"What would happenj if you insulted a knight in medieval Europe. I think you see the point." I guess the guy mocking the knight would see it too.

@DT-hb1gq

5 жыл бұрын

nah man knights were rarely nice dudes, like samurai. both were pretty sorry characters

@ngastakvakis4425

5 жыл бұрын

@@DT-hb1gq thats what he basically said.

@callummellis3280

5 жыл бұрын

@@DT-hb1gq "The point" he is referring to would be the Knight's sword

@dlevi67

4 жыл бұрын

Unless the guy had an extremely flexible neck, he wouldn't see the point sticking out from his back...

@cristiangranados2614

4 жыл бұрын

Psycho-logic ye but knights couldn’t actually point blank kill an insolent person like a samurai could

I like the bit about 'Common women have to pay to marry samurai'. Uh... you mean like a dowry? That thing that pretty much every culture has had for most of history?

@danieldaw1778

6 жыл бұрын

Dakota Holmes I was thinking the exact same thing. Dowry existed pretty much everywhere in every culture for a ridiculously long time. Even if you were a princess and your country was richer than another nation, you paid a dowry. Example, when Catherine of Aragon was married to Arthur, son of Henry the VII, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile basically gave the English a Navy as her dowry.

@Dr.DX2

6 жыл бұрын

don't go too far people. In my country (india) people still practice this and yes, i'm ashamed of it. I guess some of us are still stuck somewhere between 15 - 17 century AD.

@DSzaks

5 жыл бұрын

Actually a dowry was paid by the woman's family, not the woman. It was more like a "Here, take this useless woman off our hands, and take this gold for your trouble" (yes I'm being hyperbolic, sue me). So not exactly the same thing.

@fvriovs5502

5 жыл бұрын

To pay for the bride is not a dowry, it's a brideprice. A dowry has numerous functions including the establishment of the household and even insurance against harm being brought against the bride if the laws of the country stipulate that if a wife dies soon in marriage, the dowry returns. It can also be used to sustain the wife after the husband's death, as well as be given to her own children in inheritance. In Ancient Sparta for example, there was an extremely wealthy upper class and very powerful group of women called the heiresses, due to the Spartan custom that a man's wealth passed to his wife when he died, not his children. She, adding this to her own legal property as well as ownership of her dowry, would then divide this equally between her sons and daughters. So then you had daughters entering marriage with a vast amount of property as well as dowry, and repeating the process a generation down. The consequence was a very enriched class of women with massive political influence. Dowries are largely extinct now due to the fact more women work than they did before as well as the general deconstruction of the family unit and values in many countries (I would argue this is a bad thing but others may differ), but the notion that dowries were simply the consequence of the *lack* of value placed on women in any role is very much not true and could in many ways work to the advantage of a woman. This of course is culture dependant, but even in cases of arranged marriages, brides were rarely 'sold'.

@fvriovs5502

5 жыл бұрын

@Mr Lee Well as far as I am aware, a dower is property or wealth paid to the bride by the husband to support her upkeep in the event of his death (common if men marry later than women), whilst brideprice is paid to her family so that he is able to marry her at all.

Seppuku? Hah! Pathetic. True samurai commit Sudoku.

@borismuller86

5 жыл бұрын

Appley Animator *confused by numbers* “ARRRGH!”

@suryokai313

5 жыл бұрын

Shamefur dispray

@nurse425

4 жыл бұрын

It first drove them INSANE before they took their lives, LOL!

@joshuawiseman5629

4 жыл бұрын

@Jeffrey Scott seppuku is The same thing as Hari-kiri they are both accurate terms however I believe seppuku was actually the more used term

@holothewisewolf405

4 жыл бұрын

Epic meme

Seppuku wasn't that unique. Many defeated Roman generals routinely fell on their swords.

@rudamachoo

4 жыл бұрын

and that's the occidentalist view expressed in the vid: "to rob the enemy of the opportunity to kill u".

@tiberius5245

4 жыл бұрын

Falling on your sword is not the same as cutting your stomach open.

@Intranetusa

4 жыл бұрын

@@tiberius5245 Actually, Roman suicide sometimes did mean cutting their own stomach open. Look up how Cato the Younger killed himself: "Cato did not immediately die of the wound; but struggling, fell off the bed...his son and all his friends came into the chamber, where, seeing him lie weltering in his own blood, great part of his bowels out of his body, but himself still alive and able to look at them, they all stood in horror. The physician went to him, and would have put in his bowels, which were not pierced, and sewed up the wound; but Cato, recovering himself, and understanding the intention, thrust away the physician, plucked out his own bowels, and tearing open the wound, immediately expired."

@gustavfrye2736

4 жыл бұрын

@Jacob Locklear 99% chance of fanfic websites.

@gustavfrye2736

4 жыл бұрын

@Grant bro, don't even try...

Why is Context always ignored?

@grimmfolly4893

7 жыл бұрын

As practice for when it's time to smear Donald Trump and anyone else who's politics aren't your own.

@mustarastas88

7 жыл бұрын

Context killed my little brother Timmy.

@emarsk77

7 жыл бұрын

Because they're not Matt Easton :)

@mikehobbes6600

7 жыл бұрын

Because they're not historians.

