American Reacts to Every Country Britain Has Invaded
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As an American I don't know much about British history. Today I am very interested to learn about every country that England has ever invaded. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
sorry if we missed inavding your country, we were probably having tea, so appologies,
We did in 1812
@@grahamgresty8383 lol i worded it wrong, i meant to say, anyone else, i re read it lol and you are right,
from us germens we only eats crowt, beer, sausages, Brezeln, the same shit
Well I got the joke, no need for apology.
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Poor France?! My arse.
Or Tyler's ass
...or it is that, Tyler's an ass?!😊😅😂🖖
Indeed
Don't get me wrong I love France now, but in terms of history they had it coming for them. They also invaded us quite a bit and I'm sure he wouldn't say 'poor england'. As I said I love France now but back in the day they had it coming to them if I'm honest
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I moved to France from UK, but learn the origin of my surname comes from 1066 French conquering of England. So I’m probably the first in my family line to move back to France. I noticed all the British invasions of France started after 1066, so I blame the French for starting it all off.
"Guy from former British colony learns about British colonialism for the first time" HOW IS THE US EDUCATION SYSTEM THIS BAD?!
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Really really bad..
They get taught there the greatest country to ever be made and have ruled the world since before the pyramids where built 😂😂😂😂
There are plenty of videos on youtube showing how 'intelligent' [not] their students at university are. They don't know their own currency [how many 'dimes' in a dollar], how long 1/4 of an hour is [most say 25 minutes thinking a 'quarter' (25 cents)], simple maths is a problem to them. Some say 3 cubed is 9. Some don't know their own states and what language they speak. Most think we British speak 'British' and not English. lol A lot don't know how many daysor weeks in a year. Most can't tell the time from an analog clock!
The list goes on. But they can name all the Kardashian sisters! lol
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You mock, and rightfully so, but many of the younger generation in Britain seem to have been dumbed down to an almost American level. I see it often and I despair.
Portugal was never invaded by the British, and that's only because we we're and have been their ally for a very long time.
If they invade Portugal now it will be your fault
Over 600 years
You our homies 🫡
@@alexmg1439 Sorry 😭
600 yrs ago some very wise Portuguese dude singed a peace treaty with England, and it paid off big time, left them free to take Brazil.
What the frick did he think the British empire was. Not knowing about India, Australia, AFRICA, is just ignorance of world history. Ridiculous.
So true but that’s most Americans for you
They want the whole world to know about their history but don’t want to know about any other countries history
Americans want the whole world to know and learn about their history. But Americans don’t want to know or taught about the history of other countries
The fact he didn't know about India is crazy. That's literally where we stole tea from. And our national dish is a curry. Like come on, even if US education doesn't teach this I at least expect people to know this out of general knowledge
@@cheman579... We didn't steal the tea from India, we stole it from China and planted it in India, in order to destroy the Chinese tea industry, although I can't remember if that was before or after we tried to get all the Chinese addicted to opium.....
Most Hong Hong people would still prefer they were under British rule than Chinese rule.
No, most people do not, people in Hong Kong have more freedom today then they had during the British population and they have better health, social and economic wealth today.
@@MrCastodian 😂
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@@MrCastodianwhen hong kong protested against the chinease goverment a few years ago they were waving the union jack and planted it on goverment buildings.
@@MrCastodianI’ve never read so much BS in such a short sentence 😂
For the people insulting him for "not knowing history", how about you give the man credit for actually going out and learning something new? That is a damn sight more than what most are willing to do.
It's just British ribbing. (Joking) no harm is meant. I think a similar
the uk is in most bloodlines
@@cdereflex1900 and the vikings are in most UK blood lines
and roman
I am Anglo Saxon .
Britain was so successful because of the Navy. Britain also incorporated the countries into the empire and put things in place there. Like trial by jury, trains, infrastructure, etc. Their armies fought along side, as part of the british army.
Exactly
Tyler exemplifies the failure of the American education system.
Not really us Brits aren't taught American history in school, can't see why Americans would learn ENGLISH history
At least he's learning now though.
@@balthazarasquithand you think they learn american history?
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 But he's not. He has the memory of a goldfish - and doesn't listen. He watches things - then, twelve months later, he's surprised all over again at the same facts.
British school history curriculums are barely able to cover a fraction of British history (how much coverage does the 600 years of Anglo-Saxon history get for example?) so when and where would American general history be taught?
Lad you have to be trolling at this point "The British were in Africa?" you either know literally nothing about world history, or you're trying to piss people off.
He wears his lack of learning proudly.
Tyler's well-practised at pissing people off...it's on the money 99% of the time!!
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@@brigidsingleton1596 But it's not deliberate - that would lose him income...
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I wouldn't know. I'm far from being knowledgeable about stuff like this ...too old and occasionally forgetful to do more than learn slowly as I go. 🤔🏴❤️🙂🖖
** immediate mental image of Michael Caine in "Zulu" **
It shows how very different the US and UK are when Tyler says he never knew that the UK ruled over India when as a British child growing up a here in the UK, I was sat down next to my two older sisters by my father and he would spin a big globe he had and point to a random place on it. We would have to name the country my father had his finger on, name it's capital city, the main religions of that country etc.
The average US citizen is very inwardly focused on what is happening in the US whereas the average UK citizen is much more outwardly, more worldly focus.
It's that outward thinking that makes us so good at world conquering. 😂
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@@AMPYMCSTAMPYThis links in to the fact that for so long we had the world's largest, most powerful and most advanced navy which is the main thing that made many invasions possible.
I would just add the fact to my previous comment that my father who taught us children so much about the rest of the world served in the Navy himself. So it was first hand knowledge he was passing down to us.
Before 1707 the invasions were English, after May 1st 1707 we were classed as British after the Scottish and English parliaments United. There was an Oxford scholar that did a study about the effects of all the invasions of the English and British on the world we see today, he noted that without the invasions the world would currently be far less educated and advanced than it is currently most likely more likened to the turn of the industrial revolution era, and slavery would still be seen as everyday being as it was the British who first outlawed slavery throughout the British empire, the King then tasked the Royal Navy to seek out slave traders and ports and shut them down, millions of slaves were bought from traders so they could be set free by the British, a debt that was only fully repaid in 2015 by British taxpayers.
