i remember reading somewhere when i was young that it takes as much as 15 seconds for your head to die once severed no clue how true that may be tho lol
I lived in Macau with my parents. Back then, we didn't pay taxes because of the casino's profits. Since my father worked at the Macau electric company, we also didn't pay electricity. Good times.
Speaking as a former resident and student there: Their CE, Mr. Ho constantly iterates that diversification is important but there's barely anything done. They're still as a rock. It was especially evident when covid was over nothing changed. The money is flowing back in to casinos. Even with the thriving casinos, the local residents aren't benefiting. Theres many people who study to leave the city, so brain drain is a significant problem. Their infrastructure is focused on the casinos, where there's barely any investment for the Macanese people themselves. Since money laundering is such a problem and regulations are so tight there, E-commerce is nearly impossible. Many shops are still closing and reopening there. The job figures is misleading too, as a lot of jobs posted are potentially scams. A lot only want your personal data and/or money.
@@Rubicola174 Where is that quote from? It's so relatable and explainable! It applies to both Macau and a lot of draconian business practices. In one case study, a hotel company restricted their corporate network speed to 200kbs as they feared that employees would waste time on social media on the computers. Email attachments, ppt, and pdfs had to be sent on the hotel guest wifi network. It was anonymized with the name "Ravine"
the issue is that the mafia ( the casino owners) are part of the Gov, just like in another 3 world country, (trust me i live in one) they will talk about the issues, but there is no real way to deal with them after all you need to cut off a huge portion of the gdp, by cutting off ties with this people and thats not possible since this people have a lot of power so the gov act like a puppet unless there is a bigger country interested in dealing with the shit show, but for them there is a lot to loose and little to earn so they end up partnering with the mafia
@user-hz6fj9xy4y Not Singapore so much as HK and Guangzhou. The former already dominates any potential Macau might have as a financial or shipping hub, while the latter handles any and all manufacturing it could try getting into.
@user-hz6fj9xy4y Not Singapore so much as HK and Guangzhou. Between them they don't leave much potential for any industry that Macau could try getting into.
Remembers years ago reading a statistic that gambling in Macau is five times more important to their economy than that of Las Vegas and thinks: “Alright, I’ll give it a shot.”
I visited Macau during the last week of Portuguese rule. One thing that struck me about the city was how few people knew any Portuguese, despite the fact that all the signs were in Portuguese and the old city was a textbook example of Portuguese architecture. I understand that this was largely because most of the city's residents arrived from China in the 20th century, but it did confirm my suspicion that the Portuguese, for better or for worse, made very little effort to assimilate the people they ruled over. This video sheds a new light on that - they were not really in charge at all, they just did whatever the gangs told them to do.
The Portuguese in all of its colonies were there’s an existing population of moderate civilisation level beyond tribal have sucked when it comes to integrating them and governance has always been poor by southern European nations In colonial sense. Also just to add most of the Macanese that can speak Portuguese took the citizenship in the 90’s and left.
it's interesting how a gambling industry seems to almost guarantee the ensconcement of an oligarchy whose primary interest consists only of making things easier for their casinos. perhaps monaco is an exception. by virtue of being too small to house the poor.
You gotta do what the US learned to do tie the casinos profits into social goods like the casino I worked at all their income went to the government to build stuff like roads hospitals and an auditorium for the high school then the government pays them back minus taxes
@@nothanks9503 that certainly helps. the problem is that it's very difficult to calculate the harm done by gambling, whereas it's relatively easy to quantify the benefits. As the benefits are largely financial and the harms are generally not. like take someone who loses his house at the casino. thats an economic postive to the economy as a whole and yes you can offset the benefit received by the casino by taxation and then use those public goods like some sort of welfare housing for the man's family, but i dont see how this transaction will ever realistically be made into a net benefit. an extreme example i know, but that i have witnessed before nonetheless. but yes harm reduction and harm offset clearly helps versus funnelling the money into criminal organizations
Hum. There's a James Clavell novel The Noble House detailing one eventful week in Hong Kong in 1963. One of the character is Lando Mata, the Portugese-Chinese owner of the gambling monopoly which is partially based on Stanley Ho.
I have been working my way very slowly through your very first videos over the last few months, and just made it up to the Macau history ones when this popped up. Coincidence or what? You have an excellent body of work here. It's great to see how your presentation has improved over time, the older stuff was patchy but the content is still 100% worthwhile. Thanks for doing you.
Yup, I remember the "good ole' days" of VIP rooms. Some suites were quite luxurious. Even had separate food and booze (and concierges that would get you anything else you wanted, and I mean anything) menus. Quiet, clean didn't smell like, old beer, booze, angst and cigarette smoke like the regular Casinos.
I like how everyone is getting eaten over time. Like the amount of video titles asianometry has stating whomever was ate you would think by just titles that they were dabbling in true crime.
as someone born in macau in the 2000s (and left since) this video resonated especially on the economy currently - it is a lack of diversity ever since covid it felt like a drastic change in the quality and way of life (and this is not accounting to the totaliterian-esque restrictions) as most casinos cannot capitalise on the vip guests. likewise, with or without diversification macau (to an extent hk) are both doomed to mainland as they export much cheaper labour and greater competition to the locals who would often lose out and the money spent onto macau's non-existent tourism (or what remains of it after little red book ruined everything) drives prices up. I currently live in the uk and sometimes i feel the prices here are the same back "home", even if every brit moans about cost of living but i digress. i do not mean to be xenophobic to the mainlanders (as that would be illegal under the national security law) but i do feel like both macau and hk have lost its soul, from when i was a child - a place which used to be a haven of sorts, removed to nothing but bureaucracy and oligarchs willing to sell out to the mainland government as the common people suffer under prices (and housing) with lowered income. rant over
680k population is basically useless figure, so do the apparent density because there’re MORE tourists than the citizens in Macau everyday. And thanks to the distance to mainland is literally nothing, more than half of them go back at night. Moreover, there’re ~100k “foreign” worker(mainly from china) working in Macau. Also need to mention only ~50% of land in Macau is civilised/developed, but local people love to stay in the Macau Pennisula(half again). So all in all there’re usually ~100k person/km2(in town area) in day time and
@@MeiinUK Well, what a good description! It's very similar to the way people love Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong, high density and clean. But compare to them, Macanese is more merciful(unlike Tokyo it's on the face and unlike Hong Kong they discriminate each other) and simple or even naive, the city landscape is a bit dilapidated, closer to Kuala Lumpur.
ironic that the thumbnail says "how the rich are macau" but the titile is "how the gamblers ate macau" since gamblers usually are the opposite of rich. maybe saying how the casinos ate macau would be better
I knew exactly what the video was going to be about the moment i saw it in my feed. Unless somoene else didn't, or particularly nearly skipped the video due to thumbnail/title, i don't feel a clarification or improvement is necessary.
