Government series not about explaining reason of government but explaining how America has ducked up God dammit Apple I don't me duck "I never meant duck" John Green
I'm a history major, and I REALLY like the thing he said at the end, There is more than one history of the world. History is like geography in this sense; you can draw a map that can be purely political with just national borders, it can be based on cities and roads, it can be vegetation or elevation or social sciences, or it can be in combinations of all of these. Voltaire once said, History is the lie we all agree upon, and I've come to disagree with that, because over the last 200 years humankind has come up with more than one way to discuss our progress, more than one way to connect the dots, the events, the people that made us what we are. Marx and Malthus may have been wrong in their predictions for our species, but the idea of Marxist historical theory that the narrative of humankind can be told through class struggle and the Malthusian argument that overpopulation will outstrip our ability to maintain a sustainable society are certainly concepts that have merit today. Is the whole point in our being to conquer the earth, to overcome disease and nature, and become something greater than what we are now, or is this the best I will ever get; by looking at our past through the lens of technology, medicine, and philosophy, we make sense of what we've done and try to get a grip of where we're going. There is indeed more than one history of the world, and it's up to us, we who are inquisitive and open-minded, to scour through the many histories that have been written and forge one of our own, unique in its perspective.
May be the history is the whole perspectives of humankind and as you mentioned earlier, past present and future. We made thr routines what we made with individual choice. And will have made future as the same menthod. I couldn't understand whole thing since i am foreigner.
As a Chinese American who pay very close attention to both Chinese and American politics, this is about THE MOST accurate representation of what Chinese political system is like, and about the MOST balanced and acute analysis of Chinese politics. Thank you and I learned so much from your world history series. Please continue making more!
In India we have mixed economy . Here most of strategic sector like oil and railway and banking is under government company while others like textile etc are private
My 11 year old daughter cried after this video today because you said you might not make any more World History. She devours your crash course, scishow,mental floss etc and can repeat all of them verbatim. As a teacher, I use them constantly and would love more Literature. Don't stop making these, we already support but will try to up our support as well!
"You are a part of that, the choices that you make over the course of your life will shape history both in the future and in the past. In short, we ask you to think about history and how we study it because we are counting on you." ~John Green, April 2015
In the USA, the media and rightwing churches and politicians have blamed poor people for being poor for most of U.S. history, including the past few decades.
Imagine how much more I could invest if 34 percent of my pay was not held ransom to fund your ideals. I might retire at 50 instead of 73 because of the ever growing welfare professionalized class
I loved this season, don't get me wrong, but we never once focused on Europe. Before anyone says anything, I do understand that this show takes a stance against imperialism and Eurocentrism, but Europe is just as much a part of the world, and thus world history as any other place on the planet. Combining both season one and two, at least six episodes have been about just China. When events like WWI were discussed the focus was on the world effects and the world at large. I just wish that we could have had more time together really.
Or the great migrating period and how it forever changed europe or the sengoku jidai and how it send japan on a collision course with western culture or the rise of parthia and the sassanids and how to build an empire with client states and how those empires made the existence of islam as a mainstream religion possible or the ...
I'm a chinese and I've been working in Spain for 8 years, since my job is cultural exchange, I'm in contact with both western democracy and china. So here is my opinion, there is no universal solution for goverment type, each country has their different social condition and cultural background. A successful political system in one country is almost certain not gonna work in another country if you just copy paste it. For example, from my viewpoints, both spain and china have their success and failures in governng. Spain is more liberal, opened to different opinions, but all the bickering among different parties of politicians really hinders a lot of long term projects. And the fact that lots of politicians say things only for people to vote for them, which I call politics only for elections also damages the trust of the people. China on the other hand, get things done in a lot of things, building new infastractures, upgrading urban facilities, but without another party to constantly attacking the governing party for their faults, a lot of good politcs take a very long time to reach more rural and less developed areas. The huge population also slows down a lot of the modernization process. So I guess that's why we look at each other. See each other's success and failures, and learn from each other to find a most suitable way for your own country to develope.
I’m American and have never left the country. I found your comment really interesting and I agree with you. You can’t copy and paste one system to another because we’re talking about millions of people who have spent their entire lives living one way. It’s more important to tweak and perfect or change a bit year by year for a better system I guess.
Communist govt in china (and believe Vietnam now too) reminds me of a board of directors in a company. Could be profitable if directors are competent and dont strike down dissent...at least not in the board (standing committee of the states council). The dual nature of party at each level can be inefficient, IMHO (eg politburo standing committee at same level as standing committee of states council, etc).
"Fortunately, here in the US, we don't have any ties between business and politics. So we won't see any corruption here." - John Green That made me laugh.
Congress actually comes from a different Latin root, 'Gradi' which means 'walk', and the 'Con' prefix means 'together' in this case. This was then changed to 'Congredi' which means to 'meet', and you can see where congregate, and Congress came from. If you need further proof, the word 'Digress' means to walk away/apart, or in today's language, to seperate
Yeah, I could tell it was a play on words, but what's life without a little dash of reality? Plus, some people actually don't know that congress is not the opposite of progress.
China and Singapore are examples of an emerging type of authoritarian capitalism best called technocracies, though there isn't really a formal name for it. Governance by people trained specifically for the job, with expertise in that specific field. For example, Ministers of Health are de-facto required to have experience in managing hospitals or other related medical structures of smaller size. The military has been doing this form of specialization control for a long time. In this society, instead of the politicians having background in lawyers or business, most of the politicians come from science, engineering and economics expertise. It conforms to the trend throughout human history where people's roles in society become increasingly specialized.
It could lead to somthing better for everyone. That would be nice. That or we end up in ww3. The one downside they have is the same as every government sadly. Power corrupts.
Japan is the original country applies authoritarian capitalism, a combination of noble/authority and trusts, China learnt from them after Mao died, and though America rammed them hard but they just will never go away.
Actually...the ideology of Mandarin is to form stablized ruler class and group, so specialization won't help unless you are dealing with a capitalist or a communist boss or supervisor, but most of Mandarins won't let you do so.
Z Stefan so instead of state absolute control in China, Japan is more to the trust of the people to their government? But both has the same concept which the wealth of the country is control by the state?
Diana Peña "Letting the public of a country that is 40% creationist decide on scientific policies is a bad idea." Look at it in a positive aspect. How else are these 40% creationists going to learn, if not by enacting a mistake?
What? So you mean to tell me that creationism and evolution exist? That God created evolution aswell. Also I thought these comments weren't on these videos. If I want these kinds of arguments I go to Mrrepzion's videos.
***** Well to be fair, many young Earth creationists are also global warming deniers and pressure their elected officials to argue against policies and laws that would have us switch to cleaner energy sources. Let's also not forget the long time ban on government funded stem cell research because of their prolife positions. I could add a few more things to this list, but I want to keep this brief. I'm not saying that young Earth creationists are solely responsible for these things, but they do make up a rather large chunk of the people with these political inclinations.
John's intro to this video feels all the more poignant today, 7 years from its publication. The interwoven nature of time is a powerful force, tying us together to the past and future.
***** You guys are thinking to small we should keep it 3% and 97%, but have the 97% supporting Crash Course and the other 3% be poorer people who need the free education.
Stefan Kamzol I know but new season or not it would be nice if everybody who could donate did, even though they don't need nearly that much money to keep running.
queenbloxar Yeah! I mean, what's the use of logic, ethics, knowledge etc.? We don't need those things, am I right? You are very insightfull, you must be at the top of your class, I can tell.
