UNESCO World Heritage: Preserving the Best of Humanity
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What is UNESCO and why was it established?
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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and this is Stuff You Should Know. And this is a fairly rare edition where we do an episode that we decided to do within the last few episodes. We don't usually turn around that fast. Usually it's like seven to eight years. Yeah, this is a quick one, and Julia turned this around for us pretty stat-y. Mm-hmm. I just made that up. Sure, but I get it. I think everyone knows what we mean. But we're talking about UNESCO World Heritage Sites, UNESCO standing for, which I never knew, I'm glad I know this now, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
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whom in 1972 drafted this treaty to preserve world heritage as a whole, whether it's, as we'll see, like a place or a thing. And they even expanded later into like cultural processes and customs and traditions. Yeah, and that's where this idea came from. We were doing our episode on contortionism, and we found that Mongolia was turned down for getting world heritage protection for their contortionist history. They were like, what the H? So we started looking into this, and it is pretty interesting. One of the things that apparently is a fairly common misunderstanding is that Mongolia If you have like a heritage site, like something is identified and labeled a world heritage site, that that is no longer sovereign territory in your country.
Right. could not be wronger, that still belongs to you. But what's happened is that the world, essentially everybody who's a member of UNESCO has agreed to say like, we want to preserve this in your country, it's yours, but it really, we're all agreeing that this belongs to humanity because it's so important to human culture So unique that we need to preserve it. And it takes more than just one country to preserve things like this. So we're all going to get together and take shared responsibility for this important part of human culture. Yeah. And also a little bit of protection. Like, you know, you've got something valuable on your shelf there. We're all watching you as you as you juggle your way through the room.
You want to leave it in mint condition. That's right. There's one quote here that I think kind of nails it. It's things that have outstanding universal value. So it's the universality of it all as far as needing to cherish and care for these things. And I think it's kind of a cool deal. I mean, some people might criticize it as a big sort of political thing to get tourist dollars headed your way.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is UNESCO and why was it established?
0:00–10:44
2
How does UNESCO protect World Heritage Sites?
10:44–15:51
3
How does politics influence UNESCO World Heritage designations?
15:51–19:46
4
What challenges do World Heritage Sites face today?
19:46–38:07
5
What are the criteria for a site to be considered for the World Heritage List?
38:07–51:07