Gambling is much more culturally big in China than the US (or at least until recently, who knows with all the sports betting). Vegas has sought over the past couple decade to get as many Chinese and other East Asian high rollers into Vegas because they spend so much. And part of the reason AC has struggled so much is that they can't really access the Chinese high roller market The widespread legalization of gambling in the US also differs massively from China, where it remains illegal on the mainland. While in the US most cities have multiple casinos nearby, the only place you can gamble in China is Macau and HK (and other SE Asian countries). For example, I live in Philadelphia - 20 years ago the only place near me I could gamble at would be AC, but today I can walk to a casino
fan tan: not "divided by four" but the remainder, modulo four... The Wikipedia on the matter also got modulo wrong, stating that players bet on 1..4--that is not the case, it's 0..3. People really should get their maths vocabulary up to passing levels...
The 12-3 incident, coupled with Carnation Revolution, did paralysed Portugese ability to continuing rule Macau. But I will also add, Portugal did want to surrender Macau back to China as early as possible. But the politburo rather have HK first as the latter has more things to deal with. Hence why Macau only back to China 450 years later. It starts and end with Macau...
I agree. Macau is laid back and relaxing compared to HK. Their Hac Sa beach is always worth visiting and relaxing in. They have a surprising amount of Michelin star restaurants. However, their whole economy is dependent on gambling, and they didn't diversify even after covid, which hit them incredibly hard.
Love Macau, always go there, next time I'm gonna eat at Taipa village for a change, last time I was there, got food poisoning from raw beef tartare, stayed at old man Stanley's Versace hotel at Lisboa Palace, nice place! I do notice that Macau's number of gamblers have slowly declined over the years, but the walk-in and leisure tourists have exponentially increased especially among the youth, they don't gamble but they do social media posting, most eat and shop at low to medium end establishments but not really on the high end luxury shops and dinning, that is mostly reserved for the rich Chinese tourists from Southeast Asia.
I'd never heard of the 12-3 Incident but the Wiki article has enlightened me. I never realised the PRC government was basically in charge from 1966 but let the Portuguese pretend to rule Macau until 1999. Wiki suggests that this was because Beijing didn't want to make people in Hong Kong worry.
You're kind of misunderstanding it based on this individual perception. Prc was newly formed. China does not equate to prc. Prc has more parts that is now generalised and classified as china. But some of these people who support the communists don't know that. But why the fights happen here in Macau and in HK is because these people are indeed the last or few remaining Chinese. That is why they fight for their rights. It's like Catalonia... In Spain.. or the Vatican... In Rome... But hearing in mind that nobody said that the two cannot coexists. It can. It has. They won't fight if they aren't some kind of imperial elite. Think about it. Even in Vietnam, there was a dynasty too... Mr Lai... Now it is part of that. So... What is happening with art. 23 is not good. It makes the whole UN notion a mediocrity. Cos you are killing off the remaining empire of another state. Imagine if somebody targetted the royal families.... Even everybody knows that Madonna is part of the royal family tree to the old Queen.... Similar to Mr Lai.
I was a professor of Portuguese in Macau between 1989/1997 and never seen the crime-riddled Territory as you say in the beggining of this "peace". With or without Stanley Ho influence. And Gambling in Macau under the Portuguese Rule was always legal, afterall Macau was under Portuguese Law until 1999. PS: what Stanley Ho achived,legally or illegally is just Astonishing. Macau is just 6 times bigger than Las Vegas in Gambling Revenue. Not bad at all for a small old colonial Territory .
I was in Macau in 2018. I said to my friend that Macau makes Las Vegas into a place where you go slumming. I've never seen such hotels and casinos as those in Macau.
Vegas looks far more grand than Macau, and I’m sure the numbers of people far outweighs Macau. … most of the money that gets pushed through Macau daily will never be seen in the public eye.
@@vihodanyet Las Vegas has more turists than Macau,but only 25 % of them goes to Vegas to Gamble. In Macau 80 % of the tourists goes there just to Gamble. Macau has become known worldwide has the Gambling Capital of the world.
The corruption/crime issue certainly isn't over just because of the handover: the Macau customs chief was found dead in a bathroom - the official story was that she had committed suicide, which doesn't explain how it was that she had a plastic bag wrapped around her head. This happened not long after an anti-corruption official fell from a building.
I live in the Western United States, so naturally I don't ever hear about anything that happens in Asia. Your channel is really interesting! Sometimes we get so caught up in our own lives that we forget there's an entire world going on at any moment! It's amazing!
Thanks for “non-tech” history videos like this too! Asian history is practically nonexistent in european schools… (and this kind of spicy history is also “forbidden”)
This is not true. Actually. But this kind of history are news in the eyes of the West. Each country teaches their own history of the country. To teach these relationships.. you need to learn it as a separate subject as history.
Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita was the Macanese officer who lead the attack on Chinese winning against great odds. He went crazy because he did not receive the accolades he expected and killed his wife before throwing himself down a well. I lived on the street in Taipa named for him.
Stanley Ho, having his rivals murdered by his assassins! Numerous competitors challenging him on his turf, so Stanley had them eliminated! That man is wicked to the core! His family follows suit! Ho is burning in HELL NOW!
