First taste of chocolate in Ivory Coast | VPRO Metropolis
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- Farmer N'Da Alphonse grows cocoa and has never seen the finished product. "To be honest I do not know what they make of my beans, " says farmer N'Da Alphonse. "I've heard they're used as flavoring in cooking, but I've never seen it. I do not even know if it's true."
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" We complain because growing cocoa is hard work. Now we enjoy the result. What a privilege to taste it."
Wow, just wow.
Yeah..he meant it was a privilege to him out of everyone that's growing cacao beans in Ivory Coast and never gets a chance to taste it. I'm so sick of greedy capitalists exploiting these good people.
Bart R. They exploit them so you can have your $2 bar at your local store
@@Cuasimodo2372 yeah you're right!!!!!!
because with nationalized industry it's not possible correct?
hence why germans, italians and other fascist nations had it so terrible. them and their stupid nationalized economies.
oh wait, they had it great and enjoyed more materials than anyone else on the planet.
@@bartjuhh93 Capitalism is the reason you have to Internet to be able to complain about capitalism silly
@@lewis5079 stick to beer and American rugby. CaPiTaLiSm gAvE YoU InTeRnEt. Pretty sure connecting computers would been thought of sooner or later
"i have brought another bar"
all the worker: AYYYYYYYY
Them just getting chocolate made them happy. That's a shame :-(
@@YTU1116 excuse me? My sister gave me a bar of chocolate and i was ready to do the laundry for her 😁😁😁😁😁
@@YTU1116 If I were to tell you what I would do for a pristine chocolate bar I'd be arrested
@@hanjesse31 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@YTU1116 Why is is a shame? Almost everyone love it. It is staple gift when you visit someone :).
"I'm the oldest. I must taste it to see if it's okay" 🤣
That is how I was with my brothers when I was young. luckily I never told them about how amazing artichoke hearts were until they were both in high school.
'why the rush?''
My mother eating half of my and my sister's Halloween candy when we were kids.
Inderdaad micheal
I would have said the same thing. But to my younger sibling 😂
This is simultaneously heart-warming and heartbreaking.
@gyno I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean white people?
@@dibbidydoo4318 Don't listen to him, he's being a twat...
gyno
Technically by that logic, westerners have been infecting themselves for hundreds of years. They just took slaves and bred them to get what we got today. If anything, it’s the fault of westerners.
gyno cocoa farmers? Cocoa farmers are infecting western society?
Dude, you have no clue what your comment has done for me.
"What a privilege to taste it." Damn. It is such a privilege. What a terrible shame we keep forgetting that.
In a sense it is. But its also to be expected. Almost all of us in the west live in luxuary today. Like kings could only dream of in the past.
We see things from high up in our towers of luxuary and make our opinions on the world based on what we see from up high. It makes it very hard for us to grasp how its like to be down on the ground in the real world.
It is also why I find it so flawed when we make rules and morals that we expect other countries to follow where people do not live in the same towers we do. Just that we think that stuff should be fair alone is an extreamly flawed view as I see it. That everyone should live as kings. That is just way too deep into fantasy. That people do not have it the same, that people are not set as well as others. Its not fair... its reality. Its life.
Jo Kah Dont think she wants youre calibrations.
Jo Kah ahaha wtf???
You're right, but also cocoa is getting scarce so in the near future chocolate might actually be a privilege. Enjoy it now before it's gone.
katie kawaii 100% agree.
"this is why whites are so healthy"
Quite the opposite, actually 😂😂😂
Chocolate is a very healthy food actually, its has minerals, vitamins, and other natural compounds, it's a shame that is mostly used for candies and desserts, bitter chocolate and even spicy chocolate (mixed with chili peppers) was part of the diet of the ancient Aztecs.
uhm *americans*
😂😂😂
I agree they looked much healthier than almost all whites
Healthy is different from their perspective. Healthy means fat because there is not enough food around. Everyone is hungry. If you can get enough food thats mean you're healthy from their perspective
"I'm going to keep this paper so I can show it to the children"
"That's okay, I have another bar."
*"HEYYYYY"*
So wholesome
Children: PAPER!!??
lmao best comment
They should make and sell it in Whole Foods the demand would be great I bet
Humble Africans
-7 euros a day
Me: Oh that isn't so bad.
*-For his 15 familiares and 4 workers.*
_Jesus Christ._
hahahha at first I also thought not bad. " a few moments later"....not good.
7 euros is basically 7 dollars and a half
what a paradice to get a solid 0.35 euros per day per person
When you think of it 7 euros is almost a dollar, I think, and they work all day harvesting and stuff, so they basically make like 70 cents an hour
@@guidomonto3742 7 euros is 1 dollar, you think? Oh boy...
How can I ship these dudes some chocolates
“That’s okay, I have another bar.”
“AYYYYEEEE!”
