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0:00 Intro
0:31 Favorite Paradox Game
1:06 Life of a Hanseatic Merchant Video
4:15 Traveling
5:46 Overrated History
6:38 How many people still think Czechoslovakia is a thing?
8:00 What do people at Oxford end up doing?
9:47 Are Oxford Students Pretentious?
12:22 How to Be a Self-trained Historian
14:11 Is History Prohibitively Expensive
17:15 Would Your Recommend Going for a PhD in History?
21:52 Current State of Academic History
27:06 Favorite Alcohol
27:44 Choose Your Beer
27:55 Favorite Historical Topic
28:32 Favorite Historical Figure
29:31 Most Political Biased History Book
30:37 Slovak Historical Myth & Ethnicity
32:56 Slovak Uprising of 1848
34:57 Legacy of Ancient Greece
38:08 How do you choose your video topics?
39:14 History of Romania when?
40:03 What historical figure would you want to have dinner with?
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40:58 How are you?
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9:37 public.tableau.com/views/UniversityofOxford-DLHESurvey/SectorsandRoles?%3Aembed=y&%3Adisplay_count=yes&%3AshowTabs=y&%3AshowVizHome=no
11:40 I accidentally put the quotation mark during editing at the start of the paragraph but it should have been before 'is like a united nation ...' www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-oxbridge-phds-became-the-preserve-of-the-super-rich/
16:13 www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/apr/18/why-academic-journals-expensive
17:33 This is often conflated with undergrad or masters degrees and it's partly why in UK history has been under attack by the tories calling it a ‘dead end course’ that is just ‘ornamental’. However, when you look at official government statistics there is only a two percent difference in the likelihood of employment between people holding humanities degrees (excluding PhD) vs people holding law, biology, or tech degrees. It’s just that humanities graduates usually end up doing jobs like heritage consultants, museum curators, and most often school teachers, which are all jobs that our society has decided to value less than other jobs and so people holding humanities degrees on average get paid less. Humanities students aren’t substantially less likely to get a job, they're just less likely to get a high paying job. Lower salaries aren’t the fault of the degree, they are the fault of the system that is in place that often doesn’t value jobs like teaching, but I don’t think anyone would argue that teaching is not an important job in our society. Anyways, history as an undergrad or a masters is worth taking and don't let anyone tell you otherwise! PhD, however, is another story which I explain in the video.
UK data about employment statistics- www.google.com/url?q=www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/graduatesintheuklabourmarket/2017&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1690809972559238&usg=AOvVaw1W3Ycvyp6fBABAtKe04Hzi
18:42 www.ucu.org.uk/article/12474/Institutions-affected
22:29 files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/17210558/RHSGenderEqualityReport-Jan-15.pdf
22:36 thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2019/04/28/strippers-coffins-and-black-arm-bands-how-cambridge-reacted-to-the-admission-of-female-students-122516
22:42 www.theguardian.com/education/2013/feb/04/academic-casual-contracts-higher-education
22:52 www.economist.com/1843/2023/03/01/oxford-universitys-other-diversity-crisis
23:42 www.economist.com/1843/2023/03/01/oxford-universitys-other-diversity-crisis
23:45 www.theguardian.com/education/2021/may/01/studying-history-should-not-be-only-for-the-elite-say-academics
25:20 www.academia.edu/104179121/History_Communicators_and_Academia_Why_Should_Academia_Employ_History_Communicators
26:15 www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-should-cheer-decline-of-humanities-degrees-5pp6ksgmz
33:56 'Slovakia in History. N.p.': Cambridge University Press, 2011. p. 127.
39:40 Meant to say "it's not conclusive" not "it's not inclusive".
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@@lionelhubeny404 ide to, chori som uz asi 5 mesiacov ale no co uz. Dal som volby postov, a pracujem na videu co vide koncom Septembra, co nasere vsetkych v Cesku a na Slovensku cize to bude sranda :D
@@MLaserHistory Nice už se těším .
@@MLaserHistory Je mi líto že jsi nemocný :( .
Now you have 204k
Congrats to 200k subscribers!
