Who Are the Basques?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ค. 2024
- Learn all about the Basque people: where they come from, why they've captivated the interest of researchers, and what stereotypes they're associated with. This is the fourth video in Hella Basque's introductory series on the Basque Country. Check back on Thursdays for new videos!
Watch first 3 videos in the series:
- What Is the Basque Country? • What Is the Basque Cou...
- What Is Iparralde? • What Is Iparralde?
- What Is Hegoalde? • What Is Hegoalde?
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When I walked the Camino De Compostella, I got lost off trail in Basque country and was too stubborn to ask directions so for 2 days i wndered then found out the Basqos were waiting for me to ask but then introduced themselves and treted me to overnight lodging before driving me back to the pilgrim path. In Taos, NEw Mexico (USA) where I lived, the re was a ritual among the Basque (lots of sheepherders and descendants)men to 'break in' new men coming to live there where you had to arm wrestle several old timer Basques in the middle of a big circles, then everyone toasted with beer and wine until late. Beautiful feeling afterward - i guess you have to be a man to appreciate the ritual ...and it didnt matter if you lost as long as you didnt quit until you were flat out exhausted from wrestling four or five sheepherders ...tough old guys.
Yes! I once heard/read that Basques do something/everything with passion, or not at all. Period. We are also notorious for being stubborn! I love being "mysterious", "different", and "stubborn". Let them wonder. ;-)
I like that expression! I'm definitely guilty of being stubborn too haha
Oh, I'm also v. guilty of being stubborn.
just like us Irish , We are the closest European country with Ancient Basque DNA genetic markers, that migrated to Ireland 2000_3000 BC. Slainte.
That fits me alright. All of it, especially the stubborn part.
Makes sense... I found out today that I have Basque blood flowing in my veins.
My Grand father said we were from a VALLEY BY ENGLAND BETWEEN FRANCE AND SPAIN lol 😂 said we made games out of our chores and competition was who can do most for all
i found out my ancestors are basque -really fascinating
Awesome! Welcome to the club :)
Rich Allen u mean stupid
I love that expression, “Hella Basque ”!
Hello. I was told years ago that my blood type is rare. I'm an O Negative with a Negative RH Factor. I've been blessed with having 3 children and with each I had to take the shots (2) for each one. I was told then that my blood type was rare and that was in 1980. Didn't think too much of it until I watched a video in my feed that said just how rare it was and the area they believe it came from. Basque.
i thought scientists said people get negative blood type if both parents have it, if a community of people only have negative blood type then everyone must be related?
@@MHCE444 possibly not. My parents have different blood types.
my mom is rh- and I'm O+
We of Basque afillated lineage, i.e., Irish American, of County Kerry Orgin lineage, Rh(-), *are busy*
😁
The Basque are only people in Europe not to be Conquered by the Romans, Visigoth, or the Islamic Conquest of Iberia in 711 by the Umayyad Dynasty.
What about the Franks?
@@bottlefed517 The Franks were defeated by Roman Caesar Maximian in the year 287-288AD. Frankish Genobaud surrendered without a fight.!
@@orlandovelastegui1391 Amazing I read La Chansons de Roland and what happened to Roland the Frankish Knight who was killed by the Basques in the Pyrenees in 15 of August in 778 AD.
My mother is Irish, my father French, Ancestery says my genetic code in the last 1000 years alone matches 93% of those in England and Wales and I got 2% From Iberian peninsula- and I’m O-. I feel like Basque is my home.
Same here. On my mother's side there's Irish and German, on my Father's side there's French. I'm just a hodge podge of freakiness. :-)
My sister is O- and I'm O+. We're mainly English and irosh but essentially EVERY group in the British isles and then a small amount of Basque who we can trace. She moved to England, was born in granada Spain, and then was the side girl to a portrait painter of Queen Victoria. He paid well for his illegitimate sons education whoch landed him a job as inventory manifest, basically the cargo records guy on ship voyages to Australia but he had to be a deck hand on the actual trip and was organising everything for loading and unloading. After 3 trips he got sick of being wet and cold and left the ship when it was in Australia.
Love Basque People!!! Yeah me too...Irish and Basque mix...excited...many uncles have red hair...characteristic from all these places...I have a few red hair.
