Comments by "" (@FOLIPE) on "Czechs and Slovaks: The Tale of Two Nations" video.

Named Slovenia, Slo from Slovakia and Venia from Slovenia
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It's an interesting case of ethnogenesis and how sometimes even people who are incredibly similar, by differences in shared history, become two distinct nations. It is also interesting that the ethnogenesis of Afrikaaners was talked about a little bit in the previous video, and it's a different case where people of mostly Dutch origin assimilated certain other minorities (Portuguese, French etc) in their ethnogenesis. The ethnogenesis of the USA was touched upon in a pervious video, and especially the black American population has an (even greater) component of this assimilation of people of different origins in their emergence maybe in the 17th or 18th centuries. Given, however, the segregationist character of the two aforementioned multi-racial societies, the ethnogenesis of the different Latin American nations would be an interesting complement to the overall understanding of the dynamic of ethnogenesis.
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Interesting point, looking it up it seems that history birth rates were higher in Slovakia until 2001, then on par between the two for roughly a decade, and the Slovakia recovers more slowly from the bottom. Perhaps it's explained mostly by economic differences and migration, but migration would reduce the pool of fertile women so both the nominator and the denominator
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Maybe because the sudetenlands had been taken by Germany before the war and f. Germany
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The concept of urbanization, I imagine, are highly different between Indonesia, Brazil and Slovakia. Living in a "city" doesn't necessarily correlate with living in an urban area
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@mawkernewek I highly doubt that this is the sort of metric being used as the author of the video mentioned urbanization and then mentioned living in cities as somehow synonymous. In most places there's an administrative definition of what consists as a urban area that is not comparable between countries, and then we use that unfortunately to compare countries
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As explained in the video that's because the borderlands, which used to be richer, were disrupted, depopulated and then repopulate with outsiders
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I agree it's hard to be do fatalistic as to say things are doomed to fail. Of course some things are easier than others (India lost Bangladesh and Pakistan during independence). But in the grand scheme of things, listening to him, it makes one think that of the politicians in the 90s had taken different decisions, perhaps Czechoslovakia could have continued?
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Neopentecostal evangelicams are not the traditional type of protestants. As for the point he was making, it's not that protestantism=wokeism. It's that the subjacent cultural trends of idealism, universalism, radicalism etc which manifested themselves in the protestant reformation are the same that manifest themselves in wokeism and that is why wokeism is stronger in areas where classic protestantism was also strongest - since they speak to the same and still existing underlying characteristics of those cultures. Nowadays in western countries, according to Todd, religion mostly exists in a zombified state, and people are post-religious. In areas where religion is still more relevant, you'd not expect less typically non-religious forms of their trends to manifest
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@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558 Yes of one were to make that distinction it would be between the north and west and the south, however the point is more about the northeast as the core of American civilization than a contrast to the south. As I said, too, it's historical not contemporary protestantism (or catholicism) since religion today is often zombie
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