New kind of video! Let me know what you think - I feel like most content like this don't really add context or any sort of depth to the maps beyond "heh, map", so I thought I'd put my own spin on it! Want to see more commentary? I ranked the Greatest Generals in History here!: ua-cam.com/video/qXe4FvHX2qk/v-deo.html
at least he's actually got a brain. i stopped watching drew solely because he's like actually dumb sometimes. the amount of history he's read with his channel and none of it seems to have stuck.
The Danish thing is based on "a snes" which is 20. 50 is called "halv-treds" which essentially means "half of the third snes" or "2 snes(40) +half a snes (10) = 50". 60 is then called "treds", 3 snes. :P
@@TheSocialStreamers That is also true. Like, it is a word that still exist, but has kind of fallen out of common use. A bit like "dozen" has as well, like why use dozen instead of 12? :P 50, 70 and 90 are the numbers that follow this rule. 90 is "halv-fems" (half to the fifth snes) but we don't call 100 "fems" so it gets even weirder :P We also combine the numbers the opposite way around to English. So 92 would be "Two and ninety" in Danish
@@TheSocialStreamers It is, it’s no longer in use. Halvfems, which is what 90 is called, is just such a random name for it. It’s meaning was clear once, but that clearness has been lost to time.
The Japanese bombing of Darwin is a WW2 story that isn't well known outside of Australia. Japanese subs were spotted in Sydney harbour. The threat to Australia was real. Kokoda is another story to check as well - the retreat of ANZAC soldiers through the jungles of New Guinea.
Australian here, It's nice to you talk about how close the Japanese got to Australia during the war. They actually did stage an attack and bombing of one of our state capitals in 1942 in the bombing of Darwin. The most famous example of warfare with the Japanese we are taught here is the story of the Kokoda trail campaign in now Papua New Guinea. It was an old mining track in dense jungle that served as the only point of crossing on the landmass, so naturally there were a very bloody set of battles to control the passage between the Japanese and Australian/New Zealand forces. Very interesting rabbit hole if you're interested.
6:37 thing is most of the people seem to be mostly knew it was in Middle East and tried their chances . And looking at Iraq I thought "Maybe they thought about ol Iranian borders from Sasanids or older states and selected those points" than seen balkans and fliped a loaded mauser and fliped it for chance of comedic death.
16:01 school uniforms were beginning to become more popular in my country when I was in 5-6 grade. At first I didn't like it so I didn't wear one till I moved to highschool where it was common to wear int 9-10 grades but not anymore in 11-12, I started liking it and wore it all the way till graduation becomes I didn't need to think what to wear each day.
About the Sea Monsters on maps, if i remember correctly they were mostly used to mark unknown areas. The saying here be dragons comes from this meaning here is something unknown essentially.
19:36 you should read up on the Northern European enclosure dam which is a proposed/hypothetical project to turn the entire north sea into a dam by building a dam between England and France and a dam between England and Norway
@@warthoggoulags1679 basically you would be able to controll the sea level of the entire english channel, north sea, baltic sea, and gulf of bothnia which could prevent floodings of cosstal cities by those bodies of water due to climate change and rising water level.
6:35 also, a lot if people generally aren’t that good at geography, even outside the US. While there are factors like bad public education etc. which can make the issue bigger in USA, it still very much is a thing in many places. I live in Norway, and most people in my class in high school couldn’t tell you where Croatia was on a map. Let alone a country across the globe.
God I'm so glad Leith didn't wholeheartedly make fun of the USA and join the America bad bandwagon in the first map; I'm so fed up with that map being shared without context
To your comments about why school uniform is good, I agree with your point about getting rid of that disparity, however school uniform is quite expensive. The only way to truly get rid of that disparity would be to make school uniforms free, since poor students will often be given hand-me-downs from their siblings since uniform is quite expensive.
We say 2 and 90 in Denmark. The etymology of our word for 90 "Halvfems" does come from "halv femte snes" or "Half the fifth "snes"(old worrd for 20)" but no one counts in "snese" anymore so while it looks fun on paper, most danes wouldn't even recognise the presented way of saying 92 as the way they say would say that.
It says on the top 1946 to 2021. Using this time period is to better illustrate the current US after the massive shift in global affairs following WW2. The era where the US was the dominant world power.