As someone from Austria I very much appreciate the Slovak/Slavic perspective you are often portraying in the videos about our shared history.
I too suffered from Post-Covid syndrome for quite some time, hence why I wish you a speedy and full recovery.
Thank you for providing us with your great content and all the best for your future!
Thank you.
Was expecting funny questions about history, got a great deep dive on academy. Thanks, Mr. M. Laser!
"I can't answer all of them cause the video would be hours long if I did" - and we'd listen to it all, your sanity be damned :D
Congrats to 204k!
Congratulations on 200k subscribers. Also, I appreciated the Oxford-specific questions. :) It was so good to get to hang out with you there.
It was a fun day :)
I am glad I could show you around Oxford.
Next time I'll show you around Cambridge :D
Love your channel, and I hope to see more videos on Slavic history which is of big interest to me.
Greetings from Slovenia
Next three videos in the pipeline aren't on Slavic history but the fourth ...
Congrats on the 200k, glad to see your channel is doing well! I am currently almost in my 3rd year of an academic bachelor in history and your channel was a big inspiration for pursuing that path. Keep up the good content!
Amazing, good luck!
Congrats on 200k!
Thank you!!
thank you for answering my question and many of ur fan's questions as well,i will continue to support you as a fellow subscriber 🥰
Thank you very much :)
@@MLaserHistoryno problem brother,maybe you can make a video about the Ancient Macedonians and how they influenced the Hellenic Age? 😏
@@Dush1le Aren't there already a lot of Macedonian videos on CZcams? I feel like Macedonians are covered a lot on here.
@@MLaserHistory ok well then do a video about history not talked about alot,i cannot wait for another banger vid from you 😉
Yay, my silly question got into the Q&A! Also, congrats!
It was very much a boomer question but much appreciated :D
As I said in the video the whole Czechoslovakia issue is dying out since only older people now remember it. I mean if you were born in 1993 you're 30 now, imagine being that old! (/s)
@@MLaserHistory If I remember correctly, just before asking this question, I randomly watched something about Marcus Aurelius, where they referred to Noricum as located approximately in modern-day Slovakia. So, I got inspired.
@@Artur_M.That is funny because even if they ment Slovenia it is a bit.inprecise.
Mapping Noricum to modern Slovenia is as accurate as pointing the roman province of Panonia to Slovenia.
Congratulations on 200k. Your channel really deserves it since you put a lot of effort into your videos.
By the way, greetings from Serbia
Greetings!
On the topic of whether history is prohibitively expensive, I wanted to add that In my personal experience and, here, I find the need to specify that I am a Bulgarian student at the University of Sofia. I am on my way to getting a bachelor's degree in Balkan history and geopolitics, with plans to follow it up with a master's degree somewhere in Europe. Now, on the topic, I have noticed that most of my peers don't have the ambition and/or the wealth to afford to get the books that they need to exceed in our subjects and, while the libraries of the University of Sofia are quite large and relatively well funded, I have noticed that through the fact that I (my parents) can afford whatever expensive books I need/want I have done far better than most of my peers and gotten significant praise by most professors I've worked with. Now, as always people can say that most students in my university and faculty don't have the same passion for history as I do, but I do genuinely think that my economic background has made it quite a bit easier to succeed in my work. However, I do have to mention that most important academic books can be found through some uh, high seas action :), so It could also have something to do with tech literacy. I do agree with you that history is quite an expensive field :D
Sorry about the long covid, I also had it but it ended about a year ago. Hopefully it will just one day dissipate as it did for me. Thanks for the video and God bless you.
Thank you, hopefully it will get better at some point, we will see.
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So hyped for that video on medieval ethnicities 🙌
Congratulations on 200k. Your one of the only channels that talks about early medieval history (when it comes to early medieval history in Eastern Europe it feels like it’s just the Rus people talk about) thanks for making these videos and I hope you get even more subscribers in the future. Also I feel you with the EU4 question I have the same problem with CK3.
