Some of the STRANGEST / UNIQUE diasporas around the world
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FILLER WEEK! Just an interesting topic I thought I'd dive into. This world has a lot of unique "social pockets" that pop up randomly where you least expect them. What are some of the world's most unique diaspora communities in your opinion? GO!
love your videos
This comment is 8 minutes old, but the video only just uploaded hmmmmmmm
yalls should make a discord server and a 2nd channel when you finish all of the current nations and call it: GEOGRAPGHY THEN
*Siddis* black community from Africa in India
They were settled in India centuries ago
Even the state of gujrat had a black king in history.
Definitely fascinating is the ethnic Koreans of central Asia (Koryo-saram) in countries such as Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, etc as many were deported there by Stalin. They are a quite prominent/large minority in these countries (Wikipedia says there are about 500,000) and the cultures have met in interesting ways. For example, "Korean carrot salad" or "morkovcha" has become a key part of Central Asian cuisine and is inspired by Koryo-saram making Kimchi with carrots when they did not have Napa cabbage (배추).
There’s a Swedish village in Ukraine called ”Gammalsvenskby” which in Swedish means ”old Swedish village”. They were originally a Swedish minority group on the island of Dagö in Estonia, and were deported to Ukraine by the Russian queen Catherine the Great in 1782
Yea, now it's called Zmiivka (Зміївка). Unfortunately, they are currently under the Russian occupation as Zmiivka is a part of Kherson region.
@@dmitrievakate8320 I’m sad to hear that!
It’s sad though how the village has almost completely died out these days.
In 100yrs Sweden will be having a large Swedish -Somali population given how these people bread large families.
That's how my dad's family ended up in Ukraine (Volga Region) as "Germans from Russia". Another of Catherine's immigration policies to 'develop' the region.
The Patagonia Welsh are pretty interesting, many signs in the area are both in Spanish and in Welsh
Yep, I came here to suggest the same!
They're like half Spanish? tell me more please
@@AlekseyTheNorm they moved there to protect their Welsh heritage in the 1860-1900 I believe
Yes. Many of their descendants have Welsh surnames such as Jones
Thanks for the knowledge!
I’m a part of the Lebanese Sierra Leonean diaspora. My family has been there since the early 1900s and late 1880s. My great grandad landed in Freetown (Sierra Leone) by accident after he got off the boat to Colombia to early 😂. But our community is still very vibrant and we have close ties with our motherland of Lebanon but still have huge fondness to our new homes in west Africa. We call Sierra Leone : Mama Salone as she took care of us through many hardships. It’s very nice you made a video about the Ivorian diaspora though but it would be cool if you made one about the Sierra Leonean diaspora as it is quite small and not well known but still has a very intriguing story to tell.
As a huge fan of SL I knew about Lebanese diaspora there and that many businesses are owned by Lebanese people in Salone.
I have a question for you about religious affiliation of Lebanese people in Sierra Leone. Are there any predominant religuous groups among them? Do you have Lebanese friends or relatives who converted to the new faith or switched to the other denomination of their own religion?
I imagine he was to shy to ask the captain if this was colombia yet
Hey Adam, my family is also lebanese from sierra leone! your story sounds very similar to ours. my family lived in freetown too, and they had businesses. maybe our families know each other?
@@manuelrivera7101 what’s ur surname my family might know you! My name is Duncan or bedridden.
@@khan-key1623 predominant religious group is Shia. I don’t have Lebanese friends that recently converted i do however have a lot of family and friends whose family converted to Shia Islam a couple hundred years ago.
There is a small but historically significant Armenian community in Singapore. There is an Armenian Street near which the Armenian Church stands, and one of Singapore's most historic luxury hotels, the Raffles Hotel, was started by Armenian businessmen (the Sarkies Brothers) in the late 19th century. Singapore's national flower, a breed of Orchid called the Vanda Miss Joaquim, was named after a 19th century Armenian botanist who lived in Singapore and first bred that flower.
You may also want to explore the Cape Malay people/culture/cuisine of South Africa or the Indo-Fijian community (though they're pretty numerous for a minority).
Recently came across your channel and love the content, keep doing what you're doing!
You're kidding me??? I'm an Armenian who migrated to Australia as a child, but I've NEVER heard of this and I've been to Singapore several times!!!
@@Soyuz2578 There's also an Armenian neighbourhood in nearby Penang (Malaysia) where Armenians settled and it is now a historical centre that the locals know as Armenia Street.
WE DEFINITELY WANT A PART 2!!
Same here
Very good
Yes. I'm Greek/Irish so the whole world is my diaspora.
