"They Are Stealing My Culture!" Bassem Youssef On Netflix's 'Cleopatra' Casting

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Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef and author Ernest Owens to debate Netflix hiring non-Egyptian actress Adele James to play Cleopatra in a new Netflix show about the Pharaoh Queen.
Bassem is quick to point out the hypocrisy shown by Netflix and Hollywood for trying to defend the 'cultural appropriation' of Egyptian culture whilst constantly defending other groups from the same thing. He adds that they are stealing his culture and that people like Kevin Hart feed into the problem by trying to 'rewrite history' of Egypt with things such as the pyramids and who built them.
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  • @LadyGamerLoon
    @LadyGamerLoon Жыл бұрын

    Love hearing the American telling the Egyptian that he is wrong about his own culture 🙄

  • @desres2281

    @desres2281

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolute fool! 🙄🙄

  • @Azidust

    @Azidust

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly

  • @nosyneighbor4408

    @nosyneighbor4408

    Жыл бұрын

    If it was the other way around, expect riots. They dont want equality, it's privilege that they want.

  • @mikeylondon_4676

    @mikeylondon_4676

    Жыл бұрын

    A true American

  • @hannahdaisy6905

    @hannahdaisy6905

    Жыл бұрын

    Americans 🙄

  • @reddust4632
    @reddust4632 Жыл бұрын

    An American telling an Egyptian about Egyptian history, fascinating....

  • @lbj2642

    @lbj2642

    Жыл бұрын

    Ancient Egyptians are dark skinned people

  • @Akakikukaku

    @Akakikukaku

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lbj2642 They are, but they too mingle with other races so it gave birth to Egypt now Bassem said it himself, the region of Kush and Nubia, all have different culture and skin tones Do people hate race/culture assimilation ?

  • @LaVaZ000

    @LaVaZ000

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@lbj2642The Mali Empire was ruled by people from Scandinavia

  • @alexanderacostaosorio

    @alexanderacostaosorio

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@lbj2642 can't go around making everyone Captain America

  • @nikicarrie4071

    @nikicarrie4071

    Жыл бұрын

    Right

  • @arwynanne
    @arwynanne2 ай бұрын

    Bassem 100% correct. The American is just ignorant.

  • @domenicamassaro8221
    @domenicamassaro82214 ай бұрын

    He is right. If it is a documentary it has to be historically accurate.

  • @dankelly5150

    @dankelly5150

    3 ай бұрын

    Yup I'm on Bassem's side here !

  • @sisenor4091

    @sisenor4091

    3 ай бұрын

    Hamilton?

  • @filiptang113

    @filiptang113

    3 ай бұрын

    @@sisenor4091 That’s a musical

  • @31hallite

    @31hallite

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@filiptang113 still not accurate blacks playing white roles , nothing gets said about the movie White Chick's two black guys playing white women. Goes both ways.

  • @filiptang113

    @filiptang113

    3 ай бұрын

    @@31hallite In regular entertainment, musicals, tv-shows, movies, you are allowed to have creative liberties in your art. Like in the 2004 movie Alexander, Colin Farrell plays the role of Alexander the Great and his generals have Irish accents, because Macedonia was considered Rural in Ancient Greece. However in a documentary, it is expected that you are as close to the truth, that is available at that moment. The race swap is the least of its problems. The series simplify, misinterpret and even completely fabricate facts of thing like, the situation of Egypt and Rome in that period, how events actually folded out and the actual personalities and world views of people like Caesar, Octavian and Cleopatra.

  • @juanjacobomoracerecero6604
    @juanjacobomoracerecero6604 Жыл бұрын

    This is one of the cases in which cultural appropriation makes sense. It's not a singer wearing a Kimono, it's literally stealing the history of a country and having the nerves to put the inhabitants of that country as the ones that stole that history. This is a gross falsification of one of the most important cultures of human history.

  • @martthesling

    @martthesling

    Жыл бұрын

    Actually according to DNA evidence. Modern Egyptian DNA came after 600Ad. Ancient Egyptian DNA is more from the Levant and Europe than Arab.

  • @ajax5148

    @ajax5148

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@martthesling And again. Cleopatra was Greek. NOT NUBIAN. Take this on board.

  • @badmanthings

    @badmanthings

    Жыл бұрын

    @@martthesling Lmao what? You literally made that up, because genetic scientists all over the world agree that modern-Egyptians have at least 70% similar genetics to ancient Egypt. At this point you're not better than these afrocentrists trying to blackwash Egypt.

  • @mahmoudsobhyx

    @mahmoudsobhyx

    Жыл бұрын

    @@martthesling that is Completely false

  • @mahmoudsobhyx

    @mahmoudsobhyx

    Жыл бұрын

    @@martthesling Arabs live in Arabian peninsula Egypt is a fertile valley land . We have always been the most populous nation because of the Nile and easy agriculture. You can’t ethnically cleanse a settled agricultural society without untold massacres.. which never happened . Also . We have a national genome project .. you can’t steal our history .. won’t happen

  • @Erikl826
    @Erikl826 Жыл бұрын

    The Egyptian: *giving sound arguments and historically accurate information* The American: *making sassy stank faces when disagrees*

  • @SarahtheSoldier

    @SarahtheSoldier

    Жыл бұрын

    Your comment is very understarred. Thumbs up from me :)

  • @jamescummings6703

    @jamescummings6703

    11 ай бұрын

    Greek Historian Herodotus: "Egyptians are dark skinned with wooly hair like their neighbors to the South, the Kushites. Americans don't want Egyptian history, but for Modern Egyptians to deny that Egypt was made up of Sub Saharan Africans and not the post Persian invasion Egyptians is ridiculous. As far as Egypt as a Nation yes it is your history because you're Egyptian, but to deny that Modern day Egyptians weren't the builders of civilization and the monuments is ridiculous.

  • @fraon

    @fraon

    11 ай бұрын

    @@jamescummings6703 You are completely misquoting Herodotus. Please learn to quote accurately instead of spreading misinformation. Herodotus described Egyptians as different from the people to the south in sub-Saharan Africa, and even if he did state they were the same (which he absolutely did not), Herodotus has been wrong / not completely correct about events in history.

  • @zangecu1354

    @zangecu1354

    11 ай бұрын

    as my grandmother said, there was no slavery in America, and black people themselves came to build the country.

  • @SarahtheSoldier

    @SarahtheSoldier

    11 ай бұрын

    @@zangecu1354 I remember my grandmother saying to me: *"I don't care what they tell you in school; Rosa Parks was Korean because of her name."*

  • @keitha2616
    @keitha26162 ай бұрын

    This is like watching a thief get mad cause someone stopped him from stealing. These people wish they could be us so bad it drives them insane.

  • @agostocobain2729
    @agostocobain27292 ай бұрын

    I'm Iranian, and I have never met an Egyptian I didn't like. My best friend is from Egypt, I love Egyptians

  • @malakayman1138

    @malakayman1138

    2 ай бұрын

    As an Egyptian, much love to our Iranian brothers

  • @jimskoutas1933

    @jimskoutas1933

    2 ай бұрын

    🇬🇷 🇪🇬 🇮🇷 ancient brothers

  • @Samiah88

    @Samiah88

    Ай бұрын

    From Somalia and most of us love Egypt and Turkey, two wonderful countries with great people and culture. Bassem is one of the funniest comedians, love him!!!

  • @OrphicPolytheist

    @OrphicPolytheist

    Ай бұрын

    Im greek and I like them too. They are our only neighbors who never tried to conquer us or had a land dispute with.

  • @agostocobain2729

    @agostocobain2729

    Ай бұрын

    Wow! Amazing to see love guys! Definitely ancient brothers 🇮🇷 🇪🇬 🇬🇷 The funny thing is Cleopatra was mix of all of us! ☮️ and ❤️ to all you for real!

  • @Griggs133
    @Griggs133 Жыл бұрын

    The guy on the right making faces because he has no argument while being schooled by the Egyptian guy is so infuriating. He knows he's losing the debate but he feels like his position is dogmatically morally correct so he keeps making childish faces because he cant handle losing.

  • @blockbullyrecords5417

    @blockbullyrecords5417

    Жыл бұрын

    No the Egyptian guy is being one sided hes dumb

  • @radudamian3210

    @radudamian3210

    Жыл бұрын

    Chill down, maybe he was just relieving himself, given how he looked.

  • @PizzaTimeGuy

    @PizzaTimeGuy

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@Radu Damian Seriously? Relieving? I mean, sometimes he's giving a face that looks like: Oh no, guys, it's getting a little bit out of hand. But most of the time, he just shakes his head in disagreement, and comes with the stupidest defenses, when there is no reason to defend this documentary that is full with lies and misinformation. If the guy could only think for a second about what he is saying. And yes it is infuriating, because Morgan for a second agreed with that Clown, that also why it's infuriating. I'm glad Pierce changed his mind at the end.

  • @radudamian3210

    @radudamian3210

    Жыл бұрын

    @PizzaTimeGuy just let them be ignorant, this kind of shiving things down people's throats is sinking, most people don't even watch them. Soon their platforms will go down, and we may start getting quality movies and documentaries back, and they'll be left in the dust. No need for putrage and stuff, imo

  • @PizzaTimeGuy

    @PizzaTimeGuy

    Жыл бұрын

    @Radu Damian I guess you're right.

  • @saphadill7069
    @saphadill7069 Жыл бұрын

    As a black woman, I also very much agree that we should stop black washing everything, especially if we’re going to get mad if roles were reversed! The double standards are appalling Edit: damn I was not expecting my post to blow up. Erm… I read some of the comments but I’m not going through everything. Yes, I am black. But I love that people think I’m not because I disagree with black people trying to take over everything. To the people telling me I should research my history, I think you should actually do the same. Cleo was more European than she was black. There are also many depictions of her that still exist, statues and coins that do not show her looking any type of black. She may have had some in her but not enough to make her look like the actress used. If you’re going to make an HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY then use the right people to represent, and don’t have someone in the trailer saying “I don’t care what they teach you in school, Cleopatra was black” that’s just factually incorrect and insulting to her culture.

  • @nourhanashraf2015

    @nourhanashraf2015

    Жыл бұрын

    You're a confident educated person.. All love n support frim your Egyptian sister 🤍

  • @sabinegierth-waniczek4872

    @sabinegierth-waniczek4872

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your voice of reason! At long last it is called ACTING = IMPERSONATING somebody you likely are not in your real life. To from now on only let people play what they are in real life (e.g., only straight people are allowed to portray straight people...) would IMO kill the film industry -> *tumbleweed* in deserted Hollywood streets, and even more dramatically educated waiters...

  • @whiteclouds26

    @whiteclouds26

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nourhanashraf2015 😴😴😴

  • @nadanaguib2982

    @nadanaguib2982

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your honesty

  • @iraidaroane5534

    @iraidaroane5534

    Жыл бұрын

    We always have 1!

  • @l.q.1253
    @l.q.1253Ай бұрын

    The Egyptian man is 100% Correct. Period.

  • @gayavardan
    @gayavardan Жыл бұрын

    As an Armenian, I massively admire Bassem. I couldn't relate more to his words. The culture of Egypt can't be overrun by a country with barely 245 years of history. Heլլ no!

  • @miastupid7911

    @miastupid7911

    Жыл бұрын

    Bravo! As a Greek thank you from the bottom of my heart for speaking up. I'm very touched.

  • @agencsystems4001

    @agencsystems4001

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m not claiming Cleopatra was dark skin. But was most certainly more dark skin than the majority of Egyptians appear now. People need to understand Egypt was the melting pot of the world at this time. So also for the Egyptian to claim that it’s “his culture” at a time when the world itself was trying to find its identity is laughable, centuries over intermixing in the most conquered place on the face of the planet have led the Egyptians to the complexion they are currently Edit - Greek women aren’t pale. Especially for that period. So why is everyone mad ?