@goldenfugnugget

7 жыл бұрын

Damn you context, we will get revenge for Timmy just wait...

A wife killing herself along side her husband actually sounds quite Shakespearian...

@bosbanon3452

7 жыл бұрын

you're right

@Plumjelly

7 жыл бұрын

I agree. It's also similar to the practice of "sati" that once existed in India.

@brian.jrmontoya3227

7 жыл бұрын

Jacob Furrow that it does.

@aramwatters

5 жыл бұрын

@Jacob Farrow: careful dude the sjws might accuse you of patriarchy

@owlblocksdavid4955

4 жыл бұрын

That doesn't make it okay.

The wife killing herself in my mind, is the same as her never “moving on” after your death. It’s the loyalty to you.

@timothymclean

4 жыл бұрын

It's more tragic and immediately definite, of course, but same idea. Exact same idea as Juliet stabbing herself, come to think of it, just with less decapitation.

@sohammitra7516

3 жыл бұрын

If you think the wives killing themselves is tragic. You should read about the rajputs of india , I forgot the time period but it was before timur invaded india . The rajput were somewhat similar to the japanese in ww2 where they rarely surrendered and fought till they were killed. And when the wives heard that all the men of their family were dead , they all gathered together a set themselves on fire to stay with their husband on the other side as well. The practice is called Jauhar .

@House_of_Green

3 жыл бұрын

Every body romanticizes Romeo & Juliet.........

@DrunkenAussie76

3 жыл бұрын

@@House_of_Green ...gee, I wonder why people romanticise one of the worlds most popular romantic tragedies...

@thearcanehunter2736

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrunkenAussie76 I certainly do. Even Shakespeare himself called out their actions as foolish. The idea of someone killing themselves after their lover died is honestly just disgusting imo. I don't care why you commit suicide, just don't.

"It was war. People do aweful things at war." I'm french, I've been at war. You cannot be so true. What makes us quality humans, is to be able to grasp those facts. And act accordingly. Grazie mille signor Metatron.

@owlblocksdavid4955

4 жыл бұрын

Still, comparing the atrocities of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, the USSR, or to a lesser extent Italy (not that Italy wasn't bad, but we're looking at comparisons between three of the most evil regimes in history) grossly undermines those atrocities. The reason the US felt the need to drop those atomic bombs was precisely because of the fanaticism of the Japanese army and culture, and because they gave us no indication of an easy surrender. Either way, the fire bombings of Tokyo were far deadlier, and I'm not sure why people focus on the atomic bombs.

@pekkahmar1859

3 жыл бұрын

@SHADOW PIONEER - ENT. it was a different time

@livingtoaster1358

3 жыл бұрын

@@owlblocksdavid4955 tell that to a Deontologist also the U.S didn't just use an atomic bomb on just those two cities which the majority of were filled with innocent civilians but they've been literally bombing numerous cities in Japan not just Tokyo and let's not forget that the U.S during WW2 WW2 unreasonably put all their Japanese citizens in internment camps and where they faced much discrimination and incarceration because they feared they were all spies for Japan which is obviously not true, as well as the history of U.S discrimination against Japanese since the 1800s

@lolmeme69_

3 жыл бұрын

@@owlblocksdavid4955 Couldn't have said it better.

@awpimawpimawpaajd4176

3 жыл бұрын

@SHADOW PIONEER - ENT. well if you were born back then you'd act like them too

The video you responded to was like the Buzzfeed of medieval "facts".

@ohlawd3699

7 жыл бұрын

+5Ermacs LOL

@amitabhakusari2304

6 жыл бұрын

Here's a problem with top 10s and top 20s, Why only 10 or 20? Why not 11 or 19 or 22? Why not just as many you need to mention to give the general idea, or to cover most of the popular ones in the category or just enough you can talk about in the time limit of video? I never click on these types of links, not matter how popular the channel, or good source. The nicely rounded numbers are fishy.

Midevil Knights hunted not just as a means for attaining food but also they hunted as a way of training. It was common practice for Knights in training to go into the forest and premtively find wild animals to kill in order to physically and psychologically train themselves

@tn9711

7 жыл бұрын

Knights killed more animals. Better for the Samurais that only killed dogs

@adrixshadow

7 жыл бұрын

The real difference is the weapon used for that training. It makes more sense to have a spear for a boar, and a nimble dog for bows.

@dukeofburgundy4229

7 жыл бұрын

*Medieval

@JustGrowingUp84

7 жыл бұрын

Knyght Errant made a very good video on this topic!

@dukeofburgundy4229

7 жыл бұрын

***** Seems too depend on the animal, I imagine most game would be hunted with bows or crossbows, though some animals like boars seem to been hunted predominantly with speer and hounds. And on the topic of tactics in regards to men-at-arms(I.e. knights) their tactics changed over time and according to the situation. Take for example the English during the Hundred Years War, who fought predominantly fought on foot in contrast with their peers. However after grand victories such as Crecy the trend seems to have caught on the rest of western Europe and was quite popular until the renaissance. However some knights also fought on foot as a necessity as a consequence of their native terrain, for example Norway or Scotland.

