I am a Moroccan who was always interested in the history of judaism but I became even more when I learned that my family were sephardic jews who converted to islam during some harsh and powerful dynesties like the Almohad. They were andalusian merchants who then migrated to the city of Fès. In order to assimilate and keep their economic power, they translated their family name "Berda" to Berrada. I made a genetic test and I have very similar result to Morccan jews
@raeli731 thanks hahaha 😂. Unfortunately I cant make my alya because genetic test can help if you have a family member already living there, but my best wishes are always there for this beautiful nation
@@Koleshathere’s nothing satanic about being Jewish. We are all fellow believers in a faith of the book. We don’t need to be so separated, we all believe in many of the same ideals.
@@gyllenspetzfamily7993 it’s the Kingdom of Yugoslavia’s flag I believe. Since Montenegro and Bosnia technically speak Serbo-Croatian Sam could’ve used either of those too for the funny effect.
I love these surveys every year. You can see I'm only one out of the 7 viewers from Yorkshire, England. Sheffield to be exact, and I've promoted your channel to other Jews here but I can't say how many actually watch your videos.
Each year your first language flags become more and more deranged As a statistics nerd, I have been YEARNING for this video to come out ever since I took the survey
As someone who was born into a Yankees family but became a Red Sox fan because they’re the de facto anti Yankees team (I was an annoyingly contrarian kid) I felt very called out.
As someone whose family first came to emigrated to Chicago, and grew up in Humboldt Park, I could not agree more with your sentiments on Jerry Reinsdorf.
I think it's a pretty solid testament to Sam's journalistic and academic integrity that his audience is so politically diverse. I think it's great that we all have something meaningful to gain from this channel.
Hey I am the only P.E.I Canadian. That’s super cool. Thank you for the great videos. PS 2:26 the way you say Nunavut is New knee vooot. Thanks for the in-depth analysis.
Adamant Québécois non-jewish francophone fan! Not only have I watched every vid, I've probably gone through the whole Sam Aronow library + Elections Israel *quite a few times*. Proud to Patreon support when I'm able, and proud to rec your channel whenever I come across UA-cam-pilled History nerds (more often than you'd expect, you just gotta get them going on Roman Empire stuff and they self-report). Cheers Sam, thanks for sharing the survey results with us every year, and keep up the good work.
@@dorol6375 I thought you were saying “What about Israel” as in the country, not Israel Railways. I didn’t know he had a channel about rail transport in Israel.
Jeez, I only found out about the channel in July, so I was late for the survey. Greetings from Peru, I am from a Christian family but of Sephardic Jewish origin.
Time zone differences are sometimes baffling to me in their effects. I know why they must exist, but it’s probably a testament to how interconnected the world is.
Sam about the Baseball question, WE JUST MENTIONED NAMES OF TEAMS THAT WERE FAMILIAR TO US! Do you think anyone of us really knows something about baseball?! You wouldn't ask a Southern European about Canadian hokey teams... virtually all baseball fans in Israel are American Jews. NYY logo is just a common merchandise. Do you think every kid with Juventus logo on his backpack has any connections to the team? Foreigns has merchandise of Beitar all the time without knowing what it is.
Love your channel! As a Jew from Montreal, the majority (but of course not all) of us actually speak English as a first language and not French. Sadly, Montreal's Jewish population has been consistently decreasing over the past few decades because more and more of us have left for Ontario and other places.
I would love to participate next year! I believe I found your channel this year, I binged everything and now I'm a regular viewer. Thank you for the work you do, and stay safe
Montreal is surprisingly french. i also thought like you, but, there are a lot of french only, or extremely limited english, type french speakers. i love you
Huh. I’ve not been to Montréal yet, but I imagined monoglots mostly being in the old mining towns (i.e. what I imagine Quebec to be like outside of Montréal and Québec City).
I dont remember the exact framing of the religion question, but i think some form of personal belief and religion they were raised in is a good idea. But religion can get so complicated so quickly that you might want to reach out to Religion for Breakfast about how to ask that sort of question in a survey. And there's the none religious but spiritual crowd.
Mets fan here. Red Sox above the Mets surprised me, not seen as a Jewish fanbase at all. Because the Mets play on Long Island I've always thought of them as the most Jewish fanbase in the MLB and all of American sports. Fwiw, I live in Atlanta, among Braves fans, but inherited the fandom from my family from Long Island. LFGM!💙🧡
I wish you asked for immigration status and country of birth. It would be interesting to have a plot of Jews doing aliyah, Israelis doing yeridah, and to see how otherwise your mostly Jewish viewership migrates from one country to another.
It is interesting that you wrote the city as "Washington", because some of the zip codes included in Washington also fit into areas such as Chevy Chase, Fort McNair, and the Pentagon area. While Washington is the city name, it would probably be more accurate to classify it as D.C. if you are deriving from zip codes. Most people refer to it as DC anyways.