  • @alanchilds1456

    @alanchilds1456

    Жыл бұрын

    @@agencsystems4001 no she had red hair

  • @miastupid7911

    @miastupid7911

    Жыл бұрын

    @@agencsystems4001 Cleopatra was Greek! And that Netflix is a Joke thing they produced is not a documentary. They are telling the world this very thing in the re-imagined word used by the directoror and the Grandmother issue in the official trailer. They are trolling the world. Why doesn't anybody realize This? It is Mr Bassem Youseff's heritage and culture and rightly so. He is very articulate and knowledgeable. Listen to video again, he covers the entire spectrum.

  • @andrewjoyner4133

    @andrewjoyner4133

    Жыл бұрын

    @@agencsystems4001 It's not the skin tone he was complaining about.

  • @Darkstar_Menace
    @Darkstar_Menace Жыл бұрын

    As a black american im actually glad that someone from Egypt actually pushed back on this. I actually feel very embarrassed when we have americans try and tell other groups of people their history. It goes to prove how arrogant and very ignorant we can be. I 100% in agreement with Bassem on this one.

  • @ctruth6185

    @ctruth6185

    Жыл бұрын

    Whites have lied to the Black Diaspora for centuries whitewashing history. You need to educate yourself or keep quiet. There is a ton of scholarship and research on the whitewashing of Blacks from history as well as stolen patents, copyrights and inventions. Also Arabs are NOT real Egyptians.

  • @MFinc

    @MFinc

    Жыл бұрын

  • @deetee4403

    @deetee4403

    Жыл бұрын

    But why are Muslims so upset about a Greek woman , who may or may not have been mixed race ...but are ok with the lie that they literal descendants of the people who built the pyramids?

  • @MohamedSayed-nr9pp

    @MohamedSayed-nr9pp

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ctruth6185 THE ONE WHO DOSNT HAVE HISTORY COME TO STEAL OURS

  • @camouflageartist8897

    @camouflageartist8897

    Жыл бұрын

    Was Cleopatra Black? Some people were upset that the role of Cleopatra in a new movie would go to a Black actress. kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zmdh2suucbexiLA.html

  • @iBeatBoxz8
    @iBeatBoxz8Ай бұрын

    I love how Americans get worked up over a fictional mermaid being "racially" inaccurate, but it's fine when it comes to an actual historical figure.

  • @evonnemoore779

    @evonnemoore779

    Ай бұрын

    Yes Esau is fulfilling prophecy.

  • @ayejay8862

    @ayejay8862

    Ай бұрын

    Except even experts are not in agreement as to the ethnicity of Cleopatra, even though Bessem tries to act like they are. He can claim she was whatever, but it's just another theory. He is racist, because he is saying that because it was geographically in Egypt it had to be someone who looks like him - as if Egypt is a homogeneous society - basically negating Black Egyptians. Racist.

  • @Sandmouse6942

    @Sandmouse6942

    29 күн бұрын

    @@ayejay8862 i believe there is enough evidence cleopatra was at east partly defined as a greek blooded woman in the alexandrian greek era, when greek rulers replaced old rulers of foreign populations, but i honestly dont care whether she looked more like an arab or an albanian. You seem to forget what racism is. racism is what the israeli GOVERNMENT is doing (not all jews), and those who support them (including some jews). If you use your ears, those things on the side of your head, the doctor said basically that 'egypt is an ancient land, of vast empires across thousands of years and tens of dynasties, that has included libya and semitic identities, nubian and west african identities, and northern greek and macedonian identities, and these have all mixed and compacted to different degrees and contracted into the egypt we know today'. He flat out said that egyptian is a nationality, that has included many ethnicities. It is another matter if he is saying that the arabian expansion did not slightly alter egyptian genetics, or if cleopatra was mostly semitic or macedonian. I am trying to ignore all the toxic and misinforming voices to find the quiet truth that has always stood, and loud idiots like you are part of the problem like the idiot on the right in this video. i am not defending the egyptian doctor, i know nothing of him nor do i care to. But people like you bleating your first assumptions and thoughtless reactions are an affront to the seeking of truth. racism is *some black americans having absolute double standards with white americans when talking about race, and feeling entitled to claim every history when even modern west africans have trouble relating to them, if you want to see what i mean look at the african immigrants surging in now.

  • @nuniiider

    @nuniiider

    20 күн бұрын

    @ayejay8862 Cleopatra had Greek ancestors, so she can't be black.

  • @ayejay8862

    @ayejay8862

    18 күн бұрын

    ​@@nuniiider Obama had Irish ancestors, does that mean he's Irish? That he's not "black?" People are so simpleminded.

  • @rubynutman
    @rubynutman2 ай бұрын

    Cleopatra came from the Ptolemy dynasty of pharaohs. Ptolemy, whom the dynasty was named after was a Macedonian Greek and was a general in the companion cavalry lead by Alexander the Great. So Cleopatra's heritage is a mixture of Greek and Egyptian, that's roughly how she would be described.

  • @patriciagriffith7402

    @patriciagriffith7402

    28 күн бұрын

    But ancient Greeks we’re melanated

  • @mheiseus

    @mheiseus

    19 күн бұрын

    ​@@patriciagriffith7402 sorry but Cleopatra was Greek...

  • @gamedogfan

    @gamedogfan

    18 күн бұрын

    ​@@patriciagriffith7402you freakin clueless

  • @PalomasMusic666

    @PalomasMusic666

    16 күн бұрын

    If I'm being perfectly honest and I'm Latina, if I saw a white person play a Latino, I would just be impressed, I don't think it's the end of the world if it happens every once in a while but that doctor has a lot of valid points, Egypt has always gotten the short end of the stick, and now you see the difference between a liberal and someone who actually cares about real representation, whilst that American is immediately offended because they want to make you believe black people created everything and they didn't, it's called being afro centric

  • @MattmanKey84

    @MattmanKey84

    13 күн бұрын

    ​@@mheiseus Cleopatra was mixed, Greek Father - Egyptian Mother

  • @waisol2333
    @waisol2333 Жыл бұрын

    As a black West African, I must say I am tired of these people blackwashing every other culture. Why can't we tell our own stories?

  • @thomashenry1327

    @thomashenry1327

    Жыл бұрын

    As an Egyptian, my observation is this: the black gentleman is NOT African, but rather a North American belonging to an extremist political fringe movement. It is very sad that he knows so little about the amazing, rich, and ancient cultures of W. Africa. Conversely Bassem Youssef showed that he is far more knowledgeable about African culture than the person claiming to be African because he shares skin color with our African brethren. As a lover of history, i wish for the opportunity to travel W.Africa and see for myself all the things we were taught in history classes in our schools here. It also amazes me that we in Egypt learn more (and in a serious manner) about African history (in all its glory and detail) than AMERICANS such as that gentleman who claims to be a proponent of it. If he knew his history, he would be proud of it. He is trying to steal others' history because he doesn't know the greatness of the W. African heritage from where he may possibly come. There are many worldly, scholarly and educated Americans. He belongs more to the category of American who think pineapples DO belong on a Pizza, and that you can put ketchup on Caviar. Piers should have gotten an actual W.African (i have a personal fascination with Senegal) for an actual CREDIBLE opinion.

  • @siewheilou399

    @siewheilou399

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@thomashenry1327You want to check with EO what are This EO's pronouns. This EO is not a he.

  • @StuartwasDrinkell

    @StuartwasDrinkell

    Жыл бұрын

    You're so right, the fact they hijack all popular history leaves all of us severely lacking in lesser known histories of Africa. Tell us the stories from the very diverse African peoples, that aren't so well known, bring them to light! If these writers and directors were focused on this pursuit it would do more for African history than any of this appropriation, which is actually a disservice to African history and culture!

  • @assilesalem1827

    @assilesalem1827

    Жыл бұрын

    Which is awesome by the way ! thank you !

  • @janinemangubat6699

    @janinemangubat6699

    Жыл бұрын

    agree

  • @LouLen10
    @LouLen10 Жыл бұрын

    I’m Greek and I agree with Bassem. Things are getting so out of control, it’s ridiculous. If the tables were turned, there would be uproar.

  • @geekytroll7968

    @geekytroll7968

    Жыл бұрын

    I dont know if you are aware, but Netflix also portrayed ACHILLES as a black person in their Netflix series TROY 😂

  • @wappytan3344

    @wappytan3344

    Жыл бұрын

    And we will be cancelled so hard if that happen lol

  • @joshyman221

    @joshyman221

    Жыл бұрын

    I think this is the main point, I’m also Greek and I don’t care too much w/e Netflix does because it will likely be shit anyway. But the hypocrisy is unbelievable! Cleopatra was Greek, daughter of Ptolemy. This isn’t a question up for debate and I don’t see why this other man interviewed makes it seem like it is. It really is no different to if Brad Pitt was picked to play MLK.

  • @DailyCorvid

    @DailyCorvid

    Жыл бұрын

    @@joshyman221 Cultists use any excuse to kill and fight with civilised people. That is this, it's clear to see. Only a fool will believe it though. Do you think there are many people ON EARTH who read books - who don't 100% factually KNOW; that Cleo-Patra Esta Ptolemy is WHITE and GREEK from two WHITE GREEK PARENTS. There is NO BLACK IN HER ENTIRE FAMILY TREE AT THIS POINT. People are too thick these days, they are thick and go to thick school. So they end up thnking that a person called CLEO from a place called PATRAS in GREECE who is the dughter of WHITE PERSON PTOLEMY and his WHITE WIFE can possibly NOT BE WHITE HERSELF. Vandals and thieves and morons and cads. *Cleo is a white person Jewish feminine name, Patras is a place in Greece they are from, Ptolemy is the father and Cleopatras 6th was her mother. FACT IS that the reason these people wish to destroy our culture is because they are TERRIFIED OF ITS SUCCESS AND JEALOUS OF ITS HISTORY.* Cope. Scum. Racists and bigots in sheeps clothing claiming to be progressives!!

  • @kinegiros

    @kinegiros

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@Geeky Troll yes a blond with blue eyes as an black😅😅😅

  • @angelh1743
    @angelh17433 ай бұрын

    I have to agree with the gentleman from Egypt on this one. Who are in America to claim this thing is a documentary. We don't even teach Egyptian history in school. Not even African history. When I say African history I mean history about Africa. Not American African history in America. America is in no rightful position to say this Cleopatra is a documentary. That is very ignorant. Plus I also love how the guy on the right completely dodges the question about how he would feel if a white actor was chosen to play Nelson Mandela. He knew if he truly answered that question truthfully, he would have lost all credibility on Cleopatra.

  • @timothycarnagie750

    @timothycarnagie750

    Ай бұрын

    People act like they are blind when it comes to African history. The statues of Egypt are very clear representation of the Black man. Those images look nothing like this fake Egyptian talking trash. Bream the noses all you want, tear down walls, hide history by any means necessary. The truth will still be revealed

  • @Jazz-fg2dm

    @Jazz-fg2dm

    28 күн бұрын

    This guy is not indigenous Egyptian. Come on, don't be stupid.

  • @Laila87799

    @Laila87799

    2 күн бұрын

    ​​@@Jazz-fg2dmreally as a Nubian I'm telling you it' s none of your business we Egyptians live together black, brown, white we are all the same he is an Egyptian born and raised in Egypt his parents are Egyptians his grandparents are Egyptians all his family and friends are he has an Egyptian id I know it hurts and if he was not indigenous according to your opinion neither are you

  • @reem-othman162

    @reem-othman162

    Күн бұрын

    ​سيبك منه يل اخويا دول العنصريه ملت قلوبهم مش هيستوعبوا ان احنا في مصر مش بنركز في الحجات دي اصلاً

  • @timothycarnagie750

    @timothycarnagie750

    Күн бұрын

    @@Laila87799 What he’s trying to say is that the original Egyptians were Dark skin. So if a movie is done about ancient Egypt (Kemet), it must show the true identity of the people to the highest degree possible.

  • @navidutube
    @navidutube3 ай бұрын

    Bassem is always on point!

  • @joshm3484
    @joshm3484 Жыл бұрын

    As an American, I'd like to apologize for letting this stupidity get out of hand.