Thank you for this video. It's great to see an "extended" commentary on material that is eye-catching, but leaves a lot to be explained.

@kevinmorrice

3 жыл бұрын

even after 3 years, i still cant find who asked for your opinion

@sirgalahad1376

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinmorrice It was me I admit it. I asked asked him for his opinion 3 years ago. I’m so sorry.

@laufert7100

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinmorrice And I haven't find who asked yours, so what's your point?

@anandboss7034

3 жыл бұрын

Brah, he is just defending a culture he loves. I don't see wat this has to do with you

@carsoncopland982

2 жыл бұрын

Kevin Morrice if only you’d of asked yourself the same question before commenting. Think I’m general, but think about being kind before you speak please.

"Germans did what they did..." thanks for your kindness :'D

@SirFuffy

3 жыл бұрын

@@OSRSBrachydios as Stanis la Rochelle would say

@DevilsAvocado69

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah apart from the teenagers was the line that worried me.... I mean he is trying to justify what they did too children by saying oh well happens to adults too.... thats odd

@robertcook2112

3 жыл бұрын

What a hand wave and a half

@wodensthrone5215

3 жыл бұрын

@@DevilsAvocado69 I look at it as a way to move on from the topic, so he doesn't risk getting demonitized.

@dzonbrodi514

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertcook2112 Well put, he just didn't want to engage with that aspect of it. Coercion of children into sex happened in Europe too however, though he didn't mention that; children were routinely married to middle aged men.

You could also compare ronin to modern veterans who have trouble reintegrating with society after living in such a violent environment for so long.

@bosbanon3452

7 жыл бұрын

similar with rambo

@sralneman5929

7 жыл бұрын

not realy

@aragmarverilian8238

7 жыл бұрын

Yes! The moment after watching it, i posted the link to Metatron. Someone has to debunk those weasels!

@ghazghkull133

7 жыл бұрын

They drew first blood, not me

@BeybladeSuomi

7 жыл бұрын

Similar to robber knights and/or Knight Errants

have you made a video about the last samurai? I'd love to hear your thoughts on the movie

@sauceboss4093

7 жыл бұрын

Me too

@marcelosilveira2276

7 жыл бұрын

hm I don't rememver if he refereed to the movie as whole, but he usually mention on it on his videos about japan, for example, the fact that the "samurai don't use guns cause of honor" part is bullshit.

@tegrin853

7 жыл бұрын

Yes please! I loved the movie and I've heard cultural criticism against it. I'd like to know your insights on the movie.

@at-teclonetrooper2482

7 жыл бұрын

True, the Samurais had been using guns and artillery for 300 years before the movie's timeline. I would suggest the review of HistoryBuffs, so many things you can learn from that guy :D

@matiokong5112

7 жыл бұрын

+AT-TE CloneTrooper you're here to huh that's funny lol

I fell in love with the romanticised version of Japan's feudal as a kid. Most people I run into get their notions from anime and manga. But the real history is much more interesting. It's good to see someone confronting largely Western held beliefs and ideals of the Edo and the Sengoku Jidai periods. I would love to see more on the end of the Jomon into the yayoi.

@23Lgirl

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZmlo5qvkbafXZs.html

I just read "The 47 Ronin Story" by John Allyn and found your video very much in line with Allyn's descriptions of samurai. The book even mentions a FEW ronin did turn criminal but most did not. Glad I saw your video since the Top Tenz one depressed me a bit after I finished such an inspiring book.

@23Lgirl

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZmlo5qvkbafXZs.html

I think this was mostly an apologetic video and not so much a debunking one

@brucejedilee5290

7 жыл бұрын

How?

@ShaNagmaImmuru

7 жыл бұрын

+Bruce Jedi Lee Well, when you point out for example that yes this thing happened but we have to see it in prespective (which i agree with) it isnt debunking. its apologetic in the sence that metatron puts it in context not proving it isnt true. I dont disagree with what he said by the way

@brucejedilee5290

7 жыл бұрын

ShaNagmaImmuru Well he also pointed out that almost everything he said was also grossly exaggerated or was only done by either a small group of Samurai or only durring a specific time period

@talastra

7 жыл бұрын

It's a debunking of the cherry-picking in the original.

@uncletimo6059

7 жыл бұрын

You're right.

The use of atom bombs in war is not dishonorable. It is terrible, but not necessarily wrong.

@mustarastas88

7 жыл бұрын

What's the difference between terrible and wrong?

@LeviPaladin

7 жыл бұрын

mustarastas88 It's terrible to get heart surgery. It's terrible to kill an intruder at night. It's terrible to sit in a prison cell all day long. None of these things are inherently wrong. Sometimes they are, but not always.

@LeviPaladin

7 жыл бұрын

Replay Bro By what moral standard?

@LeviPaladin

7 жыл бұрын

Replay Bro Nm. I'm tired. You must be joking.

@mustarastas88

7 жыл бұрын

Levi Paladin I don't think that heart surgery is terrible. But sure, that's personal opinion. What's the intruder thing supposed mean? Home invasion and self defense? At least here that's illegal. Not that it's an actual, common problem here.

love how you break things down and explain things and why. Keep up the good work.

