The Maldives: The Hidden Dark Side of a Tropical Paradise
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- Опубліковано 25 гру 2023
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The Maldives: Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy by JJ Robinson, Hurst & Co. 2015
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As a Maldivian, this was probably the most comprehensive overview of my country I’ve seen on YT, especially about how tourism only benefits the select few owners and non of it trickling down to the us locals. Maybe one fact I would change is, there’s quite a lot of Maldivians employed at resorts thus creating quite a massive black market for trading dollars (banks are extremely limited in foreign transactions so we are forced to buy dollars). Also the new presidency has more or less reverted back to the days of Yaameen where censorship of media is coming into full effect with talks about limiting apps like WhatsApp just around the corner. It sucks here and I wish I could live anywhere but here. Ask me anything if you guys want to know more.
I’m so sorry your home has become hostile and corrupted.
How religious is the population? Is their faith more for show or are they genuine in their religion?
@@faziefallelfarhan1333 well then your struggles don't mean anything because look what's happening in Palestine, Syria, ....
Are there things that regular people can do to help raise awareness, or do you believe that may make things worse? Do you see a way for a tourist to be able to visit your country and do better to support the locals (and not the resorts)?
Are foreigners allowed to visit the capitol city/island, or are they prevented from travel beyond resort boundaries?
Just struck visiting the Maldives from my bucket list.
Yes 😢
I miss Simon's voice:( but I appreciate Carl very much for taking the lead. Huge shoes to fill and he's doing a swell job
Yeah....Do you know what happened to Simon?
@@samwilson3437the person that owned some of the channels that Simon voiced died. To cut a long story short the new management and Simon agreed to part ways. It was quite a while ago.
I'm in complete agreement with this sentiment
Cheers mate!
@@bunyipdragon9499 thanks for the info. Is there a video talking about this or something?
@@ahulaga8466 yes but I have to be honest it was released months ago. I think it was on Today I Found Out but I'm not positive. If you come across a video with a woman presenter then that's the one. She is the daughter who took over from the owner who died.
2:20 - Chapter 1 - Where in the world
4:55 - Mid roll ads
9:00 - Chapter 2 - Modern problems
11:35 - Chapter 3 - Quiet tyranny
15:05 - Chapter 4 - Change in the winds
18:00 - Chapter 5 - A nation of challenges
22:05 - Chapter 6 - The sunny side of life
23:45 - Conclusion
Been enjoying seeing you stretch out beyond Fact Fiend, and glad you brought the rest of the gang with you! Right choice by Simon and the *Graphics team calling you in!
BOOOO! Booo! BOO! You're not Simon Whistler!! BOOOO!
So far I'd say you're matriculating very nicely into the tone set by your predecessor while still being able to add your own meaningful zhuzh to material.
Just got back from honeymooning there and was looking for a comprehensive video about the history of the country. Thank you for this
This was brilliant! And I can def sense some change in your hosting style
I went to high school with a guy named Richard Smallwood. No joke!
I worked with a Richard Head !!
Great work as always, excellent overview of the country's history. It's awful that what should be a paradise for all who live on it has been stolen by its leaders.
Thank you Karl, good to see you once again and even though its not robocop or the thing I appreciate the narration.
Do a video on the Kingdom of Brunei! I hear it's one of the most isolated and one of the happiest countries on Earth.
Hope You had an amazing Christmas karl! Love your content! Please do agincourt❤️❤️❤️❤️🎄🎄🎄
Great doc! Thank you so much for your hard work
I've come to appreciate Karl, the gang behind the stories and cameras, and the Business Anteater. Karl is funny and it refer anywhere Simon as becoming argumentative when topics were about things he doesn't believe in.
Karl is funny and irreverent where Simon...
Awesome job Carl! I had no idea this paradise has such a dark side
Always enjoy this channel and it's unique blend of entertainment and education, making learning fun again for folks! Hope you and all the viewers/commentors had a wonderful Christmas!
A fantastic video, thank you. I enjoyed your style as well as depth of the information you shared .
One of my aquarium fish is from the Maldives. When got it I was excited, " wow cool I've never heard of this locale. Holy cow poo is this one heck of a banana tourism republic! I had no idea
Keep going! I love your style of presentation
Yay I’m curious to learn more about these islands!
Feedback: the squarespace ad was amazing (stuffed anteater
Thanks Mr Smallwood for toning it down. I quite enjoyed this
Dude…. I need to apologize so much. Actually no need to apologize at all, you had nothing to do with policies you don’t agree with. Humans are animals and we act like animals, this can take many forms which are not benevolent. Love the channel! Take care❤
I've never been there, but I do know that Agent 47 had a splendid time there a few years ago.