An entire series would be good.
No
two other communities you might be interested in:
Tarara. The Croat-Maori mixed origin people of New Zealand
Koryo Saram- Korean decedent people in Kazakhstan and Russia
Croat-Maori
What the
Isn’t Lorde like Croat-New Zealander or something?
@@jubbusbubbus I think so
Omg I actually met a Korean-Russian gentleman years ago! He was so chill and so worldly in currents affairs
Koryo Saram is more so Uzbek and less so Russian.
You briefly mentioned it in the Portugal episode, but the Portuguese community in Hawaii is super interesting. Hawaiian sweet bread, malassadas, and the ukulele are all Portuguese creations. There is also a shrine down the road from a Catholic Church in the neighborhood of Kalihi that is a replica of a similar shrine in Madeira, the home island of most of the Portuguese immigrants to Hawaii.
the portuguese are protestand emigrated in hawaii because are forbiiden in portugal years ago.
@@bibiana761 there are no Portuguese protestants
@@alexdelpiero2296 in the past yes, many prostestant living in Europe 500 years ago but most of them are expelled in the Usa, like for example the hugonots in France, this protestant are killed and expelled by French catholic.
@@bibiana761 I don't think that was the case during the initial wave of migration in the late 1800s. The bulk of the Portuguese migrants came to Hawaii from Madeira and later the Azores as endentured servants on US-owned sugar plantations. My great great great grandparents and their kids (the youngest being my great great grandmother who was 5 months old at the time) were among the forst 180 migrants from Madeira to Hawaii in 1878. The majority were Catholic and that's why a lot of Catholic churches in Hawaii have Portuguese names or are named after churches in Madeira. The church in my grandpa's neighborhood in Kalihi Valley on Oahu was built by the Portuguese migrants and it's called Our Lady of the Mount (Nossa Senhora do Monte) after a church in Madeira that still exists!
@@SerenoTrevor Maybe the Portuguese become protestant in Hawaii, they have changed their religion because actually i know they are protestant/evangelical. The Brazil too today has a big percentage of evangelical
There’s a notable Welsh speaking community in the middle of Argentina
He already covered it
He already covered it
@@iwanthomas7145 when tell me
Wowmao
There is a small Laotian community in Argentina, they were brought as refugees during the vietnam war and today there is around 2-5,000 of them
There are Hmong people from Laos in French Guiana also
Also very small number of Punjabi’s .. maybe few hundred in Argentina
@@jalengee8421 Their descendants probably number more than 2,000, as the name Singh remains not uncommon in Salta and other areas of northwestern Argentina.
Very good 👍
There's this really old German dude in Argentina
HELL YEAH, IM SO GLAD YOU MENTIONED THE MARSHALLESE AND SPRINGDALE, AR. been living here all my life and grew up around other marshallese kids. they're incredible people, very kind and close knit. we'll even have the president of the marshall islands coming all the way out of because of how big of a presense and large of an impact they have in our community. i always get incredibly giddy and proud whenever anybody mentions it and how strange it is that they settled in the middle of nowhere
The largest Japanese community in continental Europe is in the German city of Düsseldorf, where they established a base after WW2. Apparently, there had been a Japanese delegation to the German empire around 1900, and they were treated so well in Düsseldorf back then, that they decided to set up shop there. (Also, of curse, Düsseldorf has good river/road/train infrastructure and is close to important markets). The little Tokyo in Düsseldorf is a really cool place.
The fact that there are more Japanese people in São Paulo, Brazil, then in any other place of the world outside Japan is pretty interesting, specially since it is on the literal opposite side of the globe.
Since I grew up there, I always found it normal, but since I moved to Europe, every time I mention to any of my European friends that they MUST try the São Paulo-Sushi when they go there, they always look confused and ask me why the hell the Japanese community is so big and strong in such a random place haha
Worth noting that there aren't many "Japanese" people left, just the diaspora from immigration that ended long ago. Most of them are also mixed now and wouldn't stand out as looking Japanese. The USA has far more actual Japanese nationals and about the same size diaspora total as Brazil.
Also, lot of Okinawan community there. Even thou they are mixed with the Japanese there, some consider themselves different from the Japanese. They preserved their own culture and language while their homeland got basically assimilated (maybe not at the same extend as Hokkaido with the Ainu). I met some who would even get a bit pissed to be confused as Japanese there. They do have a very amicable relationship with the Japanese there.
@@a.p.5825 Actually there still is, specially in smaller cities in the state of São Paulo and Paraná.
Same thing in Peru.
