A video about love and dating in the contemporary age.

How a mysterious frontier island peopled by "barbarians" became one of the four main islands of Japan - and how the original inhabitants suffered as a result.

There's also an interesting video about some of the subjects, like the Ainu (about the Kurils, just north of Hokkaido) from Mark's Expedition.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38671939

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38659810

For over two thousand years, dominant empires have followed the exact same collapse pattern. Not through military conquest. Not through revolution.