  • @austinsavage

    @austinsavage

    Жыл бұрын

    I dont see this as an “america” problem; its a black propaganda problem by the rich blacks in america who are clutching at straws in their arguments

  • @evolveandgrow174

    @evolveandgrow174

    Жыл бұрын

    I feel the same way. It is so embarrassing.

  • @m00z123

    @m00z123

    Жыл бұрын

    As an Egyptian, I'd like to thank you for your apology, we know alot of you guys are against this madness just try to support us against that woke blkwashing nonsense guys

  • @royalroyal2210

    @royalroyal2210

    Жыл бұрын

    Act then, dont just apologize

  • @dbdyyy4976

    @dbdyyy4976

    Жыл бұрын

    @@royalroyal2210 this level of stupidity can't be fixed.

  • @Michael_Kouri
    @Michael_Kouri Жыл бұрын

    As a Greek having watched a lot of Holywood movies on greek myths & history, I couldn't agree & relate more to Bassem Youssef. Egyptian history is marvelous and frankly nobody gives a damn about American guilt syndrome. History is history, truth is the truth and that's all that matters

  • @ellenmendoza7246

    @ellenmendoza7246

    Жыл бұрын

    Well said

  • @LC_from_MO

    @LC_from_MO

    Жыл бұрын

    Cleopatra was Macedonian, Greek!!!

  • @DimitriTheBarbarian

    @DimitriTheBarbarian

    Жыл бұрын

    There is no American guilt. It’s made up shit. Stop using woke language

  • @A.zeyada

    @A.zeyada

    Жыл бұрын

    “Nobody gives a damn about American guilt syndrome” Thank you & cheers from Egypt

  • @EpicEclecticTV1

    @EpicEclecticTV1

    Жыл бұрын

    soo true well said i tell so many time in our countries we dont have that american guilt syndrome

  • @user-oo7uq5wi7e
    @user-oo7uq5wi7e4 ай бұрын

    Bassem is always right as usual. I totally agree with the fact that Hollywood always erases his people in every movie.

  • @michaelmarler7016
    @michaelmarler7016Ай бұрын

    Culture isn't ALL they steal.

  • @user-yw1nm4je8o

    @user-yw1nm4je8o

    Ай бұрын

    I can’t breathe

  • @Chevalier.D.Artagnan

    @Chevalier.D.Artagnan

    7 күн бұрын

    I started heavily

  • @ZiyadDyingtricycle

    @ZiyadDyingtricycle

    16 сағат бұрын

    Don’t be racist

  • @raffcutt5498
    @raffcutt54983 ай бұрын

    I'm happy Egypt sues Netflix for 2 billion. That'll teach those clowns.

  • @Moorsho

    @Moorsho

    Ай бұрын

    Where are they going to sue them in American court 😂😂😂

  • @nahilltop

    @nahilltop

    Ай бұрын

    So the Sue is base on them wanted a white woman to play the role

  • @SultanMuhammad-vc3do

    @SultanMuhammad-vc3do

    Ай бұрын

    Why bc they cast a black actor 😒

  • @eveoc781_xxy49

    @eveoc781_xxy49

    Ай бұрын

    US is already giving Egypt 2 billions. They do not need to sue

  • @SultanMuhammad-vc3do

    @SultanMuhammad-vc3do

    Ай бұрын

    @@eveoc781_xxy49 Egypt just entitled and racist at this point 🤦‍♂️

  • @DSedits4fun
    @DSedits4fun Жыл бұрын

    An American man telling an Egyptian historian about Egyptian history Gotta love it 😁

  • @mirabdulrehman3161

    @mirabdulrehman3161

    Жыл бұрын

    This is what Americans do best. They believe that what they know is the truth and everyone else is just wrong.

  • @WilfChadwick

    @WilfChadwick

    Жыл бұрын

    But he black!

  • @Ezekiel903

    @Ezekiel903

    Жыл бұрын

    this are indoctrinated black american, bcs no black african, i mean from Sub Saharan region would claim such nonsense! now they claim India was built by blacks, ii don't even know what they mean with black, bcs Ethiopian are from Africa, but have a different body structure then black Sub Saharan african, this is like claiming Norwegian vikings are like the Greeks, only bcs of a similar skin color! crazy simple, but it seems that simple works for american, they see a similar skin color, so he must be a "brother" eve if maybe his ancestor sold his people as slaves to other people!

  • @qaz122

    @qaz122

    Жыл бұрын

    the best part is she was Greek. But you all talk about racism. She was not even damn Egyptian

  • @qaz122

    @qaz122

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mirabdulrehman3161 the truth that she greek? or that she was profoundly inbreed? is that park of Egyptian history?

  • @davidrojas6457
    @davidrojas6457 Жыл бұрын

    This dude making the silliest, most immature faces while Dr. Youssef explained and clarified his own points back to him is just all you need to know about who is right here.

  • @Tenchi707

    @Tenchi707

    Жыл бұрын

    It's really annoying, these woke idiots really have being annoying as a part of their personality

  • @Nicole__Natalia

    @Nicole__Natalia

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly, it’s embarrassing smh

  • @HELLENIGMA

    @HELLENIGMA

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, he is obviously not pretending to be silly and immature, but is exactly that. Quite stupid and cheap of TV shows to invite such empty dudes who can't build a minimum idea in their heads but try to sell misery to other immature and ignorant people.

  • @AfricanMaverick

    @AfricanMaverick

    Жыл бұрын

    The ancient Egyptians were cattle herders. Modern Egyptians are primarily descended from camel herders (such as Berbers/Syrians/Arabs). Furthermore, the livestock found in modern Egypt isn;t the same breed as that of ancient Egypt. The ancient Egyptians herded a specific type of cattle known as the Sanga cattle which is no longer found in Egypt. The Sanga cattle has long horns and is mostly found amongst Nilotic groups (or Afro-Eurasian admixed groups who have significant Nilotic admixture such as the Fulanis, Northern Sudanese, Ethiopians, and Somalis). These are the groups who show clear morphological similarities to the people drawn on the walls of the pyramids. They are now found in the Sahelian regions of Africa. This region spans from Ethiopia to Mauritania. The DNA that connects all cattle herders in Africa is found the highest amongst the SOuth Sudanese Nilotic groups like the Dinka. Although the largest number of cattle is found in Ethiopia, the oldest of this cattle species was discovered in Sudan where the Dinka live, with a dating of 10,000 years. This ultimately debunks the claim that cattle domestication originated with Eurasian groups like ARabs (who are actually camel herders). I suggest you to read this study: "Cow about that! New research overturns traditional thoughts about domesticated cattle" In other words, the claim that Eurasians brought the cattle culture to Africa isn’t backed by any solid evidence - since the vast majority of Eurasian groups in Africa herd camel, sheep, and goats, not cattle. Berbers and Arabs, for example, are camel herders, showing that they couldn’t have been those ancient Egyptians drawn on the pyramid walls. The Sahelian cattle herders are the prototype of those ancient people drawn on the walls. Modern Egyptians are merely descendants of those ancient cattle herders. However, they’re not the prototype of the cattle herders since they now have significantly higher admixture from West Asia. Hence why their cattle looks different and they no longer have the same culture as the ancients.

  • @rashelelashley

    @rashelelashley

    Жыл бұрын

    He likes to do that and racism is his favourite topic, apart from being gay he is just annoying!

  • @NewVideoTech3000
    @NewVideoTech30002 ай бұрын

    North Africans including Egyptians are a different race, you can identify them easily from their facial features

  • @mindeyethemasterscreen2712

    @mindeyethemasterscreen2712

    18 күн бұрын

    What about the Sudanese who live in North Africa next to Egypt?

  • @NewVideoTech3000

    @NewVideoTech3000

    9 күн бұрын

    Sudan is not in North Africa, but you can know them with their special facial and body features, each race in Sudan has a different look and traditions

  • @mindeyethemasterscreen2712

    @mindeyethemasterscreen2712

    9 күн бұрын

    @@NewVideoTech3000 It's literally right next to Egypt in the North of Africa.

  • @S3bot

    @S3bot

    7 күн бұрын

    @@NewVideoTech3000 Sudan is not in Africa says how intellectually vacuous you are. Egypt has a spectrum of identities that include Sudanese darker complexion to the lighter shades of Mid east.

  • @AlohaVida-oo2mw

    @AlohaVida-oo2mw

    6 сағат бұрын

    @@mindeyethemasterscreen2712 it’s not North Africa technically just like Mauritania is technically nnot North African because of the Sahara desert 😂 we still call them north Africa’s. Because they relate to Morocco

  • @stellakonsta
    @stellakonsta17 күн бұрын

    Cleopatra was Greek and that is painful for many.

  • @imjoeim

    @imjoeim

    9 күн бұрын

    she's Egyptian, She was born and raised in Egypt, she's only known cause she was a Pharaoh. saying she's Macedonian cause her family came from Macedonia 15 generation ago is nothing but racist.

  • @stellakonsta

    @stellakonsta

    9 күн бұрын

    She was GREEK !!!! Learn history!!!

  • @imjoeim

    @imjoeim

    9 күн бұрын

    @@stellakonsta you literally didn't even read...

  • @Aleksssssssss
    @Aleksssssssss Жыл бұрын

    Bassem absolutely destroyed the other guy, he had no idea what he was talking about and the disrespect against Egyptians and Greeks from him is honestly disgusting.

  • @octo.lina69

    @octo.lina69

    Жыл бұрын

    He looked uncomfortable at the end of it because he knew he was wrong and the irony of Ernest initially saying, "This is ridiculous" 🧐🤨

  • @DAREAL_WOLFDEN

    @DAREAL_WOLFDEN

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you assuming the "guy" gender??? Oohh you are gonna pissing them off good

  • @biggiebeil5118

    @biggiebeil5118

    Жыл бұрын

    destroyed the other trans faka ! how he can have knowledge about my country history, even myself as Egyptian who knows a few about the history can't know everything!

  • @harleyhartley3168

    @harleyhartley3168

    Жыл бұрын

    Woke nonsense!

  • @danushkahettiarachchi4001

    @danushkahettiarachchi4001

    Жыл бұрын

    oh no black people smh

  • @deporfantv3721
    @deporfantv3721 Жыл бұрын

    I’m Spanish and I totally supprt Dr. Bassem. If you call it fiction, it’s ok, but when you call it documentary…it’s a bad joke

  • @MattPuxty

    @MattPuxty

    Жыл бұрын

    Earnest Owens is sitting in front of the world’s smallest bookshelf, of which, most of the space is occupied by his own books (narcissist). The biggest act of appropriation is not from the documentary, but from Owens himself. He’s trying to play the role of an academic, but his comments and facial expressions scream ‘TMZ reporter’

  • @prashants5071

    @prashants5071

    Жыл бұрын

    I hope they have a realistic description of her boat ride with Julius Caesar on the Nile. Only saying this since it is a documentary.😂

  • @amossutandi

    @amossutandi

    Жыл бұрын

    Egyptians should be used to americans and british stealing their culture. American and British musea are full of stolen goods from egypt.

  • @Stormtrooper-dz

    @Stormtrooper-dz

    Жыл бұрын

    BLM are🐒🦍🦍 that's not Cleopatra

  • @QuickTuts

    @QuickTuts

    Жыл бұрын

    There aren't black Egyptians? Before the Arabs invaded Africa which color were the Egyptians?

  • @christian78478
    @christian7847819 күн бұрын

    Bassem Youssef is 100% right.

  • @Ualalalalalala
    @Ualalalalalala3 ай бұрын

    The reporter keeps forgetting the concept of " documentary "

  • @valbrahms4673
    @valbrahms4673 Жыл бұрын

    “This is not the little mermaid” - This man is a beast! 😂💚

  • @EnxhioKotoni

    @EnxhioKotoni

    Жыл бұрын

    he settled that debate in less than a second lol

  • @nekojin1164

    @nekojin1164

    Жыл бұрын

    ironic, the little mermaid got played by a black women recently lol

  • @wyettmuth8411

    @wyettmuth8411

    Жыл бұрын

    And they kept saying “mermaids aren’t real! WhO cArEs!?” Well cleopatra was real and you feel the need to remake her in your own narcissistic image

  • @Seemashe

    @Seemashe

    Жыл бұрын

    He is a comedian, Used to be TV host and he is a Surgeon

  • @malcolmreynolds4099

    @malcolmreynolds4099

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nekojin1164 that was the point of his bringing it up

  • @thinadlamini4671
    @thinadlamini4671 Жыл бұрын

    As a South African I stand with Egyptians on this matter... I'm tired of the hijacking of history by the woke mob.