Nothing better to have a mentor that encourages you and open your mind about the choices you have to make, impart you with the profound realization that choices in the present greatly affect the future and the past for better and for worse. You and me as a part of the greater society called human beings have an important part to play in this stage called humanity.
Hi John, thank you so much for mentioning Singapore and Lee Kwan Yew at such a timely manner since his passing last week. While a lot of younger Singaporeans may not necessarily agree with his methods, we do acknowledge that the steps he took did quicken the modernisation of our city state at such a pivotal time in history. As always, history is not linear and he had a lot of remarkable leaders that helped contribute to the success but he was definitely the face of the People's Action Party.
In the States, there isn’t any corruption in the government since corruption is legalized and has Name like political party funding or who knows what else.
I recall watching one episode of GPS with Fareed Zakaria on the Modhi administration. There was an interesting bit that stuck out to me; China is often seen as a model for government for poor nations to quickly build infrastructure, modernize, lift its people out of poverty,etc. And it has done a lot, as John and other commentators point out, but China was incredibly unique in that the autocrats from Deng Xiaoping and his successors were both competent and could thing about long-term self-interest. So Fareed was talking about whether the Chinese model could actually be exported/emulated by other nations successfully. His conclusion was that it could not, because it one of the most necessary components was that it seemed to require Chinese autocrats. Instead, Fareed looked towards Modhi's administration and his record of running Gujarat. If the world's largest democracy, full of corruption and inefficiency, composed of a vast array of different social/cultural/religious/ethnic groups could modernize under Modhi, maybe this model might be something that other developing nations could emulate. Idk, but this is something I'm constantly watching.
Mycel I've read some papers that speculate that China's recent neo-colonialism (using state-corporations to exercise soft-power) in Africa will eventually result in something of a historical anachronism. They think that slowly the Chinese corporations which are already quite alright with dealing with corrupt politicians will take on more power. At the same time these corporations will take on more roles that governments traditionally held (i.e. building roads, educating the populace). This would all be run under the CEO's which are selected, unofficially, by the Chinese government. Of course this might just be some humans wishing to read into the world too much. I guess it would be tempting to see this as a return to either the British/Dutch East Indies Corp, or the Banana Republics of old.
***** Yeah Modhi is facing, more than the corruption or culture, the infamous inertia of the Indian bureaucracy and political system. And I agree that Modhi is unlikely to be able to change India in the same way that Deng Xiaoping was able to change China. But that’s not a problem, I think. Modhi’s election/administration should serve another purpose. It should serve as a watershed moment for the Indian electorate and cultural mindset that you do not have to get used to having corrupt/populist/inefficient politicians, no you should start learning to expect more from your politicians. Moreover the fact that the PM of India is, supposed to be, strong and that there are no term limits (IIRC) Modhi has a chance to change the system in a way that no politician in the West can. And yeah, I watched the same GPS episode, lol’d (I’m an OCI). And I’m not sure I agree that Modhi is a Hindu fundamentalist, and even if he were I doubt that he’d let this get in the way of real socio-economic change. After all, supposedly double the number of Muslims voted for him in this election as the last election. And I know that quite a few educated Muslims voted for him. Right now, I am keeping a close, but hopeful eye on Modhi’s government. It has been an exciting few years for India, other than Modhi. The AAP won almost all of Delhi, and they are only 3 years old. In my home state, a new political party has taken a third of the seats from the incumbent party (who normally has like 80-90% of the seats).
***** It Already has. China & India both had double digit growth rate in 2010. Now.... China India 2010 10.4 10.3 2011: 9.3 6.6 2012: 7.7 4.7 2013: 7.7 5.0 As You can see, even with a larger pop China has maintained it's target growth rate, while India's Growth rate slowed down a long time ago. Source: data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG
Contemporary China wasn't the first time "Authoritarian Capitalism" has been attempted. In fact, the first successful corporatist state would have been Mussolini's Fascist Italy.
"Fortunately, here in the United States, we don't have any ties between business and politics so you won't see any corruption here" lol You should've had the Koch Bros.® in the background.
KameRaidar Greece was just a region back then, not a country. I don't know what reasoning John Green is using to say that Athens isn't a country, but it might be because the idea of sovereign countries did not exist during the ancient era.
It's a thin line for him to tread. Most Indian audiences wouldn't appreciate an unbiased review of our history. It's more than likely it would land him in trouble. Many Indians generally like to sugar-coat and glorify our past with platitudes and inaccurate info. I don't think he'd want to step into controversy by doing a video on Indian history that would probably anger a lot of people.
lol , he werent joking . But what he meant were kind hard to grab . I think he were comparing how Chinese government run almost everything in the economy , while the US government has pretty much little or no control over economy . Chinese government are running the largest bussiness in the country , but the revenue from these state own corps are more likely to go into state official's pockets rather than the government 's budget . In the US almost all of the state spending budget come from taxes
Is that so different than Democracies? If Democracies have shitty leaders, they're just as fucked. GW Bush got the US into Trillion dollar wars that amounted to nothing and destroyed America's finances. The debts incurred by these wars will haunt America for generations. I'm not saying authoritarian governments would work for everyone. I think it has worked for the Chinese and Other East Asians because of their unique histories and Confucius cultures. They have a more collective and communal mentality that emphasizes the group rather than the individual. Even in Japan where there is Democracy they have one party rule. The Japanese people (and East Asians in general) want a unified, efficient, and strong central government. This is a very different vision of governance than the West who prefers multiparty competitions. Asians want to be united under strong governments. Westerners desire more independence. Both have their upsides and downsides.
Frederick The Sassanid Nope. They originated in China however after the Chinese kicked their asses at the battle of Mobei they went to Europe. But I still feel like that would be a pretty narrow episode.
Please revamp world history. It's in my opinion the most iconic crash course series and there is still so much to talk about. Too bad this comment will not be seen :-/
Can we talk about how at 13:05 he mentions an artificial him, which now only 7 years later can practically be done with deepfake and ai voice technology. And that type of technology will only get stronger and harder to differentiate between what’s real. I remember sitting in class and watching these crash course videos as a part of class discussions. What an intriguing timeline we have found ourselves in.
socialism is workers owning their own workplace and democratically making decisions while state capitalism is the state owning everthing calling itself socialist while in reality it acts the same way a capitalist does(profit for the state not worker, undemocratic managers, and repression agianst strikes.)
"Workers owning their own workplace?" Sounds more like communism, and your overall description of socialism vs state capitalism shows that you are one of the people thinking that there will be a utopia with a "classless, stateless, society" that Karl Marx envisioned. Get real.
I'd prefer a constitutional monarchy. One where there are elected officials and a parliament/congress but the monarch can oversee it and work on long term progress as well as have powers to veto legislation and make decrees.
lol like the Ayatollah? Maybe two houses one composed of engineers and scientists and one of population representatives, monarchy is hereditary not sure whether you would like prince Harry calling the shots.
Kings are useless egoistic maniacs who don't deserve power because if u look closely all they actually are just a group of people who just so happen to be born into a now irrelevant family who makes a living off doing nothing and using tax payers money
I myself as an Iranian wish a constitutional monarchy for my country as well. Since only the institution of monarchy can satisfy every ideology and fulfill people's needs. This is why I support a democratic, secular, & progressive Iran with a system of governance in the form of a Constitutional Monarchy - a system that is deeply rooted within Iran's thousands of years of history & rich culture.