I`m portuguese and the History of Macau is a current well known History fact. This video is based in modern english and chinese historical propaganda. Portugal never payed any form of rent for Macau holding, the british did it. Macau was offered to the portuguese Crown by the chinese emperor for aid in fighting piracy (if any study was made for this video, that should had popped up, the famous golden tablets) There never was a "gambling issue" in Macau until China (we do understand the chinese attempt to clean its bad managing, inventing a non existing past) entered the territoty recently . There were problems in Macau , very old ones, starting with the fact that Macau was the only way for thousands of chinese to sell goods to the West . These "goods" also included mass prostitution and hidden slavery Opium trade never happened in Macau (Portugal never traded drugs, that was the main business of others, killing the customer is not an activity that builds long lasting empires, the portuguese remained 400 years in Macau, the US has a little more than half that age), it was an idea of the British private traders and it happened in Hong Kong The isolated elite of Macau "petite histoire" (i wonder that source) is a copycat of the french colonial history. No one stays 400 years in a territory and maintains "racial purity" (by the way that is a protestant concept, there is a lot of literature of dutch criticizing the portuguese tendency for mixture) thats is just a bad understanding of World History. The Macaense "elite" was has mixed has any other portuguese territory, and all of them had their own sipn off on the portuguese language (Macau stiil has a portuguese variant) I see in the video a washing of the gambling business, pinning it on the portuguese. Everybody with a simple google search can attest that the gamblig industry only grew after 1999 (phony communism at its best) . Never until that point (again, 400 years) was Macau a hub for criminal activities, finantial schemes or a finantial washing machine. Talking on gamblig, there still exists in Macau the old Portuguese State Institution that after 500 years still hold monopoly on gambling activities in portuguese held territory. The Santa Casa never emited gambling activities in Macau, they are a social support Institution still operating in Macau There was a lot of hope from the local population n 1999 , thinking that the portuguese are bad at managing and one of the common phrases was the story of corrupt bureaucrats (portuguese have a compulsion to criticize themselves, so its a non reality that becomes a reality by over repeating), but guess what? 90% of the working force in Macau comes everyday from Mainland China . The locals were dupped I bet you that if a referedum was held today asking to return to Portugal, that vote would be a large majority. Its easy to fake History books, faking reality is not for every culture Speaking of 400 years, what other culture remained that long whithout interruption in that part of the World? Yeah.
Ah yes, let's trust the word of someone from the nation being criticized, who also has exactly zero sources to back up their claims. Provide sources (or at least indicate where we might be able to find those sources), or go cry more.
@@rohunagarwal6497 of course, by all means. Lets instead trust on a short youtube video, played on a language that has what? 300 years (even the mayan grammar published by the spanish is older than the first english grammar) , telling a story without any sources (the format does not allow anything else), lets do that instead of reading the original sources in old portuguese (most of you dont even read portuguese, let alone the olders versions), or the sources in Patuá (Macau dialect) , or cantonese (most prevalent language in Macau until the XX century ) , lets never had read read a book in school and rely exclusively on the english digital sources , almost all originated in the US . There is a big difference between criticising and throwing bs . Portugal has 900 years of history , we literally dont give a f*ck to ctritics, usually we join the rant. But pushing bs is an all other story The thing that many people dont understand is that when you post an opinion on a Country`s History (this is specially true in Europe) you are telling a story around a direct ancestor from which we have a memory and records. We are not a culture based on 3 generations. Many of the issues around human exploitation in Macau come from exiled communities from Japan, China or Korea escaping war, rampant poverty in China (that was allways a thing), and many portuguese or portuguese descendants are related from those people from which they still have memory. Its not by chance that in Japan they still comemorate the arrival of the portuguese, its not because wealth and glory , but because of shared lived experience You want a source? Read 'peregrinação' from Fernão Mendes Pinto. People there can read a first person acount in the XVI century of how a european gets enslaved severall times (one of those times to build a certain wall in China that dates to the dinossaurs), how people were bought and sold in the Middle East, hoe easily people died from anything...all the good things that dont need propaganda to be a recursive reality that repeats itself unless people get the real story.
@@AntonioFerreira-mx1er Well maybe until one day the Portugese actually get their GDP per capita to match the current Macau one then you can talk. Otherwise, you are a poor agricultural backwater of no significance for the last 2 centuries. Hell, more people think Portuguese culture is Brazillian than the other way around. Also no, nobody wants to join your failing economy that has zero future. People who wants to migrate to the west might as well go to the US.
Great Reply and Certainly True 👍 Still this Video is a Good Way into the Macau Portuguese History, and then anyone can go as Deep & Broad as they want! Portuguese Colonial Era was as Strong as the French, English and Dutch ones, and obviously self-reflection isn't Our Humanity's strongest skill! But Macau is Amazing even without those nice shining casinos! Too much gambling isn't good for anyone, even if supeRi$h 😂👋
@@MorrisFilmPhoto there is a lack of translated literature around the pros and cons of Empire rule, but there is no lack of self reflexion of the portuguese culture.There is is the 'Lusiadas' of Camões in the XVI , despite being pushed has a literary epic the truth is that was schedule to be burnt by the Inquisition due to its critic undertone to the administration , only got published due to political feud between the prime minister and the contestants. There is side B of the previous that pushes the critic , the 'peregrinação' which it is a serious critic to the futility of the Empire (it rendered no profit and consumed lives) . There is the 'soldado práctico' of Diogo Couto that endeavours on the rampant corruption in the bueaurocracy of the XVII century and what the common citizen had to do to survive . There is the 3° chronicle of India in the XVI century that was forbidden to be republished due to the fact that described the total lack of resources and the self rule . We have also the XVII and XVIII centuries where the Church and its jesuit branch proposed severall social models of organizing society outside of Europe (due to slavery misery and exploitation), like the American 'reductions` where the natives would live in a planned semi urban society whith urban organization anf free education (reduction means reducing Man in its wild nature - ambitions and self improvment- to the community needs), a project totally destroyed by the portuguese prime minister at the time (Marquis of Pombal in the Treaty of Madrid) due to that project being in practice a unsustainable model that promoted slavery (merchants would target those communities to get slaves due to its education). Not to mention that slavery was an industry well stablished despite severall atempts by the Crown to avoid its promotion , for instance the promotion of a development of Brazil in 1530 (in the end of the spice Era, the 1° empire) by private iniciative where promoters would be granted for life 50 divisions ('capitanias do Brasil`) of the whole territory in return for its development, only 2 survived after 10 years , and both died to slave trade being by far more profitable. When the Crown prohibited that, the trade just moved north into nowadays New York by the XVIII century . And this despite the ideological revolution of 1640 where the King made a proto-constitutional legal statment of the political Power being derived from the Will of the People (1645) , mostly based on the António Vieira works (Padre António Vieira) where european political status was heavily criticized by promoting human treatment has if peoples where things while gasing themselves has doing the work of God . " each one is of the colour of its Heart" The big lesson is that despite the 3 portuguese empires (spices, sugar and tobacco...each good is an Era ) slavery, prostitution and exploitation allways survive and come back to life. And they still do, there never where so many slaves in the World has today (despite tech improvment in productivity). I dont belive that no Empire produces its own reflection, i believe that there are those in every Empire (French, english...) . The question is if there is a real interest in showing them , considering that we keep repeating the same trends
How convenient, I’m currently reading the book “Blood Brothers” by Bertil Lintner more specifically the chaper on Macau, and he pretty much recounts the same thing in that book.
