Tonga's Darkly Ironic Nickname
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- HELP FOR THOSE AFFECTED IN TONGA
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Tonga On WIkipedia: en.wikipedia.o...
Tonga Profile & Timeline: www.bbc.co.uk/...
Tonga, The Friendly Islands: www.polynesia....
Facts About Tonga: tongapocketgui...
Tonga Eruption: science.thewir...
Tonga Volcano: www.bbc.co.uk/...
The Lapita: www.britannica...
Captain Cook & The “Friendly Islands”?: blogs.bl.uk/un...
Cook’s Tonga: www.captaincoo...
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UNICEF: www.unicef.org.uk/donate/donate-and-help-protect-children-in-tonga
1:25, I think you misspoke about when the eruption happened. I heard 14 of July 2022. Did you mean 14 of January?
Correction on your pronunciation of Tonga. It's pronounced TO-nga not TONG-ga.
I didn't even know about the volcanic eruption! I donated some money, I can only hope it helps someone. Especially when there's a natural disaster on I know probably more than half the cost of what I donated will go into the cost of just shipping stuff there. That's just the reality of it when it comes to shipping stuff around the world ...
Fun fact: Tonga has the most PhDs per capita in the world. Education is very important in the kingdom (not just western education but also indigenous Tongan knowledge). We play the long game regarding education and life long learning. Mālō ‘aupito 🇹🇴🇹🇴🇹🇴
not so fun fact: Tonga is the gate way for Polynesia meth and drug trade sadly.
@@dingalingling34 nah your moms hole is the gateway Luckily😆😆😆
@@dingalingling34 Not just Tonga. All of the islands
@@dingalingling34 you can thank european and asian influence for that🤙🏾
And still dumb
Ohhh, James Cook's crew must've had a grand ol time in the South Pacific! Their Hawaii expedition was quite, uh, *eventful* as well
They had their last Luau there lol
@@samoanchaos684 lollll
They had a little "Samoan Chaos" going on of their own there, eh?
@@CarolineBearoline 🤣🤣🤣
We love Captain Cook in Tonga
@@lemani2024 for what?
Fun fakt: “Taboo” is a Tongan loanword from “Tabu” meaning “prohibited”. You can even find the cognate in Hawaiian English “Kapu”.
we have Tapu in turkish means prohibited land to given person maybe these to have some resembelence only by chance
@@emrecanarduc4378 Or that may be coming from English as a ricochet borrow, still need to be verified though.
@@AllanLimosin nah it come from core-old-turkish form ye olde asian steppe times
@@emrecanarduc4378 Indeed, that's very interesting.
In te reo Maori it's tapu.
They have a really nice flag 🇹🇴
I was told a story while I was in the island of Niue about what Cook called them. They told me that they were called savage island, since they’d painted their faces with red flowers to look like blood when they saw his ship, and it made him think they were cannibals. (However, they also told me that they never practiced cannibalism) but it gave cook a reason to give them the title of savage island, when Tonga had actually practiced cannibalism in the past. (According to Niueans.)
In Cook's time, "savage" had no negative connotation. It simply meant a person of nature.
Tongans also used to paddle to Samoa to kidnap slaves.
@@sparky6086 😮 true that , It would make much sense coming to think about it now , mis interpertation the usual suspect hahah. thank you stranger 💯! Learned something new today
Tongan brought Kava Ceremony and KieTonga 'Umutangata to Ha'amoa most of Niue villages names by Ancient Tongan Navigators 😊
I grew up with this similar myth lol yet my ancestors were from Niue, German and Samoa who landed in Tonga to me fams. Anywho Niue was given that name because
1) Theyve never seen a white man so they assumed he was a pig lol
2) Every Polynesian had their own way of welcoming those who has land in their islands. Sadly Niue weren't friendly is to why they were given the savage name.
If only people knew that when we performed the Tongan dance we were welcoming him to feast upon lol. These are the stories I grew up with lols
My ears perked up at the name Finau. There is an American professional golfer by the name of Tony Finau who is of Tongan and Samoan descent. Good golfer and seems to be a good athlete in general. During one golf match, he badly dislocated his ankle, was able to pop the bone back into place and continue playing.