Thank you. Yeah, the whole "Eastern European History" or "Slavic History" being all just Russia, and maybe Poland sometimes, is a more deep rooted institutional problem. Western Slavic Studies departments are often exclusively just Russian and a lot of "Slavic History" in the west usually just centers around Russia. This is a remnant of the cold war when the west needed educated people in Russian history, language, and culture for diplomatic reasons but it is also a more deep rooted problem dating all the way back to pan-Slavism of the early 20th century. Which was very Russian centric. Something really needs to be done about it because other Slavic history and culture is really being neglected by academia due to this and since a lot of my work relies on academia, I can't do all the research on my own that's impossible, I am limited in the scope of how much I can cover aspects of Slavic history that isn't just Russia.
@@MLaserHistory I hope that situation improves with time as all cultures deserve focus in academia.
Congrats on the 200k subs! Well deserved. 🎉
I appreciate your commitment to providing accurate information, even when it might be tempting to go for more profitable but misleading content. It's refreshing to see someone prioritize integrity and education over quick gains. Keep up the great work!
Thank you :)
Congratulations, thank you for sharing your experience and making these great videos.
When are you going to show us the laser?
Maybe you have already seen it and did not notice it ...
great video! and good to have you here in ingerlund man! and yh about the expensive history books, im autistic with an obsessive autistic interest in anglo saxon england and alot of the books about the more specific stuff i want to know about are sooo expensive sadly. (also sidenote i hate how little known the anglo saxon era is even in england man people just know like tudors and world wars, and 1066 when that bastard ended the anglo saxon era!!!)
I will throw one question out there. Did the Anglo-Saxon era really end? I would argue that far more Anglo-Saxonnes was preserved after the Norman conquest than people tend to think.
@@MLaserHistory well thats a point of view i certainly like! alot of anglo saxonness did remain, but i guess because up to like ww1 we name all our historical eras after the ruling elite of the country we just call it the norman era without thinking about how anglo saxon it still remained. i guess more accurately then 1066 is the end of anglo saxon rule in england rather then the end of the anglo saxon era. we also kind of arbitrarily seem to stop referring to things as anglo saxon after that and call them english instead, but what is really the difference? i suppose in a modern sense far right scum like to use anglo saxon to mean ethnically english to exclude english people with other heritages, but anglo saxons were not a single ethnic group even, its literally in the name! and not even just that obvious part of angles saxons jutes and frisians making up the group, plenty of celtic britons picked up the anglo saxon culture and just became a part of it to, it was never tied to ethnicity (which i guess is also related to another thing you were talking about in the video about medieval ethnic identity). and so as long as england is predominantly culturally english, no matter the ethnic group of its inhabitants, it could be argued that the anglo saxon era will continue
Congratulations! 🎉
I'll add something to the "is history an expensive hobby" question:
From my point of you, based on personal experience, every specialised book that costs less than 50€ is cheap.
Especially regarding history there are books aimed for students that cost about €20-30 and thus are very affordable. I'd also add books that cost up to €80 are on the more affordable side. Although it is a lot of money.
There more specific and niche a topic is the more expensive it usually gets.
Like there are some books from the "A Companion to" series that I really want to read and own a copy (e.g. "A Companion to the Roman Army" and " A Companion to Acient Greek and Roman Music) that cost €261 and €222! They make me cry in poor, especially because it is quite difficult to find books specifically about Roman Music.
When it comes to magazines that publish papers so you can read about current researchs... they are all expensive in all fields.
I'm already lamenting about not having my university access to all the papers and encyclopedias in the near future.
The good thing though is: Some universities and museums publish papers, booklets and books for a very affordable price. Some online content is free to the public (e.g. medieval chronicles; sometimes more than 30 year old papers too.)
And if you can get a library subscription at a bigger library: Get it. Some of them a really well stocked and especially for history, you'll find a lot. Depending what you need and research about, you can always ask archives to seek out or do some copies of the sources you need. There might be a fee, depending on what and where you're looking for.
Hope this will help some of you.
Thanks for sharing.
Congrats!!!
Alhambra is amazing 💖
Congrats man, good to see you still going strong.
I already asked you on twitter but , are there any legends/local lore from Slovakia/any other place that you enjoy or are delightfully weird ?
