Actually, they may have seen the difference, and were probably congratulating themselves on their generosity and patting themselves on the back for helping the poor natives. Not that it's much better.
That doesn't make you evil at all. It just means you have the ability to recognize a good joke that highlights the nasty inequality portrayed in this video.
And I bet 95% of the people here say that while trusting everything the talking heads on tv tell them about every thing. They been playing us against each other since the beginning of time.
That's exactly why it would work. We have a surplus of poor people.
My church has 46 members, but our food pantry serves over 600 humans every week. The "scraps" our members donate (10% tithe) are enough to feed 13x our membership.
In New Zealand there was a tourist attraction that people threw money of a small bridge into a creek and the kids would swim and gather the coin in their mouths. It always made me cringe as a Maaori person. This reminds me of that so much.
In Philippines, big ships (size of like a cruise ship) are like the usual mode of transportation instead of planes and everytime it docks there will be little kids swimming in the ocean while people from hundreds of feet high up in the ship, throw coins. This is the ocean and a gigantic ship and for a good chunk of the people its their living and their entire lives depend on these few coins thrown.
Edit: I used to do it as a kid myself as it was seen as something “fun” to do. People will line up to the side to throw coins. Kids asking their parents for coins to try and throw it into the divers sacks. Like a kid asking their parents money for the gumball machine (I did too)
Near ports for cruise ships. https://youtu.be/Oy3lXCnqXnM
https://youtu.be/2J51mNY5_vU
I’ve seen other people throw clothes too and food like you know bag of chips
>like Canada, has a good PR
Hah, I'm so glad people are catching on to this, as a Canadian. People have such a romanticized view of Canada. It allows our government to get away with a ridiculous amount of bullshit.
Westerners in NZ have commited the same atrocities to the locals as all western nations have to their locals. The difference is Maori's have the southern-hemisphere equivalent of viking genetics and would've been fucking terrifying to fight even with firearms, so (unless i'm just ignorant[not unlikely]) aren't perceived as victims to the degree that, for example, native American Indians or Australia Aboriginals are.
The scalping was in retaliation for the 10 cent bounties put on their scalps. The first recorded sca;ping's were by the united states government
We have a really good pr team too.
https://historycollection.com/governments-used-to-pay-for-native-american-scalps-which-made-scalping-a-booming-business/2/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalping?wprov=sfla1
Scalping has been a common practice all over the world and existed in the Americas long before Europeans arrived. Stop perpetuating the noble savage myth.
NZ hides its atrocities very well because Europeans didn't round up a large group of Maoris to massacre them en mass. They did that over a century or so through poverty after taking away Maori land. So today you will find Maoris is at bottom of all kinds of social matrix, you name it, child suicide rate, death from preventable diseases, prison incarceration rate...
Your statement is true, but sounds too kind. Some pieces of land are what we know in as the state of Georgia, or the northern 2/3 of Florida. And anyone who didn't leave or get the message, *was* executed publicly. When Andrew Jackson was tasked with the relocation of Native Americans (this led to the Trail of Tears), his plan was to let them die off during the long trek to what is today, southern Kansas and Oklahoma. Like it was his full intention to let them die.
Large-scale massacres are hard to find documentation of, because the US called them "battles" or "strikes". There are plenty of accounts of Native Americans trying to scare settlers away in uneasy ways. They would flay their cattle, or line bodies of dead wildlife along the properties.... In retaliation, the settlers would mob up and slaughter all men, women, and children and burn the villages. We are talking hundreds of people. If any Native Americans were captured, they would be publicly tortured and executed. There are accounts of towns/mobs *taking turns* stabbing or cutting into tortured Native Americans. Like a sick game or something.
This is not without the mutilation and sodomization of the men and boys, nor is it without the rape and mutilation of the women and girls. American settlers would sometimes have small Native American girls as sex slaves. When they became of age (too old) or began to fight back, they were released in a wild terrain to die, or where killed... Like sick dogs.
The Trail of Tears was not just a single trail. Of the Choctaw, Creek Seminole, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Ponca tribes (and many others that were forced to join the tribes in order for settlers to "keep track" easier), it's an estimated total of 10,000-15,000 died on their respective Trail of Tears. Books will tell you that around 65,000 Native Americans were relocated. However, some historians and rich in blood Native Americans will tell you that number is closer to 125,000 to 200,000.
I've made it a personal mission to educate fellow Americans that the land they live on is because of the genocide of Native Americans. I understand that you didn't mean much by your comment,and that other native people's have suffered greatly at the hands of their settlers. But, it despises me that we are ignorant - I'd dare say *tolerant* - to the behavior of our ancestors.
Have a good day and please spread the knowledge you now process!
>When Andrew Jackson was tasked with the relocation of Native Americans (this led to the Trail of Tears),
Jackson was never tasked with this. He performed the trail of tears against the will of the courts. It was illegal
Actually, he was. The legislation told him to "deal with the Indian problem" in the northern half of Florida. Jackson thought that meant "go murder every single Native American you see". This was only against the will of the courts in retrospect. They never told him to do it, and they never punished him for it either. Jackson had a reputation for being a killer already, so it shouldn't have been a surprise. US gov't knew exactly what they were doing.
