I like how the 'notorious gulags' are listed almost like a tourist attraction. Like, "See the sights of Siberia! Our majestic tundra, our beautiful forests and of course our gulags."

@chibiromano5631

2 жыл бұрын

Oklahoma should do the same.. 'and of course our Native American (Cherokee) Reservations'* . Always read the fine print.

@clouds-rb9xt

2 жыл бұрын

@@chibiromano5631 LOL, no. Native reservations are not even close to gulags in any way. They're not penal labor colonies. They aren't forced to stay there. Most reservations are self-governing by the specific tribe, even the Bureau of Indian Affairs which has jurisdiction over them is majority native-american.

@57thorns

2 жыл бұрын

@Dylanrules22 At the same time, the reservations are the worst farm lands, and native Americans _were_ forcibly relocated there. With no economy to speak of (no wealthy investor to start a local factory, and lack of infrastructure and communications of course) these quickly became to poorest pars of the US. Gambling is lucrative, does not require any natural resources or fancy education to profit from. Sure, there are a lot of problems with gambling as well, but for many nations it was the only viable source of income. Money that can be used to build a school system, roads and railroad connection. To pay for imported food.

@Prosper_Dean

2 жыл бұрын

@@chibiromano5631 What was done to the Natives is far worse than gulags. It's safe and suffice to say the American penitentiary were gulags. They served the same purpose. Soviet prison filled with criminals and domestic reactionaries. American gulags filled with criminals, the poor and colored.

@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan

2 жыл бұрын

You can visit but you cannot leave

I love how Toycat calls every event a 'fun thing' xD

@ibx2cat

2 жыл бұрын

New video: list of fun things legally considered to be genocide

@Termless

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibx2cat I would watch that!

@engtilde

2 жыл бұрын

@@hereward3411 #2 genocidal crimes

@abdouhabou5

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibx2cat #3: genocide

@user-pu1hk6vz1z

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibx2cat getting cancelled speedrun

"you start to believe it's a real thi-" *blinks nervously* "they start to believe it's a thing in that way..." they won't let him reveal the truth about africa not being real

A poll in the U.S. showed an alarming number of Americans support bombing Agrabah… the fictional country from Aladdin 😂

@anonymityaddictsanonymous5978

2 жыл бұрын

I mean it was an oppressive society so… yay I would support as an American.

@militantman

2 жыл бұрын

@@anonymityaddictsanonymous5978 Americans... 🙄

@1800JimmyG

2 жыл бұрын

We will defend ourselves from terrorists, fictional and domestic.

@hacienda2490

2 жыл бұрын

@@militantman R/Woooosh

@palathaxx

2 жыл бұрын

It was literally 150 people. I’m absolutely positive you could also find 150 Brits or Frenchmen who think Agrabah is a country too.

Looking up a country on Wikipedia and going on a tangent deeper and deeper into random information is quite possibly the most relatable thing on KZread.

@matissgrotups2820

2 жыл бұрын

ADHD Andys be like

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

wikipedia is like tvtropes light

I recently learned that people inside of Russia do not refer to all of the land to the east as Siberia because "Siberia" is the name spoken for the "Siberian Federal District", which is an actual province in the central Russia. As I understand it, Russians refer to their lands east of the Siberian Federal District as "the far east".

@coc235

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@shonenjumpmagneto

2 жыл бұрын

Bro it's not a Province. It's a District that is a collection of Provinces. Ugh. Why don't people get this. It's Head of State is called a Presidential Envoy.

@TheManinBlack9054

2 жыл бұрын

Well, duh. Siberia is a specific geographic region, it's just the westerners got it wrong. Idk why Russians should adjust their correct view to someone's incorrect view.

@MattMcIrvin

Жыл бұрын

Wikipedia is interestingly equivocal: they acknowledge a broad use of "Siberia" to encompass the Russian Far East, but identify both an official and a "historical" Siberia that do not include it.

Puerto Ricans often think of themselves as an independent country - they actually send their own team to the Olympics, separate from the US Olympic team. Their population is quite split over whether they prefer to become an independent country, officially become a US state, or just stay as they are (the status quo keeps winning just barely).

@TheSecondgreen

2 жыл бұрын

they are not really split on what they want to do. statehood has won the last 3 elections... also a lot of colonies send their teams to the Olympics is nothing special.