***** I prefer Dictatorship. I mean, how many people are going to continue speeding on that road if the last people who were caught got dragged out of their car and shot...
I really like Singapore's system of governance and, even though I make a point of following local politics and voting, I'd be happy to live under a system that didn't let me do any of that if it meant that the country could be run more efficiently. I also realise that this will probably never be a mainstream opinion in the west though, at least not unless China manages to fully eclipse the US and EU in terms of power and quality of life.
Cian hey thanks for your compliments. But just to set the records straight, we are not a one party state like China. Meaning we do have voting and a large part of the population actually voted for the opposition during the last election (around 40%). However, what made us 'authoritarian' in the eyes of the Western government is the way our Group Representation Constituency (GRCs) are clustered. It's a long story but you can look it up online. Anyway, in short a harder to win election does enable our dominant party to think for the long term benefits of Singapore. As mentioned in one of my posts just a few minutes ago, however, our founder Mr. Lee recently passed away. And with that, and a much more educated population, we might not continue to remain so authoritarian afterwards. It's both exciting and scary times for us indeed!
Yea, but basically, the ruling party has been in power for so long is they are efficient and people vote for a party that they think is the best for Singapore. PAP takes in the best people and the best people, mostly, wants to enter government through PAP.
nura loh well, I agree with you of course. But the video made a suggestive comparison of us with China, and Cian got the impression that he doesn't need to 'follow local politics or vote' in Singapore. There is a BIG difference between having a very efficient party, that constantly performs, and so wins votes by merit like Singapore, and a one party state that doesn't have to answer to anyone and spends heavily to control its people like China.
Keith Ng Yup, I was replying to him haha. Anyway, on your point on GRC; what particularly makes it authoritarian? I mean it makes the opposition harder to win because they have to find equally competent candidates from every race but if they do find better candidates, they have every chance to win. Though it may be politically motivated, the move only benefits Singapore if an opposition manage to find competent candidates to represent the Malays and Indians as well. In the end, it's in every sense democratic ain't it?
nura loh Lol, and yes, u r right I mentioned GRC coz it makes it much harder for oppositions to win. Instead of a very competent individual, the opposition now has to field a team of very competent members, on top of the ethnicity composition too. And the PAP can easily swap their best members from other GRCs to run against the opposition. It's kinda like The Singapore Lions vs the top 11 of the EPL players. The EPL can choose the best from each club (many of those clubs are already better than the Lions). The result is often a massacre for the opposition. But actually, I didn't say that such arrangements don't benefit Singaporeans. This is why I wrote "Anyway, in short a harder to win election does enable our dominant party to think for the long term benefits of Singapore." On a side note, I am very supportive of the recent appointment of 2 Malays as full Ministers. I think they are long overdue and I think they will do a good if not better job than a lot of Chinese and Indian Ministers.
I know it was mainly to make a point, but Singapore being a not-so-democratic state is actually debatable. Sure, the same party has been elected since Singapore's independence, but a reason behind this is that this party is extremely effective in being populist. Singapore is divided in small voting areas, and when the main party realizes that it is losing votes in one area, it looks over what people are unhappy about and make sure it is tackled, so that they can be re-elected, and it has been going on for a few decades. They can implement these changes fast as Singapore is small and wealthy (and government is very experienced at governing!), so people kinda do get what they want, which is actually the goal of democracy. At least if you compare with french Hollande government, that has been elected over promises to tax the wealthiest and particularly financial transactions, actually reduced corporations taxes and labour costs. To do so it banned deputees of its own party who were disagreeing, and used massively the article 49.3 of the French constitution, which allows to pass a law without debating or even voting it. So we can ask ourselves which is actually democratic, and as John said our analysis is flawed by the way we look at it :) Finally the fact that a single party keeps ruling Singapore is not so shocking locally, as population is majorily chinese and very influenced by confucianism (which promotes hierarchy). So again the way of looking into democracy is pretty different in East Asia... That being said, I'm not saying this is solid truth, just a way to look at it...
to be honest, confusianism is pretty dated and was meant to be applied to more autocratic systems of government which were the norm at the time of its conception, not democracies. sure china had the "mandate of heaven" but changes in power was almost always violent and chaotic, which shows the main failure of Confucianism, how do you remove bad leaders (or maintain power) without turning to violence.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith present a few interesting asides related to Singapore in "The Dictator's Handbook". One contention they make is that Singapore is, arguably, the only benevolent dictatorship in history that has mostly worked. To grossly oversimplify, the main contention of their book is that individuals get and retain power by giving things to backers who help keep them in power. The sliding scale from democracy to dictatorship is based on how many backers you have with dictatorships needing a few with big rewards and democracies needing to give lots of people rewards through public goods. But in Singapore, their leading party doesn't need to give that many people rewards to keep them loyal so they should be more dictatorial. But the president chooses to spend money not allocated to staying in power helping the people instead of personally enriching himself.
My home country,Finland, has an awesome social security system. I need a bit more support (both economic support and some therapies) than the average student. But our social security system knows that I will become a normal taxpayer once I graduate,so they're happy to throw me all the therapies and the monies.
good series, a holistic view of history (or more accurately, a view of history that recognizes that there's no way to view it in whole/objectively) is an immensely useful piece of exposure
Thanks John Green, crash course and all others for the videos you provided us with. John you so entertaining and present these videos well. Don't forget to be awesome too
Travis polson He did deadpan that rather well. Probably should have included some less subtle indication of sarcasm for those who are less-informed and might actually take that comment seriously.
One year update: Britain is leaving the European Union, there is a rise in right wing politics in Europe and indeed the world, china has been threatening military action over the south china sea, much of Europe has become very xenophobic and intolerant, Russia has been strangely quiet, and Canada has elected a new leader who is controversially liberal, and the Chinese regime has started to show cracks in it's power, meanwhile North Korea has been threatening South Korea with nuclear weapons after sucessfully testing another with a significantly higher yield than it's previous attempts.
North Korea will never beat South Korea in anything even though it has nukes. Like the average person in s.Korea is 18 times richer than someone in N.Korea
Don't go cause I'm... Spending all my nights, all my money going out on the town Doing anything just to get you off my mind But when the morning comes, I'm right back where I started again Trying to forget you is just a waste of time Baby come back, any kind of fool could see There was something in everything about you Baby come back, you can blame it all on me I was wrong, and I just can't live without you All day long, wearing a mask of false bravado Trying to keep up a smile that hides a tear But as the sun goes down, I get that empty feeling again How I wish to God that you were here Baby come back, any kind of fool could see There was something in everything about you Baby come back, you can blame it all on me I was wrong, and I just can't live without you Now that I put it all together Give me the chance to make you see Have you used up all the love in your heart Is there nothing left for me? Is there nothing left for me? Baby come back, any kind of fool could see There was something in everything about you Baby come back, you can blame it all on me I was wrong, and I just can't live without you I was wrong, and I just can't live Baby come back, any kind of fool could see There was something in everything about you Baby come back, you can blame it all on me I was wrong, and I just can't live without you Baby come back
Jack Maddock direct-democracy.geschichte-schweiz.ch/It's a great example of how the world could be a better place. Switzerland has a well working economy, social system and had no war since over 500 years. In my country (yes I'm Swiss) we have 4 official languages and many ethnic origins without worth mentioning disputes. I'm wondering why they spend so much time talking about Singapore and no word about Switzerland....