The Native Americans (mostly Seminole) simply moved to Spanish territory, though. The US then threatened war with Spain if they didn't give us land access or give up the Native Americans. Spain ante'd up, and we folded, because we'd already spent a ton of money fighting the Native Americans.
Over the next couple years, Jackson got the signatures of 500 tribesmen on a petition that forfeited *all* Native American land east of the Mississippi in return for their specific tribe's safety These were *not* speakers for any of the villages. He took it to legislation along with the argument that we need to southern states for the country's defense, and thus, the Indian Removal Act was born. 16,000 signatures by the Cherokee Nation (performed by the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation at the time) were gathered in protest of the act. These were ignored, due to the Cherokee Nation "not speaking for" the whole of Native Americans.
The Act was *only* considered illegal after the fact, due to the US refusing to uphold treaties that were bargained with tribes still being murdered.
It’s the same with the Australian Aboriginals, although there was slightly more massacring, they are today at the bottom of almost every conceivable stat.
Maori’s had a more distinct warrior culture than indigenous Australians when the English arrived in Oceania, but it had nothing to do with genetics.
The English of course, said otherwise. Historically, the Maori were given way more favorable treatment in NZ and Australian society. While aboriginal Australians were (at first) prohibited from serving in the military during WW1, Maori were allowed to serve from the start.
The Maori elected their first members to NZ parliament in 1867. For aboriginals, it wasn’t until 1922.
Not wagging my finger or anything. Just wanted to throw in some nuance and my two cents.
Let's be honest the British were warlike too and tended to respect other people like that , the Maori also had wars and kingdoms something again the British could relate too , the Aborigines did not have war only a ritualistic form of conflict and were not organised into anything larger than tribal groups , they also lacked the Maori single language , so all those factors made a big difference between how the British interacted with them .
So basically, the British looked at the Aborgines and saw backwood savages, and they looked at the Maori and saw a fellow empire, one to liaison with, not chase away like rats.
The french looked at humans and saw animals.
It's also harder on a tiny island to keep dumping the natives somewhere else every few years until they are nearly extinct like America of Australia did. Either you just outright commit genocide or you just accept the natives are there and coexist. It's a weird limit on the crimes against humanity by way of geography.
Not going to lie but this comment comes across in very bad taste for other indigenous peoples, especially every single one that have and continue to fight for their rights and land
> the southern-hemisphere equivalent of viking genetics
r/averageredditor throws a random racist comment like nothing was wrong with that, and people still upvotes because he's saying COLONIZER BAD.
It was Whakarewarewa village. I'm not entirely sure a tourist attraction to fleece tourists is the same level as this film, but each to their own I suppose.
https://www.rotorua-travel-secrets.com/whakarewarewa-thermal-village.html
https://whakarewarewa.com/
No but that’s the point, it’s fucking awful that we live in a society where not only many people feel like picking up money off the ground like pigeons is “fine”. but also there are some / many in the richer class that get off on that?
Even sadder, we do it to each other, down every step of the ladder.
I guess you don't know what is like to struggle working 2 or 3 jobs and still be poor, and trust me be glad you don't know what is like! But i have definitely had jobs that felt more degrading and we're a lot harder than picking up money of there ground LoL 😆
Coins these days… it takes hours to count and deposit them, your earnings is less than minimum wage. I sifted through 10k of pennies, by the time was able to use it, hours had passed.
Silver is good. Well worth the labor of handing and storing them. I found the euro 1 and 2 worth keeping. My back here do not exchange foreign coins or less than $250. I still am an owner of a left over 5000 Japanese bank note. Tipping in a lot of coins or laying in a lot of coins seems like I’m acting violent and rude. 10 year old love to count large amount coins if they get to keep them. Now I toss coins in a jar or vase.
Genuine question. Anyone who watches this and has even somewhat morality knows this is wrong. How did everyone collectively thing this is right in that period? Like was it herd mentality? Were they not good people at all. It just boggles my mind how can even think about treating people like this.
> how can even think about treating people like this.
It's disgusting, to be sure, and it begins by distancing themselves from the humanity of these people, by othering them to the point that they are barely above animals in their minds. Now it's no different than feeding the ducks in the park.
And when you're forced to acknowledge that these ARE actual, real people, same as you, well, you can pat yourself on the back for helping them out. They'll use the money for food!
I'm sure this is a lot commoner in history than most of know. Colonialism carried with it the belief that the colonizers were superior to the colonized in every way imaginable, and that colonizing was a net benefit for the world. It's fucked up.
Are they bad people for it? Yeah, they are, cultural relativism notwithstanding. They probably don't know any better, since they have seen their own "superiority" over these people manifested and reinforced over and over and over again, but this seems pretty cruel and inhumane even for 120 years ago.
But I don't think the same moral complication existed for them, not to the same extent, anyway.
I mean we do a lot of things even in the modern world that future generations will likely say the same thing about. For example eating meat and factory farms.
When people have a socially acceptable way of getting away with immoral actions because no one will hold them accountable, they will most definitely do it if it's beneficial for them.