@xviper2k

2 жыл бұрын

We should make up lost tax revenue by taxing their Olympic team for not joining Team USA. :D

@joeb4294

2 жыл бұрын

​@@TheSecondgreen Meh, statehood is the direction that things are headed but they are still quite split with statehood winning only 52.5% of the vote in 2020. In 1967, 69.5 % voted to maintain the Commonwealth status. In 1998, 50.5% voted to maintain Commonwealth status. The 2012 and 2017 referendums both had anomalies that made it difficult to fully understand the will of the people; in 2012 there was a two-part question, 54% voted to end the Commonwealth status but the vote on whether to pursue statehood or independence was muddied by the fact that almost all of the people who wanted to maintain the Commonwealth status did not vote on the second question. In 2017, statehood won with over 97% (not a typo) but only because the opponents of statehood boycotted the referendum. Finally, in 2020 they had a simple yes/no vote on statehood and statehood won but only with 52.5% in favor. Regardless, of course statehood is not entirely up to Puerto Rico. They would still have to also get Congress* to agree with them and in our hyper-polarized politics, that would be a tall order. (Edited to correct erroneous claim that "38 of the current states (75% of the current 50 states)" would need to approve statehood. Only an act of Congress is needed to admit a new state.)

@calebrivera8913

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSecondgreen The 2012 referendum actually got more votes for status quo, statehood only won because status quo wasn't included in the second ballot, noone voted in the 2017 referendum, and the 2020 referendum was a split result with almost half of voters voting against statehood

@calebrivera8913

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeb4294 I wouldn't say "where things are headed" only because most younger puerto ricans are pro-independence and against statehood, but than again we have an aging population cus many people leave to the US as soon as they have children and than return as retirees.

I live in Quebec, and the amount of people that pretty much refer to Quebec as a country is just absurd. But to be fair, we are pretty much another nation without being one. In fact, when you enter Quebec City by highway, there will be a sign in French that reads "Welcome to the Nation's capital"

@horatiokim7141

2 жыл бұрын

Quebec! Unreal countries on earth are to be liberated after WWIII which would end Colonization. 🤔 For truths, pls read the insightful multi-pages 'Ole Fella' comment (on KZread) at.,"China-US tensions: A closer look at the Five-Eyes intelligence partnership / CGTN"

@jamescoulson7729

2 жыл бұрын

It’s similar situation in BC too, we kinda forget the rest of the country exists and Victoria is seen as THE capital.

@pontificate2090

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamescoulson7729 Yeah but to be fair. BC really is a bubble for other reasons. I've never been there though and would love to visit since my dad is originally from British Columbia. I heard Prince George is a nice place with all the mountains and stuff

@KingAgniKai

2 жыл бұрын

I don't consider Quebec a country. Its just another province here.

@someguy8365

2 жыл бұрын

@@KingAgniKai based

New York: The city so nice, they named it twice. St. Martin: The island so nice, they named it thrice.

ibx2cat: "Most people can't name any country of the world" Me, an intellectual: takes a deep breath "United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru..."

@TheLibermania

2 жыл бұрын

@@CyberchaoX I know, that's why i stopped there. 😉 Or better, it was technically never right.

"Greenland is a part of much smaller Denmark" 1973 Denmark joined the EEC (precursor of the EU) 1982 Greenland left the EEC and thus actually was the first "country" to exit that european conglomerate of states yes the "GREENXIT predates the BREXIT" by several decades !!!! However this brings about a most peculiar question ; how can today in 2022 a country be for a part of it inside the EU and for another part of it outside the EU ?

@jeremyhillaryboob4248

2 жыл бұрын

I think "GREXIT" rolls off the tongue better

@philippewinston2740

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeremyhillaryboob4248 GREXIT was used in the € crisis when GREECE was unable to refinance its national debt and was tipped by many a pundit to be better off leaving the EU

@jimmyle2447

2 жыл бұрын

Parts of Prussia and Austria were part of the HRE/German Confederation while others were not.

@philippewinston2740

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimmyle2447 which is the good answer to my erstwhile question , pointing to the fact that *neither the HRE nor the EU are states in their own right but conglomerates serving another purpose*

@Nathan-jt8zt

2 жыл бұрын

I really don’t see your point

I like how he is just explaining how interesting Puerto Rico is and im just sitting here with a dumbass smile after noticing the "British Virgin Islands"

@glauberglousger6643

2 жыл бұрын

There are two Virgin Islands next to each other... I was going to make some joke, but it’s obvious enough

@miguelenriquez181

2 жыл бұрын

The local government calls the territorial status a "free associated state" its a constant theme of political debate.

@kingdmind

2 жыл бұрын

There are also the Spanish Virgin Islands which are now a part of Puerto Rico, these being Vieques and Culebra

@MysticFlameX

Жыл бұрын

@@glauberglousger6643 3, Spanish Virgin Islands also

I'm a 28 year old american. i met my friend who lived in Croatia a few years ago, and it was then I discovered that Yugoslavia no longer exists. I knew Croatia existed but didn't realize they were overlapping. (I've since found your channel and play games with Europeans and learned a lot) I later told my mom the story. Her response? "Yugoslavia doesn't exist anymore?" Apple didn't fall far. We later looked in the office in our house, and the globe I grew up learning off of happened to be a soviet era globe. So, I was outdated with a few countries lol.

