Eastern European Stereotypes Explained | Living Ironically in Europe | History Teacher Reacts
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2024
- Why is everyone always picking on Eastern Europe? Leave Eastern Europe alone! In this video, Living Ironically in Europe breaks down Eastern European Stereotypes through memes. Mr. Terry gets to talk history along the way, all while being exposed to the depths of meme culture.
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So, are these stereotypes real?
A good chunk of them are true to all of Eastern-Europe, especially the sandal with socks thing, we have it too in Hungary. As a Hungarian, I can tell you that the thing about our humor is true though. Here's a Hungarian joke from the Cold War:
-When will Hungary obtain nuclear weapons?
-???
-When they are dropped on us! 😆
Upsides of Hungary: huge amount of pretty girls, good wine, good food (even if it looks bad).
From a French point of view, I can only say yes.
Real 💯🥲
Only some. I personaly would describe Poles more as doing stuff from emotional impulses rather than just being random - we are masters at doing uprisings knowing well we have no chance but we still do it to die romantically. And all I can say about Russia is that's the place where concept of being a human goes to die - from now on You are just a Mass always scared of their Tsar and Tsar scared of the Mass. Russia only brings destruction of culture everywhere they go - that's why one of the most core thing to do as Pole is to weaken Russia at every possible step.
i find one error:
in competition of hating russia, Estonians barely win...BARELY
He's a Serbian living in Romania, so I'd say he's plenty qualified.
as a romanian i say he is very qualified
REAL 💯🥲🙃🫡
hes also lived in hungary
And not to mention that, besides what you've said, he speaks Hungarian fluently and according to a DNA test he's ethnically Bosnian XD. So yeah, he's definetely qualified.
@@alexandru4193 yup 100% he is basically the best when it comes to this kind of stuff
The point was that if the EU proposes to criminalize marrying your own sister, Hungary will veto that.
They had absolutely no problem approving more censorship or a number of other bills, though. It's mostly just on topics a certain block of conservatives are in for. The difference is that Orban is in power, and likely will remain in power. Meanwhile parties with similar messages usually don't land in the government.
The other problem is more down to incompetence. EU voting has to be unanimous which sounds bad but it really shouldn't be. Every member usually has objections and before the bill is voted for all these get ironed out. Yet for a while now the landscape is changing. EU bodies get unilateral right to enact whatever they want. It's a slow process but we are getting there. Also they are in a rush to push bills through and then point fingers when they fail, even though it should've been their job to ensure the bill is agreed by everyone before it even gets to the voting. They do this in order to build a narrative against their own system and eventually reform it as one where majority votes can push everything through. Of course this won't impact major members like France or Germany, they will continue to influence the EU regardless of the system. Yet this would enable to ignore the objections of even countries like Italy if they would disagree on something.
It's easy to be frustrated by Hungarian vetos, and there is a fair bit of stupidity in it. Yet remember that these aren't really supposed to happen at all. It's being allowed by EU policy makers intentionally banging their head against the wall.
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the germans in the sudetenland was not so peacefully kicked out after the war
As a czech living in Sudetenland, he's right 👆
Yeah...
bepis accords
Neither were any Germans living east of the Neisse-Oder line
@@joelsirola5440 true
As a Pole I can confirm we are nuts.
Yeh. Large number of highly qualified students, in pair with relatively bleak future and lack of regulations.
I like your 🥜 nuts 🌰 I’ve been there as well and I love your food 🍲 it’s extremely delicious 🤤 🥘🍗
@@wellsoocake3147yeah our food smacks. It somwtimes doesn't look so appetizing maybe thats why some people don't give it a chance
My polish guy got IQ 149...crazy smart. Americans must feel really threatened to push this stupid pole crap so much
@@TheRezroyeeeey, give me regulations...gtfo please dont visit
Those "capybaras" in Poland section weren't capybaras, these were boars. I must tell you, tough suckers to fight, especially since when aggresive their tusks can easily disembowel you or get you femorals slashed, which results in 1 minute to live.
KURWA BOBR!
Communist era Polish joke.
How to recognize the north?
Find the railway. Empty cargos goes to west, full to east.
Here's another joke perhaps -- two dogs meet at the Czechoslovak-Polish border. They ask each other what they are doing:
- I'm going to eat -- says the one going from Poland to Czechoslovakia.
