 What? I opened up, um, Variety as I do every day. And I'm reading in Loa Mahol. Who do I see? Who do I see? An article in Variety Magazine here in Hollywood. That's right. Congratulations. Uh, not a, well, I'm congratulating them, but it was Raj and DK and Variety talking about they had a five-year deal with Netflix. So congratulations, guys. They have an exclusive five-year deal with Netflix now for their stuff. Netflix and deal? Just said Netflix. That's who's doing Shahid's next series, right? Correct. Yep. So I wonder if that's going to be a Netflix one. If it's Raj and DK, they're going to be exclusive with them for the next five years. He has a new film coming out, and it's called Blood Daddy. I like it. I like it already. I like it already. I changed his name in my phone. Josh! Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Raggedy. It's The Corp. I'm Rick. Hey, Blood Daddy. Hey, Blood Daddy. What's happening? Anyways, this is not about your head. This is about 10 surprising facts about northeast India. How far northeast? That northeast. But we've seen the FTD facts. We've seen a couple of his videos, but obviously a lot of learning new stuff. Above the Psalm? Yeah. Around that part. The upper, like the other side of Bangladesh. Let's watch the video and find out, shall we? It is a land of diversity, and with many different kinds of people belonging to different races, cultures, and religions. So it's but natural that people belonging to such diverse cultures would also look a little different. However, people from the northeastern part of India have a different look all the time. Now, the question is, why is that, and what are some of the facts surrounding northeast India? Hey guys, my name is Leroy Kent, and welcome back to another episode of- Hi, Leroy Kent. How about this before? Sup. Now, we're just adding it to our 10 facts episode series, and before I begin, leave a like on this video if you love learning, and for those of you who are new here to FTD facts, hit that subscribe button and ring that bell so you don't miss any of our future episodes. All right, so let's jump into the facts now. Northeastern India comprises of eight states. There's Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, and Sikkim. Now, northeastern India shares its borders with Myanmar, Bhutan, China, as well as Nepal and Tibet. Now, all these countries comprise of people of almost the same ethnic group. But even within northeast India, the population of northeast Indians is made up of many different races, mainly the Mongoloids, Indo-Aryans, and Astroloids, or Ostrich and Dravidians. Now, I know that in today's modern world, the term Mongoloid is seen as something derogatory, and many use it as an insult for people with certain forms of handicap. However, for this episode, if I use the term Mongoloid, I do not mean anything offensive at all. It's just for the sake of clarity, and I'm referring to the original use of the term. More specifically, as the term relates to people of East Asia. The original term is not derogatory, it's a bundle of sticks. Means something different now. Not originally. Stuck. Some anthropologists see modern Chinese people as secondary descendants of Mongoloids, and since people in northeast India are also descendants of the Mongoloid people, you can see why all of these races share similar physical features. Another point to look at is, while the original settlers in northeast India were the Mongoloids, the Indo-Aryan and other groups arrived later. You can see that there's a huge dominance of the Mongoloid element in the population of northeast India. Also, in some ancient texts, the northeastern regions belong to tribes who spoke languages from the Tibetan Berman family. Then in other parts of the northeast, there was a race of people who reached Myanmar from the Yunnan region of China. Also, the Métis tribe of Manipur state descended from the Tartars who migrated from China in the 30th century. So in short, there are more than 200 fascinating tribes in northeast India alone who at some point in history migrated from neighboring countries. The neighboring countries specifically China, Myanmar and Bhutan, and they all came in search of more fertile land or to find river valleys or to simply just invade the land. Now I got a very interesting point here. Other than the racial differences, which I will get into very shortly, there is a whole tribal, non-tribal duality recognized by the Constitution of India that gives certain benefits to the many tribal communities in the northeastern part of India. Now this was to help them catch up with the rest of society and educational standards as well as standards of living in general. Now it's because of reasons like these that northeasterners are often non-recognized and even misrecognized or even thought of by the wider Indian society as foreigners and they're seen as people who came from such places like China, Nepal, Thailand or even Japan and some call this withholding the Indian-ness from the northeastern Indian people which causes people to discriminate against and marginalize them. Now let's talk a little bit about the issues that northeastern Indians face a little bit more. So pretty much the people of the northeastern part of India are often even seen differently by the people from other parts of India like I mentioned. Now while it's true that northeastern Indians have monoloid features that give them unique features on a whole, many people have assumptions about them and the biggest problem that the people of other parts of the country have is that there's just very limited knowledge about the northeast. In fact most of the