@@a.p.5825 This isn't entirely true, there are still many people who "look Japanese". For example, look at any video of Liberdade, the Japanese neighborhood of Sao Paulo. There are also many full to half Japanese descendants in the hinterlands of Sao Paulo state and northern Parana, and also some in Manaus.
The community was relatively endogamous for generations and mixing has only occurred in the past few generations. This is because Brazilian Japanese immigrants often brought their entire family, meaning there was often enough Japanese women which meant less mixing. Mexican and Peruvian Japanese descendants on the other hand, while in still many cases "looking Japanese" are far more mixed; as the vast majority of contract laborers in those countries were men.
In Poland we have a pretty significant Vietnamese community that goes under the radar
POLISH VIETNAMESE!!
THEY HAVE A COMMUNITY OF POLISH VIETNAMESE?!??! OMG!!! 2 OF MY FAVORITE COUNTRY HAVE THEIR OWN COMMUNITY, WHAAAATTTT!!
Same in Berlin, and other former GDR states.
There are many Chinese people as well especially in Cracow
@@Zymo3614 Simple explanation: Communism. Vietnam and Poland both have a communist past, so there was a lot of foreign exchanges, vietnamese people studiyng in Poland, etc. Same thing happened in East Germany too. It isn't even limited to Vietnamese people though. North Koreans, people from Mozambique, Mongolia, China, and countless other former and current communist countries moved between each other. Nowadays the descendants of these expats mostly run restaurants for foreign food, chinese medicine shops and other shops.
@@guardianofthehill Ohhhh, yeah that make sense
Not sure if it’s widely known but there’s a lot of Japanese in Brazil a lot migrated during the 1900s
You could do a whole episode on the Lebanese diaspora - I'm Cuban/Lebanese (born in Lebanon) but have relatives who are all sorts of combinations of Carribbean and South American countries and Lebanon. Interestingly, in the late 70s after we came to America before the war, I went out to Johnstown, PA for a funeral and met my relatives there who were descended from those who left in the 20s after the Ottoman Empire collapsed and it was amazing to hear how they held on to an archaic version of the local dialect. Often I'd be sitting there trying to decypher what they were saying with the Western PA speech pattern on top of it and realize "OH! That's what that means..."
It's similar to the French Canadian community in Maine and to a lesser extent in New Hampshire who are also hanging on to the archaic French their ancestors brought with them.
There's a sizable Indian-descent community in Belize. I had a tour guide who was of Indian descent and he told us all about how during British Empire days, lots of people from India migrated to Belize.
Germanic Menonites in Belize too!
@@blinx999 There is a village in Himachal Pradesh in India where the people speak ancient Greek. Their forefathers might have settled in India around 2000 years back.
The British Empire installed bureaucrats from the Indian subcontinent to manage the civil service in most of its African and Caribbean colonies.
@@andrewrobinson2565 That's one of the reasons pre-Independance Ghandi was practising law in South Africa.
@@sklaWlivE Indeed. I think he went under Mohandas K. Gandhi. 👍☮️❤️
*Siddis* black community from Africa in India
They were settled in India centuries ago
Even the state of gujrat had a black king in history.
I was surprised when I first learned about this amazing
I love strange facts like this! Inject more of this into my veins, please!!
So fascinating. We have an African an Indian Mohajir (native urdu speakers) ethnic group in Pakistan. One which came some 400 years ago and the other more recently in 1947. It would be nice to see a video on these ethnically unique groups as well. .
Not realy a big minority group but I currently live in Japan and I was surprised to meet 2 familys from azerbaijan who have a small restaurant here. Not the kind of people I would expect in this country but it was a nice surprise
Azerbaijanis in Japan? That's got to be tough to learn Japanese
Hh
@@ahmeth.k.2566 turan moment
This is a big surprise
@@ahmeth.k.2566 🧢 Japanese is a language isolate
Another interesting one: there are 200000 Germans and 110000 Koreans living in Kazakhstan. Like many other ex-USSR minority groups, they were deported there during Joseph Stalin rule. As a Kazakh, I’m really proud that our ancestors helped these people to survive, my great-grandparents shared their house, food, etc. with deported people
Yeah I found out about that as well when I googled Viktor Tsois heritage, due to his last name sounding korean. (I'm Lithuanian)
Also ca. 300.000 Germans in Russia, I'm German from Siberia xD
I think he may had mentioned it in his Namibia video, but there are White Germans in the country from the colonial age of Germany in the 1880s and they still exist in the country to this day with a population of at least several thousand people.
Yes, it's a very intresting topic, my own 2nd great grandfather was half-german and half-greek and was deported to Kazakhstan during Stalins rule.
