As a Chinese I learnt much history from Chinese perspective. And one thing you certainly learn from history is that empires come and go. A few hundred years in the history book is a mire turn of a page. The world may be dominated by western views for the last 200 years. But certainly doesnt mean the same will be in the future. Be open minded and do not underestimate anyone.

@citydragon8125

5 жыл бұрын

TobyPlayz been thinking the same thing lately were shown time like it’s nothing

@dudedude869

5 жыл бұрын

here is the funny thing yes empires come and go ....as far as what you call western views you mean what ? you mean tv car phone electricity and on and on and on the inventions have changed the world thats not western think just inventions but how they were possible were yes what u call western because freedom and capitalism made that possible ....the fact that you have stolen and copied everything we have made for so long now and are embracing capitalism which is why the large part of you now who are not living in utter poverty anymore .....you know communism and how well that worked out for you and to this day how in many places how people are still treated that you dont want anyone to see ...so no we dont need an open mind ..you say what you want but without capitalism there is no wealth for individuals and no way for you to not live like you were .....but hey no worries we do have open minds which is why America was always best as the great melting pot .... i think you should have an open mind and remember even a small country like japan came in and kicked the shit out of you ...

@Takeru9292

5 жыл бұрын

@@dudedude869 damn.....shots were fired...

@diempardon4259

5 жыл бұрын

Some truth to this but no one wants to live under communism so China has a long way to go. Funny people think about the States so much get ding even think about the world’s biggest super power in the world (Great Britain).

@Takeru9292

5 жыл бұрын

@@diempardon4259 exactly. Facebook , whatsapp dont even exist in china cos of censorship. Fuck that shit i dont worship china

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.” Chinese Proverb.

@karlheaton8276

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah like the great wall of China. See,that's why the west always wins,superior logic.

@bigbossfredog.i.p3577

5 жыл бұрын

Karl Heaton in this proverb the ‘wall’ is considered the ‘stubborn’ negative, the ‘windmill’ being the ‘flexible’ positive.

@amancalledjim5382

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, well the Chinese didn't invent the windmill sooo....

@amancalledjim5382

5 жыл бұрын

Frederick Röders people wanted opium criminal smugglers supplied it. I also like the way you used the British as a scapegoat.

@mohamedmahadi3607

5 жыл бұрын

Frederick Röders the opium war is China’s fault, they shouldn’t have shut themselves in

Akala comes out at 29:56

@carlcarl70

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Was getting bored with that guy.

@sabzx2227

5 жыл бұрын

Carl Carl you're welcome and lol same

@Intoxic_p

5 жыл бұрын

Thank u

@amapparatistkwabena

5 жыл бұрын

Whew---thanks! You saved this non-stop-talker from a thumbs down.

@deveous8629

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers

Scrolling through the comments briefly looking for more insight on the video I'm watching and the comments section is mainly garbage

@ngarumurray

4 жыл бұрын

@Peter Mustermann he isn't giving you his time you TWAT😂😂😂😂😂😂

@billybobobenner

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the Internets.

The great explorer Da Gama was a monster of a human being. It makes me want to weep that he is so casually described as "great." History is so filled with horror and misery.

@fuckamericanidiot

4 жыл бұрын

The vast majority of human history is famine, human sacrifice, disease, war, death in childbirth; only in the 20th century did that begin to really change.

@yellowburger

4 жыл бұрын

@@fuckamericanidiot well, things were not that bad when we were hunters and gatherers. The real nasty stuff started with civization. I think our whole idea of progress is really about bringing back some of the freedoms and equality we had in our early history, but within the context of the benifits of modern technology and institutions.

@fuckamericanidiot

4 жыл бұрын

@@yellowburger Yeah cannibalism, human sacrifice, death in childbirth, most of your children dying, average life expectancy of 30, zero cures for disease, dying of a rotten tooth, eaten by wild animals, no electricity, no shared language, constant tribal war, killing someone you thought was a friend, frequent famines. The good old days.

@fuckamericanidiot

4 жыл бұрын

@@yellowburger No cars, trains, bikes, planes, internet, space travel, science, sports, leisure, books. Just get rid of it all, fuck it.