"they cut off his head, he did not survive that"
so true king
came her to post that.
Well, not for long, that's for sure. Apparently you can remain conscious for up to 20 seconds depending on how fast the blood drains from your brain.
some people just refuse to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, put their head back on their body, and get back to work. shameful.
I actually snorted.
humor so dry I had to sip my water
"...cutting off his head. He did not survive that" XD
ya, 😂 thought the same
@@yoursubconscious I am surprised as you are.
I am shocked. Shocked! 😂
i remember reading somewhere when i was young that it takes as much as 15 seconds for your head to die once severed
no clue how true that may be tho lol
Clarification on such details is important.
5:05 The monotone "bro had 10 wives and 27 children" caught me off guard. 💀
bro really said "bro had 10 wives and 27 children"
I lived in Macau with my parents.
Back then, we didn't pay taxes because of the casino's profits.
Since my father worked at the Macau electric company, we also didn't pay electricity.
Good times.
What DID you pay lol?
@@ArawnOfAnnwn Shopping at Hong Kong every weekends...
devias ter la ficado, Portugal CONTINENTAL é para os Portugueses filhos de Portugueses e netos de Portugueses
@@fft2020hahahahaha
portugal nao eh dono de nada amigao
@@fft2020a portugueses; nada
nao é a toa que dizem quao nojentos voces sao 😂😂😂
Speaking as a former resident and student there: Their CE, Mr. Ho constantly iterates that diversification is important but there's barely anything done. They're still as a rock. It was especially evident when covid was over nothing changed. The money is flowing back in to casinos. Even with the thriving casinos, the local residents aren't benefiting. Theres many people who study to leave the city, so brain drain is a significant problem.
Their infrastructure is focused on the casinos, where there's barely any investment for the Macanese people themselves. Since money laundering is such a problem and regulations are so tight there, E-commerce is nearly impossible.
Many shops are still closing and reopening there. The job figures is misleading too, as a lot of jobs posted are potentially scams. A lot only want your personal data and/or money.
@@Rubicola174 Where is that quote from? It's so relatable and explainable! It applies to both Macau and a lot of draconian business practices.
In one case study, a hotel company restricted their corporate network speed to 200kbs as they feared that employees would waste time on social media on the computers. Email attachments, ppt, and pdfs had to be sent on the hotel guest wifi network. It was anonymized with the name "Ravine"
It's too late... It's probably already an extension of Singapore... So it can't compete.
the issue is that the mafia ( the casino owners) are part of the Gov, just like in another 3 world country, (trust me i live in one) they will talk about the issues, but there is no real way to deal with them after all you need to cut off a huge portion of the gdp, by cutting off ties with this people and thats not possible since this people have a lot of power so the gov act like a puppet unless there is a bigger country interested in dealing with the shit show, but for them there is a lot to loose and little to earn so they end up partnering with the mafia
@user-hz6fj9xy4y Not Singapore so much as HK and Guangzhou. The former already dominates any potential Macau might have as a financial or shipping hub, while the latter handles any and all manufacturing it could try getting into.
@user-hz6fj9xy4y Not Singapore so much as HK and Guangzhou. Between them they don't leave much potential for any industry that Macau could try getting into.
Remembers years ago reading a statistic that gambling in Macau is five times more important to their economy than that of Las Vegas and thinks: “Alright, I’ll give it a shot.”
Macau gambling revenue last year was about 24 billions, three times larger than the strip
Casinos are a great way to launder money. It's not that they are dumb, it's corrupt officials who want to have a good time and wash their money.
I visited Macau during the last week of Portuguese rule. One thing that struck me about the city was how few people knew any Portuguese, despite the fact that all the signs were in Portuguese and the old city was a textbook example of Portuguese architecture. I understand that this was largely because most of the city's residents arrived from China in the 20th century, but it did confirm my suspicion that the Portuguese, for better or for worse, made very little effort to assimilate the people they ruled over. This video sheds a new light on that - they were not really in charge at all, they just did whatever the gangs told them to do.
The Portuguese in all of its colonies were there’s an existing population of moderate civilisation level beyond tribal have sucked when it comes to integrating them and governance has always been poor by southern European nations In colonial sense. Also just to add most of the Macanese that can speak Portuguese took the citizenship in the 90’s and left.