Anyways thanks for the content
There is this local myth in Slovakia that during the Mongol invasion of Hungary some random castle in northern Hungary was besieged by the mongols. After a while the castle was running out of food and the situation seem very desperate. So the local leader of the castle order to sweep all the remaining flower from every nuke and cranny of the castle to make the most amount of bread possible. After that had been done the leader order the soldiers to throw the bread at the attacking Mongols. The soldiers, starving, were reluctant to do so but eventually did as order. The mongols seeing that they are being attacked by bread thought the castle must have much more food stored up then they thought and in order to avoid a prolonged siege lifted the siege and left. I heard this local legend when I was a kid and for some reason remember it to today.
congrats
Congratulations! You make so many interesting points, I enjoy your videos so much I can almost forgive you for not liking peanut butter. Almost.
Also, considering your patreons help you continue doing what you do and your PHD, are they something that needs to be disclosed in the PHD process considering they fund it in a way?
No because Patreon is considered just like any other regular taxable income hence it's as if I had a job like waiting tables or something which is permitted during a PhD as long as it doesn't go over a certain amount of hours a week.
@@MLaserHistory thank you for answering! I figured that was the case, but I was still curious if it had any effect. And thank you again for your content, it’s wonderfully entertaining and educational
Congrats
If you ever want to travel to Finland, I can have you over in Helsinki and show around town :)
Thanks, I'll think about it.
(this could either be a nice offer or a murder setup :D )
@@MLaserHistory well I have to be a pretty silly murderer since it can be traced back to my name and google account :D I might have a hars time explaining in court why 'how to murder a youtuber' is on top of my search list
Great video as usual!
For WW2 fascination I'd guess it's because it's the last world war we had (although personally I can't hear anything about it anymore😂).
I'm interested in that topic of the concept of ethnicity in early medieval history as I've heard about it just not being a thing at the time but at the same time there's events like the St. Brice's Day massacre in England that specifically targeted the Danes within the kingdom as well as people speaking different languages having different cultural customs and having more in commonalities in appearance so while I understand they did not think of it the way we do today I struggle to imagine they didn't have any form of a ingroup/outgroup identifier at all among them.
They did have that identity just, as you already alluded to, not in the form as we do now. Ethnic identity existed but it was far more fluid, less important, and more substantiated on culture and language rather than perceived biological kinship like it is now.
Once I met a guy here in Mexico City, when asked where he was from, he said he was from Slovakia. "From Bratislava? Or how do you call it in English?" I asked, since in Spanish that's the name but I wasn't sure if it was the same in English. He was not form Bratislava, I don't remember the name that he told me, but he did say I was the first person in the Americas -he had been mostly in the US, he was just visiting Mexico City- that knew the name of the city. Anyway, I remebered the story. Congrats on your subs.
I was watching your older QnAs, and I was interested in why, as a slovakian, you decided to go to university first in Florida and then in London, ultimately ending up in Oxford. It seems to have worked out of course, but I just want to know what motivated these decisions as I am thinking of myself in future applying to universities outside my home country.
I used to play tennis professionally and my sponsors were located in Florida so that's where I lived and played tennis since I was 16. After my tennis career didn't pan out it only seemed natural to go to Uni there since I already lived there for 2 years, and also through connections in Florida I could get a full scholarship which was absolutely essential considering the ridiculous Uni prices in the USA. During my undergrad in the US I realized I hated living in the US so I returned back to EU. I didn't want to go back home because, well, Slovakia doesn't really provide many opportunities, and since I already knew English, UK seemed like the most natural choice.
I think people like WW2 because so many people were involved at the time, so everyone has a story from a family member.
Yeah, that is probably a factor.