Yes, that's exactly right. I get really fed up with people criticising England about slavery. There were many and varied nations that had slaves. In Africa, it was not uncommon for one African tribe to sell another tribe into slavery to be transported to America and other places! There are still many countries in the world today that still indulge in keeping and selling slaves! When I was travelling in the 1970s it was known that a lot of fair haired and fair skinned British Airways flight attendants were going missing in the middle east, into the "white" slave trade! People should stop criticising Britain!
@@janined5784 the ironic part that annoys me most is that there is nobody in the West alive today that was one of those slaves or that owned slaves BUT there thousands of British people that ARE ALIVE TODAY that paid for their freedom, yet that part gets discreetly ignored.
Do you realise the British taxpayer was paying compensation to former slave owning families? That's not paying for freedom that valuing slaves in monetary terms right into the modern era. Utterly shameful and waste of tax payers money.
@@emblaz3 the owners were paid (ONCE not continually over time) for their slaves, compensated or commerce, both mean the same thing, the British bought the slaves from their owners WITH THE SINGLE AND DIRECT INTENT OF SETTING THEM FREE, nothing more. They had to be bought because we didn’t have the power to take on everyone everywhere at the same time, so yes the slaves were bought from their owners, then the traders they came from were found and shot, then the slaves were set free ANYWHERE they wanted to be. We never claimed it was a perfect world and it was done in a perfect way, the British empire was vast but, it wasn’t the entire world and it wasn’t without its opposition hence the Americas finally winning their independence.
@@WEZ4136 If you look this up, back in 1833 the British government used 40pc of it's total budget to compensate slave owners for their losses. The vast majority of this was paid via issuing bonds the last of which the UK treasury was paying until 2015. So I have the right to be disgusted at the fact that this debt was still being paid with my taxes. Not because it helped set slaves be freed and compensated them for their slavery but because it enshrines the wealth of families who benefitted from the slave trade still to this day. If you really think the British Empire left a fantastic legacy, then you should be in favour of monetary reparations to the former slave colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.
The phrase "the sun never sets on the British Empire" came about because it was always daytime somewhere in the empire. You said at the end about Antarctica, we have land there too.
It was also said that was true because God didn't trust us in the dark.
@@easybigun7825not heard that bit but sounds about right lol.
It's still true.
We have a lot of Antarctica - and no mention of the Falkland Islands, Channel Islands and The Isle-of-Mann.
@@davidwallin7518 I'd imagine it's because the video is titled "Every country Britain has ever invaded" and none of those were technically countries nor were they ever 'invaded' by the British. Antarctica wasn't inhabited and establishing research stations on an uninhabited landmass isn't 'invading' in any meaningful sense of the word. The Falklands were also uninhabited when Europeans first came across them and they came into British control by way of, essentially, a bribe - the Spanish ceded the islands to us to avoid war. The Falklands War wasn't a British invasion either - since it was officially British territory at that point in time and since you can't invade your own land and sending military forces to an overseas territory to push back an invading force is a defensive measure not an offensive one. The Channel Islands came under British control by virtue of the Norman conquest of England before the UK was even actually a thing (they were part of the Duchy of Normandy), so again no invasion necessary. The Isle of Man came under British control via the Scots, who bought the island from Norway not too long before they went broke - which necessitated their union with England.
12:53 "Hong Kong was a British colony?" Bro you CANNOT BE SERIOUS. They have fucking red double decker buses????
He didn't know about India and The Raj 🤷♀
I am British, I didn't know what buses Hong Kong had, although to be honest I don't go around checking what buses different countries have...
You do realise they only teach US history as standard in US schools, right? World history is a separate class that isn't pushed at all.
@@c_n_b even the u.s. history taught is edited and polarized. higher education offers better history teaching but as you say isn't pushed and/or popular but there are a reasonable amount of knowledgable nerds over there to be fair, just a bit spread out a bit 😉
@@c_n_b I didn't learn British history in my European school either, but I still know new India and Pakistan were British colonies... And wasn't there a lot of talk about Hong Kong recently on the internet?
I think it's in part curiosity, and part what things are recommended on the internet/ what media you consume... but it's so strange to me that Americans, who were a British colony.. don't know about the commonwealth at least in broad terms, or that the British had one of the strongest navies for a long time...
like what do they even teach in some 250 years of American history??? I had to learn about some random king that ruled the region some 50 years Before Christ :)))
Now you understand why the French were so happy to help the US in their War of Independence against the British! The funniest thing I think in our long-running rivalry with France was recently after the "AUKUS" deal where the UK and US snatched a huge submarine deal with Australia that France was just about to win - France recalled its ambassadors to the US and Australia in outrage and lodged major diplomatic protests with each country calling it "a stab in the back" and "unacceptable between allies", but when asked why they didn't recall their ambassador to the UK they said they were familiar with Britain's "permanent opportunism" and that it was to be expected 😂
Basically British companies showed up to a lot of poor countries on ships and said ‘hey it looks like you have some things that we would like to buy. It appears you dont have the infrastructure to get these things to us. How about we put some infrastructure in place then trade with you.‘
The countries were like ‘yeah that sounds cool. ‘ So they set up trading colonies and infrastructure.
These British companies figured out that they don't have to conquer anyone by force, they just buy the people already in charge, and as long as the people already in charge also get rich they just did what these British companies like. Often at the expense of everyone else there. But as far as the colonists were concerned the warlords can rule their own people how they like with a few exceptions. Such as widow burning. Just as long as the goods keep flowing.
However, some other European empires basically decided that they also wanted in on the gig and decided to do the same thing. But they did so in places that these British companies had defacto control over and the British colonies didn't like it. So these British companies either went to the government or the crown and said ‘hey, the French are meddling in our highly prosperous thing we got going. Can you send the Navy over for some diplomacy? ‘
So they would. Kick out the French. Then they would turn to the local warlords and say ‘Im not a fan what you was doing with the Frenchies there, you're only going to trade with us from now on, or we will replace you with some rival warlords.’ So they obliged.
That's basically how the British Empire was built. A bit like a mafia rather than an invasion. Britain has only ever had a large army during the last couple of of years of WW1 and during WW2. They could never have conquered 1/4 of the world by force.
China is doing the exact same thing in Africa today.
Ya that widow burning was really bad 😬
Yet another reason that we Canadians can't stand to be lumped in with the Americans. For a country that thinks so highly of themselves, they really know nothing at all about anything.
as the son of a WWII vet, It makes me particularly irate that US students don't know that the US was late to BOTH world wars. They only "know" that they "swooped in and saved the world."
