How the Filipinos Helped Colonize America (History of Filipino Americans in Alaska, Hawaii and More)
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- How did the Filipinos help colonize the United States? Today we're going to be discussing a brief history of the Philippines and it's relation to the US, Mexico, Spain and just how early Filipino immigrants helped pave the way for future settlers in Alaska, Hawaii, Louisiana and elsewhere!
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In California they get along well with Mexicans because of how similar they are but on a grander scale Filipinos in the US are pretty open minded on who they interact with
Creepy Closet they are practically the same peoples almost
LagiNaLangAko23 actually more than other Hispanics, they traded with each other for hundreds of years, it’s not to obvious, but genetically, more closer than with other Hispanics.
Just ask Jo Koy, he covers the vicks vapor rub.
@@SkyandQuill they are closer not because of Spanish since Filipinos have only 3-4 percent of foreign genes but because mexico had an ethnicity similar to asians.
@@sonnystaton lol hahaha, so true man!
The fact that Filipinos were in the Americas before Columbus and fought along side them through the civil war, then fighting against them in the Philippines. What really gets me is that throughout my school year, nothing was ever told in about Filipinos in history books but every other race was. It so sad that Filipinos in the Philippines and America don't have a clue of our Ancestors even before the Spaniards. Just makes you think how the world treated Filipinos. And yet Filipinos still have kind, loving hearts. And warmly welcome anyone into their home with a genuine smile.
civil war?? lmao
@@Regalman Yup! Just google the name: Felix Cornelius Balderry
@@Regalman Do it
I think someone did keep the true history tho. They were able to hide and protect their religious and holistic powers (which is still considered the most powerful healers on earth in some voodoo communities) and there martial arts practices (again used mainly by all the special forces in the world and still one of the most effective techniques) even tho thousands of years of colonizers tried beating it out of them. Hoping the knowledge would die off eventually. If you think about it it's amazing that they are able to have kept anything at all, yet they did. So they obviously are master of hiding stuff in the open lol.
There are many races that don’t get mentioned in American history books.
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Masaman cool census, but why did you not have a question asking gender/sex?
Swine Flu Good question. Mostly because I already know what percentage of my audience is male/female from TH-cam analytics, and also I still want there to be a few surprises when people watch my analysis video.
I'm black
Masaman I did it but at the end it said "oh no, error loading results!"
for some reason upon completing the survey it gives me an error and says there was a problem loading the results even after refreshing it?
The original name of Texas was Nuevas Filipinas (New Philippines)
Cool
a cuban province too. now its called pinar del rio but it once was called Nuevas Filipinas too because of the huge influx of filipinos through the manila-acapulco galleon trade
Texas, when it was still part of Mexico, was called Nuevas Filipinas (New Philippines).
Cool
Alex Alpine hmmm interesting.
Philippines is probably the only old world country that has been influenced a lot by the new world. It was part of the Spanish empire but it was governed through New Spain (centered in modern Mexico) and it later became a territory of the US.
then japan
@@maxhuang6990 3 years is such a short time to be influenced by Japan so no
weren;t the other southeast asian states like Malaysia and Indonesia colonized too by different powers, like the Portuguese and eventually the dutch and british?
weren;t the other southeast asian states like Malaysia and Indonesia colonized too by different powers, like the Portuguese and eventually the dutch and british?
@@devvv4616 but they aren't as influenced by their colonizers unlike the Philippines. They retained many of the customs and tradition of their pre-colonial countries, unlike the Philippines, whose pre-colonial traditions are largely forgotten. Thus, you can't compare Malaysia's and Indonesia's circumstance to the Philippines.
Filipinos are in many countries. I have lived in London, Madrid and Málaga. All have many people from the Philippines.
Um is it just me or our flag in this video is completely wrong
This is so true. Im from the future, living in another planet and there’s a lot of filipino here.
@@silvers2211 Isn't that just the flag made to symbolize FilAms?
...of course! Where else would you think Filipinos will come from? 😃🤣
At the nursing home in Montreal where I work part time, I come across many, many Filipino caregivers. And there are many professional Filipino caregivers (and nannies) all over the world!
Excellent history! I am half Filipino from California, and I enjoyed this video very much.
your lineage is hebrew from the bible..we are descendant of Yoktan the son of Eber(hebrew) settled in the land of Ophir present day Philippines..
Filipinos are very interesting.
I know a guy who is filipino,he looks like a normal Filipino with Austro-Chinese ancients.
His cousin with the same familyname looks like an European/Spanish guy.