I do completely agree. I live in Australia, where we have a political system based both on that of the United States of America and the United Kingdom. At the moment, nothing is getting done because our Prime Minister can't pass anything through the Senate. In the Swiss system, it would most likely pass through the Senate and then be defeated by the popular vote of the actual Citizens of Australia. Having said that, Australia is (almost) unique in the world in the fact that we have compulsory voting, so it may be a bit of a hassle to maintain that if voting occurs about four times a year.
Stephan Gürtler It's because allegedly Deng Xiaoping, who was the Premier of China, looked to Singapore as his muse for developing modern China (Socialism with Chinese characteristics). And China is worth observing because they will play a significant role in world events in the 21st century. That being said, did you know Switzerland was a significant inspiration to Singapore? Students in Singapore study Switzerland in their social studies classes, and we admired and adopted the Swiss government's ability to achieve political stability, ability to accommodate differences between our 4 racial groups (similar to Swiss diaspora of 4 language groups), and its foreign policy of neutrality.
***** Yes, I've been living in Singapore for two years. I've even been cycling with former Premier Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his son in once of these yearly cycling events. I admire what Singapore has achieved in such a short time. While I was there I heard often that Switzerland was a significant inspiration for economy and cleanliness. But I do not believe that we have much in common in regards to the democratic systems ;-)
Touché with the differences of the democratic models (: Though that being said, with the late former Prime Minister LKY pass away, we will progressively move towards a more democratic society. Hopefully.
More John Green History, anything! British History, Chinese History, Middle Eastern History, European History, anything!
William Stockhecker Euro history, or Asian History.
african history
red Afro-History
William Stockhecker Adult movie history!
Government series not about explaining reason of government but explaining how America has ducked up God dammit Apple I don't me duck "I never meant duck" John Green
Don't leave us Crash Course World History! Seriously is there another history series with John Green planned for the future?
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Nothing compares to a John Green CrashCourse with any type of History! COME BACK JOHN, WE NEED YOU!
As far as I know, John is taking a year off of crash course.
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And you know this how?
willkommen217 Wait it's about to end? :(
8:11 "Fortunately, here in the United States we don't have any ties between business and politics so you won't see any corruption here" LOL
I'm a history major, and I REALLY like the thing he said at the end, There is more than one history of the world. History is like geography in this sense; you can draw a map that can be purely political with just national borders, it can be based on cities and roads, it can be vegetation or elevation or social sciences, or it can be in combinations of all of these. Voltaire once said, History is the lie we all agree upon, and I've come to disagree with that, because over the last 200 years humankind has come up with more than one way to discuss our progress, more than one way to connect the dots, the events, the people that made us what we are. Marx and Malthus may have been wrong in their predictions for our species, but the idea of Marxist historical theory that the narrative of humankind can be told through class struggle and the Malthusian argument that overpopulation will outstrip our ability to maintain a sustainable society are certainly concepts that have merit today. Is the whole point in our being to conquer the earth, to overcome disease and nature, and become something greater than what we are now, or is this the best I will ever get; by looking at our past through the lens of technology, medicine, and philosophy, we make sense of what we've done and try to get a grip of where we're going. There is indeed more than one history of the world, and it's up to us, we who are inquisitive and open-minded, to scour through the many histories that have been written and forge one of our own, unique in its perspective.
People who has major in Humanity would understand.
May be the history is the whole perspectives of humankind and as you mentioned earlier, past present and future. We made thr routines what we made with individual choice. And will have made future as the same menthod. I couldn't understand whole thing since i am foreigner.
Think of it as a choose your own adventure
This is really beautiful :) thank you..
edit: your majoring in history is shining through and it fills me with a strange sense of inspiration :)
You are really committed to write ALL of that.
You are an impressive human.
As a Chinese American who pay very close attention to both Chinese and American politics, this is about THE MOST accurate representation of what Chinese political system is like, and about the MOST balanced and acute analysis of Chinese politics. Thank you and I learned so much from your world history series. Please continue making more!
Feifei Wang do you like democracy
I was wondering whether you are the "Feifei Wang" on Quora. If it's too personal for you to reveal, my sincere apology for being curious for a moment.
Caleb Maupin's videos are much more accurate when he discusses China and numerous other topics, too.
In china they have government owned business, in the US we have business owned government.
Joe Cleveland right！
Joe Cleveland
Wrong.
wheezypea sorry to break your western dream but I have never been sent to camp during my 17 years living in China.
Beautiful comment.
In India we have mixed economy . Here most of strategic sector like oil and railway and banking is under government company while others like textile etc are private
When's World History 3?? I need more!!
YESSSS
Or any humanities based series. Enough of the video games.
What about Crash Course Philosophy? That's Humanities-based.
WHAT?!?!!
MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE NEED MORE
My 11 year old daughter cried after this video today because you said you might not make any more World History. She devours your crash course, scishow,mental floss etc and can repeat all of them verbatim. As a teacher, I use them constantly and would love more Literature. Don't stop making these, we already support but will try to up our support as well!
"You are a part of that, the choices that you make over the course of your life will shape history both in the future and in the past. In short, we ask you to think about history and how we study it because we are counting on you." ~John Green, April 2015
John, I think your sarcasm is a bit too subtle...
+Sideeq Mohammad obviously joking
+Sideeq Mohammad he was joking....sarcasm
Yea... he also said there is absolutely no relation between politics and businesses in the US!! And I was left wondering....did I hear that right?
+666Tomato666 maybe its cause he was being facetious, not sarcastic?
+666Tomato666 Telling him to not tell the truth hummm?
Commenting in 2023 on how John nailed AI being able to reduce creativity-based jobs.
I think its time for 3rd series, after all so much has changed in last 2 years.
Even more so now
Definitely now
@@asnekboi7232 super definitely now
"The poor were now victims, not layabouts." Our political parties are still getting their heads around this idea in Australia >_
In the USA, the media and rightwing churches and politicians have blamed poor people for being poor for most of U.S. history, including the past few decades.
Imagine how much more I could invest if 34 percent of my pay was not held ransom to fund your ideals. I might retire at 50 instead of 73 because of the ever growing welfare professionalized class
Will there still be videos about history when this series is over?
Connor Dunn shhh shhh, history is over. Only *CRASH COURSE FUTURISM* now.
***** Um, this is the third history series (World History 2). The other two were World History an U.S. History.
roidroid LOL
MarcianusImperator Fourth. World History, U.S History,Big History, World history 2
***** I think Big History came after this series.
That line about Brazilian democracy has not aged well.
Come at me, Bolsonaro supporters...
they had a picture of Dilma in another video when John talked about how powerful democracy was in Brasil like... that aged like fine milk
At me
Lmfao y'all remember the "Liked from Brazil!" comments? Wonder what happened
We never actually went to Napoleon's Paris, or when Baghdad was the centre of Islamic learning. I really wanted to learn about it.
However, I really loved this year, it was absolutely fantastic!
Pretty sure there was an episode or two in there about Baghdad's science craze. No Napoleonic wars tho
I loved this season, don't get me wrong, but we never once focused on Europe. Before anyone says anything, I do understand that this show takes a stance against imperialism and Eurocentrism, but Europe is just as much a part of the world, and thus world history as any other place on the planet. Combining both season one and two, at least six episodes have been about just China. When events like WWI were discussed the focus was on the world effects and the world at large. I just wish that we could have had more time together really.