25:10 I've seen a lot of maps that are just missing New Zealand, but I think this is the first one I've seen with New Zealand moved to be off the north-west coast of Western Australia... (and btw too, r/MapsWithoutNZ is a thing, haha)
15:34 yeah, schools in Finland can't mandate you to have exact uniforms. Of course there's a loose dress code (you got to wear some sort of clothes at least lol) in schools, but that's about it.
@@TheSocialStreamers Basically since there is mandated outside breaks, parents have to ensure the child has warm enough and suitable clothing for being outside at any point in time.
Actually your guess was kind of right about latin america and tanning. As a colombian I can say that tanning and in general stetic procedures are very expensive. And usually white people are reacher down heare so that could also be a factor.
The funny thing about the Iran map is that some people selected Australia. Like seriously, some of you think we don't even exist, and others think we're Iran?
You probably already know this but the map at 19:37 is taken from a really well put together timelapse video with its sources in the description I really recommend watching it if you haven’t already
24:25 That is actually a US post-war propaganda. There was no significant spike in production of Purple Hearts at any point during the pacific campaign. Including just before the "anticipated" mainland invasion. Anticipated in quotation mark, because if you read on that topic from admirals and generals and other officers at that time, pretty much all of them thought that invasion of Japan was not needed for Japan to surrender. But even if you believe that the military command at that time was soviets spies or whatever, it's BS anyway. Downfall was planned for November, why would they be ramping up Purple Heart production in July/August? That's just so stupid. There were about 1.5 million Purple Hearts made during WW2 with about 1 million awarded during/right after it.
School uniform map is outdated btw, Mexico uniforms are no longer mandatory legally as set by the supreme court. Well they were never mandatory as a whole but yeah.
I'd like to question the idea of 1.5 million purple heart medals being made in preparation for an invasion into Japan. While 1.5 million medals where made over the course of ww2, slightly over 1 million had been given out at the end of the war without any invasion. Given that one of the later justifications of using nuclear weaponry on japan was that it was less costly (in lives) then a possible land invasion, (which to my knowledge was briefly discussed and later discarded before they continued to bomb the Japanese) it feels that this is a narrative meant to bolster this specific justification for dropping two nuclear bombs and I question if it has any validity.
16:03 i love how the world works to where i dont understand school uniforms at all. im from america, the most we see of school uniforms are private schools. which idk how it is over there but here most of our private schools are catholic schools, because theres rules against teachers in public schools teaching us abt religion with the intent of converting us. so the churches fund private schools to teach their religion as well as do other shady shit in the background. so ive always considered school uniforms as a religious upper class sort of thing
I think with the find Iran on the map one people were trolling. They were pointing at their house in America, Germany and Brazil. Reminds me of that malicious Focus group skit. ua-cam.com/video/osfN2XzvYL0/v-deo.html
I like how the Spanish think their fellow Spanish speakers the Argentines are the sexiest people and the Portuguese think their fellow Portuguese speakers the Brazilians are the sexiest haha
Skin whitening is not very common in Latin America..... I guess it's something cultural, whenever I spent a long time without going out, my relatives always told me "you have to go out to catch the sun, you're very pale" i'm venezuelan :3
The women’s voting map is a bit wrong in my opinon, as sweden actually got female voting in 1919. It’s just that the first election after that decision was made was in 1921. Yes they couln’t vote until 1921. But they still held the right to, which I and many countries on that map count as being the time women got the right to wote.
I’m not sure I did! What I said was that a lack of school uniform can allow for displays of wealth more easily thus creating a social divide within an environment that should be encouraging mixing across aspects of society :)
Bold of you to assume schools here in America teach about the pacific theater during WW2. Did not happen at all in my own experience. The way history is taught here is awful in many different ways.
about the pacific theater, we just get told america came in after japan bombed our boats took islands and dropped a big ass bomb, and that the Japanese did incredibly horrific war crimes.
Makes absolutely zero sense for food to be a "right" tbh. Food is only gained through someone else's labor and you have no right to someone else's labor.