@goprev9715

5 жыл бұрын

Whataboutism, and appealing to cultural sympathy/empathy/understanding to defend obnoxious cultural practices are not even arguments man, they are justifications. The video was informative yes, but poorly argumented.

@zakinnamis5577

4 жыл бұрын

@@goprev9715 okay boomer

@emperorfaiz

6 ай бұрын

@@goprev9715 You are obsolutely wrong.

Yeah, I always was kind of confused with how Ronin could be so disgraced when Miyamoto Musashi was a Ronin _himself._ Yet, Musashi is often regarded as the pinnacle of what a Samurai was.

@dzonbrodi514

3 жыл бұрын

I think the point is that it was not desirable to be a Ronin, but misfortune could happen to anyone despite themselves and a Ronin could still become a Samurai again and find a master later. I think it's also the case that Musashi became highly regarded as a Samurai by *some* people after his death. During his lifetime he was highly regarded as a swordsman but not as a pattern of what a Samurai was. I know you wrote this 2 years ago, I am just looking at comments and felt moved to respond.

@NachtKaiser666

3 жыл бұрын

I think the misconception comes from a mix of facts cherry picked left and right. Kabukimono were essentially ronin, Akechi Mitsuhide was a ronin before serving Oda Nobunaga and ultimately betray him, stuff like that. Many ronin did end up getting caught for petty crimes while trying to barely survive. Stuff like that. Plus there's the whole honor point, samurai means something along the lines of "one who serves," the idea of dying in service of a lord was far more respected than dying independent. The idea that you could fight for the Hojo one day and the Satake the next might sound ludicrous to a samurai from either side. That's not to say defections never happened, they did when the tides of war did. There's often hypocrisy in those honor-based system, but then again it's hard to judge fairly from the outside.

There's a difference between killing an animal for sport and for food. You should compare killing an animal for sport with killing another animal for sport, and killing an animal for food with killing another animal for food. But yeah it is hypocritical because even today we kill animals for sport here in the west. From foxes and ducks to lions and elephants in the savvanah or bulls in the arenas and so on and so forth. Judging Samurai for shooting arrows at dogs a few centuries ago is hypocritical.

@linkxsc

7 жыл бұрын

I always love how they say dogs because they're mans best friends. You know, not like they totally never competed in hunting birds or boars or other creatures.

@jamesprice6605

7 жыл бұрын

thankfully upper class style fox hunting is now illegal in the uk, though obliviously some still do it.

@The_Gallowglass

7 жыл бұрын

I'm a hunter, in the west, but I do not kill animals for sport. I find it to be barbaric.

@Jan-gh7qi

7 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, that there is a difference between killing animal for Sport and for food. But what Metatron points out is not just the western Tradition of killing for food. He also mentiones Foxhunting, what ist in fact just killing animals for pure fun. If we talk about Hunting, in my opinion, there is also, if we do it really for food or for fun and Sport. And most of the Nobility of the Western world saw it as a Sport. (That does not mean, that i oppose killiing animals for food. I really love meat an see it as part of our culture.) At a last point, I think, we should not forget the reason of Training. One may discuss, if this is moral or not, but in any case, i think, there is a Difference between killing animals for fun or to improve you arching skills.

@binifarmer4045

7 жыл бұрын

So it's somehow hypocritical to call out another culture for doing something other people do in the West that we also find disgusting? Sure, makes perfect sense.

It's sad how many people fell into the lies of that video. I'm glad I unsubscribe from that channel.

@sigge.415

7 жыл бұрын

^ Lmao this guy guy thinks he's funny. You played yourself.

@Tellin08

7 жыл бұрын

Your video took everything out of context toptenz. The fact that you have paid so much attention to this video and even to random people here shows that you know it too and are insecure. This video just didn't "add more information", metatron added the actual context to it like you should've done in the first place. When you leave out the context it makes all of these things seem like they were practiced among most of the samurai. And then you even say things like "and for some reason people are obsessed with japan" which just shows your true charlatan intention for the video. You don't have any more integrity just because you're pretending that showing up here actually makes a difference. Congrats on completely misrepresenting an amazing Warrior Culture just for views because you did that well.

@BRAIIIIIINS

7 жыл бұрын

+TopTenz time to get a new handler for that account. Maybe someone with more tact and a better grasp of the English language.

@bvbxiong5791

7 жыл бұрын

um actually...the guy debunked like 3 or 4 facts only. the rest of the points was just his personal opinion and further explanation, he couldn't debunk the fact itself.

@Yoshimitsu882

7 жыл бұрын

It's not about you vs. the Metatron lol it's about the generalizations you presented as facts in this one specific video you made

2:05 Look! Even in the drawing Simon uses there's a marking around the victim's neck, clearly implying they'll cut off the head first.

This was awesome thank you for those clarifications as always fantastic content

I guess you could say this list was a shamefur dispray. I am ready for seppuku now.

@StepyonKun

7 жыл бұрын

A SHAMEFUR DISPURRAYYYY

@syndrathedarksovereign1609

7 жыл бұрын

My lord ! Our allies have fled the battlefierd !