[Everyone liked that]
You know what? this joke may be old but god damnit you are right. everyone liked that. good on you op!
so wholesome T-T
"you have become accepted by the community"
"SIr, your skin is lighter because of the chocolate" I died lmao
cocoa butter boy just getting roasted by his distant cousins
It's honestly sad because the translation is incorrect. He said this why your skin is very clean :(
@@cIeetz distant cousins? Wait what?
No One apparently some people can't differentiate cleanliness with colour. Sad.
No One but tbh it looks like they were implying the colour of his skin
"What a privilege to taste it." It was a privilege to witness your happiness man. God bless you and your country.
As an American who's White, I am slapped upside the head by this video. Wow, we are so blessed. Even the poorest of us have access to chocolate. They look happier than most of us though. I wish life was more fair. Thanks for your hard work, farmers.
They did not know beans can be processed into delicious bars of chocolate. They think it can be used only for alcohol.
This speaks for itself. Should do I pity them?
Hopefully that commentator will tell them of the high demand and prices that chocolate is getting. Then maybe they can push for better returns for their labour.
"As a mother..."
Mário Miroslav Chocolate wine..
Maybe life is fair, maybe we've impoverished ourselves by reliance on external pleasures and gluttony, while these men remain rich in their souls.
""if we can, we want to keep the wrapper for our children to see", don't worry I actually have another bar you can have, "yaaaaaayyy!...*yum yum*...now we can show the kids two wrappers!"
R0DSTER XD
ohhhh man this had me rolling, too funny, two wrappers that have been locked completely of any chocolate passed down through generations.
they have no intentions of sharing that second chocolate bar with the kids...LOL
Kids be like "Oh boy a wrapper! I've always wanted one! Thanks dad!" Shit we need to buy our kids fucking technological master pieces like phones and gaming consoles in order to get a reaction like that.
XD the kids will sure be happy to see that wrap
I hate seeing workers not being able to purchase what they themselves produce. These people should have liveable wages.
Europe and its modern slavery: LOL
Idyllsend dude shut up
When the price of a chocolate bar raised, then people complain.
Welcome to capitalism
That makes a lot of sense . I build bridges .
I love how when the first guy eats the chocolate he only takes a little, then his second reaction is to take it to his friends at the plantation to try some, so selfless
These are hard working people
Alex Voxel
Hard working because he won't develop his methods , innovation is key.
For God sake he didn't even know what Coco tasted like!!
yep. but capitalism 🤷♂️
I love those guys. They seem fun. Lol. Respect to the dudes.
They more than earned a free share of chocky
Yes! Very hardworking people.
'What a privilege to taste it.'
What an attitude towards life. He has just tasted the end product the rich make from his poorly paid hard work and instead of jealousy for the ones that get to produce and consume this product, he feels gratitude to be introduced to something new, and to truly understand the fruits of his labour. Genuinely really inspirational, I think we'd all be better for it if we tried to be a little more like this guy. Hope he's doing well.
02100 realquick No.. wrong. The world would have been a better place if everyone lived in harmony and didn't have it out for each other. Unfortunately we still have ignorance like you plaguing this world with every step you take on it's soil.
@@tellurmumgotohell It has nothing to do with skin colour.
if these workers received the fruits of their labor, they wouldn't be living in third world poverty.
his hands collect/handle the coca that later becomes chocolate. corporation's have the privilege of his labor, he should have the RIGHT to eat some of what he helps make.
"and to truly understand the fruits of his labor" would have to include being shown just how much of the fruit of his labor goes towards allowing some CEO to live in extreme luxury, while he is paid a poverty wage.
"hope he's doing well"
laborers would be left to starve to death with no money when corporation's obtain full automation capabilities.
@@user-bm1st1by7r Everyone was living in harmony in their respective countries until whites decided to colonise every land they saw you moron.
''everyone was living in harmony in their respective countries until whites''
Ignorance is your strong-point in life isn't it?
"I'm going to keep this paper to show it to my children."
These words should be writen on every choch bar on the world.
It is not our guilt that they don't know what their product is worth, so just stop already.
Runer 313 facts this so sad I wrk for a chocolate 🍫 company seeing this video made me quit during lunch
The real golden ticket.
@@sunniertimer598 lmao those big companies keep them ignorant just so that they can take advantage of them more.
@@KC-rq6pw you quit your job because of youtube comments? or just
fishing for likes
Thank you!!
Hey! Thanks for helping us find this video! Wish you nothing but love, man!
They deserve far better than what they have.