- And I am going to bark -- says the one going from Czechoslovakia to Poland.
@@PKowalski2009What's the punchline exactly?
@@sharavy6851 starvation
Romanian communist era joke: a Romanian and a Russian soldier stand guard each on his side of the Prut river when they see a crate of apples floating on the water. Both jump into the water and reach the crate at the same time. The Russian soldier says" let split in a brotherly fashion". The Romanian answers "nope. Fifty-fifty!"
@@koriolakorni5041 But there was no real problem with hunger in Poland back then? I mean, yeah, food was limited in variety and quality (because imports were tricky) but Poland wasn't one of those "starving communist" nations that most might think about (like N.Korea or Maoist China). Basically, food wise, Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovakia were on equal footing.
I really don't get that joke at all. I think it might be one of those situational linguistic jokes because in polish you can say "jadłem - I ate" and "ujadałem - I barked", which might have some weird connection to Czech language that I don't know of.
As a hungarian, these are accurate. Also YES. Thx for reacting to living ironically in europe
MC fan?🥲
@@NATIONALIST2007FAN MC? What's that?
@@hank780 the character you have as your profile picture, how do you know it?🙄
Hai noroc bozgore
@@NATIONALIST2007FAN oh. madness combat. Of course. Yes. I know who Hank J Wimbleton is. And I've seen two parts of the series
7:08 After ww2 the czechoslovak government deported almost every single german from the sudetenland and nowadays only around 30k live there (compared to around 3 million before ww2)
like it`s something bad
@@MisanthropyFerret Well . . . ethnic cleansing is always bad. "Aw but Germany did it in ww2" yea . . . doesn't mean its ok for you to go ahead and do it :P (Not you specifically ofc, but you get the point)
Deported is a nicer way to say than germans got tortured to death, their lands stolen, their houses stolen, they were put on the ground and cars would drive on their legs to break them, germans would be forced to wear stars on their arms so people knew that they were bad people etc
@@notlyxu The only tragedy was the allies refusing to allow us to do the same to Hungarians
@@Shpagin-be7qz no?
He forgot about Slovakia and Belarus 😢
Tbh they sorta dont matter
Only ones remembering Slovakia are supporters of Czechoslovakia and Hungarian nationalists
Because they are Russian slaves
Forgetting Slovakia is in theme with the video
Belarus? You mean mini russia?
Nice! A Living Ironically in Europe reaction! As an Eastern European, I can say it's all in good fun but they do have a kernel of truth to them.
Speaking of Poland, yes, we tend to be unhinged, however I must add there are a couple of types of unhinged.
The most prevalent in the western part we have the leftist type of unhinged, meanwhile in the eastern part it's mostly rightist unhinged. The central part meanwhile is a mishmash of both.
In the south we can observe the biggest internal animosity among Poles, that is Upper SIlesians and some inhabitants of Upper Silesia aglomeration, the part of which in fact is Lesser Poland, with Sosnowiec being the most bullied and considered in Poland as the meme city.
Also Eastern European cuisine is a certain niche. You can be surprised, how much we can cook with very little, thanks to that period of food stamps for everything and still be quite tasty.
Dough + whatever you have in fridge rn + some spice = infinite variety.
I am from Silesia (Upper Silesia). It's not about east-west, left-right. It's about the emergence of industry in Silesia -- this region thrived in the 19th century. And people came from the mountains to work -- often from parts of ‘Little Poland’. That is why they were called ‘gorole’ (from góral=highlander). They were accused by the locals of taking their jobs away from them, and of not knowing urban and Silesian culture. How it worked the other way around I don't really know, I understand that there was a question of rejection from the people living on the other side of Brynica-river, a question of living in worse conditions (Sosnowiec was under Russian rule, Katowice under German rule -- there is a colossal difference in wealth, but also in the approach to people -- the German is more civilised and humane, with civic society). Sosnowiec was regarded as practically a slum town in Silesia until the 1970s.
@@PKowalski2009The German is more civilised and humane, but also the most adamant about rooting out all traces of foreign culture in "their lands".
Patriotism entering my body as I'm given a Russian POW and a knife.
The stereotype with the Moldavians in Romania is that they lack in their vocabulary some of the neologisms that were integrated into mainline Romanian.