It was astonishing ;)
Craftuar , whats astonishing about that?
I am a chinese-filipino here in manila. this term you call us "Austro-Chinese" is a very interesting term i now only first heard of. very interesting name you give us. i like this. huehuehuehue
yes btw. i look mostly chinese with mostly chinese parents but i have classmates who look very spanish with their spanish-looking thick eyebrows because i study in one of the more prominent rich universities in the philippines.
oh and by the way there was another german in history like you who was very interested in the ethnology of the philippines. an austrian man named ferdinand blumentritt who was friend of our national hero also liked and was very curious about the philippines
The same with my Family My Grandmother looks full Chinese but one of her sisters and brothers looks full European... you wouldn't even know that they are siblings.
its funny cause my grandmother was born half chinese from samar then liked china very much that she moved to china and married a chinese guy there and moved back here in the philippines but her sister stayed in the philippines and married a filipino guy and now her sister's children are very filipino and my grandmother has very chinese children like me lol
lolol U a girl?
In Stockton California there was a community we had called little Manila which was a huge Filipino community in San Joaquin County. PBS even did a documentary about it too.
The owl Stockton’s Little Manila is being kept alive today!
Here in Mexico we have "Mango de Manila" (Manila mango), and it is the only country in the Americas (that I know of) that have this mango species.
Thnks to labuyo chili, it's deliciouzo,haha
the philippines popular national fruit is mango. our country is known to have very sweet mangoes hence we deem it as our de facto national fruit that we proudly export
I am so grateful Mexico is south of the border because they've been producing so many good exotic fruits for sell
The Spanish friars and early Mexicans who came to the Philippines as part of the Spanish government, brought with them maize, camote. cassava, cacao, tobacco, guyabano, balimbing, avocad and many exotic fruits not that are not native to Asia. Pampanga's kare-kare (peanut sauce stew) is originally a Mexican native dish.
well trade you tequila for Manny pacquiao! he's done!
Many Asians migrated into Western Coasts of Americas for a better life.
What is your point? People all over the world immigrated to USA for a better lifer!
that is true! my aunt is japanese. Making my cousins half swedish half japanese
You don't say.
I said the Western Coast :) No point, just an affirmation
Knowledgia in LA and LA county we have a few pockets of pinay and pinoy communities carson long beach north east of down town LA , diamond bar etc..
One of the first settlers of Los Angeles was a Filipino.
badlongon proof?
He was a gunsmith.
But has to stop in Laredo due to his sick daughter. He later completed the journey to the Pueblo and was reassigned to Santa Barbara
Im from las anglos your comment is fake you probably a filipino i have a filipino name veecause im half
Antonio Miranda is from the Philippinea but not a filipino by ethnicity. Filipino term then is someone from the Philippine Islands. Antonio Miranda is pure spanish by blood born in the Philippines (insulares)
Such a great video! Im a first generation hawaii born filipino.
Very much identify as American, only fluent in English. I'm very much connected to the land I was born in, but this video really helped me to get in touch and appreciate my filipino identity and background. Such a rich and tragic history our people have. Yet some of the most kind and hospitable people on the planet.
I recently did an Ancestry DNA kit and found out half of my ancestry comes from southern China! Other half comes from northern Luzon. Always thought I had some Spanish with the last name Salvador, but nope. None at all.
Just want to say great video again! I really learned so much about my Filipinos in America.
Love from Hawaii❤
According to National Geographic, the average Filipino is 53% Southeast Asian/Oceanian, 36% East Asian, 5% Southern European, 3% South Asian (Indian), 2% Native American (likely from Latin American migrants)
genographic.nationalgeographic.com/reference-populations-next-gen/
Miri M why do they have Native American DNA?
Latin Americans (especially Mexican) came to the Philippines too, and they're mixed with Native American and Spanish, sometimes African too
Miri M yep im 6% African 44% Native American 45% European(Sicilian and Spanish)
How is Native philipinos related or similar to Native Americans'?
If your findings are true... I LOVE IT!!!
because the Philippines was administered by Mexico, it was essentially another province of Mexico for 200 years. Mexicans came back and forth from the Philippines and some settled their permanently. So thats where the Native American blood in Filipinos comes from
Filipinos the only Americans who were unAmericaned.
So many manongs came to the U.S. with the ideals of America that their teachers taught them. Only to be faced with the early 20th century racism mixed with the economic downturn that came with the great depression. Having fought with their fellow Americans in World War II, and the home islands suffering under occupation, the general opinion of the Filipino changed. But the oligarchy who wanted to solidify their control still looked forward to immigration, and with GA MacArthur present, independence of the Philippines took place on 4 July 1946.