Que Viva La Gente de Norte! I have Basque origins , I am from Nuevo Mexico!
Tengo tambien tanta sangre vasca que mi hijo me dijo: Ma...por eso son tan raros!!! Y yo conteste a mi son es verdad!!!
I have basque origins and I am from Las Cruces Nuevo Mexico
My great grandfather comes from the Basque Country .. I only hope I can go there one day.
I enjoy your videos and the information you provide. Thank you
Glad you're enjoying the videos! I hope you can make it to the Basque Country one day too.
Have You been to the Basque Country at all ? If so, what is it like there :)
I had Iberian peninsula in my myheritage results and lots of french Basque, spanish basque and Basque in my GED results x
Basque is Basque. Not really divided into country types. They were their own country essentially right thru to medieval times shown on maps. Them being incorporated into france and Spain came later.
@@OffGridInvestor Just like the Sami people who live in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Politicians created borders all over Earth.
The Irish closest ancestors are from the basque country we look alike and have very similar traditions DNA is incredible...
I agree with you!!! I love Irish culture. I love Ireland!!!
Irish American, of County Kerry Lineage, AB(-)
The characteristics are oddly accurate.
Were Does It Say Such A Thing? The Basque Are From Northern Spain And France The Language Anyway, But They Live In Barcelona Spain. They are Called Catalonians No Connection To The Irish.
@@ronaldciccone260 That’s incorrect, Ronald, the Celts are considered to be from Basque Country. My dad was from Limerick, I’ve had my dna done, and the result is I’m considered to be of Basque origin.
@@ronaldciccone260 None of that is correct. Catalonians are Catalonians and Basques are Basques. They are not the same and do not live in the same area.
Thanks Ann Marie. Stellar as always!
Thank you! Glad you liked it :)
Pretty crazy I have basque ancestors ❤️❤️ love it!!
I am quite intrigued by the Basque as I have traced my great, great grandparents from my father's side to the town of Zelaia in the Basque country. Celaya is the Castilian version of Zelaia, which changed to Zelaya and most commonly, Celaya, which are pronounced the same with an 's' sound. Your videos are quite informative as I begin my research of the Basque people and culture.
Outstandingly accurate, thorough and interesting info, presented in a manner that is easy to grasp. You speak from experience and research, one can tell it's important to you.
I would wager your hands are making gestures as you explain the Basqueness, even though we cannot see them.. LOL thank you again
Hi Anne Marie Love all your videos! So glad you created this you tube channel! Milesker! Eskerrik Asko!
Aww thanks, Marie! Glad you're enjoying the videos
Marie Tellechea Ba basque tontos
And now I'm back to you
One thing I found interesting about in Basque history was the concept of collective nobility. In Hegoalde during feudal times the Spanish monarchs had laws they had to promise to keep with the Basque people and within it all basque people were regarded as nobility and it seems really progressive for that point in history.
What, that's awesome. Never heard that one before. If you have any links, send them my way!
@@HellaBasque Will do after I'm out of work 😊
Yes, this it the reason they were free and not like serfs that were tied to the land and needed permission of the local lord to do anything
My Family comes from Mexico, Zacatecas and Los Altos Jalisco.
Most of my family are over 6’.
Last Names are Nava and Jauregui.
O Pos blood. Most live over 100 yrs.
Great job 👏
5:44 was a cute gesture ❣️
I found this looking for information on my blood type, glad I did, lovely video.
Glad you found this video and glad you enjoyed it!
I have Basque blood in Baztan,Navarre nearly Sephardic Jews in Bayonne I think I have English (British) originally Byzantine Empire. Now I am a Filipino ( Biblical Hebrew Ophirian 🇵🇭).
Daghang salamat (Eskerrik Asko),Ms. Anna Marie without last name 🤣😆😆😅
I am so glad I found your channel. I recently found out through an ancestry test that I am 9% Basque (it's very little, I know), which piqued my interest to find out more about this very unique culture. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge.
Basques are beautiful I see
I like the idea of spontaneous singing. People have mostly lost that habit.