Fortunately they have no greed
I agree
Yeah at least we need rainforest alliance for chocolate product as well. But don't get shocked when chocolate price will be sky rocketing like Vanilla
@@anonymousstout4759 honestly I dont give a fuck if chocolate gets more expensive for a while if it means people millions of people are helped out of poverty. What we need to do is to stop our governments and corporations from coming in and stealing their resources and exploiting their workforce. We dont have any right to do that to them so if the only way to have cheap junk food (that we dont even need) is to exploit and occasionally invade and kill them the I feel like we should be willing to make that sacrifice. Cheap chocolate (among a bunch of other useless things westerners take for granted) is not worth worldwide poverty, hunger, and warfare
Something tells me you don’t know much about how corporations work, no matter your opinion they won’t stop taking resources because they technically are following the buy/trade market. Also if you prohibited the government/corporations from taking cocoa from these people or even made it more expensive it would do more harm than good as a majority of these people wouldn’t be needed since less people can buy chocolate meaning that 3/5 men that you saw in this video went from making 7 euro a day to 0 euro a day, and even if it did work it would disrupt the economy on both sides which isn’t good for anyone. If we were to impose things they would need to be done slowly over the period of years to prevent an economic collapse or even higher poverty rate to their country
When they bring out a second bar and cheer loudly..lol
Becky B and Jesus They have never tasted it in their lives and experienced it here firsthand. These folk barely make enough for comfortable living.. Wouldn't you shout with joy at the thought of recieving a free bar of chocolate if you knew that only the rich could afford to consume it on a daily basis?
@@user-bm1st1by7r Nobody is saying otherwise Ethan, just commenting on how they cheer, back off.
I would have done the same tbh
Uncool
I related to that so much!!
"What a privilege to taste it." Man I don't know why but I teared up at that part.
This breaks my heart. Our world is so broken and unfair.
If you think about, these people are probably happier than the average "white person." Money doesn't equal happiness, and I actually feel more sorry for us. Complaining about our neighbours having more expensive cars than us, while these guys can get happy over a chocolate bar, who's the real victim? As long as they're able to feed their families, of course.
Your ancestors worked hard to give you the advantages you have now, Natasa. Don't discredit them.
@@kye1171 While you're on to something, surely...I can't help but believe these men would appreciate better healthcare and infrastructure.
@@bio2020 that's not what she's implying and you know it. Nestle, for example, pays absolutely shit money to workers yet is a multimillion dollar company. That's what she's saying.
@@kye1171 well its like saying people who didn't know about electricity in old time we're happy without it. That's stupid
They live their lives worrying about living one day to next , they may be okay with it but that's no life.
It always seems like the narrator is gonna start speaking English until he doesn’t
hahahaha that was funny!
That's the Dutch language for you lol
@@turnip5359 I'm German and understood like 70-80% of it lol
French is considered the closest language to English.
Matt B - No it's not. At least, not by anybody who understands linguistics.
I wanna bring them a whole suitcase full of chocolate.
King.K The Best same
I feel upset that the guy didn’t give them a block each!!
Who's going to pay for the dentist when they develop tooth decay?
Diabetes. Dosis makes it poison. Look at us. We don't need the sugar we consume. Our body doesn't need it. It will be turned into body fat.
Exactly and why would you want them to become addicted to a luxury they simple cannot afford, it would be unfair.
"That's OK, I have another bar"
"aaaaayyyyyyyy~~~"
:D
Could've taken the chocolate too the kids instead of wrapper, nahhhhh
That warmed my heart
Everytime I feel like complaining about the smallest inconveniences in my daily life, I will remember this and humble myself.
Actually you'd have forgotten about this by now for sure.
Best would be to stop buying regular chocolate. This is all a scheme to keep third world countries poor forever.
I have such respect for the attitude of those workers, where they find this thing that is incredibly rare for them and their first reaction is to share it with others.
*****
They went out of their way to share it with others around instead of just sharing it with those who were directly next to them. I don't think everyone would have done that from what I've often observed in people. That said, maybe you're right and I am cynical in thinking that is rare. I honestly wouldn't bet either way.
+Bruno's Geek Reviews my first thought exactly
JESUS
Because even though they are living in capitalism they are not as infected by the individualistic ideologies as the people in the western world.
Bruno's Geek Reviews very heart warming indeed
that made me so happy to see how excited they were when he pulled out the second bar of chocolate :)
too bad it'll be the last one they'll ever have lol -- but continue to feel good and happy over something so morally unjust :) don't let me stop ya
Like us when a friend pulls out another bottle of booze :)
AWarmCoffee yep
I laughed at that moment because it seemed to me to be exactly the same reaction as when someone in our group pulls out another joint
ikr they're so cute
"What a privilege to taste it"
This broke my heart🤧
so when you watched this I hope some people will buy Fairtrade chocolate. it means that more of the price for the cacao goes to people like these men and their families, instead of middlemen and foreign companies taking the big profit and paying the farmer very small
yeme I agree sir! 👍
It just means that wealthier people grow the chocolate..... and these people will have to find another way to support themselves
Problem is fair trade chocolate usually isn’t as nice tasting as the commercial stuff. I like dark chocolate so I’m usually fine with eating non commercial stuff cus it’s pretty hard to screw up dark chocolate, but lots of non commercial milk chocolate tastes horrible.
