Bali Quietly Spliting Into Two Worlds 🇮🇩

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]So there's this massive there's this massive segregation that's happening in Bali and it's happening between people of Bali locals as well as the boules and foreigners who are here and my intention with this video is to share some things with you that's happening and allow you to see and maybe help find a solution to bridge the gap so that we're all together. So, I've said in other videos there's 75,000 villas in Bali and there's 50,000 hotel rooms I read the other day. So, you can imagine what that does to like the locals here.

[00:00:43]Prices are getting higher for local people. And although places like Changangu and and uh Uluatu and Ubud, they're thriving, you know, they're thriving really, but there's a separation between us travelers. Myself, I consider myself, I'm not a boule. I'm Bali in my heart, but I feel like Boule and there's very little things that I find that let our cultures mix.

[00:01:12]You know, the boules have their we have our restaurants, our cafes and everything. And like the Balines just work for us.

[00:01:21]Like, and that always bothers me, you know? I always try to do my best. I know I'm part of the problem, but I always try to do my best to be there to to, you know, engage with them. They're my friends. I know them by name, but not everyone does that. And they're really treated as like just servants for the tourist. I've seen people yell at them, just ring the bell a bunch of times at the restaurant to get them to come to the table. I've seen so many things.

[00:01:44]There's a separation where I wonder if we could just find a way for people to for us to intermingle. Like there's all this I know place things of if you're from America, this is where we hang out. If you're this color, this is where you hang out. If you're from this country, this is where you hang out. And there's very little mixing of us hanging out with the actual Baladines, you know, and they're usually just working for people.

[00:02:12]But at the same time, let's say they're selling their land and building a villa that's being bought and paid for by a foreigner. The also separation that happens is especially in the Changoo area, it's not the Balines who are building the places. If you've been in Bali, you know who builds all the villas, who builds everything almost construction-wise, the Javanese. The people from Java. And I look at the people in Java working in the fields.

[00:02:40]Not working the fields, excuse me. I see them working on the houses, living in cardboard shacks, wood shacks. Anyone who's been here has seen it. And no one says anything to them.

[00:02:51]Nobody. They're completely ignored. And out of the 75,000 builders, I'd be shocked if they hadn't built 55,000 of them.

[00:03:01]So, there's like this split that's happening. And I want I I mean, this is my crazy idea that maybe this video inspires someone to create something or build something or or just be aware of it that it would be nice if there was something that we all had in common together.

[00:03:21]you know, everywhere, every time I go into places and I just see how people are just kind of there's just these groups of people, you know, you very you see very few tourists eating at the local hurang where the local people eat.

[00:03:38]And at the same time, you have Balines people who are working at restaurants and okay, so they're working at restaurants and you think, well, they're working at restaurants and restaurants are full all the time, so they must be doing pretty well. No, most of the Balines are still making only 3 million, 4 million a month doing that. Maybe they get tips.

[00:04:06]And what most people don't even realize is that most of the Balines that you see, the ones working at the restaurants, not only can the at the tourist restaurants, not only can they not afford the workers who are there, not only can they afford they not afford to eat there, but they don't even eat there. You see, I've been like behind the scenes so much. You know, I might not know the language so well or the culture 100%. But I have been behind the restaurants and sat there with the with the locals who work there. I bought them food a lot and just would have talks with them and there'd always be one who spoke English. And they're behind this nice restaurant. Imagine this. You're working at a place making amazing food that you might not have ever tasted and you can't afford and you are going out the back eating food for 5,000 rupia when you're serving people whose drinks are 60,000 rupia.

[00:05:03]I'm I'm like I say I can be part of the problem. I buy that stuff too, but you can't even afford it. But yet the people who do, you have to go and serve them and serve them with a smile, you know. And I think this is where that segregation happens. And although there's so many expats and foreigners who are living here, who do such great for the community, who employ people from the community from the community, give them jobs. Yes.

[00:05:30]But that's usually that where it stops.

[00:05:32]What I've seen for the majority. I know there's people who do great things, employ them, hire them, all these kind of things. But it's just the wakeup call to just remember each other if that makes sense.

[00:05:48]Like just to like remember each other, you know, cuz I sit out here outside of Mini Mart late at night is where I like to come to think quiet in the quiet boo. And I think wouldn't it be nice to just find a way that we all could be a little more included like and see what it's like on both sides.

[00:06:12]A way for us to enter the culture and them for enter ours and you know not just for this to be this cheap place that everyone comes to because to be honest it's not even that cheap.

[00:06:22]Everyone talks about it. Bali is not that cheap at all. Yes, you can be cheap coming here.

[00:06:28]And sad and sadly enough, it's when you're very cheap coming here that you actually bond the most with the locals cuz you're eating where they're eating.

[00:06:37]But I think there's more to this.

[00:06:38]There's something the Balines have done with their culture and their families and their re their their religion, their their offerings, just everything.

[00:06:47]There's so much that could be learned.

[00:06:50]And I think as long as kind of that like segregation is kind of there. I mean, I know it happens, but as long as there's just like no connection, like we we're all kind of disconnected doing our own thing. You're working for me. I'm eating here. You're going there.

[00:07:05]You're building this for me. I think uh yeah, Bali is not as powerful as it could be.

[00:07:16]But what do I know?

[00:07:20]I'm just a a guy who loves this this Bali culture so much and the people of I know them all so much on such a close level having met so many people and uh I think that something could change. I'm open for suggestions in the comments or if you all are helping out or if you've seen anything, what would your suggestions be?

[00:07:50]How would you go about doing these?

[00:07:53]Cuz you guys have seen us when we've went to the trash dumps and seen that.

[00:07:57]All people from Java who run in that next to an ocean where they don't even get to go in the water, but yet they keep the trash from overflowing in there. So yeah, I'd love to hear your opinion, but I had to get that out.

[00:08:09]These are like my night chronicles of Bali.

[00:08:15]Go to Chronos.

[00:08:17]They're just thoughts. But then again, what do I know? I'm just a kid from Cleveland who has a feeling deep down that he can change the world.