Thanks about this , so true 💕
I am Mexican and according to my DNA, I have Basques DNA. In my family, the O blood does run. It's Because the Spanish migrated to Mexico about 500 years ago. Colonization and stuff.
I enjoyed it
Yes my grandparents came from Ireland to Australia in 1950s which isn’t too far from Spain. Apparently Irish ancestors not all came from basque region. My mum is b- I’m a+ so she had to have the anti d injections to help carry me to term.
We were half English half basque then that side married into Irish (who were in NYC for 10 years after the potato famine) and Scottish. However the basque genes held on into my grandfathers generation and we still have O type blood to this day.
You literally just described me to the smallest detail.
What do the Basques think about their origins? Do you have your own unique mythology (like fairy tales or oral traditions passed down from elders or maybe the songs you mentioned).
Really cool channel, just learned about this people.
Ravnegutten we do!!! I encourage you to find information about basque mythology (you can easily find information on Google and Wikipedia). Basque mythology is very interesting and is also very interesting how basque society was matriarch-based for longer than other cultures/countries (until religion and patriarchy bloomed...)
@@buscaquenoestoy We have mythology that goes back to ancient times, for example how one of our heroes steals the seeds from the giants and thus begins agriculture. We have a forest lord, "Basajaun", who could be close to Bigfot. As for death there is some analogy with the Egyptian mysteries. We worshipped an earth goddess called Mari. And we certainly had a pre-Christian culture in which the worship of nature and its spirits was distorted by the accusations of witchcraft with which the Catholic church erased throughout the world any culture that was not its own.
@@juanc.9814 there's still a lot of nature spirit worship in Africa. In Australia the aboriginals here have some real interesting stuff, always with stories of how a bad person was turned into an animal and then the original person converted was put into the sky as a constellation when they died or something like that. Funniest of all is a story involving a platypus I think, who climbed a tree (which there's no way they could), then jumped from the tree branch STRAIGHT onto the moon surface. Like the moon was only a meter or 2 away. The stories ca be weird.
@@buscaquenoestoy first line "told" me that you are like, or without "like", a Basque. I didn't read the rest of your comment. 😊
My mom is RH negative and her last name is Aliaga which is Basque
Very cool!
M G Muslim that name sounds like
My ancestors were basque and I do not like to sit still for too long I get irritable I can be lazy but it is difficult because I will be thinking about things that I want or need to get done lol I was sick with almost all of my pregnancies one of them I had to be hospitalized for almost a month and was told they would not let me go home because I would be up doing things when I needed to be laying down so they had me stay in the hospital under strict monitoring
Really interesting! I definitely can't rest if I know there are thing that need to get done too
What the hell does that have to do with Basques lol
Meiby they are albanian blod
I used to be lazy but I'm basically the same. I end up at social gatherings thinking about all the stuff I should be doing at home. I am either messing around on my phone or trying to do 3 things at once and going like hell to beat the sun before it goes down.
Its a good mysterious.
Hi Anne-Marie, can you recommend any modern and traditional folk songs that we can buy the CD or music from?
Folk
Benito Lertxundi: altabizkar itzaltzuko bardoari
Mikel Laboa: lau bost
Hiru truku: hiru truku
Juan Mari Beltran
Maurizia Leon eta Basilio
Kepa Junkera
Oreka Tx
...
You can have the best Basque folk musician records in a music label called Elkar. You can buy CDs, Viniles... on their website.
Pop Rock.. punk...progressive...heavy metal... postrock..
Itoiz, Errobi, Su ta Gar, Negu Gorriak, Hertzainak, M-ak, Delirium Tremens, ruper ordorika, Dut, Lisabö, Inorenerorni, Anari...
Elkar is still the best label to buy most of the best rock bands of the 80s-90s...
Bide Huts is an interesting label of active rock bands
Oskorri is also a very good and important folk band in the Basque Country.
Their last album "Hauxe da despedidia" sounds good. Is a live recording.
@@estankona eskerrik asko
@@estankona Thank you for your recommendations!
Hi Patrick, sorry I didn't get back to you right away. I was going to do some research into this topic, as I've never purchased any traditional Basque folk music myself. Glad someone else chimed in with some recommendations!