Kyle Nichols Well there was that one Vikings episode.
Or the great migrating period and how it forever changed europe
or the sengoku jidai and how it send japan on a collision course with western culture
or the rise of parthia and the sassanids and how to build an empire with client states and how those empires made the existence of islam as a mainstream religion possible
or the ...
Hey, John Green: Checking in here from China. VPNs rule.
Cass Carter Having uncensored internet rules, but well done nonetheless ;)
13ullseye There is a bonus to having VPN and that's being able to get free BBC iPlayer and then switch it up and watch US Netflix. Ha ha.
***** Bah, you and your fresh air!
***** There's a great firewall of China? What is it with you and great walls? ^^
Well it obvious not a great, just average.
I'm a chinese and I've been working in Spain for 8 years, since my job is cultural exchange, I'm in contact with both western democracy and china. So here is my opinion, there is no universal solution for goverment type, each country has their different social condition and cultural background. A successful political system in one country is almost certain not gonna work in another country if you just copy paste it.
For example, from my viewpoints, both spain and china have their success and failures in governng. Spain is more liberal, opened to different opinions, but all the bickering among different parties of politicians really hinders a lot of long term projects. And the fact that lots of politicians say things only for people to vote for them, which I call politics only for elections also damages the trust of the people.
China on the other hand, get things done in a lot of things, building new infastractures, upgrading urban facilities, but without another party to constantly attacking the governing party for their faults, a lot of good politcs take a very long time to reach more rural and less developed areas. The huge population also slows down a lot of the modernization process.
So I guess that's why we look at each other. See each other's success and failures, and learn from each other to find a most suitable way for your own country to develope.
Living in Spain and big enthusiast of Chinese recent history. I agree with you completely
I’m American and have never left the country. I found your comment really interesting and I agree with you. You can’t copy and paste one system to another because we’re talking about millions of people who have spent their entire lives living one way. It’s more important to tweak and perfect or change a bit year by year for a better system I guess.
You're Absolutely Right.
You are right as long as police dont raid your house for ideology crime.
Communist govt in china (and believe Vietnam now too) reminds me of a board of directors in a company. Could be profitable if directors are competent and dont strike down dissent...at least not in the board (standing committee of the states council). The dual nature of party at each level can be inefficient, IMHO (eg politburo standing committee at same level as standing committee of states council, etc).
"Fortunately, here in the US, we don't have any ties between business and politics. So we won't see any corruption here." - John Green
That made me laugh.
sarcasm, my friend.
What's the opposite of pro? Con.
What's the opposite of progress? Congress.
Congress actually comes from a different Latin root, 'Gradi' which means 'walk', and the 'Con' prefix means 'together' in this case. This was then changed to 'Congredi' which means to 'meet', and you can see where congregate, and Congress came from. If you need further proof, the word 'Digress' means to walk away/apart, or in today's language, to seperate
Its called a joke lmao
Yeah, I could tell it was a play on words, but what's life without a little dash of reality? Plus, some people actually don't know that congress is not the opposite of progress.
+Renqiu Chen so abolish the congress?
+Renqiu Chen I know that joke from Family guy.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Mr. Green, your sarcasm is too strong.
Too subtle*
"Hollywood, which is more cultural than intellectual."
Having lived in that area for several years, I can confirm this is an apt description. :D
China and Singapore are examples of an emerging type of authoritarian capitalism best called technocracies, though there isn't really a formal name for it. Governance by people trained specifically for the job, with expertise in that specific field. For example, Ministers of Health are de-facto required to have experience in managing hospitals or other related medical structures of smaller size. The military has been doing this form of specialization control for a long time. In this society, instead of the politicians having background in lawyers or business, most of the politicians come from science, engineering and economics expertise. It conforms to the trend throughout human history where people's roles in society become increasingly specialized.
It could lead to somthing better for everyone. That would be nice. That or we end up in ww3. The one downside they have is the same as every government sadly. Power corrupts.
what about Japan?
Japan is the original country applies authoritarian capitalism, a combination of noble/authority and trusts, China learnt from them after Mao died, and though America rammed them hard but they just will never go away.
Actually...the ideology of Mandarin is to form stablized ruler class and group, so specialization won't help unless you are dealing with a capitalist or a communist boss or supervisor, but most of Mandarins won't let you do so.
Z Stefan so instead of state absolute control in China, Japan is more to the trust of the people to their government? But both has the same concept which the wealth of the country is control by the state?
I really appreciate your style Of humor
Personally I like the idea of combining the good of both structures of government. Part technocratic, part democratic.
Diana Peña
"Letting the public of a country that is 40% creationist decide on scientific policies is a bad idea."
Look at it in a positive aspect. How else are these 40% creationists going to learn, if not by enacting a mistake?
Well, since creationism has been proven wrong and they still believe it.
Do try and keep up"
What? So you mean to tell me that creationism and evolution exist? That God created evolution aswell.
Also I thought these comments weren't on these videos. If I want these kinds of arguments I go to Mrrepzion's videos.
The Nordic Model?
***** Well to be fair, many young Earth creationists are also global warming deniers and pressure their elected officials to argue against policies and laws that would have us switch to cleaner energy sources. Let's also not forget the long time ban on government funded stem cell research because of their prolife positions. I could add a few more things to this list, but I want to keep this brief.
I'm not saying that young Earth creationists are solely responsible for these things, but they do make up a rather large chunk of the people with these political inclinations.
The best educational show on UA-cam by far. I'd love to see a third season of World History. We simply need more John Green and more history!!!
John's intro to this video feels all the more poignant today, 7 years from its publication. The interwoven nature of time is a powerful force, tying us together to the past and future.
And he still never dedicated a single episode to the Napoleonic Wars.
tsuich00i
It was.
Or really to the Holy Roman Empire.
Viciousswarm88 Wich isn't nor holy nor romans nor an empire.
Justin Briand What a butchering of such a good quote...
Ikr give the corsicans some love!
Alright everybody, let's work to that 4%...we need more History!
***** You guys are thinking to small we should keep it 3% and 97%, but have the 97% supporting Crash Course and the other 3% be poorer people who need the free education.
I know that not everyone can pay that N Squared I was just saying that because John Green hinted at another season :)
Stefan Kamzol I know but new season or not it would be nice if everybody who could donate did, even though they don't need nearly that much money to keep running.
N Squared Kids watch this
I hope you'll bring this series back. There's so much more about World History to talk about
"You'll be gone in 20 years [Kim Jong-Un], that's my prediction!"
John may have nailed it.
JT Gwozdz spoiler: he didn’t (at least yet)
JT Gwozdz it’s 5 years lol
Zachary Yan So the possibility is still open?
Robert Liu Update: the mad lad Kim Jong Un has bamboozled us all.
Kayden Chan and he’s still alive. John may have still nailed it. 👁
7:54, this "a little bit of struggling" made my day...
Watching this in the future/past of 2024 and yikes. Definitely need this content still.
Crash course philosophy next please
Ok thanks
Salomon Flamenco There's a UA-camr called Tom Richie who does some pretty good videos on politics and philosophy.
