How American is Liberia?

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[pikespice]

Greenville is the most American city name, so I wasn't surprised to learn there's a Greenville, Liberia.
- me, a resident of Greenville, South Carolina

[ayadhyist]

I never understood why Americo-Liberians treated Indigenous Liberians the way they did. Did they not learn from their ancestors?

[lunalingo]

Can we all agree, if this guy takes a while to upload, it's gonna be a banger of a video that's coming

[Zepoz]

Many prior colonies struggle with racism within dark skinned groups. For example between several different tones of dark skin or creole/native differences in history. Very noticable in Suriname which used to be Dutch untill 1975 which has a very multicultural demographic with many different groups settling since the late 1800's whichis quite long for something like that. Always tensions between Hindu's, Javanese, Chinese, Creole, Native, Marron-relatives, whites, Jews, and surprising lot of Lebanese.

[mitacestalia]

Remember folks, people who don't learn from history will repeat the same mistake! You become the one you hate the most!

[xXxSkyViperxXx]

it's ironic that former poor slaves who were sold off now with freed descendants come back to africa richer and oppress the poorer natives

[warriorman]

Can you also make:

- Why Hungary and Romania hate each other?

- Why Greece and Albania love/hate each other?

- Why Spain and England/Britain hate each other?

- Why Russia and Turkey hate each other?

- Why Louxemburg exist?

- Why Andorra exist?

- Why Monaco exist?

- Who are the BalkanCountries?

- Who are the BalticCountries?

- Why are Germany and the Netherlands not together?

- Why are Cannada and USA not together?

- How did Japan become powerful?

[epicbirdy]

You should do a video on how Argentina had a chance to be a superpower but ultimately fell short.

[nebularspace]

wow, I used to watch you all the time. still love your work, I should start binging it again

[itz_richard]

Truthfully, Liberia wasn’t ever that American. The Americo-Liberians were a really small elite, making up only a few hundred families who held an iron grip on the government and national economy, leaving the native majority to suffer.

While Liberia was technically economically prosperous like you said, that wealth was only experienced in the capital city of Monrovia and its surrounding cities. In these cities, the Americo-Liberians lived in mansions in gated communities, and had access to advanced hospitals and universities.

The native towns and villages on the other hand looked like your typical improvised African slums. So while Liberia had a high GDP in the 60’s and 70’s, most of Liberia still remained poor because the Americo-Liberians were hoarding all the money.

William Tubman, Liberia’s autocratic leader during the Cold War, was infamous for letting his family embezzle thousands of dollars of the national budget that they would waste on drugs and gambling in the United States. In other words, the economic disparities were obvious.

The majority of Liberians had no connection to America, and by the time the 1980 coup and subsequent Civil Ward happened, the majority of the Americo-Liberians would flee the country (taking their fortunes with them, effectively making the country even poorer), and with them gone, that killed the little American influence that Liberia had.

Nowadays, the only real American influence that can be seen in Liberia is language and religion. But even then, tribal languages and religions are still widely spoken/practiced.

[kadekyudhistiras]

The moment when I realized that their video about "Why Israel is Controversial?" is locked and can only access by join the channel, I admit this guy is seriouly smart mf with some pro gamer move

[mixtapemania]

1:19 As a Haitian 🇭🇹🇭🇹, big ups for the shout out. Our history is the most badass on the planet, even though consequentially, our country is the most unstable in the west.

[houseplant]

Trying to sabotage us from studying for the exams by dropping this suddenly?💀 Ofcourse this gets priority

[CSGhostAnimation]

I'm so excited for the sequel: How American is Malaysia?

[eriqmav]

Kinda unrelated but I love seeing people using the liberian flag emoji mistakenly during 4 of July it's so funny to me

[robinrehlinghaus]

Yo, released 10 seconds ago? I've never been so early, I thought it impossible.

[evv]

You're the best. Never give up. And keep the "voice" :D

[mappingshaman]

My girlfriend and hopefully future wife is liberian. Good video!

[Ribbion_holder]

I'm the first one here nice video i seen it all

[tuhhgsn]

OMFG HE MADE A VIDEO THATS FREE!??!?!?!??!?!
also when did you make a memebers thing