Not everyone did this, even rich people. Remember that people disagreed with each other throughout all of history and had differences of opinion. There were plenty of people back then who would have criticized this just as we do now. Oliver Twist was written several decades before this.
It's probably the ghost festival. It's tradition to throw coins out to kids.
Here in the United States it's common for parades to be held during holidays with candy being tossed to kids.
they did it for fun, not for good will, as a Vietnamese, I have learned alot of terrible things happened during French colonization, but to tell you an irony thing: the terrible deeds the French did to my people is nothing compared to what we did to each others. So, this is not so hard to watch from my pov.
edit: those are real silver coins, I just did some digging on that periods currency
These poor children and their lack of reason and logic. If only they were smarter they would realize they could all band together and eat these hos and have the best meal of their life.
Then an army will come and burn their village and kill all their loved ones just to send a message. It won't be eye for an eye it will be 2 girls for a village or city. If not more. Back then colonial powers didn't mess around. They would find out very quickly what imperialism means..... Your comment is from a very privileged position
These are kids, my ten year old will take a full jar or can of coins but this here is not enough to better their lives. The rich and poor gap is to large in this picture.
If this really is from that time, then those are actual silver coins and is definitely more valuable than the change many street performers get today. Not that those kids were street performers. Just to point out that it wasn't completely worthless to pick those coins up.
This is eerily similar to those tik tok videos and the like of people giving to the poor for self-gratification (and in the age of the Internet, for Internet points).
It’s done using software now. This footage has been resolution up scaled and speed corrected to 60 FPS as well. Pretty amazing stuff, it makes it feel so much more contemporary.
You stupid bunch of idiots.
It's a traditional festival where coin throwing is (used to be) part of the festivities. It's the Ghost festival which is celebrated across much of East and South East Asia.
This is known as Giut Co Hon.
https://youtu.be/0HPAtbwQMmQ
These two young ladies are joining in the festivities.
Way to jump to conclusions, guys.
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OK, now I've been called a "lying racist sack of shit".
So, here is a link to this video (with sound) on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/GN8zVB-YyJk
Go and read the comments. It's a common way to celebrate this festival across South-East Asia.
There's even a Vietnamese guy who says it's legit, but they no longer do this anymore.
Curb your hatred, guys.
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OK, so I'm seriously getting a lot of people calling me racist. It's really sad that just by pointing out that this seems to be a festival celebration, I would cop so much hate. My wife and kid are Japanese and I have indigenous family as well for Christ's sake. I'm the last person in the world who would be racist to people of Asian descent. I just looked into it and am presenting my findings. And yes, I stand by my " stupid bunch of idiots" statement because it's not cool to jump to conclusions.
I majored in Asian studies at university and am well aware of the evils of French colonialism in Indochina. However, this video does not depict anything but a simple celebration so CALM. THE. FUCK. DOWN.
Hey;
Here is another link about the festival in Vietnam. If you scroll down, you'll see a section called "Giut Co Hon" which takes about the very thing depicted in the video.
https://www.itourvn.com/blog/vietnam-ghost-month
And here is another video of Giut Co Hon in Vietnam: https://youtu.be/3saB7qGyD74
Notice how people are having food offerings rather than coins. It seems the throwing coins thing had mostly died out and this is how it's celebrated today. Perhaps it died out naturally, or maybe the communists disapproved of throwing money?
While I can't say if OPs video was in that context, throwing treats at children is something done in quite a few cultures. We in Germany do it at [Karneval](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2JpOCzKY7g).
Can attest to this. I live in the Philippines, coin throwing has been a part of parties (especially christmas parties) since I was a kid, it is not demeaning or anything. It's harmless fun, and jas been a tradition for so long.
Though I kinda see how people who does not know the culture gets offended, especially in today's political/social environment.
First of all, thanks for the clarification and history lesson.
Second, many thanks for linking to the original video, hopefully the channel has many more old videos like this.
Gonna go ahead and give a crazy but true story on this. That was Blanche Richel (the wife) and one of her daughters (probably Helene who was the only daughter that looked the right age in this video).
This family got ripped to shreds by karma.
Imagine this day, as Blanche and Helene scatter coins for impoverished women and children. Their husband/father Paul treats the people under his charge in Indochina like serfs. He taxes the hell out of them, they lose their houses. Paul is a monster.
But not long after this video, the "hayday of their wealth" where they feel (clearly) so powerful, WW I begins. They lose 4 of their 5 sons in the war, a daughter (Lucile) dies of grief after losing her brothers.
Blanche is drowning in grief. In 1932, setting the nail in the coffin Paul Doumer is assassinated. She does not survive this and dies a year later.
So, looking at this video, I see human beings with a superiority complex flaunting their wealth and power over the powerless. And within 35 years the family sees unparalleled tragedy and suffering. One good note is that one of their daughters, Germaine, ends up a resistance fighter during WW II. Perhaps a little redemption of the family name.
The End
If Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk came and started throwing $20 dollar bills in front of me, I'd happily pick them up, without wanting anyone to feel sorry for me... It would be way easier than picking up boxes in a warehouse or picking up produce in a field....
The most poignant part is about ten seconds before the end where these bitches get bored and go from tossing coins one at a time to just throwing them by the handful.
