Geography Now! UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

hmm [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] home it's time to learn geography hey everybody I'm your host barbs by the way you can get geography now merged like this geography now shirt at geography now.com not selling out if it's your brand so we did the UAE the UK and now the last of the United triplet countries after doing this channel for nearly a decade of my life it's finally time we have made it to my home country let's make this a big one here we go welcome to the United States of America [Music] the USA is a very complex place when it comes to the way that it's structured and the way that the domain administers itself it's almost like 50 many countries and five territories with their own unique identities yet they all speak the same language and have some common understanding of American life everything is bigger wider spread out we love shopping and having everything conveniently available now and that's why we invented things like fast food the parking lot the modern shopping mall Highway service plazas drive-throughs the barcode pricing system credit cards escalators and public restrooms are are everywhere and they're free in any case apart from that little civil structure overview let's look at the map and discuss the actual location and sovereignty of the USA shall we first of all the USA is located on the North American continent with the main chunk of the country known as the lower 48 where 98 of the population lives is sandwiched between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to the east and west and Canada and Mexico border them on the North and South the country consists of 50 states divided into 3143 counties or County equivalents 3243 if you include territory divisions three states have weird detached exclaims on the Canadian border they are the Northwest angle and Elm Point for Minnesota Point Roberts Washington and Albert Vermont the only state distinctly divided into two continental land-based units is Michigan with the upper and lower peninsulas the capital of the country is Washington DC which is a federal district not belonging to any state and is under Direct Control of Congress despite having a higher population than some states in addition the USA has five major unincorporated territories they are Puerto Rico the U.S Virgin Islands American Samoa Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands in addition there are nine minor outlying islands all of which are also unincorporated except for Palmyra atoll for some reason even though all these islands have no permanent population the US has a disputed claim over two small sandbank islands in the Caribbean as well both administered by Colombia they are the Serenia bank and the bajo Nuevo Bank as well that being said this means if you include all the territories and dependency the USA has a total of 11 time zones although only nine of them are used by people two strange time zone anomalies exist the first one being the little and big diomede Islands between Alaska and Russia and American Samoa and Samoa the diomedes are less than three miles away and are visible to each other yet they straddle the International Date Line and are hence an entire day apart from each other in addition there are 325 Native American reservations spread throughout the lower 48. these areas although under U.S federal territory have a degree of autonomy for the native tribes that administer them the largest cities in the USA population wise are New York Los Angeles and Chicago the busiest airports however are Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Dallas Fort Worth and Denver International the US has an incredibly wide network of roads and highways connecting all states except Hawaii obviously the longest one being U.S Route 20 although the US does have a relatively wide rail network for freight trains passenger train lines have decreased over the years in favor of Road Transport and today the only long-distance inner city network is operated by Amtrak our largest shipping Port is the Port of Los Angeles in conjunction with the Port of Long Beach which are two separate entities yet physically joined finally one last thing although the USA has no claim over Antarctica we do have the largest Antarctic station at mcmurdle which can facilitate up to a thousand people and we also have the only station located on the geographic South Pole at Edmondson Scott station in case if you were wondering it follows the plus 12 UTC time zone fun fact did you know that in Hawaii it's actually illegal to laugh loudly so you kind of have to keep it at a low ha few side notes one I made a video explaining the Native American reservations and statistical areas as well as territories of the USA I figured they deserve their own videos because it's a big topic check them out two each state and territory has their own flag license plate design and nickname for example the state I was born in Minnesota is the land of ten thousand lakes Indiana I still have no idea what a Hoosier is but you do you cities have nicknames too like Chicago is shy town or the windy city New York the Big Apple Orlando the Big Orange Seattle is the Emerald City and so on three yes the USA is a Car Country it's part of our culture see the majority of our country was built post-industrial Revolution so many of our cities have easily navigable straight grid like Road networks with accommodating wider roads as opposed to the spiderweb of narrow medieval Cobblestone alleys built for pedestrians in the U.S you can get your own license at age 16 for many of us it's a rite of passage and bragging right in high school to show off your car even if you're just borrowing mom's minivan four we also kind of have an awkward situation with Guantanamo Bay which is located in Cuba it's kind of like this I am the first president of Cuba now that we are independent from the US I will offer you a Perpetual lease to Guantanamo Bay awesome we'll pay you guys every year we are the new Cuba we don't want you get out hey your old president agreed a Perpetual lease to us until both countries agree or we abandoned the property we don't want to do that we're going to stay here well uh yeah Revolution we don't recognize that treaty well we do here's your lease check for the year thanks for doing business I'll shake myself we'll see you next year okay okay oh yeah that's the other thing at one point the USA took administrative control over Cuba after the Spanish-American war in addition to Guam Puerto Rico and the Philippines of course the Philippines and Cuba gained their own independence and the US also used to control the Panama Canal Zone for about 70 years it was like all right Panama you're getting your independence from us whoa me gusta but I agreed to let the Americans have sovereignty over the Canal Zone because you know they're they're kind of building it what the I mean uh you want us to leave and take all of our money and you finish building it or ah for now no let's talk in 70 years okay then yeah in addition after World War II we took administrative control over many of the islands in the Pacific that Japan used to control the three micronesian Island groups of allow the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia were labeled as U.S trust territories until they gained independence in 1986. today they are the only countries that have the compact of free association status meaning the U.S provides defense financial assistance and Social Services to the countries whereas the citizens are allowed to move live and work in the U.S and easily obtain citizenship if they desire and in return they allow the us to have military bases in any case every section of the United States has a unique story on how it eventually became part of the country it basically goes like this for example the USA started as 13 British colonies that pretty much operated everything east of the Mississippi River at one point everything up to what is now Minnesota was just called Virginia in 1803 we obtained the Louisiana Purchase from France which didn't even have a properly defined western border it just kind of arbitrarily ended at the Rockies this doubled the size of the country and a bunch of Acadian french-speaking criminals from Canada suddenly became American in 1819 we expanded to the Pacific for the first time and had a shared condominium with the British in Oregon Territory two years later Florida was seated to us from Spain in a treaty in which we said that we would cede any claims to Texas while long story incredibly short the Texans and Texas kind of fought Mexico and became their own country for 10 years and then decided to see their country back to the USA in 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War and the Alta California area was seated to the USA and after some quick borderline readjustments and new States popping up the continuous USA was complete the guano Islands act started in the 1850s got us to