Finau is a common surname in Tonga. As a matter of fact, Finau was once a powerful clan that once held the throne in Tonga.
finau is of tongan decent
He is Samoan from his mom’s side, her family is from Aua, American Samoa. He’s proud to represent both Tonga and Samoa
Finau is as common to Tongans as Anderson is to Americans
My names Finau
My heart goes out to the people of Tonga, who have been very affected by last month's volcanic eruption/tsunami.
1:25 "14th of July 2022"
Did Patrick film this in the Future and is talking about another eruption, even worse than the one which already happened in January?
What happened in July ?
@@ronitkarmi5308 Oh, that's embarrassing. Patrick has confused me, I meant January, of course.
@@louisgray3479 I definitely heard him say July.
"Just north of New Zealand" - It's 1800km away. The same distance as between Amsterdam and St. Petersburg
Pretty close hey mate?
That's close when thinking in Pacific Island terms.
Figure of speech mate grow a few brain cells
@@thomasdavies2555 Yeah, like how Berlin is "just north" of Athens :)
Very close
Tonga held a vast empire for many centuries before European colonization. Because they made raids to other islands to steal goods and take slaves and soldiers by force, many Polynesians don’t have any good relationships with them even today.
Might be cuz they ate some of their enemies when they went to war with them. Idk how often that happened. At least that’s what my mom and aunties say (they’re natives of Tonga)
Really what other islands were raided by Tonga? I'm interested.
Who was colonised? Make your point clear
man, what movie did you watch, if there are other islanders today that don't have good relations with the tongans as you say, maybe it's because the tongans keep swooping their asses, just like the Greeks are shit scared of the tongans in Australia
@@alcapone8193 Such an ignorant narrow minded statement. 🤦
14th of July 2022? Are you predicting a future eruption?
I had that same question. I think he meant 2021 and just said the wrong thing.
James Cook and his men arrived in the Kingdom of Tonga during the time of festivity. They were welcome, fed and entertained... hence "Tonga, the friendly island" given name. But what they did not know was that there was already a plan in place to kill all of them before day light, strip their ships of iron, supplies and valuable goods, then scuttle the ships out in the deep, the plan was formed before James Cook and his men even landed on shore
Stfu that's all sht😂😂😂 fk up with your fake stories the Hawaiians and maoris gave him the most trouble tongans would have ran back to the bush.
Every time I hear Hunga Tunga I think of Captain Caveman and his "unga munga" tagline.
Who says this ?!
I'm going down to Tonga
Gonna have myself a time
Friendly faces everywhere
Humble folks without temptation
I'm going down to South Park
Gonna leave my woes behind
You should do a video on Alaskan place names in alive languages, I’m from Kodiak Island and I’m Sugpiaq, my ancestors have lived here for thousands of years so it would be interesting to see how someone from the outside sees our island, we use Qik’rtaq in Sugpiaq, Kodiak was use by russians
Completely agree.
Would be awesome.
Hi from Aoteoroa on the opposite side of the Pacific.
In Pro wrestling Samoans, Fijians, Tongans are ALL related somehow
The Rock's grandfather was a busy man and all his daughters married wrestlers.
😂😂
Awesome! Great info, and what a story. Thanks Patrick!
Thankyou for showing and sharing my small nation ,it's great to hear or see anything on Tonga ❤❤
More tiny South Pacific countries Name Explains! Or maybe "the" Ukraine would be timely now.
i heard it's name means borderland.
@@erei5659 speculated, plus there is no "the" in Slavic languages. Possibly something made by English-speakers.
"Krai" does mean "Edge" and "U-" suffix means "nearby", so maybe it does mean "The Borderland"
You also forgot the the island nation of Tokelau. Thier name means North or North wind.
Vah-vah-ooh, Vava'u. Where I'm from but born in tongatapu. Glad to view this clip.
