“The Secret of Chindia”
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No it isn’t accurate tho. It’s a very westernized view towards both great civilizations. I’m from India, so I’ll speak for india, caste was barely a driving factor in the Indian society because it wasn’t really there the whole time. I am from the uttarakhand, a state of India resting at the foothills of the shivalik range of the great Himalayas. Now, my people are a mix of khasa, rajput and other native tribes. Why is this important? Because like hundreds of other tribes from time to time, my tribe has been called an outcast for not following the vedic tradition(which mostly includes rituals including caste and such).
This just goes against the picture that is being painted everywhere. My people were literally farmers who also ruled, and also went to war. The role of caste, is rarely seen here. But when I go to uttarakhand today, there is casteism, meaning it somehow got integrated even into my own hometown. Some people blame the brits for creating castes, I think that’s bollocks since they merely pointed out(maybe a bit exaggerated) what was already going on in india.
I recently read the history of Rajputs in rajasthan, who are famously known for female infanticide, sati and their marvelous castles. Even among them, caste was very fluid and more importance was given to the house. Like in game of thrones. Rajputs of bikaner would rather team up with the muslim invaders than help the Rajputs of mewar based on caste alone.
Great video tho, I would say 80% of it is very accurate and a good explanation overall. I have previously seen this video.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to share these insights.
I have read some of the comments under the video and indeed there are many people from India who feel misrepresented.
I can’t tell in how far this is negligence or even a “narrative agenda” on the part of the author or if it’s just super duper hard to fully grasp a country so rich in facets and cultures.
It’s not surprising to hear that the caste system was not always and not everywhere super rigid all the time. It makes total sense that humans would use it, bend it, ignore it or transform it.
But good to hear that you don’t completely disagree. That helps me judge the video.
Fascinating, with creative and funny animation! Thanks so much for recommending Kraut to us.
Embedded videos don’t seem to work for me on this and other articles. I just get a grey square with a sad face in the middle. Is it something with my browser settings? I’m using chrome on an android phone.
Yeah, that sounds like a browser issue. Does the link work, though?
No it just takes me to a blank page.
I also just discovered the notifications bell doesn’t work for me. It shows that I have notifications but doesn’t do anything when I click it so I have to reach them through emails the old fashioned way
Okay, so the link was my bad, actually. That should work now.
But for the other two things, sounds like an issue with JavaScript. Do you know how to access the dev console and send a screenshot?
I have no clue on a phone. I’ve accessed dev tools on desktop before but not for over a year since I quit that particular job so i may or may not remember how
Oh, on mobile, I see. To see dev tools on mobile, you’d have to connect it to a laptop, authorize it and then do some stuff. I’ve never done that myself either.
On desktop it’s like one click, but never mind for mobile.
Has that always been the case with videos on my site? Or just recently? Same question for the bell?
I think I’ve previously been able to see them, but I don’t remember 100%
The bell seems to be working now though!
I think it was jquery which wasn’t properly downloaded. I hope this is stable now :)
OMG! Where do I start.. being an Indian who loves and respects Chinese culture, I was extremely excited about this video but it disappointed me deeply. Especially about Indian history and the portrayal of religion is horribly wrong. If Chinese history starts from several thousand years before Christ and had a developed States, India was nothing less. In fact the archaeological survey of Indus valley civilization proves that but western historians and unfortunately Indian historians never acknowledged the proofs of the glory and advanced technology these site and temples shows. I can’t correct everything is this short platform. But can only urge to do some authentic research and not believe everything that’s served to you. Fundamentally I can only correct the misconception about India being a religious country. Dharma to us more of a righteous self realization that guide us through the difficult situation in life. We have our history in Ramayan and Mahabharata. And one can check the validity of the events by running the astronomical alignments they mentioned in sky. We have 4 Veda which are nothing but advanced version of all the science and more that we know of as of now. There’s still more in our scriptures that can help us evolve scientifically and spiritually. Lastly I would appreciate people taking interest in other cultures and encourage them to dig further.
I appreciate your feedback and the pointers to where the video may be wrong and what it was missing.
The creator of the video is VERY open to being corrected, so he knows that he doesn’t get it all right all the time, and I myself am also not blindly believing everything he says.