@@Spearca It is, but this list is _just_ of cities proper, not metro areas. Metro areas were ranked as such: 1. 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv-Center (158) 2. 🇺🇸 New York/Tri-State (162) 3. 🇺🇸 Baltimore-Washington (75) 4. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles/Southland (68) 5. 🇬🇧 London Commuter Belt (60) 6. 🇮🇱 Haifa Metro (57) 7. 🇺🇸 Greater Boston (56) 8. 🇺🇸 Chicagoland (43) 9. 🇺🇸 SF Bay Area (42) 10. 🇮🇱 Jerusalem Province (37) 11. 🇨🇦 Greater Toronto (36) 12. 🇺🇸 Delaware Valley (34) 13. 🇩🇪 Greater Berlin (23) 13. 🇦🇺 Melbourne (23)
@@SamAronow Gotcha. Curiously, "Washington," as in the seat of government, is even smaller than DC, despite parts of it being exclaves, not in the district at all. I used to work in Washington, live in DC.
@@SamAronow I'm speaking there of the colloquial local usage, referring to culture not jurisdiction. "DC" is the (substantially black) non-governmental actual permanent city that surrounds the (mostly white) public business and transient residences of "Washington." Some years ago I could have showed you the exact curb in Northeast where I crossed from the latter to the former on my way home.
Around 10 percent spoke Hebrew as a first language but more than 11 percent were from Israel, maybe because of Israeli Arabs? Always a lower Israeli percent than I'd expect and a way higher German one especially considering their aren't many Jews in Germany. Most people in Israel have pretty bad English IMO as a guy who lives here so maybe that's part of the reason too.
German speaking people are generally overrepresented on UA-cam and especially on English language content. Same goes for Dutch and Scandinavian audiences. Affluent audiences with enough English fluency and interest in anglophone topics.
What is the langues' flags? It pissed me off to see the British mandate flag next to Hebrew then I realized you you used old flags for all the languages. xD
Sam, you asked israelis to choose a group for a sport which the average israeli knows only one player from, and that player is bugs bunny. I implore you to ask about basketball next and see how much more diverse the answers will be, yet still with the east groups/ winners at the time favored .
@@SamAronow As an Israeli, I can personally say that I picked the mets only because I know an American Jew from NYC by way of discord who absolutely adored them. I couldn't betray him like that
When I visited Quebec City a couple years ago, I actually encountered quite a few people who spoke almost no English, it was a small minority but still enough to somewhat surprise me. The situation amongst the Quebecois Jewish community may be different, but I don't know how safe your assumption that "virtually all of them also speak English" is.
American baseball fan here: Jerry Reinsdorf and John Fisher are two very wealthy billionaire owners of baseball teams who barely invest any money at all into their teams, resulting in these teams being very bad and their fans being very upset. More specifically, the White Sox just had arguably the worst baseball season of all time (they went 41-121, yes they lost 121 games) and John Fisher is trying to move the *Oakland* Athletics to Las Vegas (but for now they're playing in Sacramento) But I don't know what's going on with Lars Ulrich. I think he's the drummer for Metallica but I don't know what his connection is to the Astros
Interesting seeing the split of the dual city teams and how the Angels get absolutely walloped by the Dodgers instead, other than probably being the team that has the least market share of its city Orange County as more WASPish, Koufax and latent Brooklyn sympathies possibly a reason? On that note, it would be interesting to see it asked about football clubs to see if there’s anything at all behind the “Jewish clubs” stereotypes
Orange County is a big place and it certainly isn't the WASP enclave that it was 30 years ago. It's _very_ Asian and Hispanic. Furthermore the Angels' fan area extends into the Inland Empire.
2:40 I've lived in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal and I will say that I think almost every jew I've known had either lived in Québec or had parents/grandparents from there and whenever they immigrated to Canada they immigrated to Québec first and then later moved elsewhere in the country.
@SamAronow that makes sense. Also I'm curious since I can't remember if I answered the survey, where there any Sikhs that answered the religion question? And if so, were there now than one?
Since the largest share of your subscribers are from 2000 or 2002, most of them are graduating from 5 and 4 (respectively) year courses, so it's logical you're getting more graduates in your survey
I remember it asked for 'nominal' religion, in spite of your level of observance, similar to how many Jewish people perceive religion. I self-identify as an atheist, but in that survey I said I was a Protestant Christian (since I celebrate Christmas and Easter).
Jew from Montreal (currently living in Victoria BC) 🙋♂️To my knowledge the Jews of Quebec have been historically anglophone in Montreal (where nearly all of Quebec’s Jews live.) So Jews from Quebec diving into your English language programming doesn’t surprise me at all. British Columbia being so goyish but also into your channel is very surprising though!
Actually watched this in the morning but forgot to comment 1. I voted for the Blue Jays because I have a ball of theirs since I was like 8-10 and I have no Idea why I have this, another random thing I have is a Vermont Flag... I have never been to nor do I know any Vermonter 2. Anyways I noticed an Increase for Haifa so that's cool
There was a survey?! Crap, I would’ve loved to submit my answers. Might as well do it now lol: Year of Birth: 2005 Country: USA State: Ohio First language: English Gender: Cis man Sexuality: Heterosexual Education: High School Military service: None Religion: Agnostic, which would probably fall into None Experience with Jews: No personal experience Political Ideology: Liberal, but highly sympathetic to Social Democracy as well Found channel: 2024 Can’t say much more, love your vids!