@tritojean7549

2 жыл бұрын

Yugoslavia lived until 2003 and croatia gained independance in 1991 so both country exsted at the same time

@SussyTalk

2 жыл бұрын

google maps was hard to find right? or just normal google? why look at videos when you can: 1- see on google maps that Montenegro, albania,croatia,bulgaria are independent and arent in a communist state? or 2 google if yugoslavia still exists and you'll be greeted with a welcoming no it dosent exist anymore or maybe couldve heard about the second balkan war that colapsed yugoslavia? i swear from what you said you play games all day and use a globe from when your mom was a teen to learn geografy and when asked about estonia you whouldve said "do you mean the ussr?"

@tritojean7549

2 жыл бұрын

@@SussyTalk 1:albania and bulgaria were never under yugoslavia so talking about them here is totally off topic 2:can tell me then last time you googled if Krasnoyarsk became an oblast or stayed a krai?

@presakakeya

2 жыл бұрын

@@SussyTalk Yeah exactly right! :) In America we learned world history for two years and american history for the rest. Europe and the rest of the world in no way mattered to young me. I was into science not history, so any nerd tangents went in that direction. In high school I had a history essay that literally said "and then some things occurred and stuff happened" and got an A on it. I didn't sit there studying the globe, just played with it here and there over time and picked up the info on it. It wasn't until I met and started playing games with Europeans a few years back that I actually learned it, since it actually became relevant to me. People think Americans are too dumb to learn things, but, and I cannot stress this enough, we just don't care to a profound level. No American is going to waste their time learning about random 3rd world countries if it isn't in some way relevant. Europe just isn't as important to the rest of the world as they'd like to believe.

@presakakeya

2 жыл бұрын

@@tritojean7549 interesting, TIL!

I'm Puerto Rican and live there, good to see our island being talked about in a proper manner. 🇵🇷

@isfrom5169

2 жыл бұрын

Si! 🇵🇷

@molotera8789

2 жыл бұрын

Grasias por Residente Calle 13

@miguelenriquez181

2 жыл бұрын

:)

@skysparkler

2 жыл бұрын

I’m also Puerto Rican, and I’m pretty mad to hear Puerto Rico is a territory..all my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and almost all of my cousins live there. I vacation there every summer break (yes, right now) and it’s a territory? Back then, I thought I was cool going to Puerto Rico, calling it a “Cool Country”. Though. I wasn’t born in Puerto Rico like my whole family was. I was born in Nebraska, and I am in North Carolina. The reason all my family lives there is because they have low taxes. Yes..my grandparents and uncles aunts so and so are poor. But they do save enough money to visit us in North Carolina. As much as I want it to be a country, if it did become a country…I don’t want to explain..just to top this off, Puerto Rico is a beautiful territory!

@ElJosher

Жыл бұрын

@@skysparkler PR natives call the island a country. And that is all that matters. It helps maintain the identity and the fact that we don’t recognize the US and it’s culture part of ourselves.

its weird to me how tiny little islands or atols can even be a country, theyre so small and theres almost no one there

@calebrivera8913

2 жыл бұрын

I've always wondered if the majority vote to unite with each other, I've never talked to anyone from those tiny island countries so I wouldn't know.

@adarheim1013

2 жыл бұрын

several thousands or tens of thousands is still a lot of people

@Shan_Dalamani

2 жыл бұрын

There's a very small island between Greenland and Canada. Canada and Denmark have been arguing for a long time over which country actually owns it.

It's such a bliss to see a new video in such a short time toycat

This video has a wonderful number of tangents, i thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you for uploading

@shonenjumpmagneto

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah he was wrong about Aruba, Netherlands being a countey during one of them. Fucking irked me

We started from Siberian autonomy to an American in an Irish POW camp, damn

Is that a hickey, toycat? 👀 👀

Really weird thing about russian countries naming: USA and UAE are both United, but Соединенные and Объединённые respectively. Emirates are United, but States are for some reason conjucted or connected, if you translate from russian

@Boxoty

2 жыл бұрын

Same in Croatian: USA is *Sjedinjene* Američke Države but UAE and UK are *Ujedinjeni* Arapski Emirati and *Ujedinjeno* Kraljevstvo.