For example, I knew a guy that instead of saying that he's going to the "non-stop shop"(a store that's open 24/7) he said he was going to the "eternal shop"("magazinu veșnic").
Langfocus says that Moldava speak Romanian and Russian.
@@jimgorycki4013 of course they do. The Moldavian language doesn't exist no matter how much the Kremlin mouthpieces want it to
That’s true , but only because the soviet ocupation of Moldova teritory for so long ..that In Moldova în the evening soviets took your neighbour inside Mother Russia In gulags and în the morning brought ppl from inside russia to be your new neighbour..
@@jimgorycki4013 Yes, the main language is Romanian.
Patriotism entering my body after I see my country mentioned
Patriotism entering my body as I'm given a Russian POW and a knife.
the funniest part is that the damn polish tram had german buttons. of course the polish would "acquire" those buttons
TBH tram driver reply, was the funniest part (if you know Polish).
the funniest part was that the tram had german buttons and cyrillic stickers
@@SzymonStudioPl what kind of tram is that :D
I feel like in recent years (definitely spurred on by the Russian invasion of Ukraine), many in the Baltics have accepted or even embraced the "Eastern European" title. Part of why we used to hate it was because we're kinda just doing our own thing, with our own unique language families (Baltic for Latvian and Lithuanian and Finno-Ugric for Estonian) and can't really relate that much to anyone else nearby. But we at least share a history of oppression with the rest of Eastern Europe.
But, yes, we are professional Russia haters. 365 days a year, 24/7. This eternal beef spans from the beginnning of time and will probably exist as an interdimensional being after the heat death of the universe.
Also, yes, our food was ruined by the USSR. I literally wrote a paper about it for one of my culinary history classes.
Baltic people consist of 50% of hate and 50% of fear.
The only Russia hater more professional than the Baltics is Finland. And that's only because Finland is legitimately psychotic, AND has an army large enough to legitimately threaten Russia.
It's a sad state of affairs. Things were on the mend, before the establishment of putinism.
Lol you don't know shit about history, russia only become hated after occupation in 1940, before then germans where hated alot more, a sort of founding myth of latvia for example is about the 800 years of slavery under the german aristocracy, influenced by the prominent Marxist and Social Democratic ideas of the late 19th century. Not that there were no problems but no Russia has not been the enemy for the Baltic "forever"
Mr Terry, you don't know about Epic Sax guy? He's one of the miracles given to the world by the Eurovision song festival.
Rare Moldovan W.
They made one on the balkans also! Its a good watch!
6:20 those dolls in the video were from the early 2000s Serbian parody series about Serbian goverment that was broadcasted back then while we still had some media freedom... I did not understand politics back then as a 2 years old child, but i just to love how dolls were made to look and talk just like our politicians.
"the Hungarian is jolly while crying" forget dna, us Finns are their cousins confirmed just based on that fact. lol
I think it's the climate
What are you on about?
Racially hungarians are different ppl.
@@butterflies655 racially no one gives a shit because there is only one human race: homo sapien, the rest of them died of extinction
Cold War ideological divisions doesn't represent geography at all (but this is just my opinion) - Prague and Budapest is literally located in somewhere near center of the continent.
Plus the cultural part. Generalny Vistula was the division line between civilization and the wilderness.
Poles not to mention Czechs, where always part of Western culture.
Baltic state is a northern Europe. Nobody said that Baltic state is Scandinavia Scandinavia and northern Europe. It’s two different things. Estonia and Finland is not Scandinavia but they’re Nordic
Nordic countries are Sweden 🇸🇪 Norway 🇸🇯 Finland 🇫🇮 Denmark 🇩🇰 and Iceland 🇮🇸. They are all members of the Nordic council. Finland is a Nordic country culturally, politically, economically, religiously, culturally and geographically. None of them were ever under communism. Never parts of the Soviet union and never eastern bloc countries. They are all prosperous countries with a high standard of living. Finland was ranked the best country by World economic Forum conference in Switzerland Davos 2019 and the happiest country seven times in a row by World happiness index report and UN. Finland is at the top in almost every category. All the other Nordic countries are among the ten best and happiest countries.
Ex communist countries have not achieved that position yet.
Estonia 🇪🇪 Latvia🇱🇻 and Lithuania 🇱🇹 are Baltic countries. They are not members of the Nordic council.