@@fredthegnome489 Oh well, you cannot compare this to Germans in Khazakstan or Afro-Abkhazians. Namibia (back then German South West) is the bloodiest chapter in German colonial history
An interesting one. In Chipilo, Mexico, there's a Venetian (from Venice) diaspora that still speak their mother language Veneto, instead of standard Italian (they also speak Spanish, of course)
Same in Brazil (mainly in the Espirito Santo state)
@@crisistian_ Veneto is most spoken in the South, tho
Isn't Veneto the province they come from?
@@riograndedosulball248 Veneto is actually in north of Italy ,it is a region in north Italy ,the speak the Veneto dialect that’s what he most likely meant .I was born in there .
PORCO DIO VECIO
I think out of all diasporas in the world, the strangest and most obscure one HANDS DOWN are the Malagasy in Peru. There’s actually a significant community of them there
The town of Gort in the west of Ireland has a huge Brazilian community. Because of an Irish meat factory in Brazil that closed and moved to Gort.
Guangzhou, China has a large African community in the districts of Xiaobei and Sanlitun.
I’m from Arkansas and yes, the Tyson chicken Marshallese are a pretty significant minority community in my state. Nice to hear them get a shout out!
"Tyson Chicken Marshallese" almost sounds like a subgroup of Marshallese xD
Hey,I was born in Pine Bluff,we lived in a spot in Pine Bluff called Packing-Town. I live in Little Rock now,but have family in Hot Springs
One diaspora group that always gets me is the Javanese in Suriname. I think you discussed this in the Suriname episode, but I'm just here like "huh so South East Asians with a significant presence in South America". Brought over as cheap labour by the Dutch and all that.
For others, on the topic of South America, another that surprises me is that southern Chile apparently has a lot of Croatians? From what I know, they were introduced as part of a program to bring in Europeans (places like Valdivia had so many Germans they even had signs in German for example) to colonise the southern part of South America, which wasn't conquered yet because the Mapuche were able to resist invaders (something they're apparently pretty good at, they also stopped Inca expansion).
I also saw a comment mentioning the Welsh Argentines too, that was also quite interesting.
I'm actually Australian though so I'd try to think of more here, but because of our position in the world, honestly anyone could be here and I wouldn't be surprised. Probably the most interesting thing I can recall is that some Aboriginal communities mixed with Chinese and Jewish communities to some degree? Like, banding together against discrimination those groups would face and finding common ground sort of thing, and growing closer through that.
Luis Boric, the father of current Chilean preaident Gabriel Boric, is a descendent of Croats
I met a South African of Javanese decent on the bus once here in the states and the whole time I talked to him I could not bring myself to ask, then eventually he just shared… same scenario in Suriname happening in South Africa
Yes!! Croats in the very south of chile (patagonia) as well as in the north. Because of the heritage i was able to obtain my croatian citizenship. And as you said, it is very interesting the european migration of late 1800/early 1900 and the conected history they share with mapuches. My history teacher remarked that indeed, some mapuches still have blue eyes to this day, given by the german genes.
The phenomenon of Chinese and Jewish communities mixing is also why it's a Jewish-American tradition to eat Chinese food on Christmas Day.
Yeah, there's a lot of Crpats in sluth America. In Punta Arenas there is a monument to Croats in the form of a big, metal Crpatian Coat of arms.
Croats in general have communities in many countries.
I've recently learned about Texan Silesian community.
Silesians speak a particular dialect/language in Poland. Apparently Texan Silesians have mixed Silesian and English.
I think it wasq mentioned in GN, but there are Chinese in Kenya that claim to be the descendants of Chinese explorers on Zheng He ship during the Ming Dynasty.
In Poland there's a single town Wilamowice that speaks a Germanic language. They're said to be German dialect, but then use their own spelling standard so it's more like a language of its own.
One of my neighbors is a Silesian-German. His mother's family was from Silesia. Good man.
So nice to see you talking about the Algerians in New-Caledonia, I am myself from New-Caledonia and from a village where there is one of the few mosques in the territory. I wasn't expecting this at all! Keep doing your videos, I love these!
I am from Abkhazia. We have an employee in our office who is a descendant of the African Abash family. This is the surname they got in Abkhazia. As far as I know, his mother was from this family. I have also met other representatives of the African Abkhaz, and they have retained their characteristic features in their appearance.
Деиқәаҵәома?
This is interesting, a viewpoint from the primary source.
@@ha8er463 Деиқәацәоп, аха африкантә ауаа дреиҧшуп уҳәар ҟалом.