@fuckamericanidiot

4 жыл бұрын

@@yellowburger Just good old fashioned romantic living off the land and wild unchecked superstitions.

This address was so....so British. Concluding that the Silk Road, or more accurately, the Belt & Road Initiative, is threatening can only be a British conclusion. This gentleman knows that 800 million people have been brought out of poverty, an accomplishment that dwarfs anything the British have done. Yet, he fails to really get it. Good luck Britons.

@Genevasplaytime

2 жыл бұрын

Britain banned slavery, invented TV, telephone, train, tank, football, cricket, womens rights. you are low iq buddy.

just forward till Akala starts to speak. Trust me

@bazle64

2 жыл бұрын

Liberal white man skipped

I came here for Akala.... even though it was him talking for only 5 mins... 😑

@KimchiSocks

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, me too.

@bazle64

5 жыл бұрын

@Star Shine that toffy white guy was uninteresting, sorry whiteboy

@thomasgarveysankara2157

5 жыл бұрын

@Star Shine someone that looks like Also. Aren't you contradicting yourself there?

@greenli9551

5 жыл бұрын

@Star Shine I appreciate both of them. How would I fit in your world?

@greenli9551

5 жыл бұрын

@Star Shineseems right.

Churchill was also a tyrant

@mrlassotool

5 жыл бұрын

Yup bengal famine killed more indians than hitler killed jews. Also churchill was very cruel racist. Calling bengal famine he created himself was necessary because "they were breeding too much, so its their own fault".

@themac9677

5 жыл бұрын

So True! Was thinking the same thing when he mentioned tyrants

@drillboa723

5 жыл бұрын

@@mrlassotool Educate yourself on this famine. Churchill realised there was a huge issue in Bengal and tried his best to alleviate these problems, but for multiple reasons it proved difficult to stem this issue. Here is a useful article:winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/did-churchill-cause-the-bengal-famine/

@mrlassotool

5 жыл бұрын

Drill Boa lol a website named churchhill defending churchhill. Other history(real) says otherwise. Read it. Atleast google it.

@drillboa723

5 жыл бұрын

​@@mrlassotool Check the references at the bottom yah tool. The world war effort put a strain on every aspect of transiting food. Churchill will always be considered a significant historical figure for playing an immense role in the defeat of fascism.

1:16:00 the woman asked a great question (and point). You cannot continue to benefit from Imperialism/Colonalism (like Peter Frankopan, relative to the British Royal Family) does without noticing, analysing, apologising and taking responsibility for the negative effects of it.

@Takeru9292

5 жыл бұрын

@@dinsel9691 you fuck off you little shit

@wolfwind1

4 жыл бұрын

Get over it.

@msgirly6827

4 жыл бұрын

@@wolfwind1 you're saying that now😂

@fuckamericanidiot

4 жыл бұрын

When does someone stop noticing, analysing, apologising and taking responsibility for the negative effects of it? Can we take coffee breaks? Do I have to go to sleep with the 'We're sorry' podcast series every night? Do I have to apologise every time I buy a capitalism-borne product? No, acknowledge it, live with it and get on with it like the rest of us. And I'm referring to self-flagellating white people. Fuck off you're not interesting.

@vickyvictoriawilliams3254

4 жыл бұрын

working as a slave everyday: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l3qnw9t7g7fbh6g.html

Learnt more than a whole yr of history lesson at school 🙏🙏💚💚

I really enjoyed Peter's book The Silks Roads. But after listening to this interview in which he gets many facts wrong and gives a very one eyed view of other points, yet speaks as if he knows it all, it's made me wonder how much of that book can be relied on.

@Princess_Pear

2 жыл бұрын

Oh! Could you expound on which points you're referring to that is inaccurate? Would love to learn more. Thanks!

His school history lessons were far more comprehensive than mine. We had the romans; then Samuel Peyps; then the middle passage of the Atlantic slave trade, but they didn’t call it that, they just called it “slavery”; and that was it. There was plenty of the timetable allocated to history lessons but they would just drum it into you and make you hand copy pages of text to kill time.