Us Brits love you Canadians (so much so that I'm gonna leave England and move to Canada next year). Luckily most of us know the difference between you guys and when we find out you're Canadian (cos if I'm honest other than a couple words you generally sound American, that's a generalisation though) we have a lot more respect for you than we would for Americans. You understand us a lot more, your banter is very similar to ours, you actually have somewhat-universal healthcare and way better education than the states, you use the metric system, and you're very friendly. Lots of love towards you guys from basically all Brits, keep being great and keep being not-American hahaha
@elainehales3119 - And yet you lump all 333 million Americans together. I knew all of this history and so do many Americans.
@@reindeer7752 I'm sorry to have offended you. Every country has their own reputation and of course it doesn't apply to each individual.
Canada gave us Rush and Shania. You're OK with me.
"how are Britain doing this?"
Practice, dear sir, practice.
And big balls😂😂😂
By being the dominant naval power throught most of the last five centuries.
greed, rather
@@watermelon7998nah just “exploration “.
@@pashvonderc381 "Exploration" coincidentally with deadly weapons and a desire for land that they had
S.A.S and Navy Seals were working on a mission together. Seals put up a sign that on their baracks that said "Navy Seals bested by no-one" the SAS put their own sign saying, "No-One."
We spent a few years entertaining the Vikings & the Romans, we thought we could do it better so we studied the Norse & Roman shipbuilding then improved it, we then took the natural aggression of your average Viking plus Roman Legion training & discipline then off we went.......
Worked out quite well for a while !
Do Brits know about all these places they've invaded?
Yes Tyler, we go to a place called school, we learn things there. It's a hell of a concept, you should try it one day....😂
To be fair, at my primary school, we were taught about ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt for history. Then at my secondary school, history was either one of your option choices in year 9, or an optional extra if you finished your English language and literature gcse's early. So I personally only know the basics of the British empire as I have an interest in politics and documentaries.
to say that shows arrogance and a certain amount of ignorance yourself. a lot of our history is picked up as general knowledge outside of school. museums, cultural iconery, gaming as well as many other sources. our schooling system is considerably better than the u.s. but its not the best in europe to be fair. so it could be better, and many students here lack interest in schooling knowledge so probably many learn as much as the u.s. students by personal choice rather than any lack of schooling abilities 😉
no, British children don't learn about the colonization at school, especially about how violent and bloody it all was
they learn about the Victorian era, Ancient Egypt, Vikings erc, and "about Britain's finest hour, WW2", which is still mostly propaganda
@@s4ss1n That's the point I was making, the op implied, or I inferred, that they were stating our education system is so much better than the US, that most Brits would know our history as a matter of course. I was pointing out the fact that in my experience, mine, unless you actually had the interest in history at school already, 90 to 95% of students at my secondary school would learn, NO history full stop, past maybe 4 or 5 'intro' lessons in year 7.
@@marcussmith8747 Yeah same, I learned the basics in primary school and a bit in high school until year 9 when I started my GCSEs and history wasn't a choice I selected. Obviously I've learned a lot more in my own time but just in terms of the amount I learned in school, it wasn't that much in the grand scheme of things to be honest. I mean obviously I learned more than Americans and I use general knowledge to know about countries like India, Australia, Singapore, Gibraltar, Canada, the US, a lot of Africa etc cos it's kind of obvious when you learn anything about those countries. A general rule is that if the country drives on the left, there's a 98% chance they were ruled by the British e.g. India, Australia, South Africa, Nigeria, Grenada, Trinidad etc.
I once wished my friend from the US a happy Independence Day.
He replied by saying thankyou but then asking me if i minded that the US celebrated Independence Day.
I then replied to him saying "Of course not, the US is just one of 65 countries that celebrate an independence day from the British empire".
This genuinely shocked him. He didn't know this because all he had ever been taught was that the US got it's independence from the British. He had never been taught how big the British empire was and how the American war of Independence is only a tiny part of our history here in the UK.
They talk about it a lot because its all they have. We don't bother because there are too many to keep track of.(Think of all the days off we could have if we celebrated returning countries independence!)
There is plenty to learn in history class in British schools, actually too much. I'm in my late 40's and still find new interesting things to learn about Britain.
There’s a good reason why they’ve never invaded Norway, considering the Norwegian royal family is close relatives of the British royal family.
King Charles is even named after King Haakon who was Queen Elizabeth’s favorite uncle and King Charles’ godfather
They did, the only country in the nordics that didn't get invaded was sweden
@@sebastiankarlsson3875 and when did they invade Norway?
@@ninachr Napoleonic times (I think) when they helped sweden get that union with norway and the thing with uk and germany in ww2
@@sebastiankarlsson3875 to be fair it wasn’t really «Norway» then, we were considered a part of Denmark.
And they never invaded during WW2, they considered it so that Germany wouldn’t get it.
But King Haakon and his family actually fled to his wife’s family in London (King George VI).
And I think that’s why they didn’t invade, because it would have caused an uproar in the family.
King Haakon was Queen Elizabeths’ favorite uncle and King Charles was actually named after him.
Because we were scared of the trolls. I dont mean sad wankers on the www. I mean real proper trolls.
At the time Britain was fighting the American war of independence Great Britain was also fighting France, Spain, the Dutch Republic, Jamaica, Gibraltar and even India. If the British had not been involved in these broader conflicts, the outcome of the American war of independence might very well have been different,
Terrorist uprising against the legally appointed government more like. Aided and abetted by a foreign power (France).
I have American colleagues who seem to think it was a great loss to lose them as a colony but in reality it was a Tuesday as far as the British Empire was concerned.
@@StimParavane😂Tuesday, around tea time…
@@StimParavane Brilliant, from a Brit :)
@@StimParavane well they lost one of the biggest and richest countries resource wise so their ignorance kind of shows if they didn't think it was a great loss.
Not only Britains know, but this is taught all over European schools (and most school systems all over the world, I guess, especially in those former invaded countries). Actually considered common knowledge… It is really uncanny to see just HOW LITTLE Americans know of world history… Your education system is a big fail!
Plus all they have to do is GOOGLE IT😂😂IF NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS😂😂
*Britons.
It's def a great Britain
Can't say I've learnt this from school how strange. There wasn't any mention of our glorious empire of which I've found out for myself later on. School history subjects tend to be mostly focused on Anglo Saxons, Romans, medieval era, WW1 & WW2 pretty much. Such a tip of the iceberg really!