Given that homosexual men outnumber bisexual men in the general population, and that your viewer base is overwhelmingly male, it's interesting that bisexuals are so overrepresented in your survey results compared to homosexuals. What do you think your particular appeal is amongst the bi-boys?
5:50 It would probably get a lot more. Since in real election polls, not only Golan is very popular, but also Labour and Meretz gets more votes from their former sum.
on the Yankees, my bully at church (pastor's son, lmao) was not just a Fair Weather Fan, he was a fan of any team that was dominating. He loved the Yankees. He loved the Eagles, until the Cowboys were winning and then he was a fan of them. So yeah I've always hated the Yankees. Cubs all the way. Also Maple Leafs all the way. Hockey's a great sport I have lots of opinions on Hockey if you ask those next year lmao
Just happy that my baseball team (New York Mets) came in 3rd, though that’s probably also a result of population and where Jews live. By the way, did you record your (correct) baseball rant before or after the Dodgers beat the Yankees for the World Series?
2:54 I disagree, most Jews in Montreal speak English as their first language (initially Ashkenazim learned English and Sephardim learned French, but both can speak English ) One of the reasons a lot of Jews left for Ontario is due to either the one of the two referendums or because of increasingly oppressive language laws limiting English.
Mm, I don't think it's true that most Jewish Quebeckers speak French as their first language. To my understanding the majority are bilingual but chiefly speak English at home. I'm Albertan so take that with a grain of salt.
From my understanding this is true. Generally when the Jews came over to Montreal, the Ashkenazim learned English since it was closest to Yiddish, and the Sephardim spoke French since it was closest to Ladino. There are other reasons too, like how Moroccan and Algerian Jews were already living in French colonies. Another reason could possibly be how the school boards were initially the Protestant and Catholic school boards, where the English prothestants accepted a lot of outside immigrants whereas the Catholics wanted to keep it strictly catholic and French (at least to my understanding). Whatever the case, it’s true the vast majority of Jews in Montreal speak English as a first language, and if not a second.
I need to listen to more of these. Unfortunately, my list of things to read/listen/watch is now longer than my projected life expectancy, and I am only 41. If I am to get to everything, I have a theory that I will have surpassed the antediluvian patriarchs by multiplicities of their generations.
Whilst people who live in Herts and Beds might technically live in the East of England there perception, because it's the hinterland of London, in that it's part of the South East. For example, people who live in Radlett, a village in Herts with a third Jewish population, probably commute to London for work and would be horrified if you suggested that they ventured to Ipswich 🤪
It's not a matter of commute; people in New Jersey commute to New York and Philadelphia (and Allentown), but they wouldn't say they live in those places. I acknowledge that a US State is a bit more of a big deal, since each US state has a degree of autonomy roughly equivalent to Scotland, but you know. I know people in the future will get confused and I'll still correct it, though maybe not make a big deal of it.
@SamAronow the point is that people in those areas, which is kind of an extension of North London see themselves as living in South East England not East Anglia.
I missed this year's survey, but can see how the religion question would be problematic for me. I identify as Jewish, but am also an atheist. For me, Judaism is my ethnicity and cultural heritage, but I have no religion.
The political results always surprise me. I've lived both in the south and Jerusalem, and my experience was of Avoda and meretz (both now forming the democrats) being very unpopular and the only person I know who ever votes for them is my sister. I'm not surprised you have a mostly left leaning audience, but I would have thought that National Unity and Yesh Atid would be far more popular. It's also interesting how the most far right party to sit in the keenest would be Likud I would assume Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionist would get at least a few sits even if only because of their notoriety. Lastly I do think the results might look different if you included Yemina as a stand in for a party led by Naftali Bennett, who is very likely to run in the next elections, since I think alot of people who became disillusioned with Likud and other right-wing parties after Oct 7th intend to vote for him. though I understand why you wouldn't add a party that doesn't currently exist to the survey
In the previous question, "Far Right" only has 3.5% of adherants, which would be those voting for Otzma and RZ. While this is enough to pass the bar if it were one party, splitting it between two would dilute them out... Also, Likud are conservative, not far right...
@@adrianblake8876 That's why I said "the most far right" as in the farthest right in this hypothetical keenest. I'm still surprised neither party was able to gain a seat. I would have assumed that between them, they'll have had at least 3-4 sits
Keep in mind that according to the survey, most Israeli viewers are from Center and Tel Aviv districts, which lean more towards left-center in politics.
if this survey came out just a few months later, I wouldve said Dodgers just because of Gawr Gura if it sounds like I have bad means of choosing teams to root for, its not my fault New Jerseyites always have to choose between New York and Pennsylvania teams.
re participation: I don't remember if I took part in the survey, but if not, then because I just missed it. Either a community post or (much better, because UA-cam is bad at recommending posts) a short video to remind people might help - I'm really sorry, but I don't schedule UA-cam channel surveys in my calender. ;D (I checked if you had posted something about the survey in May, and apparently not, or I didn't see it.) re baseball: My interest in learning about that part of American culture is ... rather minimal. :D Yankees stuff is either "generic American" merchandise or just random ornamental writing. I have a shirt that has something about some Rhode Island sailing club or whatever on it - I have no idea what it's about, if that thing even exists, or what. It's just ornamentation, the meaning doesn't matter, and there's a lot of clothing in non-English speaking countries like that. And so with the Yankees - it sounds very American, NYC is cool (and American), I have seen stuff that looks like their merch, so let's click it. ;D It's not too different with soccer - there are teams whose merchandise is so pervasive that wearing their shirt doesn't necessarily mean you're an actual fan.
