Who Are The San Bushmen? | The World's Oldest People

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Who Are The San Bushmen? | The World's Oldest People


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@CogitoEdu

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This video was a part of the MASSIVE #ProjectAfrica collab. Check out the other videos in the #ProjectAfrica collab here: http://bit.ly/project-africa
Or you can go straight to the end of the playlist and check out The Cynical Historians video on How African History Disproves “Guns Germs and Steel” https://youtu.be/2OQmvRUdr3U?list=PLivC9TMdGnL_nFh7EtyLykEbzxCMH7nkB

Or go to the video after mine by Archaia Istoria on Phonecian Circumnavigation https://youtu.be/hdqJcOMzbMk

@lebohangbinda2232

Am from south africa San are from south africa

@lebohangbinda2232

Thank you

@filipe5722

Agriculture gave us abundance which can lead to domination, but it doesn't mean it will always do. There are many historical cases of agricultural societies that were equal and/or democratic. Also, there are also cases of HG that were settled. So, please, be careful with your statements.

@PewPiu111

As an Australian that is San, i feel offended that AUSTRALIA IS UPSIDE DOWN!

@leonjohnson7193

The modern day Asians are descendants of them .

@eldraque4556

the gods must be crazy

@michaelmartinez5217

Its not farming, it was the creation of "money".

@LemonJackRazer

I just can’t believe this mother fucked slipped in a Star Wars joke 😂

@edd5883

It is marxist in a way. They are not alienated from their labor. No one is stealing their labor.

You could say it is a marxist dream. One lost to time.

@ArnoHoth

The San lived all over southern africa. Not only kalahari. See the thousands off paintings and engravings outside the kalahari

@ArnoHoth

Interesting, but the San lived all over southern Africa. Not only the Kalahari. We have thousands off rockpaintings and engravings all over Namibia, especially in the west.

@WallaceAhtone-sq6ty

Great video.

We as humans must find a way to square the circle of "civilization" and living a more simple and wholesome life.

I personally think it all depends on checking our ego, like the San people do according to their culture.

@maingaaitkensn5617

!Becky is dusting me 😂 as a descendant of the San,I approve.

@RaySawhill

Nicely done, many thanks.

@MeatGoblin88

16:25 not true. there is some evidence of farmer-hunter violence, but violence wasn't the main factor in the replacement of hunter gatherers. they got replaced because farmers were able to support a higher population and also exploit the land, rendering much of it unusable to hunter gatherers. example: there's no evidence of neolithic farmers in ireland killing hunter-gatherers, although they'd fight their fellow farmers occasionally. since agriculture spread throughout ireland within a century the mesolithic irish were quickly replaced

@coldbrewmoffiecomedy

Who are the San? A group of people who consider the term "bushman" a slur.

@denissaliaj9459

Bro speaks in westeros dialect

@user-oy8qp6bq3b

Hi Cogito! Love your content, but here’s a little correction:
Q, X and C in Khoisan languages often refer to !, //, and / respectively instead of their English or Indo-European realizations. For example, “Hxaro” would be equivalent to “//haro” or “h//aro”.

@AlexVictorianus

Only recently the “civilized” people have become civilized enough to be aware of the necessity to protect the ancient Hunter-gatherer cultures.

@isaacmodise5166

Why are you talking about sex my children are watching

@uggali

It helps not to think of tribal people as a unchanging monolithic fossil cuz they also experience the passage of time and have progressed according to their own values which have sophisticated over thousands of years

@krishnanaidu6420

Koisans are the True inhabitants of South Africa. The others are from the South of the Equator. ( The Zulus )

@seandavies5130

If they manage to survive western influenced culture, they will be there long after the rest of us blow ourselves up with nukes. Our "civilization" strikes me as highly anamolous and nature will strike us down soon enough. We also very stupidly gave ourselves very centralised points of failure: malignant narcissist morons that have access to nuclear codes for example

@mooshei8165

My people!!!! I’m Asian.

@grandmanitou6563

"Vines cover the ruins of Rome, Sand covers the sphinx and the juncles reclaimed the cities of the Olmecs, but the San remain."
Of course you can't have ruins if you never had anything in the first place, it's like having a rich man become poor and quit his mansion to a more modest condo and compare him to a hobo that never downgraded his housing, because he had none.

@Lighthouse6104

It infuriates me how throughout history people have displaced and disrupted vulnerable groups of people for their own greedy benefit. It’s just evil.

@sabrinaleedance

I am seriously in awe of these people and their culture, and societal structure. I always had the feeling humanity would be at its prime if we lived more naturally with the land, but you need a good structure for society as well, and clearly to all of us these people have it, but as well as to humanity's existence itself, they have sustained their way of life for at least 25,000 years, alot of change is caused by turmoil, which these people know little of

@quaidrasmussen4151

Come for the history video, stay for the Marxist theory

@Melnokina.-.

Please don't call them Bushman its like calling Inuit people Eskimos

@riaagarwal6840

all the tribal places i have been in india have been egalitarian and food was plentiful and labor less. There was a lot of socializing.

@Kostya2005

But i like to say bushman because common name for tribal ethnic groups

@sbhunt

Watching this while reading Sapiens hits different

@electrosyzygy

Was not expecting an Obi-Wan Kenobi quote. Good one!

@profbri.02

I can't help but think that the gods must be crazy…

@fabiansw8

10:25 I don't think you can say genetic diversity keept the San people out of war and famine

@aylalampang6732

Must be wonderful not living as a wage slave.

@urielpolak9949

I can onlythink “ i want to see the gods must be crazy again”

@RealMKproductions

The fact that the tribe always talks smack about their game that the hunters brought in reminds me of how my Grandpa would always say something like “oh those cookies are no good; I’ll have to eat all of them to save you the trouble” and that’s how you’d know it was really yummy 😂