Shame that the resort he stayed at had to close down suddenly after the unexplained accidental passings of its three owners.
I've never been more excited for Squarespace ad reads than when Karl does them. The Statue of Liberty ad was, like gum, perfection.
Also, I had no idea about any of the things presented in the video. Thank you!
There are some videos that I wish I could give more than one like. This is one of them.
I started pilot school this year. I have three Maldevian classmates that I have befriended. Very nice guys. Open, hospitable, and friendly. They definitely enjoy cigarettes 😂
I think you have really developed as a host and I'm liking your hosting style
Keep it up, you are doing very well at portraying the tone set by Simon in your own manner.
It has been an easy transition, here's to longer than interim
Exactly what I was going to type. I like your presentation, mannerisms style. Been surprised you're still 'interim' on my basically most liked channels :)
Really enjoyed this video.
Informative and bloody depressing. Thanks.
Doing a great job! Maybe a little bit more pitch inflections to avoid the monotone.
Did Carl got a haircut for this video? Also, congrats on Carl and the team to finally make Squarespace ad funny and memorable.
i like how you can tell that this guy is basically “Lucky Palmer” using AI 😂😂
Smallest country in the world is probably malta in the Mediterranean sea
NO WAY FACT FIEND WORKIN WIT DR BALD?
Great video. Great presentation. Delightful host!
I think you are doing a great job. Keep doing what you do.
I put this video on and walked away to make dinner. Threw me off when I came back and realized this was not indeed a fact fiend video😅
Like I knew I clicked on geographies but the voice just convinced me otherwise.
one of the first beaches you showed was in the Philippines. Maldives doesn't have mountains like that. The highest point is barely even a hill
I considered this place when my husband and I were planning our destination wedding. We ultimately chose Montego Bay, Jamaica instead and I'm glad we skipped over this place.
what a lovely new henchman in the Factboi-Simon-Empire 💜 'ello Karl :D
Wow Simon, youre so different with hair!
Not having to do with the subject of this video, but that may be the greatest Hawaiian shirt ever made. Seriously. Somewhere Thomas Magnum has the vapors. Higgins! Get the smelling salts! Quickly!
Isn’t that the place where the Exxon Maldives ran aground? Seems kinda tropical for Alaska.
Exxon Valdez
Mark Twain ( also known as Samuel Clenents ) in one of his many pithy quotes said, " it's said, everyone hassa great book in them . Nine outta ten times, that's where it should stay ! "
an American made the first successful flight, America continues to push the boundaries of aviation technology to this day... yes, you're speaking English in skies
Thank you.
I’m having trouble rationalizing the idea of Jean Claude VanDam not wanting to look foolish, I mean, have you watched his movies?!?!
That squarespace ad was so, so unnecessary long!
Indeed. If it takes more than 3 skips, it’s too long.
sponsorships can be down to the actual sponsor. Some require scripts to be read, or for the ad to be of a certain length
Smallwood 🥰
Having known some people who have holidayed in this paradise I always wanted to go. After hearing this and how the people are treated I'll look elsewhere 😢
Fresno: mentioned.
U should do kawha ijen volcano
Simon's hair is different....
As a foreigner, love this new host!! Speaks very clearly and at a good pace
I miss Simon. Carl's started to do my head in. Always running country of his birth down. There was good and bad. But its just the way the world was back then
Interesting video 😮😮😮😮
Simon! Simon!
So they got about 50 years to build the ark!
Rip simon
It's weird that you show so much guilt for the British rule. For one, you personally had nothing to do with it. For another, from your own words, I take it that this country was ruled by harsh dictators when left completely on their own, so I think that your guilt is wildly misplaced. I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of Maldivians would prefer the British to Sharia Law. Hell, seems like all the good politicians, again, paraphrasing your own words, went to Britain for education or else in exile. So I don't really get the white/British guilt.
Welcome to most British below the age of 35. Sorry for a history they know nothing about with no regard for what was there before or after. And no real regard for what it entailed at the time. Which in the case of the Maldives, was virtually identical to the modern Japanese/USA relationship except they werent completely wiped out first and noone would describe as tyrannical. A lot of people dont know what the term "protectorate" means, and the fact it is usually a voluntary association. One we can expect to see revived should the US ever lose interest in patrolling the worlds seas for free. Because funnily enough nations on sand bars typically arent capable of existing independently without aid nor deter aggressors and so typically are rapidly annexed. What protected the Maldives in the 1500s was they were a pain in the arse to get to. Something that stopped being true by the 1800s when they were "en route". The final irony of being "guilty for history" is that half the people trying to reform the country and make it liveable for the actual citizens fled to the UK for refuge.