@@rinkle396 but the fairtrade companies search for farmers/village communities to join them
@@euclasew thats just patently untrue. There are quite a few mainstream chocolates that are fairtrade (all cadbury's choc, maltesers, mars, kitkats etc.) but Divine and Green & Blacks are known as some of the highest quality/luxury commercial chocolate companies and their entire business model is based around being fairtrade. (This is in the UK at least). I mean, if you care more about how your chocolate tastes than whether people in Africa can feed their families you've got some serious priority issues to sort out
This makes me happy and sad at the same time :) / :(
My reaction exactly
*****
But you also have to think, I'm sure the suicide rate there is extremely low when compared to other, industrialized, countries. We might be blessed with some things, but they have priceless relationships that no bank account could ever buy. Sometimes it's hard to think who really are the blessed ones. We have people killing each other in our malls. I doubt when they hang out with friends they have to worry about someone blowing them away. They might not have money, but at least they have each other.
This makes me feel Aladeen :(:
Their lives may seem difficult but they seem carefree and happy. Sure, it's a weird feeling to see people so amazed by a $2 chocolate bar but these guys have pretty basic work. They don't have a boss breathing down their neck or have to concern themselves with office politics. They don't have to have a 2 hour commute to work in horrible and stressful traffic. They don't have to worry about all the nonsense that people in the first world have to worry about. It should be seen as an exchange. No lifestyle is perfect. We get comforts like central cooling and heating, eating chocolate, computers, all sorts of entertainment but it comes with a price.
michael lolo And that price is payed by our loan, which is 1000 times higher than their loan even though they work just as hard. I understand your statement but it's still unfair.
"Now we enjoy the result. What a privilege to taste it." So humble.
"This is why white people are so healthy!"
*Keep thinking blissfully man, keep thinking*
Healthy as in fat
I feel sad after I watched the video. I am Korean, my family was lived in poverty when I was a child. I was typical ordinary child like my neighbours, old friends who loves adores eating chocolate. When my mom gave me some pocket money, I had run to a store to buy a bar of chocolate with my friends. My memories of childhood wasn't so good, however chocolate... it was exception.
It was my story from 25 years ago. Now chocolates can be found everywhere. Every people can buy chocolates with small money. Doctors are warning about abusing of chocolate, candies, coffees. In other side, people who cultivate raw material of chocolate haven't taste chocolate yet. It makes me sad :/
> When my mom gave me some pocket money
Lucky you
What's poverty in korea like? I always wondered, sure it must be bad but probably much better than the type of poverty you see in third world countries
Abstract Russian hey you have the internet and chocolate isn’t that expensive you can be poor and still have enough to give your kid chocolate
"This is why white people are so healthy"
HAHAHAHA XD
themanclaw2 In the Ivory Coast, fattness is seen as healthy. So by healthy he meant fat
ThePenguinExpress
Ahhh, that makes sense.
ThePenguinExpress Haha thanks for the extra information
Lol, but bless their hearts.
themanclaw2 lol
THEY IN LOVE WITH THE COCO
lol
***** Lol I hate that song, it's terrible, but the joke is good haha
***** BAKING SODA
***** THEY GOT IT FOR THE LOWLOW
+Frektel Felms hahaha lol were did i here that???
These people are so happy with something so simple, I wish we had that attitude.
msc14111990 Hes telling the truth though, from my experience from visiting other countries i observed that they're happy even when they're stuck in poverty, you rarely see that on poor white people.
Bruh Moments I think I have a good explanation for this.
For black people it's because they're not surrounded by rich people. And they were born with it and used to it. For them it's normal.
Like, rich people don't have infinite happiness you know? Rich people also get used to the wealth and see it as normal for them eventually.
And for "white" poor people, you mean poor people in 1st world countries. They're not always sad though, because they're used to it.
Yeah, we take so much for granted. Then there are these people, who see having a piece of chocolate as a privalage. Really makes y' think, doesn't it?
msc14111990 you tend to be unhappier when you can see that the people around you are doing far better. For most in poverty, because all their friends and neighbours are poor, they enjoy the little things together. Difference in wealth usually sparks jealousy and envy and no matter how rich or how poor they are, the chances of someone stealing is far greater if they see that someone nearby has a better life than them. We may enjoy many privileges living in more developed countries but we also have a lot of different hardships which they won’t have to suffer.
Until they watching first time on television....then started rioting.
He should send them a package of chocolate every month. Knowing how much they are enjoying it is worth the shipping and price.
You are awfully liberal with some else's money
Why don't you send him some chocolate, oh wise internet man.
Your both judging this person but you don’t know his quality of life.
"He should". What's stopping you?
To everyone telling him to send chocolate to him, how does he send it to them? He doesn’t know where they live
This is freaking amazing.