@@butterflies655Estonia and Finland are almost the same culturally 💀
@@butterflies655 I’m really sorry but you’re really wrong because Baltic state never been Communist country it’s always was part of Northern culture if you’re going to check the history, it’s been occupied by Russia, but the people always was culturally northern European. Even if you come to Estonia and Latvia, you will see that there’s not a big difference between Finland or Estonia exactly the same people same culture
@@butterflies655 Finland as well was occupied by Russia, so its maintenance is Eastern Europe. I don’t think so. Baltic state in Finland get exactly the same history when the people speak Nordic language and people look exactly Nordic
@@butterflies655 You have to check the history properly, because even Latvian got the Viking before on the west side of Latvian called kurlandia
Do watch the balkans one, its great stuff. He also made a very deep one for gypsies, which is also truly informative.
In Lithuania most stereotypes fits on a category 'mostly true' in rural regions. I mean in deeply rural small regions. Although in about 80 percent of the coutry, we have a wide range of people (some fit sterotype exactly some are far far from most of them). At least thats my opinion. And I guess for people from other parts of the world our popular / pop traditional cuisine might look not very appetizing as most dishes' main parts are potatos and some form of baked pork and everything goes with sour cream. Can't live without sour cream. Even though in most restaurants they hardly use any now.
Janos! Let's go!! :DDDD
please do more reactions of his history videos
also as a person who's lived in Poland their entire life - yes
Love content from ironically in europe, and the reactions, they felt genuine. All of the information is allways acurate from this channel and i would love to see more reactions to his content.
Happy your reacting to LIIE (Living Ironically in Europe)
I love this guys channel, you should check out more of his videos, frankly, for being meme-filled and not very serious he does a REALLY good job with history and general tourism type info.
I had a Hungarian couple as a client that still had their concentration camp tattoos. It took me nearly ten years to be able to understand them, their accent was very prevelent. They were some of the nicest, friendliest people I've met, despite what they had to endure. May they rest in peace. They ended up being more friends than clients before they passed.
Cannot say if our Eastern European brothers & sisters find us Poles particularly annoying BUT unhinged and crazy is definitely more likely. If you find the most chaotic video on the internet with people doing the most unimaginable thing and it looks like it comes from Europe, in 99% of cases it will be a video from Poland 🤣 Even I as a Polish person get surprised at absolute "creativity" my fellow countrymen exhibit sometimes. But then again, we do have a saying in Poland: "A Pole CAN [do it]" (Polak potrafi). Whatever would that thing be.
He misinterpreted "they like to (deliberately) any people" with being annoying. Poles are basically meme culture.
@@TheRezroHe also seemed to have forgotten that this is a video about stereotypes.
Janos' videos are great balance of factual correctness and humour, you should definitely react to more!
I think as a teacher you might enjoy his recountings of balkan schoollife, it's hilarious.
The choice between the two evils. Choosing the more evil ally over the one you ultimately hate. And get shafted either way.
Poland: I choose neither
Also Poland: gets invaded by both
There's really no good solution to that
@@Dread_2137 it went pretty well for Switzerland and Sweden to be neutral at least 🤠
@@loveitftwMight be geography
@@Psycorde well, Norway is next to Sweden and they got invaded and occupied, so I'd say it's more about resources than location.
@@loveitftw i guess sweden was not invaded cuz they were already trading steel with the germans
I think we can extend the 'Poland gets out free' card until 2045. Give them a century so somewhat heal.
us in eastern europe know we're in eastern europe, we just like going well akshually the baltics are classified as northern europe, same with brits. According to UN. In the EU brits aren't classified as northern europe. Nordic is a whole different thing tho (estonia really want to be nordic lol). Just look it up.
Dude also didn't show our amazing dish, the cold pink soup.
He missed the Balkans being perpetually war-torn and hating their neighboring countries for speaking essentially the same language with a different accent lol.
He has done a video explaining all Balkan stereotypes before this one.
So Europe before 1800
Romanian here and i can say that Romania isnt 100% easter European, nether 100% Balkan or 100% central European, we are just spilt equally in the Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania (the three major regions)
2:16 Tatar looks like the one who knocks
The guy from the czech republic, you though was a philosopher, was actually our former president who was quite often drunk. Now we have a president who looks like giga chad.
Wait, where is Portugal in this list??