Yet even until today, in the Philippines, Filipinos still have a high opinion of the United States, and the lucky thousands a year continue to immigrate to the United States. 20% of nurses in California are FilAms. When multiracial FilAms are taken into account Pinoys and Pinays are the second largest Asian American ethnicity in the Nation. Many continue to serve in the U.S. Navy, as their forefathers did generations before (who established large FilAm communities near military bases).
I always bring Filipino food to American parties. I hope one day I don’t have to explain it anymore. Things like pansit, lumpia and adobo will be known by everyone.
and Halo-halo and Puto bung-bong too. :)
Adobo and leche pan is a common menu in some parts of Alaska.
Your lack of Sisig and Caldereta disturb me beyond comprehension
Chef Rafi's Awesome World they already know what those food items are.. they just don't understand what filipino call those food items. it's just egg roll, noodles and soy sauce chicken
I'm rather curious, travel reviews describe Filipino food as bland or bad. What could have been their basis?
Lived in Daly City, and can confirm, Filipinos took over that place, theres like a filipino restaurant in every other block.
COOL896 lol, Union City too
GregJ 0331 I call Union City “La Union City”.
They’ve been there forever
The fog originates from the nightly starting of the families rice cookers. Or so it is said.
Here in the Philippines i think the Chinese immigrants almost took every filipino stores businesses and real estate in the city of paranaque I guess
This channel needs more recognition. Great content!
The Filipino American flag looks a little like Malaysian flag
Malaysian flag is a rip off of US flag
it also looks kinda like the puerto rican flag. and it also looks like the kind of flag 51st statist filipinos in american colonial period wanted for the philippines
According to historians, the design of the original Philippine flag is based on the Cuban flag.
I agree with your premise - that the "revolutionarios" took inspiration from Cuban independence movement.
Muhammad Mujaddid Harahap no that shit is bland, it does not show us Malaysia at all we have all kind of colour and bullshit here.
Filipino American here! Great video!
yall fought for the confederates. You don't have the right to call yourself American.
@@Regalman you're not holier than thou. Why don't you look at yourself in the mirror first before you start pointing fingers at others? I'm sure you have some demons you don't want anyone knowing about.
Long live philippines.
the greater philippine reich will ascend as glorious master race huehuehuehuehuehuehueuehueeueheuehuiasdkafdafdfadsf
Master race
No
Mabuhay ang Haringbayan/Maharlika
Viva la Filipinas
You forgot to mention Washington's a native American Nooksack tribe with many filipino members.
Bullshit now you ruined my day.....i googled it you liar
They did not lie. Along the border between British Columbia and Washington state some Filipinos were accepted to a 1st nation native Indian reserve. They in fact became very mixed in with the band. They became like a mafia gang. IN VANCOUVER Canada there is a huge Filipino population. IN Canada there is just under 1 million. FILIPINOS. Toronto has around 350 000 in the area
@@jmtejada8290 bruh don't always trust google because sometimes they are wrong
Wow. I'm a Filipino and never heard of this in our history class. Glad you made this video! Thanks.
It wasn't that much of a stretch considering that the first trans pacific trade known as the Manila-Acapulco Galleon was already in place before the thirteen colonies comprising the US declared her independence from British Empire. It's not just the goods that are exchanged but also the people on both sides of the Pacific and who would have known where the Filipinos could have ended up in the New World.
Absent ka kasi.
@@LarginMoralesIgnacio hahaha prang ganun na nga.
My first duty station in the Corps was Subic Bay. Filipinos are awesome people and scary quiet.
why we scary quiet? i like peace and quiet
Sorry for the vague statement. I was referring to how quiet Filipinos are while walking in the jungle. I used to spend weeks in the jungle looking for people infiltrating the base and we would often get surprised by Filipinos walk up on us. I was lost in thought when I made the post but didn't relate the full thought to the post. No Filipinos are just as verbally loud as everyone else and are some of the happiest people I've met.
densealloy
*smirks*
We were not called as the best anti guerilla army in the cold war for nothing(If its in the jungle, we suck in other scenarios)
One of the reasons is probably how the traditional Filipino culture is very keen to and conservative.
DenseAlloy i was boutta say😂😂
Filipinos are the loudest people I know
Florida also has a sizable Filipino community, particularly around Jacksonville. Filipinos make up a decent-size portion of the U.S. military personnel. Jacksonville is a military city. The Tidewater region of Virginia, same case.
Very well researched, documented and narrated. Thank you.