  • @Azuiws

    @Azuiws

    Жыл бұрын

    😏Jy is die vullis van kolonialisme, Afrika is slegs die kontinent van swart Afrikaneَ

  • @tshimomogudi51

    @tshimomogudi51

    Жыл бұрын

    fr we gotta stand w these countries

  • @kizziejohnson7235

    @kizziejohnson7235

    Жыл бұрын

    Explain Woke!

  • @MCShifo111

    @MCShifo111

    Жыл бұрын

    As an Egyptian, I thank you for your beautiful words And we know that there are good people like you Seriously thank you from the heart ❤❤

  • @MCShifo111

    @MCShifo111

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tshimomogudi51 As an Egyptian, I thank you for your beautiful words Seriously thank you from the heart ❤❤

  • @davecollins6122
    @davecollins61226 күн бұрын

    Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian, she was a Macedonian Greek.

  • @dillonporter4686

    @dillonporter4686

    2 күн бұрын

    She was born in Alexandria EGYPT, Which would make her Egyptian by nationality, But yes her linage is from Macedonian/Greek... If you were born in the US or its territories, wouldn't you be an automatic citizen of the United States or nationalized to any country one is born in, regardless of you ethnicity Asian, Black, White, Arab, ect??

  • @Mintmakeup
    @Mintmakeup7 күн бұрын

    The Egyptian man is mad because Netflix is calling this production a DOCUMENTARY!

  • @antoniohm76
    @antoniohm76 Жыл бұрын

    The biggest issue is because they are selling it as "DO-CU-MEN-TA-RY" as the doctor said. A documentary needs to be as accurate as possible.

  • @sylwesterwoch1073

    @sylwesterwoch1073

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly. KEY word: DOCUMENTARY. Unfortunately most commenters seem not to unerstend what this meens.

  • @lilabouabbache5241

    @lilabouabbache5241

    Жыл бұрын

    No it’s docu-fiction… it’s very différent. I thought mermaids existed because of some damn docu-fiction. and I was ashamed to have told my friends that mermaids existed. You have to avoid docu-fiction, or check every piece of information. for the mermaids they had organized a fake autopsy of a mysterious creature found by the sea... the joke! Everything was wrong... I looked for the doctors in question... they didn't exist… when I read "docu-fiction", I now read "fiction", because you never know if what you are being told is true, or not.

  • @Birdylockso

    @Birdylockso

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, a "documentary" to some people still carries plenty of freedom for artistic expression, as well as cultural appropriation. LOL. If their feelings trump everything, a simple definition of "documentary" isn't going to stop them, imho.

  • @Dimitris4110

    @Dimitris4110

    Жыл бұрын

    You can't show these people anything. If you portray Aristophanes as black (even as a joke) they will be 100% be sure that historically he was black.

  • @hayaalawadhi534

    @hayaalawadhi534

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly and when he used Elizabeth Taylor as an example she wasn't acting in something that was supposed to be historically accurate in the first place

  • @alexanderacostaosorio
    @alexanderacostaosorio Жыл бұрын

    The main issue is that they're calling this production a documentary and not a work of fiction.

  • @amenajackson8133

    @amenajackson8133

    Жыл бұрын

    It is accurate, Cleopatra was biracial just like the actress.

  • @jonathanntulume9298

    @jonathanntulume9298

    Жыл бұрын

    The main Issue is that man claiming to be Egyptian. All the Egyptian art is of black people. These guys speak Arabic Africans don't speak none of that unless they were colonised by the Arabs.

  • @myopinion4692

    @myopinion4692

    Жыл бұрын

    That is not the main issue. You just made that up. Here is the main issue: Youssef is exercising racism but pretends it to be a heroic quest for historical factual accuracy. Yet, he argued that Egyptians should tell their own story. The question is, which of the Egyptians will tell this story, the original Egyptians from Cleopatra or Arab invaders since 600 AD?

  • @bc5993

    @bc5993

    Жыл бұрын

    @@amenajackson8133 it is not accurate. If you know any history about this time period AT ALL, you would know that Cleopatra was a Macedonian Greek. The Ptolemies practiced incest and inbreeding to keep their bloodline “pure”. No she was not African nor was she Egyptian.

  • @Andoroid

    @Andoroid

    Жыл бұрын

    @@myopinion4692 But you just made that up

  • @dinaramuldabayeva6306
    @dinaramuldabayeva63065 күн бұрын

    Cleopatra was from the Greek dynasty ruling Egypt at that time. Therefore, I think Elizabeth Taylor was actually closer to what Cleopatra looked like

  • @sarahYounes-er2bo
    @sarahYounes-er2boАй бұрын

    For those who say, “Isn’t Egypt in Africa?” Egypt is a transcontinental country. The Egyptian Empire in ancient times extended to the countries of the Levant, and Egypt is also one of the peoples of the Mediterranean and the inhabitants of North Africa. Who says, “Isn’t Egypt the black land?” When King Menes unified the kingdoms of the North and South, The terminology used to refer to Egypt was not uniform for them . Fishermen and farmers called it Kemet. It was also called Dashert the land is filled by those who live in the desert. It was referred to as the Red Land. As for the kings, after the unification of Egypt, it appeared in the Amarna letters between Amenhotep III and IV, calling it Egypt, as in the Arab and Hebrew "Misr, Misry, Misraym.. " And all derivatives of this name

  • @revedargent3467

    @revedargent3467

    Ай бұрын

    Kemet for the color of the Nil, Dashert for the desert.

  • @tasneembadway8391

    @tasneembadway8391

    Күн бұрын

    We call it black land, because on both banks of the Nile River there is fertile black soil suitable for agriculture, and not because the ancient Egyptians were black.

  • @nelsonpcarr
    @nelsonpcarr Жыл бұрын

    The other guy making ridiculous faces because he has nothing to argue with is hilarious

  • @Jumpoable

    @Jumpoable

    Жыл бұрын

    Youssef presented FACTS in a calm, collected manner & all that black queen could do was to make sassy ass faces on TV cuz she bitter she ain't chosen to play Cleopatra LAWL.

  • @AfricanMaverick

    @AfricanMaverick

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alyshmahell The oldest human specimen ever discovered in Egypt was Nazlet Khater 2 (NK 2). It was said to be 33,000 years old and was discovered in 1980 near Tahta in Upper Egypt. Morphological analysis of the Nazlet Khater mandible indicates that the specimen was distinct from the examined Late Pleistocene and Holocene North African specimens.[3] Ron Pinhasi and Patrick Semal (2000) found strong Sub-Saharan affinities in the 33,000 skeleton from Nazlet Khater, Upper Egypt as the authors noted "The morphometric affinities of the 33,000 year old skeleton from Nazlet Khater, Upper Egypt are examined using multivariate statistical procedures. The results indicate a strong association between some of the sub-Saharan Middle Stone Age (MSA) specimens, and the Nazlet Khater mandible. Furthermore, the results suggest that variability between African populations during the Neolithic and Protohistoric periods was more pronounced than the range of variability observed among recent African and Levantine populations."[4] Although the skeleton predates the Sub Saharans, the people alive today who are most closely affiliated with the skeleton are the modern day Sub Saharans and Australo Melanesians. Therefore, Nazlet Khater skeletons were ancestral to Sub Saharan Africans. Furthermore, modern-day Sub-Saharans lack SLC24A5, which was the allele associated with light and olive skin tones. This allele entered Africa AND EUROPE during the Neolithic. The lack of SLC24A5 in the vast majority of Sub-Saharan Africans indicates that Nazlet Khater 2 could NOT have looked like the man on the right. The man on the left is a better representation of the skin color of Nazlet Khater.

  • @AfricanMaverick

    @AfricanMaverick

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alyshmahell Aly calm down I didn't say everything yet 🙄 do you even know who Sulkalmakh is? the artist, never even explained how and why he chose the skin tone of the man on the right during the reconstruction. Other artists who do these reconstructions have clarified that skin colour is subjective, which means they don’t take into consideration the actual alleles. If they had, Nazlet Khater should be dark to black considering that SLC24A5 (which is associated with olive and tanned Mediterranean groups) was not in Africa until 10,000 years ago. It’s been proven many times that early upper paleolithic people were dark to black-skinned, not olive or tanned. Olive and tanned skin are associated with SLC24A5 from West Asia.It’s already been ascertained that even the early Europeans were all dark to black.

  • @AfricanMaverick

    @AfricanMaverick

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alyshmahell So, did you read the study: "Black Neanderthals, black blue-eyed Cro-Magnons"? Even Anthropologists have been investing significant effort in reconstructing the appearance of ancient humans, but who and why would be interested in the result? What is the use for knowing archaic human phenotype? 🤷‍♂️ We have an answer: from the very beginning, the reconstruction methods, in addition to merely satisfying scientists’ curiosity, had a very practical application - the forensic examination. In particular, anthropologists helped in putting names on unidentified remains. It’s already been ascertained that even the early Europeans were all dark to black. Oops!!😬 Honestly are you really ok with this?🤔 Considering the ancient skeletal remains linked to the Qadan culture, which were found in Jebel Sahaba (southern Egypt) were morphologically similar to Pygmies, it’s ludicrous to assume that olive skinned people (similar to Mediterraneans) would have been living in Nazlet Khater (next door to Pygmies). Nazlet Khater were most likely a tropical people similar to Niger Congo speaking Sub Saharans or Oceanic aboriginal groups. Other geneticists have claimed that Nazlet Khater, was linked to the Upper Paleolithic Europeans. Even if they were, all these ancient people were black-skinned. Honestly, are you proud of those ancestors? 🤔 Did you knew that there is a skull in South Africa linked to Upper Paleolithic Europeans? Pls read the article, the artist said the skull was closer to Australian Aborginees than to Khoi-Sans. Hofmeyer Skull Wikipedia says: "The Hofmeyr Skull is a specimen of a 36,000-year-old human skull that was found in 1952 near Hofmeyr, South Africa. It i.. The artist’s assertion that the skull was linked to Australian Aboriginees support a recent genetic study was released in April this year regarding the 45,000-year-old remains found in the Bacho Kiro Cave in Bulgaria. This is one of the oldest modern human remains ever found in Europe. The study reveals that these early Upper Paleolithic humans were more closely related to East Asians than to West Eurasians or today's Europeans. Oops.. 😬 _‘’DNA extracted from remains found in a Bulgarian cave of three people who lived roughly 45,000 years ago is revealing surprises about some of the first Homo sapiens populations to venture into Europe, including extensive interbreeding with Neanderthals and genetic links to present-day East Asians.’’._ So it is more possible that Nazlet Khater, along with the first upper Palaeolithic Europeans, was linked to the aboriginal folks that occupied most of South East Asia (aka the Papuans and Australian Aboriginees). Their distant relatives (who also lived in North East Africa) most likely lived next door to Mota (the individual whom most humans descend from). Skin colour-wise, all these ancient North Africans would have been dark to black-skinned, but might have displayed varying genetics and phenotypes. Papuans display a much closer phenotype and skin tone to Nazlet Khater 2. Reference: The position of the Nazlet Khater specimen among prehistoric and modern African and Levantine populations The morphometric affinities of the 33,000 year old skeleton from Nazlet Khater, Upper Egypt are examined using multivariate statistical procedures.