@KyoushaPumpItUp

7 жыл бұрын

OUR MEN ARE RUNNING FROM THE BATTLEFIELD! A SHAMEFUR DISPRAY!

@longfang72

7 жыл бұрын

Dude speaks like 6 languages, you are a troll

@codyhammond101

7 жыл бұрын

+Bob Bigall no shit

After watching the video, I am informed. After reading the comments, I am confused...

@nights1515

7 жыл бұрын

Lol, same here. I liked Top Tenz new Samurai video. Then click on this video and I don't really know what the heck is going on.

@assassintwinat8

7 жыл бұрын

nights1515 XD i'm mainly confused as to why people are so mad

@googelplussucksys5889

7 жыл бұрын

A lot of contrarian alt-righters in the comments.

@mercedeswalt6621

7 жыл бұрын

assassintwinat8 Hahahaha!

@Samuel-wm6wv

7 жыл бұрын

Googelplus Sucksys Yeah those alt righters ruining everything you do realise that alt right is a label put on ones self

Thank you so much for this Video! I really got mad after seeing the toptenz clip. You nailed it! 👍

Misrepresentation of the ninja is also exceedingly common among pop culture

@nicholasjonas2505

4 жыл бұрын

Ikr. Ninjas actually didn't carry shurikens because it would rattle and if you dropped them that'd be hard to explain.They were more for stealth and being a messenger. Not for combat.

@donovanmcfay9831

3 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Jonas also for gathering intel

@nicholasjonas2505

3 жыл бұрын

@@donovanmcfay9831 yeah that too

@deadbeatnetwork9792

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicholasjonas2505 They were basically the equivalent of today's spies.

You like cats better than dogs? Unsubscribed jkjk.

@xxfurio90

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, they taste better.

@xxfurio90

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, they taste better.

@linkxsc

7 жыл бұрын

... Thats fuckin racist.

@jsmith8542

7 жыл бұрын

+Linkxsc I assume you are talking about the guy who replyed comparing cats with a derogatory term?

@linkxsc

7 жыл бұрын

Jimmie Smith Yeah. The guy who deleted his comment.

15:33 *CURRENT YEAR!* Really? In [THE CURRENT YEAR]!? I mean *COME ON!* I thought you were better than this Metatron. Here we go again... CURRENT YEAR! U R R E N T Y E A R ! You brought this upon yourself.

@carltonlee17

7 жыл бұрын

Wut???

@carltonlee17

7 жыл бұрын

+ᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) well, you see, the problem is that no one sign my contract

@noobafet8125

7 жыл бұрын

+Incubator QB hi evil cousin

@DougsDiggers

7 жыл бұрын

Noobafet no

@carltonlee17

7 жыл бұрын

ᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚᅚ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) yeah

thank you! you explaine very good

gr8 video thank you

Toptenz is a fucking sensationalist. His vid about vikings was terrible. Thanks for making these videos, it's truly needed.

It's funny-every one of these horrifying facts is also true for a European culture from the same period.

@ngastakvakis4425

5 жыл бұрын

They never said they weren't.

@owlblocksdavid4955

4 жыл бұрын

Killing innocents is still wrong. Committing suicide is still wrong.

@Tareltonlives

4 жыл бұрын

@@owlblocksdavid4955 Well, Suicide isn't necessarily wrong. But yeah, killing innocents certainly is.

@Tareltonlives

4 жыл бұрын

And of course the Romans were all about suicide for honor. Same with their contemporaries: Boudica, Cleopatra, Hannibal, Mithradates; they killed themselves rather than be publically humiliated.

@bumudanbanane9147

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tareltonlives Well Mithradates ordered a friend to kill him during a rebellion of his army when the situation looked hopeless to him. I would not say that this was "suicide for honor" or comparable to the seppuku.

thanks for cool vid.

i liked most of the upload but not the debunking point 3, you didn't deny this happened, so the fact that it happened to adults too don't mean you ignore the child victims and focus on the adult's by calling it homophobic but not paedophilia

@turksungerbob728

2 жыл бұрын

I'm with you on this one. I felt that metatron didn't do a good job on that point.

11:56 "and war... war never changes" -Fallout series

@jaypapz5360

5 жыл бұрын

it never changes because it's a descriptive term, used to describe something that will always be inherent in human nature. That 2 opposing forces must clash and one must consume the other. Sad but true.

@thazmat

5 жыл бұрын

@@jaypapz5360 thanks captain obvious

@fransthefox9682

5 жыл бұрын

@@jaypapz5360 r/woooosh

@dank_crusad3r

4 жыл бұрын

“The war has changed”

@timothymclean

4 жыл бұрын

@@thazmat Thing is, statements like "War never changes" sound profound because they resonate with something people believe. Lots of people *do* think war never changes, along with everything else in the world...and hence that nothing *can* change, so why bother trying to stop abuses of power or whatever? War never changes, the more things change the more they stay the same, it'll happen no matter what you do to stop it. Except it *can* be changed if people *bother.*

So you didn’t debunk it, you basically just said it’s all true but it’s absolutely fine and it shouldn’t be an issue.