@gamermapper

2 жыл бұрын

This naming reminded me of another inconsistancy. In Africa there's two countries which names are just Africa with a geographic indicator and therefore can be very ambiguous. The Central African Republic 🇨🇫 and South Africa 🇿🇦. In English, the CAR 🇨🇫 is always named with "Republic" at the name and with an acronym, but the RSA 🇿🇦 is always just named South Africa. In French, the RSA 🇿🇦 is also just named South Africa (Afrique du Sud), but Central Africa is called without the "Republic" but with a combined name so it's not ambiguous either (Centrafrique) 🇨🇫. And in Russian both use acronyms (ЦАР 🇨🇫, ЮАР 🇿🇦) - which in both cases include the word "Republic" without any other name, it's the only case when it's not ambiguous for both and also it's consistent.

@pierreabbat6157

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that about the UAE, but I did know that the United Nations are Объединённые.

@dimitrosskrippka2154

2 жыл бұрын

@@pierreabbat6157 not exactly, it is ООН - Организация Объединённых наций, organization of united nations

I love this channel, literally anything for the video topics.

@shonenjumpmagneto

2 жыл бұрын

Just know Aruba is not an independent Country. Major mistake he made.

just discovered you're the minecraft guy... wtf

@RavenFilms

2 жыл бұрын

And an awesome one at that! I find it interesting how many find him here first.

@tteokill3634

2 жыл бұрын

@@RavenFilms i did! just started playing minecraft a few days ago and realized i recognized the voice from somewhere

Interesting. I'm surprised you did not talk about the Western Sahara and the Polisario , specially now that Spain kinda did recognize Morocco's sovereignty over the territory

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

Spain tries to go against any form of separatism in other counties because they want to keep their own nation together.

he just changes subjects so smoothly in the video and it does not make me bored for him talking for 15 mins+

We need more Europeans like you, barely any of them could name the countries and territories in the Caribbean.

@pjp7316

2 жыл бұрын

Tf? Why do u care about mid america so much?

@notsocube8452

2 жыл бұрын

@@pjp7316 mid America 💀

@Nathan-jt8zt

2 жыл бұрын

Because Yanks are famously so good at naming countries outside of North America

@Jorge-lh6px

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nathan-jt8zt Both aren’t good at geography so I wouldn’t have expected a US citizen to do it either.

@pjp7316

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jorge-lh6px wdym theyre not good at geography? U make the most random and biggest generalizations ever. Geography is a huge ass field of study and ur here saying people from 2 continents are simply bad at it

Yes i also until a couple of years ago would use Siberia and Serbia interchangibly. I remember to be very confused when they taught at school that in ww1 austria attacked serbia, and that russia threatened austria not to attack it. I was like, "ofc russia wouldn't let that happen. austria thinks it would attack a part of russia and expects russia not to fight back!" I think we all have an american within us😂

That last part about Ecuador reminded me about the trans-American highway, I found it very interesting I think it was The U.S.’s first kind of international effort when it was coming out of its Isolationist period.(The road stretch’s from i think a northern tip of Canada top the most southern tip of Argentina)

Literally everyone: oh Americans can't name other countries Me: *me being an expert who knows all the countries on the planet*

@TheFlyfly

2 жыл бұрын

wrong! americans can name every mexican country and communist country, but you have to bribe them first.

@PrimericanIdol

2 жыл бұрын

Only because you heard that song from Yakko Warner.

@xtraviation

2 жыл бұрын

I did that for flags and maps, also i can guess where flags originate from by looking at the style

@notsocube8452

2 жыл бұрын

Americans who are not geography nerds. (please don't kill me I'm addicted to geography too) Casual people from other countries can name a lot of countries.

@Shan_Dalamani

2 жыл бұрын

It would be great if some Americans not located in Hawaii could wrap their heads around the fact that their non-Hawaiian/non other island possession is NOT "overseas" from Canada. Some idiot in the southwestern U.S. tried to tell me that I was "overseas" from them, and I said, "Look, if I wanted to walk to where you are, I could do so without getting anywhere near the ocean. It would take a long time, but it could be done."

A take Puerto Rico’s status. I went to a school in Chicago that was about 70% Puerto Rican, 25% Mexican, and 5% other (I was in the “other” group). At least half the kids were born there and thought of as “immigrants”, both, by themselves and others, despite already being citizens from the start. The rest were mostly first generation here. So where I grew up, Puerto Rico was almost unanimously considers another country. It was even taught as such in my school, such was their desire to maintain their culture. In high school I was in a pretty evenly mixed environment. It was there when I was shocked to learn that Puerto Rico, a country I spent k-8th grade learning about, a country I was taught more about than even the country I lived it, wasn’t even an independent country!

@isfrom5169

2 жыл бұрын

agreed, im pr

@xviper2k

2 жыл бұрын

This sort of ethnic-biased teaching based on a school's demographics shouldn't happen. Everyone should be learning the same things.

