Explaining South-East Asian Civilizations

[kevinlaminto]

im from Indonesia and at the moment living in Australia. I personally agree on what you said regarding the difference between western and eastern cultural view and their impact on the people's mental and physical behaviour. Australians are mostly individualistic by nature, especially ones who lives in city. meanwhile in my hometown of Manado, everyone seems like my brothers or sisters the collectiveness runs deep in our psyche, same with other SEA countries i think

[rilke]

I’m half-Vietnamese and half-European (English & German). I would say that the biggest difference between these two cultures is simply the idea of familial honor. The idea of “honor” does exist in the West, but typically is more individualistic. In Asian cultures, you strive to be an honorable person not so that you yourself are an honorable person, but so that your familial name gains “honor.” I’m sure it is more complicated than this but from my experience, this is the most simple difference.

[p_sardar_b]

Hey can you ever do a video on Central Asia? I am Kazakh and would love to see our culture explained to people who don't know

[magnus]

As a Southeast Asian (Filipino), I am once again happy that you covered SEA. I was bummed that the OG video was taken down since I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to rewatch again.

I hope you can cover more about Southeast Asia. Maraming Salamat!

EDIT: I forgot to point this out but the only part of the video that bothered me was that you mentioned that Philippines is an extension of Latin culture which is really wrong since we are influenced by other cultures, especially Chinese and Indian who were longer influential figures way before the Spanish came. Unlike Latin America, we were able to keep almost if not all of our original culture intact.

[JoiskiMe]

As I commented on the last video, I'm Thai and I appreciate your research into this. It's not easily accessible information online.

[starmaker]

That comprasion of northern winter and topical equatorial summers reminds me a saying that me and my dad said “you can escape the cold, you can’t escape the heat

[mscho]

I just want to mention, I watched the original Video with my girlfriend from South-East Asia, specifically the Philipenes. She travelled thorugh most of the SEA Region and said, everything you said was just true. Youtube is a joke sometimes.

[johnbrent]

I just started a Southeast Asian history class in college and my professor assigned this video as an introduction and overview of the region.

Congratulations, you’ve gone from college dropout to being used in academia! =)

[dannyt]

I’m half Filipino and can confirm that pride and respect is a HUGE deal in this culture. In my experience many filipinos have constant status anxiety. Very friendly but also can be extremely critical of self and others

[PedroNadais]

Could you make more videos about others civilizations (current and extintic)? I find it one of the most interesting videos.

[christiancummings]

Love the, videos man. Wanted to be an archeologist when I was a kid. Still enjoy learning about these things, even as life has worn down my expectations. Glad to see I'm not alone. Please keep up the spectacular work!

[anvos]

Honestly with how much this happens to various youtubers, I honestly feel like there is likely a problem with not enough oversight of the human moderators, where they can get away with taking down and restricting videos they dislike or disagree with too easily. Good on you for sticking it out though

[PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

For me personally, Southeast Asia is my favorite part of the world, the culture, the architecture design, the geography, wonderful people, it’s beautiful.

[libertatemadvocatus]

The reason why Java is so densely population is because it is a volcanic island with extremely fertile soil.

Most tropical soils tend to be rather thin and infertile, but since Java has a number of highly active volcanos regularly depositing mineral rich volcanic ash over the island; it can support a huge population.

The other islands have much less fertile soil which makes colonization of those island much less attractive.

[michaelsilver]

"emphasis on outwards appearances, which California doesn't really have."

gotta say they both do, it just manifests really differently

[chrisdoesnotcare]

Keep up the good work man. You do a great job. It’s disheartening that creators get their videos taken down or demonetized. ESPECIALLY channels like yours that are simply giving people history lessons.

[cittaaukoto_japan]

Good stuff. Massive input, both from observation and reading, and massive stream of consciousness output. Having spent a fair amount of time in Thailand and Vietnam, most of your observations seem spot on. Having walked hundreds of kilometers through central Bangkok, I concur that it’s incredibly clean. One hardly observes rats running around anywhere, in sharp contrast to HCMC (Saigon). Thanks!!

Say what's up notification squad! From what I can tell, age restriction is the way YouTube shadowbans videos and comments, especially if they think you have the "wrong opinions".

Portuguese here... Can I ask you, if I may, to one day do a few videos about the Portuguese discoveries and how it changed the mindset of Europe and history of the world. I know you've touched on the subject a few times, but I would like to see it from a non European perspective as we Europeans tend to be extremely biased towards our countries, colonies and empires.
Either way, looking forward to enjoy this one.

[kaed]

i love how he turned his issue with youtube to a lesson on how it works and how it functioned and how it compares nowadays, love that, thanks rud! i watched the og version but imma watch this one to see what you left out!

[tristanchung]

I’m a Singaporean living and studying in the US, and SEA history is rarely ever touched on. I found nothing to be offensive in the original upload. In any case you’ve clearly presented a disclaimer in that you admit to be not the most versed in SEA history. So I don’t get YouTube’s weird censorship protocols.