I subscribed for the history of SQL and now I'm getting the history of gambling in Macau, nice
The dry 'he dud not survive that' had me in a chuckle
it's interesting how a gambling industry seems to almost guarantee the ensconcement of an oligarchy whose primary interest consists only of making things easier for their casinos.
perhaps monaco is an exception. by virtue of being too small to house the poor.
civilized nations prefer to gamble at the stock exchange
You gotta do what the US learned to do tie the casinos profits into social goods like the casino I worked at all their income went to the government to build stuff like roads hospitals and an auditorium for the high school then the government pays them back minus taxes
@@nothanks9503 that certainly helps. the problem is that it's very difficult to calculate the harm done by gambling, whereas it's relatively easy to quantify the benefits. As the benefits are largely financial and the harms are generally not.
like take someone who loses his house at the casino. thats an economic postive to the economy as a whole and yes you can offset the benefit received by the casino by taxation and then use those public goods like some sort of welfare housing for the man's family, but i dont see how this transaction will ever realistically be made into a net benefit. an extreme example i know, but that i have witnessed before nonetheless.
but yes harm reduction and harm offset clearly helps versus funnelling the money into criminal organizations
Hum. There's a James Clavell novel The Noble House detailing one eventful week in Hong Kong in 1963. One of the character is Lando Mata, the Portugese-Chinese owner of the gambling monopoly which is partially based on Stanley Ho.
Great movie with pierce brosnan!
2:00 And then a Polish traveler came and they tried to get him drunk but they run out of alcohol so the traveler left.
The Finns have entered the chat
@@djackmanson Love from Poland!
😂😂
i was assuming this was about casino buffets…
I have been working my way very slowly through your very first videos over the last few months, and just made it up to the Macau history ones when this popped up. Coincidence or what?
You have an excellent body of work here. It's great to see how your presentation has improved over time, the older stuff was patchy but the content is still 100% worthwhile. Thanks for doing you.
“…cutting off his head. He did not survive that”.
"they cut off his head, he did not survive that"
Just a scratch wound
It's easier (closer) to "..bite your leg off..."?
Love the movie reference LOL
Barely an inconvenience.
This is what vice does, it destroys your own house and your future.
As any does
Stanley Ho had a bunch of nice houses 😂
We need Fallout: Macau as a spiritual successor to nvg
Yup, I remember the "good ole' days" of VIP rooms. Some suites were quite luxurious. Even had separate food and booze (and concierges that would get you anything else you wanted, and I mean anything) menus. Quiet, clean didn't smell like, old beer, booze, angst and cigarette smoke like the regular Casinos.
VIP rooms are pretty normal in the gambling industry. Are they forbidden now in Macau?
@@BlaBla-pf8mf He is hinting at debauchery. The bad of the bad could be had by lad if he were bold enough to ask..
@@KeithZim What kind of debauchery pray? Details pls. ;)
@@ArawnOfAnnwnsomething like Dubai porta potties I bet
@@Lady_Graham what does this mean?
The way you find such disparate yet fascinating subjects is quite amazing. Enthralling!
I like how everyone is getting eaten over time. Like the amount of video titles asianometry has stating whomever was ate you would think by just titles that they were dabbling in true crime.
I about had a stroke trying to read that second sentence lmao
Reminds me of when headlines kept using "slammed" whenever anything even remotely critical was said.
"How the Dutch ate their prime minister" is a video I'm waiting for
Wait till you hear about How Seven ATE Nine!
Lou Kau is coincidentally my great grandfather. This was fun to watch.
as someone born in macau in the 2000s (and left since) this video resonated especially on the economy currently - it is a lack of diversity ever since covid
it felt like a drastic change in the quality and way of life (and this is not accounting to the totaliterian-esque restrictions) as most casinos cannot capitalise on the vip guests.
likewise, with or without diversification macau (to an extent hk) are both doomed to mainland as they export much cheaper labour and greater competition to the locals who would often lose out and the money spent onto macau's non-existent tourism (or what remains of it after little red book ruined everything) drives prices up. I currently live in the uk and sometimes i feel the prices here are the same back "home", even if every brit moans about cost of living but i digress.
i do not mean to be xenophobic to the mainlanders (as that would be illegal under the national security law) but i do feel like both macau and hk have lost its soul, from when i was a child - a place which used to be a haven of sorts, removed to nothing but bureaucracy and oligarchs willing to sell out to the mainland government as the common people suffer under prices (and housing) with lowered income.
rant over
Good comment
You can’t really expect a city to be a jack of all trades eh?
sorry what do you mean by " little red book ruined everything"?
I'm very happy with your content, one of the only few CZcamsrs who I've supported monetarily.
Wake up babe Asianometry just dropped a new video
Call me whatever you want but I was already awake. Good looking out though.
@@garettrobichaux correct. You catch on quick. Boosts dude's engagement, doncha kno?
@@raygumm All hail the almighty algorithm!
“wake up babe” comments are cringe and played out
Landed on my foot. Ow! Ow! Ow!
Macau is of course also central in North Korea's efforts to get (foreign) money into the hands of the regime, evading sanctions
3:41 "Dragging him off his horse and cutting off his head...
He did not survive that."
this channel rules
That picture of Ho with the governor of Macau looks like the photos you always see in Mafia documentaries
680k population is basically useless figure, so do the apparent density
because there’re MORE tourists than the citizens in Macau everyday. And thanks to the distance to mainland is literally nothing, more than half of them go back at night.
Moreover, there’re ~100k “foreign” worker(mainly from china) working in Macau.
Also need to mention only ~50% of land in Macau is civilised/developed, but local people love to stay in the Macau Pennisula(half again).
So all in all there’re usually ~100k person/km2(in town area) in day time and
7-11 is in Macau, a lot of supermarkets aren't open 24/7. These include San Miu and Parknshop.
@@yensteel In Hong Kong 7-Elevens are almost in every single block, many of them only
Wow... So it's like it's an actual commuters' entertainment city then ?....
@@MeiinUK Well, what a good description!
It's very similar to the way people love Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong, high density and clean. But compare to them, Macanese is more merciful(unlike Tokyo it's on the face and unlike Hong Kong they discriminate each other) and simple or even naive, the city landscape is a bit dilapidated, closer to Kuala Lumpur.
@TestChannel-gt5yi Oh, I’m more experienced with Taipa side. Cheers.
