Hi, I'm John Green. This is Crash Course World History, and today we're going to talk about nationalism, the most important global phenomenon of the nineteenth century and also the phenomenon responsible for one of the most commented-upon aspects of Crash Course, my globes being out of date.
USS "R" not a country! [Explosion noise.] Rhodesia? [Explosion noise.] South Vietnam? [Explosion noise.] Sudan with no South Sudan? [Explosion noise.] Yugoslavia? [Explosion noise.]
Okay, no more inaccuracies with the globes. Ahhh, the little globes! This one doesn't know about Slovakia [explosion noise], this one has East-frackin' Pakistan [explosion noise] and this one identifies Lithuania as part of Asia [explosion noise].
Okay, no more globe inaccuracies. Actually, bring back my globes. I feel naked without them.
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