Very interesting! My father used to tell me stories of how Filipinos migrated to the US long before the US existed. He also told me the story of Filipino navigators who were the first to circumnavigate the the globe not Magellan. I don’t know if that’s true? He also told me the story of how my grandfather fought in Europe in world war 1 and fought against the Japanese in WW2. My father told me how one of his brothers used to travel to Hawaii all the time without a passport. I always thought he was just making up stories.
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I used to believe that it was a Filipino that circumnavigated the globe too. Magellan had a Malay slave whom was later known as Enrique who was probably the first to sail around the planet but he was most likely ethnic Malay. When Magellan arrived in Cebu, Enrique was used as an interpreter with the Cebuanos but they most likely spoke in Old Malay which was the lingua franca and not Cebuano.
Well, Magellan died before completing his journey...
F. OPE
Magellan came close to completing it though, he actually went to Malacca in the Malay peninsula a decade before he went to the Philippines. He got Enrique as a slave from Malacca. I guess he got there through the Indian Ocean.
Enrique was a malaysian/indonesian since he came from malacca and sumatra but we never know maybe he was a visiting lucoes described by the portuguese to have come from the philippines but at this point he was brought by magellan on his voyage around the globe in hopes of translating but when they reached mactan around cebu. old bisaya cebuano was probably close enough and related enough to old malacca malay under the austronesian language family that they understood each other enough. enrique was probably not the main leading navigator but sebastian elcano who was a spanish basque navigator who took over after portuguese magellan died in mactan around cebu
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Not sure about the Filipino part, but an Austronesian (Malay-Polynesian) being the first to circumnavigate the world is very plausible. In fact many years ago I heard that there was a doctoral student who was working on his thesis that our forbears actually accomplished this feat as they were master navigators.
It used to be a dead giveaway that if you meet a person with predominantly Asian features but had a Spanish-sounding surname, that person was sure to be Filipino or of Filipino descent.
True
whata re asian features?
@@jmgonzales7701 Good question (Asia is HUGE after all), I guess I meant South East Asian or East Asian features. Back in the pre-Google days when I saw Paolo Montalban for the first time in Brandy's Cinderella, I just _knew_ he was Filipino because of his features and name. It didn't get confirmed until a few weeks later when he came up on the local papers (about Cinderella)
@@lunatickgeo its also interesting that sometimes we get lumped in with latinos as some central americans have more native features compared to spanish features. Me for example currently did a dna test and found out i have zero spanish blood but have higher melanesian blood and chinese
You nailed it. I learned so much about my Filipino heritage from this video. Thanks man
Fascinating! I got a DNA test back that showed 1.5% Southeast asian from the 1700's. This is helping me connect the dots!
I went to the Museo de las Californias in TJ last month and I saw a very interesting display on the trans-pacific slave trade that was created during the height of the Spanish Empire in the Baja California region. the major port that ran the trade was in Acapulco and it ran between there and the Philippines.
The Spanish brought smallpox to the New world which decimated the native populations so they brought workers from Asia to supplement the work force
via the Manila galleons.
Love the Philippines and Filipino people.
I do wish you would've given credit to Stockton as a center of Filipino Heritage.
I'm a Filipino, and i watch almost all your videos :) keep doing what you do :) .
Filipino women are easily some of the most beautiful in the world imo.
Igor Kolosha indeed!! they are the pearls of southeast asia!
F.D. Ofcourse. Filipinos are short. Im only 5’5, which i think is an average height. Idk bout women tho. How tall are u?
well it's obvious with how many titles they have in international pageants
@Darren Walsh So half-blooded Filipnos are neither Filipinos nor American or German or Swedish?
@Julian Zehf Gloria Diaz, and Margie Moran-Floirendo are not half-white. Gemma Cruz was not half-white.. The Philippines currently has six Miss International crowns, four Miss Earth crowns, four Miss Universe crowns, and one Miss World crown.
Many beauty pageant winners from other countries also were not "pure" in the sense you're talking about.
*_Wow,_* I did not know that people of Filipino descent have had such an impact on early American history! 😲😲😲
May I use this video in a reaction video.I will give proper credit and leave your link.
Filipinos didn't help "colonize" America. Many of them started to migrate to America after the Spanish American War when the Philippines was liberated from Spanish Colonization. There's a difference between Colonization and Migration. I also met a lot of People from the Philippines and they're some of the sweetest most wonderful People around, they're not the Imperialistic Type.
Roman Parisian somewhat they did. Did you understand the Spanish Lousiana topic?