The politics changes mostly track IMO. The far-left moved a bit to the center and some to conservative. More disillusioned folks moved to anarchism. Fits with the general post-10/7 ideological shifts among Jews. I’m surprised to see the far-right shrink though.
If I may, why do you think/believe that the religion survey is broken? Edit: Just watched the baseball section and have to agree with the Sox on Jerry as a Bulls fan.
I will note that The Democrats have adopted Blue as their party color instead of Labor & its predecessors tradition of using red, but I get that its hard to use blue in the mock Knesset when most parties already use blue.
Yeah, I’ve not bothered with “oops, all blue!” in the past and I won’t start now. You don’t see Canadian political parties all being red. Speaking as a dues-paying member of the Israeli Democrats: own it, cowards.
Re: baseball caps, I had to switch to wearing an alternate color of my team (Cardinals) because Red Hats mean something very particular in America these days and I don’t want people getting ideas
@@Headhunter_212IMO that’s more just the culture of Boston sports fandom in general. Just look at the entire history of the Pats, Celtics, and Bruins. “Say hi to your motha for me” indeed!
I'm going to say that the Yankees are the default team of choice even for Americans that have no hometown team. They have then money therefore probably most number of minor league farms. And yeah, even outside the US, they're the most well-known MLB franchise. Of course, being from Philly personally, they're also the safest place to be when it comes to wearing my Phillies colors (i dare not wear that sort of thing in Queens). As for NHL hockey...well, that's a different story...
Every year, the flags used for "first language" really does feel like EU4-to-Vic2 conversion games
I am a Moroccan who was always interested in the history of judaism but I became even more when I learned that my family were sephardic jews who converted to islam during some harsh and powerful dynesties like the Almohad. They were andalusian merchants who then migrated to the city of Fès. In order to assimilate and keep their economic power, they translated their family name "Berda" to Berrada. I made a genetic test and I have very similar result to Morccan jews
@Mocassin-1454 welcome to the fam! 🤍💙
Will you consider to return to your Jewish roots?
@raeli731 thanks hahaha 😂. Unfortunately I cant make my alya because genetic test can help if you have a family member already living there, but my best wishes are always there for this beautiful nation
Mind your own business. Go help a stranger, because you’re not doing that now.
@@Koleshathere’s nothing satanic about being Jewish. We are all fellow believers in a faith of the book. We don’t need to be so separated, we all believe in many of the same ideals.
I really love the flags you chose for "first language"
That’s such a tasteful trolling
Should’ve done Belgium for Dutch though😂
@@ThatOneCattowhat is happening with serbo Croatian?
@@gyllenspetzfamily7993 it’s the Kingdom of Yugoslavia’s flag I believe. Since Montenegro and Bosnia technically speak Serbo-Croatian Sam could’ve used either of those too for the funny effect.
I love these surveys every year. You can see I'm only one out of the 7 viewers from Yorkshire, England. Sheffield to be exact, and I've promoted your channel to other Jews here but I can't say how many actually watch your videos.
Bloody Luvvy, tha.’
@@SamAronow If only I could actually speak Yorkshire lol. Dialect levelling at its finest
Each year your first language flags become more and more deranged
As a statistics nerd, I have been YEARNING for this video to come out ever since I took the survey
The 1920s year of birth responses HAVE to be trolling.
7:38 your rant about baseball was unexpected but hilarious
As someone who was born into a Yankees family but became a Red Sox fan because they’re the de facto anti Yankees team (I was an annoyingly contrarian kid) I felt very called out.
1:25 That flag representing Pennsylvania is not the flag of Pennsylvania, it's the flag of Philadelphia.
As someone whose family first came to emigrated to Chicago, and grew up in Humboldt Park, I could not agree more with your sentiments on Jerry Reinsdorf.
Didn’t expect it, but I agree
I think it's a pretty solid testament to Sam's journalistic and academic integrity that his audience is so politically diverse. I think it's great that we all have something meaningful to gain from this channel.
Hey I am the only P.E.I Canadian. That’s super cool. Thank you for the great videos.
PS 2:26 the way you say Nunavut is
New knee vooot.
Thanks for the in-depth analysis.
Adamant Québécois non-jewish francophone fan!
Not only have I watched every vid, I've probably gone through the whole Sam Aronow library + Elections Israel *quite a few times*.
Proud to Patreon support when I'm able, and proud to rec your channel whenever I come across UA-cam-pilled History nerds (more often than you'd expect, you just gotta get them going on Roman Empire stuff and they self-report).
Cheers Sam, thanks for sharing the survey results with us every year, and keep up the good work.
What about Israil?