Others have said it, but the sheer happiness they received from eating chocolate is incredible and infectious. One guy calls it a 'privilege' after working so hard.
When the music came on and they all looked as if they were having the party of their lives, my face just broke into a massive smile.
Agreed. I feel like an ungrateful brat
Their face expression is priceless. The joy of finding out the product of their hardwork. Truly heart melting to witness this
You mean chocolate melting
Get over yourself
5:30.....if this doesn't give you some perspective on living life in the Western world I dont know what will
Carson hard to believe so many leftists say take it for granted and say they hate it
I just woke up in my warm soft bed, went up to see that my coffe-jar was empty, got cranky. Had to mare coffe from that shitty dried coffestuff. Sit down with my cup, randomly sees this. This made me feel so rich, why TF do i get cranky over not having fresh coffe at home. And these guys work a lifetime and get that happy over a bar of chocolate. Thats mad .
"its ok, I have another bar" YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
IdealIdeas100 aww those reactions tells they love chocolate
This is so sad that these people do such hard work. And get nearly nothing. :(
Honestly I wanna do what they do to understand,many even help them out
That's the third world for you.
That's capitalism for you.
+RAY NL that's CAPITALISM for you
RAY NL Nope! They just didn't have guns. What they did have instead was stable governments and vibrant economic sectors. The richest man in history, Mansu Musa, came from Mali in West Africa after all.
Took that treasure straight to his mates and shared it, bloody legend!
“It’s ok, I have another-“ CELLLLLEBRAAATE GOOOD TIMES CMOOOONNNNN
not trying to offense any people here but i think poor people live way happier than rich people because they knows the value of life instead of value of money.
You know? Your right.
Agreed. They don't take much for granted.
So, if you wanna improve your life, why not give away your money then? Only who never experienced real poverty could think something like that.
Hm that is true now that I think about it. I was way happier when I was outside playing in the desert with friends than I am with my hdtvs.
They would've had a better life if they knew what happens with the cocoa, They are just abused by the capitalistic system.
_Its okay, I have another bar_
*AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY*
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GDI it's okay I have another bottle (Jameson , jack daniels ) aaaaayyyyyyyyyyeeeee
AYYYYYYYYYY
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"They don't realize that they are the main source, but dont have the information on how to transform it...
it's neither information or knowledge. It's manufacturing facilities. The agricultural and mineral products of the third world are shipped back to processing plants in the first world to be made into consumer goods. It was intentional on the part of the colonizers not to build the infrastructure necessary to process the wealth of African nations into the consumer goods which they could sell.
Yeah that is all the point of Marx
2:39 This is why white people are so healthy
_Laughs in Burger King_
Arid well it’s unhealthy so no one wants to openly promote it
@Arid American media*
@AridWALL-E is truly the most realistic movie
They may be poorer than Westerners but they will always be happier than westerners
JD not true, anyone can be happy
That's the damn truth
Actually I am happy, it's just other people keep trying to convince me I'm not even when they don't know jack shit about me and how I feel.
whose Westerns you talking about?
What a complete lie.
Someone should teach these people how to make chocolate :)
The French and other Europeans wouldn't like that as it will take away from their business. BTW my father was in a UN mission in Ivory Coast had a French Colonel under him, my father was in Bangladesh Army. European companies profit from the ignorance of these people who grow cocoa.
It's completely sad to see these people living as if it is the pre-industrial age. You can only imagine what access they have to healthcare and what sort of education their children are getting.
cinilaknedalm But i'm willing to bet that they are happier than we are.
Hawk Tartaros I was once poor. It's misery, that's what it is. Just because you're poor and ignorant doesn't mean you don't know how well others live. You see the opportunities they have and what they can give to their children and it makes you feel so small. You would get depressed if you honestly tried to comprehend how bad it is for those people.
cinilaknedalm Yes, if we have not experienced poverty, we tend to think of it as the absence of certain things. It is not just the absence of things, but the presence of things such as hunger, anxiety, disease, pain, heat, cold, insects, fatigue, depression, despair, etc.
God, its heartbreaking they can't taste the fruit of their labor
Its like one of those ironic curses, forced to do the dirty work, while everyone enjoys the product except you
"What a privelege to taste it" okay I'm half teary and happy, im teary bcs i did realized that not everyone can afford to buy that but I can, most of us can. Let us all be thankful to them❤️
The stuff we take for granted. We have chocolate in our house pretty much all the time then the country that supplys the beans never see it or tast it.
Exactely. They didn't even know why people wanted the cocoa beans.
+Guilio McEwan feels like we are stealing
scradleeee
We should make a chocolate clarity.
yeah..i feel the same. and whats sad is chocolate is expensive in ivory coast and they cant afford them even its grown in their homeland. Im so glad they had a taste of chocolate.