As someone who does not live in Eastern Europe, seems pretty accurate to me
I went to high school with a girl that came from Ukraine...She got PISSED if someone misidentified her as Russian. This was late 80s into the 90s before the fall. She was an awesome person. No idea whatever happened to her after we graduated tho. :/
Yeah... Just don't ask who her grandfather was
@@kalebthehistorian5928also don't ask russians what their grandfathers were doing in 1939 in Brest
@Dread_2137 Yes of course. As if they don't know. Poland tried to have their cake and eat it. After all, they also took territory from Czechoslovakia and then prevented the Soviet attempt for a defensive alliance against Germany. At the same time, they angered Germany by not handling over Danzig. So it's little wonder both nations decided to do what they did. Was it right? No. But the Polish government did themselves no favours.
@@kalebthehistorian5928 first of all, territory Poland took from Czechoslivakia was territory that Czechoslovakia took from Poland 20 years earlier. You also forget the nice detail of that Poland was not in good relation with soviets, they literally invaded Poland 2 decades before, marching with their bs bolshevism to the west. If they really wanted to help Czechoslovakia, there's Romania that had a border with them, wonder why Romania also didn't want soviets on their territory.
Are seriously supporting that bs narrative of Putin that Poland not wanting to give up their own territory was somehow allying with Germans? Being biggest German opposition was allying with Germans?
There's also that one thing that not a lot of people know about, Poland was already proposing an alliance against Germany in late 1933, months after Hitler took power, soviets refused. Something that russians also don't want to remember is that Poland refused every single German request of alliance or letting Germans troops go through Polish territory, yet Pootin loves to sell that narrative of Poland somehow allying with Germans.
@Dread_2137 I am not saying they allied with Germany. I'm saying that having bad relations with both neighbours is what led to this. (They chose neither side and laid their hopes on Britain and France) However what's funny is that, technically speaking, it was primarily Britain's fault. The reason is that Wrangel, the last commander of the White Army of Southern Russia, wanted to ally with Poland to take on the Soviets, with the French acting as intermediaries. However, before this could happen, the British not only recognized the Bolsheviks, but forced Poland to commit to a ceasefire, and they stopped supporting the Whites. Had they not made peace, who knows how history would've turned? But, alas, Poland allowed others to decide their fate and then acted as if they could make decisions independently of either of their neighbours when all did was rally the two opposing ideologies together in a pact of convenience.
Of course, both parties knew what would eventually happen, but they both tried to gain as much advantage as they could from either side before war broke out between them. For example, both German and Soviet tank developers worked together during the 20s and early 30s, with the Soviets learning how to build their own tanks and the Germans being able to work without Allied oversight.
Janos has some great history videos... the stereotypes are more "lets have fun at how miserable we are" stuff :)))... but the history vids are great
I highly recommend the video about the gipsy history
Has anyone pointed out that the phenotype chart of Soviet nationalities came from the Nazis?
There were very few Germans left in the Sudetenland or Silesia by 1946. The problem of iridentism and ethnic minorities was largely settled by wide scale ethnic cleansing, most of it less than voluntary. Professor Mark Mazower at Columbia wrote a book on this, "Dark Century."
As a Cambodian living a great city of debrecen, I can say he is 100% certified Getsi
I am disappointed in the lack of cheeki breeki bass
Are we in Poland hyperactive spahstic etc? i would say yes we are a bit unhinged but at least its fun :D
Being from Poland and interacting with both us and other cultures online and irl I've come to a conclusion we are the biggest memesters that can exist. We'll do a lot for the funnies and it doesn't matter what other will think of us when we do it.
As a Czech, when I visited Vienna, I was very shocked that it looks more eastern and more "communist" than cities here in Czechia, they even still build commblocks even without having commies. They actually had soviet rule untile like early 50s and even that few years let a lot of structures there.
For us, Czechs, this is really bizare, because our history is western european history, for 1000 years, we were part of western structures, we were part of most of big european events or we literally started it (like 30 years war, hussite wars, first attempts to reform catholic church....) but then British and French betrayal in 1938 gave us to Hitler and then we ended in soviet block for 40 years, so we are "eastern" now. 🙂 We just don't understand it. I am 32, it's 35 years since revolution, I don't remember any communist stuff, it was here only for 40 years, younger people barely realize that we were once part of this block, but they still call us eastern europe. 😀 You go to Germany or other western countries and it looks the same there as here, so you have that weird feeling beying called eastern europe just because of few years of eastern block between 1948-1989.
