Just because you are only of one nationality (British) and know only one language does not make you boring. I know many folk who know both English and Spanish and yet can't carry a conversation to save their lifes and have unbearably limited vocabulary. 🙃
Here's one not mentioned: "Basques mostly settled in Wyoming, Nevada, Idaho and California. They came to work in the gold mines across the American West, but found that they had better income hunting or raising sheep to sell as meat to the miners-and that set the groundwork for the next influx of Basque immigrants. Starting in the 1880s, the incoming Basque population almost exclusively took sheepherder or cattle jobs. Now, about 60,000 Basque people live in the United States." In San Francisco, there were (and the buildings remain) a number of Basque hotels and restaurants catering to the sheep herders from Nevada come to the city. Incidentally, "No one truly knows the ancient history of the Basque people. The oldest ethnic group in Europe still survivng today, the Basques are speculated to be direct descendants of hunter-gatherers in Europe 35,000 years ago."
The Upper Peninsula (or The U.P. as we call it here in Michigan), not only has a lot of people with Finish ancestry, but there were also a lot of Cornish settlers. That’s why even to this day, here in Michigan you can find Cornish pasties, and you really can’t find them anywhere else in America. When Gordon Ramsay visited the U.P. for a television show, he tried a local pasty and he was blown away because according to him it tastes exactly like a traditional Cornish pasty. That’s because people just passed down family recipes for generations, so they taste the same as in England.
@ I just looked it up, it was a show he did for National Geographic called “Uncharted” the episode is called “Michigan’s Yooper Cuisine”. If you didn’t know, Yooper is a Michigan term for people who live in the U.P. (Upper Peninsula).
The most diverse area in the USA is Queens County, New York City. Some studies say it’s the most diverse globally. Joshua Weissman (UA-cam cooking channel) just dropped a video about how many different cuisines he can eat in 24 hours. The first place in the video is near my home.
Houston, Texas has been listed as the most diverse large metro area in the US. I do volunteer income taxes in a Houston suburban area and we get an amazing mix of people. A lot of recent immigrants or people from different ethnic communities in the area -- Chinese, Vietnamese, Mexican, Central American, South American, Indian, Pakistani, Central and Eastern European, British, Nigerian, Kenyan, Iraqi, Qatari, etc. My favorite was a young couple; he was Romanian, she was Peruvian and they met when they were grad students at the University of Houston.
New Yorker here I’ve spent a lot of time in Quebec and picked up some of the language. I can order food in a restaurant ask for directions. I need a lot more by practice. No one in France would understand me but I try.
Although he talked about it, he never pointed out via shading or some other method, the Upper Peninsula is the part NE of Wisconsin, and south of Lake Superior. At around 10:50, he mentioned the Gullah-Geechee, who are descendants of slaves who still speak their own language based upon the blending of a plethora of West African languages with their "learned by hearing" English. The US National Park Service set aside around 12,000 sq. mi. for 5000 people. Miami has been given the unofficial title of "Capital of Latin America". Three languages easy to hear spoken in the area are Spanish, Creole French (Haiti), and Portuguese (Brazil).
It's interesting because more so with Spanish than other languages, those who speak it at home usually make an effort to learn it when they're older as opposed to other language speakers who don't put any emphasis on learning the language of their parents at all. I know plenty of people who understood Spanish and spoke it modestly as children, but improved it significantly as adults for work related reasons.
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Some of the Spanish surnamed families were colonists of the Spanish Empire (16th century) before Mexican and Caribbean countries existed, especially in California. The creation of Mexico, for example only happened in the 19th century. So, some are they are totally anglophone.
Here in southern Arizona, many Mexican Americans speak a combination, - Spanglish. They can switch back and forth even within the same sentence. Being bilingual is a benefit in the job market here.
Regarding the retention of bilingualism, where I live in southern Arizona it seems extremely common. At fast food places and others, where the customers tend to be almost ½ and ½ Spanish and English as a primary language, the young employees seem able to switch from one language to the other quite easily. And the more remarkable thing to me is that it is not uncommon to find entirely "anglo" teens speaking Spanish with their Hispanic classmates and friends.
Although he didn't mention it, the most diverse locale in the United States is Southeast Texas centered around the greater Houston area. There are over 200 different languages spoken there and the various cultures are well documented and often in plain sight. The reason for so many different people in the Houston area is because of the oil and natural gas industry. Since the Houston area is the energy capital of the world, that brings many and all from the world over to the Houston area to work in or represent their countries in energy industry business. Houston is the clearinghouse of oil and gas transactions worldwide; therefore, all countries have a stake in what happens there.
I know a lot of Hispanic people who never wanted their children to speak Spanish even though they were bilingual, so in many homes Spanish wasn't spoke much anymore at least in the suburbs of Los Angeles. I wish I had learned Spanish when I was young, but I wasn't really exposed to it enough to pick it up. 😀
I love me the northwest. Just a beautiful area of the country and the vibe is perfect. The lake that was in California. It’s not very old either. It was around about 12,000 years ago I believe
Living in NY, you forget other places aren’t as much as a melting pot. The scenery, not just the people, literally changes as you go from street to street. Sign awnings, grocery store choices, languages spoken etc. drastically change in each community. And if you live in an apartment building? Forget it. You can have 20 different nationalities living in the same place. It’s cool to see if you’re used to a single nationality and a good way to learn other cultures
I remember a Hispanic guy I went to high school who only spoke English. He was 3rd generation. His grandmother only spoke Spanish. His parents were bilingual. So his parents had to translate between he and his grandmother.