claim a bunch of random small islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean Civil War split us up for about 10 years but then we reunited meanwhile Alaska was purchased by Russia 1898 Hawaii was annexed from the Kingdom of Hawaii one year later after the Spanish-American War a bunch of new islands joined but only Puerto Rico and Guam would stay as territories one year later Samoa was taken over under the tripartite convention later only what is now American Samoa would vote to remain and finally in 1917 we bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark yeah almost every American has played the Oregon Trail in school and has died of Disney Terry just want to give a huge thanks to brighttrip for making that animation you guys are awesome check out their websites they got some cool stuff hey we tried to buy Greenland like three times and they kept saying no but like come on Greenland come on on that note you can kind of tell the story behind places in the USA based off the language the name comes from for example many places in the middle of the USA that used to be part of the Louisiana Purchase have French names like Lafayette Des Moines hell the entirety of Louisiana was named after King Louis the 16th 14th whatever we're not French anymore places that used to belong to Spain and later Mexico have Spanish names like Puerto Rico San Diego and yes even the city I live in Los Angeles Los Angeles otherwise many cities and half of all the states are named after Native American words and or anglicized versions of Native American words Kentucky Ohio Oklahoma the city of Chicago means Wild Onion in the Miami Illinois tribe language in any case basically our country was born out of Revolution long story short we were a colony of Great Britain not the UK yet but Great Britain for about 1 170 years until King George III came in and went back crazy or at least that's how we see it you know the Brits are more like you ungrateful Colonials we declared independence in 1776 which by the way thank you Morocco for being the first country in the world to recognize this as a nation in 1777. hey I beat them to it in 1776. hey you don't get to speak for me as a nation as a whole you will recognize them when I say so okay now you can recognize them however the fighting went on for seven more years until the Treaty of Paris was signed in which Britain officially recognized us as a nation meanwhile Canada just up north was like now I'm daddy's favorite but then like 80 years later it was like oh I'm still dad's favorite in any case with the exception of a few other political entities up until then most of the world have been ruled either by monarchs or some kind of singular figurehead with huge Authority that all Administration pointed towards the U.S founding fathers developed a system of mixing elements of English common law Enlightenment philosophy classic republicanism from ancient Greece and Rome federalism and separation of of power basically because we were so traumatized by the monarchial rule we wanted to make a country ruled by a system that would make it really hard for the government to have too much power in addition we decided to become a federation as in states share a singular sovereignty and must abide by the same Federal Constitution and the rights that it gives like freedom of speech and press but aside from that they have the right to operate autonomously based on whatever Regional values that each state holds and votes on this is why sometimes people have to cross state lines to do things that might otherwise be illegal in the states they live in important to know not everything was perfect in the beginning legislatively of course we still had a long way to go and many things to fix for example slavery was still practice and it did have legal Provisions women were not able to vote and so on but for what it's worth the USA was the first nation state founded on enlightened principles of unalienable natural rights consent of the governed and liberal democracy so yeah America in any case history is boring let's look at some pretty pictures and whatnot let's discuss the famous places of the United States and I will do it now we all know about the most publicized landmarks like the Statue of Liberty Las Vegas the Empire State Building Times Square the Golden Gate Bridge Mount Rushmore Grand Canyon Lincoln Memorial Niagara Falls the Hollywood Sign Gateway Arch and Disney World the largest amusement park in the world we have 130 national monuments and 24 UNESCO Heritage sites yeah yeah we get it but let's talk about some of the more underrated places that are just as equally as fascinating as their over publicized counterparts instead of New York try Chicago instead of the Statue of Liberty maybe check out the birth of the new world or the dignity statue in South Dakota instead of Mount Rushmore try the Crazy Horse monument instead of the Grand Canyon try Arches National Park Vermillion Cliffs Devil's Tower and my favorite spot in Monument Valley instead of Disney World try Six Flags Magic Mountain instead of the Golden Gate Bridge try the Chesapeake Bay or Sunshine Skyway or the Mackinac Bridges or the lake pontchartran Causeway in Louisiana the longest continuous bridge in the world for history yes we have history I'm talking about ancient pre-colonial go to the Cahokia Mounds Poverty Point Earthworks hovenweep Tonto Chimney Rock Navajo National Monument or the Pueblos of Mesa Verde Taos or the choco culture National Historical Park Aztec Ruins petrocliff National Monument Montezuma Castle so many things we have the tallest trees and the tallest tree in the world the sailing stones of Death Valley in Hawaii you can literally see active lava spewing rocks or the world's largest protected Marine area at Papa hanau mokuakea also they have the Polynesian culture center and one of our Best Kept Secrets White Sands National park that looks like you're walking on the moon go to the underrated States like West Virginia they have River Gorge North Dakota has a strange Enchanted Highway the New England states have the best Autumn trees Oregon has the ghost Forest Wisconsin has so many weird Whimsical attractions my favorite one being the house on the rock Idaho Montana Eastern California Nevada and Alaska have some of the best preserved western style ghost towns freaking Alaska Ice Caves fjords Tundras probably some of the best nature in the entire country American Samoa and Guam and the Marianas are a wonderful place to see micronesian and Polynesian culture displays the Virgin Islands are like the wedding honeymoon capital of our country God there's so much and that's not even the beginnings this is one of the reasons why like only 56 of Americans own passports because we kind of have a lot to see in our own backyard and it's no wonder considering that our backyard is one of the most biodiverse in the world let's discuss more of that in now to summarize every conceivable landscape you can think of we have the USA is regarded as one of the most geographically diverse Nations on Earth and with that landscape Spectrum you can find an infinite amount of natural wonders but first let's look at the map so first let's start with the lower 48 generally speaking there are seven main physical regions the coastal plains extending from the North Atlantic states to the Gulf of Mexico split off by the Appalachian Mountains from there you have the central plains and the Great Lakes region east of the Mississippi River Lake Superior being the largest lake and the largest freshwater lake by surface area in the world third largest by volume however only about 45 percent of it belongs to the US meaning the largest lake completely within the U.S boundaries and largest lake by area in the world fully within a single country would actually be Lake Michigan altogether these five lakes make up about one-fifth of the world's above surface fresh water west of the Mississippi you have the Great Plains the flattest part of the country and home to Tornado Alley were the strongest and most tornadoes formed than anywhere else on Earth from there you reach the Rocky Mountains the US's longest chain and third longest in the world after the Andes and the great escarpment in South Africa the Rockies are also the source of the longest river in the United States not the famous Mississippi which begins in Minnesota but by one mile extra the Missouri River actually beats them at 3 341 miles past the Rockies is the Great Basin which holds the US's desert Eco regions eight cold deserts with alpine flora and three dry hot shrubland Rocky Sandy deserts fun fact the Sonoran Desert shared with Mexico is the only place in the world where you can find the famous Saguaro cacti you've probably seen them in movies and TV shows they grow here naturally from there the other side of the Great Basin is bordered by the coastal ranges aka the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada keep in mind this range also sits on the San Andreas transformed fault