@@michaelprobert4014 I stand corrected. My mistake. Am worn out from correcting translations and essays (and now wonder how many mistakes I may have missed… but - alas…)
“How did Britain do all this”, traditionally by having a Navy that was a class above everyone else, dominating the seas. The industrial revolution started here meaning Britain could out manufacture any other country for a while and being an island has a natural defensive position meaning more soldiers could range out rather than needing to be defending our shores.
At one point it was estimated Britain ruled over 25% of the world’s land and the saying “The sun never sets on the British Empire” came about because it was always daytime somewhere in the Empire.
The British empire was a quest to find decent weather.
Tyler: "I had no idea that Britain ever had anything to do with Asia."
Seriously? Not even India? Are you insanely ignorant? (Yes)
TBF, it's not like the British Raj was a major feature of Hollywood movies like Indiana Jones or anything
@@MrGBHYeah but tea mate, fucking tea. It doesn't take more than 2 brain cells to figure out we stole tea from india. Plus as he learned, our nation dish is...wait for it...a fucking curry
yeah bro literally INDIA, PAKISTAN, ISRAEL, MYANMAR, MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE!! AND MORE
i was screaming how doesnt he know about india or the fact we got china addicted to heroin
Ahem,Errol Flynn, - The Bengal Lancers,Chargeof The Light Brigade,North West Frontier,Alex Korda, British Director,almost as famous as Hollywood. Before your time,but not long ago.@@MrGBH
Many Americans are shocked the 4th of July means nothing to us Brits, and that we don't commemorate Independence day, but now you can see why.
Yeah 4th of July is a massive part of US history. But in English history it’s a very small blip and we would have probably given it all back at some point over the next 200 years any way
I read another comment somewhere that said, "Independence Day, 4th of July, is the most important day in American history, to Britain it was a Tuesday". That made me laugh.
I like to tell Americans we call it Traitors Day and we Celebrate Benedict Arnold.....
@@easybigun7825 That's a reference to the 1994 movie street fighter. Not a great movie, but It's worth a watch.
@@zurgalon1304 Thank you, I wondered where it came from.
Take a drink every time he says "What?! I didn't even know that!"
You wouldn't make it all the way through!
The things we Brits use to to before the invention of television and football/soccer.
Our secret was The Royal Navy.
Our technology that made the. Successful was the English Oak
And the fact that we had a trading empire - we didn't do things like Gengis Kahn.
Exactly that.
@gmdhargreaves most of the British warships have been built in Scotland from 1707 till today
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The pen and the sword,the gun and the boat,are what keeps the empire afloat. There is more to the rhyme but I cannot remember it.
As North America was part of the British Empire it would make sense for American schools to teach what that meant.
When I was at school and we did learn where we invaded, we focused mainly on the big important ones though. Also, the dark red means controled, the light red means invaded. Also the secret was quite simple, bribe the local rulers to run it for us.
No. That was not the secret. The secret was bloodshed.
The secret was the Royal Navy and wherever we went we built infrastructure to support trade. Considering the popularised version of Britain under siege from the German U-boats and big scary ships like Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau it's easy to forget that at the time the Royal Navy was still the largest naval force on the planet spread out all over the world going into WW2. The threat of the KM was in merchant raiding. As mighty and impressive as Bismarck was, she was outnumbered by a lot and even out gunned by the Nelson Class of which the RN had 2 of btw(HMS Nelson and Rodney) and that's before we even get to how many aircraft carriers RN already had. Bismarck's true threat was if she could break out and stay hidden to strike merchant convoys, not take on the Royal Navy directly. We also had HMS Warspite wandering around doing what Warspite did best, blow stuff up and NOT get sunk so not as famous as HMS Hood 😂
It took the economic and industrial jugernaught of a pissed off USA after Japan messed with their boats to overtake Royal Navy in strength at sea and the burden of debt after WW2 was the final death nail for an already declining British Empire.
Tyler: "I had no idea!"
There's a surprise...
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As soon as I saw that title, I thought the same thing... 😂😂😂😂
Come on, he's trying. At least he owns his lack of knowledge, unlike 99.99% of Americans.
@@creepingdread88No, he's NOT trying. He is just trying to make money with views. He repeats the same errors, over and over and DOESN'T learn. His brother is more honest.
@@wessexdruid7598 and doesn't sound like he's inhaling helium
There's a good reason why (even prior to the internet age) so many countries speak English and many of them drive on the left.
There's an old saying. The sun never set on the British Empire!
I say old bean, the term 'invaded' is SO unfair! We kindly accepted the challenge of helping these places develop and prosper (mostly). All jolly good stuff.
"Did Brits know Britain invaded all these places" uh yes that's why it was called the British Empire Tyler.....and of course we were in Africa....why do many African countries speak English as their 1st language ?
And surely everyone knows about the Zulu conflicts and has seen the film "Zulu"?
🤣🤣oh the COMMENTS ARE SO FUNNY THERES THAT BRITISH HUMOUR AGAIN , yes I agree Tyler your school system has let you down But there’s no excuse not being inquisitive after leaving school , you all live in a bubble over there and not knowing about Hong Kong didn’t you read or hear about handing the colony back to China as it was leased by the British for 99 year it is such famous event in the history of the world enjoyed the video 🤣they never showed me a video at school in my day we LEARNT from the blackboard from the teaching of our teacher and books we even READ about our history then there was the homework yes we learnt all about the world even America 🤣🤷♀️
Please don't generalize; we don't ALL live in a bubble over here!@@rosaliegolding5549
I wonder if he knows how much yankyland has leased off Britain.