I read once that there are still Russian speaking natives in either Alaska or some nearby area and that they communicate in Russian with some of their Alaskan neighbors.
Yes. It's an island community. While I'm not sure what's going on as of right now. They used to be allowed to visit extended family in Russia no problems, but probably not now. This is also where Sarah Palin was referring to when she said her "We can see Russia" line.
Los Angeles off the top of my head has Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Koreatown (one of the most densely populated areas of LA), Thai Town, Little Armenia, Glendale (which has a lot of Armenian people), Little Bangladesh (I think the only one in the nation), Little Ethiopia, and the Fairfax District which has a large Jewish population.
When one goes into an "Indian" restaurant in the Bay Area, it's hard to know from where in south Asia the cook really comes. A lot of them are Pakistani but it wouldn't surprise me if Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) wasn't represented as well.
Well Lav Luka you have a Girlfriend who is from Romania you should learn Romanian language of your GFs home country. Once you learned it fully you would be able to be bilingual.
That's why Floridians say, "Florida is the only place where the further north you go, the farther south you get."
#FlorDUH -- It's not the heat, it's the stupidity...
Just because you are only of one nationality (British) and know only one language does not make you boring. I know many folk who know both English and Spanish and yet can't carry a conversation to save their lifes and have unbearably limited vocabulary. 🙃
Here's one not mentioned: "Basques mostly settled in Wyoming, Nevada, Idaho and California. They came to work in the gold mines across the American West, but found that they had better income hunting or raising sheep to sell as meat to the miners-and that set the groundwork for the next influx of Basque immigrants. Starting in the 1880s, the incoming Basque population almost exclusively took sheepherder or cattle jobs. Now, about 60,000 Basque people live in the United States." In San Francisco, there were (and the buildings remain) a number of Basque hotels and restaurants catering to the sheep herders from Nevada come to the city. Incidentally, "No one truly knows the ancient history of the Basque people. The oldest ethnic group in Europe still survivng today, the Basques are speculated to be direct descendants of hunter-gatherers in Europe 35,000 years ago."
Basque food is to die for!
The Upper Peninsula (or The U.P. as we call it here in Michigan), not only has a lot of people with Finish ancestry, but there were also a lot of Cornish settlers. That’s why even to this day, here in Michigan you can find Cornish pasties, and you really can’t find them anywhere else in America. When Gordon Ramsay visited the U.P. for a television show, he tried a local pasty and he was blown away because according to him it tastes exactly like a traditional Cornish pasty. That’s because people just passed down family recipes for generations, so they taste the same as in England.
Do you know what the episode in which Gordon Ramsay visits the upper peninsula is called? I would love to watch it.
@ I just looked it up, it was a show he did for National Geographic called “Uncharted” the episode is called “Michigan’s Yooper Cuisine”. If you didn’t know, Yooper is a Michigan term for people who live in the U.P. (Upper Peninsula).
My city has the first Sikh temple in the US and about 100 years ago had the highest population of Filipinos outside of the Philippines
There are more than 800 languages spoken in New York City, the most of any city in the world.
The most diverse area in the USA is Queens County, New York City. Some studies say it’s the most diverse globally. Joshua Weissman (UA-cam cooking channel) just dropped a video about how many different cuisines he can eat in 24 hours. The first place in the video is near my home.
Michigan's land dispute with Ohio at 5:45, is carried out today in the rivalry of the college football teams. Is what makes the games more exciting.
Michigan won! We got the U.P. Ohio got Toledo!😂
@@Michelle-j4kand we beat Ohio State for the fourth year in a row yesterday! MgoBlue!
@ congratulations!
So so neat ngl, Love these so much this was a banger loved it so much.
Shoutout from ft lauderdale FL, i have cuban, dominican, puerto rican, hatian, french and a few others as neighbors. Its pretty wild!
When you hear Alaskan’s fly more often do not think large airports and jumbo jets. They travel by small plane and helicopter if they need rescue.
Houston, Texas has been listed as the most diverse large metro area in the US. I do volunteer income taxes in a Houston suburban area and we get an amazing mix of people. A lot of recent immigrants or people from different ethnic communities in the area -- Chinese, Vietnamese, Mexican, Central American, South American, Indian, Pakistani, Central and Eastern European, British, Nigerian, Kenyan, Iraqi, Qatari, etc. My favorite was a young couple; he was Romanian, she was Peruvian and they met when they were grad students at the University of Houston.
New Yorker here I’ve spent a lot of time in Quebec and picked up some of the language. I can order food in a restaurant ask for directions. I need a lot more by practice. No one in France would understand me but I try.