11:56 Luxembourg breaks the mold and votes Portugal as having the most attractive people because, for some reason, Luxembourg has a huge portuguese population
I love how on that propaganda map they just used random German words for city names, one of them is called "Omahoch" which just means "Grandma high" and another one is called "Prosit" which literally just means "Cheers" Also how the Gulf of Mexico is just the Gulf of Hate now
Do you think it is absolutely impossible for someone to name a village "Tall grandma" I mean... Germans have such names as Darmstadt, which literally means Colon City,
Chilean here, i think i can explain the tanning thing: You were right in assuming that latinos are very mixed so some people will be whiter than others, but lots of people with naturally browner shades of skin will want tans aswell because the natural brown is not the same as a flaming hot brassy tan. Here in Chile everyone is so mixed anyways that people tend to judge eachother on the way they speak instead of skin color or "Ethnicity" because it usually says much more than appearances, middle, low and high class speak differently and even then it all depends on age range and wheter your family has been in that strata of society for a long time or not. We never had massive ammounts of black slavery either because there was no reason to bring slaves to Chile during the spanish empire, our economy was literally wheat and leather lol Then you think about Brazil, massively ethnically diverse country, but they love tanning, it's fashionable and it's hot for them, the tan lines and such things are sexy. So basically the answer to your question is "Culture" i guess. Latinos love tanning
The date of Prussia in the Prussia/Germany map is very cherrypicked to have the most Polish territory vs. little German territory. Right after the Polish Partitions, before losing a considerable part of that terriroty and gaining the Rhineland and other German territories during/after the Napoleonic wars.
I'd say people in south america search tanning more because you've got holidaygoers in those countries trying to find places to get a tan. Also the data itself at the bottom of the screen shows skin whitening is just less common in general by a significant margin in a number of years
New kind of video! Let me know what you think - I feel like most content like this don't really add context or any sort of depth to the maps beyond "heh, map", so I thought I'd put my own spin on it!
Want to see more commentary? I ranked the Greatest Generals in History here!: ua-cam.com/video/qXe4FvHX2qk/v-deo.html
I like it! My favorite bit was the imaginary map one and I think a dedicated video on rating imaginary maps will be fun
I don't mind it once in a while, but I'd despise it if it supplanted actual gameplay.
Laith is going through the Drew Durnil cycle
my thoughts exactly xD
Except he is not as dumb
at least he's actually got a brain. i stopped watching drew solely because he's like actually dumb sometimes. the amount of history he's read with his channel and none of it seems to have stuck.
Thing is, Laith is actually educated, and knows things, where Drew is just head empty I react
Drew and his followers are all neanderthals
I am pleasantly surprised by how well informed Laith is.
You might be the first person to ever say this
@@TheSocialStreamers but he wont be the last
He is beginning his evolution into Drew Durnil
The Danish thing is based on "a snes" which is 20. 50 is called "halv-treds" which essentially means "half of the third snes" or "2 snes(40) +half a snes (10) = 50". 60 is then called "treds", 3 snes. :P
When I halved my SNES it wouldn't run Mario anymore... or turn on
Cool! I read that it was based off a word that is no longer commonly used
@@TheSocialStreamers That is also true. Like, it is a word that still exist, but has kind of fallen out of common use. A bit like "dozen" has as well, like why use dozen instead of 12? :P
50, 70 and 90 are the numbers that follow this rule. 90 is "halv-fems" (half to the fifth snes) but we don't call 100 "fems" so it gets even weirder :P
We also combine the numbers the opposite way around to English. So 92 would be "Two and ninety" in Danish
@@TheSocialStreamers It is, it’s no longer in use. Halvfems, which is what 90 is called, is just such a random name for it. It’s meaning was clear once, but that clearness has been lost to time.
@@MrPozaidon It's so complicated and random for no reason at all💀
The Japanese bombing of Darwin is a WW2 story that isn't well known outside of Australia. Japanese subs were spotted in Sydney harbour. The threat to Australia was real. Kokoda is another story to check as well - the retreat of ANZAC soldiers through the jungles of New Guinea.
I'm not crazy right? Laith's hair is slightly transparent in this video.
Don’t know what you mean mate, it’s just the product I put in
It definitely is the product in his hair. He dyes it brown so it is no longer invisible, causing weird distortions with his camera setup
Australian here, It's nice to you talk about how close the Japanese got to Australia during the war. They actually did stage an attack and bombing of one of our state capitals in 1942 in the bombing of Darwin.