Dark cynical sense of humor for us Czechs is result of hundreds of years of religious wars and beying under rule of some bigger empire, like HRE and Austria, then nazis and then commies. I would say that our dark humor is the darkest, most of our jokes are not even acceptable in these days, especially not when you are American. 😀 I don't know why Hungarians are like that, they were vice versa opressors and occupants for most of their history, not vice versa.
6:30 - yes, puppets are actually our tradition too here in Czechia and I mean real tradition, not fake stuff for tourists like weed and absinthe.
Nobody uses name Sudetenland, except nazis and weirdos. Name Sudetenland originaly comes from Celtic name which meant that stripe of mountains and forests around borders of today Czech Republic, but later, nazis stole that name and moved meaning of that name to a place with german speaking majority where they need to be saved by their Fuhrer, so Sudetenland can be even in middle of USA when enough German speakers live there.
All those places have their own local regional names which are more precise than just call half of country Sudetenland which doesn't make any sese. And no, nobody is pissed off because Germans don't live there anymore and thankfully, they don't have any imperialistic ambitions now, at least that's what they are trying to make us believe. 😀 But it's true that these places are still poorer because when German speakers were kicked out of country after 1945, those places lost continuity of owners, commies later sent there political prisoners, so that's why there is higher criminality now, because (surprisingly) a lot of people who were criminals during communism were actually criminals, not just political prisoners. 😀
Hungarians were oppressors and occupants for most of their history? Where did you learn history, at a funfair?
The mongols devastated our country in the 13th century killing about half of the population. Then the ottomans conquered most of the country in the 16th century, leaving large chunks of that area depopulated. Then the Habsburgs ruled us for centuries and even allied with the russians to crush our revolution in 1849. After that they brought WW1 upon us, which left many ethnic Hungarians outside the country's new borders after trianon.
What a happy fucking history of those baaad bad Hungarians, isn't it?
Absolutely Havel was a criminal
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“A shining example of European democracy” - mountain general
As a Belarusian, I can safely say that we are not Eastern European, but we are from the middle kingdom thats why we're not in this video
Unrelated, Habitual Line Crosser is doing a history of air defense, you should check it out
Would you intercept me
I follow a Estonian soldier on YT and he said that his people went to Nazi Germany because they would also be treated better by them.
People don't hate Russia just because, they usually have a good reason for it.
Would've been able to put it past us, if they didn't insist on continuing to be a problem.
I've heard Poland described as little European Texas. And honestly it sounds accurate
2:27 this is actually surprisingly accurate, Kazakhstani people tend to have tons of features that I would think of as Russian and Chinese put together.
Im so glad to see, Living Ironically In Europe, is getting the recognition they deserve.🗣🔥🗣🔥
Baltic state is hundred percent is northern Europe, culturally and geography. It’s Nordic this place used to be Livonia part of Sweden for hundred years. And nobody is saying that Baltic state is Nordic no one say that no one say that Baltic state is Scandinavia Scandinavia it’s only three country, Norway, Sweden and Denmark but northern Europe also is Finland Estonia and Latvia because phenic people is Estonia same as finish so they’re all Nordic
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I forgot one thing about Ukraine the Gypsy culture. Point of view from an American Ukrainian man
Isn't Roma the preferred term for the "gypsies"?
As a Ukrainian (Livin in Kharkiv), what do you mean?
@@Usual_User my great-grandmother came over after World War II
yea first time i drove was a suburban at 5 years old :D
You should also watch the Romanian stereotypes video
Iam a czech and germans are no longer here they were "relocated" after ww2 however german culture is still kinda here a lot of words are similar to german ones bear is cheaper than water (yes really) and in czechia they also teach you german at school
6:39 The clip shown is from the satirical puppet show ,,Never sorry" depicting polititians of Serbia and Montenegro.
Hi Mr Terry, as someone interested in semantics (application of English language), history (how we get places - for the function of understanding where we are) and - generally - ethnicity and sociology, that whole 'northern' (8:00 or 9:00; 'southern', 'eastern', 'western' - context), the whole northern European point you make I interpret relevant to context. "The way it goes", they're not especially south. Not directed at you, or especially concerned with 'intellectual honesty', "give it to them". They see it that we, so we're told. The way it goes.