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Hey Laser, you mentioned in your video that the 1848 revolution was not as nationalistic as we tend to think or study. I am Hungarian and I have a feeling in some sense it is quite a similar issue in Hungarian history books. Can you recommend me some sources by any chance where I could find information about the broader perspective of the history of this era (19th and early 20th century), specially in the context of the empire and Hungary? Cheers
Uff, I don't know any good books on 1848 Hungary sorry. I am sure there're some out there but I only ever read about the 1848 uprisings from a Slovak perspective which is unquestionably linked to the Hungarian one but the books about it don't focus on the Hungarian part. Maybe look online for some books and see. I would be weary buying any books written in Hungarian because if it is anything like in Slovakia (and considering the state of Hungarian politics it probably is even worse) than almost all the books written in Hungarian will be extremely nationalistic. For example, in Slovakia it is nigh impossible to find a non-nationalistic book on the subject and I had to get a book written by Slovaks but in English for the Cambridge University press. So I would look in foreign universities' presses for some good books on the Hungarian subject. Like the Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, etc. university presses.
What I will say is this, from Hungarian point of view the uprising, even though still not as nationalistic as it is portrayed today, had a far more nationalistic character than the Slovak one. Hungarian national consciousness developed much earlier than Slovak one and by 1848 I would argue a large part of the uprising was nationalistic and ethnocentric. There certainly were more things underpinning the uprising than just nationalistic ethnocentrism but it was present on a much larger scale than in the Slovak uprising, but again I only got this from the Slovak books so I don't know the complete story about the Hungarian uprising. Sorry I couldn't give you a complete answer.
@@MLaserHistory Yeah, exactly. Whatever I try to read it's all highly nationalistic in character, even the most decent ones from the past by really knowledgable people, not to mention the new hobby historians who mix everything from linguistics to archeology and genetics and create their own not too solid theories that is accepted by the masses as facts, since we live in the age of internet (like we are Scithyans or Sumers or the Etrusk language was actually Hungarian, and these are all present in the same theory sometimes, which is just a new level of creativity I guess :D, but I've heard similar stuffs from Ukrainians as well, so it's pretty normal I guess). Thanks for the recommendations and keep up the good work, I cannot wait for the video about genetics and ethnicity.
Yay
35:00 Ancient Greece also had a huge impact outside Europe, particularly the Muslim world, in the well known Greek translations of philosophy and science.
Perhaps less known is the much larger impact Alexander the Great had on the Islamic world. With sultans as far away as Indonesia being called Iskandar, and some medieval Islamic scholars held the opinion that he was mentioned in the Qur'an...
Though most of this was based upon a very mythical version of Alexander, as shown in the Shahnameh.
Unfortunately, the various historical works of the ancient Greeks weren't translated, denying them a more historical Alexander. And also denying them their own ancient histories, such as the Persians having little knowledge of Cyrus the Great, or other aspects of pre Sassanian history, who accomplished far more than what their mythical Kayanians did...
OU, yeah, of course. I forgot about the surviving Greco-Roman texts in the Islamic world, they certainly had influence on them as well. Although, in our current world that influence isn't really harkened back to as it is in Europe.
31:00 Interesting, my elementary school did not teach that myth. Maybe I am just misremembering, but this is the first time I heard about it. I know they at least did not explicitly teach it, since I remember child me thinking something along the lines "How similar were these people to modern Czechs and Slovaks, probably they were not exactly like us" but never actually asking it aloud. Though it was probably implicit in that it was taught as "our" history.
Of course, depends on the teacher and the book you used. My school (it was so poor it closed after I left) used a Dejepis textbook from like the 80s so more modern ones might be different, I don't know. Also, as you already mentioned, usually even if not stated out right it is often implied through the fact that it's taught as "our history".
I’m surprised Americans don’t know Czechoslovakia split, or the names of the split states
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Wow it sucks that you got into academia is the UK. When I did research for a historical paper I used a lot of British sources and they were practically more in French than in English. I asked my mom about this and she said back when she was in college it was like that too. And there is no fate worse than being surrounded by people who voluntarily use French despite knowing a language that isn't French.
People enjoy WW2 because our grandparents were children during that time and great grandfathers were resistance or sadly fascist, we had the national forgivness for unity but we still live and breathe ww2. At least here in northern western Europe it is still our punic war and we are prep for the third. Its not over yet so ofc it will be the most popular topic ☺️
39:40 is not inconclusive? (so it's conclusive?)
did you mean to say that? or is it one negation to many?