Feels bad
The extreme poverty makes me sad but at the same time watching them eat chocolate bringe me happiness.
msc14111990 but most British ex colonial are more developed. Like South africa, and nigeria, and through the entire world. I doubt their ex colonial doesn’t guide them to be independence and rule the country.
That's why reaction channels are flourishing.
@@nadzrinpuad1283 i think british colonialists were better than french. Look at many poor ex french colonies
Poor guy never tasted chocolate.. *sits on his bike in tears*
Poor me never had a vehicle... *eats chocolate in tears*
5:12 lmao they're straight up roasting him at this point
It's incredible that people like this, who work harder than any of us in rich countries for a far lower wage, are so happy and appreciative of the little things in life we take for granted. It makes me happy and sad at the same time. They struggle more than the rest of us combined financially, but look way happier. These people deserve better.
Jack Robinson They made them poor on purpose. To keep raw material cost low and make them uneducated.
It is really not possible for a cocoa farmer not to know chocolate not unless it is done on purpose.
Once they learn how to make chocolate then learning it's a multi-billion industry, they too can achieve the same thing locally at a smaller scale. 1st world country is trying hard to prevent it from happening so they can stay as high and almighty.
Example:
My country harvest and makes the final product which are rubber shoes.
It is then exported to the states, stamp brand and will cost $40-100 U.S Dollar a pair.
...BUT without the brand names, the shoe is already been made and is ready for selling which cost $2-5 U.S Dollar.
Those unbranded shoes can be classified "Generic" and its final price depends on the brand name it gets.
This is the reality of business and how they control the planet.
You think this is some conspiracy theory? do your own research by visiting those factories and farms where they get the raw material.
Jack Robinson yea its pretty interesting. it is a byproduct of being a member of the modern civilization. people are so detached from nature that most will never live a genuine human experience. these guys live a more simple life.
Jack Robinson this is exactly what Im thinking right now
Jack Robinson Fair trade and corporate responsibility, mang.
Jack Robinson Yeah, life is based on the society you live in. You can be happy here, but everyone will still judge you.
If you watched this and you were left with a fuzzy, warm feeling, and you only thought to yourself, "How cute! Look how happy they are," then you missed the point.
The point is being? That some people can do certain work their entire life and never ask themselves what's the use of it?
While this video might show that one lifestyle isn't necessarily the right lifestyle for everyone, it also illustrates the geopolitical disparity of wealth, yet the connectedness of the markets; it shows how affluent nations rely on poorer nations for resources; it's a reminder that we have access to so many products and they have access to so little. Despite the overall positive vibe the video may give us, the video depicts the consequences of globalization and exploitation - that is the stunted growth of a culture, a lack of a self-sustaining economy, a vulnerable way of life (poor, uneducated, and susceptible to global warming), and the acquisition of Africa's resources via imperialism.
meking yup I have a guess, that the fact that someone doesn't even know how products of his life time labor is used for have something to do with his overall wealth.
VsevolodVodka
i'm not sure what you're trying to say...
meking yup Wealth can not be generated without smart ideas, inspiration and curiosity, regardless of which society or time period you are looking at. If some countries, nations, cities or whatever aggregations of people you looking at are in worse (or in better) conditions than other ones, that might have something to do with lack of those qualities. And it seems that those guys from video dont think much about what they do their entire life.
Native says to the guest. "Chocolates make your skin lighter " 😂😂
Cocoa worker: *is so happy to taste chocolate that he decides to keep the wrapper*
Guest: *takes out another bar* That's ok, I have another bar.
"This is why white people are so healthy!"
Oh this made me laugh quite hard.
But it's not because of chocolate
Being fat is seen as healthy in countries where food is scarce.
chocolate is healthy...when eaten small quantities.....and it has to be dark chocolate.
DFS54 you seem to be the fucking moron
Yorkshireman right 😂😂🤦🏽♀️
These guys don't know how hard us Americans got it. Sometimes I am watching TV and I lose the remote, other times my phone dies and I can't watch CZcams for like 15-20 minutes.
Meanwhile these Sub-Saharan Africans are playing live Call of Duty with the most realistic graphics possible. Hell, they dont even need computer and wire to play it, they just outside of the house !
Attila Boda xd
STHAP PLS!/' reading this make me more useless..
Please... our society has its problems too, like how to create an AI that will not wipe out the entire human race, how to establish a self-sufficient colony on another planet, to what extent should we allow human genes manipulation, how can we protect the entire planet from global warming effects.
While we're doing that, they are like "ooooh, so that's what white man does with our cocoa!"
This is sad but so sweet at the same time.
This is so wholesome. They are so happy and curious. It is also sad that they don’t get paid nearly enough for all the work they do
Its sad to see people like this working their asses off to make other people rich while they dont have enough money to even afford a bar of chocolate.
Colton Shidaker They supposed to get thousands of dollars for seeds? Big companies are marketing geniuses who made the chocolate industry this big. Really don't see how they're ripping the farmers off at all. They're seeds. The final product is made from the big industry. Its better. Makes profit. People love it. The end.