Akala is truly a genius.

completely ignore the class struggle and the fundamental class antagonism between labor and its enemy: capital...

@kacchank8696

5 жыл бұрын

And private property

@fuckamericanidiot

4 жыл бұрын

And then completely ignore the accomplishments of capitalism. Please tell me what was so great about the pre-capitalist days.

@dialectixemcee2428

4 жыл бұрын

accomplishments? what accomplishments ?

@fuckamericanidiot

4 жыл бұрын

@@dialectixemcee2428 You didn't answer my question. 1. Technological innovation. I'm not going to list them because I assume you don't live in a well. 2. 200 years ago, 90% of the World's population lived in extreme poverty, 10% in relative comfort - now it has inverted largely as a result of capitalism. As a result of technological innovation.

@dialectixemcee2428

4 жыл бұрын

@@fuckamericanidiot some intellectual labor by intellectuals and MASSIVE pjysical labor by an exploited working class did that, capitalism created more poverty than humanity has ever known, more wars, genocides, starvation and misery . Capitalism is a virus to be destroyed.

I would be more open minded if the guy in the purple sweater didnt have bias. "The people who voted for brexit the people who voted for Trump," was inappropriate and divisive.

I feel stupid after watching this...I know very little about the history of the world. 🤔

@fuckamericanidiot

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah this video will do that to you

@rudy673

3 жыл бұрын

You are not stupid, educate yourself..knowledge is power 👍

felt well sorry for that lad at the end, struggled so hard to get his words out n was obviously really nervous n the guy answers with "yes"... like cheers mate

Nor does he finish 90% of his sentences

I like the honest discourse but I did take offence at the description of empires as successful. The Ottoman empire was absolutely devastating to Bulgaria. Prior to the Ottomans Britain and Bulgaria's populations were about the same. But today, Britain has 60 million people while Bulgaria has 7. Same with Britain being successful. To the enormous detriment of countless countries and peoples of the world. The privilege of success ay...

Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford is just clueless about China and talks about China. Good grace.

@scottgeorge4268

4 жыл бұрын

Some of his modern 'facts' are slightly not quite right. His view of China too is typical of post colonial power rhetoric. Just for the record, Hong Kong really is part of China and the chance of it ever being anything else is definitely remote. (bound to get some angry replies!)

@LouisKing995

4 жыл бұрын

Scott George Yeo, that whole situation is totally groovy right ? No controversy there at all 👍🏼

@mcr2356

4 жыл бұрын

@@LouisKing995Exactly. Who needs a impartial justice system or free elections

@benny19646

Жыл бұрын

​@@mcr2356hongkong never had free election while the British were in charge. Most high level officials were picked in London and not given to hongkong ppl.

@mcr2356

Жыл бұрын

@@benny19646 They had local elections though.

That’s why I like the British, at least they can discussions in jest and with the prospect of looking for solutions

How did he hopscotch all around slavery for this amount of time on this enormous subject. It's mind boggling

@Taylordessalines

3 жыл бұрын

White people gonna white people

@mosquesock450

3 жыл бұрын

@trixieturtle Maybe you are looking for a different book, this one is about the silk roads

With South Africa, do you not think, coming back to all of the points you’ve made about the way history is taught, there was a little bit of the “good bed time story” with South Africa, in the sense that the wars that helped apartheid collapse were fought outside of South Africa. In Angola and Mozambique. And because the “evil” Cubans were on the good side of that war, and helped Mandela get out of prison, we’ve sort of just deleted that episode from history and the way that we think about apartheid falling. The first country Nelson Mandela visited in the whole world, was Cuba. - Akala.

@willgates8383

8 ай бұрын

Or that the West supported and prop up the Apartheid govt while publicly saying otherwise!!! A South African who was in the SA Navy said they routinely had joint exercises with the UK and French navy.

This guy cuts Akala when asking him the first question after this guy has already spoken for 57min he likes the sound of his own voice.