Philosophy, the *almost* useless occupation
queenbloxar Yeah! I mean, what's the use of logic, ethics, knowledge etc.? We don't need those things, am I right? You are very insightfull, you must be at the top of your class, I can tell.
THEY NEED TO START WITH NIEZTCHE
The School of Life, great channel
CRASH COURSE ECONOMICS SOON?
K. THNKS.
This.
And Ancient Mythology....hopefully he hasn't covered that.
And philosophy.
Christian -Soy Ese Luchador-Alexander You want ancient mythology? Go read a bible or pretty much any other religious texts
Omar Hussein what about the Quran?
Nothing better to have a mentor that encourages you and open your mind about the choices you have to make, impart you with the profound realization that choices in the present greatly affect the future and the past for better and for worse. You and me as a part of the greater society called human beings have an important part to play in this stage called humanity.
Hi John, thank you so much for mentioning Singapore and Lee Kwan Yew at such a timely manner since his passing last week. While a lot of younger Singaporeans may not necessarily agree with his methods, we do acknowledge that the steps he took did quicken the modernisation of our city state at such a pivotal time in history. As always, history is not linear and he had a lot of remarkable leaders that helped contribute to the success but he was definitely the face of the People's Action Party.
We all know the mongols will rise again
+Sciipi Plays wot
+Sciipi Plays this time they use Russian weapons...we all fucked
+Duc Tran we all fucked
*Upper Chinese
+Sciipi Plays armed with chinesse nukes this time
"Here in the united states we don't have any ties between government and business so you won't see any corruption here" Ruh roh
wait is that the guy who wrote the fault in our stars?
Yes
You can bet
More world history please !!!!!
+Corey George I think is the last.
Crash course has biggest impact on the world in recent decade. It changes how we see UA-cam, technology and education. thanks to green brothers.
In the States, there isn’t any corruption in the government since corruption is legalized and has Name like political party funding or who knows what else.
I recall watching one episode of GPS with Fareed Zakaria on the Modhi administration. There was an interesting bit that stuck out to me; China is often seen as a model for government for poor nations to quickly build infrastructure, modernize, lift its people out of poverty,etc. And it has done a lot, as John and other commentators point out, but China was incredibly unique in that the autocrats from Deng Xiaoping and his successors were both competent and could thing about long-term self-interest. So Fareed was talking about whether the Chinese model could actually be exported/emulated by other nations successfully. His conclusion was that it could not, because it one of the most necessary components was that it seemed to require Chinese autocrats.
Instead, Fareed looked towards Modhi's administration and his record of running Gujarat. If the world's largest democracy, full of corruption and inefficiency, composed of a vast array of different social/cultural/religious/ethnic groups could modernize under Modhi, maybe this model might be something that other developing nations could emulate. Idk, but this is something I'm constantly watching.
Mycel I've read some papers that speculate that China's recent neo-colonialism (using state-corporations to exercise soft-power) in Africa will eventually result in something of a historical anachronism. They think that slowly the Chinese corporations which are already quite alright with dealing with corrupt politicians will take on more power. At the same time these corporations will take on more roles that governments traditionally held (i.e. building roads, educating the populace). This would all be run under the CEO's which are selected, unofficially, by the Chinese government.
Of course this might just be some humans wishing to read into the world too much. I guess it would be tempting to see this as a return to either the British/Dutch East Indies Corp, or the Banana Republics of old.
***** Yeah Modhi is facing, more than the corruption or culture, the infamous inertia of the Indian bureaucracy and political system. And I agree that Modhi is unlikely to be able to change India in the same way that Deng Xiaoping was able to change China. But that’s not a problem, I think. Modhi’s election/administration should serve another purpose. It should serve as a watershed moment for the Indian electorate and cultural mindset that you do not have to get used to having corrupt/populist/inefficient politicians, no you should start learning to expect more from your politicians. Moreover the fact that the PM of India is, supposed to be, strong and that there are no term limits (IIRC) Modhi has a chance to change the system in a way that no politician in the West can.
And yeah, I watched the same GPS episode, lol’d (I’m an OCI). And I’m not sure I agree that Modhi is a Hindu fundamentalist, and even if he were I doubt that he’d let this get in the way of real socio-economic change. After all, supposedly double the number of Muslims voted for him in this election as the last election. And I know that quite a few educated Muslims voted for him.
Right now, I am keeping a close, but hopeful eye on Modhi’s government. It has been an exciting few years for India, other than Modhi. The AAP won almost all of Delhi, and they are only 3 years old. In my home state, a new political party has taken a third of the seats from the incumbent party (who normally has like 80-90% of the seats).
PotaTOES It is Modi not Modhi.
Harsh Gupta My bad.
***** It Already has. China & India both had double digit growth rate in 2010. Now....
China India
2010 10.4 10.3
2011: 9.3 6.6
2012: 7.7 4.7
2013: 7.7 5.0
As You can see, even with a larger pop China has maintained it's target growth rate, while India's Growth rate slowed down a long time ago.
Source: data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG
Thanks
Contemporary China wasn't the first time "Authoritarian Capitalism" has been attempted. In fact, the first successful corporatist state would have been Mussolini's Fascist Italy.
*****
England between 1945 and 1979 was pretty corporatist
I think the Ottoman Empire would count as a State Capitalist power stretching back all the way to the 15th century.
***** Nope, House of Medici .
Singapore: fine example of autocratic capitalism
Dutch East India Company = state-regulated/autocratic capitalism? It was featured on the Capitalism episode. Did it follow the Chinese model?
"Fortunately, here in the United States, we don't have any ties between business and politics so you won't see any corruption here" lol
You should've had the Koch Bros.® in the background.
Andy Welsh lest you forget George Soros
John, if you read this: thank you so much. Utterly fascinating series presented excellently by yourself. Bravo!
First you said "Athens wasn't a country, it was a city-state". But then you spent a lot of time on Singapore, which is a city-state.
Athens is a part of Greece. Singapore is a city-state and a country. They are not mutually exclusive.
KameRaidar Greece was just a region back then, not a country. I don't know what reasoning John Green is using to say that Athens isn't a country, but it might be because the idea of sovereign countries did not exist during the ancient era.
Well I'm watching this in China...
So ur breaking a law...
a law that no one gets punished by breaking it :)
China's under attack !
She's probably in Hong Kong.
UltraSoftLover a person from Hong Kong will probably talks about how oppressive their main land counterpart is.
Yes. Finally you talk about Singapore. Love from... Singapore
Thanks to the help of (insert VPN company name), I can watch this video in China with no problem :)
Chen Chen good job Chen Chen
Hey can you please do a crash course on the INDIAN HISTORY... Please!! It'll be of much help. Thanks :)
+Sudipta Agarwa
i totally agree ,i felt he never spent so much time on one of the greatest histories of alltieand pretty leftout.....
It's a thin line for him to tread. Most Indian audiences wouldn't appreciate an unbiased review of our history. It's more than likely it would land him in trouble. Many Indians generally like to sugar-coat and glorify our past with platitudes and inaccurate info.
I don't think he'd want to step into controversy by doing a video on Indian history that would probably anger a lot of people.
India is republic state. Which maintains secularism
Thanks!
0:45 me watching this almost 10 years later😳
Time for a Crash Course World History 3...
So glad that you explained why it's not subbable anymore!!!
No corruption in US politics? You're joking right?