Hey from Minnesota, thanks for the language. I'm a fan of English. Ya ya betcha donchya know.
Although he talked about it, he never pointed out via shading or some other method, the Upper Peninsula is the part NE of Wisconsin, and south of Lake Superior.
At around 10:50, he mentioned the Gullah-Geechee, who are descendants of slaves who still speak their own language based upon the blending of a plethora of West African languages with their "learned by hearing" English. The US National Park Service set aside around 12,000 sq. mi. for 5000 people.
Miami has been given the unofficial title of "Capital of Latin America". Three languages easy to hear spoken in the area are Spanish, Creole French (Haiti), and Portuguese (Brazil).
It's interesting because more so with Spanish than other languages, those who speak it at home usually make an effort to learn it when they're older as opposed to other language speakers who don't put any emphasis on learning the language of their parents at all. I know plenty of people who understood Spanish and spoke it modestly as children, but improved it significantly as adults for work related reasons.
Hello My Friends: first I enjoy your videos and channel. TY for your hard work. Secondly, could you check your microphone for recording please. It seems a bit quiet on my end when I try to watch. I wonder if other subscribers have this issue? Thanks
Some of the Spanish surnamed families were colonists of the Spanish Empire (16th century) before Mexican and Caribbean countries existed, especially in California. The creation of Mexico, for example only happened in the 19th century.
So, some are they are totally anglophone.
You choose great videos, cheers
That's the metro area, Miami only has 460,000 people!! Still a lot, but the metro area is huge.
Here in southern Arizona, many Mexican Americans speak a combination, - Spanglish. They can switch back and forth even within the same sentence. Being bilingual is a benefit in the job market here.
Regarding the retention of bilingualism, where I live in southern Arizona it seems extremely common. At fast food places and others, where the customers tend to be almost ½ and ½ Spanish and English as a primary language, the young employees seem able to switch from one language to the other quite easily. And the more remarkable thing to me is that it is not uncommon to find entirely "anglo" teens speaking Spanish with their Hispanic classmates and friends.
Although he didn't mention it, the most diverse locale in the United States is Southeast Texas centered around the greater Houston area. There are over 200 different languages spoken there and the various cultures are well documented and often in plain sight. The reason for so many different people in the Houston area is because of the oil and natural gas industry. Since the Houston area is the energy capital of the world, that brings many and all from the world over to the Houston area to work in or represent their countries in energy industry business. Houston is the clearinghouse of oil and gas transactions worldwide; therefore, all countries have a stake in what happens there.
You can take a cruise up that way. I never went that far but Around Vancover/Saettle The San Juans and the inside passage. Magnificent.
I know a lot of Hispanic people who never wanted their children to speak Spanish even though they were bilingual, so in many homes Spanish wasn't spoke much anymore at least in the suburbs of Los Angeles. I wish I had learned Spanish when I was young, but I wasn't really exposed to it enough to pick it up. 😀
I love me the northwest. Just a beautiful area of the country and the vibe is perfect. The lake that was in California. It’s not very old either. It was around about 12,000 years ago I believe
Living in NY, you forget other places aren’t as much as a melting pot. The scenery, not just the people, literally changes as you go from street to street. Sign awnings, grocery store choices, languages spoken etc. drastically change in each community. And if you live in an apartment building? Forget it. You can have 20 different nationalities living in the same place. It’s cool to see if you’re used to a single nationality and a good way to learn other cultures
I remember a Hispanic guy I went to high school who only spoke English. He was 3rd generation. His grandmother only spoke Spanish. His parents were bilingual. So his parents had to translate between he and his grandmother.
Before watching I would say. New York. California. Florida. Washington (Seattle has a huge Asian pop) Maybe Illinois (Chicago)
I speak English and Spanish with a bit of Italian thrown in. I’m from southeast Texas.
I read once that there are still Russian speaking natives in either Alaska or some nearby area and that they communicate in Russian with some of their Alaskan neighbors.
Yes. It's an island community. While I'm not sure what's going on as of right now. They used to be allowed to visit extended family in Russia no problems, but probably not now. This is also where Sarah Palin was referring to when she said her "We can see Russia" line.
Los Angeles off the top of my head has Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Koreatown (one of the most densely populated areas of LA), Thai Town, Little Armenia, Glendale (which has a lot of Armenian people), Little Bangladesh (I think the only one in the nation), Little Ethiopia, and the Fairfax District which has a large Jewish population.
When one goes into an "Indian" restaurant in the Bay Area, it's hard to know from where in south Asia the cook really comes. A lot of them are Pakistani but it wouldn't surprise me if Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) wasn't represented as well.
we are the world . we are the children .
The ultimate American dream is our food - Bring us poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free, BTW make sure they bring their food!
The black belt has nothing to do with anything other than the color of the soil.
You're getting a cold. man. Hot tea, honey and lemon
Do you speak Hindi? Haitian?
Lots of time Granny & Grandpa still speak spanish. Its lessening.
Well Lav Luka you have a Girlfriend who is from Romania you should learn Romanian language of your GFs home country. Once you learned it fully you would be able to be bilingual.
Florida is not really diverse like that not like NYC