@@rosaliegolding5549 this American DOES know that and we learned it in schools BACK WHEN SCHOOLS TAUGHT REAL STUFF!! NOT THE BS THEY ARE NOW TEACHING. So that means I learned this back in the 70s!! Now I can’t say when those quit learning it but I believe my brother learned it in school and he graduated in 1984. Soooo, some of us ACTUALLY KNOW STUFF!! I can even tell just by watching this dude he does NOT KNOW A LOT. (Sorry dude, but I’m actually yelling “WTH” when you don’t know some of this!) And yes, I also know about this China (HONG KONG) thing cause I STILL have an awesome pair of jeans that have “Republic of Hong Kong” emblazoned on the tag. Yeah, I’m gonna PULL AN OLD PERSON (BOOMER) move. These kids nowadays don’t know crap & wouldn’t have made it through the MAJORITY of the 80s let’s say. But THIS ACTUALLY SHOWS HOW FAR LEARNING IN SCHOOL HAS FALLEN OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH!!🙄
I ALSO REMEMBER the “Tiananmen Square INCIDENT”!! And to think that the “ruler” of China wants to sweep it under the rug & PRETEND IT NEVER HAPPENED! This is WHY NOW NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING!! Just like pulling down MONUMENTS!! Just because you’re pulling them down DOESN’T MEAN IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!! The “brain-dead” unite! 🤣 ✌🏻
PS: I just have to put in a lil jab about you saying that you even learned history about America. But here’s the thing a lot/mostly British don’t know anything about the “Revolutionary War”, and WHY we Celebrate 4th of July. Because I’ve watched numerous videos on here where the “younger British” HAVEN’T A CLUE & that ya’ll LOST that War and the American Colonies. Not here to bicker, just stating facts about what I’ve learned by watching numerous videos of “Brits react to…” and then saying “WE WEREN’T ABOUT TAUGHT THAT IN SCHOOL!” is there any wonder why?🤷🏻♀️ Like I said… NOT HERE TO ARGUE, just staying THINGS GO BOTH WAYS. 😬
The fun part is to look at how many countries still have a UK flag in their flag.
1:20 he seemed so suprised about us invading irealnd
if you want to see the extent of the British Empire then just look at all of the Countries that take part in the Commonwealth Games. They were all controlled and ruled by Britain as part of the British Empire.
We get bored very easily, so invading other counties gives us something to do
The food was better.
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It's just international banter. Insult someone's mum. Say their haircut is shit. Annex their island territories.
we still invade to this day, the beaches, the bars and the night clubs 😏
you should be ashamed of yourself
We did all this with a very small army, and he leaves out the colonies in the Pacific.
And the Falklands.
@@bepto4877 I thought they hadnt mentioned the Falklands, and South Georgia.
Ireland wasn't "granted" independence. It fought a War of Independence, against the British.
It's worth keeping in mind that most of this was done via free trade and cultural forces, not the army. The English had relatively few troops across this entire period (other than WWI and WWII, of course). Even if they had millions of troops, that doesn't explain how you hold a nation for 200 years. That's really not how the real world works.
It's said that the British Empire was the most peaceful and beloved out of all the great empires (e.g. French, Dutch, German, Russian). The reason the English had so much power was exactly due to their culture and laws and systems, as opposed to military might. Of course, it still had a major slave trade along with the other empires for much of this time period, as well.
If you want to see a less successful and more militaristic empire, see the Dutch Empire, French Empire, and/or Russian Empire.
Even dating back to the 11th century, England is characterised more by law and order than tyranny, relatively speaking. There are many reasons for this, and it largely stuck, which massively aided the British Empire's direction by the 17th century. Sea power and natural island protection were key, of course. But, more important was English Law and culture, I believe. By the late-18th century through the 20th century (with some history back to the Romans, but more so, the 17th century), we saw the British Empire invent and/or innovate just about everything, from the computer to trains to the modern factory to modern roads to modern human rights to modern schools to modern policing to child rights to worker rights to modern sewer systems to modern water systems to modern bookshops and novels.
The shorter list would be the modern inventions not by the British. These would include the plane, modern digital computer, modern traffic systems (though they played a part, and it was actually still via a Commonwealth nation of Canada), lightbulb (disputed, some say Americans, some say British), and the Internet (co-created by England and others, actually). Many other older inventions come from the Middle East and otherwise, naturally. Video games were invented by Canada and America, and England, depending on how you define such things. Film-making was invented and perfected by the French, British, Americans, and Soviets between about 1880 and 1930. Not much new was created after 1930 outside of technology and certain tricks. The Nazis did well with sheer scope, funding, and projection, but didn't really invent anything. Hitchcock helped created modern film-making, along with Stanly Kubrick, circa 1940-1960. Obviously, modern architecture, philosophy, and science are a mixed bag. If we start in the 1930s, then it's mostly the Nazis, British, and Americans. We do have Newton, so there's that. Germany has Nietzsche, on the other hand. France has post-modernism in general and all late-modernism, along with England. America has William James. America and France crushed with Art Deco for some years, and America massively brought forth their iconic Neo-Classical style. There is much more to say, but I'll leave it here.
This is why when the yanks try to show off about their country and how great it is and think they're a powerhouse it falls on deaf ears... *sips tea
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To be honest I hear more people from other countries talk down to Americans than I’ve ever heard an American talk down to them. I know our stereotype is that we are loud, obnoxious, annoying, idiots, but it gets kinda awful when it feels like the world hates you. There is a growing isolationist movement in the US because we feel like anything we try to do is awful. Many people make fun of us for our poor healthcare and education, yet fail to realize that much of the money that should go to that goes to foreign aid or defense bills. And when we say we don’t want to fund foreign aid or foreign defense anymore, we are called selfish and a bad Allie. Sorry for venting all this frustration to a stranger online but it’s really starting to take a toll on how Americans view ourselves and the nations we partner with. Before the world wars America had been trying to maintain isolationism and it seems like that’s not such a bad idea. You have no idea how much hate I hear online from Canadians, Australians, and Europeans about how they can’t stand America. If we just focused on ourselves maybe that hate would go down and we could have better social programs.
@@Jinxx9081 Most of it I'd say isn't "hateful" as you put it... especially if it comes from the British... its most likely banter not hate... and I don't think most Americans care what others think. But you can't expect people to not share their opinions on Americans... after all, there's a lot to get your head around with the things they do and how they act. if I'm being blunt I'd honestly just say grow some thicker skin, because the brits get a lot of slander from the Americans and from other countries... yet we don't take it heart. Maybe it says a lot when the rest of the world has these opinions on America, I'd say there's quite a lot of truth behind what most people say. I certainly don't buy into Americans thinking the rest of the world hates them... People will always be judged on how they act or come across... I've met many Americans that I like... however many of the "stereotypes" i've found to have some truth behind them... I've never met another anyone other than Americans that are so out of touch with the rest of the world.
The British has always had an excellent navy and map making was something they were very good at.
True but our navy isn’t as powerful anymore nor is our army or raf cause the government cuts on the military
Well seeing you never been in ! Most dangerous thing was an officer with a map.
"The British Empire covers a quarter of the globe....The German empire consists of a small sausage factory in Tanganeta....."