Mika Hakkinen the Spanish brought that Land from the French and they colonized it forcing their way of Life on the Natives. Do you understand the difference between Migration and Colonization?
Ryan Lajara yes there were, Louisiana and those other Regions were already inhabited by Indigenous People and French Colonizers. The Filipinos simply migrated as they didn't force their way of Life onto the Native Population. There's a difference between Migration and Colonization.
Roman Parisian yes. At first they migrated but in the long run, they pledege their allegiance with the United States against the British forces.
Mika Hakkinen but they didn't force their way of Life on the Native Populations.
While more of modern US history, it is astonishing that a pivotal figure in the California farmer labour movement in the 60s and the Delano Grape Strike was Filipino (Larry Itliong) is unknown even amongst Filipinos where as Cesar Chavez became like the Martin Luther King of Chicanos. The United Farm Workers that was made famous by Chavez was actually a merger of Chavez’s group and Itliong’s.
... Martin Luther King Jr. is the Martin Luther King Jr. of Chicanos. He didn't just fight for African Americans; he fought for all non-whites. Cesar Chavez mainly fought for better working conditions for farm workers not diminishing anything he did but he was fighting more for people working out in the fields.
One thing that is less well known is how many Filipinos are in rural areas of the US. Many nurses and doctors were recruited from the Philippines to go to rural areas since there was a shortage of medical personnel with interest in going to rural areas. If you go to places as diverse as southern Illinois or Alabama, you will find filipino doctors in small towns.
Since we are in the Americas, I suggest you do a video on the Scandinavians in the Americas.
Levis. H good idea!
Levis. H Not sure what part of America you live, but I've met a lot more Nordic descended Americans than Slavic.
brian mureverwi
My cousin Filipino was stationed in Scandinavia. He went back to the US this one Scandinavian girl followed him and never left him. She cooked better Filipino foods than I do.
Thanks for thore video! Great work! I know it's a really tough job and might take months even years, but I hope there's a video in the works for the makeup of the Philippine islands themselves since there are so many different groups there. That would be super interesting.
Filipinos are one of the misunderstood Races of all😂😂😂.., some people will call us hispanic due to Spanish colonization, some call us Chinese because of Chinese immigration, some call us a westernized nation due to americans. But little did they knew before the spaniards arrived during 1500s. Philippines is a fluoreshing Culture and has alot of seperated kingdoms from Luzon, visayas and Mindanao, The Tagalogs has their own kingdom, the Visayan people has their own too, mindanao has a unique kingdom also. Additional info Philippines has a writing system too tagalogs used baybayin, visayans used badlit and Mindanao. Filipino People are only seperated with their mother tongues when You asked me what place i came from. When i tell you im an Ilonggo people will know you came from an island of visayas. Or when you answer im an Igorot you are from the Mountain province. Thats how we know people in the Philippines.
One of the factor that some other races confused about Filipinos it because it diverse on which is truly identically that's why
only western people have that kind of misunderstanding. Everyone knows we are southeast asian.
@@baconph2578 its not as diverse as you think many are just southeast asian. The reason why some of us look central American is because the natives of the Americas came from asia. We have similar ancestors and they are also tanned just like us. But in reality the only people who are confused are westerners mainly Americans.
@@baconph2578 Philippines is ethno lingustically diverse but not racially diverse, its mostly homogenous unlike countries like Singapore and Malaysia.
I demand the Phillpines give me reparations NOW!!! I'm like 1/1000th Inuit, I'm basically indigenous.
flyingkoopa45 how much do you want??? 😂😂😂
Wrong group who owns the US not the Filipinos.
Thank you very mich for this very informative video! More power to your channel and God bless! 😊 🇵🇭
Thank you this was most enlightening. An aspect of our Diaspora that a native austronesian Filipino did not know. Your research is admirable.
8:44 This photo is not of Alaska. The railroad car in the background is of the Great Northern Railway which ran between Minneapolis/St Paul, MN and Seattle, WA. This type of car is used for accommodation of track maintenance workers and would stay on the Great Northern Railway lines.
eyesay I have added you to my mortal enemies list.
Stalking Horse that is an interesting response...
Big Bang Theory reference?
Wow.....an impressive summation of Filipino migration......you’ve certainly done your homework.
The term " Filipino(s) did not exist from earlier years under the Spanish. They were known as Indios..