@@cpruinhxg Hi Cpruinhxg, do you speak Abkhaz? I am trying to spread awareness of the Abkhaz language. If it is okay with you, do you think you could help me with a few very short Abkhaz lyric and English translations, please? I will credit you for your help. I would really appreciate it :)
hmmm what do u think of Georgians?
Here in Lithuania, we also have some a couple thousand Muslims (or more accurately, Crimean Tatars) who were brought in the 14th century for their prized combat abilities. They still continue to exist here hundreds of years later, mostly near the capital and north of Lithuania.
Lithuania has an even more curious Brazilian community which makes absolutely no sense
Poland has/had a large number of them as well. Most of them lived in eastern Poland which the Soviets took in 1945. Only the western most part (15-20%?) of where they lived remains in Poland today. The story is that each small village had one catholic church, one orthodox church, one Jewish temple, & one mosque. Each religion represented about 25% of the population and none were fanatic. Intermarriage was common and by WWII roughly half the families were mixed. Apparently it wasn't unusual for families to go to two houses of worship. N.B. This is my own summary of what I've read in various places over the years.
Agreed. If you look at the past 600 years you'll see that Poland and Lithuania have always been more diverse and accepting of minorities than most people think.
@@ak5659 yes unless they were Jewish.
In Belarus too (near border with Lithuania). They even used Arabic alphabet to record texts in Eastern Slavic/Old Belarussian language
Interesting video man! One I find fascinating is the Timorese in Northern Ireland around Dungannon and Portadown - partially because Timor Leste is one of those countries very few people have heard of and partially because its seemingly such a random place to settle! Estimates seem to range from 1,000 to several thousand. But like the Marshallese in Arkansas you mentioned many are employed at butchers - in Moy Park and other nearby meat factories. Even had some friends that were learning Tetun Dili to speak to them! Amazing how these minority groups appear, and great how they add to the diversity of different places.
Great Video!
Other groups I can think of are:
- Armenians in India (especially Kolkata)
- Jews in South India (Kerala)
- Jews in China
- Tatars in the Baltic states, Finland, and Poland
- Albanians in Southern Italy
- Cape Malays in South Africa
- African Americans in Liberia
- Yemenite Arabs in Indonesia
Albania was colonised by Italy.
The most surprising diaspora in France are the Hmongs in French Guiana's tropical rainforest. They arrived after the 2 Vietnam Wars (French and US). They are a few thousands, they still live a traditional lifestyle in specific villages. They specialized in vegetable production and are known for the high quality and yield of their organic veggies.
"What are YOU doing here?"
@@landon8214 And you are... ?
Nice mention !
One of my favourite geography topics. All the niche ethnic communities worldwide. German Romanians, Croatian Italians, Brazilian Italians... incredible what the history of emmigration and cultural exchange made the world so colourful.
Brazilian Italians is for noobs, Lithuania Brazilians is for real pros
@@crisistian_ Somali Serbs and Native American Croats
@@krunoslavkovacec1842 croatan is the name of a native american group, they're not from croatia lol
@@crisistian_ take the Finnish-Brazilians of western Rio Grande then!
@@riograndedosulball248 most surprising are Finnish-Brazilians from Penedo, in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro
Thank you for this video. ❤️❤️
PLEASE do more on this topic.
I became familiar with the Marshallese community in Arkansas a couple of yrs ago & was curious about the history.
I LOVE these videos of super-obscure topics!
If I had a nickel for every time this week that I was reminded that the Polish Haitians exist, I would now have two nickels, which is not a lot, but weird it happened twice.
There are Polish in Haïti, now you have 3 nickels 😁
@@Dave-gw6wh My husband, who is from Poland himself, told me about the Polish Haitians, but I'd heard about them years ago because I read about a voodoo queen in New York whose last name was Kowalski. She was from that community in Haiti.
@@hilarylawrence4588 haha thanks for sharing, would be an awesome idea for a sitcom, a voodoo Queen named Kowalski in Central NY
@@Dave-gw6wh Her name's Alourdes Kowalski, there's some amazingly long book about her which I read in high school or as a young adult.
P.S. Just looked her up and heard she died in 2020, but she was born in 1933, so she was old.
"Serbian Botswanans also have two Serbian Orthodox churches in Gaborone, the church of Saint Sava and the church of Saint Nicholas, construction of which began in 2016. The Saint Sava Orthodox Church operates a school for Serbian Botswanans to teach children the Serbian language and culture."
Source: Wikipedia
Damn I'm a motswana and I didn't know about this till today
so modern missionaries
Wow 😯 I am Motswana from South Africa 🇿🇦 and it is the first time hearing about Serbian Batswana wow 😮. By the way I love Serbians
@@theonly6359 how did you learn about Serbians?