That said, my main takeaway from the documentary are the differences between Chinese and Indian society and culture and how that reflects on the state and how it functions.
Thank you for this video and the suggestion to view other videos on the Kraut channel. I found it most interesting and informative! Quite frankly, I had given up on much of YouTube channels that claim to be educational finding far too much misinformation and far from objective. However, I know I can trust your judgement, so if you have the time and don’t mind, I think it would be great if you could share a few more links. Thanks!
I think I have a pretty good “nose” in terms of how “competent” a creator is in their field. Which doesn’t mean that they always get it all right, but they’re earnest and are open to criticism.
I actually wanted to introduce another one of my favorite channels later in the calendar, but I’m not sure, if people are really interested in that. I don’t want to spoil that here, but I can give you a couple of other ideas:
Finance and Economy –
Patrick Boyle (former Hedge fund manager, REALLY dry British humor and he actually knows how finance and the economic system works).
Here’s a video about cryptocurrencies and how what’s happening there is actually the same that happened over a hundred years ago in the US with private money:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7hZjV2rsbQ
Maverick of Wall Street
Daily analysis of macros and the market, knows his stuff and is actually one of “us”, a normal person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3XSPfRkFa0
War in Ukraine:
Perun – He has worked (or still works) in military procurement and he really knows the logistical side of military and how to obtain, read and interpret related documents. He does hour long presentations about aspects of the war in Ukraine as well as other things like the problems of the German Bundeswehr, how good Europe could defend itself and so on. It’s a touchy subject, but it’s really like listening to a power point slide of an expert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKlIh_-U4bU
Artificial intelligence and Deep Learning:
Yannic Kilcher
He works in the field and actually knows how to analyse papers about stuff like ChatGPT and so on. He has a few news like shows, but also some where he goes over specific papers and explains them.
Here’s a video where he analyses the incident where a Google engineer thought Googles AI was sentient and got fired for that.
He nicely shows how a language model can fool us into thinking it’s conscious and also shows how the engineer steered the conversation without realizing it. Super super interesting, if you are into this stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIZLGBD99iU
Thank you for sharing these links. Looking forward to your post featuring your favourite channels.
Hello,
Typo:
flag in cartoons that about the countries politics, history or character (flag in cartoons about the country’s politics, history or character – or cartoons that talk/explain/etc. about, depending on what you actually wanted to say)
A completely unrelated question (I’ll have to check if there’s a video on the BRD/DDR issue on this channel): a friend of mine asked me this the other day, so I said I’d ask an actual Berliner – are there still pieces of the Berlin wall available for sale and, if so, are they ridiculously expensive or still affordable?
Bis morgen!
I’m sure they’re on sale “somewhere” on the web.
There’s also little pieces you can buy at tourist shops but I am super not convinced that these are real.
On the one hand, the wall was quite long, so lots of material to sell. On the other hand, it’s not a big investement to set up a bunch of concrete walls somewhere, have some people spray graffiti on them, and them hack them into small bits and sell. Sounds like it has a high return on investement so I am 100% sure this business exists.
I think the best way to get a real piece is to buy it from a private person who took it out of the wall themselves back in the day. But why would someone sell such a memory.
I’d say, unless you hear something from friends, stay away. Chances are at least 50% that you buy a fake.
Hi Elsa – at the souvenir shop in the middle of Berlin Ostbahnhof station, they sell the usual bits of Berlin wall (in the rounded plastic desk display), but they also have hanging behind them “official” pieces that are just wrapped in plastic wrapping but also have certificates of authenticity and serial numbers for each piece. So I assume this confirms that the usual tourist ones are not real, but for all I know they are all fake! (the ‘official’ ones are all in English, so i guess targeted at tourists)
Hahahaha… wow, there’s certificates for that?! Who certified that, anyway? Like, who makes sure that not someone in 1995 tore down a random spray painted wall somewhere in the middle of East Germany and then snuck that into the pipeline.
The only way this makes sense to me is that the city of Berlin actually set up a business for that themselves and hacked apart the wall that they had “in storage” somewhere, certifying and numbering each piece. But I do not think they did that in the 90s.
I don’t want to be a party pooper, but I think it’s all fake.