You should add the Balkans explained. It really is next level there, and masterfully explained as he's serbian after all.
When i'm in the missing the point competition and MrTerry is my opponent XD.
As a someone who lived 14 years in Moldova i can confirm
As a Lithuanian I will have to disapprove on food front because majority of things weren't on point and just simply lacking... Imagine Chicago and you go to eat soul food, that's what Lithuania is all about... Ofc joking, but I can't wait to bait rtrds...
No sudeten germans are no longer in sudets. They have been all deported after the ww2. Check Beňušové dekréty. Basically all ethnic germans were deported from czechoslovakia. sometimes using old germans concentration camps
You should watch the balkan stereotypes as well
Legend reacting to a legend
I can't believe this guy just showed a 2 second clip of the YT Channel Femboy Fishing... LOL Never thought I would see that in a Mr. Terry Reaction Video.
Dope ass shirt bro!
@MrTerry As a gamer and history lover myself, I want to point out that, at the start of the Ukraine section, some music from the Ace Attorney series was playing. You are welcome! 🤗
Hungary = nostalgia and poor knowledge (outside Budapest) of foreign languages, except perhaps ‘Gastarbaitdeutch’, the knowledge of which should be such a ‘cultural stereotype of Central/Eastern Europe’.
Czech Republic = beer, they themselves say they have everything in culture -- beer, wine and vodka.
Locally, there are a lot of jokes that Belarus means eating potatoes, and Ukraine -- a love of pork fat. Of course, the Czech Republic means dumplings and beer; Hungary more like wine and goulash.
You say that some ‘as much as collaborated with the Nazis’. As you are a history teacher, it is worth pointing out that this hm.... more complex. Yes, the Ukrainians suffered a lot from the USSR, so some of them went to cooperate, probably the same with the Baltic states. (It may be noted that the Soviet genocide started earlier than the Nazi genocide. In the perspective of the year, say 1941, the more unambiguously criminal regime was that of Stalin already, and Hitler not yet necessarily.) But in this part of Europe, between warring powers, some countries had no choice - one does not do much reproach to Slovaks or Bulgarians for such forced cooperation. Romania and Hungary tried to co-operate with Hitler to take back the lost lands, but this co-operation had its nuances.
13:11 the K is silent btw, it just reads as Harkiv
I'd recommend his video on the history of gypsies, really good and right up your alley
The drinking pickle juice stereotype is presumably real. According to Folklorama, Ukrainians dance/dress differently than the Russians. Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, are known for wheat and potatoes - perogies (boiled, fried, boiled and fried or deep fried), cabbage rolls, kolbassa, and the cross-stitch. Not really, but do not ask our Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland what her grandfather Michael Chomiak was doing during WWII.
Canada has the third largest Ukrainian population in the world. Every year the Canadian Parliament remembers the Holodomor and makes speeches about it. It was the Mennonites (MCC) who brought them to Canada during the Holodomor. The Ukrainians were interned during WWI (along with the Chinese) but not WWII. Danny Schur was working on a film about it (Spirit Lake Proof-of-Concept) when he died.
There was a play (Strike!) and film (Stand!) about the Winnipeg General Strike by Danny Schur. The Mike Sokolowski Mystery (about the real person gunned down during the strike) and Give This Man an Oscar (about mastering the Ukrainian accent).
Pickle juice is said to help with hangover
It can actually taste pretty good, don't ask me how I know
I watched "You know you are dating a Polish girl", where she'll drink you under the table. Next day she'll drink pickle juice. Pickle juice is good for hangovers.
You should react to Balkan Stereotypes explained and the 2nd part
I think you should react to the most recent kraut's video about eastern europe to go with this
To explain Eastern Europe to Americans, I'd say the closest equivalent to us is the US South: a bit of ethnic/racial tensions, a bit of "lawlessness" (as in chaotic/disorganized compared to Western Europe where every blade of grass is perfectly cut, we're not that methodical), we're more religious than the West, more informal, and we're also more hospitable and friendly, not just polite. We're quick to get angry, but also quick to forgive. Politically, we're apathetic in general. We're not intolerant or tolerant, democratic or authoritarian, individualistic or collectivistic, as much as we hate all politicians equally, they're all corrupt. You can say we're conservative, but don't think of it as being the same as American conservatism. Our conservatism is more "nostalgia for grandma's food", it's about values and simple living, about the human touch/connection than individualism, small government and worshipping the free market. It's not that. And this is something that all statistics don't really capture about us.
kinda shocked there was nothing on east germany.
