Comments by "Michael Deierhoi" (@michaeldeierhoi4096) on "The World's Strangest Borders Part 1: Panhandles" video.

@hugolafhugolaf The tragedy is that you are injecting your own racial bias about Muslims into this discussion. Such malice serves only to add to the animosity toward Muslims which only creates further conflict. In addition to that just look at the history. GB had been colonizing countries around the world for hundreds of years. Hence many residents of many Muslim countries that Britain absorbed would emmigrate to the UK in search of better opportunity. And Muslims in fact served in both world wars. They are not going away so why not make an effort to accept their presence in the UK and elsewhere??
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@carboncrafter793 That charge of a lack of general assimilation usually ignores the racist and marginalizing that Muslims often experience from xenophobic people who are ignorant of what Muslims are actually like as people. The Irish were mistreated in early America, as were American Indians, Asians, blacks and so on up right today by people who are prejudging Muslims without even knowing them as people. That has more to do with a minority not assimilating then anything else. Americans and peoples in other countries create a self-fulfilling prophecy because of their animosity toward the "other"!!
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@hugolafhugolaf That is an extreme over simplification and just like your comment about Muslims in GB in another comment is a reflection of your racial bias. Understanding is almost always enhanced by knowledge. Many countries were created by European colonial powers with no regard to the different tribal enities therein. The DRC Demacratic Republic of Congo is such an example. Forcing tribes into one country that have no mutual goals or language can create conflict. Add to that the centuries of slave trade and having their natural resources stolen from them and getting zero compensation in return. And then people like you respond with a judgmental attitude while giving no indication that you have any idea of the history. Get the picture??
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Adam Marcinkowski Looks like you are caught up in your own racial bias calling the black people "weak" for not protecting their homeland from invaders. Study history for a while because you sound extremely misinformed!!
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@suzanne. I wouldn't consider rejecting the whole video based on an error in the map which was not a subject of the video. True, Lake Victoria is misplaced and I'm not sure about the Uganda Kenya border after looking at a map. Thus I think it is good to mention those errors though judging the video without good reason seems like an overstep. I do appreciate when people point at errors like that in an video. That is how to make them better.
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Indeed they did. And the consequences of the creation of artificial borders completely ignored tribal affiliation and historical animosty. And those artificial borders have resulted in decades of conflict, poverty and repression. And unfortunately there is little expectation of any improvement in many if not most of these countries with ongoing conflict.
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