@tyn6211

2 жыл бұрын

And he's rocking the BHL half-buttoned shirt look. lol

I used to love staring at maps as a kid

@saml.4482

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

Came here for Akala initially but found Peter Frankopan very intelligent and insightful. Glad I came across this

@towoawawaboofficial

4 жыл бұрын

He's bias

@summersevening

4 жыл бұрын

He’s awful. Utterly exposes himself at the end when he flat out refuses to acknowledge the actual harms done by British colonialism and foreign policies, taking the old line of: a local problem, these people do it to themselves with their corruption and parochialism. And he repeatedly makes factually wrong statements. Deeply problematic.

@kevinchen4425

2 жыл бұрын

the other guy is a brainwashed idiot if he is being honest

When the majority have a better life (Asia and Africa 80% of the world population) that is a great change for the world. I can see this is going to happen in time.

Do some Americans really believe Jesus spoke English?!

@thebridge5483

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@markant9534

5 жыл бұрын

@@thebridge5483 Jesus!

@markant9534

5 жыл бұрын

@@thebridge5483 Heaven help us!

@markant9534

5 жыл бұрын

@@thebridge5483 For God`s sake!

@mlindalina1

5 жыл бұрын

The white supremacist Christians do

I just bought the book !

5 elements of Hip Hop are 1) MCing, 2)DJing 3)Graffiti 4)Break Dancing and 5) Beat boxing

Excellent thank you for the great talk and insight, lol the comments

Peter Frankopan becomes physically uncomfortable the moment Akala hits the stage. I am guessing it's because he feels he is has internalized some of the imperialistic nostalgia he presorts to deconstruct, even if he is not quite aware of it.

@ksam5673

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed

he talked a lot but he didn't say much

@taq1238

5 жыл бұрын

Could it be because what he said went way over your head or is it because objectivity is just not one of strengths?

@user-em4ox7rw8g

5 жыл бұрын

Who? Akala or the interviewer

Awesome talk! Enlightening

The Chinesse must be commended for their rapid rise to wealth and strength. Only 80 years ago they were in the "trenches." Today they are bailing out most of the developing world. But I remain skeptical and worried as to their end motive!!!

@mirkovic

2 жыл бұрын

So far so good, shall we look at the UK and the USA behavior in the last 80 years? I didn't think so

49:42 - Peter Frankopan claims talc is "found almost exclusively in Afghanistan". Quick google search disproves that - what else is this guy lying about?

@margaretgaskin4928

5 жыл бұрын

You're right he blundered about prevalence. But Afghan talc is indeed designated a "conflict mineral" so the rest of his argument holds up.

@PHlophe

5 жыл бұрын

@@margaretgaskin4928 it doesn't if the basis of it is a white lie.

@silver2zilver

5 жыл бұрын

Everything humans say is theory. You discount everything he said based on that?

@taq1238

5 жыл бұрын

Almost exclusively? Operative word; ALMOST.

@Vlogged-off

5 жыл бұрын

Google hahaha vs. Prof off ox lol

33:13 Five eyes will not be able to control the world like it used to be. Forget about your British empire dream.

@mcr2356

4 жыл бұрын

He's really critical of the british empire if you ever read his work.

They just don't call it colonialism when China does it

@bazle64

2 жыл бұрын

Because it's not. Stop projecting your white man mindset onto chinese

Great discussion which definitely opened my eyes to where the world is heading. Will definitely be checking out his book. Likewise, Akala has covered stuff in his own book that has given me a total new perspective on how we learn history in school here in the UK.

Akala is an 'expert' on every subject, it seems. Well, the media are *promoting* him everywhere. Greta Thunberg is another promoted face. Personally, I'd love a public platform myself, but the elites get to choose who gets to talk.

@S0rryJaCk

2 жыл бұрын

Start a podcast!

@jackriver1999

2 жыл бұрын

The reason you're irrelevant is because you're an irrelevance

Did he ask for a young person just to be dismissive of them?

Just amazed at the casual racism Peter gets away with. "Look at what happened to the tiger/rhino population"... yeah, which people go on game hunting safaris again? How many species have been hunted to extinction for sport?