You mean Stupid
Hi Masaman, I really like your videos. You give so much details about the history and race. Just like your many viewers, I learn a lot. Please make a video of the interracial exchange between Filipinos and Latin America, specifically Mexico during Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade which lasted for hundreds of years. It was the first and only transport system that connected Asia and the great American continent. I’d like to know how many Filipinos came to Mexico and as well as Mexicans and American Indians came to the Philippines espeially in the Visayas. I believe I have indian/mexican ancestry. I’m really fascinated by the courage of these men to sail for many months and leave their families. They were the trailblazers towards building a great Asian-American relationship.
According to the chart you gave at 3:30 I am a Tornatras? eh...
Anyways here are some pronunciation tips I can give to you:
Mindanao= Min duh now
Tagalog= taGAlog Stress on the second syllable
Thanks for the great video!
yeah the tornatras was not so many before that it was an exotic sight in the spanish colonial period but very much loved
same here...very similar to tortillas
i dont know why i havent subscribed yet. you are pretty knowledgeable of my nation for someone who isnt one.
Filipinos in America -
Here is a facts: Oct. 18, 1587: First Documented Arrival of Filipinos in (what became) the United States of America by way of a Spanish galleon, that docked at what is now Morro Bay, California.
The Pilgrim: Mayflower arrived in New England on November 11, 1620.
Therefore, The Filipinos were in America 33 years before the Pilgrims came to settle in Plymouth Massachusetts.
Here is another facts:
The arrival of Filipinos to Alaska dates back to 1788, when crew from merchant ships came to trade furs with the natives. Eventually, whaling ships brought still more Filipino crews. Many settled and married women of the Aleut, Eskimo and Tlingit tribes.
The United States bought Alaska from Russia March 30, 1867
Therefore, Filipinos were in Alaska 80 years before the United States purchased Alaska.
More facts: The First Asian American Settlement Was Established by Filipino Fishermen. The fishing village in marshlands of present-day Louisiana was settled by the so-called Manilamen as early as 1763.
Through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, United States bought Louisiana from France.
Therefore, Filipinos were settled in Louisiana 40 years before the United States acquired Louisiana from Napoleon Bonaparte.
These facts are not taught to anyone but YOU! BE PROUD!
Because they're such obscure facts that doesn't change anything when talking about the wide scale of US history, they barely taught us about Leif Erikson and the Vikings that beat Christopher Columbus to North America by like 400 years.
Thank you for this video. I've learned so much in all your videos! Keep em coming!
Actually, Tagalog was not widely spoken prior to the Spanish conquest. Tagalog was just the dialect of the Manila region, and as the Spaniards made Manila the capital of their island possessions, Tagalog came to be the national language.
Guitar Music More people spoke Visayan than Tagalog before the appointment of Tagalog
LOL I’m in this video @ 9:33. Thanks for the info!!
You should do a video on the aboriginal peoples of Australia.
San Diego has a significant community of Filipino people. I loved this video
Good job man very thorough and interesting Cheers
Great video! Filipinos have inspired me so much. I will live there one day, and start my charity to give back to the generous pinoys.
Both my grandma and grandpa mother side is INSULARES full blooded spanish italian but born in the philippines. Monforte y Alvarado
Hi, my name Titiana. I’m from New Orleans. My families are from New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish, and other parts in Louisiana. ....Did u have family who are from New Orleans or other parts in Louisiana? ... Well... Anyways, on my dad side, his family are Louisiana Creolés as “free of color”. He told me that he is part Black (African), part French, part a amount of Spanish, part Irish, part Native American (*Chickasaw indian tribe, and unknown other Indian tribes) and others that we not sure what they mixed with something else). My dad mother family are Creoles, and her people look tiny a like Mexicans but they’re not mixed with “part Mexican decent” but they’re mixed with “part Spanish descent” and “African, French, Irish and Native American” decent. My dad mother families last name “Vance.”
Thank You for this wonderful video!
What's interesting about the local Chinese population is how assimilated they are. Jose P. Rizal was Chinese. The last President and the current President Duterte is off Chinese descent. Heck, even I'm off Chinese descent.
We are so assimilated that majority of us can't speak Hokkien (Fujian Dialect). Anyone younger than 30 who says they can is kidding themselves and can probably only speak Hokkien words on top of a Filipino base. For our first language, we actually speak the local language (dialect) of where we are from. In my case, I speak Cebuano. People of Chinese descent from Negros will speak Illonggo while those born in Manila will speak Tagalog. The same holds true for Filipinos of Indian, Eurasian or Blasian descent.
I have also Chinese and Spanish blood. Spanish blood from my mother's side and Chinese blood from my Dad's side, my great grandfather by Dad's side was from 北京 and my great grand grandfather by Mom's side was Spanish
My surname might indicate that I have Chinese ancestry too but none from my father side identifies as such. They are Kapampangan speaking people from Pampanga and identifies as Kapampangan.