July 2022 hasn’t happened yet
Captain Cook would have been better off if he was just a little paranoid when people were very nice to him. The amount of places that could be a Name Explained video that 100 years from now not even half the places on earth could be covered.
Is it Tonga time? I think it's Tonga time.
Lol history of the world
Great vid, only thing is you pronounce the G too much, you want to pronounce "ng" as you do in the word "singer"
great way of how to tell people how to pronounce the ng :) with the sound of singer
Captain Cook was murdered in Hawaii and noone was ever held reasonable for his death. Are there any statutes of limitations preventing prosecution now?
Yeah it's called the statute of who gives a f#@*!?
@@tonganqueenb5517Yeah just like who gives a fuck about colonialisms atrocities, like get over it that was at least 150 years ago lol am I right. :|
@@tonganqueenb5517 People bring up what White people did hundreds of years ago, maybe it’s time we started collecting for what people did to us?
Legend has it that when cook and his men arrived on ship in tonga the boat had a reflection upon the water making it seem as if they came from the sky which is why white people or foreigners are referred to as 'palangi' because 'pa' means 'came out of' and 'langi' means 'sky' or 'heavens'
My grandma told me that too
🤣🤣 the pulu sipi is real
Pa means Father
Pa means boom or contact and langi means skies... but palangi is the devil
@@longhairdontcare187 😂😂😂
Don’t forget timur-leste in those directional nations
Yes, East-East.
Is it Tonga Time? I think it’s Tong Time.
🎶 livin' on Tonga time... 🎶
What is Tonga time in reference to ?
@@ronitkarmi5308 Tonga's time is one of or the only one where time initiates from since international dateline is not too far
@@josemacbeth1641bulshit😅
@@user-hk8lo8wr6j here's some wikipedia for you 😂en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Tonga
Glad you uploaded, I was getting bored lol
Only 7 died from the eruption
@1:27 Is you released this on 26 January 2022, how did you know what happened on 14 July 2022?
Hey. I grew up in 'Te Moana-a-Toi' or the
Bay of Plenty. Lived in Tauranga, biggest city in the region and 5th in the country.
I'm pretty surprised you didn't say its Te Reo Maori name given it's Polynesian.
If you want a fun experience of ex pat Tongan culture- there is a film called Red White and Brass about a group of Tongans in NZ who want to see one of the games in the Rugby World Cup in NZ. When they miss out tickets, they put together a brass band to provide some of the entertainment at the match.
_James Cook arrives_
Natives: Is it tonga time I think its tonga time
You said 14th of july 2022 the volco erupted but we aint even there yet
It's Tonga time!
Tonga are so in depth with China if China wanted to they could take Tonga for their own use if they wanted to…
True.
Tongan pride and all that but Chinese will have them in chains soon.
$$$ 😢
Awe guess anyone who doesn’t accept domination by a western force and works with the Chinese is the bad guys huh, so cute.
Fiji starts the day...and the time..as well... the 1st nation to see the sun ray and the last to see the setting of the sun..Fiji is a Glorious country with Blessings.
Im actully tongan and i just wanted to watch it
July 14, 2022 🤨😐
Tonga is what you call a horse carriage in Urdu
That’s funny because we Polynesians mock Tongan’s in English by calling them horses - due to the fact they eat horses.
@Aaron Henare it is a delicacy for Tonga's Culture. You ought to try it some times. You might like it, yes. I'll try some if it is cooked well-done and shows up around these parts. Heck! Through the history of time, survivors way back in the early stages of America(U.S.A.) development, their soldier's sometimes when food-supplies and rations ran out; had to put their means of traveling, which was their horse's down(killed) so that the soldier's may literally survive until RescueHelp search parties would get to them in time. There are many amazing stories out there lost in time&history everybody. Because what I see too much criticism on posted-video's. What is it good for? S.M.H. deuces all ☮️
@@fif6162 I live in Japan, I’ve eaten it. All Polynesians mocck Tongans 😂
The rumor is they were going to assassinate him but before this could be put into action, they left.
