Colonialism: Crash Course Geography #39

Empire, imperialism, and colonialism are all interrelated tactics of geopolitics that are used to achieve similar goals of one state maintaining economic, political, or even cultural dominance over other territories. Today, we’re going to unravel the impacts of colonialism at different times throughout history from Taiwan to Myanmar as we examine the longstanding impacts of these relationships. We’ll also take a look at how some countries today, like Thailand, have taken the control of the narrative through culinary colonization.

SOURCES

General:
Getis, Bjelland, and Getis. Introduction to Geography, 15 ed. McGraw-Hill Education. 2017. ISBN: 978-1-259-57000-1

Gregory, Derek, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Michael Watts, and Sarah Whatmore, eds. 2009. The Dictionary of Human Geography. 5th ed. Willey-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-4051-3288-6

Cracking the AP Human Geography Exam: 2020 edition.  The Princeton Review.

Taiwan: 

Condensed history of Asian Empire:

Mongolia:

Myanmar:

Thailand

Qing Dynasty

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[Sneder]

The map at 2:52 kind of undermines the point seeing as most of the territory indicated to be held by the Mongolian empire did in fact not turn into Russia. It's a bit of a confusing example to me. Really really good episode apart from that.

[demonac]

10:30 "Culinary Colonization" You mean... Culinization? =)

[rammedbox]

would be interesting to see your take on the USA and Puerto Rico

[_rayafterhours]

Omgggg yayy!! Thank you guys for always providing very informative information. So glad I subcribes you guys have really been helping me alot in other courses. Even tho I am not doing geography I am always open to learn new stuff❤

[lucbloom]

A well-handled presentation about a dicey subject. Wouldn’t have expected otherwise :-)

[austinmcmahan]

that top is so cute also the earrings omg YOU LOOK ON POINT EVERY EPISODE

[KingsleyIII]

You _could_ call it culinary colonization, or you could just call it "culinization."

[Theashish]

Never been so early at CC G. And what a video to be early! #Yey

[isimperialist]

You have heavily earned my respect, especially after you highlighted how Europeans weren't the only people who colonized other peoples and had imperial ambitions on regions of the world. Which I heavily love how you highlighted other Imperial Empires that weren't European.

[VerhoevenSimon]

Thank you for the clear discours on a sensitive subject.

[jacob_and_william]

I don't understand how Thailand's "culinary colonization" is any different from other cultures projecting soft power via cuisine.

[yesid]

amazing video as always, thank you!!!

[pihungliu]

This is a really nice summarization of the colonial history of Taiwan (which is (sadly) probably all that there is).
As a Taiwanese people, I can see you try to not step into the current "dispute" between China and us; nevertheless, this is still a great starting point to understand why Taiwan is where it is now.

Fun facts:
1. The indigenous people listed in the end credit are the current recognized 16 tribes, plus a general term "Pingpu" for those people that originally lived in the lowland regions ("pingpu" means "flat plain"), and been mostly assimilated into the Chinese immigrants. Because of this, their original culture are quite hard to recover, and only Kavalan successfully received recognition; all other listed 15 tribes lived in mountains or islands, which don't get much assimilation.
2. This one may be known by many people: Taiwanese indigenous people is said to be the origin of Austronesian people that currently lived in Pacific islands.

[AthAthanasius]

I saw social media posts about how this was all filmed. Now I'm distracted by wondering what's just out of frame in this one ....

[MrGeneration]

Hmmm I live in Vendsysel in Denmark. I am a vendelbo. Adam of Bremen called the place Wendila a thousand years ago. Ælnoth called it Wendel. I guess we have not been colonised or been a part of other country except Denmark for at least as long as people have been writing about our part of the world.

Sadly there is no Thai resteraunt close by.

[rakshitpandey]

Please make a crash course on "THE HISTORY OF ACTING"

[MutualistSoc]

11:17 That's alot of Capitalism in one picture.

[lori]

As careful and walk-on-eggshell-y as this presentation of colonialism was, it still comes off as more aggressive than when John Green treated it. I'm not American but I'm starting to understand what they say about mid westerners. They really mellow prickly topics.

[chaoticrealm]

I did not understand the Thailand example. If I understood your right, in the modern times that we have right now Thai food is being adapted for Western pallets... and that's colonialism? Then how do you explain KFC and all these other major American fast-food chains adapting their menus for local markets ... like I hear all the time how KFC in India and South Korea taste so much better than KFC America. By that logic India and South Korea are exuding their own form of colonialism on a classic American restaurant chain.

[williambilyeu]

The Miami (or Myaamia or Mayaima) Indians never lived in Florida. They lived in Indiana, mostly in the plains of northern and western Indiana. The city in Florida named after them was planned and founded by a man from Indiana. I have attended Indian powwows in northern Indiana, although most were removed to Oklahoma, many still live in Indiana.