line which is part of the larger ring of fire that means this area is the most earthquake prone region in the country with lots of geothermal activity such as the eruption of Mount St Helens in the 80s from there the state of Alaska up north actually has the highest peak Denali as well as all of the the top 10 highest peaks in the country as well otherwise unlike the Islands formed by the ring of fire the Hawaiian Islands were not formed by a fault line or Rift system but rather by their own unusual isolated hot spot where magma spurred out on its own through plumes in the middle of the ocean this is also known as the emperor Hawaiian seamount chain and technically if you consider height from the base of the mountain to the peak Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island could be seen as the tallest mountain in the world as over 25 000 feet or 75 percent of its total elevation goes underwater to the seafloor yeah with the Midwest lacks and Landscape they make up for in Skyscape we have the craziest atmospheric conditions in the Great Plains people from all over the world come to our country just to see tornadoes it's a thing tornado tourism oh and fun fact many home schools and businesses in the Midwest and Great Plains have tornado shelters and Cellars and in schools the kids also practice tornado drills I had to do that as a kid in that regard some students on the west coast have to do like earthquake drills we know how to handle natural disasters here we're pretty good at it in the USA life is like a constant economic game of opportunistic chess moves mixed with skill and look we know our potential and we want more that's why we never stop moving we hate mediocre mundane complacency you could win it all or you could mess up and lose it all but the point is you could we go crazy over that word not every country in the world offers a could to their people we aren't really afraid of failure or embarrassment that stuff passes away easily hell we even capitalize and make money off of our embarrassment have you seen our reality shows but the one thing we are terrified of is regret and that's the core of the American Spirit an American doesn't Wonder we dream whether it's plausible or deluded and foolish we dream anyway that was kind of a ramble not gonna get too far into it in any case it's time for my triple shot espresso break let's bring Noah in to fill in for the rest of the segment shall we the fire may be gone but the heat still lingers straight from the Great Plains Cyclone country the state of Iowa it is I NOAA so let's get into some statistics first shall we it is already well known that today the USA has the largest economy by nominal GDP out of Any Nation and the second largest purchasing power parity after China the dollar is the most widely used currency in international transactions and is the world's Reserve currency used by many other countries as an official in de facto currency we are the world's largest importer and second largest exporter after China out of the world's 500 largest companies over 120 are headquartered in the USA we alone have about 40 percent of the world's billionaires and 30 percent of the world's millionaires NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange are the largest stock exchanges in the world by market capitalization and trade volume some of our most profitable exports include petroleum products Electronics Machinery Aerospace and defense equipment including passenger vehicles medical and scientific equipment we have the top most profitable companies and largest commercial brands on Earth that are world renowned such as Apple Google Amazon Microsoft and Tesla we even invented the concept of venture capital it's not enough for us Americans to just profit we have to potentially profit our franchises have become widely globalized and some of the most remote places on Earth you can find either a McDonald's or KFC and even the countries that either hate or restrict opening up an American franchise will often rip them off and capitalize off the idea whether or not International lawsuit ensues or not is another question the point is they know the idea Works in addition to entrepreneurship Innovation creativity and invention has been a deep rooted part of our history we're even the first country to have an electronic grid it provided to Citizens as a utility in 1882. the Wright brothers invented the first sustained and controlled airplane in 1903 which pioneered and revolutionalized the air travel industry we love getting the world involved in our Commerce this is in large part thanks to our free marketing capitalistic economic model in which Market is run by the consumers and basically thanks to our loose marketing laws almost anything within the minimum of public decency can be advertised we go so far as advertise things like medicine colleges and yes even the famous attorney settlement claim Billboards and Cheez-It commercials are an American staple did you get hit by a car did you get muscle feel mesothemiomia will call right now because you might be entitled to financial compensation you gotta love those commercials in any case some people like to vacation in our nature zones like our favorite animal correspondent you know what this time I believe it's just Caleb take it away hi Goss sorry you know I've been carry Harlow on this channel for a while but as we reach the Home Country it's time to be real and this is the real me you couldn't tell before because I was wearing a hat and a disguise just like Noah also hailing from the great state of Iowa it is I the American Caleb Seton so the USA is classified as one of the top 10 mega diverse Nations on Earth over 600 species of reptiles and amphibians more than 800 species of birds over 430 species of mammals the largest mammal within our country being the North American Bison today we have 63 national parks 13 of which are UNESCO world heritage sites including the world's first national park and probably our most famous One Yellowstone the swampy parts of the Deep South is the reptile Haven you have alligators and turtles lurking everywhere there are even crossing signs with gators on them in the Rockies we have black and brown bears Bobcats and mountain lions from that time we saw a bear and what was that oh my gosh let me tell you this story so Paul and I went on a camping trip up near Mammoth California one of the stupidest things we've ever done because we were like just warming up around the fire and I look behind Paul it's a freaking bear like 15 feet away from you we found a bear are you kidding me that's a freaking bear we almost died in the Alaskan North you can find Grizzlies and polar bears as well as narwhals and walruses in the deserts we have coyotes javelinas desert tortoises and tarantulas all along the west coast you have Harbor and elephant seals giant humbled squids porpoises dolphins and whales our Tropical Islands are home to some of the most amazing endemic bird and fish species such as the Hawaiian Honey creeper and the nae nae and the state fish the humuhumunukunuku did I do that right oh my God and that of course brings us to our national animal the bald eagle Majestic powerful and Swift this Eagle is found usually by large bodies of water as they prefer fish they build the largest nests out of any bird on earth and yes it is true All American citizens whether born or naturalized or able to summon one at their will in times of emergency oh I should salute it and speaking of emergencies I have to get back to my wife Jillian because I just had a second baby say hi to Eden Ray she enjoys making bubbles out of her mouth cheers guys thank you Caleb actually fun fact the whole reason I got involved with geography now originally was because I met barbs at Caleb's wedding and it's anything great since then how about that enough on that let's discuss the food first let's start off with the American classic breakfast you've seen it pancakes bacon sausage eggs and don't forget those hash browns however most Americans will eat another iconic American invention cereal that's right we invented the fastest breakfast on Earth you just add milk and done otherwise we have some very iconic Regional Cuisines for one let's bring it to the Native American side such dishes that are shared amongst numerous tribes in lower 48 include things like fry bread bison jerky Three Sisters too wojapi pemmican wild rice whereas for the Inuits up north you might find whale blubber meat Caribou slash reindeer Meat and Sausage cloudberry or salmonberry jams smoked Alaskan Salmons king crab legs and a goo duck their desserts whereas on the islands like Hawaii and Samoa you'll find many dishes baked in their own versions of the Earth Oven POI or mashed purple tarot paste and Kakui nut meat is the Staple in many dishes they specialize in numerous garnished seafood dishes like ahiyahi and Pacific Lobster in the immigrants it's like the Filipinos Portuguese and Japanese even have Incorporated their own Fusion to modern