@calebrivera8913

2 жыл бұрын

@@xviper2k This is an almost universal thing, most schools talk about puerto rico as a country because of how culturally distinct we are from the US. Unless your referring too those little cultural events schools do but I dont see the problem with that.

@RavenFilms

2 жыл бұрын

@@xviper2k My school was famous for teaching opinions over facts, but most of the time it was clear (to me at least) when it was opinion. Clearly not in this case though

@xviper2k

2 жыл бұрын

​@@calebrivera8913 I'm referring to schools in general. I've heard of American schools whose curriculums differed wildly from everyone else's just because they wanted to cater to a particular minority. So instead of changing other schools' curriculums to spend a bit more time covering certain subjects, these schools will make those topics such a large priority that they won't even find the time to properly go over the things that most Americans would consider more important to know. Then you end up with students who might as well have received their education in an entirely different country. Frankly I don't recall Puerto Rico ever being talked about at length when I was in school, so I'm not even sure what terminology they would use. This was in Florida, in a city with a large Puerto Rican population.

Aruba actually uses the Aruban florin as their currency and while Curaçao does also use the US dollar, they also use the Netherlands Antillean guilder.

@shonenjumpmagneto

2 жыл бұрын

How the fuck are you not mentioning HOW *ARUBA, NETHERLANDS* IS ACTUALLY APART OF *THE NETHERLANDS?* Him saying it was independent was so annoying!

@MrSharkFIN

2 жыл бұрын

@@shonenjumpmagneto No, he's just questioning why the names of non-independent territories are highlighted in the same way as independent nations. He did the same with Curaçao as well. Hence why he then goes onto say that "Bonaire can't be an independent country," because it doesn't have that same, bold name as the others. After this he says that they're all part of the Netherlands. Edit: Also found it funny how you wrote *"apart* of the Netherlands," since apart implies that it is not a part of it

@dezdeenz4482

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, i live there and i was like wut.

@dezdeenz4482

2 жыл бұрын

@@shonenjumpmagneto we are semi independent. We, Curacao and the Netherlands make up the kingdom of the Netherlands

@shonenjumpmagneto

2 жыл бұрын

@@dezdeenz4482 semi-sovereign is the term you want. Yeh. *Aruba 🇦🇼* is a Constituate Country of *Netherlands 🇳🇱* the same way *Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿* is to *Britain* 🇬🇧. Constituate Countries seem to get the Nationality treatment like Territories do. (Except in Russia for some reason. They have 22 Constituate Countries AKA Republics. Where's a Chechnya Flag Emoji? Lol.)

Puerto Rico is a country that actually belongs to the United States but doesn't form part of it. we are a possession that's why we have things very similar to a sovereign country cause we are a country, a country that was invaded by the United States. and no we are not poor our GDP (PPP) is 52 in the world, over many europeans country like Portugal, yes we are the poorest in the USA but our standards of living and income is much higher than many European and asian countries

@calebrivera8913

2 жыл бұрын

Are economy is higher than many european countries, but our standard of living isn't, we have a far higher crime rate, a non-functional electrical grid than in tern effects our water supply, a surprisingly high highschool dropout rate, a very high unemployment rate, and a high malnutrition rate.

@ab9840

2 жыл бұрын

So fix the problems. Vote in people who can actually solve the problems.

@ElJosher

Жыл бұрын

@@ab9840 if only it were that simple

As a siberian I can assure you, it’s not always cold over there😀

@modmaker7617

2 жыл бұрын

If you're a Siberian, what's your ethnic group? If you're ethnic Russian you're not true Siberian.

@UnderTheSummerSun

2 жыл бұрын

@@modmaker7617 half Russian, half Tartar. Born and raised in Siberia as well as my parents. Siberian is not only an ethnic group, this term is also used for all inhabitants of Siberia.

@modmaker7617

2 жыл бұрын

@@UnderTheSummerSun I never implied Siberian was an ethnic group. It's just a geographic descriptor. Siberia is full of many diverse Turkic (Tartars are Turkic) & East Asian/Mongolic ethnic groups. I also added the not ethnic Russian to my comment because I want to prove that Siberians aren't Russians just under Russian control.

@modmaker7617

2 жыл бұрын

@@UnderTheSummerSun BTW; I'm 1/4 ethnic Kashubian & 3/4 ethnic Polish. My dad is half Kashubian so that's why in quarters. I never leard the Kashubian language which is basically just a dialect of Polish that diverged to much to become it's separate thing to it's not that special. Not everyone is just one ethnic group is my message here.