@@Talshere88 Yeah, I've been getting that impression over the last few years, British people apologizing for shit they don't understand, just because their peers tell them they should, or because they fear backlash from woke idiots who know even less. It's really annoying. Better they just not address the issue than to get it completely wrong. Karl could easily have just said it as it was without the apologies. WITH the apologies, he came off sounding like a complete tosser, and this isn't the first time he's done that. @Karl - lose the white guilt, and, again, no one is weirded out about your name but you, and MAYBE the odd 12-year-old: "Hi, I'm Greg Zeigler...and yes, that is my real name." What IS that?? Also, by the way, Talshere88, I'm starting to worry about the U.S. pussing out. I was shocked that they didn't come to Ukraine's defense when they were attacked. They had promised to, in the 90s, when Ukraine gave up their nukes. And now, here we are, close to three years into a war that the U.S. could have put an end to in days, as promised, and an increasingly emboldened Putin (not to mention Xi). This is actually starting to scare me.
Product of white guilt propaganda pushed by a captured institution looking to replace them.
Where's that Simon at?
Wtf Karl. Stop sneaking me man
I knew where the Maldives are, but for some reason I thought they were a territory of India. Not sure how I got that idea. Maybe at some point I got them confused with the Andaman islands? Not sure.
You're not Simon Whistler...
You're right. He's Karl Smallwood.
The comments are fabulous😆
Jean-Claude Von Dumkaff.
The Maldives was a member of the Commonwealth of Nations from July 1982 until withdrawing from the organisation in October 2016 in protest of allegations by other nations of its human rights abuses and failing democracy. The Maldives rejioned the Commonwealth on 1 February 2020 after showing evidence of functioning democratic processes and popular support.
The hbomber effect
Where is my Bearded Legend!
He left about 6 months ago
He’s on his other channels. Go watch him there.
"SMALLWOOD" IS THE HOST!
That is all.
If we don't save the islands. When I'm 65 I'm going to build a floating house above the barely submerged land. If a billionaire doesn't just take all the land for pennies
"If you think the video will go viral, do it."
Where is Simon?
Good vid. And good narration.
Where is Simon? I love his voice, but he talks way too fast and makes me feel stressed listening to him.
Happy New Year and all the best to you all!
Is Simon ever coming back?
Nope.
No chance
He never existed.
New host, who dis ?
Karl Smallwood. Previously a writer for Simon, and owner/host of factfiend
Um where is Simon?
bring simon back please
I was thoroughly enjoying this video right up until the host started randomly apologizing for being British and saying sorry for history.
As an Englishman myself i will never apologise for our great nations lony and varied history.
Yes We did good, we did bad and any country with a history as long as ours is guilty of the same! Other than Germans no other European country self hates like us Brits
Who's Simon?
Love I karl
... karl?
Karl looks 14 and like a 26 year old recovering addict at the same time
just standart british person
@@flexangeloa standart British person? 😂😂. How to say I’m thick and can’t spell without saying I’m thick and can’t spell. True dunce…
What happened to Simon?
he left months away
Where's the bald host gone?? He ok?
Hes fine, he just left the channel
@@littleshep5502 so i always thought this was simons empire... did he sell the channel? is he merely employed on all the chans he reads for? is this the only one he left?
@@bmofano this channel, biographics, and top tens were all owned by someone else, with Simon being the host. The original owner passed away, and their daughter took over. The daughter eventually broke down, causing things to strain, and Simon left due to that
If ya ain't Dutch, y'ain't much !
Where’s Simon
They disappeared him.
Sounds like Sharialand 🏝️ 🍸
Fun Fact. Simon already did a far better video on the islands/country.
liked commented subscribed for smallwood
That commercial....
17:11 this reminds of of what is happening in russia now and recently killed major oppositioner.
Has Simon stopped doing this? Sorry but i didn't sign up for Timmy Mallett
Your style is good. I can totally see this presented with beer breaks if you could only get a brewery sponsor. In summation, "the country of Maldives is Bad". Please stop apologizing for something you had nothing to do with (British History). You start to sound like an American. If you're going to do that, take credit for providing the Maldives with its first genuinely elected president educated in Britain.
Good except for the noisy background. DNF
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