@@dominicjohnson310 by visiting Serbia 🇷🇸 and reading about their history with nato
Thanks for the interesting video, would love another one on strange diaspora as filler episode 🙌
Make part 2 of this video. Good vid, well researched! ❤️
I find the Czechoslovakian community in Texas quite fascinating in regards to Texas culture, especially how kolaches (a delicious sweet or savory, danish-like pastry) are to Texans what bagels are to New Yorkers. Something you grab when everyone has to work on the weekend, etc.
Ah yes, West!
Very good 👍
Kolaches in Texas refer to the sausage roll, no?
@@greatwolf5372 yes, and they can be sweet as well (fruit filling).
@@greatwolf5372 we use it for both
The Chinese Community in Peru is HUGE biggest in the Latin America, been there for over a 100 years and well integrated. Same for the Japanese, the second biggest after Brazil. Also some Austrian town in the Andes where they still have Oktoberfest celebrations.
Chile has many croatians, Agentinian Welsh, Germans of Southern Brazil and Paraguay, Mennonites in Bolivia. Panama also had many asians. The Indians of Guayana, the Javanese of Suriname, the Hmong in French Guyana.
Svalbard the islands in the Arctic that belongs to Norway has a sizeable Thai community. When i was there I thought they were innuit then realised the innuit never reached that far
in other travels ive seen the Polish Village in Turkey, the Turkish town in Lithuania. Armenian neighbourhoods in Malaysia and Singapore. Somalis in Sweden, Vietnamese in Texas (and in Poland), Indians in Greece, ancient albanian speaking villages in Italy. Slovaks in Serbia, The filipinos in the middle east, Polynesians in Utah,
What bout double diaspora, so virtually all Peruvian citizens living in Iran are Peruvian women who married Iranian men they met while living in Japan.
My old neighbourhood in Vancouver had a Chinese-Peruvian grocery store and church. Took me a few months to figure out what was going on
Correction: Panama HAS (present tense) many Asians including Chinese, Indians (from India), and Japanese just to name a few
Filipinos are everywhere. There are 4 million Filipinos in USA. Lots of Filipinos in Japan, Middle East, and europe as well.
@@gj1234567899999 Yeah they love to move to rich countries, they'd NEVER go to a middle or low income country to like invest or open an business like the Lebanese, Chinese or even Indians might do.
Indians in Greece?? Can u tell me more
My church has a Marshallese extension in Springdale and I've wondered how that happened. Thanks for that!
extremely interesting, I will use it for my University essay and of course I will include you in my bibliography!
maybe not a huge minority but a small island in the southern part of the Atlantic Ocean called Tristan da Cunha has an Italian minority, specifically Genovese. 2 out of the 8 last names present on the island are Genovese
Raccontami la storia pls
I know about Tristan da Cunha. I used to email the governor of the time between 1997 and 2000 or so. Nice guy. He sent me stamps and postcards once. He wasn't one of the Italians, though.
1982ish I traveled to Madura Island near Surabaya, East Java Indonesia and met an Indonesian fellow who was Jewish ! He mentioned the community was very small- most had emigrated to Australia post independence. There was an abandoned synagog in the middle of Surabaya and at the now defunct Pinguin antiques shop nearby I found a miniture (toy ?) set of ritual utensils that included a tiny minorah... apparently there was a large community of lense makers living there in Surabaya during colonial times... I wondered if they were connected to the community in Singapore...
Love this!! I’ve been looking for a video like this forever keep making more
I work in a school district in Kansas that has a lot of Micronesian students (from Federated States of Micronesia). I’ve always found it interesting how they came to settle in Middle America from some small Pacific islands!
Super fun topic, there is so many random mixture of people groups in the world. You should check out the Magyarab people. Nilotic Hungarians.
I'm myself the result of several diasporas intermixing in Brazil. Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, African... And my cousins have Lebanese, Syrian and Japanese blood as well. Almost all of my ancestors arrived in Brazil around 120 years ago.
Como a maioria de nós, nossas famílias estão aqui a menos de 140 anos
I'm originally from Oklahoma and that's where I met Marshallese people for the first time. I was at a program called Job Corps and I met a bunch of Marshallese people who wore baggy clothes and listened to hip Hop. At first I didn't think they really knew a lot about their own culture because of the things they would talk about, but one day I was sitting with them in the gazebo and the girl showed up with a ukulele and started playing a song from the Marshall Islands and every one of them started singing the song. It was a really amazing moment seeing these kids dressed in baggy clothes that always listen to hip Hop just start singing this old song they all knew by heart.
