 What's up guys Evil Deer here. So today I want to speak to you about the political ideologies that exist within the Esperanto movement. Now, for those who don't know what Esperanto is, it's a created language. It's about 150 years old and it's designed to be like a politically neutral language for everyone. And it's actually got somewhere between like 100,000 plus to 2 million plus speakers. No one really knows how many. But there's a lot of them out there. So, now before I jump into the ideologies of the movement, because it's not like your standard, let's say, political party where you got left leaning and right leaning, it's a completely separate ball game. Now before I jump into it, you need to understand a little bit about the history. Now I've said it's a created language, it's 150 years old, and it was created by an individual. And his name was Zamenhof and when he created this language, he saw around him just a continual world in fighting and he thought that if we all had the same secondary language, we could communicate and we could stop punching each other up type of thing or shooting each other, whichever you, whichever is your preference. So yeah, he had this idea, this thinking and he created this language and he put this ideology into the language itself. So everything within the language was designed around this ideology. It was easy to learn, it was politically neutral and it didn't attach itself to any particular nation, et cetera, et cetera. Now obviously everyone who first learnt the language was of the same ideological thinking, they all wanted this to be the secondary language of the world. And there's a name for these types of people in the Esperanto movement and that's Finvenkistoy and that basically means people for final victory. Now I know that sounds like some type of military march on one to final victory. It's not like that type of thing, it's just they want to try and have this as a secondary language for everyone. It's kind of like how people promote, you know, well promoted digital over analogue, you know, it was better designed so let's use that instead. Now it's the thing, probably the worst, worst reference I could probably make. Good work, evil dear. Now the second group is called the Adal Mistoy. Now to understand this group, this is a 150 year old language so obviously as time's gone along, the thinking within the movement and the people who have joined and the people who have been born into the language movement have changed. So for instance, if you're born an Esperanto speaker, well you're not born one, but at birth you're spoken to an Esperanto and then your dad speaks it and your granddad speaks it and so forth and so forth, obviously it's no longer just some ideological thinking, it's something to do with your family, it's a core part of you, it's who you are. It's like going up to an Irish guy and saying, you know, who are you? And he goes, I'm Irish, this is me, this is my culture, my heritage, everything. It's the same with the Esperanites. It's 150 years old, we've got fourth generation like Esperanto families, they exist. So obviously this group is now no longer like, well let's make this secondary language world, no, no, no, this is my cultural heritage, this is who I am. So all I care about is the cultural side of the language, I love the books, the music and all that, I don't care if the rest of the world wants to learn this language or not. That's not a concern to me and all honesty, I don't need to care about that because you guys are here. So yeah, you've got the Finvenk history, they want to promote it as a secondary language of the world and then you've got the Al Mistui and they're all in it for just the culture and they honestly don't care about everyone else. Now when I first started learning the language like everyone else, I'd never heard of these two concepts or ideologies, but as you get further into the language, you will definitely encounter them and any Esperanto speaker who's been speaking the language for long enough, they'll tell you which category they fall more into. Now it's not just either or Finvenk history versus Al Mistui, let's battle it out, gladiator style, no, no, no, it's not like that, it's people who have like certain thinking like if you're at Al Mistui, you generally hang out at Al Mistui online, but yeah, you know, there's crossing and all that type of stuff. But when I started out, I was more Finvenk history, I really liked the ideology of the language, I thought it was a good idea that everyone have a secondary language, it just seemed logical to me. But as time went along, I saw that there was no longer really needed that I go out and try and promote it to everyone and I became more of an Al Mistui as I got further into like the cultural aspect of the language. And I kind of just left that side off to forever people to fight for and there's plenty of mad they're fighting for. So yeah, you've got these two different ideologies, they generally, you know, they're not opposing, but they're not exactly in line with each other. You will see some like mini online battles between Al Mistui and Finvenk history, but for the most part they get along quite well and they actually complement each other. For instance, when the Finvenk history out, they're promoting the language and someone says, well, that's great, it's a secondary language, but is there any books, music videos in it? Well, they go, go check this guy out, go check this stuff out, and then an Al Mistui go, oh, well, you're interested in that culture. Yeah, sure, we've got this, we've got this, we've got this, so they actually really complement each other and how they exist. Obviously, you've got, you know, like, I don't know what you want to call it, opposing viewpoints where the Al Mistui are like and Finvenk history are like, this is not designed to be a cultural language, it's just designed to be a tool and the Al Mistui are like, don't tell me what my family blah blah blah blah and do and not do with my own language, you just join this at some random point in your life. So yeah, you do have a little bit of battles every now and then, but it is quite separate and also together at the same time. I guess I've just come to the end of my little spiel about what these two ideologies are. As I said, I'm personally more of an Al Mistui now, but there is obviously a lot of Finvenk history out there. I'd love to hear what you guys are because I know a lot of you are Esperanto speakers or you're learning the language. You might have not even heard of this concept before, but I'd love to hear what you guys are. Leave a comment down below. If you're not even a speaker of this language, what do you think? Where do you think you would fall into the spectrum? If you were to learn a language, would you be more of the cultural side or would you be more of, like, the utility, the tool side of the language? Anyway, just throwing the stuff out there. If you've liked this video, give it a like, share with your friends and subscribe if you haven't already. And I'll see you in the next video. And if you're not there, well, the Finvenk history will find you into bad things.