Hey Peter, I'm white and I love History, and I'm 15 minutes in and I'm really enjoying your presentation style. Roman's not wanting to live in England!

@rncmv

3 жыл бұрын

"I'm white" so what?

The Greek and Roman Empire was based in Europe to so I feel he is disregarding these point/empires as powers based in Europe.

@joshroberts7573

4 жыл бұрын

Greek predates "Europa".

Bigups Akala !

great video...very informative...esp with perspective from Akala

There are those who work tirelessly to establish a Heaven on Earth lush green gardens beneath which two rivers flow however yet through all the Toil et Trouble, they fail to Realise Heaven Has NO Manholes

The title is so misleading.. I CAME TO LISTEN TO AKALA not another British colonialism apologist 🙄😑

Haha, I love how he highlights the flaws of the British curriculum for history by mentioning how the chronology misses out 1000 years of events between the Romans and Normandy. Then, he himself conveniently glosses over hundreds of years of history by not mentioning European colonialism in the Americas, Africa and Asia--not to mention Oceania! Slavery and colonialism played a massive part in Western Europe's development as a world superpower. How can he not mention that? #DoubleStandard

@jakibonham

5 жыл бұрын

Literally covers all of that in his book. Extensively.

@scottgeorge4268

4 жыл бұрын

Considering his personal heritage he should certainly be familiar Britain's colonialist past.

@fuckamericanidiot

4 жыл бұрын

@@jakibonham Everyone that says things he doesn't like or doesn't say what he wants to hear must be a liar - that's a common thing you see on KZread comments unfortunately

@mcr2356

4 жыл бұрын

I was taught about slavery when I was at school. I also learned about the British empire. Do I think it could of been in more depth? Yes. But let's not pretend it doesn't get talked about at all.

@user-dn1tx6dj7y

2 жыл бұрын

@@mcr2356 but the information we get taught is also untrue: we get taught that Britain was the first country to abolish it - this is untrue, And for moral reasons - also untrue, if you dive deeper into why the British abolished it, it wasn't our of moral responsibility to the slaves, and it still carried on Also it came down to pretty much one British man, responsible for this, not true

What a long preamble before the main topic starts at around 12:07.

It's not like Akala to bang on about Colonialism...!

Who is the white guy? I wanna hear Akala

@JR-iu8yl

5 жыл бұрын

@Accelerationist your insecurities are showing

@NationalDeputy

5 жыл бұрын

Accelerationist is a white supremacist lol

@alastairaspara4554

5 жыл бұрын

Frankopan is very credible

@mrebk3358

5 жыл бұрын

Accelerationist insecure little man.

@johannesvonsaaz3987

5 жыл бұрын

@Accelerationist 😂😂 whats wrong with these people?

1:19:12 Frankopan accuses Assad of murdering Marsh Arabs and persecuting the Kurds. I'm assuming he made a mistake and meant to say Saddam. Anyway he still seems to me to have a Western-centric viewpoint on current affairs. Maybe he hasn't read from enough varied sources because they haven't been 'history' for long enough. Only had the time to check through Western MSM, eh?! Ok maybe he is a little more balanced than that, but not much.

@LL-zs9ep

5 жыл бұрын

@TheTimbalanders Hmmm.... yes. Superb comment!

@Takeru9292

5 жыл бұрын

@TheTimbalanders lol

@LL-zs9ep

5 жыл бұрын

@TheTimbalanders Am I going to be an expert on Middle Eastern history? Time will tell but I probably wouldn't fully throw myself into that field sufficiently to call myself an expert. However I am very interested and have read much about the recent wars in the middle east. You can check for yourself about Saddam, the Marsh Arabs and the Kurds, and see if Assad was involved in their murders or not. On that score, I'm correct. The other part of my statement was an opinion. You can feel free to agree or disagree and by all means argue why. But all you have done is questioned my qualification to speak on the subject. Prick.