@aridicaexmontaudon1296

2 жыл бұрын

Way to not watch the video

@23Lgirl

2 жыл бұрын

@@aridicaexmontaudon1296 kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZmlo5qvkbafXZs.html

Love this video thank you for explaining this in everybody's side ✌✌

I'm loving your videos the more I'm watching them. I've been subscribed for a while, but thinking about donating. It's that good!

Hey Mr. Metatron. Love your Stuff. I'm gonna be nitpicky myself... the worst thing the Japanese did in WW2 was not attacking Pearl Harbour...

If I had a choice in the method of my execution...I'd choose decapitation by a skilled swordsman over electric chair or firing squad any day. My first choice would be old age of course.

top ten vids etc are like a jack of all trades, master of none. Love these debunking vids

love your channel brother! you keep it real :D

It's at the point I think you and Simon Wistler should box, Italy Vs England, Facts vs Bullshit, Long hair Vs Bald!!! :) Lol

A very good video, and I must say, I had almost exactly the same reaction to some of the points as you did, and I know very little about oriental history, and so don't really understand the majority of cultural taboos and requirements that occurred. The point about dogs though, I genuinely paused the video for a moment to have my own little rant, about how they would hunt dogs for sport. My response was something along the lines of: "What? In Europe people would hunt foxes for sport, and some still do today? So what's so different about hunting dogs? Cuteness factor?!? Bullcrap. Utter bullcrap." And so, when I unpaused the video after a moment, I was both mildly shocked and quite pleased to see that you had exactly the same counter-example as I did. It's great to see someone put actual reason, evidence, and an unbiased viewpoint to use, debunking videos like this, and like you said at the start, trying to educate people who may have been formerly misled by videos such as the one debunked. Good work Metatron, keep up the great videos!

@metatronyt

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your kind words ^^

@tichepotato7992

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for responding, I really enjoy your videos, they're quite a nice change from the majority of stuff online. People like you, Shad, and demomanchaos all make fascinating videos that are always entertaining to watch.

@metatronyt

7 жыл бұрын

Tiche CoMC I'm glad you think so and thank you for watching and commenting ^^

@backup4536

7 жыл бұрын

Dogs are loyal beings that evolved alongside us. Killing them for sport is, well, not only wasteful but inefficient. Foxes aren't domestic and they often cause damage to livestock and/or goods. To me, it seems that it takes a particularly savage person to kill an animal that isn't harmful to you, or if it isn't a food source.

Extremely good and mostly facts covered about topic... Good research dude..... 🤗

Just came to this video for the cool samurai pictures

The point you say about them saying being gay isn't okay is definitely not what they were saying.

The ronin thing is particularly bizarre to me. Samurai became ronin for a variety of reasons. Some went on pilgrimages to hone their skill. Some became mercenaries. Others became body guards. To say that they were all criminals or refused to work is simply wrong. In fact, some ronin actually put away their swords and took up other skills such as farming or merchant.

This is devastating, I'm new to your (awesome) channel... I love Simon's work on Biographics/Geographics

Great video

"Yeah the samurai did do that... but what about" Dude, I like your channel, but you didn't debunk a single thing, this entire video is just one giant whataboutism.

@deceptionception

2 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid you didn't catch the meaning of this video that much. Did you perhaps not watch the entire video? He did debunk most of the things in the list, what you may have missed is the fact that TopTenzNet has clearly put low effort on his video and is shining light on some things that mostly were a rare thing while trying to criticize them as if the entirety of japan was at fault, not only that but also using the morality we have today towards a culture he does not and refuse to understand. Metatron did an amazing job at pushing aside the stupid criticism, although i agree that some had a, like you called them, "whataboutism" into them but the point is that every culture in the world had a similar, if not the same thing, they pointed against old Japanese culture. So it's quite pointless to try singling japan while the rest of the world was by any means better.

@23Lgirl

2 жыл бұрын

@@deceptionception kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZmlo5qvkbafXZs.html

As I have stated before in comments, thank you for breaking up these false truths and false realities. Keep up your great work Metatron.

Very educational.

Great video.

Lies are bad. Conveniently incomplete truths are even worse. The former was used more to cover ignorance and mostly easy to discover, while the latter was frequently utilized to support agendas, and sadly more convincing as well.

2:10 iirc they also did this sometimes when they didn't have tameshigiri, with limbs and stuff stuck up on things such as the tameshigiri would be. If you even GOOGLE tameshigiri and read up on it, this being done on criminals that were alive was "occasional", meaning not a frequent thing. I completely agree with your statement on it being capital punishment as well, as it definitely was back then. I can't stand videos like that where they are trying to tell people about "HISTORY" and are being all like, " hey get smart off this shit buddy XD!!! " and then proceed to just spew a bunch of horseshit botched information. These people are just trying to make money off of gullible idiots who think that everyone on youtube is telling them correct information when they have the ability to just google what people are talking about while the video is paused and research whether what they're saying is true or not. Another good video Metatron.

Love how this has popped back up to watch as I'm replying Ghosts of Tsushima

This was very informative

This was the most biased video I’ve ever seen!

I love debunking videos :)

@finnthehu200

7 жыл бұрын

Also, I love your shirt in this video. :D

@metatronyt

7 жыл бұрын

ahahah :D

Just saw this video even though it’s seven years old. Thanks again Meta, You’re doing humanity and history a great service :)

Thank you so much for making this video.