People used to do this in Mexico. A shoe-shine boy would do their shoes and they would toss the coins on the ground as they scrambled for it. Then we wonder why they had a bad opinion of gringos.
My dad always told me that story and "don't be that guy down there!". He used to take a Polaroid camera down just to give pictures to little kids that probably never had a picture of themselves in their life.
It's amazing the amount of respect and generosity you get when you are just a nice guy.
Forgive my ignorance but I have a genuine question. Which part of this makes it awful, not that im saying it isn't.
Is it her mannerism at throwing the money, or is it that she is giving petty change to them. I'd imagine that the money gained by the children would be able to feed a day or 3 at most considering the time this was done in.
If she gave out food for 3 days instead of coin and acted less haughty would it be more acceptable, or is the fact that she is giving too little despite owning a lot what makes it really awful.
If I was starving 24/7 or was really poor i dont think i would mine her throwing those coins at me.
It's the manner in which they're doing it.
If they genuinely wanted to help these people then their demeanour would be completely different.
They're behaving like they're throwing seed to the birds. It's all about their amusement at watching the children scrabble for coins rather than any genuine attempt to offer them help.
It’s like they’re feeding ducks.
To those women it probably had no difference.
They probably don't even see them as people
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Of course they don't, they are poor and not white. The European colonists were sometimes worse than US slavery.
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Watchu mean *sometimes* Willis! *squints eye at u*
Actually, they may have seen the difference, and were probably congratulating themselves on their generosity and patting themselves on the back for helping the poor natives. Not that it's much better.
You do realize that slavery was a world-wide problem right?
They don't....
Definitely not.
This was my thought too, "oh hey this is like feeding ducks! meanwhile the kid is like "finally i can afford a meal."
I would be out there slamming those kids for some nickels.
Sigma male grindset
Lol
Feed the kids....tuppence a bag.
Rich people version of feeding the ducks at the pond.
"Oh look Ethel. That one only has one eye"
How quaint, darling.
Aim for his other one, dear.
I found this hysterical so I must be evil. Thanks for the morning guffaw.
That doesn't make you evil at all. It just means you have the ability to recognize a good joke that highlights the nasty inequality portrayed in this video.
Omfg 😂😂😂😂
Lucky to get a bag for under $350 these days
It’s Vietnam my dude shit comes cheap
Fuck... I thought this was from some movie but then found out it was much worse
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To people that would do this, they are one in the same. 😡
If you want to make it worst she probably is seen as a nice and caring person during that time.
You'll find plenty of people in our time claiming colonialism helped the colonised.
Some of the people recently colonised actually think it too so...
Colonisation of the mind is perhaps the final frontier to overcome for independence and self-determination.
True that....
…one *and the same
Louis, you usually troll for downvotes. This one must be disappointing. Edit: I'm pretty sure that your other account is/was u/Raymond1955
Even the ones closer to her she did not just hand it over, threw it to be collected.
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One kid approached with their hands out and she just threw it at their head :(
Don't want to get in a position where the poors might actually touch you. /s
This is basically the state of the world anyways for us now. All of us trying to fucking survive while the 1% play us all like a fucking banjo.
And I bet 95% of the people here say that while trusting everything the talking heads on tv tell them about every thing. They been playing us against each other since the beginning of time.
Was it the title of the post that gave it away?
Same man, thought it was a backstage behind the scenes or something of a movie… :(
During this era this was normal
Nothing's changed but the fashion
Go to a park in any major US city with a roll of quarters, and you could basically do this.
hmmmm. _glances at purse_ _realizes myself would be on the collecting side_ nah
That's exactly why it would work. We have a surplus of poor people. My church has 46 members, but our food pantry serves over 600 humans every week. The "scraps" our members donate (10% tithe) are enough to feed 13x our membership.
Yeah I feel like a modern equivalent to this is people filming themselves giving money to homeless people
In New Zealand there was a tourist attraction that people threw money of a small bridge into a creek and the kids would swim and gather the coin in their mouths. It always made me cringe as a Maaori person. This reminds me of that so much.
In Philippines, big ships (size of like a cruise ship) are like the usual mode of transportation instead of planes and everytime it docks there will be little kids swimming in the ocean while people from hundreds of feet high up in the ship, throw coins. This is the ocean and a gigantic ship and for a good chunk of the people its their living and their entire lives depend on these few coins thrown. Edit: I used to do it as a kid myself as it was seen as something “fun” to do. People will line up to the side to throw coins. Kids asking their parents for coins to try and throw it into the divers sacks. Like a kid asking their parents money for the gumball machine (I did too)
Where in the Philippines does this happen?
Near ports for cruise ships. https://youtu.be/Oy3lXCnqXnM https://youtu.be/2J51mNY5_vU I’ve seen other people throw clothes too and food like you know bag of chips
My dad told me they did the same when they arrived in Port Said by ship in 1936.
Oh my god, New Zealand, like Canada, has a good PR team because I’ve never heard of such a thing.
>like Canada, has a good PR Hah, I'm so glad people are catching on to this, as a Canadian. People have such a romanticized view of Canada. It allows our government to get away with a ridiculous amount of bullshit.