Michel Etienne Sartre
Yeah that's true, I think most of the pre-colonial and colonial Chinese married to the local population and assimilated and only the post-independence Chinese retained their Chinese identity
Kantotson
Drive Boy
If the Spanish and Americans never came, do you think we would be more Chinese or more Islamic? Maybe if the Chinese did dominate, local Filipinos might just become Sinicized like the Vietnamese instead of becoming a Chinese island like Taiwan.
Awesome video.....and very educational... I was one of those Alaskero's working in the Canary processing salmon and salmon eggs to be shipped to Japan... I was in my "high school years" when I would go to Alaska to work during my 'summer off from school" and would come back in time for school to start again....so I never had a summer break like most "American kids" did during high school...but I did not regret any of the time spent working in Alaska because I was able to help my parents so they do not need to spend money on things I needed for school.....I had money from when I use to work in the Canary in Alaska and that was enough for me to last throughout the year and I would repeat the process again the following year. This was in King Cove....travel to Cold Bay then to Sand Point and after Sand Point....board a fishing boat on to King Cove Alaska....that's how we were brought to work in Alaska in the fisheries canning industry. I remember Mam Maggie, she was a "native of Alaska" in King Cove and she was a wonderful lady.....she has since past away....but she was the "sweetest lady" that was not a Filipino but she loved being with Filipino people. King Cove is a beautiful place.
who do filipinos often marry in alaska?
Filipinos are the most diverse culture and resilient race living in west and east of the world. The colonialization of Filipinos in America is due to galleon trade during 16th century era. They were people who jumpship in the harbor escaping the horror of Spanish Merchant Traders.
And they ended up in Louisiana...
wow. you really did do a lot of research in your video. liked!
There was no Filipinas before 1571. It was a group of islands with many different nations, many different languages, even if ethnically Malay. Filpinas was created as an Spanish colony by Legazpi, who founded Manila and called the new colony, Filipinas in honor of the King of Spain Felipe II. Spanish colonization is also the reason why most of them are Catholic instead of Muslim (like in Indonesia) and the reason why they have Spanish last names, and eat Spanish dishes like paella.
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Something to check
thank god spain saved us from that fate like Indonesia
Thank you!! So well done, as always.
Islam was established in the Philippines for more than a century before the Spaniards came. The Spanish did not stop the spread of Islam but forced the people to accept Catholicism just like the Spanish Moors, hence the term Moro. We had Hinduism, Buddhism but predominantly Islam even before the Portuguese and Spanish arrived.
Correction: Islam was also forced on the filipino population.
I suggest you read about "Principalía"... spaniards described people in the Philippines were Hinduism and Buddhism culture.
THE OLD RELIGION PHILIPPINES is BUDDHISM and HINDUISM.
13 CENTURY ISLAM
15 CENTURY CHRISTIAN ✝️
Kinda false, while we did have hinduism, Buddhism and even Islam those religions were very dotted. Meaning most people didn't practice those religions, instead most filipinos were Pagans and due to us being more pagan it was easier for the Spanish to convert us to catholicsm.
As a Filipino, i know there might be a slim chance or none at all that i descended from a spanish since my last name comes from my American great-great paternal grandfather. But my grandfather is yet to tell me anything about his grandfather
Good grief, didn't know much that Metro NOLA had such of my kind there.
revin hatol Do you mean Metro Manila?
No.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_metropolitan_area
When I clicked the "Newest first" on the sort by button on the comments I was shocked by all the hateful and often absurdly stupid comments. I'm a white American from the L.A. area in Calif. but now live in the Philippines very much because they are the sweetest, nicest people I have ever met and if I may be so blessed I hope to find one special filapina to be my beautiful asawa. Thousands of girls here are just as beautiful as Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2015.
im curious to click the button , but dont want to as i may get dragged into a debate again , it wastes my time so much LOL , also im filipino , greetings and good luck in the Philippines.
One more thing most of us are bilingual or even multilingual since it's basically a necessity to learn english here, we learn tagalog since it's what most people learn to speak and they're native language.
For me I know english tagalog bisaya and kapangpangan
If we have Spanish class today, that would be superb. Like duh, we speak for the world.
Love your channel!! Keep posting more videos like this ❤❤
Theres a few families in my hometown in AK. Pay-o's is the best place to go in my hometown for a quick lunch and it's all Filipino/Chinese-american food.
Great video !!!