It's sad to see emos complain about their 'bad' life.
+Aʟᴇx 7 euros per day is not comparable to" thousands of dollars" What the fuck are you talking about?
+Colton Shidaker YOU SAID IT ALL
+Aʟᴇx Martin Shkreli ! how nice of you to join us!
Their enjoyment in their work and their happiness in tasting chocolate for the first time is utterly infectious, although the poverty is heartbreaking. However,chocolate isn't the reason white people are healthy, kind of the opposite actually. :)
When they say healthy they mean fat. In those countries that's what they call it because it's a privilege to have enough food to be overweight. It means you are well to do and "healthy."
fayenesse Exactly. It was actually something some young women in medieval europe would look for as well, if she was not promised elsewhere; a fat man was usually a sign of a potential well providing husband.
Nikolaj11 Das nasteh xD
Nikolaj, you are right. But that's also why these men died so young back then.
I was told an old saying that the poor lived longer than the rich, because the rich afforded meat
619WWEFAN Poor and wealthy people, in medieval europe at least, faced the same general life expectancy range. When plumbing resurfaced and in the Roman Empire, rich people who could afford it got the better end of the stick
uses every penny I have to buy chocolate
"IM COMING*
This hit me like an earthquake. Look at the happiness on their face when they tasted chocolate for the first time and found what is it. We are privileged to have things like this at a walk away to the shop, we take things granted and we are less happy than them. We should learn from these wonderful people.
Poor guys. I think this is one of the weaknesses of capitalism. Because people who buy from these hard-working farmers don't care about them. They're only after their profit.
guess where the technology you're using comes from... Everybody is more or less aware of the situation in 3rd world country. we try not to think too much about it to avoid feeling bitter
I'm sure they feel pretty awful about getting paid
Andrew Clock you're right. Capitalism creates the market for them. It's just unfairness in capitalism that pays them very little payment.
me nefcanto Andrew Clock Yeah, okay, HORAY for Capitalism! Lets stick to using people in the third world countries as America's personal slaves for our chocolate addiction... because capitalism is BEST right!? They'd be making nothing... but WOW LOOK! Because of Capitalism they get 7 Euros a day to support their massive family working the fields!!! GET REAL!
I care.
“Sir, is your skin lighter because of the chocolate?”LOL
That's why we have milk chocolate
Much like chocolate, this video is also bittersweet.
Wow, they deserve so much more
I wish I could send them several crates of chocolate so everyone can have some! :D
then they would all become "healthy" like the white people lol
Starchild91 you can
Grand Wiz well he needs their postal adress first^^
send them Hershey's kisses, nuggets and a whole assortment, they're gonna loose their shit for real
You can but you don't mean it. You're just virtue signalling after all
I don't blame them for not knowing what they made from them. I mean look at sugar canes. If someone told you you ground them up and turn them into small cubes that are then put in hot water I would laugh in their face.
True.
Your talking about processed sugar and that's different. But syrups can be made from the cane
pisse3000 have you eaten raw sugar cane? If not it taste like a weaker form of sugar but its still sweat
Brandon Crawford+ Sweat!?
Tyynymyy yass, sweat!!!!
I take so much for granted. Humbled beyond belief. What lovely cocoa farmers. I will think of them and their families every time I eat chocolate.
I couldn't help big smiling during this. But at the same time feeling so sad that they work so hard for so little.
In his next episode he'll let a Chinese child play Fruit Ninja on an iPad.
Hahahahaha nice one
hahahahaha
alot of kids in china wipe their ass with ipads. More money than most Americans
Max Gong Very wrong, an adult Chinese laborer makes one third of what an American laborer makes, child laborers make even less.
***** I think what Max Gong is trying to say is that the wealthy children(especially in Beijing) of rich businessmen and women have so much money to spend that an Ipad is just a mere toy. Some of them are so bratty that a father had to crash his mercedes to his son's merecedes just to teach him a lesson.
lol they didn't leave any chocolate for the children only the wrapper. bless their hearts
men: kids, you know those beans we work with everyday... this is what white people make from it
and then they show the kids the wrapper only LOL
This breaks my heart,imagine growing and working on something so hard only for it to go to people like us,”they say a picture speaks a thousand words,but this video speaks a thousand pictures”.
These guys are the first part of the chocolate-making process, they deserve to have chocolate and better lives just as much as we do.
I hope they get a fair trade for their products, because in every bean of cocoa, the patient and harwork of every person is really hard.
The more fair trade products sell, the more fair trade there will be. It starts with all of us.
@@MetropolisHUMAN So we have to purchase a lot of chocolate?