Ukraine used to be divided over Russia and the west but the full scale war in 2022 changed it. The sheer amount of suffering Russia costed especially on eastern Ukraine is noted. Even most of eastern Ukraine didn't want to be Russia and certainly not being genocided by them. There are though still people who support Russia there but its more like around 10 precent then the like 50, 40 they used to have.
And where are you from to say that nonsense? Im from eastern Ukraine, my family, my wife is from eastern Ukraine. Now we live in Russia. Why? Because they litterally only ones who gives a single crap about us. All of western morons didnt even know we exist until 2022
No people in the sudetenland are pissed that the "Anschluss" ended. Unexpectedly most of the Germans were thrown out or killed.
The funny thing about */"Eastern Europe" is that Vienna, a supposed western city is EAST of Prague, the supposed eastern city.
As a Czech living in the Suddets, we get joked about being German slavs even by other Czechs lol... but to answer your question - no, I would say that at least my generation doesn't really give a coocoo about the Anschluss. There are a lot of people with German last names, but that is about it. The only thing I have noticed tho, is that we don't really uphold any Czech/Slavic traditions as much as the other regions or slavs do.
I very much appreciated your comment about most of the eastern block hating Russia SO BAD that they decided to ally with the Nazis. That is 100% true.
Worth keeping in mind why that's the case
Well, on one hand they're for throwing kittens into river, but on the other, they're against sending weapons to commit genocide. So it's a 50/50 on love-hate.
I think the saying "the Hungarian is jolly while crying" is totally misinterpreted here and almost everywhere else. It doesn't mean Hungarians like being depressing, it means that even though times are depressing and bad Hungarians still manage to be cheerful. Big difference
You should react to the Balkan Stereotypes
Is that "gyere Gabor" a meme? Hope I find it
4:44 East urope gallows humor is very much a thing from the warsaw bloc days
We need him to react to Life of Boris
As an Estonian I can quite relate but bread soup if damn delicous especially with milk
1:00 No no, that's not a stereotype, that's a statement of fact. Similar thing happens with America and Thailand.
You can summarize Eastern Europe in 2 words: chronic alcoholism 👌🏽 but I can't see myself living anywhere else outside of the Balkans, I need this type of madness around me. I need to hear rroma people outside yelling that they are buying old iron or selling watermelons during summer.
When I was a teenager, during communism, as a Pole, I went to visit my aunt in Czechoslovakia. It was a shock for me - while in Poland people normally drank compote with meals, we were offered beer and becherovka. Breakfast - beer and becherovka, lunch - beer and becherovka, dinner - beer and becherovka. But moving all day, eating fatty foods - even at the age of fourteen I didn't feel dizzy. It's a matter of culture - in Poland it's all or nothing, in Czech - drinking without getting drunk.
russia destroyed the psyche of romanians and moldovans during their occupation.. very sad.
Great
You mean "The Soviet Union" not Russia.
@@kalebthehistorian5928Same shit. Could just say Kremlin or Moscow
As a Hungarian he is not qualified for Serbians. I find him strange and wrong, even insulting (hiden behind humour)
North Serbia is central Europe and south of Sava and Danube rivers it is South Europe obviously. Politically, we were never behind iron curtain or Soviet rule
Yes, Yugoslavia was Non-Aligned.
4:09 the same thing is in the Poland
Your shirt is dope
Since you asked about the Sudetenland: The "Sudetendeutsche" who lived there were expelled after the war, just like the Germans in many other parts of Europe. In Germany today you'll find a great number of people whose parents or grandparents had to flee those areas lost after WW2 (especially Prussia and Silesia). The term generally used for them is "(Heimat-)Vertriebene". It's a part of history that's not discussed very much, even in Germany itself.
I mean if you need a law for not throwing cats off the bridge thats say a lot about the country xD
I honestly think it has a lot to do with their dark and laconic approach to humor. They're the first to shit on themselves and can be brutal with each other. They've been through some stuff recently and are fresh out of fucks to give.