"He did not survive that." 😂 that's great!
ironic that the thumbnail says "how the rich are macau" but the titile is "how the gamblers ate macau" since gamblers usually are the opposite of rich. maybe saying how the casinos ate macau would be better
Seems you're forgetting to consider the wealthy socialites who owned, operated, and set up rackets based around the casinos.
I knew exactly what the video was going to be about the moment i saw it in my feed. Unless somoene else didn't, or particularly nearly skipped the video due to thumbnail/title, i don't feel a clarification or improvement is necessary.
The rich also own the casino
. . . waiting to see something about Panama. . .
There are rich people who can afford to lose millions yet remain rich
Are you selling me that a casino town is run by the mafia?! Who would have thought!
A guy with the last name Fok was the major investor in a company named STD-M? You can't make this up.
Are you a child?
Wonder about the differences between Macau and other gambling cities like Atlantic City and Las Vegas.
A LOT BIGGER
Brittany Spears has not had an entertainment residency in Macau. Oh, and no port facilities in Vegas. 🎲
Each gambler spends more than in the other gambling cities at least. Source: Asianometry's last video.
7 times bigger than Vegas
Gambling is much more culturally big in China than the US (or at least until recently, who knows with all the sports betting). Vegas has sought over the past couple decade to get as many Chinese and other East Asian high rollers into Vegas because they spend so much. And part of the reason AC has struggled so much is that they can't really access the Chinese high roller market
The widespread legalization of gambling in the US also differs massively from China, where it remains illegal on the mainland. While in the US most cities have multiple casinos nearby, the only place you can gamble in China is Macau and HK (and other SE Asian countries). For example, I live in Philadelphia - 20 years ago the only place near me I could gamble at would be AC, but today I can walk to a casino
Great video, again! Your videos are consistently informative and entertaining.
Great vid. Gonna go rewatch the whole Macau series now.👋
3:43 - 3:46
*Supprised Pikachu face*
fan tan: not "divided by four" but the remainder, modulo four... The Wikipedia on the matter also got modulo wrong, stating that players bet on 1..4--that is not the case, it's 0..3. People really should get their maths vocabulary up to passing levels...
You know, watching stuff like this on a Saturday probably explains why I'm so weird.
The 12-3 incident, coupled with Carnation Revolution, did paralysed Portugese ability to continuing rule Macau.
But I will also add, Portugal did want to surrender Macau back to China as early as possible. But the politburo rather have HK first as the latter has more things to deal with. Hence why Macau only back to China 450 years later. It starts and end with Macau...
Do a video on fentanyl and casino laundering in Vancouver. Chinese triads, big circle boys… Wilful blindness is a book on it.
5:05 bro is brain rotting
Macau is a beautiful place, and a very sad, sad story.
I agree. Macau is laid back and relaxing compared to HK. Their Hac Sa beach is always worth visiting and relaxing in. They have a surprising amount of Michelin star restaurants.
However, their whole economy is dependent on gambling, and they didn't diversify even after covid, which hit them incredibly hard.
Love Macau, always go there, next time I'm gonna eat at Taipa village for a change, last time I was there, got food poisoning from raw beef tartare, stayed at old man Stanley's Versace hotel at Lisboa Palace, nice place! I do notice that Macau's number of gamblers have slowly declined over the years, but the walk-in and leisure tourists have exponentially increased especially among the youth, they don't gamble but they do social media posting, most eat and shop at low to medium end establishments but not really on the high end luxury shops and dinning, that is mostly reserved for the rich Chinese tourists from Southeast Asia.
“He did not survive that.” Hahahahah
Really enjoyed it, appreciate all your hard work putting these together for us, excellent work as always!! 🙏🏼
Honestly what an incredible video. Direct, insightful, concise.
I'd never heard of the 12-3 Incident but the Wiki article has enlightened me. I never realised the PRC government was basically in charge from 1966 but let the Portuguese pretend to rule Macau until 1999.
Wiki suggests that this was because Beijing didn't want to make people in Hong Kong worry.
You're kind of misunderstanding it based on this individual perception. Prc was newly formed. China does not equate to prc. Prc has more parts that is now generalised and classified as china. But some of these people who support the communists don't know that. But why the fights happen here in Macau and in HK is because these people are indeed the last or few remaining Chinese. That is why they fight for their rights. It's like Catalonia... In Spain.. or the Vatican... In Rome... But hearing in mind that nobody said that the two cannot coexists. It can. It has. They won't fight if they aren't some kind of imperial elite. Think about it. Even in Vietnam, there was a dynasty too... Mr Lai... Now it is part of that. So... What is happening with art. 23 is not good. It makes the whole UN notion a mediocrity. Cos you are killing off the remaining empire of another state. Imagine if somebody targetted the royal families.... Even everybody knows that Madonna is part of the royal family tree to the old Queen.... Similar to Mr Lai.
I thought this was about the dining experience of the rich…
Weren’t the casino also used by Chinese nationals to move money out of China too?
Please feature Philippines' gambling industry
6:07: Ouch!
I saw Casino Estoril in Cascais just recently. Gorgeous place.
18:53 Stanley Ho died in 2020, not 2018
Gotta admit, slightly embarrassed only "knowing" about this place from that James Bond movie
They ate and left no crumbs. SLAAYYYY!
Another excellent upload, thanks!
Can't wait to see a similar one about Cambodia~
Your account is like opium for curious people. Thank you for making me addicted 😛.
Damn that secret base in Macao with all those ronins!
Even though I don’t gamble, I love Macau. It’s a place of great contrasts. Hyper modern casino’s against a backdrop of classic colonial architecture.
I wish Old Taipa would never change!
Thats why they emphasize woo yao, the poor familiar children and wives.
3:38 He didn't?!!
bobba fett would love macau
Coloane is just Ko-low-Aan, the e is kinda silent.
Yeah. The narrator’s pronunciation was irritating.
You could do a video on the invention of the teapot and still make it sound fascinating. Absolutely love your work,
I was a professor of Portuguese in Macau between 1989/1997 and never seen the crime-riddled Territory as you say in the beggining of this "peace".