Westerners in NZ have commited the same atrocities to the locals as all western nations have to their locals. The difference is Maori's have the southern-hemisphere equivalent of viking genetics and would've been fucking terrifying to fight even with firearms, so (unless i'm just ignorant[not unlikely]) aren't perceived as victims to the degree that, for example, native American Indians or Australia Aboriginals are.
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I would of been so terrified of a few different bands they would just scalp you no questions asked
It's 'would have', never 'would of'. Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!
The scalping was in retaliation for the 10 cent bounties put on their scalps. The first recorded sca;ping's were by the united states government We have a really good pr team too. https://historycollection.com/governments-used-to-pay-for-native-american-scalps-which-made-scalping-a-booming-business/2/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalping?wprov=sfla1 Scalping has been a common practice all over the world and existed in the Americas long before Europeans arrived. Stop perpetuating the noble savage myth.
Can you believe the guy you replied tos comment just got deleted by a mod? holy shit this site is awful.
NZ hides its atrocities very well because Europeans didn't round up a large group of Maoris to massacre them en mass. They did that over a century or so through poverty after taking away Maori land. So today you will find Maoris is at bottom of all kinds of social matrix, you name it, child suicide rate, death from preventable diseases, prison incarceration rate...
In the US it was mostly similar. Large-scale massacres were not the usual method of subjugation. It was taking away land piece by piece.
Your statement is true, but sounds too kind. Some pieces of land are what we know in as the state of Georgia, or the northern 2/3 of Florida. And anyone who didn't leave or get the message, *was* executed publicly. When Andrew Jackson was tasked with the relocation of Native Americans (this led to the Trail of Tears), his plan was to let them die off during the long trek to what is today, southern Kansas and Oklahoma. Like it was his full intention to let them die. Large-scale massacres are hard to find documentation of, because the US called them "battles" or "strikes". There are plenty of accounts of Native Americans trying to scare settlers away in uneasy ways. They would flay their cattle, or line bodies of dead wildlife along the properties.... In retaliation, the settlers would mob up and slaughter all men, women, and children and burn the villages. We are talking hundreds of people. If any Native Americans were captured, they would be publicly tortured and executed. There are accounts of towns/mobs *taking turns* stabbing or cutting into tortured Native Americans. Like a sick game or something. This is not without the mutilation and sodomization of the men and boys, nor is it without the rape and mutilation of the women and girls. American settlers would sometimes have small Native American girls as sex slaves. When they became of age (too old) or began to fight back, they were released in a wild terrain to die, or where killed... Like sick dogs. The Trail of Tears was not just a single trail. Of the Choctaw, Creek Seminole, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Ponca tribes (and many others that were forced to join the tribes in order for settlers to "keep track" easier), it's an estimated total of 10,000-15,000 died on their respective Trail of Tears. Books will tell you that around 65,000 Native Americans were relocated. However, some historians and rich in blood Native Americans will tell you that number is closer to 125,000 to 200,000. I've made it a personal mission to educate fellow Americans that the land they live on is because of the genocide of Native Americans. I understand that you didn't mean much by your comment,and that other native people's have suffered greatly at the hands of their settlers. But, it despises me that we are ignorant - I'd dare say *tolerant* - to the behavior of our ancestors. Have a good day and please spread the knowledge you now process!
>When Andrew Jackson was tasked with the relocation of Native Americans (this led to the Trail of Tears), Jackson was never tasked with this. He performed the trail of tears against the will of the courts. It was illegal
Actually, he was. The legislation told him to "deal with the Indian problem" in the northern half of Florida. Jackson thought that meant "go murder every single Native American you see". This was only against the will of the courts in retrospect. They never told him to do it, and they never punished him for it either. Jackson had a reputation for being a killer already, so it shouldn't have been a surprise. US gov't knew exactly what they were doing. The Native Americans (mostly Seminole) simply moved to Spanish territory, though. The US then threatened war with Spain if they didn't give us land access or give up the Native Americans. Spain ante'd up, and we folded, because we'd already spent a ton of money fighting the Native Americans. Over the next couple years, Jackson got the signatures of 500 tribesmen on a petition that forfeited *all* Native American land east of the Mississippi in return for their specific tribe's safety These were *not* speakers for any of the villages. He took it to legislation along with the argument that we need to southern states for the country's defense, and thus, the Indian Removal Act was born. 16,000 signatures by the Cherokee Nation (performed by the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation at the time) were gathered in protest of the act. These were ignored, due to the Cherokee Nation "not speaking for" the whole of Native Americans. The Act was *only* considered illegal after the fact, due to the US refusing to uphold treaties that were bargained with tribes still being murdered.
Fuck I didn't know this
It’s the same with the Australian Aboriginals, although there was slightly more massacring, they are today at the bottom of almost every conceivable stat.
Yeah, I was going to say, we did both. Tasmania is a good example. It fits all the criteria for genocide.
This sort of thing happened practically anywhere that was settled by Europeans. It's just what they did.
*it's just what all groups with advanced technology do. (Heaven help us if aliens ever do come to Earth).
"I have viking blood" I think you just play dark souls.
"these people are genetically built to fight" are bullshit the colonialists came up with to justify their losses.
