American Reacts to How the UK Got So Rich | Part 2

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    As an American I didn't realized how much wealth the UK has. Today I am very interested in continuing to learn about how the UK got so rich. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!

Komentáře • 118

  • @elfishmoss1457
    @elfishmoss1457 Před měsícem +20

    The UK being the centre of time zones is not coincidence, it was arbitrarily decided by the UK, in the time of the empire, and it's specifically centred on Greenwich, hence GMT (+0) which stands for Greenwich Mean Time

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 Před měsícem +2

      That GMT decision was made in the US at a meeting, and it was decided by an American president - I forget which one. There's a video all about it - and the International Dateline, which in itself, is a far more complicated 'line' than I had realised before watching that video (sorry, I don't recall the name or the link)

    • @wolfen210959
      @wolfen210959 Před měsícem +3

      @@brigidsingleton1596 Incorrect, the decision that the US itself would recommend the use of GMT as the standard was decided in 1884 by a US president, GMT had been in use by most of Europe for several decades before this. It was officially adopted in Europe in 1847, becoming widespread by the middle of the 1850s.

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 Před měsícem +2

      @@wolfen210959
      "Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose" to quote the late John Denver at a show of his at the London Palladium in the 1970's - I was there!! I can't be right all the time and if wrong will gladly apologise. Sorry I was obviously mistaken.

  • @neuralwarp
    @neuralwarp Před měsícem +26

    We didn't dominate, loot, impose, or capture. We traded. Often we were begged for trade and defence treaties. We had the foresight to plant oak forests for ship building.

    • @rynslev
      @rynslev Před měsícem +2

      i mean we definitely dominated looted, imposed and captured on top of trading, often as a means of opening more trade options or securing goods for trade

    • @Exor840
      @Exor840 Před měsícem

      look at most of those countries on their own, they can’t even provide toilets for their population nearly a 100 yrs later

    • @stuartjohnellis
      @stuartjohnellis Před měsícem

      @@rynslev no more than anyone else at the time

    • @rynslev
      @rynslev Před měsícem +2

      @@stuartjohnellis that doesnt mean you can just completely ignore that side of our history

    • @ZeroShrimpy
      @ZeroShrimpy Před měsícem

      @@stuartjohnellis they did more than everyone else British museum is proof of that. they almost throw india from rich to under poverty line with motivation they can't recover and die.

  • @lilypop2260
    @lilypop2260 Před měsícem +10

    You should react to why Britain is the centre of the world. It's really interesting it talk all about the time zones and why our map has the uk in the middle.

    • @tonys1636
      @tonys1636 Před měsícem

      If France had got its way at the international conference to set 0 deg. Longitude it would have ran through Paris but they were outvoted. The time zones have kinks in them so that some countries are all one time or the same day if 180 deg. runs through them.

  • @gdok6088
    @gdok6088 Před měsícem +7

    Zero degrees longitude (GMT) running through Greenwich, London, UK wasn't an accident, we set it there 😂because it suited us well.
    However, in 1884 in Washington, D.C. an international conference recommended use of the Greenwich Meridian (GMT) as the international standard for zero degrees longitude.

  • @tersse
    @tersse Před měsícem +12

    It's not luck, we the brits put that line there, hahahahaha. psyche.

    • @josephthompson1318
      @josephthompson1318 Před měsícem +1

      Was a conferance in usa of many countries, but CANZUK+ decided. It does put the international date line down, moatly sea. GMT now referred to by usa as, universal time. 3D space if from Plymouth.

  • @bingobearuk
    @bingobearuk Před měsícem +35

    Not so rich as American government didn't come to our help during WWII out of the goodness of their heart, we had to pay even though they stole the Nuclear weapons and now say they invented them (although is that something to gloat about?) we paid our loans back unlike all other countries, last payment in 2006 and that's why it took us a long time to rebuild our country.

    • @kathryndunn9142
      @kathryndunn9142 Před měsícem +3

      Yes we are known for paying back are bills to other countries

    • @josephthompson1318
      @josephthompson1318 Před měsícem +1

      UK debt for , lease lend, to usa was finally paid off in 2012.

    • @josephthompson1318
      @josephthompson1318 Před měsícem

      ​@kathryndunn9142 is y uk has very high rattings

    • @hansmarheim7620
      @hansmarheim7620 Před měsícem

      Please tell me about "The UK invented the atom bomb". It sounds interesting.

    • @josephthompson1318
      @josephthompson1318 Před měsícem +1

      @hansmarheim7620 i believe it was joint, usa uk & spits where very close together.