The most famous example of warfare with the Japanese we are taught here is the story of the Kokoda trail campaign in now Papua New Guinea. It was an old mining track in dense jungle that served as the only point of crossing on the landmass, so naturally there were a very bloody set of battles to control the passage between the Japanese and Australian/New Zealand forces.
Very interesting rabbit hole if you're interested.
"Rock are cool, damn it!"
-Laith 2023
AND I STAND BY IT
especially when they have fossils in them
1:18 Laith: "look at Antarctica, that's not a thing."
6:37 thing is most of the people seem to be mostly knew it was in Middle East and tried their chances . And looking at Iraq I thought "Maybe they thought about ol Iranian borders from Sasanids or older states and selected those points" than seen balkans and fliped a loaded mauser and fliped it for chance of comedic death.
16:01 school uniforms were beginning to become more popular in my country when I was in 5-6 grade. At first I didn't like it so I didn't wear one till I moved to highschool where it was common to wear int 9-10 grades but not anymore in 11-12, I started liking it and wore it all the way till graduation becomes I didn't need to think what to wear each day.
definitely one of the best reaction videos I've seen on the platform, so I wouldn't mind it being a thing occasionally.
About the Sea Monsters on maps, if i remember correctly they were mostly used to mark unknown areas. The saying here be dragons comes from this meaning here is something unknown essentially.
"Adding context to things, I don't think, is a big UA-cam category"
Laith has not discovered video essays yet?
19:36 you should read up on the Northern European enclosure dam which is a proposed/hypothetical project to turn the entire north sea into a dam by building a dam between England and France and a dam between England and Norway
why would anyone do that ?
@@warthoggoulags1679 basically you would be able to controll the sea level of the entire english channel, north sea, baltic sea, and gulf of bothnia which could prevent floodings of cosstal cities by those bodies of water due to climate change and rising water level.
@@N3moSports it's actually kind of a good idea
Love this, gotta do more
Thanks! It was fun!
6:35 also, a lot if people generally aren’t that good at geography, even outside the US. While there are factors like bad public education etc. which can make the issue bigger in USA, it still very much is a thing in many places. I live in Norway, and most people in my class in high school couldn’t tell you where Croatia was on a map. Let alone a country across the globe.
God I'm so glad Leith didn't wholeheartedly make fun of the USA and join the America bad bandwagon in the first map; I'm so fed up with that map being shared without context
I can only approve of someone who looks for sources. A lack of sources is a lack of believability.
21:06 The German city names are absolutely hilarious, just look at "Wienerschnitzelplatz"
13:00 proof laith does not care about or notice Madagascar 🙃
(Sad Malagasy moment)
To your comments about why school uniform is good, I agree with your point about getting rid of that disparity, however school uniform is quite expensive. The only way to truly get rid of that disparity would be to make school uniforms free, since poor students will often be given hand-me-downs from their siblings since uniform is quite expensive.
24:10 you can't extinguish fire with fire
We say 2 and 90 in Denmark. The etymology of our word for 90 "Halvfems" does come from "halv femte snes" or "Half the fifth "snes"(old worrd for 20)" but no one counts in "snese" anymore so while it looks fun on paper, most danes wouldn't even recognise the presented way of saying 92 as the way they say would say that.
Laith giving these good explanations with every map is really interesting and it'd be cool to see more of it
The fact that the map about American bombed countries not having Japan on it after Oppenheimer really shows how well researched these maps are
I get what your saying but the map does say american bombings after 1946, still doesn't excuse most of the maps from lacking sources.
It says on the top 1946 to 2021. Using this time period is to better illustrate the current US after the massive shift in global affairs following WW2. The era where the US was the dominant world power.
I have the exact 450 year old map copy in my living room, it does look good I put above my TV.
smartest most informative map reactor. this is what i love to see.
25:10 I've seen a lot of maps that are just missing New Zealand, but I think this is the first one I've seen with New Zealand moved to be off the north-west coast of Western Australia...
(and btw too, r/MapsWithoutNZ is a thing, haha)
As an Australian I never really thought about how little our prospective would be brought up
Laith is transforming SS into a reaction channel
Never abbreviate social streamers ever again
@@insertname7704 viveleroy would be proud
@@insertname7704agree
What’s with the SS dawg
15:34 yeah, schools in Finland can't mandate you to have exact uniforms. Of course there's a loose dress code (you got to wear some sort of clothes at least lol) in schools, but that's about it.
