that i love the sophisticated background its always what i imagined if i had a study of something like that i know the comment is random but hey its what i think and now you know

2:12 Love that the airport on the artifical Chep Lap Kok island is included on the 1842 map :P

No one: Absolutely not a soul: Britain: TEAAAAAAAAAAA

@Kate-es9of

3 жыл бұрын

As a British person, I can confirm.

Blue: Let's talk about China! *Winnie the Pooh starts playing* Me: SHOTS FIRED LOL

Perfectly timed blue :)

It's also got a kickass song about it.