  • @UGuessin

    @UGuessin

    Жыл бұрын

    Just dislike the documentary. Make it known to them that WE are paying THEM! KZread gave me an error when I put the name of the company making this documentary 😂

  • @A.H.730
    @A.H.730 Жыл бұрын

    I love how Bassem came prepared , well informed and answered every claim and he spoke with confidence while all the other guy did was acting like a 6 year old kid who doesn’t like his broccoli on his dinner plate.

  • @cleansingrhythm

    @cleansingrhythm

    Жыл бұрын

    You could tell he doesn’t like brócoli 😅

  • @lizziegirl5124

    @lizziegirl5124

    Жыл бұрын

    Omg that's exactly the face he had!

  • @darkflame4302

    @darkflame4302

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cleansingrhythm I think he is woke 🤡🤡

  • @wandabanks6756

    @wandabanks6756

    Жыл бұрын

    Touché

  • @wandabanks6756

    @wandabanks6756

    Жыл бұрын

    Bet he doesn't like p**** either

  • @SiriusGalilei
    @SiriusGalilei8 күн бұрын

    Love how when the guy who is from Egypt is trying to make his point, the two Americans try to talk over him instead of waiting until he is done speaking. I know there are probably time constraints due to this being the news, but the guy in the middle lets the guy on the right say his piece without interruption, but tries to talk over the Egyptian speaker when he doesn’t want to hear what he has to say. As an American myself, this is embarrassing. This is why I don’t watch election debates anymore, because the candidates try to drown out what the other has to say instead of waiting until the other is finished, and then rebutting their statements. This is why we can’t have any civil discourse anymore, because we have to interrupt the other party so we don’t have to hear what they have to say. And just from what I remember from my history books in school, Cleopatra was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which began its reign after Alexander the Great, who was Macedonian, which is located in northern Greece, died, leaving Egypt in the control of the Ptolemy’s. And that dynasty did mingle with native Egyptians so it’s likely Cleopatra would have been a mix of Egyptian and Greek, especially because the Ptolemy dynasty continued the Pharaohs tradition of wedding brothers and sisters together to keep the bloodline pure. The Egyptian guy is right on another count, that unlike a typical Hollywood film that is fictional, a documentary is supposed to be about facts. It’s not supposed to be what people think is true, it has to be substantiated by hard evidence. It would be one thing if this was a fictional tale featuring historical characters, as from the outset you know it is fictional. But when you market this as a documentary, you have to report the actual historical facts, which in the case of such a famous historical figure are well documented.

  • @user-jf5qw6vg3h
    @user-jf5qw6vg3h2 ай бұрын

    Ironically, Cleopatra was neither black nor Arab, she was Greek, very white, very Hellenic

  • @mohamedzanaty1042

    @mohamedzanaty1042

    Ай бұрын

    Her origins are Greek Macedonian, but she is an Egyptian queen and she was in the Ptolemaic era in Egypt. She was born in Egypt in the Egyptian city of Alexandria and also died in Egypt in the same city. She has no connection to Greece other than her roots only, but she is an Egyptian queen of belonging, identity, birth, upbringing, and death.

  • @bellinolera

    @bellinolera

    Ай бұрын

    she was bulgarian

  • @ivanbarbosa81

    @ivanbarbosa81

    Ай бұрын

    What made her great was not her origin, she was an African queen and Africa is diverse, she defended her people's traditions, the greatest civilization ever, an ensemble of races.She was human and a brilliant educated woman.not very pretty though.

  • @QueenTiye2024

    @QueenTiye2024

    Ай бұрын

    Actually, Cleopatra was only one quarter Greek (through her paternal line), half Black (through her maternal line), and one quarter something else. This does not make her a Caucasian or European woman by any stretch of the imagination. She was a racially-mixed woman.

  • @jayharv285

    @jayharv285

    9 күн бұрын

    ​​@@QueenTiye2024yeah no. Cleopatra had no black in her at all. Many historians will tell you that. She was Greek (Macedonian) with Persian and Iranian ties.

  • @augustprince
    @augustprince Жыл бұрын

    English is not even his second language and he still made a better argument than the other dude. Take that into account

  • @TheMusicalKnokcers

    @TheMusicalKnokcers

    Жыл бұрын

    Except he wasn't reasonable, the both were unreasonable.

  • @sandycheeks1580

    @sandycheeks1580

    Жыл бұрын

    😂Egypt 🇪🇬 is in AFRICA!!! They are a mix of African & other colonizer dna 🧬. But if you ever go to Egypt you will see that they are 🗣️VERY MUCH BLACK!!! They just don’t want to be black. Nobody in west Africa is trying to steal their culture. They’re the “sensitive” ones. They’re the ones trying to ERASE the African off themselves. They are liars! Many times they’re angry 😡 yelling at darker Africans in the streets, “🗣️Heya Sudani! 🇸🇩” to be racist. He can say what he wants but reality don’t lie!!!

  • @bandanna2388

    @bandanna2388

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheMusicalKnokcers L take

  • @duhaa3601

    @duhaa3601

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheMusicalKnokcers the arabs back then are not the same arabs now, arab is an umbrella term for everyone who speaks arabic as their first language it’s not a term to describe ethnicity maybe the word “arab” used to be a term for a certain race but now it’s used differently.

  • @xXOphidianXx

    @xXOphidianXx

    Жыл бұрын

    @@TheMusicalKnokcers Take other L Mr KZread Professor. If u don't even know what arabs are and where this term come from you shouldn't talk about it. Nowadays almost everyone is called arab. But i don't blame you for not knowing that, in fact almost everyone in the west is the same. Here in germany, where i come from, they don't know the difference either especially between turks and kurds, sometimes they even use the term "arab" for them, which is ridiculous.

  • @Vokalplus
    @Vokalplus Жыл бұрын

    Comedians are really some of the smartest people out there, plus, he's a doctor/surgeon too, huge respect for Bassem Youssef.

  • @AK-dd9od

    @AK-dd9od

    Жыл бұрын

    It's nice to have the opportunity to hear from an actual Egyptian (Dr. Bassem) talk about his heritage, rather than outsiders (e.g. black supremacists/Afrocentrists or neo-Nazis/Eurocentrists) who are attempting to appropriate/steal other people's heritage. Sadly, the Afrocentrists have proven themselves to be just as glib and evil as the neo-Nazis/Eurocentrists.

  • @Charlotte-vp2fu

    @Charlotte-vp2fu

    Жыл бұрын

    If he's a doctor, I'm Nelson Mandela.

  • @Rabbithole8

    @Rabbithole8

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Charlotte-vp2fu This is from Wikpedia: Bassem Youssef graduated from Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine, majoring in cardiothoracic surgery, in 1998. He passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination and has been a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) since February 2007.[7] He practiced as a cardiothoracic surgeon in Egypt for 13 years, until his move into comedy and political satirism.[8] He also received training in cardiac and lung transplantation in Germany, after which he spent a year and a half in the US working for a company that produces medical equipment related to cardiothoracic surgery. In January 2011, Youssef assisted the wounded in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian revolution.[9] Youssef has credited surgery for making him "a much harder working person, a nerd, a perfectionist."[10] I thought you were dead Mr. Mandela. I'm a great admirer of yours.

  • @TheEternalOuroboros

    @TheEternalOuroboros

    Жыл бұрын

    Bassem is a cool name ngl

  • @biggiebeil5118

    @biggiebeil5118

    Жыл бұрын

    Yea fuck that Trans idiot faka who had zero common sense! I'm Egyptian and its funny to see those tv series & that owens guy like that !

  • @busoko_Ismail2468
    @busoko_Ismail2468Ай бұрын

    Egyptians have the right to talk about their history. I completely agree with the Egyptian Bassem Youssef🇪🇬🇷🇴❤

  • @da7war655

    @da7war655

    14 күн бұрын

    انا بعشقك يبنى انت فى كل حتة بتدافع عن مصر اكتر من المصريين

  • @mohammadhassan8833

    @mohammadhassan8833

    11 күн бұрын

    ​@@da7war655غريب إمرة انه يدافع عن المصريين بكل حتة بس يلا احيه على كدا

  • @happinessmndaba8312

    @happinessmndaba8312

    3 күн бұрын

    Are the ones who say are Egyptians are truly Egyptians? It's not true they are not.

  • @user-vs5dg5uk7f
    @user-vs5dg5uk7f3 ай бұрын

    I’m proud of Bassem ❤every time you speak up I learn more about history.thank you so much 🤲and may god protect you against all evil Ameen 🤲❤️

  • @nahilltop

    @nahilltop

    Ай бұрын

    He was wrong on this debate Arabs wasn’t even in Africa at that time

  • @midas9334

    @midas9334

    17 күн бұрын

    ​@@nahilltop what arab? Do you know who Arabs really are? Arabs are the Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Yemen those are arab, And he didn't mention any of them.

  • @nahilltop

    @nahilltop

    11 күн бұрын

    @@midas9334 I guess you don’t know 🤡

  • @stamosreal
    @stamosreal Жыл бұрын

    As a Greek i wholeheartedly agree with our Egyptian brothers

  • @Danilo-Daniel

    @Danilo-Daniel

    Жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/aq19xLOIndbSdqw.html

  • @amrshanief7185

    @amrshanief7185

    Жыл бұрын

    Respect bro

  • @stavrosgazis5824

    @stavrosgazis5824

    Жыл бұрын

    As a Greek Egyptian, i approve of this message😂

  • @bayamonterenaud8683

    @bayamonterenaud8683

    Жыл бұрын

    As a french man I agree to !

  • @Egypt101_

    @Egypt101_

    Жыл бұрын

    Sending love and respect from Egypt 🇪🇬 to our Greek brothers 🇬🇷

  • @Proftracy313
    @Proftracy313 Жыл бұрын

    I am Nigerian and I thoroughly enjoyed Bassem Youssef’s argument. He came prepared. Let them tell their stories themselves.

  • @amymuhammad2303

    @amymuhammad2303

    Жыл бұрын

    Did you become a Nigerian because you live in the country? The bloodline comes from the forefather linage and not a country

  • @EasternOrthodox101

    @EasternOrthodox101

    Жыл бұрын

    🤺☦🇷🇺Yes. No, there isn't no "ambiguity" about Cleopatra's identity!!! Westerners are so ignorant and don't know ancient history!! God!🤦‍♂️😂First of all, Egyptians (ancient and today's!) are by definition BLACK - meaning the African race. They are light black (shade of brown), and secondly, Cleopatra wasn't racially Egyptian at all! She was a Greek and she was queen in the era when Egypt was under the rule of the Macedonian Ptolemy dynasty. She was White!! Those westerners are sooo f**** shallow and dцmb, God!!🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

  • @chatonmignon8724

    @chatonmignon8724

    Жыл бұрын

    Hello Cousin ! As Tunisian our ancestors have mixed a lot with your who give us beautifull curly hair, musculed bodies and beautifull brown skin ! Thanks !😁

  • @amymuhammad2303

    @amymuhammad2303

    Жыл бұрын

    @@yoyoit1587 Absolutely!!!! I have Black Egyptian friends and when we visit them in Egypt a few years ago, they showed me and my family their statutes and paintings on the walls of the Museum in Giza in Egypt, and they also took me and my family to get our Visa to go back to America, and we saw with our own eyes the black Egyptian paintings on the outside walls of the Embassy building.

  • @amymuhammad2303

    @amymuhammad2303

    Жыл бұрын

    @Pablo Again, a country doesn't determine your bloodline, your father's lineage does.

  • @annmolloy8600
    @annmolloy8600Ай бұрын

    Very well said, Baseem. Cleopatra was a Ptolemy of Greek origin.

  • @SultanMuhammad-vc3do

    @SultanMuhammad-vc3do

    Ай бұрын

    Why cant she be black When black ppl barley know who they are Black ppl hate the color of there skin so much we kill are own ppl Bc we dont know the history of what we are

  • @SultanMuhammad-vc3do

    @SultanMuhammad-vc3do

    Ай бұрын

    And bassem youssef said black ppl didnt build the pyramids thats completes false

  • @beth3535
    @beth35352 ай бұрын

    Stealing my culture? What a goofy statement.