@@DiamondKingStudios No I mean his channel about Israel's rail network Israil
@@dorol6375 I thought you were saying “What about Israel” as in the country, not Israel Railways. I didn’t know he had a channel about rail transport in Israel.
@@dorol6375 Couldn't get into it, not a "train guy" unfortunately...
Jeez, I only found out about the channel in July, so I was late for the survey. Greetings from Peru, I am from a Christian family but of Sephardic Jewish origin.
I love the flags in the First Language list. Taken straight out of Language Simp’s playbook
lmao was not expecting sam to post at frickin 2am central time
Time zone differences are sometimes baffling to me in their effects. I know why they must exist, but it’s probably a testament to how interconnected the world is.
As one of apparently very few cis women watching your channel, the gender results baffle and compel me.
For BC having more respondents it's a stretch but maybe JJ McCullough having mentioned your channel before? He's how I first found out about you.
Or as for other British Columbian UA-camrs maybe Useful Charts?
Sam about the Baseball question, WE JUST MENTIONED NAMES OF TEAMS THAT WERE FAMILIAR TO US! Do you think anyone of us really knows something about baseball?! You wouldn't ask a Southern European about Canadian hokey teams... virtually all baseball fans in Israel are American Jews. NYY logo is just a common merchandise. Do you think every kid with Juventus logo on his backpack has any connections to the team? Foreigns has merchandise of Beitar all the time without knowing what it is.
Yeah, I'm not okay with the Juventus/Beitar thing either. I was very intentional about becoming a Hapoel Tel Aviv fan.
Love your channel! As a Jew from Montreal, the majority (but of course not all) of us actually speak English as a first language and not French. Sadly, Montreal's Jewish population has been consistently decreasing over the past few decades because more and more of us have left for Ontario and other places.
It's faring better than the Jewish population of Winnipeg, which used to be a solid #3.
I would love to participate next year! I believe I found your channel this year, I binged everything and now I'm a regular viewer. Thank you for the work you do, and stay safe
Montreal is surprisingly french. i also thought like you, but, there are a lot of french only, or extremely limited english, type french speakers. i love you
Huh. I’ve not been to Montréal yet, but I imagined monoglots mostly being in the old mining towns (i.e. what I imagine Quebec to be like outside of Montréal and Québec City).
I dont remember the exact framing of the religion question, but i think some form of personal belief and religion they were raised in is a good idea. But religion can get so complicated so quickly that you might want to reach out to Religion for Breakfast about how to ask that sort of question in a survey. And there's the none religious but spiritual crowd.
Mets fan here. Red Sox above the Mets surprised me, not seen as a Jewish fanbase at all. Because the Mets play on Long Island I've always thought of them as the most Jewish fanbase in the MLB and all of American sports. Fwiw, I live in Atlanta, among Braves fans, but inherited the fandom from my family from Long Island. LFGM!💙🧡
I wish you asked for immigration status and country of birth.
It would be interesting to have a plot of Jews doing aliyah, Israelis doing yeridah, and to see how otherwise your mostly Jewish viewership migrates from one country to another.
It is interesting that you wrote the city as "Washington", because some of the zip codes included in Washington also fit into areas such as Chevy Chase, Fort McNair, and the Pentagon area. While Washington is the city name, it would probably be more accurate to classify it as D.C. if you are deriving from zip codes. Most people refer to it as DC anyways.
Washington metro is bigger than DC
@@Spearca It is, but this list is _just_ of cities proper, not metro areas. Metro areas were ranked as such:
1. 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv-Center (158)
2. 🇺🇸 New York/Tri-State (162)
3. 🇺🇸 Baltimore-Washington (75)
4. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles/Southland (68)
5. 🇬🇧 London Commuter Belt (60)
6. 🇮🇱 Haifa Metro (57)
7. 🇺🇸 Greater Boston (56)
8. 🇺🇸 Chicagoland (43)
9. 🇺🇸 SF Bay Area (42)
10. 🇮🇱 Jerusalem Province (37)
11. 🇨🇦 Greater Toronto (36)
12. 🇺🇸 Delaware Valley (34)
13. 🇩🇪 Greater Berlin (23)
13. 🇦🇺 Melbourne (23)
@@SamAronow Gotcha. Curiously, "Washington," as in the seat of government, is even smaller than DC, despite parts of it being exclaves, not in the district at all.
I used to work in Washington, live in DC.
@@Spearca The City of Washington and the District of Columbia have been one and the same since 1871.
@@SamAronow I'm speaking there of the colloquial local usage, referring to culture not jurisdiction. "DC" is the (substantially black) non-governmental actual permanent city that surrounds the (mostly white) public business and transient residences of "Washington." Some years ago I could have showed you the exact curb in Northeast where I crossed from the latter to the former on my way home.
Around 10 percent spoke Hebrew as a first language but more than 11 percent were from Israel, maybe because of Israeli Arabs?
Always a lower Israeli percent than I'd expect and a way higher German one especially considering their aren't many Jews in Germany.
Most people in Israel have pretty bad English IMO as a guy who lives here so maybe that's part of the reason too.