Upon further watching, yes he's joking LOL
lol , he werent joking . But what he meant were kind hard to grab . I think he were comparing how Chinese government run almost everything in the economy , while the US government has pretty much little or no control over economy . Chinese government are running the largest bussiness in the country , but the revenue from these state own corps are more likely to go into state official's pockets rather than the government 's budget . In the US almost all of the state spending budget come from taxes
I think you mean wasn't
Stephan Azor he was being sarcastic...
Really?! Wow
Well here's the thing: authoritarian governments are fantastic if you have a good leader. If you don't, well, you're fucked.
No, they're not. Democracy is better.
Michael Shulski that's the point I was trying to make
I'm glad that Singapore has good leaders huehue
Is that so different than Democracies? If Democracies have shitty leaders, they're just as fucked. GW Bush got the US into Trillion dollar wars that amounted to nothing and destroyed America's finances. The debts incurred by these wars will haunt America for generations.
I'm not saying authoritarian governments would work for everyone. I think it has worked for the Chinese and Other East Asians because of their unique histories and Confucius cultures. They have a more collective and communal mentality that emphasizes the group rather than the individual. Even in Japan where there is Democracy they have one party rule. The Japanese people (and East Asians in general) want a unified, efficient, and strong central government. This is a very different vision of governance than the West who prefers multiparty competitions.
Asians want to be united under strong governments. Westerners desire more independence. Both have their upsides and downsides.
The people can also be easily fooled by demagogues in a democracy.
I'm watching this in 10 years!
In summary: China and United States' political system both have their ups and downs. Both can be extremely successful or screwed up, yeah.
I've been alive for 36 years, never in my life have I been more terrified to live in this country than the past six months.
Thanks John Green and the team! Have watched both series at double speed with captions whenever I eat and have learned a lot!
Hey John Green, I think you should make a review about the AP world exam. Thanks a lot.
dude can you make a world history on the huns ? I'd love to see it!!
World History!? They only ravaged europe at most. Unless its the mongols...
Frederick The Sassanid
Nope. They originated in China however after the Chinese kicked their asses at the battle of Mobei they went to Europe. But I still feel like that would be a pretty narrow episode.
Please revamp world history. It's in my opinion the most iconic crash course series and there is still so much to talk about. Too bad this comment will not be seen :-/
Can we talk about how at 13:05 he mentions an artificial him, which now only 7 years later can practically be done with deepfake and ai voice technology. And that type of technology will only get stronger and harder to differentiate between what’s real.
I remember sitting in class and watching these crash course videos as a part of class discussions. What an intriguing timeline we have found ourselves in.
socialism is workers owning their own workplace and democratically making decisions while state capitalism is the state owning everthing calling itself socialist while in reality it acts the same way a capitalist does(profit for the state not worker, undemocratic managers, and repression agianst strikes.)
The fact that you wrote Capitalist "profiting for the State" is a huge red flag you don't actually understand what capitalism is...
SleepySoul capitalism at its heart is the search for profit.
Yeah, but not "for the State." lol.
"Workers owning their own workplace?"
Sounds more like communism, and your overall description of socialism vs state capitalism shows that you are one of the people thinking that there will be a utopia with a "classless, stateless, society" that Karl Marx envisioned.
Get real.
Ryan Rusch worker cooperatives are real.
1:46 That was Otto von bismarck
His words Reflected to kaiser wilhelm ll that his Empire will fall after 20 years 1898 - 1918
You rock it john green
I'd prefer a constitutional monarchy. One where there are elected officials and a parliament/congress but the monarch can oversee it and work on long term progress as well as have powers to veto legislation and make decrees.
lol like the Ayatollah?
Maybe two houses one composed of engineers and scientists and one of population representatives, monarchy is hereditary not sure whether you would like prince Harry calling the shots.
Kings are useless egoistic maniacs who don't deserve power because if u look closely all they actually are just a group of people who just so happen to be born into a now irrelevant family who makes a living off doing nothing and using tax payers money
No not like Ayatollah. I'd want someone like William with a system like Lichtenstein.
I myself as an Iranian wish a constitutional monarchy for my country as well. Since only the institution of monarchy can satisfy every ideology and fulfill people's needs. This is why I support a democratic, secular, & progressive Iran with a system of governance in the form of a Constitutional Monarchy - a system that is deeply rooted within Iran's thousands of years of history & rich culture.
***** I prefer Dictatorship. I mean, how many people are going to continue speeding on that road if the last people who were caught got dragged out of their car and shot...
"The poor are victims, not layabouts." Such shame that the UK government (and press) is reversing this idea now.
Youre an incredible professor Mr. Green 🎉❤
Crash Course Physics, please.
Will CrashCourse post an update on China and East Asia updated to 2019?
World History 3! Can't get enough of Crash Course History and there certainly enough History to make more episodes :P
I'm going to miss this series :(
I really like Singapore's system of governance and, even though I make a point of following local politics and voting, I'd be happy to live under a system that didn't let me do any of that if it meant that the country could be run more efficiently. I also realise that this will probably never be a mainstream opinion in the west though, at least not unless China manages to fully eclipse the US and EU in terms of power and quality of life.
Cian hey thanks for your compliments. But just to set the records straight, we are not a one party state like China. Meaning we do have voting and a large part of the population actually voted for the opposition during the last election (around 40%). However, what made us 'authoritarian' in the eyes of the Western government is the way our Group Representation Constituency (GRCs) are clustered. It's a long story but you can look it up online.
Anyway, in short a harder to win election does enable our dominant party to think for the long term benefits of Singapore.
As mentioned in one of my posts just a few minutes ago, however, our founder Mr. Lee recently passed away. And with that, and a much more educated population, we might not continue to remain so authoritarian afterwards. It's both exciting and scary times for us indeed!
Yea, but basically, the ruling party has been in power for so long is they are efficient and people vote for a party that they think is the best for Singapore. PAP takes in the best people and the best people, mostly, wants to enter government through PAP.
nura loh well, I agree with you of course. But the video made a suggestive comparison of us with China, and Cian got the impression that he doesn't need to 'follow local politics or vote' in Singapore.
There is a BIG difference between having a very efficient party, that constantly performs, and so wins votes by merit like Singapore, and a one party state that doesn't have to answer to anyone and spends heavily to control its people like China.
Keith Ng Yup, I was replying to him haha. Anyway, on your point on GRC; what particularly makes it authoritarian? I mean it makes the opposition harder to win because they have to find equally competent candidates from every race but if they do find better candidates, they have every chance to win. Though it may be politically motivated, the move only benefits Singapore if an opposition manage to find competent candidates to represent the Malays and Indians as well. In the end, it's in every sense democratic ain't it?
nura loh Lol, and yes, u r right I mentioned GRC coz it makes it much harder for oppositions to win. Instead of a very competent individual, the opposition now has to field a team of very competent members, on top of the ethnicity composition too. And the PAP can easily swap their best members from other GRCs to run against the opposition.
It's kinda like The Singapore Lions vs the top 11 of the EPL players. The EPL can choose the best from each club (many of those clubs are already better than the Lions). The result is often a massacre for the opposition.
But actually, I didn't say that such arrangements don't benefit Singaporeans. This is why I wrote "Anyway, in short a harder to win election does enable our dominant party to think for the long term benefits of Singapore."
On a side note, I am very supportive of the recent appointment of 2 Malays as full Ministers. I think they are long overdue and I think they will do a good if not better job than a lot of Chinese and Indian Ministers.