They really painted Samurai as bloodthirsty and ruthless when in fact that were actually one of the most structured and honorable societies of the time.

@InSanic13

5 жыл бұрын

Eh, don't confuse our modern conceptions of honor with theirs.

@KingBongHogger

5 жыл бұрын

InSanic They were honorable, period. I'd love for their laws to be in place today. If someone insults you and your family they better be ready to get stabbed. We've gotten soft and afraid of the only guaranteed thing in life; death.

@InSanic13

5 жыл бұрын

You're insane. Stabbing people over insults is *NOT* ok. I don't know what kind of background you have that makes you have such a casual attitude towards such violence, but you need help.

@KingBongHogger

5 жыл бұрын

InSanic You're just soft so you don't understand. I believe problems should be solved by actions, not words. Don't get me wrong, I don't hurt people randomly, but if you start going in on me or especially my family, you're getting knocked the fuck out. I believe two people who have beef should fight. The last one standing is the better man, period. That way anger isn't stored and shit like mass shootings would be less frequent if we were allowed to express our anger in 1v1 combat.

@InSanic13

5 жыл бұрын

So, you want people to kill you and/or your loved ones over petty insults, jokes, and all the trivial things that people historically got into duels over?

I am an Indian and absolutely love your Channel from now because Simon had changed my opinion about Samurai for bad now you have fixed it...now I hate Simon...the lies these people spew over the internet...Simon's words were hurting me...thank u Metatron. ❤❤❤❤Japan and Samurai ❤❤❤

@23Lgirl

2 жыл бұрын

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2:09 there's an anime/manga with a clan of samurai loosely based in this fact, it's called Jigokuraku, highly recommend it.

Thanks for sharing .

Love the way you clarify the facts! I have Samurai blood dating back from the 17th century. Never knew all of the real and not because my Japanese great-grandparents moved here to Hawaii in the 1900's, and pop culture fuels the minds of many.

Just subscribed to your channel (coming here from Shadversity) and your medieval Japan focus piqued my interest. Thank you for making this video specifically, because a lot of the misconceptions you call out the Top Tenz video on are still perpetuated today, and they shine a bad light upon samurai, much worse than a realistic perspective warrants.

Thank you for both your academic and philosophical views. I searched for dai + katana and found your channel only to realize that about 2 years ago, wanting to know more about Latin, I visited you once. Nice to know that it has grown to a massive community. Thanks again for all your efforts!!

Nice one

"Germans doing their thing" I died when I heard that.

Ciao! Sono felice di aver trovato il tuo canale perchè fai video molto interessanti! ps. hai un gran bell'accento inglese :D

@diegocrusius

5 жыл бұрын

keep forgetting italians use ciao for 'hello' as well. We use "tchau" in portuguese as a way to say goodbye. It gave me impression you were saying like "bye" and leaving the channel somehow. Love cultural exchance.

Well done said and explained

im still waiting for a video on sepukku

While I think that you might misinterpret some of their motivations in one or two cases, I am as bothered as you were by people who judge the past or cultures of the past from today's perspective. It is such a stupid thing to do. Nothing is easier than that. I recently came across an article in the Guardian from 2009 which called Shakespeare problematic because of how women are portrayed in his plays. Sometimes I get the feeling that these people must believe themselves to be the heroes of humanity for criticising the past, not realizing that they would have been like those people in the past and that they would done the exact same things under those circumstances.

13:39 Guys like "Come at me bro!"

GREAT VIDEO................

very good, thank you!

What is your opening song? I love it!

@louirudy670

7 жыл бұрын

wanna know aswell

@metatronyt

7 жыл бұрын

Knight templar 1 from Epidemic sound or something like that xD

@louirudy670

7 жыл бұрын

Metatron​ you could perhaps use "Cruisade" by KevinMacLeod. As far as i know its copyright free

@ieuanhunt552

7 жыл бұрын

KevinMacLeod is a ridiculously talented musician

@dominicsalazar2942

7 жыл бұрын

you should have it in your description, since it seems to be that in almost every video some one asks.

"The Japanese did some really bad things." China, Korea, Inner Mongolia and Hong Kong: "Please, tell me more."

@tarlison2k1

2 жыл бұрын

ask spanish ,american and british all did at some point

@slamdancer1720

2 жыл бұрын

@@tarlison2k1 as did china korea mongolia etc.

@tarlison2k1

2 жыл бұрын

@@slamdancer1720 in war it's normal

came from shadeversity watched a couple vids and enjoyed them after a bit... learned a little as well i will be digging further into the backlog here

i'm still shocked about the wakashus jeje

#1 sounds like a good idea depending on the crime.

Great video! The only problem for me is defending imperial japan. (Or at least it sounds like it) Imperial Japanese did so many terrible things that fighting to the last man, suicide plane crashes, and attack at pearl harbor without a declaration of war should not go even top 10.