day Hawaiian Cuisine things like loco moco spam Musubi and pokeballs then we get to Soul Food which you've probably heard of Fried Chicken and Waffles fried okra macaroni and cheese collard greens ham hocks and speaking of the South our best kept secret Cajun food imagine if you will a French cuisine was forced to use ingredients from the swamp and it actually worked almost every American grocery store has some kind of Cajun or Creole seasoning my favorite Chef gone mad things like gumbo jambalaya Crawfish Boil pralines Boudin Beignets alligator and andouille sausage New England has their own cuisine as well things like lobster rolls lobster bisque clam chowder and you can't forget Maryland Blue Crab and crab cakes they also have Tex-Mex Cuisine which typically has heavier ingredients and uses more flour tortillas instead of corn enchiladas fajitas quesadillas and also we have so many different Regional barbecue Styles and Barb's favorite Kansas City style ribs love it so so many places have their own style of pizzas and hot dogs the biggest competitors are Chicago deep dish and New York thin crust Americans are also known for their sweet pies most notably apple pie banana cream lemon meringue key lime pie pecan pie and speaking of pie is one of our favorites is pumpkin served on Thanksgiving and finally our most iconic national dish the burger which has so many Regional Specialties America will be nothing without the burger well that's it for me and until we meet again stay tuned and stay ready thank you Noah quick side note in regards to the food stuff yes we have a tipping culture at sit down restaurants not fast food chains typically rates are 15 to 20 and it's not that hard to calculate you just take the price that you owe move the decimal place one spot and then divide that by two and then add that half to the move decimal number that you originally priced yourself that you owe simple and yes we eat while walking like I said we value our time we want things now and see that's America every ethnic group has a story on how they got here and everyone has their own thing yet at the end of the day we're all on the same journey of figuring out how we ended up sitting in our cars eating Taco Bell in a Walmart parking lot contemplating life choices at 3am we've all been there anyway that's a Charming way to introduce my people to the world let's jump into the demographics oh I think all Americans they all want the same thing live a good life they just want different versions of that it's a constant wild Chase and the hunt for the next big thing we may all come from different backgrounds but we've got each other's backs that and we can all go to McDonald's at 5am opinionated it may be a little crazy but in a good way bald eagles flying through the air although those majority live in Canada now Americans are the only people on Earth who will wear sunglasses after the sun is set so watch it you gotta you gotta watch top gun Maverick it's all about the Mavericks bro where we love Adventure we love unpredictability As Americans because the craziest stories come out of the United States of America whether it be a woman who got bit in the Hand by a bear for punching it for the generations of families that like the same team knowing that you are a mixture of a plethora of stories histories and cultures there is someone who thinks an alligator is adorable um and makes questionable decisions during a hurricane so there's the ideal and then there's the reality here in Washington DC we don't even have full representation of Congress we don't even have Senators not all of us talk in a country accent the irony and like how did we all get here I ponder that a lot is being able to just go drive in any direction one of the most American things is going on a road trip and driving for hours without a second thought what it means to be an Alaskan is to live wild and floor just being able to sleep when it's light 24 out be awake when it's dark out gotta love that Midnight Sun I believe an American is someone who Embraces diversity and use it to pursue life liberty and happiness so for me in America there's someone who values and respects American ideals and freedoms but the land of the free the home of the brave honestly but America is nothing without New York it's all Happening Here absurdly stubborn in your beliefs the end of the day you're still gonna all be friends you're gonna go out and get drinks with each other we are the masters of making fun of each other hungry like after midnight IHOP and Denny's are always there for you for me it's the house of waffles it isn't just a waffle house it's a waffle home the batter up we get for calling football soccer this is America an American to me is someone who likes to have a good time and someone that likes free refills it's someone that likes very large portions at a restaurant you can use your EBT card at fast food places and wear sweats pretty much anywhere you are an American you can be anything and can turn any conversation into a competition there's no monolithic Viewpoint or perspective on what makes an American American really you get the whole Melting Pot that's what America is so what is an American this is a question I've pondered about for a long time when I was writing this script from a young age we are taught the value of individualism you are special you are unique there is no one like you in the world and in that regard we are also taught that it's good that we're different because then everyone has something unique and special to add if we're all the same then there wouldn't really be much to add or learn or grow from it's the diversity that empowers us we look at the world around us and see that they already know our songs and watch our TV shows and movies oftentimes they imitate things that we started and put their own spin on it we also regularly noticed that on the news people from all over the world fight to immigrate here they seek refuge and Asylum it seems like they really want to join this country badly so in a sense taking all of that into account not trying to sound boastful but because of that being an American citizen is kind of like it sometimes feels like being part of some kind of weird elite club that a bunch of people want to join or at the very least give attention to and we love attention it's practically our currency it doesn't matter if it's good or bad the moment you give us your eyes and ears we win it feeds us there's nothing we hate more than than just being part of the crowd every American wants to find something about themselves that makes them stick out this is why we obsess so much about things like labels and race it's one of the easiest ways to forge an identity we take DNA tests because at the end of the day we all know that unless we're indigenous we aren't native to this continent we all come from somewhere else and sometimes we're curious we want to know who we are doesn't everybody this may sound kind of shallow on the surface but you kind of have to understand like all the nations of the Americas we're kind of like the Lost Children of the world we never came from royalty or nobility no ancient legacies to honor so in a way we don't really have much to lose we have to build our own empires of course every American has a different story and not everyone will agree to this very sentiment but at the very base that's kind of what I guess it kind of somewhat feels like to be American yeah oh that was a speech in any case let's talk about the ethnic makeup of the USA shall we motion graphic time first of all the United States has about 340 million people and is the third most populous nation on Earth after China and India and has the highest immigration out of any country in the world and every nation on Earth has some kind of community or diaspora represented within it the first and country's largest demographic being the white non-hispanic group at about 60 percent which mostly contains Caucasian Americans typically with European Origins from there the second largest community are Hispanic and Latino Americans making up about 19 of the population keep in mind the Latino and Hispanic communities are also incredibly diverse within themselves and some may or may not also identify with either white or black communities depending on where they feel on the racial scale from there the black community makes up the third largest demographic at somewhere around 13 of the population after that Asians and Pacific Islanders make up about seven percent of the population the largest communities being Chinese Filipinos Indians Vietnamese Koreans and Japanese and the remaining one percent is mostly made up of Native American or home Hawaiian slash Alaskan natives also keep in mind some of these people listed here also register under two or more races or some other race so in that regard all these lines could be blurred and have asterisks applied to them depending on what the individual claims on their document we use the US dollar as our currency we use