@sickboi2615

2 жыл бұрын

😃☺️✌🏻👍🏻

i love the fact that this channel exists, and hes so honest. Like "You can send me money, it won't benifit you in any way but look. I have a shirt"

Saint Martin is partly in NANP and partly out. The other island that's part in, part out, is Hispaniola. Gas prices in Puerto Rico, if they still do as they did when I was there, are figures like 1.227 $/l. Seven mills, not nine.

One of the biggest compliments you could give to us Puerto Ricans is to call us interesting 😅, If you ever visit don't be surprised to see abonded buildings, the recession made a ton of people leave and hurricane maria made it worse, I think our population grew a little bit between 2019 and 2022, but I don't think our population will recover by 2030.

@Nanoedi

2 жыл бұрын

Our population will definitely get lower how thing are going in the island. Especially after hurricane Maria since a lot of people simply left the island and didn’t come back.

@calebrivera8913

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nanoedi I mean, IK alot of my family members are coming back, but most of them are retirees, if we want working age puerto ricans to come back we'll have to raise the average salary, but yeah are governments too shit for that.

Watched IBX as a kid playing Minecraft, now at 20 watching him for geography facts, love to see it

I want to know how the American POW felt after being returned to the POW camp...That just seems like the weirdest situation I can imagine...

Still waiting for the 5th channel, Toycat Does Words Good

I'm from Puerto Rico, fact this flag 🇵🇷 blue color originally was sky blue then on 1952 it changed to 'regular blue'.

2:11 lol, my city's skyline (ekaterinburg) pops up on the picture, however most people here don't consider themselves siberian but rather ural people, fascinating stuff

Lots of people who know about the American tax rules for people living abroad think that it means you’d be taxed twice, but that’s very unlikely and as an American I think it’s a pretty fair system. It doesn’t create an unnecessary tax burden on most Americans because you can exclude $108,000 of income from being taxed. If you make just a little more than this the overall tax rate won’t be that different, and if you make a lot more than this, you can probably afford the extra taxes (and let’s be honest in that case they probably chose a country with a low tax rate anyway).

2:15 Actually, there is Yekaterinburg city in the place of picture, that’s supposed to represent Siberia. It’s actually in Ural, not in Siberia. (the only reason I wrote this comment is that I’m from Yekaterinburg and just couldn’t miss a chance to mention my city. Now y’all know it exists:)

@matra21

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I can tell you a fun fact too. Your username looks like the hungarian word for "frog", which is "béka", only without the accent on the second letter :)

@beka4080

2 жыл бұрын

@@matra21 Thanks for the idea for avatar picture

@matra21

2 жыл бұрын

@@beka4080 If you do actually set a frog as an avatar, you'll be the ultimate agent haha

@gamermapper

2 жыл бұрын

@@matra21 he did ☺️🇭🇺

I would love to see you do a series were you try to learn a new language

I love how the video starts off quite well scripted and then devolves into madness.

@shonenjumpmagneto

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah he said Aruba, Netherlands was an independent Country and was way fuxking wrong.

Fun fact, Ecuador also uses the US dollar as it's official currency in addition to using similar road signs.

@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters

2 жыл бұрын

Also, el salvador along with bitcoin? for some reason.

8:44 Those couple of Islands are Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands , which are also US territories. That's why they also tax based on citizenship.

So about Puerto Rico. On the island we uninamously consider ourselves our own country despite not being a fully independent nation (we do have a high degree of autonomy when it comes to the government) simply because of how big the contrast between our cultures, languages, history and ethnicities are vs the US. Plus we've never really been on friendly terms. Look up events like the Utuado Bombings, The Gag Law of '48 or how bad the 1920 Cabotage Laws are for the economy of the island even today. We are American citizens, but we really don't feel like it.

@isfrom5169

2 жыл бұрын

we were kind of traded with cuba and philipines by usa and spain like trading cards in the second grade exept usa lost cuba and philpines and now usa barley takes care of us

@silverletter4551

2 жыл бұрын

That's right. You're not my countrymen and you should be independent so America can have nothing to do with you

@LuciusVulpes

2 жыл бұрын

@@silverletter4551 Oh yeah? Well go to DC and tell that to Congress. They're the ones with the power to decide whether or not we can be a state, independent or continue being a Commonwealth.

if you go to "the true size of..." website, you can see that Ecuador is bigger than Belarus, which surprised me Also Somalia stretches all the way from Murmansk in northern Russia to Copenhagen in Denmark!

Can you do a vid on the english/uk aristocracy? Explaining their titles mean and how in the past titles differed from each other, e.g.: how is an Earl different from a Marquess? Did each title mean a different function or was it only to denote hierarchy?

this guy is so cheerful i love it

I learned all the 195 countries name within a few days and its actually really fun

@justaddbricks5527

2 жыл бұрын

Same, over lockdown I learnt all the counties in the world. And yes, I agree, really fun.