  • @seanmc1351
    @seanmc1351 Před měsícem +5

    the O line, is grenwhich mean (GMT) time, where the world takes its time from, yeah we put it there, during the empire days, but it still stands, there is a great video about it, and why, it will make sense, you should look it up

  • @seph3rd375
    @seph3rd375 Před měsícem +7

    I didn't realize that successful businessman and publisher Michael Bloomberg has a high rated BREAAM building in London. I just discovered this over the past weeks. So, NYC business is in London as well and I would assume that London business is in NYC as well. Bloomberg's building is beautiful too! One of the most sustainable in all of the UK and Europe. Also, for those NFL fanatics, the Jacksonville Jaguars regularly plays in London and once, the owner, considered relocating the Jaguars to England. That would have been fascinating and unprecedented for professional American football.

  • @neuralwarp
    @neuralwarp Před měsícem +5

    Yes, much of our wealth came from minerals, but also fish, farms, and wool. The speaker of the House of Lords still sits symbolically on a wool sack.

  • @josephthompson1318
    @josephthompson1318 Před měsícem +4

    Commonwealth 54countries 4.3billion ppl 2 ex French colonies and more joining

  • @neuralwarp
    @neuralwarp Před měsícem +7

    We're in the centre of the world map because invented world trade.

  • @neuralwarp
    @neuralwarp Před měsícem +7

    Tyler, you have to learn that Bigger isn't necessarily Better.

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 Před měsícem +3

      That's a lesson most men - not just Tyler / Americans - need to learn...🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙂❤️🇬🇧🖖

    • @kathryndunn9142
      @kathryndunn9142 Před měsícem

      😂😂🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @josephthompson1318
    @josephthompson1318 Před měsícem +3

    Wind & wave power.

  • @0KiteEatingTree0
    @0KiteEatingTree0 Před měsícem

    There’s a saying “London looks after itself . Which generally refers to the City of London and financial sector

  • @piecewisefunctioneer
    @piecewisefunctioneer Před měsícem +12

    The UK pretty much created the modern world. We developed most control over the oceans, we set the time, we invented work (industrial revolution), we purposefully made London the business capitol of the world etc etc. all of this was made possible because of our geographical location.

  • @samross316
    @samross316 Před měsícem +3

    we decided where time was to make ourselves the centre of earth

  • @lewismantle3887
    @lewismantle3887 Před měsícem

    1:36
    Re: Timezones - “That’s just sheer luck!”
    Not really, when you decided where ‘Mean Time’ was going to begin from.

  • @user-lm1re1sw2e
    @user-lm1re1sw2e Před měsícem +2

    London, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore are global financial hubs.

    • @valeriedavidson2785
      @valeriedavidson2785 Před měsícem

      London was the first financial centre in the world and still the number one.

    • @user-lm1re1sw2e
      @user-lm1re1sw2e Před měsícem

      @@valeriedavidson2785 In 2023 London had largely recovered from Brexit and had moved up 13 places in rating cf NYC's 3 places. Wouldn't surprise me if London passed NYC later this year. These 2 cities of the behemoths of the financial world. No other cities come close. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Financial_Centres_Index

  • @hardcorelace7565
    @hardcorelace7565 Před měsícem

    New york and london habe the top 2 stock markets in the world and often trade 1st place.
    The new york stock market is for a lot of the newer economic stuff (investing in startups, shorting stocks and all that fun stuff) while london is where all the old money goes.

  • @josephthompson1318
    @josephthompson1318 Před měsícem +3

    0⁰ londitude was set by a conferance in usa

    • @1967AJB
      @1967AJB Před měsícem

      I would read later comments before you say that too loud. It seems you’re mistaken.

  • @michaeljamesstewart1000
    @michaeljamesstewart1000 Před měsícem

    Scottish-Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming first recommended the standard to the Royal Canadian Institute in 1879, and he was instrumental in convening the 1884 International Prime Meridian Conference in Washington, at which the system of international standard time was adopted. He originally created the concept to solve time-keeping across Canada while building the Canadian Pacific Railway. Until then, time was uniform across countries, including Canada; therefore, it would be 12 noon at the same moment no matter where in Canada. He divided the world into time zones and the rest is history. Chimo

  • @SteveBagnall-gh1fu
    @SteveBagnall-gh1fu Před měsícem +3

    The UK paid off its debt to the USA for equipment in 2022, as a result we now have £3 billion more for our economy.

  • @josephthompson1318
    @josephthompson1318 Před měsícem +2

    The City of London is a, city state, pays £90billion to UK yearly.

    • @kathryndunn9142
      @kathryndunn9142 Před měsícem

      Really that much and I call London as I'm in the north 😂

    • @josephthompson1318
      @josephthompson1318 Před měsícem

      @kathryndunn9142 CoL is known as, the square mile. Is the City State. The King is not allwed in unles let & escorted.