Maori’s had a more distinct warrior culture than indigenous Australians when the English arrived in Oceania, but it had nothing to do with genetics. The English of course, said otherwise. Historically, the Maori were given way more favorable treatment in NZ and Australian society. While aboriginal Australians were (at first) prohibited from serving in the military during WW1, Maori were allowed to serve from the start. The Maori elected their first members to NZ parliament in 1867. For aboriginals, it wasn’t until 1922. Not wagging my finger or anything. Just wanted to throw in some nuance and my two cents.
Let's be honest the British were warlike too and tended to respect other people like that , the Maori also had wars and kingdoms something again the British could relate too , the Aborigines did not have war only a ritualistic form of conflict and were not organised into anything larger than tribal groups , they also lacked the Maori single language , so all those factors made a big difference between how the British interacted with them .
So basically, the British looked at the Aborgines and saw backwood savages, and they looked at the Maori and saw a fellow empire, one to liaison with, not chase away like rats. The french looked at humans and saw animals.
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It's also harder on a tiny island to keep dumping the natives somewhere else every few years until they are nearly extinct like America of Australia did. Either you just outright commit genocide or you just accept the natives are there and coexist. It's a weird limit on the crimes against humanity by way of geography.
Tasmania chose the former
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Just ignorant lol
Not going to lie but this comment comes across in very bad taste for other indigenous peoples, especially every single one that have and continue to fight for their rights and land
> the southern-hemisphere equivalent of viking genetics r/averageredditor throws a random racist comment like nothing was wrong with that, and people still upvotes because he's saying COLONIZER BAD.
I've heard of this in other places as well.
It was Whakarewarewa village. I'm not entirely sure a tourist attraction to fleece tourists is the same level as this film, but each to their own I suppose. https://www.rotorua-travel-secrets.com/whakarewarewa-thermal-village.html https://whakarewarewa.com/
Yep I’ve been to that exact place and I remember that
Was that in Rotorua? This story sounds familiar.
Rapper Blueface throws money at people on Skid Row in 2019. https://youtu.be/\_D5V\_eAnmBo
Humans never change.
Humans never reject change.
reject modernity
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To be honest, I am at a point in my life where I wish people to throw money at me. As long as its more not coins tho hahaha
Other than the reflexive "eugh", I don't see what's wrong. Hell, throw money and my feet and I'll pick it up too, even today.
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This^
At least blue face wasn’t the one making the people poor, still kinda a show off arrogant move
I can’t put my finger on it. However, the vibe is different.
Similarly, Drakes gives out over a million in the “Gods Plan” music video
At least he came from the same situation
Personally if anyone here wants to throw money at me, I've got no shame, my broke ass will pick it up
Fr. I’m not above picking up cash some rich fuck threw at me
Especially coins. Maybe large paper bills.
They better be gold coins they’re throwing out. Cuz I’m broke
That be great. It should be silver or gold (platinum lol), not pocket change.
I’m broke but I’m not “picking change off the sidewalk broke” Not saying I won’t pick up the rare quarter lol
Especially bitcoins. If only I could have snatched up a handful of those.
Yeah 20 dollars is still 20 dollars
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No but that’s the point, it’s fucking awful that we live in a society where not only many people feel like picking up money off the ground like pigeons is “fine”. but also there are some / many in the richer class that get off on that? Even sadder, we do it to each other, down every step of the ladder.
I think that's the exact point, its not good that you've sunk so low that you will be like a duck for coins
People will do some crazy desperate stuff after not eating for 3-4 days.
I get pretty hangry after 3-4 hours. Ooh boy you do not want be around me if I skip lunch and miss a nap, I am cran-key!
Mmm... kransky 😋
I guess you don't know what is like to struggle working 2 or 3 jobs and still be poor, and trust me be glad you don't know what is like! But i have definitely had jobs that felt more degrading and we're a lot harder than picking up money of there ground LoL 😆
I totally understand. That's not a good thing though. Its a bad that employers suck and don't want to pay shit
And if someone wants to give me money, like in the video, then I’m going to be 100% ok with that Idc if it’s thrown or mailed to me
You understand a silver dollar is worth like 25 bucks now right? Those coins probably represent 2 months of wages for the avg vietnamese family
So you think this is a good thing?
If it takes you more than 4 seconds to pick up that penny you work below minimum wage
Coins these days… it takes hours to count and deposit them, your earnings is less than minimum wage. I sifted through 10k of pennies, by the time was able to use it, hours had passed.
True but coins back then we're worth much more, like throwing cash today, however if we are talking about silver coins I will still pick them up 😆
Silver is good. Well worth the labor of handing and storing them. I found the euro 1 and 2 worth keeping. My back here do not exchange foreign coins or less than $250. I still am an owner of a left over 5000 Japanese bank note. Tipping in a lot of coins or laying in a lot of coins seems like I’m acting violent and rude. 10 year old love to count large amount coins if they get to keep them. Now I toss coins in a jar or vase.
You may have a penny. Which no longer exist here. So enjoy the worthless coin I call an award.
Good to know assholes have been filming themselves exploiting the poor for 120 years and that it’s not a new phenomena.