Am Basque and Catalan. My last name is Mitxeo but because no one can pronounce it, we say Micheo. We're from Gaztelu and Saldias
Will visit Bilbao soon hopefully Basque people will welcome me
In Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada Basques are associated with sheep hearding . Mark Kurlansky says they are actually a seafaring people. Northwest historians say they became sheep hearders just because that work was what was available
It's nothing like that. The people down near the Iberian coast (southern france) were seafarers who even have their own boat design. There's people in the Pyrenees mountains who are farmers and the Basque who are in northern Spain are often sheep herders. That "only work available" is totally BS and those "northwest historians" are ASSUMING it with NO IDEA of Basque history. If you're a foreigner like me you come to realise that most Americans are essentially geologically retarded and absolutely HOPELESS at understanding ANYTHING outside America or not already a part of American culture or with a close American cultural counterpart. The amount of stuff they JUST GUESS is really a damn crime to then claim to be historians with a whole bunch of stuff just MADE UP or assumed because they're too lazy to PROPERLY research it. A brother of a particular french king noticed that most people in Basque country wore berets, and whether the Basque invented the hat or not, he started calling it the Basque beret and everyone who was too scared to disagree went along with it and it became a trend in france. But the Basque sheep farmers all wear them in natural wool colours. They have a whistle made from stone in those areas too. They get a stone from underground because above ground ones dry out too much, and carve it with a knife splitting it in 2 to put the 2 halves inside their mouth. It's an incredibly noisy whistle.
Just found out I’m 1 percent Basque! Through my AncestryDNA!
That's grasping for it! I can trace mine back to an exact person. 1/32 in my case. The genes held on strong into my grandfathers generation and we still have O type blood now.
When I see a basque I talk to them like this Ba then Ba again
I’m 16% Basque now I’m interested.. I know that’s not a large percentage but it kind of is I don’t know.
Joseph Karst founded 300words same in Armenian and Basque.
How do you write sea,cold,North,eat,nice,Peculiar, beak,and Live in Basque language.
Wow! I’m 12% Basque
i'm o negative!!!! my blood is the best. i'm from the "master blood race".
thank you for your channel. i have certain traits that lead me to believe i could be basque, so i'm interested in the culture, the language, which i wish was on duolingo, and I posit that many children were abducted due to their blood type as it is worth money to medical communities . i was abducted as a child and recently discovered this might be my origin. take care! i'd love if you would do a day out in the rural community or what you do there. best wishes.
If you're O negative, I think it's a highly universal blood for transfusions. You should get a DNA test because basque genes really show up well on DNA tests.
@@OffGridInvestor Ugh, thank god that this is not an american movie, but reality. 😊
I’m 26% Spain with Indigenous blood coming from Puerto Rico and Portugal. I did notice the 4% Basque and 3% France on there as well in my DNA so now my curiosity has me watching videos on the listed countries from my DNA results. As for the RH Negative blood I remember being given an injection before giving birth to my daughter and then again with my son during the 90’s. I never did understood why it was important to have the injections. I think I tried to ask about the RH Negative blood. I can’t remember what the answer was. Maybe I’ll look that up too what it actually is.
My great grandfather real last name is Arrango which came from Basque , I'm A Garcia Which comes from Basque
So I’m hoping I’m in the right place
So many pre European tribes in Europe....they are exotic, strong looking and unmixed or thoroughly pedigreed, if you will..... definitely rustic and provincially inclined...they all seem so cheery and hearty from my impression.Europe, too, is very tribal...just that much of it has been supressed by the continental Europeans.......
Seemingly there's a link between the Bashkir people of Russia and the Basques. Interesting what the gent said earlier re Armenian link. My grandfather as well as looking typically Basque/Iberian face type, also matched face types in Armenia/Georgia.
Please state your percentage of Basque?
2%
Last half of the video "got" me.
Emotionally. I mean, I've liked like speaker emotionally. I was sungazer btw. In a way that... sunset was above the island. Some island. What I know about Basques... got me into thinking that they're 85% from Atlantis, which was probably also an island. I've read, a year ago exactly, that don't call themselves Basques, but "those who speak Basque" instead. Like, they're not a nation, but the group of people instead. 🙂 Last 3 lines is mine. 🙂❤️😉
Of slavic countries Poland is definitely one of my favorites.