  • @malakayman1138

    @malakayman1138

    2 ай бұрын

    whats goofy about that? do you even know what they''re debating about?

  • @GORO911

    @GORO911

    2 ай бұрын

    Yea. It is his culture and the ancient Egyptians are his ancestors.

  • @mia8391
    @mia8391 Жыл бұрын

    The comedian was being polite and calling gentleman to another one while the another was making childish facial expressions almost all the time he was offended. Class speaks!

  • @hassanalzaher3893

    @hassanalzaher3893

    Жыл бұрын

    Nah, he is just queer. Those people make a lot of facial expressions, but not meant as a disrespect.

  • @ThefamousMrcroissant

    @ThefamousMrcroissant

    Жыл бұрын

    The faces were indeed extremely annoying, but the guy was otherwise quite respectful as far as I'm concerned

  • @nomicwave

    @nomicwave

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ThefamousMrcroissant Disrespect isn't limited to your vocal senses, it also includes facial expressions. You wouldn't sit in a civil discussion and make those cringe faces to express opposition. There are numerous other faces he could have made, yet, he choose the most childish ones. Very mature!

  • @Danilo-Daniel

    @Danilo-Daniel

    Жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/jJdtzZZuY9fNgMo.html

  • @dqricardo1921

    @dqricardo1921

    Жыл бұрын

    I believe you got it wrong. It was the comedian making the faces. Its typical American behaviour when told they are wrong.

  • @TheNemesisRM
    @TheNemesisRM Жыл бұрын

    The difference between how deep and accurate the Egyptian man exposes his thesis and how superficial the Americans think and speak is HUGE.

  • @macheadg5er

    @macheadg5er

    Жыл бұрын

    lol that guy is not a real American. So typical you see one idiot and you think all Americans are like that. You are doing the exact thing Bassem was complaining about. You are trying to warp a group to fit your narrative. I'm American and when I saw the movie trailer my jaw hit the floor. Cleopatra is basically of Macedonian Greek ancestry and her skin tone would have been olive. There would not have been much mixing either as the blood line was pure from inbreeding. I guess I am just another American with superficial think and speak (me rolls eyes)

  • @andreazauli2883

    @andreazauli2883

    Жыл бұрын

    Ahimè, Concetta, hai ragione.

  • @macheadg5er

    @macheadg5er

    Жыл бұрын

    BTW - I just scanned the comments and many Americans including black Americans have spoken up and they all agree with Bassem.

  • @joanofarcxxi

    @joanofarcxxi

    Жыл бұрын

    Not the Americans, SOME Americans. The majority of Americans know Cleopatra was NOT black. I am an immigrant in America, and I know.

  • @GorillaCrewWarGaming

    @GorillaCrewWarGaming

    Жыл бұрын

    Not the "Americans". The Communists and the American Congo Bat. No SANE person in America believes that blacks were "Jipshunz an sheeit. We are on YOUR side. Grow a brain, Crotchetta....

  • @AcadianBacon8
    @AcadianBacon84 ай бұрын

    There's something PARTICULARLY infuriating about some American with clearly no expertise in history, telling a native Egyptian who clearly has very deep knowledge of his own people and his own history, that he is wrong.

  • @JW-dg9gf
    @JW-dg9gfАй бұрын

    Bassem is an essential voice. Thank you, Piers, for supporting him on your show.

  • @Reem-Amar
    @Reem-Amar Жыл бұрын

    I love how Bassem casually mentioned the stolen Egyptian artifacts to an ACTUAL BRITISH!! Very subtle! 😂❤

  • @israelhoyle9355

    @israelhoyle9355

    Жыл бұрын

    Their negro people.

  • @user-yd2fb3pf2f

    @user-yd2fb3pf2f

    Жыл бұрын

    Egyptian player Ahmed Hossam Mido looks like the statue of Ranefer. Ranefer has two statues, a statue when he was young and a statue when he was older and and bassem youssef looks like the seated scribe statue in paris also egyptian actress sawsan badr looks like nefertiti

  • @shereenmoutaz2264

    @shereenmoutaz2264

    Жыл бұрын

    He nailed it wallahy 😂♥️

  • @juneermaged7127

    @juneermaged7127

    Жыл бұрын

    Yessss!!!!😂😂😂

  • @palerider955

    @palerider955

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm English and I agree, grave robbing is bad.

  • @moonynightss
    @moonynightss Жыл бұрын

    "An american way of talking about it" HE'S SO RIGHT

  • @Danilo-Daniel

    @Danilo-Daniel

    Жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/jJdtzZZuY9fNgMo.html

  • @Danilo-Daniel

    @Danilo-Daniel

    Жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/a45-u9OdfM2Zcs4.html

  • @Robin-sf3gk

    @Robin-sf3gk

    Жыл бұрын

    Woke culture is just the evolution of western imperialism :D

  • @Danilo-Daniel

    @Danilo-Daniel

    Жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/aoZ1rbGec7WtYrQ.html

  • @kiryuchan244

    @kiryuchan244

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m an American, that’s just “a woke” way of thinking.

  • @Jac76906
    @Jac7690624 күн бұрын

    Did he just compare Cleopatra to Prince of Persia? What the F are they out there😂

  • @user-vm8kd1lh7v
    @user-vm8kd1lh7vАй бұрын

    Spot on,she wasn't black, or was Ann Bolyn,nor Guinevere,but they have all been portraying them as such in screwed up world of TV and Hollywood rewriting history.

  • @oneisha3548
    @oneisha3548 Жыл бұрын

    I felt like the Egyptian man’s argument went over their heads. The fact that he had to repeat the reason why people are upset is because it’s a documentary and is supposed to be historically accurate was upsetting.

  • @user-yd2fb3pf2f

    @user-yd2fb3pf2f

    Жыл бұрын

    Egyptian player Ahmed Hossam Mido looks like the statue of Ranefer. Ranefer has two statues, a statue when he was young and a statue when he was older and bassem youssef looks like the seated scribe statue in paris also egyptian actress sawsan badr looks like nefertiti

  • @soph1645

    @soph1645

    Жыл бұрын

    Cleopatra tomb is literally still not have been found, so how can it be historical accurate? Historians themselves have admitted they can’t 100% confirm anything

  • @brettrigby2226

    @brettrigby2226

    Жыл бұрын

    its a docuseries, its a retelling of the story! as long as the DETAILS are accurate it doesn't matter what colour someone is, you're just low key racist! the same time of person that probably complained that aeriel in the new little mermaid is black. You're focusing on one tiny detail, the worse part is ... airing this show doesn't make EVERY history book in the world change. they're all the same. you all need to just get a grip

  • @donnaking7902

    @donnaking7902

    Ай бұрын

    The original Egyptians were Afrikans. Afrika was a black continent. Even th r Palestinians were black and brown. How many times was Kemet invaded. Too many. The statues and the dead are proven to be Blacks/Afrikans/ Nubians.

  • @KutayYavuz

    @KutayYavuz

    Ай бұрын

    @@donnaking7902 Africa is a very big continent and even in a small continent like Europe you see varieties of skin colour and phenotypes.

  • @brooke3343
    @brooke3343 Жыл бұрын

    “This isn’t the little mermaid” 😂 well said!

  • @dusk6159

    @dusk6159

    Жыл бұрын

    Just like Tolkien's great, iconic and humanistic works of art weren't, I would add.

  • @AuthenticCity

    @AuthenticCity

    Жыл бұрын

    have you watched it? Bet you haven't

  • @yuujin2490

    @yuujin2490

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@AuthenticCity boo 👎

  • @chrisharder4854

    @chrisharder4854

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@AuthenticCity why do you care?

  • @nunyabizness9955

    @nunyabizness9955

    Жыл бұрын

    Why is it okay to replace Europeans with non Europeans but not the other way around?

  • @joellegavin1760
    @joellegavin17602 ай бұрын

    Well done Bassem. Thank you for informing me. I didn't even know this was a thing. As always, bassem, you put your point across so well

  • @adambartlett6277
    @adambartlett627714 күн бұрын

    It's because they've cast her just because she's black for "diversity and inclusion" this madness needs to stop

  • @denisateodoracalin4865
    @denisateodoracalin4865 Жыл бұрын

    It's not about the allowing a black woman to play Cleopatra, it's about claiming she was in a black woman and appropriating other people's history and culture. This is not fictional - this is a documentary, technically speaking. And the claim is made several times in the promotion.

  • @Danilo-Daniel

    @Danilo-Daniel

    Жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/aq19xLOIndbSdqw.html

  • @andersonbin265

    @andersonbin265

    Жыл бұрын

    Ancient Egypt = black africans Modern Egypt = Invaders Romans , Turks , Greeks, Persians, Hyksos, Arabs, Syrians etc Todays Egypt 2023 is run by arab/Turks. You also have more immigrants from Yemen , Palestine , arabs etc

  • @amazingdany

    @amazingdany

    Жыл бұрын

    More of a miserable _wokumentary._

  • @MorganJohnsonAuthor

    @MorganJohnsonAuthor

    Жыл бұрын

    No..., the Black's of Egypt, Cush, Kemet, and Ethiopia ain't taking no shit from you Edomites anymore.., and now.. we want our shit back.... it is what it is.... Esau... colonizers you can tell your Arab friends to get ready to move around, for the true owners/heirs of the lands will soon return to reclaim it as our own....

  • @RamyGendy

    @RamyGendy

    Жыл бұрын

    ❤️

  • @rayan5150
    @rayan5150 Жыл бұрын

    Those facial expressions made Basim’s argument even stronger. Take notes kids, making weird faces doesn’t help 📝

  • @Danilo-Daniel

    @Danilo-Daniel

    11 ай бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/m4udpsOeXdSbiso.html

  • @markreierstad2418

    @markreierstad2418

    11 ай бұрын

    It just makes you look unprofessional and childish.

  • @zenny856

    @zenny856

    11 ай бұрын

    It really made him seem like he is taking the whole situation as a joke rather than a serious issue that needs addressing

  • @Danilo-Daniel

    @Danilo-Daniel

    11 ай бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/hKGm05eKdLeZY7w.html@@markreierstad2418

  • @Danilo-Daniel

    @Danilo-Daniel

    11 ай бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/hKGm05eKdLeZY7w.html

  • @bigjatt275
    @bigjatt27515 күн бұрын

    Imagine an asian playing Martin Luther king.

  • @stellam4160
    @stellam41602 күн бұрын

    Historically, Cleopatra was Greek Origin but that is not popular

  • @whitneyfiala490
    @whitneyfiala490 Жыл бұрын

    As a South aArican I totally stand by Bassem! Stop erasing culture and history to be inclusive. The world needs to learn about the African continent aswell as the fact that not everyone is black in africa!

  • @Melnokina.-.

    @Melnokina.-.

    Жыл бұрын

    Right? When I say most of my exes are Africans and when they find out they're white they're shocked. But even Africans are stupid. Had a South African who didn't know ypu guys took over my country Namibia

  • @atefoueslati7330

    @atefoueslati7330

    Жыл бұрын

    As a Tunisian myself I really thank u for highlighting the fact that not all Africa is black as they claim

  • @itsme5633

    @itsme5633

    Жыл бұрын

    As an Egyptian, I want also to thank you and also make it clear ; PLEASE WORLD YOU NEED TO KNOW NOT ALL ORIGINAL AFRICANS ARE BLACK!

  • @NomadUrpagi

    @NomadUrpagi

    Жыл бұрын

    You are one fine looking woman. Insta?

  • @mejkki-sun1244

    @mejkki-sun1244

    Жыл бұрын

    Well you look like being one of these white intruders who invaded southern africa..you are South African but not African...then what do you know about African culture and history...

  • @MrPinoCavallo
    @MrPinoCavallo Жыл бұрын

    As an Italian I fully understand Bassem and the Egyptians. It's not about black or white, Egyptians simply don't want their culture being used by an ideology born in the African-American community. Indeed, there is a risk that the "light-skinned" Egyptians might be seen as invaders once the idea of Africa as a unique "black continent" has been spread.