  • @nikwalsh435
    @nikwalsh435 Před měsícem

    I've travelled to every corner of the globe (86 countries across all continents) and can safely say that London is the most international, diverse, city in the World.

  • @davesimpson5702
    @davesimpson5702 Před měsícem +1

    London is the Financial centre of the World and has been since the 1800s!

  • @JJ-of1ir
    @JJ-of1ir Před měsícem +5

    We did NOT loot our colonies - we traded with them. We invested vast sums in America and most of our Empire. Your own Thomas Sowell said that the British Empire raised living standards everywhere it went.

    • @sunseeker9581
      @sunseeker9581 Před měsícem +4

      It definetly did a lot of looting

    • @damonx6109
      @damonx6109 Před měsícem +2

      You shouldn't listen to Sowell.... He's FOX news for black people.

  • @markbright684
    @markbright684 Před měsícem

    The brits have been paying astronomical prices for road tax and it doesn't even go on the roads .In uk there is tax in everything fuel sugar tax council tax all luxury goods are taxed and they were talking about a processed food tax if parents leave you a large amount of money in there will you get death tax it really is like king john and Robin hood.

  • @josephthompson1318
    @josephthompson1318 Před měsícem +1

    Low business taxes. Low business interference by gov

  • @michaelyoung3388
    @michaelyoung3388 Před měsícem

    The roman empire became a church, The British empire became a world Bank/financial capital. London is also disproportionately wealthy compared to other UK cities. As a rule of thumb in most developed countries, the wealth of the Largest city(usually capital) = 2nd plus 3rd largest. In the UK that's Birmingham(B) and Manchester(M). As it stands London is a little over 2x(B+M) instead.

  • @josephthompson1318
    @josephthompson1318 Před měsícem

    Resently upping relationship with Swiss banks.

  • @harvelle2432
    @harvelle2432 Před měsícem +3

    You're forgetting the American $30 Trillion Debt though right? 🤕

  • @alchristie5112
    @alchristie5112 Před měsícem

    Not luck… the dominance of Britain on the world stage meant that it became the centre time zone from which all are set at Greenwich (GMT).

  • @nightshift3635
    @nightshift3635 Před měsícem

    the reason britian is in the middle of time to trade with other natons is because they created modern standard time or greenich standard time putting great britian ias the centre of the earth ,, you should check out british comedian al murray the pub landlord he talks bit about this ,, he is very intelligent a oxford history major and music minor graduate i believe ,,is comedy skit is a portraying the average englishman ,, oh and it was in canada by a canadian that standard time was created

  • @yorkshirelassdiaries4841
    @yorkshirelassdiaries4841 Před měsícem

    Yet since the pandemic, most of us struggle to pay bills and put food on the table

  • @daviel6595
    @daviel6595 Před měsícem

    We wrote the maps

  • @Add1ct666
    @Add1ct666 Před měsícem

    It's not the size, it's how you use it.

  • @lynseyh8876
    @lynseyh8876 Před měsícem

    The world runs on Greenwich meantime we won the time zone ,😂

  • @cireenasimcox1081
    @cireenasimcox1081 Před měsícem

    "Who gets to say London is the world's leading financial capital?" Do you imagine a whole lot of people in suits sitting round a large table & battling it out?🤭
    It's maths - pure & simple.By which statistics are formed. And economic tables. And financial imperitives.
    I think the USA, by continuing to use GDP as a measure of a countries wealth & importance, can't be blamed for thinking they are the world's financial giants. It means nothing to the rest of the world - who know how Government's fiscal worth is actually measured; because the 'average' person from the USA believe that GDP is the measure other countries use to boast about who is the biggest, largest, and most wealthy in global scales. It isn't. We don't.

  • @sunseeker9581
    @sunseeker9581 Před měsícem +1

    Slavery was pretty negative buddy. The British empire wasnt all flowers & rainbows

  • @user-zg8gn1mf6o
    @user-zg8gn1mf6o Před měsícem +1

    The uk is the worlds daddy bear we are the big boss fat cat of the world

  • @karlJCompton
    @karlJCompton Před měsícem

    The funniest thing is that Tyler has already reacted to this video 😂 czcams.com/video/3kk8NbP8Ut8/video.htmlsi=ISTumehVOZwcsICH

  • @victormccoy1671
    @victormccoy1671 Před měsícem

    I know I've said it before but are you going to actually take a trip to England and have a vacation there so you can experience some of these things for real my friend

    • @Zippy66
      @Zippy66 Před měsícem

      You realise he's never going to answer you don't you?

    • @damonx6109
      @damonx6109 Před měsícem +2

      Never going to happen.... He also has a channel about Canada and he could go there with a 6 hour drive. He doesn't care about any other places. He's been "learning" about Canada, the UK, Norway, for two years.
      He does this because his twin brother told him to. He just fake laughs and blinks and hopes middle aged women click on him.

