Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "The Bhopal Disaster" video.

  1. India has been invaded many times, mostly through Afghanistan, a lot of everything Indian has been shaped by it as the conquerors were usually much more proactive than the Indians with actually ever doing anything, including having a culture. The typically used the same tactic as China to hold out, assimilation, accept with them it was less out of any cultural supremacy and more because India is an administrative hell which will drown anyone who tries to fix it. It's basically a bronze age clan society with an indo-european religion constructed to eternally subjugate them within a racial caste system. The biggest thing that's happened in 8000 years or so is that the British set up a parliament so that they can pretend not to just be a load of individual regions who can pretend to not just be a load of independent villages who basically just do their own thing. Likewise the Muslims made a big effort at civilising them, which, I mean, they did relative to the time of them not even writing history books (yes, we don't have much detailed Indian history because the higher castes thought that was below their interest to write about, instead we got loads of pagan esoterism, stuff that would make the Chinese cry, with disappointment, after trekking all the way there with a magical monkey to find out about Buddhism, it's incomparable, it's an embarrassment that they are between Persia and China and yet have a literary tradition the Aztecs would dunk on, by only win by default against African societies, because most of them were either illiterate or derivative from the Arabs), but in the other hand the result was Pakistan, so judge for yourself.
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  2. Central Asia is dominated by Turkic groups. They came through with the Mongols but the Mongols did not have the population density to take over, the Turks did. The well known Turks came into Anatolia in a prior migration, famously winning a battle against the Byzantines. The first Mughal emperor was a descendant of Tamerlame, the great conqueror who existed in the context created by the Mongol invasions long before. Prior to Turkic groups moving in Central Asia was populated by Iranian speaking Europeans (genetically at least, they were descended from our common ancestors would had gone east rather than West out of the pontic steppe), a few still exist in Afghanistan and the ancient Parthians were that, but they were wiped out by successive migrations and Persian duplicity, Tom Holland's book on the rise of Islam goes into it.
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