With or without Stanley Ho influence.
And Gambling in Macau under the Portuguese Rule was always legal, afterall Macau was under Portuguese Law until 1999.
PS: what Stanley Ho achived,legally or illegally is just Astonishing.
Macau is just 6 times bigger than Las Vegas in Gambling Revenue.
Not bad at all for a small old colonial Territory .
I was in Macau in 2018. I said to my friend that Macau makes Las Vegas into a place where you go slumming. I've never seen such hotels and casinos as those in Macau.
Vegas looks far more grand than Macau, and I’m sure the numbers of people far outweighs Macau. … most of the money that gets pushed through Macau daily will never be seen in the public eye.
@@vihodanyet nope,the Numbers of Macau are just Overwhelming.
They puts Vegas to Shame.
@@jpmtlhead39 in tourism ? I doubt it I’ve been to both multiple times. Macau washes 100x more currency , that’s all
@@vihodanyet Las Vegas has more turists than Macau,but only 25 % of them goes to Vegas to Gamble.
In Macau 80 % of the tourists goes there just to Gamble.
Macau has become known worldwide has the Gambling Capital of the world.
The corruption/crime issue certainly isn't over just because of the handover: the Macau customs chief was found dead in a bathroom - the official story was that she had committed suicide, which doesn't explain how it was that she had a plastic bag wrapped around her head. This happened not long after an anti-corruption official fell from a building.
"Babe wake up, Asianometry posted another socioeconomic vore vid."
13:51 Why there are die dots (numbers) on the chips? Are you suppose to roll them?
I live in the Western United States, so naturally I don't ever hear about anything that happens in Asia. Your channel is really interesting! Sometimes we get so caught up in our own lives that we forget there's an entire world going on at any moment! It's amazing!
Thanks for “non-tech” history videos like this too! Asian history is practically nonexistent in european schools… (and this kind of spicy history is also “forbidden”)
This is not true. Actually. But this kind of history are news in the eyes of the West. Each country teaches their own history of the country. To teach these relationships.. you need to learn it as a separate subject as history.
The screenplay for Martin Scorsese movie writes itself...
Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita was the Macanese officer who lead the attack on Chinese winning against great odds.
He went crazy because he did not receive the accolades he expected and killed his wife before throwing himself down a well.
I lived on the street in Taipa named for him.
3:42 "he did not survive that", you didn't put a spoiler alert!
I wrote the ticket printer driver for the Hong Kong Macau ferry - fun project
Wow.
Цікаве та пізнавальне відео. Дякую ❤️
In Portugal everbody called Macau "the patacas tree". Just a place to get rich with business and corruption fast.
The rich ate my cow!
how russia ate the donbass.
"...He did not survive that.". Never change!
Thank you for your work!
Excellent video. A few more comparisons with Vegas would have helped with context.
Will you be doing a similar feature on Caesar's Palace in Laos?
4:44
Wtf Mongolia part of china 😳🇲🇳
That was the Qing China, who ruled Mongolia at the time
Stanley Ho, having his rivals murdered by his assassins! Numerous competitors challenging him on his turf, so Stanley had them eliminated! That man is wicked to the core! His family follows suit! Ho is burning in HELL NOW!
Literally the same as Las Vegas
17:13 lol
The picture showing "Casino Estoril" is the one in Porto, Portugal not in Macau.
It's in Estoril near the racetrack ,not Porto...
@@joaopedrovalerio9673 thx for the clarification
It’s pretty much the same today
I`m portuguese and the History of Macau is a current well known History fact. This video is based in modern english and chinese historical propaganda.
Portugal never payed any form of rent for Macau holding, the british did it. Macau was offered to the portuguese Crown by the chinese emperor for aid in fighting piracy (if any study was made for this video, that should had popped up, the famous golden tablets)
There never was a "gambling issue" in Macau until China (we do understand the chinese attempt to clean its bad managing, inventing a non existing past) entered the territoty recently . There were problems in Macau , very old ones, starting with the fact that Macau was the only way for thousands of chinese to sell goods to the West . These "goods" also included mass prostitution and hidden slavery
Opium trade never happened in Macau (Portugal never traded drugs, that was the main business of others, killing the customer is not an activity that builds long lasting empires, the portuguese remained 400 years in Macau, the US has a little more than half that age), it was an idea of the British private traders and it happened in Hong Kong
The isolated elite of Macau "petite histoire" (i wonder that source) is a copycat of the french colonial history. No one stays 400 years in a territory and maintains "racial purity" (by the way that is a protestant concept, there is a lot of literature of dutch criticizing the portuguese tendency for mixture) thats is just a bad understanding of World History. The Macaense "elite" was has mixed has any other portuguese territory, and all of them had their own sipn off on the portuguese language (Macau stiil has a portuguese variant)
I see in the video a washing of the gambling business, pinning it on the portuguese. Everybody with a simple google search can attest that the gamblig industry only grew after 1999 (phony communism at its best) . Never until that point (again, 400 years) was Macau a hub for criminal activities, finantial schemes or a finantial washing machine.
Talking on gamblig, there still exists in Macau the old Portuguese State Institution that after 500 years still hold monopoly on gambling activities in portuguese held territory. The Santa Casa never emited gambling activities in Macau, they are a social support Institution still operating in Macau
There was a lot of hope from the local population n 1999 , thinking that the portuguese are bad at managing and one of the common phrases was the story of corrupt bureaucrats (portuguese have a compulsion to criticize themselves, so its a non reality that becomes a reality by over repeating), but guess what? 90% of the working force in Macau comes everyday from Mainland China . The locals were dupped
I bet you that if a referedum was held today asking to return to Portugal, that vote would be a large majority.
Its easy to fake History books, faking reality is not for every culture
Speaking of 400 years, what other culture remained that long whithout interruption in that part of the World? Yeah.
Ah yes, let's trust the word of someone from the nation being criticized, who also has exactly zero sources to back up their claims. Provide sources (or at least indicate where we might be able to find those sources), or go cry more.