the types A and B plug outlets and we drive on the right side of the road and just like we explained in the UK episode the USA is one of the few countries that does not use the metric system our units of measurements are Miles feet inches Acres Fahrenheit pounds tons ounces pints quartz and our favorite unit of measurement the big fat gallon this is a gallon we actually measure our gas in these units too so yeah also keep in mind sometimes we don't even care we'll just make up our own units of measurement when we're too lazy we literally measure things like fried chicken and popcorn in buckets and ice cream in tubs now going back to the ethnic makeup thing it's important to note that most multi-generational Americans today have a degree of racial and genetic admixture most white Americans today are descendants of immigrants that arrive through Ellis Island not British Colonials coming from countries like Germany Ireland Italy and over time many of the whites kind of just mixed and created new American whites it's not uncommon for them to have some Native American blood as well and then it gets a little weird because some people are like oh yeah my great grandma was 184th Cherokee new I'm special and the same even applies to our black population according to a study published in the American Journal of human genetics the average black person in the USA has about 24 European ancestry but it varies by the individual we'll talk more about the racial story of the USA in a bit but first language technically the US has never declared an official language however the de facto national language and language of use for all Administration and documents is English or at least American English 28 states have voted to make English the official state language of their state three states have de facto bilingual policies they are Maine and Louisiana for French and New Mexico for Spanish and oh my goodness Cajun French sounds so cool it's like lazy swamp French as for Hawaiian and well actually I figured maybe we should let a real Hawaiian explain take it away Mr kamaka did you know that Hawaii is the only official state where English and Hawaiian serves as co-equal languages in the administration sometimes you can even hear Hawaiian being spoken in legislature meetings since the 80s there's been a huge Hawaiian language Revival because of the creation of Hawaiian emerging schools we have schools for preschool all the way to 12th graders and everything is done in Hawaiian about half a century ago Hawaiian language was at the brink of Extinction with only 2 000 native speakers today in 2023 I'm proud to say there's over 30 000 people speaking our native tongue thank you kamaka follow him on his social medias and his websites he's an awesome guy doing great things for Hawaii otherwise three of the territories also have official bilingual status along with English for their native languages Spanish for Puerto Rico chamoro for Guam and Samoan for American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands is the only officially trilingual entity with chamoro and Carolinian as the official languages alongside with English however as a whole bilingualism has been growing fast in the U.S mostly with Spanish and French as our most commonly taught languages in schools in the 80s our populace was only about 11 bilingual today however that number has more than doubled as the Census Bureau estimates that somewhere around one in five people in the US ages five and up uses another language at home and one in four Americans are proficient enough to Converse in another language in any case religion in the USA regardless of level of devotion somewhere around 70 maybe upwards to 75 claim to be affiliated with some kind of Christian denomination the largest ones being Protestant followed by Catholic and non-denominational otherwise the next largest religious groups are Jews and Buddhists at somewhere around two percent each and then Muslims at around one percent for the rest of the country it's kind of like a complicated topic because they tend to fall into a more agnostic approach in which they might claim to be spiritual but not religious so going back to the topic how did all the Races end up here well to start off of course the originals were the Native Americans in a nutshell they come from numerous tribes that each have their own customs and traditions there are over 570 recognized ones and then of American story of this country is an acknowledged sad one riddled in government mandated relocations mass killings such as the one at the Battle of Wounded Knee and broken treaties all over the place in regard to that though there's also a beautiful side to their story with pride and courage and tribes like the Navajo and Hopi that were honored for their code talker program in World War II and today some tribes like the Cherokee and Osage are starting to revive their languages to more modern usage with things like teaching it in schools putting their tribal scripts on street signs and businesses and windows and documents and so on I've said this before every American needs to visit a tribal reservation at least once and spend time learning about them after that White's from England started coming in from the late 1500s to the early 1600s basically English colonialism after that the Atlantic slave trade from West Africa began with Portugal and eventually made its way to the United States which is where most of our black population is derived from a more contemporary term that some of them might use as or American descendant of Slavery to distinguish themselves from blacks that immigrated from the Caribbean or Africa keep in mind the United States only took in about four percent of the enslaved peoples from the Atlantic slave trade most of them either went to Brazil ill or the Caribbean when it was under the British eventually the Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation happened from there it was still a struggle with a tense time riddled with apartheid laws and customs even in the north where they fought against slavery there was still racism there were Jim Crow laws the bombing of Tulsa the Rosewood incident redlining finally in the 60s the Civil Rights Movement occurred the 60s was kind of like the big moment it is said that slavery and the treatment of Native Americans is the darkest chapter of American History our biggest shame we don't hide from it we acknowledge it we teach it in our schools it's like what the Nazi thing is that Germany or the Imperial thing is to Japan for what it's worth the story of Black America is one with so many chapters but if you look at how the story unfolds over the centuries there is a beauty to it our country could not be what it is with so many amazing individuals that have revolutionized not just our country but made shock waves throughout the whole world look I'm not trying to speak on behalf of the black experience because I'm not black I mean I did that DNA test and it said North African but I'm not claiming anything unless you all approve and if you do I'll bring ribs and Henny to the cookout hey hey but for what it's worth if you must take anything away from this I think most of Americans will agree that the story of America is nothing without the story of the black population in any case from there we move on to the other major communities the Chinese were the first Asians to arrive as rail line workers in the mid-1800s Filipinos started coming in after the colonial years then the Koreans and Vietnamese so the Korean War and the Vietnam War for the Latino Community it's interesting some isolated communities of Mexicans and Spanish people were already living in certain parts of the West after lands were acquired from the Mexican-American War however their populations weren't really high until large migration waves came in in the 20th century from there Latin Americans from all over started building communities Los Angeles has the largest Salvadoran in Guatemalan communities Miami has Cubans Venezuelans Colombians Puerto Ricans and Dominicans Love New York for some reason even though the climate is nothing like their perfect beautiful Tropical Islands I don't get that whole thing but whatever you guys do you and of course when there's Latinos You'll Always Find Mexicans somehow in the mix there's a lot of other groups and stories behind their origins of coming here but we just don't have time this video is already getting long enough if you are from a community that I didn't mention please feel free to write about it in the comments and teach us but otherwise we have to move on in any case one thing you'll notice is that our country tries really really hard to make sure every race has some kind of representation in Media or retail for example major store chains that sell Cosmetics usually have to provide a line that comes in all shades of the skin spectrum and most of them will have what they sometimes call ethnic hair or textured hair or coily hair sections and fun fact art and I actually