My guess is that quite a lot of Israeli-Americans(like Sam himself) watch his videos so despite living in Israel Hebrew isn’t their native language
Israel is still a country with a high number of immigrants, but the USSR is the most common country of origin, not the USA...
9 million Hebrew speakers, 5.5 million natives 3.3 million L2. mainly Arabs, former-USSR Jews and new Olim.
German speaking people are generally overrepresented on UA-cam and especially on English language content. Same goes for Dutch and Scandinavian audiences. Affluent audiences with enough English fluency and interest in anglophone topics.
What is the langues' flags?
It pissed me off to see the British mandate flag next to Hebrew then I realized you you used old flags for all the languages. xD
Sam, you asked israelis to choose a group for a sport which the average israeli knows only one player from, and that player is bugs bunny. I implore you to ask about basketball next and see how much more diverse the answers will be, yet still with the east groups/ winners at the time favored .
Oh, I was deliberately trolling them with this question so I could raise awareness about disliking the Yankees.
@SamAronow got it, mb
@@SamAronow As an Israeli, I can personally say that I picked the mets only because I know an American Jew from NYC by way of discord who absolutely adored them. I couldn't betray him like that
When I visited Quebec City a couple years ago, I actually encountered quite a few people who spoke almost no English, it was a small minority but still enough to somewhat surprise me. The situation amongst the Quebecois Jewish community may be different, but I don't know how safe your assumption that "virtually all of them also speak English" is.
I'm happy to know there are others here who both enjoy your videos and share in my sorrow as a White Sox fan. Thank you for the message of support.
As a Yankees fan, your baseball rant cracked me up 😂
I love that Haifa is representing. Maybe one day all 13 of us can arrange a meetup😂😂😂
Shalom from Sao Paulo (but also a member of the large majority of foreigners who didn't grasp a fuckin thing about the baseball bit)
Shout out to the Jays at No. 5
Default Canadian team since Montreal lost the Expos in ‘04
Non-American here; what’s with Jerry Reinsdorf, Lars Ulrich, and John Fisher in the baseball section?
American baseball fan here: Jerry Reinsdorf and John Fisher are two very wealthy billionaire owners of baseball teams who barely invest any money at all into their teams, resulting in these teams being very bad and their fans being very upset. More specifically, the White Sox just had arguably the worst baseball season of all time (they went 41-121, yes they lost 121 games) and John Fisher is trying to move the *Oakland* Athletics to Las Vegas (but for now they're playing in Sacramento)
But I don't know what's going on with Lars Ulrich. I think he's the drummer for Metallica but I don't know what his connection is to the Astros
@@gsherman9133 _My lifestyle 🗑🗑determines my deathstyle. My lifestyle 🗑🗑determines my deathstyle..._
@@gsherman9133 not just baseball but with any team that Jerry touches.
Interesting seeing the split of the dual city teams and how the Angels get absolutely walloped by the Dodgers instead, other than probably being the team that has the least market share of its city Orange County as more WASPish, Koufax and latent Brooklyn sympathies possibly a reason?
On that note, it would be interesting to see it asked about football clubs to see if there’s anything at all behind the “Jewish clubs” stereotypes
Orange County is a big place and it certainly isn't the WASP enclave that it was 30 years ago. It's _very_ Asian and Hispanic. Furthermore the Angels' fan area extends into the Inland Empire.
Ayyy there's six others from Yorkshire lets go
Three more to go!
Represent!
2:40 I've lived in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal and I will say that I think almost every jew I've known had either lived in Québec or had parents/grandparents from there and whenever they immigrated to Canada they immigrated to Québec first and then later moved elsewhere in the country.
This is true to a lesser extent of New York. My family skipped New York entirely...but my Canadian family does live in Montréal.
@SamAronow that makes sense. Also I'm curious since I can't remember if I answered the survey, where there any Sikhs that answered the religion question? And if so, were there now than one?
@@dayalasingh5853Sikhs were an option but too few responded, so for the graphic I included them with “other.”
Since the largest share of your subscribers are from 2000 or 2002, most of them are graduating from 5 and 4 (respectively) year courses, so it's logical you're getting more graduates in your survey
Why do you think that the religion question is completely broken?
He typed it weird
@limeboiler can you explain?
I'm not sure I remember what I answered for example
I remember it asked for 'nominal' religion, in spite of your level of observance, similar to how many Jewish people perceive religion. I self-identify as an atheist, but in that survey I said I was a Protestant Christian (since I celebrate Christmas and Easter).
Jew from Montreal (currently living in Victoria BC) 🙋♂️To my knowledge the Jews of Quebec have been historically anglophone in Montreal (where nearly all of Quebec’s Jews live.) So Jews from Quebec diving into your English language programming doesn’t surprise me at all. British Columbia being so goyish but also into your channel is very surprising though!
By percentage Victoria is very Jewish, which is ironic considering who else lives there.
Actually watched this in the morning but forgot to comment
1. I voted for the Blue Jays because I have a ball of theirs since I was like 8-10 and I have no Idea why I have this, another random thing I have is a Vermont Flag... I have never been to nor do I know any Vermonter
2. Anyways I noticed an Increase for Haifa so that's cool
There was a survey?! Crap, I would’ve loved to submit my answers.