@@rohunagarwal6497 of course, by all means. Lets instead trust on a short youtube video, played on a language that has what? 300 years (even the mayan grammar published by the spanish is older than the first english grammar) , telling a story without any sources (the format does not allow anything else), lets do that instead of reading the original sources in old portuguese (most of you dont even read portuguese, let alone the olders versions), or the sources in Patuá (Macau dialect) , or cantonese (most prevalent language in Macau until the XX century ) , lets never had read read a book in school and rely exclusively on the english digital sources , almost all originated in the US .
There is a big difference between criticising and throwing bs . Portugal has 900 years of history , we literally dont give a f*ck to ctritics, usually we join the rant. But pushing bs is an all other story
The thing that many people dont understand is that when you post an opinion on a Country`s History (this is specially true in Europe) you are telling a story around a direct ancestor from which we have a memory and records. We are not a culture based on 3 generations.
Many of the issues around human exploitation in Macau come from exiled communities from Japan, China or Korea escaping war, rampant poverty in China (that was allways a thing), and many portuguese or portuguese descendants are related from those people from which they still have memory. Its not by chance that in Japan they still comemorate the arrival of the portuguese, its not because wealth and glory , but because of shared lived experience
You want a source? Read 'peregrinação' from Fernão Mendes Pinto. People there can read a first person acount in the XVI century of how a european gets enslaved severall times (one of those times to build a certain wall in China that dates to the dinossaurs), how people were bought and sold in the Middle East, hoe easily people died from anything...all the good things that dont need propaganda to be a recursive reality that repeats itself unless people get the real story.
@@AntonioFerreira-mx1er Well maybe until one day the Portugese actually get their GDP per capita to match the current Macau one then you can talk. Otherwise, you are a poor agricultural backwater of no significance for the last 2 centuries. Hell, more people think Portuguese culture is Brazillian than the other way around. Also no, nobody wants to join your failing economy that has zero future. People who wants to migrate to the west might as well go to the US.
Great Reply and Certainly True 👍
Still this Video is a Good Way into the Macau Portuguese History, and then anyone can go as Deep & Broad as they want! Portuguese Colonial Era was as Strong as the French, English and Dutch ones, and obviously self-reflection isn't Our Humanity's strongest skill! But Macau is Amazing even without those nice shining casinos! Too much gambling isn't good for anyone, even if supeRi$h 😂👋
@@MorrisFilmPhoto there is a lack of translated literature around the pros and cons of Empire rule, but there is no lack of self reflexion of the portuguese culture.There is is the 'Lusiadas' of Camões in the XVI , despite being pushed has a literary epic the truth is that was schedule to be burnt by the Inquisition due to its critic undertone to the administration , only got published due to political feud between the prime minister and the contestants. There is side B of the previous that pushes the critic , the 'peregrinação' which it is a serious critic to the futility of the Empire (it rendered no profit and consumed lives) . There is the 'soldado práctico' of Diogo Couto that endeavours on the rampant corruption in the bueaurocracy of the XVII century and what the common citizen had to do to survive . There is the 3° chronicle of India in the XVI century that was forbidden to be republished due to the fact that described the total lack of resources and the self rule .
We have also the XVII and XVIII centuries where the Church and its jesuit branch proposed severall social models of organizing society outside of Europe (due to slavery misery and exploitation), like the American 'reductions` where the natives would live in a planned semi urban society whith urban organization anf free education (reduction means reducing Man in its wild nature - ambitions and self improvment- to the community needs), a project totally destroyed by the portuguese prime minister at the time (Marquis of Pombal in the Treaty of Madrid) due to that project being in practice a unsustainable model that promoted slavery (merchants would target those communities to get slaves due to its education). Not to mention that slavery was an industry well stablished despite severall atempts by the Crown to avoid its promotion , for instance the promotion of a development of Brazil in 1530 (in the end of the spice Era, the 1° empire) by private iniciative where promoters would be granted for life 50 divisions ('capitanias do Brasil`) of the whole territory in return for its development, only 2 survived after 10 years , and both died to slave trade being by far more profitable. When the Crown prohibited that, the trade just moved north into nowadays New York by the XVIII century .
And this despite the ideological revolution of 1640 where the King made a proto-constitutional legal statment of the political Power being derived from the Will of the People (1645) , mostly based on the António Vieira works (Padre António Vieira) where european political status was heavily criticized by promoting human treatment has if peoples where things while gasing themselves has doing the work of God .
" each one is of the colour of its Heart"
The big lesson is that despite the 3 portuguese empires (spices, sugar and tobacco...each good is an Era ) slavery, prostitution and exploitation allways survive and come back to life. And they still do, there never where so many slaves in the World has today (despite tech improvment in productivity).
I dont belive that no Empire produces its own reflection, i believe that there are those in every Empire (French, english...) . The question is if there is a real interest in showing them , considering that we keep repeating the same trends
talk about Chinese cars manufacturers international expansion
Portuguese "J" isnt pronouced with "R" like in spanish
Ho freaking ran macau at least we until 1999 handover
Was hoping you to talk about the downfall of SunCity Group and the related socio-events. can you make a vidoe about that?
Half the size of Manhattan? Is that big or small? Manhattan's in USA right?
How convenient, I’m currently reading the book “Blood Brothers” by Bertil Lintner more specifically the chaper on Macau, and he pretty much recounts the same thing in that book.
He was half-Jewish? You don't say?
Half-Chinese Half-Jewish sounds like a special greed race.
"Henry Fok....", "Stanley Ho..."
Call me immature, but....
I was watching a Mandarin speaker who said some Western names can sound dirty in Mandarin. It goes both ways…
@@5roundsrapid263it's Cantonese, not Mandarin.
Ho is very common in mandarin, and the pronunciation is Hö.
how long did polygamy last in china? I had no idea people were having 10 wives
There is only one legal wife, and the rest are legal lovers. Technically speaking, only the first woman you marry is your wife.
Cow Palace > Macau Palace
enjoying the dry humour