@summersevening

4 жыл бұрын

Don’t think he made a mistake frankly. He was pulled up by the questioner specifically on that, and not only did he actively NOT correct his statement but started going on about all the Saddam’s Hussein materials he’s read (incl apparently classified materials). Nobody, particularly a historian, can have read those materials, know what Iraq’s Ba’ath regime did over years to the Marsh Arabs and then accidentally blame that on a completely different regime. Not to mention anyone reading those materials and still claiming the situation in Iraq is totally a ‘local’ problem which has nothing to do with western interests not just historically but right now is flat out lying.

Beautiful

Apr. 12, 2020, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, Dr. John Micklethwait and the political editor of the Economist, Dr. Adrian Wooldridge jointly published article The Virus Should Wake Up the West to despaired sigh: “The job of government is to protect its citizens. The pandemic reveals that key institutions in Europe and the U.S. are no longer up to the job.” “Since Hobbes’s time, the world has come full circle. When he wrote “Leviathan,” China rather than Europe was the center of administrative excellence. China was the world’s most powerful country with the world’s biggest city (Beijing had more than a million inhabitants), the world’s mightiest navy and the world’s most sophisticated civil service, peopled by scholar-mandarins who were selected from across a vast empire by rigorous examinations.” “Indeed, it was the struggle for mastery in Europe that propelled Western government forward: Europe’s monarchies seized on technological innovations - particularly new ships and weapons - to improve their chances of survival. When the Chinese invented gunpowder they used it for fireworks; Europeans used it to blow one another (and then the Chinese) out of the water.” “The West’s governmental advantage is now questionable: Simply ask yourself whether you would feel safer today in New York and London or in Singapore and Seoul? Asia is catching up with the West, and in some smaller countries has overtaken it, in large part because Confucian Asia in particular has taken government seriously over the past few decades while the West has allowed it to ossify.”

The white dude managed to do his whole intro/lecture without saying the words 'white people' #whitefragility

@fuckamericanidiot

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe he doesn't see 'white people' as one homogeneous group. Ie. not a racist.

@mcr2356

4 жыл бұрын

Attacking people based on nothing but their skin colour isn't going to move the world forward. Be part of the solution. You come across as fragile with this comment.

@mosquesock450

3 жыл бұрын

@thehoneyeffect Whypipo are living rent free in your head

Who is this aimed at? it's unbearably patronizing and seems to be at Secondary School level. I've reached about 12 minutes in and can't bear any more. Does it get any better?

Interesting but Frankopan's narrative is mainly about wealth and the wealthy.

It's a little strange that they called Akala to interview Frankopan about his book, and gave him flashcards with asinine talking points. Especially because both Frankopan and Akala approach the topic wearing the same frame but different lenses. Wasted opportunity to have a profound conversation. This felt more like a book promotion than anything.

akala all the way. missed his act in delhi because of my stupid friends

Who else was blown away with those facts about talcum powder?! 😱😁

I treating. Didn’t agree with the Saudi Arabia comment considering we still sell weapons. That last bit was rather rude though.

This was pretty good I will have to watch more from this channel.

I just dont understand how we in the western world can be upset at the growth of the eastern world aka China India Korea etc. completely ignoring the fact that their growth is directly due to our greed. To make great profits off our industries, tech, automotive, agriculture.. we deliberately choose those places to use as cheap labor haven to produce and manufacture our goods and services. We gave them our tech build, we gave them our workforce to manufacture, we gave them our industries just so that the very few of us aka 1% could become so insanely rich, all the while eliminating our own domestic growth. Now we sit angry and jealous that they're using the very technology we gave them to make ourselves rich while treating them like low class slaves for hire. And at the end of the day domestically as people fall on hard times, instead of blaming ourselves, GOV, CEO's, Wall st. and even YOU the stock holders, we blame everyone else , racist hate wondering who exactly took our place in society, instead of facing the truth, that it was us all along who sold ourselves out so that the we could get ever closed to that 1% margin. As we fall to poverty levels our vanity and arrogance has us to believe that the poor is somehow getting richer. As a result we grow ever racist. Fact is... we are a loathing piece of work. foolish, blind and arrogant vain and ignorant. we did it to ourselves and we're too prideful to admit it. Dont believe it.. where were these countries in the 1970's? where were we in the 70's, now the 80's now the 90's think about our growth, and consider the closing of our factories.. whole cities going broke.. we were shifting manufacturing to overseas, tax havens and cheap labor. and in less that 2 decades what kinda growth did those countries experience? wonder why? remember years ago.. all the talk about globalization, it ment laws being passed to open more trade to foreign countries, so that the very few could get enormously rich. and they did. but at the cost of local domestic stability. we sold ourselves out. then what we do.. blame the one guy who did all he could to keep the country from collapsing. Obama. after all the mountain loads of issues passed down from the Deregulation kings, the Bush's and Clinton. which who btw got their pockets fat thru seizing oil. we did it to ourselves. we let the genie out the bottle.. then we threw the bottle in the ocean, and it landed on others shores. And lest also not forget why the all happened , because of greed. Because we are a society reared on the idea that rich is better rich is good, and rich shoud be worshiped. in the 1950's the difference in salary between the ceo/owner and his employees was about 30%, today we have ceo's making tens of millions over their 30 to 40 grand a year employees. there is no logical justification for such divide. but since we worship rich, we choose not to see a problem with. and the rich view themselves as deserving. again, we did it to ourselves. greed. plain and simple.