War has been Humanity's favourite game since pre history.
We British have been playing for a long time and we are very good at it.
light red was invaded, darker red was conquered, flags were attacks
iceland, was to stop the germans coming round from the north, or if they took russia, we covered all bases, its not our first rodeo
You *could* have requested permission to build a base there instead of straight up invading them.
Iceland was in a personal union with Denmark, not a part of the country of Denmark that had just been invaded.
Also, invaded from the *north*?
Why north?
Occupied Norway was east of Iceland, likewise with mainland Germany.
And it's one thing for Germany to sneak a invasion force past the royal navy within Norwegian waters, it's another to do so in the north Atlantic...
Also, the British troops that helped Norway during WW2 where only ready because they had been training to invade Norway themselves to begin with...
Incredible lack of respect for other countries territorial integrity...
Not to mention the bombing of Copenhagen pulling *neutral* Denmark-Norway into the Napoleonic wars, and the blockade pushing Norway close to starvation...
Or Brexit right now...
Brits like the Americans consider themselves extraordinary.
And feel like rules applies to others and not them...
@@LuredreierYour comments all deserve replies in Anglo-Saxon terms..
@@Luredreier it was mostly about Iceland’s geographical position, it is inbetween the UK and the US and a good “bridge” from Europe to North America because of that. Which the British wanted to take so Germany didn’t have a super easy time going to North America if they wanted to (if I remember correctly).
@@Luredreier oh where was the rest of europe, you all folded, got occupied, uk was the last bit hitler wanted, we were on our own fighting for freedom of europe, yes we got help from the usa, that was not till 1942 to 43, because they got a suprise attact at peal harbour, 2 years into a global war, if it was not for the UK, and ally's that came to help, we would all speak german, and do as your told, you wuld not have the freedoms you enjoy now i promise you,
@@kolbrunbjorg6559 yes, is was strategic, as was gibralta, thats why we have never given it up, its the gateway to the med, ath we can control, from the atlantic, which has been used over that 2 to 3 months, with the coalitions, against the east
When saying Ireland was first, it's worth remembering that Wales and Scotland and a few 'kingdoms' within the British Isles were also invaded, unified, linked by royal marriages, etc.
It's an OLD problem. For everyone.
The empire the sun never sets on may give you an idea of how big the British empire was.
There's a reason why the saying "The sun does not set on the British Empire," exists.
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By late wife, a Canadian, and I both worked (and met one another) while working in Hong Kong while it was a colony. Our two oldest children were born there, and technically could seek Chinese citizenship today. They prefer being Kenyan/Canadian and Kenyan/Australian, respectively. I'm shocked you didn't know about HK, a city founded as a trading city by the Brits. The title of British monarchs up to Charles's grandfather was King Emperor, with the emperor bit referring to the Empire of India.
Interesting story!
you cannot seek chinese citizenship, only hong kong permanent residency and citizenship
It is also worth noting that the British Empire was so large by the 1920s that some of Britain's colonies... had colonies.
After WW1, the Australian Government had effective control over ALL of East Papua (modern day Papua New Guinea)
Samoa was a colony of New Zealand.
Namibia was a colony of South Africa.
And all 3 of these countries were considered Colonies of Britain.
Though technically at the time they were Dominions with nominally independent foreign policies and so on.
Additionally It is worth noting that the British Empire, as it was, could be considered a reactionary force.
Whenever (anything) happened, Britain would react in a way that they thought would benefit them.
So for instance, the invasions and brief occupations of Iran, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Italian Somalia, China etc... were often in response to some other circumstance.
In the case of France(100 year war), the invasions were an attempt at usurping the French crown... which ultimately failed.
In the case of the USA. The war of 1812 was started by the US over a couple issues, but ultimately resulted in a stalemate and little significant changes.
But in the broad sense, there was not ultimate goal for the British Empire. It did not desire world domination, it sort of just ended up getting there anyway.
There are obviously cases of Individuals who did desire world domination, but for the most part that was not a consideration.
Other motives such as colonialism or nationalism tended to be driven by culture or economics. Forces that did not ultimately serve to encourage annexation of the rest of the world.
Apparently there's only 22 countries Britain hasn't invaded, that's so close to being the entire world. I wasn't even aware of this, I've always preferred geography over history but I don't remember ever being taught how many place were invaded by the country I happen to live in. Mind blowing honestly
No-one, not even an American as charming as Tyler, can be as thick as he pretends to be (I hope)! What happened to Malta in this video? Tyler jokingly mentions Antarctica. The British claims vast swathes of Antarctica to this day but by an international treaty of 1959 those claims are in abeyance. And what of Hawaii? It may be part of the United States now, but it wanted to be British first. AMerica was second choice. Take a look at the state flag which still has the Union Jack in the top left-hand corner (as did the United States itself for the first year of its declared independence. Here is what remains of the British Empire on which the suns still never sets! Akrotiri, Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctica. British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dhekelia, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar,Montserra, Pitcairn Islands, St Helena, Ascension & Tristan da Cunha, South Georgis, Turks & Caicos.
You missed out the Isle of Wight 😅
Exactly true about Hawaii. That's why they have our Union Flag as part of their own national flag
I am shocked that even after over 18 months of running this channel devoted to learning about Britain he’s only just finding out about this.
Less shocked having listened to his voice in the opening few seconds. Clearly a moron.
fun fact in the battle of towton in the wars of the roses around three percent of England's entire population took part in the battle as well as one of its kings and three quarters of its nobility. also we technically invaded ourselves when king Steven usurped empress/queen matilda (she was the first ruling queen of england and the former empress consort of the holy roman empire). also the king of England at one point was also the king of france and we fought for around 113 years to keep it
For such a small island we owned 1/4 of the worlds land. A true superpower.
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Its probably easier to just tell you the countries we haven't invaded.
Andorra, Belarus[†], Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo [*], Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mali, Marshal Islands, Monaco, Mongolia, Paraguay, Sao Tome and Principe, Sweden, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Vatican.
[†] My list might be out of date in respect of this one.
[*] Not to be confused with The Democratic Republic of the Congo, which Britain has invaded.
"Invaded" is a bit strong. But .. Challenge Accepted.
@@katrinabryceadd the Italian peninsula and continental Europe with few exceptions ( Normandy, Calais, a couple of cities in Germany and what else, Gibraltar)
Its a sad state of being that when the intro is "i am just a typical, average American" is so spot on. As an US citizen myself, it hurts me that world knowledge is ignored in favor of our self-centric yet skewed history as well as current affairs. Truly depressing having everyday conversations where my international friends pity me for living here because the average American they talk to is so clueless about everything and they want me 'rescued' from the ignorance of my countrymen.
