Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Johnny Harris" channel.

  1. 10:20 "This moment (when Columbus took Cuba for Spain) is the foundation upon which all European imperialism grows". This is simply a false statement! Imperialism, European or otherwise, was the rule of the day for the first 5000 years of human civilization. It is really only in the last 70 years, since the establishment of the UN, that we have mostly agreed on the principles of 'national integrity' and 'territorial inviolability'. Anybody ever heard of the Roman Empire? Ottoman Empire? Russian Empire, Swedish Empire, Viking conquests, Mayan Empire, Chinese Empire, Mali Empire, Gupta Empire, Inca Empire, Khmer Empire, Persian Empire, Egyptian Empire, Mesopotamian Empire? The standard throughout history is conquest and empire. Peace and cooperation is an entirely new idea. Brand new!
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  2. There are ancient maps of (most parts of) the world drawn by Chinese, Korean, Japanese explorers. In the process of critiquing European exploration, he is inadvertently making the faulty assumption that other cultures and civilizations didn't make any geographic discoveries. Some of those ancient East Asian maps are literally national treasures in those countries.
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  3.  @Thinkofwhat  Thanks for those two video recommendations. I've put them on my list.
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  4.  PancakesAnd Wine  (Goes to Jackie Aina's channel). Hmmm, it's all about make-up, not geopolitics.....
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  5.  @C-3POII45I4  The traditional route has been through China and then into Laos, not Myanmar. Travel through China happens by bus and car. There will sometimes be South Korean helpers along the way. But it is still very dangerous and difficult to complete the trip. It's possible to get money because many of the North Koreans work in North East China before they make the trip. They may also learn some Chinese language so they can get on a bus.
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  6.  @C-3POII45I4  You can take local countryside buses, going between small towns and cities. Long distance buses probably won't work. In any case, I'm not North Korean and I don't have a need to escape. But this practice has been documented in numerous reports, both in writing and on video. It's not just some story, it's reality.
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  7. I'm only a minute in, but 'a huge part of the story' does not have to do with Africa. It has to do with the Industrial Revolution, which made Europe more wealthy and powerful than any other region in the world, by a very large margin. That is the primary reason a small continent could take over the world. A development and disparity like this had never happened in world history, and will probably never happen again.
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  8. European here: One thing that fascinates me is that if I go to a Subway Sandwiches, the bread they use to make the sandwich has the general shape and appearance of a baguette, but it is just as soft and bland as sliced bread from a supermarket shelf.
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  9. Both the Mayans and the Incas had armies, they just weren't strong enough to beat the Spanish. And, of course, a large proportion of them had died from smallpox by the time the Spanish conquistadors arrived, so were easy pickings.
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  10. 5:48 Host: 'This here is Suparno, wassup Suparno'? Suparno: 'Who is this dude? Why is he talking to me'?
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  11. 5:00 I feel it's a misunderstanding to say that it was all the wires that needed to be replaced with semiconductors. Before semiconductors, the calculations were done with vacuum tubes, and those are quite big. The semiconductor replaced the vacuum tubes, not the wires.
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  12. "Ethnic Cleansing". As I remember, this term was brand new and was invented during this war to describe what happened in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It's an attempt to find a term for a kind of 'mild genocide'. Nonetheless, it is still genocide.
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  13. Thanks, I noticed that. And the change happened in 2018, so unless Johnny Harris has a very drawn-out work flow, it probably happened long before he started working on this video. Perhaps the mapping software he uses needs an update.
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  14. I do not generally share the political standpoint of Vox, but Borders was a great documentary series. I'm confident you will continue to make more top quality work for us all to learn from and enjoy.
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  15. Ok, I'm only 38 seconds into this video, but I will predict that Johnny Harris will not mention the primary reason for bread quality: The wheat variety used. I'm looking forward to seeing how far into the video I may be proven wrong,
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  16. Joe Rogan is a typical Gen-X'er. I'm the exact same age as Joe Rogan and his way of talking and his view of the world is not uncommon among us. We're not really too left or right, not very ideological, we were (are) often accused of not caring about anything, but we just had a more mellow view of everything. And we liked dark humor, gallows humor, jokes about the most terrible things. We went to high school during the AIDS epidemic and the famine in Ethiopia (and Live Aid/We Are The World). We cared about those things, but we also made lots of jokes about them. Just trying to cope and get along with everyone. 18:00 Johnny Harris: "Not everyone who has a point of view has ideas worth hearing or debating in our society". This is really the crux of the difference between Gen X and Millennials, of whom Johnny Harris is one. Gen X'ers are happy to hear everyone's ideas, but may remain skeptical of all ideas. Millennials, well, I don't really understand what they're about, but they seem to be more restrictive in what ideas they will allow to even be aired, as if there are ideas that are damaging by themselves.
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  17. Nice backdrop of a large arctic map viewed from the north pole.
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  18. First, Borders, the bookstore. Now, Borders, the video series.
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  19. One could make the argument that Denmark is not Greenland's 'colonizers'. The Norsemen were there several hundred years before the Inuit people arrived, so you could even argue that it's the Inuit who are the colonizers. Additionally, Greenland is a democratically run country which has the power to declare independence if they should so wish. There are political parties that support this path, and others that don't (for the time being). However, all that being said, there is no doubt that there is some tension between Greenland and Denmark, tension that has existed for a long time. There are wounds that need healing, wrongs that need to be made right, social problems that can seem insurmountable, but at least we talk to each other like rational human beings while trying to find solutions.
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  20. Very nice use of metric measurements in this American-made video. Refreshing!
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