shop in this part of the store because uh why art Murray's pomade it's the only thing that seems to work on her hair because her hair is thick we always use it so yeah we use this all the time this is a true American classic yeah not a sponsorship which is not a sponsorship we just really like this stuff although it could be a sponsorship first non-black people to be a sponsored by Murray you could use a ginger you would be you would be considered the face of diversity for them since the 70s most of our TV shows and cartoons have had unspoken diversity quotas in which every cast will usually have some minority character either main reoccurring or guest character our toy sections at stores usually contain dolls and action figures that come in all Races nothing more iconic to this sentiment than the famous collectible American Girl doll then you have the really obvious attempts like Captain Planet Magic School Bus and that puppet show that tried too hard like even if it comes off a little forced and pandering or cringy we try our best and usually we mean well in any case that was such a long-winded explanation of American social dynamics one person who also means well and is quite Dynamic would be art so let's switch up the subject and talk about the sports of the USA ah it is all right Artemis hailing from the great state of Washington so let's get started for one let's all go way back to the beginning tribes like the Choctaw Chickasaw and the tribe Creek played chunky which involved rolling a disc and throwing a spear some of the Algonquin tribes played some games similar to soccer called pasakawa kuhog which could have had up to 500 people playing at the same time and yes since this is the USA episode I'm gonna just call it soccer this time soccer and the most famous one that survives to this day and is actually the oldest organized Sports in North America lacrosse fast forward to today and numerous Sports have been invented in our country we love our Sports so much that we even created a sport that cheers on other sports it's called cheerleading ever heard of it oh and one thing almost all schools in the USA have a mascot which is usually a costume character to help cheer on the team and you know you had a real American Experience if your school had to change its mascot due to outdated racist undertones oh yeah my school did that and then we get the big three baseball basketball and American football although some might say baseball was inspired by the game rounders from England the first official formalized version of baseball was created in New York City in 1845 and has become America's pastime Sport and basketball was created in Massachusetts by a Canadian yeah that's true but if you wanted to make it a Canadian sport he would have stayed in Canada we love you Canada though yeah we love you anyway people all over the world know our most famous player of all time Michael Jordan who is a multi-billionaire and never has to worry about life ever again are you serious there you wrote that he set for life yeah let's become billionaires then we get to American football we just call it football sometimes called Gridiron it's our most popular sport it was basically like a sport inspired from rules and techniques found in rugby and soccer invented by Walter Camp in the 1870s and first played by four universities many outside the U.S and Canada might not quite get the sport so if you have to summarize it it's kind of like if you mixed war and speed chess two teams 11 players they have to get to the inside okay let me just describe football really quick okay the chunky fat guys are the right Paul the chunky and fat the linemen on the front and the quarterback is trying to get the ball to whoever that can score touchdown that's basically it and it is a big deal here like a really big deal the Super Bowl today the USA is the most successful Nation at the Olympics holding nearly 3 000 medals about 1200 of which are gold we even have the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time swimmer Michael Phelps we have hosted the Olympics eight times and soon the ninth is going to be here in Los Angeles in 2028. we will also host the 2026 FIFA World Cup and Los Angeles will be a host city as well otherwise we have to bring up a bunch of other Fringe Sports such as running a reindeer and iditary God in Alaska monster truck rallies freestyle Motocross and of course one of our favorite American pastimes entertainment wrestling things like WWF and WWE are Staples of our American diet there is nothing more American than WrestleMania all the superstars and cheesy guest celebrities battle it out and destroy each other we'll destroy each other do they really I mean come on it's so rude it's so real right those are not actors for sure and there are loads of independent lower tier entertainment wrestling leagues in which sometimes get like really weird with like a chicken fights a wizard or a pizza chef and a Green Goblin or a Pop-Tart and a mermaid that sounds like a nightmare actually and that's it for me I'm gonna get out of here you know guys I am so proud to be an American I hope you guys enjoyed the episode and I love you all thank you that was a great way to end it man shut up Paul thank you art I know what is the easiest way to make friends with an American well you have to master the art of the American Interruption let me explain in other countries it's considered rude to listen in on other people's conversations let alone interrupt them while they're talking but here in the USA it's a social art form in a way unless we are quietly Whispering something we kind of don't mind if you hear us and if you hear us talking about something you really understand well and you really feel like you contribute something to the conversation then you are allowed to subtly budge your way into the conversation for example okay do you remember the scare Factor episode where they made him bungee jump and they almost hit them yeah I remember so we're gonna eat Blended up the centipede oh my God we're American Best Friends keep in mind this can go both ways for shared interests and shared hatreds yo did you hear that new Blake album no he's not as good as he used to be no are you 2017 no you just be crying do you guys remember that that music video with the girl in like the orange dress like well yeah we're American best friends and look to my fellow Americans I know some of you guys have been through some rough patches in the way how you see yourselves in our country but let me just remind you a few things our country has gone through a lot of crazy things a lot of shameful things in the past but we also have a lot of glory and a lot of accomplishments it's your country just as much as it is mine and you're my family and we get to share in the glory of this country 21 elements on the periodic table were discovered or co-discovered by us and five of them are named after places in our country we absolutely lead the world in space exploration we're the only people that have landed on the moon and we did it six times and played golf on it we sent the first satellite images of other planets like Jupiter Saturn and even Pluto and we were the first to land a Rover on Mars we pioneered the Genome Project and pioneered so many medical advancements we donate more money for charity and aid for people in need across the world than all the other countries combined we have the number one film industry in the world we invented so many things I'm not even gonna get into it and name them all but one of them being personal computers and the internet and YouTube which you would need to watch this video and that's just a small fraction of the Heritage that your nation gets to claim and you and I are a part of it so buck up kiddo no matter how much we fight we're still family in the end and we're all kind of pretty awesome and I guess that's who we are as Americans we're just the Lost Children of the world that made our own thing and that's our heritage and to talk more about how that Heritage is subdivided regionally here's Hannah with the culture segment hello everyone we are at the America episode and you know I have to start it out with a big Roll Tide because you know I am from Alabama Miami and the baby actually the baby's not from Alabama it's from California oh yeah you're gonna have a California baby oh no so when I when I say American culture lots of things probably pop into your head surfing and skateboarding ketchup Branch dressing pickup trucks Cowboys pop and locking shopping scooters shopping scooters yellow school buses drinks with eyes 64 ounce cups red Solo cups gray cans of cheese root beer to go bag carpet floors wearing shoes indoors and so on these are all fun and true to some extent but there's a deeper story behind our people for one culture in the USA is typically divided into five main regions within the lower 48 and micro regions within them so let's start off northeasterners are hustling business folk it is home to the Bosch wash