@ousamadearu5960

3 жыл бұрын

No, he isn't defending Imperial Japan. But the fact that everyone did shit on WWII was his point. Hell such as the Laconia Incident and American Fire Bombings on literal civilian cities(aside from the fact that inaccuracy from pilots was too common at that time). Sure thing we can blame everyone for their war crimes, but saying one is defending a certain country for a cultural concept that no longer existed in Imperial Japan(said Bushido was no longer a thing at that time and was just a template for a different code of honor, just like Chivalry).

@Tryndamere308

3 жыл бұрын

​@@ousamadearu5960 Yes but when one country is estimated to have killed more innocent civilians than Nazi Germany...

Thank you 👍

Well done. Simon does sensation up the video a lot.

" 10 facts videos about this and that " are generally a huge, steamy, pile of BS.

During World War 2, before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto specifically ordered for the declaration of war to be sent before the attack started. (6 hours before, if I recall correct). I am not sure if I am correct on this part, but supposedly the Japanese embassy in the united states back then had trouble decoding and translating the message before they could send it to the americans. (Yamamoto also specified to only attack militairy targets and avoid civilian targets.) also, everyone did terrible things in world war 2, you named the atom bombs for the united states... but what is often overlooked is the fire bombing of Tokyo, causing between 75.000 and 200.000 deaths. also, why did the americans drop the 2nd atomic bomb? because they could, not because they had to.

@christopherwinne5434

7 жыл бұрын

Instead of teaching them one lesson, we taught them multiple ones. That's why they are doing so good now. We razed it down... then we built it better.

@kirotheavenger60

7 жыл бұрын

although I would agree that the second bomb probably wasn't needed, that was for muscle flexing against the soviets than anything else. the first bomb saved a lot of lives. firebombing caused horrendous amounts of death and destruction, and given how Japan held on to her other islands and how she planned to hold on to the home islands, an invasion was off the books, only leaving starving the population out. a slow, painful and life-costly way to force a surrender

@divinespark4987

7 жыл бұрын

What is often overlooked is that Japanese imperialists murdered approximately 30 000 000 Chinese, that rate is even greater than the German nazi's rate of murdering Soviet people, which is 28 000 000 dead.Also, bombing Japan's main goal was to flex muscles against the USSR and to force the emperor to surrender to the US instead of surrendering to the Soviets (the USSR's already defeated the Japanese 1-million Kwantung army, but their government still didn't want to give up). The US needed to strike Japan with a serious shocking event to make them surrender. By the way, Nagasaki was a peaceful city without any presence of major military infrastructure or huge garrisons.

@matiokong5112

7 жыл бұрын

+Christopher Winne but was it necessary ?was it worth all the deaths on either side by bombing them not once but twice in a city filled with civilians? not like the army base they attacked don't get me wrong Pearl Harbor was terrible but two wrongs don't make a right

@matiokong5112

7 жыл бұрын

+Daniil Sterh I understand war is war and Japan didn't do great things either but we killed mostly civilians in the atomic bombs not to mention if they wouldn't have given up no matter what then they would have kept fighting after the bombs it's not like the Japanese where wiped out and honestly it just seemed more like a fear thug tactic then a ligament thing to do. But then again things in war are usually n ever black and white. Theirs usually no perfect "hero" or complete evil "bad guy". And also war and morality usually and sadly don't mix.a fact that let to many regrets and even more dead thorough out history

Using prairie dogs for rifle target practice is apparently something Raffaello had not thought of.

Hey! Great video! I found this very helpful as I am currently developing Bushido style pvp mmo. I've subscribed, and later down the road when we get to beta, I might contact you to see if you might come point out some of my more obvious mistakes, if that is something you wouldn't be opposed to.

10:19 Total War Shogun 2, anyone

Who sacrifices lambs still?

@GrigoriZhukov

6 жыл бұрын

It's been several years...but I sacrificed two lambs and consecrated them to the nutrition of my family. Yes, I slit their throats and apologized and thanked them. :) Those 4H lambs were good eating.

@michaelsorotskin6331

6 жыл бұрын

Its quite common in middle eastern societies to slaughter a sheep on weddings and such occasions, as a carnivore I don’t feel I can be judging them for that if they do it in a none sadistic way

@falkheerdeburg3152

6 жыл бұрын

Abrahamic religions

@fuckyoutubecomments7530

6 жыл бұрын

You... don’t..?

@AlkisGD

6 жыл бұрын

Not a ceremonial sacrifice, but Greeks traditionally eat lamb on Easter Sunday. (Not that we don't eat lamb year round, but that one day holds special significance because of Christianity.)

seppuku was also known as kaishakunin

there are 3 cats going around as samurai delivering pizza

I like how they used anime pics lmao

Am I wrong but it seems to me that TopTenz got all of their information from movies and anime. ps. Here are 10 reasons why I don't watch TopTenz, Watchmojo or other that kind of channels. I feel slightly bad that 'block youtuber' script don't work any more and I haven't found replacement.

@KogaTora25

4 жыл бұрын

koljkimm thoes channels are clearly SJW pandering machines

I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers.A long while back I have mentioned I told my grand kids to use your videos on the renaissance,the ones on knights to be specific.They even told their friends where to get information. Anyway keep up the good work.

First thing that came to mind with the dogs was what like a fox hunt?