Comments by "黑龍 - Hắc Long" (@-haclong2366) on "The Present Past" channel.

  1. My issue with the term "Javanese" is that in the Netherlands it only means "Javanese-Surinamese", my step-mother is actually from Java and a Surinamese Javanese person once got angry at her because she called herself "Javanese" which the Surinamese Javanese woman got angry at her because "no, you're Indonesian, we're Javanese", meaning that the term has been completely divorced from the island itself.
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  2. The thing is, Java during the 19th century isn't Java in the 21st century, culinary traditions may get lost and new traditions are made overtime. Both Nasi Rames in Indonesia and Hairdresser in the Netherlands are all modern inventions. Most culinary "traditions" aren't as old.
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  3. Hindustan is an official alternative name of India together with India and Bharat.
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  4. 10:20 Technically Aceh was a province of the Ottoman Empire and saw themselves as such, though the Ottoman Empire treated it as an independent country (as they did with most of their provinces).
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  5. 00:42 tall in the Netherlands starts at 190 cm, at 189 cm you're average height as you're 1 cm below what constitutes tall (top 20% of the population), as someone who is 188 cm I never considered myself tall nor has anyone else ever considered me tall here. I get that you're trying to explain this for a foreign audience, but it just leaves your Dutch viewers confused why you consider your average height to be "tall".
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  6. Germany also bought Klein Curaçao from the Netherlands, the Dutch didn't inform them that the island periodically sinks. Probably because Dutcj people don't really think of sinking land as weird.
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  7. 11:39 Kind of did work out for the Tlaxcalla that became local elites and besides Christianisation retained their autonomy within New Spain.
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  8. ​ @robto This doesn't just apply to colonial empires, this isn't "a special evil", land Empires like the Roman Empire and various other empires are exactly the same. Just look at how racist Han Chinese and Vietnamese are towards their "conquered minorities".
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  9. 10:45 Bulgaria is like this, ancient Bulgars were Turks not Slavs. Likewise North Macedonia has a similar story.
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  10. As a short man in the Netherlands (188 cm) I really want to buy high heels, but I have giant feet and can't find them.
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  11. Back in the 1980's and 1990's while women were actively wearing wearing "more masculine" clothing Men's Rights Activists were wearing high heels and skirts to proclaim their dissatisfaction with gender rôles and norms, unfortunately they were mocked by society for doing so.
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  12. I'm glad that I'm not the only one that sees this, he consistently does this in most of his videos, it's not even that he invents this, a lot of older history books still spread these lies as well.
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  13. Odd how you refer to the Crusades as "being colonised by Christian fundamentalists" as the indigenous peoples of those areas today are still largely Christian and view the Arab colonisers as a hostile occupation force.
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  14. ​ @klaudio6440 You're forgetting the fact that basically the entire nationalist government was made up of elites, they were all university educated indigenous who descended from Indians (then the term used to refer to them) that bwnwditted from the colonial system). It's also modern nationalist history to paint the people as being "a united front" against Dutch rule. Anti-Colonialist movements basically never come from the peasants, they're always led by elites. Even Communist revolutions like those of the Viet Minh were mostly led by the children or mandarins. In the Philippines independence was negotiated by the elites that ruled before the U.S. Americans came. I can't think of a single successful anti-colonist revolution that was actually headed by peasants. The average Papuan will probably not protest, but those that go to university will.
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  15. 13:15 Know your audience, deep history won't have as high of a viewer retention. Or maybe I'm just underestimating the intelligence of his average viewer...
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  16. What I find interesting is that nobody is criticising Indonesia for its own colonial history over neighbouring peoples, nor its current ongoing cultural genocide of the Papuans. Dutch history as painted by these activists antagonises the Dutch and downplays the rôles played by the Ashanti Kingdom and the various Javanese sultanates into this history. Nor are the Ashanti or the Angolans ever asked to apologise for their rôle in selling our ancestors to the Dutch.
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