Might as well do it now lol:
Year of Birth: 2005
Country: USA
State: Ohio
First language: English
Gender: Cis man
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Education: High School
Military service: None
Religion: Agnostic, which would probably fall into None
Experience with Jews: No personal experience
Political Ideology: Liberal, but highly sympathetic to Social Democracy as well
Found channel: 2024
Can’t say much more, love your vids!
Great video.
I'm not american, I know nothing about baseball, but I have a Yankees cap because I loved Percy Jackson as a kid
Seems there are at least twenty-nine other viewers from here in Georgia (US). Now I wonder how many of them were from outside the Atlanta area.
Given that homosexual men outnumber bisexual men in the general population, and that your viewer base is overwhelmingly male, it's interesting that bisexuals are so overrepresented in your survey results compared to homosexuals. What do you think your particular appeal is amongst the bi-boys?
I think BC might have high turnout due to language and a strong center-left NDP.
How quickly a year passes
Los Angeles Angels…because Anaheim isn’t important enough. We’re just the home of Disneyland, after all. 😆
Love the language flags so much lmao
5:50
It would probably get a lot more. Since in real election polls, not only Golan is very popular, but also Labour and Meretz gets more votes from their former sum.
I am from St.Louis and live in Kansas City Missouri. I love Baseball.
The yankees rant is simply beautiful lol
on the Yankees, my bully at church (pastor's son, lmao) was not just a Fair Weather Fan, he was a fan of any team that was dominating. He loved the Yankees. He loved the Eagles, until the Cowboys were winning and then he was a fan of them. So yeah I've always hated the Yankees. Cubs all the way. Also Maple Leafs all the way. Hockey's a great sport I have lots of opinions on Hockey if you ask those next year lmao
Just happy that my baseball team (New York Mets) came in 3rd, though that’s probably also a result of population and where Jews live. By the way, did you record your (correct) baseball rant before or after the Dodgers beat the Yankees for the World Series?
good to wake up on a Friday on this
2:54 I disagree, most Jews in Montreal speak English as their first language (initially Ashkenazim learned English and Sephardim learned French, but both can speak English ) One of the reasons a lot of Jews left for Ontario is due to either the one of the two referendums or because of increasingly oppressive language laws limiting English.
Mm, I don't think it's true that most Jewish Quebeckers speak French as their first language. To my understanding the majority are bilingual but chiefly speak English at home. I'm Albertan so take that with a grain of salt.
From my understanding this is true. Generally when the Jews came over to Montreal, the Ashkenazim learned English since it was closest to Yiddish, and the Sephardim spoke French since it was closest to Ladino.
There are other reasons too, like how Moroccan and Algerian Jews were already living in French colonies.
Another reason could possibly be how the school boards were initially the Protestant and Catholic school boards, where the English prothestants accepted a lot of outside immigrants whereas the Catholics wanted to keep it strictly catholic and French (at least to my understanding).
Whatever the case, it’s true the vast majority of Jews in Montreal speak English as a first language, and if not a second.
Congratulations to the cis women. Gotta be one of my favorite genders
One of the fifty-three Marylanders, hi from Baltimore.
I need to listen to more of these. Unfortunately, my list of things to read/listen/watch is now longer than my projected life expectancy, and I am only 41. If I am to get to everything, I have a theory that I will have surpassed the antediluvian patriarchs by multiplicities of their generations.
Whilst people who live in Herts and Beds might technically live in the East of England there perception, because it's the hinterland of London, in that it's part of the South East. For example, people who live in Radlett, a village in Herts with a third Jewish population, probably commute to London for work and would be horrified if you suggested that they ventured to Ipswich 🤪
It's not a matter of commute; people in New Jersey commute to New York and Philadelphia (and Allentown), but they wouldn't say they live in those places. I acknowledge that a US State is a bit more of a big deal, since each US state has a degree of autonomy roughly equivalent to Scotland, but you know. I know people in the future will get confused and I'll still correct it, though maybe not make a big deal of it.
@SamAronow the point is that people in those areas, which is kind of an extension of North London see themselves as living in South East England not East Anglia.
Suggest the Mariners. Suggest the suffering.
I can't remember how I answered the baseball question, or if I answered it at all.
these quebec vs bc numbers are somewhat standard on the english internet (I've run websites for english speaking canadians before)
I missed this year's survey, but can see how the religion question would be problematic for me.
I identify as Jewish, but am also an atheist. For me, Judaism is my ethnicity and cultural heritage, but I have no religion.
when will your next Jewish history video come out?
The political results always surprise me. I've lived both in the south and Jerusalem, and my experience was of Avoda and meretz (both now forming the democrats) being very unpopular and the only person I know who ever votes for them is my sister. I'm not surprised you have a mostly left leaning audience, but I would have thought that National Unity and Yesh Atid would be far more popular. It's also interesting how the most far right party to sit in the keenest would be Likud I would assume Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionist would get at least a few sits even if only because of their notoriety. Lastly I do think the results might look different if you included Yemina as a stand in for a party led by Naftali Bennett, who is very likely to run in the next elections, since I think alot of people who became disillusioned with Likud and other right-wing parties after Oct 7th intend to vote for him. though I understand why you wouldn't add a party that doesn't currently exist to the survey
In the previous question, "Far Right" only has 3.5% of adherants, which would be those voting for Otzma and RZ. While this is enough to pass the bar if it were one party, splitting it between two would dilute them out...