What kind of dress code?
@@TheSocialStreamers Basically since there is mandated outside breaks, parents have to ensure the child has warm enough and suitable clothing for being outside at any point in time.
Actually your guess was kind of right about latin america and tanning. As a colombian I can say that tanning and in general stetic procedures are very expensive. And usually white people are reacher down heare so that could also be a factor.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing!
The funny thing about the Iran map is that some people selected Australia. Like seriously, some of you think we don't even exist, and others think we're Iran?
You probably already know this but the map at 19:37 is taken from a really well put together timelapse video with its sources in the description I really recommend watching it if you haven’t already
19:19 POV: you're playing Pokemon Ruby.
Aesthetic maps still exist very strongly in fantasy. Very beautiful stuff still
I can't wait for the Laith×Emperor Tigerstar collab
24:25 That is actually a US post-war propaganda. There was no significant spike in production of Purple Hearts at any point during the pacific campaign. Including just before the "anticipated" mainland invasion. Anticipated in quotation mark, because if you read on that topic from admirals and generals and other officers at that time, pretty much all of them thought that invasion of Japan was not needed for Japan to surrender.
But even if you believe that the military command at that time was soviets spies or whatever, it's BS anyway. Downfall was planned for November, why would they be ramping up Purple Heart production in July/August? That's just so stupid.
There were about 1.5 million Purple Hearts made during WW2 with about 1 million awarded during/right after it.
School uniform map is outdated btw, Mexico uniforms are no longer mandatory legally as set by the supreme court. Well they were never mandatory as a whole but yeah.
I'd like to question the idea of 1.5 million purple heart medals being made in preparation for an invasion into Japan. While 1.5 million medals where made over the course of ww2, slightly over 1 million had been given out at the end of the war without any invasion. Given that one of the later justifications of using nuclear weaponry on japan was that it was less costly (in lives) then a possible land invasion, (which to my knowledge was briefly discussed and later discarded before they continued to bomb the Japanese) it feels that this is a narrative meant to bolster this specific justification for dropping two nuclear bombs and I question if it has any validity.
Listen, geography really defines history so cool alt geography maps are pretty cool
Geologists: the Kardashians of the scientific community
Countries bombed by America map has a suspicious lack of Japan on it...
why should food be a right ??? You have to earn it, that's nature
16:03 i love how the world works to where i dont understand school uniforms at all. im from america, the most we see of school uniforms are private schools. which idk how it is over there but here most of our private schools are catholic schools, because theres rules against teachers in public schools teaching us abt religion with the intent of converting us. so the churches fund private schools to teach their religion as well as do other shady shit in the background. so ive always considered school uniforms as a religious upper class sort of thing
I think with the find Iran on the map one people were trolling. They were pointing at their house in America, Germany and Brazil. Reminds me of that malicious Focus group skit. ua-cam.com/video/osfN2XzvYL0/v-deo.html
It’s soooo good of a thumbnail
I really hope this video does well. I absolutely love this and I love how knowledgable Laith is.
I like how the Spanish think their fellow Spanish speakers the Argentines are the sexiest people and the Portuguese think their fellow Portuguese speakers the Brazilians are the sexiest haha
What’s your opinion on Richard the lionheart?
Skin whitening is not very common in Latin America..... I guess it's something cultural, whenever I spent a long time without going out, my relatives always told me "you have to go out to catch the sun, you're very pale" i'm venezuelan :3
He is turning into Drew
Laith is on is Drew Durnil era right here
as a ghost pale nordic person i would break the universe if i would try to whiten my skin anymore XD
Infringing on the Drew Durnill niche and doing it better. Nice vid.
The women’s voting map is a bit wrong in my opinon, as sweden actually got female voting in 1919. It’s just that the first election after that decision was made was in 1921. Yes they couln’t vote until 1921. But they still held the right to, which I and many countries on that map count as being the time women got the right to wote.
These videos are cool, but definitely don't abandon your older types of content for this
Did he just say he likes school uniforms because they let you see what kids are poor?
The fuckkkk
I’m not sure I did! What I said was that a lack of school uniform can allow for displays of wealth more easily thus creating a social divide within an environment that should be encouraging mixing across aspects of society :)
Homeboy done become drew durnil😂😂
Bold of you to assume schools here in America teach about the pacific theater during WW2. Did not happen at all in my own experience. The way history is taught here is awful in many different ways.
