 back in 2017 a guy broke off a piece of a terracotta soldier at a museum and he just got finally sentenced but a lot of people are calling for harsher punishment and here's why philadelphia how are you like it if we come over there and then we crack the liberty bell again and then i put it in my pocket and hide it for years david what if he was trying to do this trick but then it actually just happened um guys from silly to serious i'm gonna say that this is uh in the middle but it's kind of serious because this has to do with like how much americans do or do not respect 2200 year old relics on loan from other countries right and this sparked a ton of different discussions and there's even some geopolitical implications for it so make sure you like subscribe turn on your notifications andrew real quick we got to talk about something else from somewhere near the shian region we're talking about smala andrew from citron to sicily you can get this sauce at smala sauce dot com right now 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five million dollars is a big deal yes i mean irreversible damages it is one of the few fully uh restored terracotta figures that is called the calvary man from and they put it together from thousands of different fragments from the tomb of china's first emperor qin shu huang who united the nation under his rule in the third century bc andrew most famously qin shu huang is the emperor they gently did not kill an hero because he wanted a unified china to stop the warring states period but more famously you kind of look like this terracotta soldier yes if you look at look at just give him me a serious look give him the camp i don't know man yeah was i there to help qin shu huang achievement immortality are you a reincarnation of a terracotta soldier that would make a lot of sense anyways uh yeah 2200 years ago andre a lot of people don't know that he also buried terracotta musicians and terracotta concubines with him he was about the baddies in the afterlife these were all uh statues right anyways uh i think actually surprisingly this is one thing that both like kind of blue collar americans could agree with everybody else on like because usually when you bring up stories about china or things dealing with things from china in 2023 right it's more negative people only have negative things to say but this time everybody's like yeah i agree man this guy should get harsher punishment that was disrespectful i can't believe people are still doing this for sure i think it goes along with the narrative right now that people feel like man america's going downhill nobody's getting punished for anything you can just disrespect our culture disrespect other cultures and they just slap you on the wrist man david one thing that i do want to talk about maybe later in the video is the possible geopolitical strains this put on things because the assistant u.s attorney said on wednesday during the sentencing uh rojana may not have set out to spark an international incident but his actions caused permanent damage to the cultural exchange between two nations indiana jones carmen san diego let's get to the comment section somebody said man this sounds like a mr bean skit i can't believe this guy got drunk that was so filling of him what let me guess he went to pats or genos before he got drunk and took somebody's thumb and um his defense attorney was basically trying to characterize that he was not on oceans 11 oceans 12 like masterminded thing they were just like oh come on he's just a drunk guy he's not a bad dude he's just a shoe salesman in delaware he don't give a put him in jail because he uh the whole thing carried up to 20 years he ended up getting zero years right right right um somebody said wow for once i can't believe i agree with the ccp and then other people were saying man just glue it back on man you know all that stuff is fake from china anyway and other people were just talking about man just sending them back to china to get punished i just can't believe everybody in america right now gets a slap on the wrist for everything um what do you think about this comment people are using this as a proxy for just like that's things that are happening in their state or their town basically saying man my neighbor was like selling all these drugs and they just let him out too i can't stand it yeah i mean you know obviously in a way this isn't a violent crime but it's definitely some form of robbery you know and theft so it is like maybe it should be punished more i don't know i mean i guess they're probably thinking about it like yo if you throw this guy in jail you know for something that he did when he was drunk stealing a thumb then you know he's gonna lose his career and his family and everything like that so just give him five years probation so i don't know man uh i don't know i don't know how i feel about the punishment should it be harder or not a lot of people were saying if this would have been new york city not only would that terracotta soldier been underway stricter security but he would have for sure got jail time because that's how they view like violations of museums in different cities right right like different cities value it more or less yeah that's true and a lot of people are kind of drawing this to just the criminal justice system in general they were saying you know there's some people doing like 30 years for weed in some states andrew and they wouldn't even get arrested or get a criminal felony in other states so people were just like man what's going on with just like uh the variance and enforcement of the thing based on the county you committed in yeah so this was almost like a commentary on the i guess just like the criminal justice system and sort of the standardization um somebody people were criticizing his statement he made a final statement to the judge before sentencing where he was like really apologizing they were like man finding huge respect for artifacts in the museum when you're about to get sentenced it's just like all the murderers in prison finding religion huh well basically saying that like obviously he was just saying it because he didn't want to go to jail right right right yeah and then somebody was saying man americans this is why we're welcome wherever we go we got to be respectful of all other cultures conscientious about obeying laws and practice good sense and are dealing with others sarcasm so this person was saying that when americans go overseas there's sort of this reputation that americans act really crazy and don't respect other people's cultures that much right right right i mean would you agree or disagree with this because i would say that there is some sense of like american bros doing that for sure and michael roshanna by all means seemed like a bro well that's why i don't know you don't get people drunk at a museum because people wander off i mean that's part of the issue right i bet you this he would not have desecrated the eagles nfl heritage museum yeah he probably is not going to try to steal the vince lombardi trophy or whatever hey no hey come on man i got more sense than that i would never do something like that you out of your mind um and what are your takeaways this is like a silly story but it went pretty viral and i was kind of surprised that this many people were like throw the book at him send him to china that's why they don't got this type of crime in china because they take his thumb off for taking the terracotta soldier thumb and it was really interesting because i was like it goes to the back to this point that you always make where you're like man people like they don't like china right now or i guess the geopolitical rivalry economic rivalry the jostling for power control of the east with america that they have but they also like that china's really harsh on crime yeah yeah there's definitely like an aspect that um there is some unity i guess it's just nice to see people unified about hating on micro roshan yeah a story that has to do with china because usually it's always just only against china um but yeah i do think that it kind of turns into this whole like man like we need to punish people harsher in this country and things like that and i guess that's the discussion but overall you know um yeah i mean you've heard people who have gone to asia and desecrated certain things obviously this is a statue that is inside an american museum so he maybe he felt comfortable on his own turf but uh either way i mean yeah i mean at the end of the day everybody you got to respect the museum like even in a time of war you know even in war they don't go into the museum and destroy everything if anything you take it all and you load it up on the ship you know what i mean like when you're like in a war and you take over a country like usually people just at least steal the artifacts but keep them in intact oh you said because they even even though it's still wrong to steal them they're doing it because they see the value in it and not just destroying well at least just don't destroy it well some people destroy it it depends i guess it depends on which army we're talking about right right right right but from what i heard most most people they they try to uh you know contain it you know what's really interesting about this is it's like things from 2000 years ago people don't really include them in the modern geopolitical jousting you know what i mean like it's almost like keep now now and like ancient things are almost like belong to human civilization i feel like that's how the scientific and the arts community looks at it because you know obviously those things are from like uh 2000 years ago when people were not even aware of the existence of anybody else on earth that's true yeah so hey guys it's good to see people just get together about something ancient i guess and that maybe that's just a commentary on how divided things are nowadays let us know what you think 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