Corridor the largest megalopolis in the world in terms of economic output with about one-sixth of the entire country's population people here live in or have close access to large Metropolitan centers which most likely means they are acquainted with a wide range of ideas opportunities Office Buildings and The Daily Grind of Modern Life funny enough Pennsylvania is also home to the largest on Amish community that chooses to avoid modern technology the Midwest or the Great Lakes region is the industrial and Manufacturing belt the lakes and rivers help them prosper and trade historically Detroit is known for its car industry hence the nickname Motown or Motor City Chicago processes food and Machinery Wisconsin is the dairy capital in fact two of the top three best hospitals in the country and in the world are here overall the Midwest is good at making things and they are famous for having some of the funniest accents and nicest people in the country then we get to the Great Plains and the frontier this is the Bread Basket and mountains of the nation basically this is the resource epicenter after these lands were acquired the U.S government encouraged Westward Expansion to the citizens by implementing the Homestead Act in 1862. so basically this became the wild west if you've seen The Classy kitchy Americana western films this area also has the most Native American reservations as well be respectful to the tribes if you ever enter the land as they have the their own autonomous set of rules that may differ from the state they are in Colorado is known for having the healthiest people in the country Wyoming is one of the few places where you can still see authentic cowboys and cowgirls Utah and Idaho have the heaviest concentration of the Mormon Community Arizona and New Mexico have a desert culture they know how to handle heat and thrive in it then there's the West Coast California Nevada Oregon and Washington basically two things dominate this region entertainment which is literally what we're doing right now on the west coast and Tech Innovation everyone knows Los Angeles is the entertainment capital of the world home to Hollywood where the largest and busiest Studios and production facilities in the world operate up north you start getting Tech hubs like Silicon Valley and Seattle the startup and Innovation centers with companies like Microsoft Apple Google Facebook Twitter and so on everyone knows Vegas in Nevada the largest casino State however not everything is neon lights and Robotics Oregon is where the whole Lumber industry pretty much started and today some of the best Alpine forests are found here so you find more naturey people out in those parts and finally we reach the South my home region the region everyone in the US is moving to right now this is probably the most well-known distinct region of the USA most people whether religious or not have had some kind of affiliation with the church growing up and will find themselves praying even if they are on a reality show intended to Showcase their drunken sexual escapades and that's also because everyone knows the south is the best party place in the country well tangent because a lot of our colleges have the best football teams reasons to celebrate Louisiana is our best kept secret they have the unique Cajun and creole culture that dominates everything there's nothing like Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street but if you want the original and real Mardi Gras you have to go to Mobile Alabama and as much as I hate to admit it the entire State of Florida is kind of a Non-Stop party even hurricanes don't stop them everyone knows the strangest and crazy easiest things happen in Florida I think it's because it's so hot and humid there South Florida is home to Miami which is basically North Cuba it has a unique Caribbean culture literally you need to speak Spanish the Mississippi Delta is where so many famous people like Elvis Presley and Oprah were born you have the Appalachian or Piedmont South where banjo and bluegrass music began and where some of the best moonshine is made along the coasts of North and South Carolina in Georgia you have the unique Gola Community descendants of the freed slaves that inhabit the Barrier Islands they are known for speaking their own unique Creole that has West African influences musical performances and sweet grass woven craft then of course we get to Texas the big guy let's just say Texas is not just a cowboy state it's evolving into a major modern tech and entrepreneur Hub they're tough they're proud and they love their state in Alaska you can actually find bushed communities that live mostly Off the Grid and survive in the elements and prefer bartering instead of using money native Hawaiians invented surfing and they were ocean navigation experts traversing the entire Pacific on canoes micronesians in Guam and the Marianas also have their distinct Chamorro culture and they live by the concepts of emote and manyina American Samoans are obviously the cousins of the Samoans they have their unique matai and chiefdom systems of ruling themselves and the far as Samoa or Samoan way of life the Virgin Islands is like a mini Jamaica they have their own Creole English quelbe or scratch bands amazing seafood and the unique malbe drink made of tree bark Puerto Ricans are kind of like the US's favorite Latinos politics aside they have created so many cultural impacts that have crept onto the mainland especially in places like New York and Florida home of bomba reggaetones everyone knows Robert Clemente Ricky Martin JLo Daddy Yankee and Luis Fonzie so that's the quick condensed overview of the US's Regional cultures there is so much more we could have mentioned but it would take forever if you are from a region of the USA with a distinct cultural trait we miss write it in the comments and teach us I guess with all of that we go back to the crazy Florida region because now it is Florida band Keys time to talk to us about the music take it away crazy Florida man did it that's the America episode okay all right we're in Florida yeah made it to Florida yeah there's even a fight going on outside so that's how you know it's real Florida hey what's up everybody what's up name Keith thanks for having me on the show Paul I'm not trying to sound cocky or anything like that every other country on the face of the Earth deserves its own Spotlight with all that being said we're the number one music Market in the entire world we export more music and entertainment to the rest of the world than any other country ever let but first let's take it back way back to the indigenous people of the United States Native Americans are known for their pow-wow events of you know War drums and dancing and singing and all kinds of really great traditional things along with the Hawaiians who have the luau's and it's pretty amazing too and they got the fire spinning and the Inuits have their traditional throat singing that they perform so the largest Native American powwow event in the United States is called the Gathering of the Nations and you can go check out this event in Albuquerque New Mexico and it's performed every April and I highly recommend you guys go and check it out in Hawaii you have also the Mary Monarch Festival it's like the most Hawaiian thing you can possibly see with your own two eyes unless if you have one eye then you it's the most amazing thing with your one eye now let's fast forward American Music really started to gain its International recognition in the 1800s with things like Vaudeville and acapellas like the fist Jubilee singers who broke barriers and received the national medal of Arts prior to the 20th century American Music was either classical parlor music slash Saloon music all Americans know such songs Like Home on the Range and Oh Susanna by Stephen Foster and then something crazy happened Jess oh my God Jazz there is nothing more American than jazz music a very highly intellectual form of music jazz basically changed the entire world in or helped shape today's modern music I mean you can take you know the chord structures like complex chord structures I mean songs like Giant Steps you literally have every other beat where it changes like a chord to odd time signatures I mean take five was like a very popular Jazz standard that was in by this record uh kind of Blue by Miles Davis Miles Davis set the standard of how good jazz can sound in my opinion but let's be real I mean you also had John Coltrane in his band I mean even at points I mean Bill Evans was on his record today's music wouldn't be anything without Jazz I mean I also want to highlight blues music just as much as Jazz because without Blues as well we wouldn't have had the era of rock and roll people like Howlin Wolf BB King Stevie Ray Vaughan Gary Clark Jr you know without Blues we would have never gotten into eventually having Elvis Presley to the Beyond into the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and everybody's favorite bands at one point