@TheFlyfly

2 жыл бұрын

i assume that means the 193 UN member states and the 2 UN observer states?

@magicalmelon4390

2 жыл бұрын

@Quizzing bot there’s 197 countries count Taiwan and Kosovo

@gamermapper

2 жыл бұрын

@@magicalmelon4390 Them count Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria too. Unless you're just biased and think that pro Western secession is cool but not anti Western secession

@Nathan-jt8zt

2 жыл бұрын

@@gamermapper I don’t think it’s a bias I just don’t think anyone cares

Because you seem to go by the definition that a country is a sovereign state, therefore some regions people often call countries that aren't countries (sovereign states) would be England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

@raymond8920

2 жыл бұрын

British people are no longer real

@shrekeyes2410

2 жыл бұрын

theyre nations, though.

@davidacosta9158

2 жыл бұрын

ya obviously

@davidacosta9158

2 жыл бұрын

@@shrekeyes2410 depends on what u mean by nation

@davidwallin7518

2 жыл бұрын

And then there's the Channel Islands, Isle-of-Mann & Sealand.

Aruba and Curaçao are actually also parts of the Netherlands

FWIU Americans living abroad are allowed to deduct any taxes paid to their jurisdiction of residence from what they owe for US taxes (no double taxation) so functionally it's more of a requirement to fill out an IRS form than to actually pay anything. The exception would be the super-rich living in overseas tax havens.

Interesting tidbit about The Federated States of Micronesia: They're one of three Pacific Island sovereign states that have a Compact of Free Association (COFA) with the United States. The other "states in free association" are the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Republic of Palau. They are sometimes known as the Freely Associated States.

If you haven’t been to Puerto Rico, I highly suggest you do. English is taught in schools there so most people know some English. And you’d only need to bring American dollars. Beautiful forests and beaches. Lots of fun things to do.

13:49 Antarktika has actually his own currency. It's just a "collectors"/Souvenir currency.

It’s good to know Toycat won’t put my donated money to good use ☺️☺️

14:33 this map didn't include the part of Antarctica that Pewdiepie took over a few months ago.

8:06 “This article is written like a *personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay … Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style. …”

that’s first channel for me pal

Aruba and Curazao are basically like Scotland and Wales. They're countries within a country; in this case, the Kingdom Of The Netherlands. Bonaire isn't, with their referendum voted for it. Sint Maarten has also the status of Aruba and Curazao, so they're considered a country (within a country) as well.

@shonenjumpmagneto

2 жыл бұрын

...THANK YOU. i scrolled through 400 comments looking for a correction. Aruba, Netherlands is a Constituate Country / State / Province of The Netherlands. Note: Netherlands (State), Netherlands (Country) are 2 seperate entities. Note: Dutch "Provinces" are equal to American "Counties".

@shonenjumpmagneto

2 жыл бұрын

Constituate Country is what they're all called! Netherlands, Britain & Russia have them but Russia uses another term.

The reason for Puerto Rico's population decline is because of, as a baseline, people started having less babies as the nation developed, but it has been sped up and so abruptly because of an economic crisis we've been facing since the mid-2010's and disasters like Hurrican Maria. These caused a mass exodus of puertorricans towards the United States. Moving out to the US is so prevalent and normalized that all families living on the Island have as a minimum 1 family member living, how we call it, "Allá'Fuera ", or "living Out There", as it'd be in English. And yes the Virgin Islands are all a part of our territory! They're just rebel provinces with high anglo population.

@ab9840

2 жыл бұрын

The Spanish Virgin islands (Vieques and Culebra) are part of PR. But the USVI. are not. The Spanish might have claimed them once but the Danes were the last European nation to control them and sell them to the US (for $25 million). The US took official control at the end of March 1917. A few days later the US entered WW I.

To know about every country in the world is elementary general knowledge that should be needed before every job interview

The main takeaway you should get from all this, is that not all foreign places are countries.

When he was talking about Tibet being controlled by China… 😂

@markjones1500

2 жыл бұрын

I think I prefer "taken care of" or "looked after" by China. Because of course all the Tibetans love being looked after by China. That's why it's not controversial at all. No siree.

Are you good at trigonometry? Because you love going off on tangents xP I'm all for it though haha

“It’s great to have a ton of landmass. You can send people you don’t like there and they will never be able to leave” - that’s probably word for word the Soviets rationale behind the gulags lmao

@georgiykireev9678

2 жыл бұрын

Same with the British empire and Australia. A big chunk of nothing in the middle of nowhere

You missed Scarborough in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

3:50 Russia reminds me on Canada and USA. Lots of indigenous tribes in Ural and Siberia.