@Bear Bear Man I can tell you the history of the Marshall Islands, Wales, Northern Ireland, Corinth, Isle of Man, England, Scotland, The isles, Britain, Basque, Carib, Sabir, Marathi, Telegu, Sengu, Chicken sandwich! Basically, I can tell you about almost any part of the world and give you a deep dive into most of the culture and history of the people in that area as well as what the largest cities would be in most cases.
So the last opinion I want to here is from the guy who would say "Russia invaded Georgia? But Russia has never invaded the United States?" 🤦🪦⚰️
@Bear Bear Why does You Tube keep deleting all of your comments?
No. This beach lifestyle has gone to my head.
@Bear Bear You're deleting your comments? Why?
@Bear Bear Your first comments have disappeared.
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I've met many oddly placed groups but the ones I was most fascinated with was the blossoming Orthodox Jewish community in Higher Broughton, Salford.
They live about 5 miles north from Old Trafford, the whole area has high walls and they generally do not mix with outsiders.
They have their own kosher shops, barber shops, schools, markets and all.
I worked for one of them guys and he was actually quite nice.
The Western Icelanders are a fascinating diaspora of people that emigrated from Iceland in the years 1875 up until WWI. Most went to Canada and settled on the shore of lake Winnipeg. The colony was named New Iceland. This was rather unusual for western emigration from Europe because most other Europeans went to the US. Of course many Icelanders also immigrated to the United States, particularly the Upper Midwest.
The polish in Iceland too could be one
Very good 👍
European immigration to Canada was unusual? There were over 1 million Europeans who moved to Canada during that period so perhaps not so exceptional.
@@harkmi3 No, I meant the fact that a majority of the people who emigrated from Iceland went to Canada. Not that Canadian immigration in general during this period was unusual.
If you do a part 2 you should 100% mention the large amounts of Vietnamese people in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
There's also Mongolians in the Czech Republic
Yeah, in my neighbourhood there's about five Vietnamese restaurant a.
In my town (about 2000 people), there are two Vietnamese-owned shops.
i went to slovakia last summer i did notice many vietnamese people, i had no idea there were a large amount there! cool info
Tina Trahn is Czeck Vietnamese. A very good singer.
Wow eye opening! Thank you for this interesting video!
Much needed video.
Theres a huge German diaspora in northern Kazakhstan, they came to be because Katherine the Great of Russia invited German settlers in the 18th century to settle the newly conquered steppe nomads lands, so many Germans settled around the Volga, before WW2 started, there even was a Volga German Soviet Republic within Russia there, when the war started Stalin deported them to Kazakhstan out of fear of collaboration with the German invaders
there's a polish village in turkey,istanbul. they came during ww2 as refugees and settled there. most of their grandsons still knows polish language.village is called polinezköy(polish village).
It's a suburb of Istanbul named Polonezköy/Adampol and the refugees came much earlier than WW2 - it was after an uprising against the Russians in the 19th century! There is a church and a graveyard there. It's interesting to look at the gravestones, because before the 1920s the names are written in Polish, but after the Turkish language reform, they use Turkish spelling. (so Kaczmarek would become Kaçmarek for instance). I used to live next to Polonezköy for a while.
Turkey also used to have a small german minority, living in and around one or two villages in Anatolia. They also got there via the german diaspora in the Russian Empire. However, they have now either assimilated fully into turkish society or moved to Germany. The last man who still spoke their dialect died about ten years ago, if I remember correctly.
From what little I've read and observed (being half Polish myself) Polish immigrant anywhwere tend to integrate very quickly into the dominant society but hold onto the language longer than other groups. I'm half Polish and third generation born in the US and I speak the language halfway decently.
@@ak5659 Well, the Poles who worked in the Ruhr region in Germany around 1900 got pretty much assimilated by the mid 20th century so that nowadays names like "Kaminski" don't register as "foreign" in some parts of Germany
Gurro, in the Italian region of Piedmont, is populated by the descendants of Scottish soldiers.
According to local legend, they arrived in the village after fleeing the Battle of Pavia, which took place from 1521 to 1526, with severe blizzards forcing many of them to relinquish their travels and settle there in the hills.
My husband is from Poland and says there were plenty of Scottish people who migrated to Poland during the Highland Clearances. He thinks his dad's mother could have been a descendant but is not sure. Her maiden name was Wardal, which we believe to be either Vardahl (Norwgian) or Wardell (Scottish) .
Very interesting video and topic. Great job,Barbs!