Also, Likud are conservative, not far right...
Likud would be the most Far-Right compared to the others.
@@adrianblake8876 That's why I said "the most far right" as in the farthest right in this hypothetical keenest.
I'm still surprised neither party was able to gain a seat. I would have assumed that between them, they'll have had at least 3-4 sits
@@whydoi4088 The *Knesset has a 3.25% threshold, which, just as I said, is about the same number both parties got COMBINED...
Keep in mind that according to the survey, most Israeli viewers are from Center and Tel Aviv districts, which lean more towards left-center in politics.
if this survey came out just a few months later, I wouldve said Dodgers just because of Gawr Gura
if it sounds like I have bad means of choosing teams to root for, its not my fault New Jerseyites always have to choose between New York and Pennsylvania teams.
re participation: I don't remember if I took part in the survey, but if not, then because I just missed it. Either a community post or (much better, because UA-cam is bad at recommending posts) a short video to remind people might help - I'm really sorry, but I don't schedule UA-cam channel surveys in my calender. ;D (I checked if you had posted something about the survey in May, and apparently not, or I didn't see it.)
re baseball: My interest in learning about that part of American culture is ... rather minimal. :D Yankees stuff is either "generic American" merchandise or just random ornamental writing. I have a shirt that has something about some Rhode Island sailing club or whatever on it - I have no idea what it's about, if that thing even exists, or what. It's just ornamentation, the meaning doesn't matter, and there's a lot of clothing in non-English speaking countries like that.
And so with the Yankees - it sounds very American, NYC is cool (and American), I have seen stuff that looks like their merch, so let's click it. ;D It's not too different with soccer - there are teams whose merchandise is so pervasive that wearing their shirt doesn't necessarily mean you're an actual fan.
I released multiple community posts _and_ an announcement video as well as posts on Patreon and Reddit.
@@SamAronow Fair enough. Sorry for the rant then. :)
The politics changes mostly track IMO. The far-left moved a bit to the center and some to conservative. More disillusioned folks moved to anarchism. Fits with the general post-10/7 ideological shifts among Jews.
I’m surprised to see the far-right shrink though.
after this world series i wish i wasn’t born into the yankees fandom man…… 😭😭
as someone from (near) chicago, i laughed my ass off at fuck jerry reinsdorf
For next year, where can we answer this?
Why wasn't Brazil divided into states?
Not enough Brazilians responded in the previous survey.
@SamAronow fair enough
If I may, why do you think/believe that the religion survey is broken?
Edit: Just watched the baseball section and have to agree with the Sox on Jerry as a Bulls fan.
I will note that The Democrats have adopted Blue as their party color instead of Labor & its predecessors tradition of using red, but I get that its hard to use blue in the mock Knesset when most parties already use blue.
Yeah, I’ve not bothered with “oops, all blue!” in the past and I won’t start now. You don’t see Canadian political parties all being red. Speaking as a dues-paying member of the Israeli Democrats: own it, cowards.
@@SamAronow my best guess is its meant to makes them look more liberal in order to appeal to everything left of centre
My baby brother is a Yankee fan. I don't know where we went wrong with him. (We're from the West Coast.)
I straight up can't remember if I participated in the survey or not.
No it's coming back to me, I'm pretty sure I did.
where could I have voted?
hehe, based for the spanish republican flag
Astros #1 forever
You should make a question about ethnicity: Jewish, Arab, White European, Black, Native American, others.
That would be like the religion question times ten. It's just too complicated and not very useful.
I think you should group all Orthodox Jews together
dammit i missed it again
Go pirates.
When will you cover the time when Europe went from being a Jew's paradise to a living hell for Jews.
Im an atheist interested in jewish history
KC Royals!!!!
Re: baseball caps, I had to switch to wearing an alternate color of my team (Cardinals) because Red Hats mean something very particular in America these days and I don’t want people getting ideas
As a Philadelphian, I feel ya 😂
@@loganl3746 Aren't Phillies caps darker?
Go cubs
Not an American. It seems to me like picking an Anti Yankees team is way more cringy than picking the good team.
Red Sox are also historically good. Boston’s just not as big and is further away from the rest of the country so they’re not as annoying comparatively
Before 2004, that is not in fact , true. I love how Red Sox fans have become the kind of Yankees fans that they claim to hate.
Perfection.
@@Headhunter_212IMO that’s more just the culture of Boston sports fandom in general. Just look at the entire history of the Pats, Celtics, and Bruins. “Say hi to your motha for me” indeed!
I'm going to say that the Yankees are the default team of choice even for Americans that have no hometown team. They have then money therefore probably most number of minor league farms. And yeah, even outside the US, they're the most well-known MLB franchise. Of course, being from Philly personally, they're also the safest place to be when it comes to wearing my Phillies colors (i dare not wear that sort of thing in Queens).
As for NHL hockey...well, that's a different story...