Its been 4 years and his predictions have been fairly accurate.
Kudos John Green 👍
I know it was mainly to make a point, but Singapore being a not-so-democratic state is actually debatable.
Sure, the same party has been elected since Singapore's independence, but a reason behind this is that this party is extremely effective in being populist. Singapore is divided in small voting areas, and when the main party realizes that it is losing votes in one area, it looks over what people are unhappy about and make sure it is tackled, so that they can be re-elected, and it has been going on for a few decades. They can implement these changes fast as Singapore is small and wealthy (and government is very experienced at governing!), so people kinda do get what they want, which is actually the goal of democracy.
At least if you compare with french Hollande government, that has been elected over promises to tax the wealthiest and particularly financial transactions, actually reduced corporations taxes and labour costs. To do so it banned deputees of its own party who were disagreeing, and used massively the article 49.3 of the French constitution, which allows to pass a law without debating or even voting it. So we can ask ourselves which is actually democratic, and as John said our analysis is flawed by the way we look at it :)
Finally the fact that a single party keeps ruling Singapore is not so shocking locally, as population is majorily chinese and very influenced by confucianism (which promotes hierarchy). So again the way of looking into democracy is pretty different in East Asia...
That being said, I'm not saying this is solid truth, just a way to look at it...
to be honest, confusianism is pretty dated and was meant to be applied to more autocratic systems of government which were the norm at the time of its conception, not democracies.
sure china had the "mandate of heaven" but changes in power was almost always violent and chaotic, which shows the main failure of Confucianism, how do you remove bad leaders (or maintain power) without turning to violence.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith present a few interesting asides related to Singapore in "The Dictator's Handbook". One contention they make is that Singapore is, arguably, the only benevolent dictatorship in history that has mostly worked.
To grossly oversimplify, the main contention of their book is that individuals get and retain power by giving things to backers who help keep them in power. The sliding scale from democracy to dictatorship is based on how many backers you have with dictatorships needing a few with big rewards and democracies needing to give lots of people rewards through public goods.
But in Singapore, their leading party doesn't need to give that many people rewards to keep them loyal so they should be more dictatorial. But the president chooses to spend money not allocated to staying in power helping the people instead of personally enriching himself.
My home country,Finland, has an awesome social security system. I need a bit more support (both economic support and some therapies) than the average student. But our social security system knows that I will become a normal taxpayer once I graduate,so they're happy to throw me all the therapies and the monies.
good series, a holistic view of history (or more accurately, a view of history that recognizes that there's no way to view it in whole/objectively) is an immensely useful piece of exposure
i love john green of the past
we have a lot to learn from singapore, wow this video aged well
Thanks John Green, crash course and all others for the videos you provided us with. John you so entertaining and present these videos well. Don't forget to be awesome too
I want to see an episode with an artificial John!
When john said you won't see any corruption here I couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic or not .
Travis polson He was.
Look at his evil smile and then you know...
sarcastic man.. u should notice his expressions.. its hilarious.. :)
Travis polson He did deadpan that rather well. Probably should have included some less subtle indication of sarcasm for those who are less-informed and might actually take that comment seriously.
Jason J. Shaw agreed, I was surprised to not see a giant */sarcasm* tag on that joke.
Thanks John and production team for this series. I really enjoyed it and will miss it! Best wishes for your future endeavors.
Just finished world history 1... Comparitively, Mr. Green from 2015 talks slower.
"Oh, dear. The world has gotten so terribly, terribly old."
i'm watching this three years after you published it and he's still not gone.
Who else watching this in 2019 and wondering what past green would think of present day China and trump
One year update: Britain is leaving the European Union, there is a rise in right wing politics in Europe and indeed the world, china has been threatening military action over the south china sea, much of Europe has become very xenophobic and intolerant, Russia has been strangely quiet, and Canada has elected a new leader who is controversially liberal, and the Chinese regime has started to show cracks in it's power, meanwhile North Korea has been threatening South Korea with nuclear weapons after sucessfully testing another with a significantly higher yield than it's previous attempts.
Man, you are forgetting India-Pakistan tension, which can trigger nuclear war.
Nothing on ISIS and the refugee crisis? Or the armed coup in turkey(which failed but is showing world tension is high)
I wouldn't say Russia has been quiet...
North Korea will never beat South Korea in anything even though it has nukes. Like the average person in s.Korea is 18 times richer than someone in N.Korea
Invading Crimea isn't being strangely quiet
Very good series of videos. I cannot wait to see Crash Course World History 3. Greetings from Panama. History has a lot to be talked about
" Things are getting better in China"
That Did not age well at all
actually, it's because the rest of the world is getting worse
Don't go cause I'm...
Spending all my nights, all my money going out on the town
Doing anything just to get you off my mind
But when the morning comes, I'm right back where I started again
Trying to forget you is just a waste of time
Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
All day long, wearing a mask of false bravado
Trying to keep up a smile that hides a tear
But as the sun goes down, I get that empty feeling again
How I wish to God that you were here
Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
Now that I put it all together
Give me the chance to make you see
Have you used up all the love in your heart
Is there nothing left for me?
Is there nothing left for me?
Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
I was wrong, and I just can't live
Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
Baby come back
Ummmm...... Okay...
What?
History of Technology + John Green + Extra credits crossover episode = AWSOMENESS!
What about the political system of Switzerland? It basically requires a referendum for every important piece of legislation.
Jack Maddock direct-democracy.geschichte-schweiz.ch/It's a great example of how the world could be a better place. Switzerland has a well working economy, social system and had no war since over 500 years. In my country (yes I'm Swiss) we have 4 official languages and many ethnic origins without worth mentioning disputes.
I'm wondering why they spend so much time talking about Singapore and no word about Switzerland....
I do completely agree. I live in Australia, where we have a political system based both on that of the United States of America and the United Kingdom. At the moment, nothing is getting done because our Prime Minister can't pass anything through the Senate. In the Swiss system, it would most likely pass through the Senate and then be defeated by the popular vote of the actual Citizens of Australia. Having said that, Australia is (almost) unique in the world in the fact that we have compulsory voting, so it may be a bit of a hassle to maintain that if voting occurs about four times a year.
Stephan Gürtler It's because allegedly Deng Xiaoping, who was the Premier of China, looked to Singapore as his muse for developing modern China (Socialism with Chinese characteristics). And China is worth observing because they will play a significant role in world events in the 21st century.
That being said, did you know Switzerland was a significant inspiration to Singapore? Students in Singapore study Switzerland in their social studies classes, and we admired and adopted the Swiss government's ability to achieve political stability, ability to accommodate differences between our 4 racial groups (similar to Swiss diaspora of 4 language groups), and its foreign policy of neutrality.
***** Yes, I've been living in Singapore for two years. I've even been cycling with former Premier Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his son in once of these yearly cycling events. I admire what Singapore has achieved in such a short time. While I was there I heard often that Switzerland was a significant inspiration for economy and cleanliness. But I do not believe that we have much in common in regards to the democratic systems ;-)
Touché with the differences of the democratic models (: Though that being said, with the late former Prime Minister LKY pass away, we will progressively move towards a more democratic society. Hopefully.
I laughed so hard when he said, "You'll be gone in 20 years Kim Jon yung!" lmfao!
History never ends and always needs to be studied! I need more in order to learn! more crash course history!
NOOO COME BACK TO US JOHN!