@Takeru9292

5 жыл бұрын

Very well said.

Haha akala writes a book and now he's an academic all of a sudden, fking hilarious, he's pretty smart for a grime guy but ffs general public get a grip and become smarter please....

@dopemusic6414

5 жыл бұрын

Why not hear what he has to say rather than his background?

@riggedforyourpleasure2546

5 жыл бұрын

Have done it's terrifying people think he's really smart

@riggedforyourpleasure2546

5 жыл бұрын

Spose in a world of ruducing intelect it makes sence.... next itl be Madonna does talk on biotechnology hahah

@jeffgray4075

5 жыл бұрын

@@riggedforyourpleasure2546, *sense.

@WOEGEE

5 жыл бұрын

So because he does grime no one should listen to him

I m not to sure what the host is wafflin' on about...in places he makes absolutely no sense at all. His views are narrow and unrefined. He needs to get out on the streets and talk with people...been living in his bubble far too long.

This aged well....

I wonder if my guy is gonna let akala speak........LET HIM SPEAK MAN

@fadeandbraid8321

5 жыл бұрын

I thought akala was the guest yet he's asking questions like the interviewer...

This is one of the softest talks I’ve seen from akala . And dude was spewing white supremacy lines

@Johncook1649

4 жыл бұрын

What did he say that was white supremacist?

@perrymason866

4 жыл бұрын

Harry Bowler nothing.

@mcr2356

4 жыл бұрын

Accusing akala of white supremacy 😂 Think you might have a problem.

@perrymason866

4 жыл бұрын

marcus reynolds I think he was talking about the guy Akala was interviewing.... Still a bit ridiculous, though 😂

@mcr2356

4 жыл бұрын

@@perrymason866 Oh I see. 😂 Clearly not read the guys books. He really goes against the eurocentric/white view point of history.

"Beyonce was there... Oprah was there..."

Great discussion.

Its important for them to erase the history of the world, especially in countries they oppressed, so that they dont revenge.But nothing goes unchecked under the sun,no matter how long it takes.

'touch upon the legacy of colonialism and empire', Kingslee Daley a.k.a Akala cannot speak more than a few minutes without mentioning colonialism and empire.

I love Akala

"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it ought to be good enough for the children of Texas." So his punchline quote was from a female democratic Texan Governor Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson (June 13, 1875 - June 25, 1961. I couldn't find a video of this on youtube? If anyone can find it please share it with me and I'll stand corrected When your giving an incredibly condescending history lecture belittling the historical ignorance of others.....it might be an idea to do a little bit of research.

Stop giving Akala a platform

Meandering and not China specific; how can I take a lecturer seriously when he's drinking wine during his talk?

@charleythefarley

4 жыл бұрын

Try reading the book then...

What was that city in Turkmenistan he mentioned? I looked it up but can't find it.

Fascinatingly scary.

The communist part of youtube again.