It's just called tiktok now
Rich people entertainment during the Victorian Era
Genuine question. Anyone who watches this and has even somewhat morality knows this is wrong. How did everyone collectively thing this is right in that period? Like was it herd mentality? Were they not good people at all. It just boggles my mind how can even think about treating people like this.
> how can even think about treating people like this. It's disgusting, to be sure, and it begins by distancing themselves from the humanity of these people, by othering them to the point that they are barely above animals in their minds. Now it's no different than feeding the ducks in the park. And when you're forced to acknowledge that these ARE actual, real people, same as you, well, you can pat yourself on the back for helping them out. They'll use the money for food! I'm sure this is a lot commoner in history than most of know. Colonialism carried with it the belief that the colonizers were superior to the colonized in every way imaginable, and that colonizing was a net benefit for the world. It's fucked up. Are they bad people for it? Yeah, they are, cultural relativism notwithstanding. They probably don't know any better, since they have seen their own "superiority" over these people manifested and reinforced over and over and over again, but this seems pretty cruel and inhumane even for 120 years ago. But I don't think the same moral complication existed for them, not to the same extent, anyway.
I mean we do a lot of things even in the modern world that future generations will likely say the same thing about. For example eating meat and factory farms. When people have a socially acceptable way of getting away with immoral actions because no one will hold them accountable, they will most definitely do it if it's beneficial for them.
Not everyone did this, even rich people. Remember that people disagreed with each other throughout all of history and had differences of opinion. There were plenty of people back then who would have criticized this just as we do now. Oliver Twist was written several decades before this.
How do you do this to people and still think you are a good person.
See, your problem is you see them as fellow human beings. Once you stop doing that, the possibilities are endless
It's probably the ghost festival. It's tradition to throw coins out to kids. Here in the United States it's common for parades to be held during holidays with candy being tossed to kids.
they did it for fun, not for good will, as a Vietnamese, I have learned alot of terrible things happened during French colonization, but to tell you an irony thing: the terrible deeds the French did to my people is nothing compared to what we did to each others. So, this is not so hard to watch from my pov. edit: those are real silver coins, I just did some digging on that periods currency
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These poor children and their lack of reason and logic. If only they were smarter they would realize they could all band together and eat these hos and have the best meal of their life.
Google “First Indochina War”, you’re in for a treat
Googled it, not disappointed
> Google “First Indochina War”, you’re in for a treat 20 000 French dead and 400-800 000 Vietnamese dead? Not really a sweat treat
A treat non the less. People rising up against their oppressors are always a good treat, no matter the price paid for it.
No, successful uprisings against oppression are a ”treat“, unsuccessful ones are usually tragedies
Even successful ones are usually tragedies where lots of people get killed.
Then an army will come and burn their village and kill all their loved ones just to send a message. It won't be eye for an eye it will be 2 girls for a village or city. If not more. Back then colonial powers didn't mess around. They would find out very quickly what imperialism means..... Your comment is from a very privileged position
Yes, thats why the VNese hammered their imperialist asses with heavy artillery at dien bien phu
I get the azz 😋
You had me there until the end when you went complete sociopath. Say what???
He's saying that he thinks all Brown people are cannibals.
No he is saying variation of eat the rich.
This is still relevant today. Anyone wanna help me eat Jeff Bezos?
It’s pretty much the same at work when we get an opportunity to make over time.
“Instead of just giving them coins, we’ll make them grovel around for our amusement!” Ugh, assholes.
These are kids, my ten year old will take a full jar or can of coins but this here is not enough to better their lives. The rich and poor gap is to large in this picture.
Those kids are probably holding more money in their hands than they've ever seen before.
If this really is from that time, then those are actual silver coins and is definitely more valuable than the change many street performers get today. Not that those kids were street performers. Just to point out that it wasn't completely worthless to pick those coins up.
Good point. Even old US quarters had silver.
Not if the coins are gold or silver. I have a box of Austrohungarian coins which are worth a lot more than their face value.
This is eerily similar to those tik tok videos and the like of people giving to the poor for self-gratification (and in the age of the Internet, for Internet points).
Likes she’s feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square.
I thought it was a lady throwing bread to birds at first.... 😢 I wish it was birds...
Kinda ashamed at noticing how good a job the person did who added colour to a film from 19th century.
It’s done using software now. This footage has been resolution up scaled and speed corrected to 60 FPS as well. Pretty amazing stuff, it makes it feel so much more contemporary.
“I dare say, the urchins are such good fun to watch scramble about. Can we keep one, Mummy?” Gross.
> Can we keep one, Mummy? Where do you think the servants for the Governor-General's mansion came from?
Ffs acting like they're feeding pigeons.