it all kind of stems from the blues we can't leave out what was going on in New York City with hip-hop culture so basically it all started with a guy named DJ Cool hurt it took off from there you have Detroit for Motown and how can we forget about Nashville Nashville the main thing that people see is country music but you can just as much go to Indie show and go check out some indie hipster band or go check out a metal band Believe It or Not Nashville has the highest musicians per capita in the entire world Texas was the birthplace of Tejano every Mexican American knows uh Selena and probably has some sort of private room in their closet uh with a shrine dedicated to Selena with all that being said so many of our American artists have gained International recognition and fan base you can be in the middle of the Himalayas going Camelback and come upon a salt mine and some dude is gonna be all like dude have you ever checked out the Thriller record for Michael Jackson and then he's gonna you're gonna be like yeah who doesn't know Michael Jackson yeah bro oh there's a thriller I'm sure this part is gonna get flagged and taken down anyways I love all of you thanks so much for uh having me on the America episode my name's Keith good job Keith yes America thank you Keith the real original Florida man okay so yeah I'm not even gonna try and end this segment with something witty this episode is already the longest we've ever had on the channel so let's just jump into the final segment shall we the friend zone when it comes to our diplomacy and foreign policy the USA is quite the extrovert and even if there's a diplomatic strain or limited interaction in one area of the world we still have some degree of connection thanks to our incredibly diverse population in diaspora communities I literally found people from places like South Sudan the Solomon Islands and even our rarest guests carry from tuvalu here in the United States that's how insanely diverse and interconnected our nation is in any case the motion graphic as a member of numerous igos in Asia the USA Works closely with many members and has deep ties to them for example after World War II and the Korean War the US has invested heavily in Japan and South Korea and today they are the only two East Asian countries with visa-free access to the U.S the Philippines is super close to as they were once a U.S Colony they speak English and many American cultural traits have adopted into Filipino Society India shares a close relationship as they make the second largest Asian diaspora community in the U.S after the Chinese they have huge bilateral trade deals and joint military exercises they are easy to engage with as an anglophone nation and heads of state have met numerous times with China it's almost always a complicated extensive economic based relationship and of course there's the whole Taiwan thing basically in the 70s former president Richard Nixon visited and soon after the U.S China joint communique and the six assurances were established long story short no matter how things get we keep doing this thing where it's like I think I'm better than you but I want to keep dancing with you otherwise as a member of various North and South American organizations the US has very obvious and close ties to their North and South American Neighbors in the broadest sense they are all kind of like new world countries that share a similar story of being built off of European colonialism evolving into the vibrant new societies that they are today the US was the first country to recognize Brazil as a nation in 1808 and many sociologists will say that Brazil is kind of like the closest country resembling the US in shared experiences related to their demographic makeup the only real major difference is that Brazil was more Catholic influence whereas the US was more Protestant otherwise moving on to Africa the U.S cooperates in many discussions with the Au and ADB the African growth and opportunity act in 2000 provides preferential cooperation to the U.S market for eligible African countries such as Kenya Nigeria and South Africa and today many African Americans do pilgrimage trips and some even get dual citizenship oh yeah and Liberia was like the US's long-lost adoptive African stepchild that we keep forgetting we really need to pay more attention to them and give them more love when it comes to Europe though basically the US has always had some kind of constant interaction with Europe since the Inception of our nation's Independence France was the first country to establish diplomatic relations with us also thank you for giving us the Statue of Liberty over the years Europeans from virtually every corner of the continent immigrated to the US and built communities and neighborhoods after World War II we signed the Marshall Plan which was a huge economic Recovery Act which eventually evolved into the formation of NATO the only main European relationship that has a roller coaster of diplomatic instability typically lands with Russia rooted in the Cold War era conflict but this is a topic for another time when it comes to our best friends however typically Americans will probably root for one of the teen major anglophone Nations we Americans hardcore crush on the Aussies and Kiwis I personally feel like nothing illustrates this more than the Irwin family we share a history of being former British colonies we are members of anzas the Pacific committee and a partner in the Pacific Islands Forum we share very common political and cultural interests we've almost always teamed up and had each other's backs on numerous International conflicts and yeah overall we love them then we hit a little closer to home and get to Canada and the UK Canada is more like our obedient little brother that stuck with Daddy Britain as we broke away and got our own apartment later on they saw us having so much fun and then kind of slowly and politely requested to leave dad's Nest nonetheless in a technical sense Canada has the oldest shared relationship with us as we were both being formed at the same time so we ultimately really get each other and we share so much in common in regards to culture values and politics we both speak English much to the Chagrin of the quebe about 75 to 85 percent of their trade goes through the USA granted sometimes Canadians hope they don't get too Americanized and they try to salvage their Canadian identity whatever that means but ultimately we love them we marry the crap out of each other we hire their musicians and actors they let us film in Vancouver for super cheap and we love how they hate it when we call them our 51st state finally we end up with the old man UK the US is the Rebel Son that broke away yet after things cooled off we totally laughed about it and became the closest friends all over again today the two countries share the world's largest direct foreign investment partnership and virtually go hand in hand in almost every International issue the UK is like our connection to Europe and recently both countries have affirmed the other as being the country with the most important bilateral partnership in their foreign policy long story short the story ends right where it began the USA and UK will always look out for each other alright the motion graphic is over it's time to do this in conclusion look personally if you're American you're my family we don't always have to agree on everything in fact we might not even like each other we might even kind of hate each other a little bit but the point is if you're an American you're still my family and at the end of the day my family comes first I'll still have your back Nobody messes with my crazy family and if you have a green card it's like you're kind of engaged to my family and I can't wait for the wedding if you're undocumented and you call this country your home and you love it and you work hard and you have good character and want to be a part of the family then I'm rooting for you to take all the necessary steps to join the family and for those of you saying that we have problems yeah of course we have problems we always had problems we always will but look at our history when there was a problem we didn't stick with it grumbling and twiddling our thumbs we openly acknowledged it we erupted a little bit we let things get messy and then we figured things out that's kind of how we do things we're Americans we're still figuring things out and we're not even 300 years old we're just getting started we're not done we're never done we don't stop you're part of a people and nation that has done amazing things the world has never seen before you're part of that amazingness it's like by default you Americans are already unique you're already amazing you just you might not recognize it or feel it but you are we became our own Royals and this is our home and I love you all stay tuned Uruguay is coming up next sorry you have to follow that [Music] foreign

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Published: Tue Jul 04 2023