@KAIZORIANEMPIRE

5 жыл бұрын

lol

@fuckamericanidiot

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Dull ol Frankopan is a good reason never to attend oxford

Is there a documentary or discussion on foreign interventions by the US - particularly in Latin America and Africa (Libya)?

@ikigairyusu8796

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah , his name was Alex Jones & has had all his social media platforms removed..... www.infowars.com

@jackriver1999

2 жыл бұрын

@@ikigairyusu8796 Alex Jones is a bat-sh*t crazy lying conspiracy theorist

This aged well, I wonder what peter thinks now, exactly the same lol

Interesting. I feel like Frankopan has an anxiety, compulsive, or maybe an ADHD condition. The constant rushing river of speech with a ton of ideas rarely really explored reflectively, numerous examples pouring out without real connection, jumping around, derailments, contradictions. He is a solid academic, regardless of the listener's (or commenters below) agendas or opinions, he's hard to listen to, but I'm sympathetic to him as a person. Akala is an exceptional thinker and historian. He is in the rare position of interviewer in this case, but with a very difficult person to interview, because F is all over the place. As to China, he is much too optimistic and positive about China's intention, confer their actions in the China Sea. It's amusing. The Confucious Institutes are Chinese spy haven's on US and UK campuses. It's pitiable how the US and UK is naive. Globalism, which F is pushing, as well as forced multiculturalism against communities and populations wishes and needs, has failed.

@fuckamericanidiot

4 жыл бұрын

The country that imprisons Muslim citizens (not illegal immigrants) in 'correctional facilities' for being Muslims, imposed a one-child policy, the wonderful 'Great Leap Forward', extreme information suppression (that has no counterpart in the Western world), violent suppression of differing views, extreme restrictions on the Internet, a military arm dedicated entirely to hacking and bringing down Western Civilisation, forced sterilisation of millions and millions of women, organ harvesting, forced 'conversion therapy' for LGBT+ people, etc etc etc......HOORAY CHINA!!!!

He's very young looking for 47. He looks under 40

@fullmetalprism5249

4 жыл бұрын

tdreamgmail that look is under 40? In which community?😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂😂

I don't know much but I know that when it comes to business they don't discriminate. Not like Americans that want to hold power by appearances

Change a lot...and.. Very peacefully

1:16:17 This lady is insane, it's like infinite credit claim. As if you are responsible for how things are forever, just because in one point in history you were involved. With this distorted logic, Romans today can take credit for everything the English did. Or Persians and Semitic empires can take credit for ancient Greece (which Rome learned off). Or the Chinese can take credit for the original waves that lead to the Mongol empire, but then the Mongols took over china also later so now they can take credit for everything that happened. Or some American claiming that everything some Japanese and German people invent should be credited to America and America's achievement, since after WW2 they were occupied for a while. This is all so stupid, just because some people had influence once. Doesn't magically mean the entire future of the country is the creation of those people, that woman is a fool.

@user-te7bg4dd1c

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, credit claim is about claim to supremacy

He forgot to mention britains ruthless and brutal conquest of much of the afrikan continent and the millions of afrikans who lost their lives fighting to defend their homelands not to mention the millions of afrikans transported to the socalled new world

This was brilliant.

Liked before even watching video

They were not great sailors, they were pirates and scavengers, pillaging the lands like gypsies do and sowing tte seeds on contempt to which their offspring will answer, what a stark future!

I am simple man if I see an Akala video I click.

So soo informative

1:00:20 1:04:01 omg, this Peter guy is insane

And look at the state of south Africa now

@azzmm9344

4 жыл бұрын

It’s pretty shot.... but we are still looking for the silver lining. We just have to up our game more, much more now with and after covid 19

This should of been on my recommended list, the minute it was uploaded >

We the Chinese wanted to be just like the West.............once. That was until we came into contact with them.

The most irony thing in the world is that the US accused Iran as radical extremist, but among its US Allied arab monarchy neighbors, Iran is probably the only country that embrace democracy and career women. It is not perfect yes, but compare to American friends in the region, it is like heaven and earth. Yet, Iran is the bad guy here because it didn't want to live under American hegemony.