What do you expect from white countries
Oh, that’s a shame. I guessed based on involvement - can’t say I know too much about US Historical education!
@@TheSocialStreamers Well to summarize, the history is inaccurate and racist due to fascist education policy
When did this channel become Map Men?
Prussian map lacks a lot of context
You left out the Chinese deserts.
Play Imperialism or Imperialism II. I think it would be fun watching you.
Bad editor! We wanted to see Laith talk about the sources. /lh
if your gonna make this a series then do the propaganda subreddit it has some real interesting stuff
Day 10 of asking laith to play Montenegro in eu4
More map content YES!
No one is talking about r/MapPorn
Norway
Laith's transparent hair is really distracting for me.
NOO LAITH DON'T JUST BECOME A REACTION CHANNEL LAITH
good video
Please stop using this background music. It just makes the videos 10x worse
Gonna go ahead and guess that South Americans want to be darker because they're largely Caucasian.. the map looks like a map of Caucasians vs not.
Bad map
First
1st i guess
The uniform map is inaccurate, in Bulgaria most non-gypsy schools have one.
about the pacific theater, we just get told america came in after japan bombed our boats took islands and dropped a big ass bomb, and that the Japanese did incredibly horrific war crimes.
we need @EmperorTigerstar to respond to laiths takes
i just wanted to point out that the countries bombed by the us map (25:10) doesn't include japan lmao
Makes absolutely zero sense for food to be a "right" tbh. Food is only gained through someone else's labor and you have no right to someone else's labor.
I'd love to see more of this, I never thought someone talking about sources would be fun, but it is!
Laith vs Koifish was a battle for the ages
Fr
ah, i see laith is going down the drew durnil path
11:56 Luxembourg breaks the mold and votes Portugal as having the most attractive people because, for some reason, Luxembourg has a huge portuguese population
Portugal = poor
Luxembourg = rich
Think that ought to explain it
I love how on that propaganda map they just used random German words for city names, one of them is called "Omahoch" which just means "Grandma high" and another one is called "Prosit" which literally just means "Cheers"
Also how the Gulf of Mexico is just the Gulf of Hate now
Do you think it is absolutely impossible for someone to name a village "Tall grandma"
I mean... Germans have such names as Darmstadt, which literally means Colon City,
Chilean here, i think i can explain the tanning thing:
You were right in assuming that latinos are very mixed so some people will be whiter than others, but lots of people with naturally browner shades of skin will want tans aswell because the natural brown is not the same as a flaming hot brassy tan. Here in Chile everyone is so mixed anyways that people tend to judge eachother on the way they speak instead of skin color or "Ethnicity" because it usually says much more than appearances, middle, low and high class speak differently and even then it all depends on age range and wheter your family has been in that strata of society for a long time or not. We never had massive ammounts of black slavery either because there was no reason to bring slaves to Chile during the spanish empire, our economy was literally wheat and leather lol
Then you think about Brazil, massively ethnically diverse country, but they love tanning, it's fashionable and it's hot for them, the tan lines and such things are sexy.
So basically the answer to your question is "Culture" i guess. Latinos love tanning
The date of Prussia in the Prussia/Germany map is very cherrypicked to have the most Polish territory vs. little German territory. Right after the Polish Partitions, before losing a considerable part of that terriroty and gaining the Rhineland and other German territories during/after the Napoleonic wars.
17:06 frick you editor, I wanted to see:(
What happened to the visit to Ulm? Just curious, travel planning with conflicting vacation time can be difficult.
With the whole “react” contraversy with twitch streamers, I’d say this is an ideal example of reacting done right
Day 115 of asking for an Oranje Free State Playthrough of Vicky 3.
You should really make adding context to things your own UA-cam category, you are great at it! Loved the video keep up the good work!
I want to put the nerd emoji but what your are saying is so informative I can’t get myself to do it
I out nerded the emoji.
I'd say people in south america search tanning more because you've got holidaygoers in those countries trying to find places to get a tan. Also the data itself at the bottom of the screen shows skin whitening is just less common in general by a significant margin in a number of years
Love it man, bcs of ur knowledge ur my favourite mappainting ytber
But pls play some ck3