decision makers sitting in Delhi, they will often forget this very part of the country. Also if you think that when Indians from other states travel to different states that they're treated differently over there so it makes sense that northeasterners would be treated differently when they travel outside of their states. Well, think again. Now there are a few complications that I'm going to talk about right now which should give you a better picture of the problem's hair. It's pretty much human nature. It's like burnt in hardwired in our DNA to look at people who don't actually look like us or talk like us in a different way. So think about it though. How do you develop understanding? Well that's through communication. Now how do you develop communication? Well that's by speaking the same or similar language and you can say that the general perception among a large portion of north Indians is that the northeastern Indians are really unapproachable. Now people from Maharashtra, Gujarat as well as Bihar, India can kind of get by because their languages are similar enough to Hindi to reduce the language barrier. A lot of Indian people and northeastern people face problems because of this because their languages just aren't that similar. There's also a geographical barrier. Many people point out that northeast India used to actually be separated from the rest of India and they started being connected to the Indian mainland not too long ago. Also transferred to and from the northeastern part of India is still not very developed. There are only a few trains and even fewer flights. As shown in the image that you'll see on your screen right now there is a physical divide between the rest of India and northeastern states. Also remember that north India used to be pretty fragmented earlier on but it got connected more easily because there were on the plains and enjoyed some cultural intermixing. Then when a ruler would occupy the region they would then bring about their laws as well as their culture. And this created a cultural similarity in the region. Now due to the north India's geographical position a kind of barrier was created when the cultural assimilation couldn't take place between the northeastern states and the rest of India. There's also a big issue when it comes to stereotyping. Now did you know that when the Arabs began trading in India that they started calling anyone who lived on the east side of the river Indus as Hindu? So back then the river Indus used to be called the river Sindhu but because the Arabs couldn't pronounce the S sound they started pronouncing it with an H. Hence we eventually got the name Hindustan. And like most Mongoloid featured people there's that term Mongoloid again. They're referred to as Asians and yes while they are all Asians everyone isn't Chinese. But because it's easier to the human mind to classify them all together people think that they're all the same people. So in the same way a lot of Indian people stereotype northeast Indians too. For fact number two I wanna share some information about the under representation in society and media. So the northeastern states aren't very densely populated in the first place. A fraction of them come to north India for education or looking for jobs. Compared to the massive crowds of people of north Indians northeast Indians are statistically a minority. Mainland Indian society just hasn't seen enough of northeastern Indians even after they started migrating to north India. We see black, Asian and Latin representation in African sitcoms but nothing of the sort when it comes to Indian television. They aren't very well represented in Hollywood either. Take for example, Prankatropra's movie, Mary Combe. Now the movie is based on the life of the Olympic Indian boxer, Mary Combe. Looks nothing like her. Who was from the state. Looks nothing like her. Now instead of casting a northeast Indian person producers casted a not at all northeast Indian looking Prankatropra and this is usually the big problem when it comes to representation of northeast Indians in mainstream media in that they aren't even represented at all. And the final thing I wanna share is this. So let's remember that the northeastern region of India is a very sensitive one, almost like Kashmir. Now they have feuds with China over the borders of Arantral Pradesh and the seven sister states have been played by a lot of violence. Now the feud with India as well as the rise of separatist groups in the northeast as well as the retaliation by the Indian army, mistrust, loss of faith, all of that. Those have been prevailing in these regions for decades. And the more that the mainstream Indians don't do to fix the racist attitudes against northeast India's in their heart, the more that the northeast Indian people will feel alienated from the rest of India. Now it's because of this that northeasterners really feel alienated. And it's because of this that like, yes, a lot of northeast Indians really feel completely alienated and just completely separate. And China actually sometimes tries to use this in their favor to create chaos in northeastern regions. All right guys, that's all I have for you in this episode. I know I covered a lot and it's definitely a sensitive topic. I tried to come from a bunch of different angles just to shed some light on the northeastern Indians. But anyways, let me hear your thoughts and comments down below. What are your thoughts about this? Do you think the main reason that northeast, obviously I'm sure not the main reason. That's probably the wrong usage of the word. Is because Bangladesh being there and the fact that it's, obviously United States