    • @Zippy66
      @Zippy66 Před měsícem

      @@damonx6109 You missed Japan (although he seems to have given that one up). He also has a fake Facebook page claiming he's from the UK (Chester I think). Maybe the whole thing is fake and the two of them are really British and putting on American accents because they're actors! PS: I'm a middle-aged woman so not sure what that says about me

  • @kathryndunn9142
    @kathryndunn9142 Před měsícem +5

    Why does it upset you American 😂😂😂

  • @davesimpson5702
    @davesimpson5702 Před měsícem +1

    The Uk used to have most of the biggest companies but in the last 50 years other countries have overtaken us - doesnt mean we dont have many large and successful businesses further down the league table. Many of our biggest companies were bought out by foreign companies since WW2.

  • @lynseyh8876
    @lynseyh8876 Před měsícem

    The british empire never fell it became a bank .

  • @davidware9549
    @davidware9549 Před měsícem

    And the BBC tv network is the biggest and the oldest in the world

  • @kathryndunn9142
    @kathryndunn9142 Před měsícem

    Not for me i might be English but London does nothing for me its not my dream

  • @G02372
    @G02372 Před měsícem +1

    After 25 years of working in the City of London and Canary Wharf I can tell you it is not a dream. It is a means to an end. It attracts a lot of ar*eholes. The city is fun in terms of restaurants and pubs etc. Canary Wharf is soulless.

  • @joegill3612
    @joegill3612 Před měsícem +10

    No, London is not the answer. We had industries all over the UK until the london government shut them all down and joined in with europeans in the common market. We have never recovered.

    • @SteveBagnall-gh1fu
      @SteveBagnall-gh1fu Před měsícem +1

      Certainly decimated the motor industry.

    • @wolfen210959
      @wolfen210959 Před měsícem +6

      The common market had nothing to do with the decision to shut down heavy industries, that was purely down to Thatcher, who had a vision of Britain becoming the financial and service centre of Europe, which happened, but only in London, unfortunately it had the side effect of throwing millions of people, across the rest of the country, out of well paying, highly skilled, dirty jobs, and into low paying, low skilled, clean jobs. Speaking for myself, I was happy with my well paying, highly skilled, dirty job, and absolutely detested the low paying, low skilled, clean jobs that I was forced to take. When the industry that you trained in and dedicated 7 years of your life to learning how to do well, suddenly disappears, almost overnight, you have a tendency to look upon that deliberate act, as treason. Yes, I'm still salty, with good reason, instead of improving the wealth of the whole country, Thatcher and successive Tory governments have concentrated that wealth in only one region, London and the South East. The rest of the country has been largely ignored, and allowed to drop into poverty and deprivation.

    • @sunseeker9581
      @sunseeker9581 Před měsícem

      Manufacturing closed down long before we joined the common market. Does Thatcher ring any bells?

  • @magdos7160
    @magdos7160 Před měsícem +1

    1.3kth

  • @josephthompson1318
    @josephthompson1318 Před měsícem +3

    Ppl complain about brits not speaking another language? Prob is, which? No other language is universal as 1st, 2nd language & millions just as coinsidental to the wide English usage.

  • @alkoohable
    @alkoohable Před měsícem

    Have you ever heard about a country called Kuwait 🇰🇼 ??

  • @magdos7160
    @magdos7160 Před měsícem +1

    1401st

  • @adamaalto-mccarthy6984
    @adamaalto-mccarthy6984 Před měsícem +2

    London is not liked by most of the UK. We supposedly get it all. Try living in South London. We don’t.

    • @MichaelJohnsonAzgard
      @MichaelJohnsonAzgard Před měsícem +2

      South London still gets more than other parts of the UK.

    • @adamaalto-mccarthy6984
      @adamaalto-mccarthy6984 Před měsícem +3

      @@MichaelJohnsonAzgard im sure thats true but there is an illusion that London has it all. For some it does. For many it doesn’t.

    • @08shunter
      @08shunter Před měsícem +1

      @@adamaalto-mccarthy6984 Yep I live in SE London.

    • @sunseeker9581
      @sunseeker9581 Před měsícem

      ​@@adamaalto-mccarthy6984 london is great. Millions of jobs on your door step

  • @kathryndunn9142
    @kathryndunn9142 Před měsícem

    Yours is American English its not really English is it

  • @davesimpson5702
    @davesimpson5702 Před měsícem +3

    Lootiing? Such a simplistic and derogatory comment that is way off the mark

  • @cockneycharm3970
    @cockneycharm3970 Před měsícem

    Sadly we lost this status along time ago 😢