*that they
Your from Atlantis
Yes the Basque are one of the many survivals from Atlantis.
Holla to all the lazy Basques!!!
Haha there's gotta be some of us out there!
@@HellaBasque right!? Where my people at? ^_^
lazy?
JoLynn Wright yes they are lazy but when it comes to drinking there number one
Just found out through Family Tree DNA I am 60% European with 22% Basque
0:00 ....i really cant help to notice that her skull is not symmetrical
🙁
.....it's slant/slanting 😒
But I also have Spanish royalty in my ancestry
But my Blood. North Shore Health Clinic Portage Indiana
Do Welsh and Irish Celts have Basque blood?
Just Irish
Why do you have an US/American accent?
Are there A+ Rh people in the basque population ?
A small percentage do.
I’m RH negative and 0 blood, guess that’s my Basque Heritage
I'm South Indian and my Dad and Brother are O negative. Wish we understood more about it.
🙂
*I didnt tag the ancestry thing idk how that happened
SUPER COOL TO KNOW THANKS
I'm B- my daughter is O- and I have the rh thing. I've never had any interest in knowing my ancestry BUT I DO NOW!!!
You said I'd problably know if I was but the past 4 generations of my family only had two children and one of them always dies *before I was born nothing sad SO NOW I GOTTA KNOW!!!!
Basque people end up having names like mine
I did my DNA and found out that I'm Basque Oneg. Very interesting
Sweet, glad you found this video interesting!
Ok
To my most RARE GENE yes my most rare gene
I have AB- blood and have always wondered how it came to be. And how our species would have such a thing. Its crazy. It was the leading cause of miscarriage and i lost a child because of it. Its strange to me that that exists. Like why?
Hard working u mean drunk lotta that going around
My Blood protects me
basques are from georgia. georgia is cuontry under of russia and old name of georgian country is iberia. also there is to many similar about baspues and georgians. there is to many similar family name. also old georgians people calling basques georgians of west. there is also similar culture and people. there is also similar songs. also there is similar old buildings and traditions. you can search in google about this.😘
This thing is taking the human cattle thing to the next level...
Are you rh negative ?
I’m here after finding out I’m 3% basque from my dna results
Who Are you?
i aint gonna lie, i was watching narcos and just found out about basque people
What are you?
I think Type O is the most common blood type.
Yes, but not if you throw in the rh negative factor. I am o negative and that is only 7%.
I m O -ve . Do i belong to this place
I am 25% Black hill guy. Am also a Basque a little bit? Hahahaha
*Am I.
I am 100% slavic person. In a way. 😁❤️😉😘
Thanto do lento do thrrrrr dddrey
I'm Not Only Arteaga
it would be nice if we made your videos with Russian subtitles
For bashkir?
I'm 1% basque
I noticed strong eyebrows, small noses, big and square hands. I'm O negative and took shots in pregnancy
Theres basque french and Spanish.
Yes I checked my dna and I am mostly spanish with small portion of basque but also have some French mixed in there too
Stubborn? What are they German?
"Not quite French not at all Spanish"... no, it's not related to these languages at all. So it's not that it's "not quite French." French, English, and Russian all have a relation but none of these are related to Basque. Basque is a language isolate. During my time living in the Basque country in Spain I was told that the 5 vowels of Spanish are due to the influence of Basque (this would have been as it was developing from vulgar Latin). Basque and Spanish both have 5 vowel sounds whereas English has 14+. I can't seem to find a source on this, however. Perhaps another example of how proud the Basque people are. In some small towns, even though you're a foreigner, they don't want to speak Spanish with you (though they all speak it). Just Basque. It's understandable in a way, as Franco suppressed the language and culture severely and they are trying to rebuild. My friend in a larger Basque town is an immigrant from Argentina and her daughter is being taught Basque in elementary schools there.
It's always "they came to the area". If we've been there THOUSANDS of years, maybe we were ALWAYS THERE??
I'll deal with stupidity but what really bothers me is deception
Some thinks that the Basques have the bloodline of Lilith :)
Found out I'm 11% on my dad's side not a whole lot but it's enough...
What happened to your nose?
Did someone do that to you WITH your consent??