Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism: Crash Course World History #34

In which John Green teaches you about Nationalism. Nationalism was everywhere in the 19th century, as people all over the world carved new nation-states out of old empires. Nationalist leaders changed the way people thought of themselves and the places they lived by reinventing education, military service, and the relationship between government and governed. In Japan, the traditional feudal society underwent a long transformation over the course of about 300 years to become a modern nation-state. John follows the course of Japanese history from the emergence of the Tokugawa Shogunate to the Meiji Restoration and covers Nationalism in many other countries along the way. All this, plus a special guest appearance, plus the return of an old friend on an extra-special episode of Crash Course.

Chapters:
Introduction: Nationalism 00:00
Nationalism Around the World 0:49
The Modern Nation-State 1:52
The Tokugawa Bakufu of Japan 4:59
The Meiji Era and Japanese Nationalism 7:43
An Open Letter to Public Education 9:19
The Dark Side of Nationalism 10:28
Credits 11:18

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[EASYTIGER]

Matthew Perry arriving in Japan: "Could these markets BE any more closed??"

[lolzersguy]

"Open your country. Stop having it be closed"
-Matthew Perry

[christianactuallyimjewish]

"A big part of being Irish, for instance, is not being English." I'm Irish and I think that nearly sums it up ;) haha

[BlankPicketSign]

Public Education is important...
_"Because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of Stupid People!"_
Best wishes: John Green

[BURNOUTRS]

I can see how the arrival of Chandler Bing would have been a problem for the shogunate. Terrorizing the countryside with his sarcasm

[katiecook]

husband: hi honey
wife: welcome home bald rat

[RCShufty]

"It's because I don't like living in a country full of stupid people". Nail on the head right there.

[vandercecil]

Nice to actually see your high school history teacher you so often mention!

[martinch]

I love how I don't take History classes since High-School and I can still enjoy watching these crash course videos for fun. They do an amazing job at making history enjoyable!

[iTzNikkitty]

Knock knock. It's the United States, with huge boats, with guns, gunboats.

[InvadersMustDieCR]

" I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people " Is the best single sentence about public education I have heard as of yet. 

[sarahp]

I love your non-eurocentric approach to history, because I'm sick of not knowing about the rest of the world. However, this isn't great when I have to study for a test in my very eurocentric history class.

[twilitetra]

I was completely focused on the video and what John Green was saying...until I saw Amaterasu gallop across the screen. That reference deserved a like. 

[FFFanboy]

5:36 for me stability isn't underrated, it may cost some administative power, but it gives me more taxes and more trade power... i bet 3 guys got that reference

[uidkpyk]

*”japan is a island by the sea, filled with volcanos and its, BEAUTIFUL”*

[theweredragon]

" I don't like living in a country full of stupid people" amen brother

[ElBandito]

I love public education cause I get to hang out with people who actually understand that it is the earth that travels around the sun, not the other way around.

[summertime]

It amazes me that most of my knowledge on feudal Japan is accurate mostly thanks to the anime Ruroni Kenshin, a wandering sumari at the start to the tokugawa regime.

[bola]

No, I didn't think you were going to say Germany. I read the video title

[Adam-dlxk]

As an Egyptian, I'd like to thank John Green for making me feel that Egypt hasn't ended with the fall of the Ancient Egyptian civilization :D