Just happy to see ibx talk about Puerto Rico.

You forgot to mention Easter Island. Definitely not as famous as other places yet everybody knows the moai sculptures.

Bruh, I literally saw Siberia being just the name of the location in the Sonic movie 2.

1:13 - Denmark tells France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Spain, and UK, that Denmark is the biggest in Europe.

This is the second video where he's struggled with the word metropolis

A country isn’t always an independent state or nation, it’s really an issue of people calling states or nations a “country,” even when they encompass several countries. People even call the US a “country,” even though it comprises various states and territories, I would argue that the states themselves usually are not the entirety of a country either though, with exceptions like Hawaii and Puerto Rico (a country, that territory, or colony, of the nation of the US.)

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

The issue is pretty much with the semantics of the words "country", "state", and "nation". The US basically are states that work together, meant in the same way as France, Germany or Brazil are states. With the federal government similar to the modern day EU. And with time the individual states became what other countries might call provinces or regions. And at the same time England, Scotland, Northern Ireland are all countries that are part of the UK.

@benjaminstevens4468

Жыл бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudios exactly, but say, North Korea is a single state but is really not a nation, or country unto itself, but part of one nation or country which, fractured into two independent states which do not cooperate any longer.

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

@@benjaminstevens4468 and now try to figure out how Prussia fits into the holy Roman empire ;D

It's Bulgaria Air.. You made it,intact,to your destination in some amount of time.. That's a win..

Another place that is often thought of as independent but really isn't: The Moon. *Star-Spangled Banner starts playing loudly*

@MattMcIrvin

Жыл бұрын

The US is a signatory to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which establishes the bodies of the solar system as having common status similar to Antarctica. There was an extension of it, the Moon Treaty, that nobody with a human spaceflight program has signed, but the earlier one stands.

Siam's gonna be the witness To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness

I like how the czech republic is landlocked and pretty much irrelevant but still somehow got a base in antarctica

For all the jokes on this channel I love when I actually learn crazy stuff. Like Puerto Rico being poorer than the poorest US state with 45% below the poverty line is something I'd never heard before.

Puerto Rico's one representative in the House cannot vote. And the citizens cannot vote in presidential elections. The Jones Act also forced all goods to go through a US mainland port (Miami, Jax) before going to the island; nothing can go directly. This raises the cost of everything there drastically.

Working for the government also gets rid of federal income tax

like a fever dream and i love it all

From highway signs to world war 2; it was a wild ride....

For a second there I thought you were talking about micronations. This is a lot better

I never thought Siberia was a country but as a lad, I was kind of baffled that it wasn't one of the constituent republics of the USSR. I had a globe that had the portion of the RSFSR west of the Urals labeled "Russia" and the rest labeled "Siberia", and I was surprised to discover later that "Russia", the RSFSR, did not end at the Urals.

I legit thought Siberia was a country until just a few years ago when I finally thought to look up where it is 😂

@pjp7316

2 жыл бұрын

Why would u think its a country? Thinking that its a city would at least make some sense.

As a Serbian, I approve your message

I'm Puertorican, and yeah this island's wierd. it's really nice tho.

@Nanoedi

2 жыл бұрын

La explicación más simple de nuestra isla 🇵🇷

@gokstad6784

2 жыл бұрын

so ur the superior and better version of an American

Should have touched on Timbuktu, for so long I thought that was a country 😅

back in time before i started learning geography for some reason i thought north and south korea were in the us, i dont even know how or why i thought that, i just did

One of this non-existing countries is Taiwan, or Chinese Republic (Chinese patriotic music playing)

Well I guess we Germans know that Siberia is part of Russia, as lots of us (like myself) had grandfathers who were imprisoned there as POWs until like embarrassingly long after the end of WWII (in contrast to western Allied Forces, who realized the war had ended). Because obviously it was not only considered a "fun place" for political opponents, but also for enemies they felt need further punishment.

Fun fact: until recently, I thought Sicily was independent due to the phrase "Big boot italy kicked little sicily"

My man's rocking a hickey

Is that a hickey on toy cats neck?!?!?

i always thought quebec was a country idk why. also i still thought yugoslavia existed but i kind of forgot abt it until my mate mentioned it. also tasmania needs its own country same with siberia. i always thought siberia was a place too in europe or smth idk why lol

@shonenjumpmagneto

2 жыл бұрын

...because Russia is a culturally & Ethnically European Country homie. Why do people say "for some reason" when it's fairly obvious? Lol no offense

@devz4201

2 жыл бұрын

@@shonenjumpmagneto still?

My geography teacher thought Alaska was a country hahahah

@ben-drums.

Жыл бұрын

Lol

2nd channel? i dont even know your main