Don't feel too bad about it, your country is as big as 50 countries. It's no wonder you guys typically don't know much about the rest of the world.
We have many like that in the UK too 😱 there's no hope for some 😂
@Tyler Rumple , The main reason Britain was so advanced in travelling is because we invented time travel and just didn't tell anyone 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Just joking , it's because Britain had over 120 ship building ports and could produce 500 to 800 ships a year . The former British colonies of India & Hong Kong their first language is English . Infact Britain gave them their names , before Britain landed in India the country was known as Bharat . Hong Kong was all one word Hongkong until the name was split in 2 in 1926 . The country of Israel only got it's name in 1948 . Under British rule it was called Mandatory Palestine and before that it was called Canaan . Quite a few Middle East Countries were renamed by the British , Iraq used to be called Mesopotamia .
I was baffled by this, as a Brit, we learn a lot about the British Empire and it's atrocities. One of the very first things we learn is that it occupied around 1/4 of the world and that it's said 'the sun never sets on the British Empire' because there were so many countries that the sun was always up at some point
You learned the bad stuff but i bet they didnt teach you that we used the royal navy to end the slave trade, funny that
Think of it this way, Tyler. Britain considered that one of the major duties of its government was to enable merchants and traders to do business; many "invasions" were made to support trading when it was being threatened by local pirates, European rivals, or by the other parties not wanting to trade (such as China not wanting to import British opium in exchange for Chinese goods we wanted to buy).
India (including what became modern Pakistan and Bangladesh) was mostly 'conquered' and initially 'ruled' (with the local monarchs of its over 500 separate states doing what they were told) not by British government forces, but by the mercantile British East India Company, which had its own army and navy. It was only when the Company became inefficient and corrupt that the British Government took over.
Tyler you've been reacting to UK related videos for a while now, so I'm genuinely very surprised that most of the history surrounding the British Empire is a surprise to you?
Most of these invasions were only possible because of the British navy.
Up until the early 1900's the navy was maintained (by law) at twice the
size of the 2nd and 3rd biggest foreign navies combined.(usually France and Spain).
Should we tell him about Antarctica still being a British colony?
As a Canadian, my history education - along with Canadian history - included world history - which encompassed Britain, the USA, Europe, Aus/NZ and some smattering of Africa and Asia. Granted this was quite some time ago, and I'm not sure its the same these days. But, it strikes me that the US educational "system" is woefully lacking.....
it makes for a better reaction though
American: "I'd travel 100 miles for some good food"
Brit: "Hold my beer"
surely you mean ...."Hold my Chicken Tikka Massala?!!
That's only Scotland.
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Had that in Brum forty five years ago in Egbaston. Inccidentaly used to go for curries regularily in Gibson St Glasgow(Curry Alley). Street boasted five Indian restaurants in those days including The Shish Mahal and The Ko i Noor, Shish was where the school is now,Ko by Eldon St Bridge. Ko fell into The River Kelvin,Shish was knocked down and took over The Taj Mahal in Park Rd round the corner.@@shaunrogers2256
Interestingly, a relatively small island off the coast of Europe became the biggest Empire in the world. What is even more interesting is that, like all empires, it has lost most of its territories over time and is fast becoming a shadow of its former self. There may be a lesson here for those who wish to take over the world, but also for those who are invaded: It is only temporary!
You might want to know that the British isle has been invaded many times in the past, and many invasions of France were in retaliation.
I used to think that this was a parody channel. Still not convinced it isn't. Surely, nobody can know so little about everything
Yes, I do have my doubts. Sometimes his language is quite pedant and articulate, for example... suggesting he has a good (general) educational grounding. And I refuse to concede that such people can go through such schooling and not (then also) pick up a few basic historical facts along the way, even if they are not formally studying History. I mean, not knowing that Britain had ever been "in" Africa was the one that made me think he might be trolling in this one. Even more than not knowing about ruling India. Unless he is an autistic maths genius or something, one wonders what he was ever doing when given open access to factual books and the internet as a child. He doesn't completely smack me as one of those, "I don't care, I'm just gonna eat pizza and watch college football in my free time!" type people. Or someone who's self-schooled and brought up in a wild Kentucky cave in the hills. Something smells fishy and just doesn't quite add up.
Even the Hawaiian flag still has the Union Jack symbol to this very day.
And the land Disney world is on still belongs to the crown, hence why they don’t and can’t be forced to pay the state taxes. 😂
I don’t think we ever ruled Hawaii,they were allies, they chose to keep the flag out of respect & friendship ( check out map men )
With the increase in technology regarding boats & sea warfare there was an enormous race on for most of the powerful countries in Europe to secure colonies in the parts of the world that were being discovered (think of the space race between the USA & the USSR). And England being an island nation, they were putting more effort into being a powerful sea-power. Hong Kong was a big deal, they had it for 100yrs (I think), with the return of Hong Kong back to China being a massive deal for any country dealing with Hong Kong (so, most of the world). Most of Africa was colonised by European countries (France had South Africa, which explains the rudeness of white South African's). A lot of the attempts have been to do with conflicts with other major European powers who had already colonised these locations.
Ireland was first invaded by the Greeks. Partholon, son of Sera. Between 2590 and 2200 BCE.
In 1169 Dermot MacMurragh, King of Leinster, invited Anglo Norman mercenaries to Ireland to help him regain his kingship.
One thing to note is alot of these countries that hes listed were not even countries during the times of the invasion, alot of these countries came into existance after the decolonization. For example saying britain invaded belgium is technically not true, saying britain CREATED belgium would be more accurate.
The most amazing thing about the British empire is the architecture - all over South Africa today are very British looking town halls and churches that literally appear as though they were picked up from England and placed in the Africas. Hong Kong also still looks VERY British - modern British - the HSBC bank headquarters were built when still under British rule. And today unlike mainland China Hong Kong STILL drive on the left of the road as in Britain.
The old government buildings of India and Burma look as though lifted from London’s Whitehall. Very beautiful - the same in Jamaica.