“Tag Along” lol..
jln that’s what happen
jln Tagalog means “taga ilog”
Very Interesting Info... Thanx Duder! :)
Finally!!!! Someone telling truth of our close relationship with America, it's about effing time damn it!!!
Could you also do a video on the people groups native to Alaska? I'm particularly interested in whether there was any pre-columbian contact between the Yupiks of western Alaska and the native Siberians on the other side of the straight?
We have Filipino Settlers way before America Annex California.
Not sure but have you covered the Chinese in the Caribbean; the Japanese in Peru; the Koreans in Nicaragua - Asians in the Americas.
filipinos were 1st asian in America becuz of Manila Galleon Trade.. most sailors were 1 spaniard the rest were filipinos.
*VIDEO SUGGESTION: What if the two Bengals (West Bengal and Bangladesh) were united?*
Saiful Islam not going to happen
All well said gandos and gandas hehehe
You are indians not bingals whatsoever even pakistan u belongs to indians ithnicity
Little Stockton would've been nice to mention . Love your work
Filipinos are very stubborn and resilient people. Heck they can probably repopulate the north poles with the proper funding. Out of all the big countries colonized by Spain, Philippines is the only one that retain their native Austronesian Language compared to the countries in South America.
we retianed our native languages because the Spanish did not bother teaching us their language, only the mestizos and the insulares spoke Spanish
Another great vid. Keep it up.
Are you going region by region or ....
Good video. Keep up the good work!
I knew a lot of Filipinos most of them spoke spanish and hung out with us Hispanics.most of the time we call them Hispanics as well
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Ok but most Filipinos are not Hispanic, we are too different from you to qualify as such.
Jc Dizon Filipinos Are Hispanic
YouCan'tAlwaysGet WhatYouWant
No we're not... Filipinos are Hispanicized but our culture is too different from the Latin Americans/Spaniards to qualify as real Hispanics. Latin American culture is Spanish dominated and most people identify with the Spanish but Filipinos are still Asian. Philippine culture has strong Spanish influence but the people are still speaking their own languages instead of Spanish. I don't think most Latin Americans would accept us as one of them anyway.
Drive Boy You know that 1. Many languages are spoken in Latin America, not only Spanish, and 2. People have different ethnic origins in Latin America, including actual Japanese, right?
I knew a lot of Filipinos, most of them spoke Mandarin and hung out with us Chinese.
You did a good research on this.
I like filipinos because they have european christian culture.
Kis_Kócos és az Impotens Repülő Spagetti Szörny I don't think thier culture is Christian European culture but thier culture is Christian for sure
In some parts of the islands they still speak Spanish, which is pretty cool and their names sound somehwhat Spanish too.
We're not really European culture wise. We're predominantly Christian true but I'd say that's where the similarities end.
Kis_Kócos és az Impotens Repülő Spagetti Szörny , you mean like the crucifixion re-enactments? Filipinos are way more religious than Europeans.
It's Spanish-influenced, but I wouldn't consider Filipinos as a Hispanic group or Westerners like I would with Latin Americans.
They were 'exempt' from the Chinese exclusion act.
Not 'excluded from the Chinese exclusion act'.
Sounds weird, but also, those that weren't exempt were not exactly 'included'.
Otherwise, thanks for the very informative video. I had no idea these two nations were so deeply entrenched!
Some here in the Philippines do believed that hawaii was a part of the kingdom of ancient philippines.
many asia pacific islands are belong to Maharlika empire before spanish colonization.. they have common languages in that places like tagalog or commonly known as astronecian language..
There is no such thing as a kingdom that unites the Philippines, especially when it is an archipelago. Hawaii is too far for it to be possibly a part of the Philippines. It's a nice theory I guess? But a theory that can be easily debunked.
@@covertfeelings8330 more of chiefdoms/rajahnate/sultanates...also as part of the Spanish East Indies the territory from Caroline Islands expanded only until Palau...
Nevermind, it's a bullshit theory that's a political propaganda
Hello. Fellow 2024 civilian here. Can confirm that there are still many Filipinos in the Bay Area. Mabuhay.
I see Philippines I Like!
King of the Philippines we must kill em drug adicts
LOL
#DU30
@@peter_the_adventurer not annex COLONIZE america
good job sir...
They first jumpshipped and stayed in 1700 in Louisianna bayous and introduced raised house on stilts.
Do a video about Scandinavians in America
A sense of history very well explained.
3:21 I'll take 1 Tornatras. On the go, please.
Oh, wait. I thought this was a coffee and drinks menu.