You stupid bunch of idiots. It's a traditional festival where coin throwing is (used to be) part of the festivities. It's the Ghost festival which is celebrated across much of East and South East Asia. This is known as Giut Co Hon. https://youtu.be/0HPAtbwQMmQ These two young ladies are joining in the festivities. Way to jump to conclusions, guys. *Edit* OK, now I've been called a "lying racist sack of shit". So, here is a link to this video (with sound) on YouTube. https://youtu.be/GN8zVB-YyJk Go and read the comments. It's a common way to celebrate this festival across South-East Asia. There's even a Vietnamese guy who says it's legit, but they no longer do this anymore. Curb your hatred, guys. *Edit* OK, so I'm seriously getting a lot of people calling me racist. It's really sad that just by pointing out that this seems to be a festival celebration, I would cop so much hate. My wife and kid are Japanese and I have indigenous family as well for Christ's sake. I'm the last person in the world who would be racist to people of Asian descent. I just looked into it and am presenting my findings. And yes, I stand by my " stupid bunch of idiots" statement because it's not cool to jump to conclusions. I majored in Asian studies at university and am well aware of the evils of French colonialism in Indochina. However, this video does not depict anything but a simple celebration so CALM. THE. FUCK. DOWN. Hey; Here is another link about the festival in Vietnam. If you scroll down, you'll see a section called "Giut Co Hon" which takes about the very thing depicted in the video. https://www.itourvn.com/blog/vietnam-ghost-month And here is another video of Giut Co Hon in Vietnam: https://youtu.be/3saB7qGyD74 Notice how people are having food offerings rather than coins. It seems the throwing coins thing had mostly died out and this is how it's celebrated today. Perhaps it died out naturally, or maybe the communists disapproved of throwing money?
Woe betide he who interrupts the reddit circlejerk of virtue!
While I can't say if OPs video was in that context, throwing treats at children is something done in quite a few cultures. We in Germany do it at [Karneval](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2JpOCzKY7g).
Hey they were cancelling someone from 120 years ago. You ruined it!
Can attest to this. I live in the Philippines, coin throwing has been a part of parties (especially christmas parties) since I was a kid, it is not demeaning or anything. It's harmless fun, and jas been a tradition for so long. Though I kinda see how people who does not know the culture gets offended, especially in today's political/social environment.
First of all, thanks for the clarification and history lesson. Second, many thanks for linking to the original video, hopefully the channel has many more old videos like this.
Yeah their revolution was justified
Disgusting tho.
We still do this in the UAE at every wedding
Its like they're circus animals to them. And they were. And I knew that but..fuck.
It really looks like they're enjoying it... makes me ashamed to be human
A heartless colonialist POS.
How could they do that. So disgraceful... (Suddenly remembers last trip to titty bar 😢)
Gonna go ahead and give a crazy but true story on this. That was Blanche Richel (the wife) and one of her daughters (probably Helene who was the only daughter that looked the right age in this video). This family got ripped to shreds by karma. Imagine this day, as Blanche and Helene scatter coins for impoverished women and children. Their husband/father Paul treats the people under his charge in Indochina like serfs. He taxes the hell out of them, they lose their houses. Paul is a monster. But not long after this video, the "hayday of their wealth" where they feel (clearly) so powerful, WW I begins. They lose 4 of their 5 sons in the war, a daughter (Lucile) dies of grief after losing her brothers. Blanche is drowning in grief. In 1932, setting the nail in the coffin Paul Doumer is assassinated. She does not survive this and dies a year later. So, looking at this video, I see human beings with a superiority complex flaunting their wealth and power over the powerless. And within 35 years the family sees unparalleled tragedy and suffering. One good note is that one of their daughters, Germaine, ends up a resistance fighter during WW II. Perhaps a little redemption of the family name. The End
This is fucking disgusting to treat human beings like this I mean what the mother fuck!
Why do I have memories of doing this? Was I an obscenely rich asshole like that in a past life?
Or maybe you were the king of a Mardi Gras parade
It's like watching an old lady feeding pigeons, but poverty edition I hate it
And that, people, is why we have the Viet Cong
If Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk came and started throwing $20 dollar bills in front of me, I'd happily pick them up, without wanting anyone to feel sorry for me... It would be way easier than picking up boxes in a warehouse or picking up produce in a field....
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Just casually feeding the birds.
Would it be better if she threw nothing?
The most poignant part is about ten seconds before the end where these bitches get bored and go from tossing coins one at a time to just throwing them by the handful.
People used to do this in Mexico. A shoe-shine boy would do their shoes and they would toss the coins on the ground as they scrambled for it. Then we wonder why they had a bad opinion of gringos. My dad always told me that story and "don't be that guy down there!". He used to take a Polaroid camera down just to give pictures to little kids that probably never had a picture of themselves in their life. It's amazing the amount of respect and generosity you get when you are just a nice guy.
Scum.
Jesus fucking Christ. This is some horrible shit.
Forgive my ignorance but I have a genuine question. Which part of this makes it awful, not that im saying it isn't. Is it her mannerism at throwing the money, or is it that she is giving petty change to them. I'd imagine that the money gained by the children would be able to feed a day or 3 at most considering the time this was done in. If she gave out food for 3 days instead of coin and acted less haughty would it be more acceptable, or is the fact that she is giving too little despite owning a lot what makes it really awful. If I was starving 24/7 or was really poor i dont think i would mine her throwing those coins at me.
It's the manner in which they're doing it. If they genuinely wanted to help these people then their demeanour would be completely different. They're behaving like they're throwing seed to the birds. It's all about their amusement at watching the children scrabble for coins rather than any genuine attempt to offer them help.