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India was called "Golden bird"
Capital of spirituality and trade
Birthplace of major Eastern rlgns
Look what b.r.i.t.s did there
(Offcourse Indians were divided back then so much and that's when Invasions started happening)
17:00 we do know. We learn about it in history
I find it hilarious that people underestimate us. Just because we live on a tiny island doesn't mean we don't kick arse. Do Americans only get taught about America! The British Empire was the largest empire ever. We don't mess about. Stop underestimating us.
How on Earth can you not know some of this. Hong Kong has been in the news a lot. Apparently also not aware of the USA invasion of Iraq. I guess a lot of these reaction videos are about how little Americans know and are taught. In this case it's clearly not a lot.
Your correct, but they've never been told about the 1812 invasion of America by the English when there army ran away, 😊 sorry friend 😊
@@PhilipMarshall-mo5mqthey even wrote a song about that war and made it their national anthem.
@@PhilipMarshall-mo5mq We only invaded them after they tried to "liberate" Canada.
Tyler, you observed that it might be easier to list the countries Britain has never invaded. The book "All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To". claims there are only 22 countries Britain never invaded throughout history. Sarcastic question: Where did you think the tea that was dumped into Boston harbour came from? India. How could Britain forcibly tax it? India was part of the British Empire. The British Empire was insanely lucrative. That wealth was used to fund it's control, and fund further expansion. Some of the 'invasions' were by the Royal Navy, but some were by companies with Royal Warrants, Some was skilful politicking, for example, supporting one group of local nobles against other groups, then being invited in to 'help' militarily if war broke out.
Best Wishes. ☮
You not knowing half of this was shocking and funny at the same time 😂🤦🏻♂️
Tyler, you were impressed by "65" Countries. Imagine 117 Countries, which was the next sentence!
Some people will complain about anything. All we did was go on our travels, change a few things, and come back with a few mementos and souvenirs from our trips like holidaymakers still do when bringing a stick of rock from Blackpool or Long Island....
no, you occupied countries all over the world, robbing them of all resources, natural and human
exactly what Hitler wanted to do in Europe, you just did it everywhere
Unfortunatelly i never had the opportunity to go see all the bibelots you brough back and put in the british museum.
We left behind great ideas and seeded trade into indigenous people that we touched. The world is the way it is today because of Britain.
@@ianrose56 Exactly and we are, suddenly, "The Baddies?"...:(
@@ianrose56 India would probably not be the world's largest democracy if we hadn't invaded, it would probably still be a country divided into constantly warring little principalities.
Your lack of knowledge on this speaks volumes of the serious failures in US education.
Being English, I have a small fact for you.
Q. Being a small island & all, what's the furthest distance you can go inland from the coast?
A. 69 miles!
Weird, but true. 🇬🇧✌️🇬🇧
This is my first time seeing a video from this channel. Does this guy interrupt all of his videos continuously to screech about not knowing anything? Because I can't watch another video to find out...
Don't the Americans learn ANY world history?? I'm constantly baffled by how general world knowledge of this type is a surprise to Americans. And this video doesn't cover it all.
To be honest I hear more people from other countries talk down to Americans than I’ve ever heard an American talk down to them. I know our stereotype is that we are loud, obnoxious, annoying, idiots, but it gets kinda awful when it feels like the world hates you. There is a growing isolationist movement in the US because we feel like anything we try to do is awful. Many people make fun of us for our poor healthcare and education, yet fail to realize that much of the money that should go to that goes to foreign aid or defense bills. And when we say we don’t want to fund foreign aid or foreign defense anymore, we are called selfish and a bad Allie. Sorry for venting all this frustration to a stranger online but it’s really staring to take a toll on how Americans view ourselves and the nations we partner with. Before the world wars America had been trying to maintain isolationism and it seems like that’s not such a bad idea. You have no idea how much hate I hear online from Canadians, Australians, and Europeans about how they can’t stand America. If we just focused on ourselves maybe that hate would go down and we could have better social programs.
@@Jinxx9081 You could also improve your social programs if you taxed the rich more, some of them are paying less in tax than their lowest workers.
@@petarnovakovich240 oh I 100% agree, unfortunately they scam the system by holding their bank accounts in non U.S. areas and weasel their way out of it. Although that’s not the reason our education and healthcare system is so bad because there are many other countries where the same thing happens and they still have good education and healthcare. I think it’s an overall problem of billionaires scamming the system and our government wasting the people’s money and never doing anything to help us. Who even needs to be a billionaire?!?! What are they even spending all that money on where they need to cheat the system?! It’s insane to me.
their educational system is a disgrace. you wouldn't believe the number of Americans who couldn't even find the US on a global map, let alone hard to find places like Australia.
The Royal navy was twice the size of any two other navies combined until the early 1900's.
In Britain, we don't get taught tonnes about the British Empire. Our history lessons tend to focus more on domestic history - stuff like industrial revolution, tudor era, WW2, etc, more than where we invaded. But it's fairly common knowledge that essential every country that speaks English was colonised by Britain. Also, India's a very well known one - Pakistan, and the conflicts around there, exist entirely because of the British approach to ruling, and eventually leaving India.
BTW, it touches on how much we invaded France, but it doesn't explicitly mention any. There was one we had called the Hundred Years' War. It's called that because calling it the Hundred-And-Fourteen Years' War would have been too clunky. And for further context on how long 114 years is, the USA has only existed for 247.
I think you'll find Top Gear invaded the North Pole
19:02 we've got a British Antarctic Territory too 😂
It's easier to name the countries we haven't invaded 😂
He said that after the first 6 Countries,as a joke but with 117 out of 195 modern Countries,it's true!
I wouldn't be so proud of that!
@@watermelon7998 why not?
@@ryanbailey8427 What is there to be proud of? You occupied and invaded a large part of the world by aggression, invasion and took their resources by force to get richer.
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Better to be proud of it than to cry about it constantly like you do.
Fun fact, he missed antartica
We 'invaded' Iceland in WWII to stop any chance of Germany doing so, because of its geographically strategic value in the battle of the Atlantic. It was a very non-violent invasion. The British forces were reinforced by Canadian forces; but what will probably really surprise you is that in 1941, USA troops were stationed there to free up British units, even before the USA had officially entered the war.
If you were unable to prevent it either way, who would you have rather been occupied by in 1940, Britain, Canada (and the USA), or Nazi Germany?
Hi Tyler. This video has left a few countries off the list. Brave little Malta.The Falkland Isles,
Create, Asenion Island, Marca Graca, and Mauritius. If the British invaded the moon you will see on a full moon 97% red.