unless you consider like, it'd be like, I guess, if there was something in between us and Maine. Or maybe Alaska. Alaska, but obviously we... But Alaskans, unless you're native, like native Americans, the people who live in Alaska come from all over the place, so. It's not like, India has a particular, they've been there for a long time. Yeah, it would be a good example to have Alaska if, I guess, Hawaii works, but they're not connected via land. They're so far away, but if native Alaskans would be a good example. Yeah, like the native American, I forget what tribe it is, but obviously the big tribes up in Alaska would be a good example if you had those native people that were still, like the United States government didn't wipe them out a long time ago. I guess that would be a little more, but since India has such a diverse topography with land and people, it's such an interesting dynamic. It is and sadly, I don't know why. There's such a small road to get there. It is and I don't know why this is because a lot of people will just say it's human nature and I don't understand or even agree with that per se because I'm a human being and so are my parents and I can't recall when I learned that people from different places, languages or looks were different. I had to like be taught that other people think differently of other people because to me and to my parents, the only thing I ever knew about people who were different was that it was so interesting. That's all that ever was to me and always has been and that on the beautiful side of things, whereas throughout history, there's been an enormous amount of ignorance and what happens is anything that's different people fear and so they immediately kick against it, which I don't understand that, whether it's the way you look, the way you talk or what you believe that the initial response to that is to be afraid of it really doesn't make any sense to me. Yeah, I know you say you didn't agree, but if the majority throughout history and humans have done it, I guess that makes it human nature. Yeah. If the majority does it. A part of human nature. Yeah. But we see we have choices that we can make just because something comes to us by nature doesn't mean that we of our will have to choose to act according to that nature. Yeah, but it's still human nature. That's true, it's just so strange because. Oh, I agree, it's strange. Yeah. It just doesn't make any sense. I'm placing the argument of is it human nature to see somebody and think of them, because obviously I was raised the exact same way and then I was. Somebody with a different skin tone is. And I think that nature is taught. I don't think that it's a part of who we are and there's no way we'd ever get an answer to it. I don't know that it's necessarily. I definitely think racism is taught. It's taught. For sure. That it's part of what you're taught as a kid and by example from the people around you. You might naturally, especially as a kid, look at somebody and be like, oh, they're different. Like they have a person they have a little kid of, like let's say Leland. It's all somebody that look like either South Indian or South African. Right. Or something like that and look at it and he might be like, oh, they're different. Yeah, little kids do that out of interest. Like they see it. They see it. Somebody who is 400 pounds. That might be human nature. But the discriminatory aspect of it. Exactly. And I don't know if that's what he was saying. I don't think he was saying, or maybe he was, I don't know if he was saying it's natural to discriminate if they saw something different. That I wouldn't agree with. I wouldn't agree with because like a 400 pound person, a little kid, all three of mine did this, would say, mommy, why is that person so fat? And that's out of interest. It's not out of a, it's a, wow, they want to know why does, or why is that person's skin so much darker? Or why is that person's face look like that? It's because, wow, that's different. And they're actually wanting to know more about it. Not, I believe kids are taught, ha, ha, you're fat. I think that's taught. Oh yeah. Taught or learned based off of your peers as well. And how your parents treat people. Parents, friends, family. And culturally, what you grow up in. So if you do, if you grow up in a country where a particular region of your country is treated a certain way, it becomes the norm. I mean, look at America in the way we've treated women. And you name it, go down the list. Any number of people. So, and I always go back to the story, you've heard it a dozen times when we were, when we were in India right around the time that COVID was just starting to run rampant. And we had these girls who recognized us from the channel and came up to us and said that they had some people spit at them and say, go back to China, but they were awesomies. But if you looked at them and you didn't know, you might think they were Chinese because the Northeast can look like that. But yeah, what was odd about this, of the videos we've seen of his, this was the one that was the more like, I felt like I, this had so much information. It was like shoving 10 partly G in my mouth all at once. It was really dry. It was a lot of content, but it was really dry. There was like no music. Yeah. And it seemed like a lot of the points were similar. Similar. As well. So it wasn't as fleshed out as some of his other. Very much so. Yeah. But anyways, if there are other videos from Northeast India or other parts of India, obviously we always like to learn stuff. So please send them our way. If they are good to react to, let us know. And what the fuck is happening? Josh!