They were scared fk you on about😂😂 he would have been there for some time to gather supplies and touch up his ship..the tongans only say they were gonna do something until after he left😂😂😂 bunch of pussios hiding in the bush jealous because the tongan women loved the white man. All talk siana that's about it.
It's not Ton-gAH. It's Tong-ah
'Ng' in Polynesian languages is a consonant and the letters consolidate into a single sound.
@@urmwhynot Same in South-east Asia... All over South-east Asia, not just among Austronesian Asians.
@@urmwhynot Also, slight correction. It's pronounced TO-nga not TONG-a. Syllables in Polynesian languages never end with a consonant.
It many (most?) dialects of English, you can hear the difference of the 'ng' in "finger" and "singer". The sound in "Tonga" is more like that in "singer". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eng_(letter)
Not far fetched, to conclude that , Cooks attidute towards Tongan kings and nation . Resulted in both being treated fairly well , by the British Empire during the 1800s . Which lead up to working relationship with the London Missionary society and the Methodist Church ect ... A intricate part of the colonial office ....
Um from what I was told Fakatonga means the Tongan way. As in Le'a Fakatonga the tongan language. Le'a means voice or language in Tongan. Maybe I got it wrong....
You're right. Ai faka Tonga means to act like a Tongan or do like a Tongan and was a thing my mother said to me often growing up. Lea faka Tonga means to speak Tongan, as my mother says to my son now.
@@melemetcalf1681 thank you for responding! I knew I was right! I hope to visit one day, and I pray Tonga is restored to her pre eruption conditions.
“Tonga” is the native word for south…Though it can sound overly formal or archaic. So you will mostly hear it used in this context in formal speeches, poetry, or songs. Though it is still completely valid in current times
This guy knows us now
Excuse me there is only one person pass away on volcano eruption 😡it's a white girl ran try to save his dog
Thank god the Hawians finished him off!
"...tucked away towards the bottom of our planet."? It's only around 20degrees south, in the tropics. Remember that we can equally say that Europe is tucked quite a way towards the bottom of our planet!
Yes but Polynesia has mostly water below it until Antarctica. The northern hemisphere has much more land and seems more solid. There is no top or bottom of the planet literally BTW.
Tonga is not the last remaining monarchy in Polynesia. Tuvalu and New Zealand are both monarchies, and in the French colony of Wallis and Futuna there are three Kingdoms, Uvea, Sigave and Alo. Also, Tonga is pronounced TONG-A.
If by monarch, you mean that both Tuvalu and New Zealand are under British rule via Queen Elizabeth II. Tonga has their own king/queen who govern their affairs and not some foreign entity which is why they are considered the last sovereign monarchy in Polynesia. Wallis and Futuna don’t count as sovereign either since they are under French rule and not their own.
Slow guy
The pronunciation of Tonga is To-nga (toh-ngah). Tong-a is incorrect.
You’re wrong on so many levels, shut up 😂🤦🏾♂️
Tonga is pronounced donga... our Ts is D and Ps is B
Is it Tonga time?
Interesting
I like your videos, but... were you tired when you voiced over this one? Because that's how you sound. You know what you are sayong because you are the one saying it. Believe me, it's difficult to understand sometimes.
why not do is there any desendents of george washington
George Washington didn’t have children
I thought Samoa was much further south
I'm actually tongan 🇹🇴
When did anybody ask😂😂
@@originalclaymoreboy728 sad
cook got ate by the Hawaiians....
The Maoris ate some of his crew too lol can we get an assist their buddy😂.
That is not how u say tonga im from tonga
Kingdom of Tonga***
Great video.
*Tonga Time!*
2:25 ….. these people? The Tongan people? For someone that explains names you have an insane ability to be condescending and rude.
One minute ago
And?
@@SechsGrammCaratillo
And go fuck yourself I thought it was cool.
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I thought Tonga mean West because in Tonga is (Hihifo North) (Hahake South) (Tokelau Eest) (Tonga West) 🤔 I think if I'm wrong sorry I left Tonga when I was 11 years old 1991 never when back 😎
Is it Tonga time? I think it’s Tonga time.
hello where are you from