Ahh shit, my bad, meant to say it's not conclusive (brain is a bit off recently due to the whole long covid thing). Meaning there are many issues with the methodologies that are currently practiced by the various heritage companies when it comes to them telling you what % ethnicity you are. None of these issues are discussed because the companies want you to believe the services they're delivering to you are 100% legit, and they would NEVER make up arbitrary benchmarks for defining the DNA of various ethnic groups, NEVER /s.
Response to MLazer: Darn! As a lawyer, I was hoping that you were affirmatively embracing the double negative as a way of signaling that law school may be your next academic venture. Attorneys like me intentionally use double-negative construction to weasel out of taking a clear position on tough questions. (Seriously, I hope you emerge from the fog of long COVID soon.)
I wouldn't be too hard on Americans not knowing about Slovakia. I'm European and the numbers of Europeans not knowing where to put the state of Illinois or what is its 'capital' city or its largest city is as impressive.
After all, the United States of America is a group of states. We could also argue that Illinois has 12M inhabitants, an area of 150,000 km2 and was founded around 1690 by the French then British. Then Americans could argue that we shouldn't blame them for not knowing where Slovakia is since it only has 5.5M inhabitants, an area of 50,000 km2 and the state named as Slovakia with its current borders is pretty recent.
We could go around the planet and Indians could also argue how comes both Europeans and Americans can't locate easily, or have never heard of, the Land of the Kings a.k.a. the Indian state of Rajasthan: 340,000 km2, 70M inhabitants but a recent state history if we ignore the previous empires.
All in all, I'd say we tend to be more familiar with the countries closest to us.
I know more Americans capable of telling me where some Canadian and Mexican states and/or cities are than Europeans 😊
Would you count UK as Europe? :D I live in the UK as well and the amount of people in London I've met that don't know where Slovakia is or that Bratislava is in Slovakia was quite surprising to me.
Edit: a fellow Slovak who doesn't like hard liquor and favorite beer is Budvar? I love you even more now!
Yes, I would count UK as part of Europe. Although, I must say the kind of British people I interact with on a daily basis (on account of me having gone to Oxford and now being at Cambridge) aren't the most representative of the average person, so my experiences are skewed.
@@MLaserHistory Probably, Oxbridge is a different level of education. I went to a Russell Group school and currently work in insurance as an actuary so it's still generally well educated for the most part but maybe not as worldly.
Exclusive drinking club at exclusive prominent university.
I do say that’s rather excessive
Very true.
20:59 I mean the Z team won the tournament through the power of friendship… And frieza
30:11 Pager U moment
Wine w Julius Caesar c'mon! Nazdravie!
Early history of the Romanians?
Hope you do visit Scandinavia! I worked at a local museum in the north of Norway that specialises in Sami history and i think you'd enjoy that since it's a very unique language and culture being the only internationally recognized indigenous group in Europe. Hiking the tundra is also a fantastic experience. Do be wary of the prices though.
What a retarded notion, I am curious what European groups aren't indigenous.
3:00 hmm 1444… eu4 addict…
So, I don't get it. How did it the police stopped you on the highway because they thought you were a spy?
As stated in the video they stopped me at an airport, not a highway, and took me to another room and questioned me if I was a Russian spy. The reasoning was that my passport didn't scan so they thought I had a fake Slovak passport and in their minds "Slavic Eastern Europe" just meant Russian. Anyways, eventually when they inputted the details of my passport manually it worked so they let me go after that.
Please go back to over simplified
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What do you mean? I literally did research for a video, he asked if he could copy it, I said yes as long as he credits me, that was all. I was never with them.
Isnt your mother teaching on university?
I don't think a video about Romanian history would need to go back to The Middle Ages.
You could begin quite reasonably in (say) 1828.
I think that the effort to "Latinise" Romanian by removing Slavic and Turkish loan words would make an interesting topic.
Definitely an interesting topic but my early history videos focus on the modern perceived ethnogenesis of peoples in the early medieval period and that is a very complicated topic because it's not black and white. It's not like it didn't happen in some way but it also didn't happen the way we think it did today.
Why do you say 'math'?
Because I learned English in America, hence math and not maths.
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i have the same rug at home lol
It is the stereotypical "grandma's rug" in Slovakia.