@@cell0162 that wont help, most of the money will probably just go to the rich CEOs and chocolate companies and not these people. What we need to do is stop are governments and corporations from coming in, taking over, and exploiting these people for cheap underpaid labor. This form of soft imperialism must be stopped
Then a single chocolate bar will cost more than 15 dollars, do you really want that to happen?
The wow is how uninformed they are. They have little understanding how valuable their work is, which means they are most likely underpaid. Their products are important to the food industry in France (which I assume that's where they're exported) and they don't know how they're used. There isn't a US farmer alive that doesn't know who their clients are or don't make planting decisions based on market needs.
Most likely? If he has to pay all his workers with the €7,5 he gets per day, I thinks it's fair to say that they are indeed underpaid.
Wow? It's not surprising at all. Look at how they're living. In huts and dressed in rags.
That's corruption and lack of local consumer demand for you. They have chickens running around, these people probably lived self sufficiently for a long time. In the USA you'd have to pay upkeep to live like they do. Life isn't free. if these people were directly connected to the global economy like what Ebay is like for many then yes that labour would be more valuable.
Check the poultry industry in the USA, you will see that exploitation exists there too, no one is safe from capitalism
There isn't a US farmer that wasn't educated in great classrooms up to high school or even middle school at the very least. Education is and will always be the difference maker
''We complain because growing cocoa is hard work. Now we enjoy the result. Wha a privilege to taste it.'' This made me really sad. especially the part where the other person said ''I will keep this paper so ican show it to my children''. Thats heartbreaking.
I am chinese, actually, these farmers who looks so industrious and kind remains me of my fellow chinese farmers. And also, there home reminds me of the old Chinese house which also was made of mud. Nowadays China has became a strong country, thus I have faith that my fellow African people will also have a better life in the coming decades!
Long live China and Africa friendship! Long live peace!
Thank you
Long may it live
that was a really great comment. thank you my Chinese brother. wish u a great life.
Long live being in debt to China!
China is trying to scam Africa.
I'm going to show the wrapper to my kids. Wait hold on, I got another chocolate bar. WOAAAAAA! Cue in celebration! HAHAHA thatp part cracked me up!
That was the best, chocolate really is awesome :D
I hope all the kids get a piece of chocolate. I couldn't imagine childhood without chocolate.
haha... me too.
And I thought they were gonna give it to the kids but they just ate it themselves lol
somehow i ended up with tears in my eyes :( it's a shame i wish i can buy them all chocolate :'(
“White people are addicted to it”
Me: That’s not necessarily true
Also me: *Opens dresser drawer and pulls out bag of chocolate chips while scratching self intensely*
Rebecca Veenstra in my country i call myself a chocolatra - someone who is addicted to chocolate. When im in a bad mood i need to eat chocolate to keep calm. I even get sleepy eating it. XD.
chocolate wasted ☺
Jean P. G. Its a joke
omg this made me cackle
you eat chocolate chips out of the bag?
This nation deserves more.
wtf my man feeding 19 people on €7??
This made me happy as hell for some reason. Love to see them smile after finding out what their hard work does. My ancestors also used cocoa beans also fermented. But only the highest ranked warriors and elders in the highest society could drink it.
Thank you for sharing!!!
Aztecas!
Negroids amirite?
They're being taken advantage of...the smiles are temporary. They work hard for little pay & don't even realize the value of the product they're harvesting on this plantation.
@@NajSinghs you have no idea how they live. You also don't know the average cost of living for these people. For all we know they could be living comfortably. I can tell from this video that they are more than grateful to have their jobs. Why comment something like this when you don't have your facts strait?
Imagine a world in which everyone could taste chocolate...
Anidem9 I never acquired the taste for chocolate
Ga Fin I'll drink to that!
_Our_ chocolate
Ga Fin or imagine a world where these cocoa laborers finally said no to poverty wages and told multi billion dollar corporations/CEO's who want to profit massively off of their labor, to fuck off.
They would have cavities
I could not realize that some people never taste chocolates for their whole lives..but I love how their faces brightly smiles when they taste it
5:10 They clowned him there at the end lol. Comedy is universal.
I love their reaction at 5:39
AngryDan Same c:
Dark chocolate? No problem! Let it melt in your mouth; don't bite it! When you bite it, more of the cocoa alkaloid is released immediately, and that is bitter. When it melts, the alkaloid is not released as strongly and easily covered up by the actual taste of the chocolate.
You are a godsend. I can now enjoy dark chocolate.
One of the best things in life is having a small piece of dark chocolate, put it on your tongue, have a sip of coffee, and let it all melt and mix in your mouth.
I BITE MY DARK CHOCOLATE AND I GIVE NO FUCKS.
KatyPeezy YOU GO GIRL!
I love dark chocolate but I generally hate sweet things so I bite it.
Wow, this was such a powerful video in it's own way. Everyone in the modernised world should see this.
Pure gratitude for something we can find almost anywhere.
When that guy whipped out the second bar of chocolate their reactions were priceless.