  • @illmeeillmee9373

    @illmeeillmee9373

    Жыл бұрын

    they consider all Egyptian are invaders. Egyptians are of light complexions. Even that Anwar Sadat. Black Americans want to claim North and East Aftica because they dont look like the rest of Africans

  • @baz3575

    @baz3575

    Жыл бұрын

    The added irony is that Black ultranationalist Americans venerate the Moors. That group that invaded Europe and enslaved others? You cannot make this up but as someone who lived in North America for 12 years and saw up close and personal the insanity of "belief" systems like the Nuwabians, Hebrew Israelites etc I am just relieved I am not alone in observing the insane levels of revisionism and hypocrisy let alone how the fringes of Black Nationalist thought and revisionism being uncritically embraced by young people dying to be seen as an "ally" or "non-racist."

  • @yoongistangerine5803

    @yoongistangerine5803

    Жыл бұрын

    Not only the Egyptians are exposed to this, even we Amazighs (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya) are exposed to this thing, they want us to leave our land just because our skin is white

  • @sinabagherisarvestani8924

    @sinabagherisarvestani8924

    Жыл бұрын

    Cleopatra , as long as she is good looking I'm fine with it , she can be black , Russian , white , Iranian , Iraqi , north Korean , native American , pacific islander as long as she is good looking , Cleopatra was known for being good looking , just don't put some guy like the 300 Xerxes as Cleopatra , no one knows what Cleopatra looked like , the only image to her is sculped stone work , to suggest she was white is simply wrong , its not true , she was either mixed race or had dark skin , she wasn't a Viking

  • @zeinaayman4557

    @zeinaayman4557

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sinabagherisarvestani8924 dear please do a 10 sec research on cleopatra and then speak for God’s sake, she was from upper Greece and they have a light skin tone. And again as bassem said we don’t care if its black or white, its culture appropriation

  • @dannys6871
    @dannys68716 күн бұрын

    at this point if the internet told black people they were mongolians... they would all collectively cheer "wE wUz HOrsE ArChers". their culture is sub saharan, not north african, coastal mediterranean

  • @gwenwalravens8030
    @gwenwalravens8030Ай бұрын

    Cleopatra was a real person. Why is it so difficult for Hollywood to respect the dead?

  • @Tekkai50
    @Tekkai50 Жыл бұрын

    Man on the left is spitting facts, while the dude on the right makes idiotic expressions in return, because that's all he can do. What a great conversation!

  • @african-history-fountain

    @african-history-fountain

    Жыл бұрын

    Son of invaders of Egypt spewing rotten lies. Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones" and the Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown and black with a skinny desiccated look." These are EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS of Ancient Egypt. Not the witness of a son of Arab invaders of Africa spewing lies on TV in 2023. You never built a damn thing in your own lands. But you somehow got to Africa and magically began building huge pyramids and temples. Oh sure.

  • @Synonomous

    @Synonomous

    Жыл бұрын

    Cuz he cancel culture rainbow warrior

  • @conservativedestroyer4056

    @conservativedestroyer4056

    Жыл бұрын

    Man of the left sounds stupid man on the right is correct but because YT people are so racist, of course you idiots agree with him

  • @lordofmindsgames

    @lordofmindsgames

    Жыл бұрын

    Wtf I thought it was chick 😂

  • @Synonomous

    @Synonomous

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lordofmindsgames Maybe identifies as one on the weekend...

  • @fairloke
    @fairloke Жыл бұрын

    As a Greek person who's been greatly interested in the history of ancient civilizations, thank you for speaking the truth, Bassem Youssef! It's insane how propaganda is being pushed to this extent by a nation that has nothing to do with Egypt nor Greece, and yet has so much influence.

  • @judepope6196

    @judepope6196

    Жыл бұрын

    yes. Exactly. America has always done that. They push propaganda's in countries they have nothing to do with.

  • @blackgateboxingxuanmenquan6407

    @blackgateboxingxuanmenquan6407

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s not being pushed by a nation. It’s being pushed by stupid woke Americans in Hollywood with very little intelligence. And really stupid race-obsessed activists. Basically-commies all around.

  • @tiktokasylum5186

    @tiktokasylum5186

    Жыл бұрын

    She was half Greek

  • @punnymoney3692

    @punnymoney3692

    Жыл бұрын

    She was like 3000% greek, inbreed over and over!! lol

  • @fengsports2063

    @fengsports2063

    Жыл бұрын

    She was one of the last of a long line of highly incestuous dynasties the Ptolemaic dynasty - they would never marry outside of their bloodline for preservation purposes. There's no half Greek about it there's over 200 years of Mediterranean Macedonian Greek with a mix of Persian royal blood. Even the coinage and busy depiction of that time shows a large hook nosed small lipped woman i.e. typical features of the Mediterranean and Persian people.

  • @baneoftheundead8064
    @baneoftheundead80643 ай бұрын

    Gotta love the book up there "The Case for Cancel Culture", sums it all up. It's even on the "left" of the screen...

  • @TheQuantumShell
    @TheQuantumShell2 ай бұрын

    Listening American talking about anything relating to history is like listening a 5 yo kid taking about quantum mechanics.

  • @fatratwithcheese999
    @fatratwithcheese999 Жыл бұрын

    This is a clear example of someone who knows what he’s talking about vs someone that conducted a 3 min google search. Thank you piers for bringing on Bassem 💯

  • @uzomanworgu6458

    @uzomanworgu6458

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly😂

  • @hagarnasser663

    @hagarnasser663

    Жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @joelyons886

    @joelyons886

    Жыл бұрын

    Spot on but unfortunately those the sell the cancel culture agenda are only capable of clicking on Wikipedia

  • @hadeseye2297

    @hadeseye2297

    Жыл бұрын

    I wouldn't excpect from rainbow flag weaver any knowledge. Hence all those stupid faces.

  • @calliope4444

    @calliope4444

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes! I agree

  • @Willzz.x
    @Willzz.x Жыл бұрын

    I’m Nigerian and honestly I couldn’t agree more with bassem how can an outsider dictate a native how his or her history should be told that’s just madness

  • @isanborhelena6389

    @isanborhelena6389

    Жыл бұрын

    Holly wood is good in taking oder people glory

  • @Sema-Tawy

    @Sema-Tawy

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, i feel African Americans don’t really understand Africa like Africans actually living in Africa

  • @dominiclane8538

    @dominiclane8538

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Sema-Tawy americans don't really understand anything to be honest , Hollywood is a joke

  • @stonedecatur6602

    @stonedecatur6602

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Sema-Tawy most AA don't care about what goes on in Africa

  • @gayavardan

    @gayavardan

    Жыл бұрын

    @@stonedecatur6602 literally right now Sudan is under fire. I don't see any African American artist saying a word about it or the world acknowledging that Egypt's neighboring country is in a serious crisis.

  • @marijadavidovic1316
    @marijadavidovic1316Ай бұрын

    Cleopatra was Greek origin and in Pompes has a Fresca when she was living in Rome with Cesar, she had white skin and strawberry blonde

  • @user-ib1gh8by2q

    @user-ib1gh8by2q

    Ай бұрын

    You're funny: Cleopatra was not blonde. The Greeks and Romans were not blonde like the Germans and Scandinavians, but rather they had black hair and olive skin like George Clooney and Robert De Niro.

  • @user-pf4ps9zt3m
    @user-pf4ps9zt3mАй бұрын

    I’m African… but I like the way piers asked d gentleman if a white man acted Mandela, how would he feel

  • @manarhesham8798
    @manarhesham8798 Жыл бұрын

    As an Egyptian, I'm so proud of Bassem and thank you Bassem for being our voice there and delivering our message.

  • @user-lw5qu2qy4e

    @user-lw5qu2qy4e

    Жыл бұрын

    كلما فخورين بيه بس هو فين دلوقتي

  • @edmania7858

    @edmania7858

    Жыл бұрын

    He's an incredibly smart man unlike the other troll.

  • @chrisgr8509

    @chrisgr8509

    Жыл бұрын

    We all know the truth. Even them. Great Egypt no one can match you. Love from Greece!

  • @mahaelsakka9958

    @mahaelsakka9958

    Жыл бұрын

    @Jermar Williamson enough with your grandma stories

  • @sheggy1986

    @sheggy1986

    Жыл бұрын

    @JermarWilliamson it's funny to me how you trying to teach real Egyptians in the comments about their history lol you're not even an Egyptian yourself so why do you think you are qualified to teach someone their history xD

  • @bennyballs22
    @bennyballs22 Жыл бұрын

    As an American, thank you Bassem for being the voice of reason. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills this world has become so backwards. I’m ashamed what Netflix is doing to Egyptian culture

  • @morticiag

    @morticiag

    Жыл бұрын

    Okay, but Cleopatra was GREEK and not Egyptian, so not sure WHY this guy is offended on our behalf?

  • @hokutonosword1

    @hokutonosword1

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah you guys been so deep down the hole of culture appropriation and woke movements... Let us do the freeing this time, my friend. Not in my country they're not

  • @bouguerranabiha4220

    @bouguerranabiha4220

    Жыл бұрын

    Cleopatra is Egyptian queen her ancestors are Greeks

  • @amrkhaled7346

    @amrkhaled7346

    Жыл бұрын

    @@morticiag the documentary also showed Egyptians as black and talked about how all history is wrong and Afrocentrism is a thing whether this documentary was made or not

  • @user-yd2fb3pf2f

    @user-yd2fb3pf2f

    Жыл бұрын

    Egyptian player Ahmed Hossam Mido looks like the statue of Ranefer. Ranefer has two statues a statue when he was young and a statue when he was older and bassem youssef looks like the seated scribe statue in paris also egyptian actress sawsan badr looks like nefertiti

  • @loose_phlegm3047
    @loose_phlegm304719 күн бұрын

    It was a documentary Piers. A documentary needs to be historically accurate.

  • @NightBane345
    @NightBane34518 күн бұрын

    If the show hadn't come out and said, historically accurate, and said idiotic things, like the grandma said Cleopatra always having been black. If they never said all that crap, the outrage wouldn't have been so bad

  • @joan2356
    @joan2356 Жыл бұрын

    "First of all this is not a work of fiction. This is a documentary! There is a huge difference. This is not The Little Mermaid, which is a fictional character where anyone can play anything."

  • @wethepeople3381

    @wethepeople3381

    Жыл бұрын

    STILL GOT KICKBACK THOUGH!!! DIDNT SHE!!

  • @marbella135

    @marbella135

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wethepeople3381 SO? You start taking it out on ACTUAL HISTORIC FIGURES?

  • @wethepeople3381

    @wethepeople3381

    Жыл бұрын

    @@marbella135 You are wrong! KNOW YOUR HISTORY!!!...You will soon learn the truth! I will not teach you, but do your research!

  • @marbella135

    @marbella135

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wethepeople3381 oh please let a dark skinned Greek who’s studied history know what they’re talking about. 😂😂😂😂

  • @wiwicare5823

    @wiwicare5823

    Жыл бұрын

    why egyptian are angry, you guys are muslims,who worship their arab master ,rather than their own culture

  • @AvDoulz
    @AvDoulz Жыл бұрын

    Even in the movie "night at the museum" which is a comedy movie they chose an Egyptian actor "Rami Malek" for the Egyptian king role and didn't pick a random guy for it, thank you Dr. Bassem for a great argument.

  • @martinam7806

    @martinam7806

    Жыл бұрын

    This!

  • @DominusZeikyu

    @DominusZeikyu

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah, he played Akhmenrah. Good notice

  • @peekaboots01

    @peekaboots01

    Жыл бұрын

    Good point!

  • @godofchaoskhorne5043

    @godofchaoskhorne5043

    Жыл бұрын

    In fact when they picked Rami Malek a lot of black Americans were very angry claiming that Rami Malek was too light skin and Hollywood was being racist by casting an Egyptian instead of a black America.

  • @athomewithnika6459

    @athomewithnika6459

    Жыл бұрын

    @@godofchaoskhorne5043 really? But he is ACTUALLY Egyptian 😅

  • @bobertkallahan4392
    @bobertkallahan439210 күн бұрын

    Why is this African American trying to speak for an Egyptian man about a documentary on Egypt? 😂

  • @bluesky5384
    @bluesky53843 ай бұрын

    It's always so interesting how people like Baseem can easily and quickly articulate their points and the other "woke" debate party can't.

  • @Iburn247
    @Iburn247 Жыл бұрын

    I'm not Egyptian but I agree with basseem. This is ridiculous and the afrocentric movement is getting out of hand

  • @beth3535

    @beth3535

    Жыл бұрын

    Not ‚is‘ … ‚has‘

  • @hamza1947

    @hamza1947

    Жыл бұрын

    Were you also outraged Joel Egerton played Ramases and Christian Bale played Moses? Cus I don't remember Piers turning into a snowflake over that

  • @moniqueuu8777

    @moniqueuu8777

    Жыл бұрын

    Of course you agree with him. Everyone will take the side of whomever when someone Black is across from them. The same people who watched and had no problem with Cleopatra being played by Elizabeth Taylor now have an issue: I wonder why......... Jesus being shown as a pale, straight, thin-haired man is okay even though the Bible clearly states he had hair of wool and olive skin.

  • @ShayMince

    @ShayMince

    Жыл бұрын

    @@moniqueuu8777 Most of the people commenting weren't even alive when Elizabeth Taylor played Cleopatra. Hollywood was much smaller back then and so was the pool of actors they picked from. Blackwashing is just as silly and disrespectful as whitewashing.

  • @mahaelsakka9958

    @mahaelsakka9958

    Жыл бұрын

    @@moniqueuu8777 we don’t care about your racial fight in USA or Europe , get your origins in central and west Africa .. again he said it all its not about black or white it’s about Egyptians representation of their history not others

  • @teza2922
    @teza2922 Жыл бұрын

    I'm not Egyptian but I'm tired of Hollywood taking other cultures history and trying to make them their own. If it's based on history, base it on history as best you can and I think it would be more accurate if the actress had been from Egypt in the first place. The history of countries is not black and white, like Bassem said : “It’s not about black and white, that’s how American’s think”, its true and I think Hollywood should have some rules on how to portray a story, especially, if it is not based on American history.

  • @user-yd2fb3pf2f

    @user-yd2fb3pf2f

    Жыл бұрын

    Egyptian player Ahmed Hossam Mido looks like the statue of Ranefer. Ranefer has two statues a statue when he was young and a statue when he was older and bassem youssef looks like the seated scribe statue in paris also egyptian actress sawsan badr looks like nefertiti

  • @DirtyD-mo5ud

    @DirtyD-mo5ud

    Жыл бұрын

    No that is how ignorant Americans think. The majority of us don't care about ethnicity and know we're a great melting pot of people and cultures. Sadly the ignorant are also always the loudest and most outspoken.

  • @cinnamonstar808

    @cinnamonstar808

    Жыл бұрын

    Every time we look at Jesus... same thing. Every time we look at medieval white royal families ... same thing. Every time we look at Anglo Saxon Romans ... same thing rock and Roll .. same thing.. Country music... same thing. 🏄surfing... same thing Hawaii.... same thing $5 indian... same AMERICA IS A MIRROR of what happen to other lands. Yes/NO; migration of humans do not exist? Yes/NO; cultural appreciation in ancient times did not occurs? nobody walked into another land like the food, people and culture and STAYED. that only happened in 1492. because Cleopatra VIII family moved to Africa 300 years before her birth. homegirl is going to be black. =MO: 🌍🌎🌏of the planet is the same from the birth of the planet. BLACK - default or 1st

  • @teza2922

    @teza2922

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DirtyD-mo5ud obviously, I don't think that all Americans are ignorant, but I'm talking about movies and TV series, etc., so many companies such as Netflix and Disney. that have recreated or created characters or stories based on how they want to see or tell other cultures national treasures or history. Disney for example have taken other cultures fairy tales ,folklore , mythology to tell about them themselves. Although, for example, the little mermaid is not exactly the same as telling a real story in history. I think it feels like Disney is stealing other cultures stories and doing it for their own gain.

  • @DirtyD-mo5ud

    @DirtyD-mo5ud

    Жыл бұрын

    @TeZa I agree which is why I no longer buy Disney products. They are pushing propaganda and lies like so many other major corporations and governments at the moment.

  • @user-tu4qn7sh8y
    @user-tu4qn7sh8y4 ай бұрын

    Cleopatra had Greek ancestors. She wasn’t black . 4:36. Also ancient Egyptians are not Muslim/ Arabs !

  • @celectial

    @celectial

    2 ай бұрын

    Exactly

  • @beastvader

    @beastvader

    2 ай бұрын

    She wasn't white either. You ever see Greek people? They're usually brown, often more than Middle Eastern people even.

  • @user-sj9hc6cj6j

    @user-sj9hc6cj6j

    Ай бұрын

    @@beastvaderyou close your mouth and let your ass talk. Never been in Greece yet talking with this confidence

  • @RickyVis

    @RickyVis

    Ай бұрын

    Modern Egyptians are not ethnic Arabs but cultural Arabs. Egypt was conquered by 4000 Arabs and there is no record whatsoever of any genocide committed by the Arabs.

  • @segineseju464

    @segineseju464

    Ай бұрын

    ​@RickyVis so are Nigerians culturally British???

  • @eveoc781_xxy49
    @eveoc781_xxy49Ай бұрын

    Cleopatra was neither black nor Egyptian, she was Macedonian

  • @sangelis311

    @sangelis311

    29 күн бұрын

    Greek Macedonian. Slavs didn’t begin to settle Macedonia until the mid 6th century AD.

  • @morsmordre3

    @morsmordre3

    27 күн бұрын

    Macedonian but she as a Queen of Egypt so Egyptians should have a say

  • @sangelis311

    @sangelis311

    4 күн бұрын

    @@morsmordre3 and what do the Egyptian say? Is it there truth that matters only? Or does the truth matter most?

  • @gagatube
    @gagatube Жыл бұрын

    "I'm sorry to disagree with the gentleman" - Bassem Youssef being 1000x more polite than I would be...

  • @tamarascott120

    @tamarascott120

    Жыл бұрын

    PLEASE HELP SAVE THE HORSES AND CAMELS THAT ARE BEING HORRIBLY ABUSED IN EGYPT AND GREECE!!! ❤️‍🩹💔❤️‍🩹💔😭😭

  • @mmi5833

    @mmi5833

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tamarascott120 yes!!!

  • @mohammedalghanmi9291

    @mohammedalghanmi9291

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@tamarascott120 Hey Tamara whaddup sugar baby ain't you suppose to be more focused bout the issues facing African mothah f**kin Americans with education, poverty and high crime rates so they can be more educated and civilized people like the others? Good luck with dat queen 😂

  • @hishamabbass6276

    @hishamabbass6276

    Жыл бұрын

    Dr Bassem Youssef. Thank you for standing up strongly and elequently. We in Egypt are so proud of you.👍🤗💪. Hisham Abbas.

  • @jamesjohn5398

    @jamesjohn5398

    Жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/gp1nzdCeZ8LcdLg.html

  • @2010Tigresa
    @2010Tigresa Жыл бұрын

    I'm european and I absolutely agree with Bassem. It's incredible how Owens dares to defy an egyptian trying to justify the actress chosen, shameful!

  • @ctruth6185

    @ctruth6185

    Жыл бұрын

    All Europeans are liars and thieves. I have come to believe Europeans are inherently evil. When Jesus returns and sets up His millennial Kingdom it will be devoid of Europeans. The European bloodlines are corrupted with evil. God is still cleansing the bloodlines.

  • @AmiRa-wj9jt

    @AmiRa-wj9jt

    Жыл бұрын

    There is no such thing as a European. What specific country are you from, don't be shy to call your country by name.

  • @epinoke4168

    @epinoke4168

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AmiRa-wj9jt I am Belgian and i speak a latin langage since the time of the Roman colonisation.

  • @DhimitriPero

    @DhimitriPero

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AmiRa-wj9jt "There is no such thing as a European". Confidently incorrect.

  • @AmiRa-wj9jt

    @AmiRa-wj9jt

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DhimitriPero I`m from Poland and I will not say that I`m European. Europe is a continent, not one big country like the United States. In my country it matters to say that you are Polish and not European and the rest of the "Europeans" I recommend to do the same so as not to forget about your ancestors and your culture.

  • @user-ee7hs6mb5g
    @user-ee7hs6mb5g19 күн бұрын

    He complains about Gal Gadot being cleopatra but little did he know that the movie was written by a greek (Kalogridis) and she choose Gadot. But he complains

  • @firdaus.ozgirla8498
    @firdaus.ozgirla84982 ай бұрын

    The arrogance and entitlement of the American guy is astounding. Imagine trying to tell a citizen of another country what their cultural history is?! He just seems like a professional complainer who’s forever offended. Get into the real world!

  • @krystina4101
    @krystina4101 Жыл бұрын

    As a Greek, I have to say thank you to Bassem 🇬🇷🇪🇬❤️ he did a brilliant job laying out the facts. Much love to Egypt!

  • @chiarabeozzo4901

    @chiarabeozzo4901

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes! I'm actually surprised that no one in Greece stood up to complain about this fake documentary! Why are only the Egyptian complaining??

  • @hamlet557

    @hamlet557

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@chiarabeozzo4901 Generally we think that Cleopatra is part of Egyptian history. But everyone of us is standing on Egypt's side - on the factually correct side.

  • @user-yd2fb3pf2f

    @user-yd2fb3pf2f

    Жыл бұрын

    Egyptian player Ahmed Hossam Mido looks like the statue of Ranefer. Ranefer has two statues a statue when he was young and a statue when he was older and bassem youssef looks like the seated scribe statue in paris also egyptian actress sawsan badr looks like nefertiti

  • @reychak

    @reychak

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chiarabeozzo4901 if you look at Greece local news you'd know they too are enraged.

  • @youssefmousa2064

    @youssefmousa2064

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for standing with us ❤️🇪🇬

  • @purewit
    @purewit Жыл бұрын

    As a Greek enthusiast of African history, it was soothing to hear Bassem accurately and easily name all those kingdoms (the points made in naming them not lost either) while the other guy stood out as a “Africa is a country” type of guy

  • @AhmedAshraf-pd7mu

    @AhmedAshraf-pd7mu

    Жыл бұрын

    The other guy is the product of American education 😂

  • @Mermaid404

    @Mermaid404

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@AhmedAshraf-pd7mu Correct!

  • @user-rt5pc7nt3t

    @user-rt5pc7nt3t

    Жыл бұрын

    Yup. Yup. Yup. American commentator: The world is black and white, get with the program. Bassem: Egyptian heritage is complex and historically impactful......... Good GOD,NETFLIX you are WRONG.

  • @purewit

    @purewit

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AhmedAshraf-pd7mu ​ @Ram Tadka very heart warming to hear some understanding of Africa on the internet

  • @optimus2g

    @optimus2g

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AhmedAshraf-pd7mu Exactly. 'Murica!!!

  • @drillerbyte
    @drillerbyte15 күн бұрын

    Netflix is getting so many things wrong😢

  • @mohameda.6226

    @mohameda.6226

    2 күн бұрын

    It's an agenda they did it on purpose..

  • @beckinfidelis3916
    @beckinfidelis3916Ай бұрын

    The main reason I care is because how woke activists scream if a white or half white person plays a character of any other racial or ethnic group. They went off when Johnny Depp was cast as Tonto because he's only HALF Native American and not the right tribe, but it's a fictional character! John Leguizamo slammed the casting of James Franco as Castro because he isn't Hispanic (but is part Portuguese) even after Leguizamo played French Toulouse-lautrec and Italian Tybalt in Romeo & Juliet, and some Roman character, etc. Hypocrisy!! Double Standards - I hate 'em. This all only goes one way, against white people. We're supposed to cheer a black Juliet when they cry about a half Native American Johnny Depp? NOPE!

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