One thing that surprised me about Alaska when I went up there is how culturally diverse it was. So many different people groups from all over the world. Also, another diaspora group that is somewhat shocking to me are the Hmong people that live in Minnesota. I’ve heard there are a lot that live there. Thanks for the awesome content as always!
There are actually Marshallese people in Alaska check it out Peter Santanello on CZcams
There's also a significant Pacific Islander community in Alaska. I looked up one of them and it said that Samoans immigrated to Alaska because of economic opportunities and the cool climate is good for the elders
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More infamous than famous, one of the police officers that participated in the murder of George Floyd was Hmong.
@@tobyevans2474 I was about to say that. His name is officer Tho Thao
The history of New Bedford, Massachusetts is truly interesting, with many Cape Verdeans and other nationalities ending up there from the whaling industry.
I’m of Capeverdean descent (but born and raised in Europe) and all the Capeverdeans I know, including myself, have some type of family member living in that area of the US!
I heard about the large Portuguese population there.
@@cocoaorange1 Yes. In New England (especially in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island) There is also of Portuguese speaking people from places like Cape Verde, Brazil and of course Portugal. I also watched a show earlier this year set in Rhode Island and I want to visit it. I'm attracted to places that are very diverse
I live near New Bedford and there are a lot of Cape Verdeans here. Also Azoreans and other Portuguese-speaking countries.
@magaaliii Cape Verdeans in Luxembourg is another crazy story.
Because of the specific place. While Portuguese moved between France, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Germany like leopard's spots, Cape Verdeans moved around Dudelange and settled there
you should definitely talk about the Australian-Paraguayan community. A very strange moment in history when a bunch of Australian Utopians set up a town called 'New Australia" in Paraguay. The Town eventualy broke down over disagreements with how it was run. But I believe there are still a few thousand Australian-Paraguayan's around.
Love this topic. I think about this a lot where I live in Massachusetts. I live in Salem MA and we have a very large Dominican population. The town right next door, Peabody, has a large Portuguese (and now Brazilian also for obvious reasons) population. Lastly I grew up in Lowell, MA which has the largest population of Cambodian people outside of Cambodia. Cambodian refugees fleeing the Khmer Rouge were resettled in Lowell in the 80s. There was a secondary migration where Cambodian people moved to join their families later on. Interesting stuff!!! Edit: Long Beach California has a larger Cambodian population but it’s much smaller as a percentage of the overall population
The Jewish community in India is fascinating, if you make a part 2 be sure to include them.
I think this video was about unexpected diasporas. Jews live everywhere. That's actually a core part of their identity.
yeah the Bnei Menashe
@@jamesconnolly5164 its areligion. everybody can become a part of it. why stop at humanity?
Really cool video, thanks Barbs.
Mine is similar but a bit less exciting than the Marshallese one, in my hometown (Bedford, UK) about a third of the population is of Italian heritage because there was a brickworks nearby that recruited workers from Southern Italy after WWII.
I recently moved to Benin, Africa to work as a teacher in the international school. There are tons of Lebanese here in Benin in Cotonou City. They operate the smaller convenient stores and markets. Also some of them teach English as well.
Ye ye BUT WHY TF DIDNT MY LEBANESE ANCESTORS GO TO SOME PLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, THEY LITTERALY STAYED IN THE SAME COUNTRY
@lolo gege they are all ded
I'm from Nigeria and Julius-Berger is the largest contractor for the Nigerian government and they're Lebanese owned and they've been in Nigeria since the 60's/70's. Besides that, Nigerians overwhelmingly run their own economy. There is one Lebanese owned media channel but the rest are Nigerian owned.
@lologege5466 every country is for everyone. every country should embrace multiculturalism.
On my dad's side I descend from a community of Portuguese Macaronesians (Azoreans, Madeirans, and Cape Verdeans) who came to Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They're actually the ones who introduced the ukulele to Hawaii
Nice i love cabo verde gorgeous people
The Japanese in Constanza, a mountain town of Dominican Republic. But i guess there are so many...today i learnt few more thanks to you and i suscribed to your channel. a must for a geography lover.
Very interesting topic and video. Thanks for sharing this.
In the Indian city of Kolkata, the 'Kabuliwalas' are a community of Afghans whose ancestors migrated in the early 1900s. Most of them marry within the community and follow a pretty distinct Afghan culture.
I was just about to write about the large Buddhist statues etched in mountains of Afghanistan…. I wonder if the history is connected somehow? I wonder if Genghis Khan Empire plays any role at all
@@EnchantedAnn Genghis Khan plays a major role in North Sou-Asian History. The Hazaras of the Frontier province are said to be his descendants, and most of them converted to Buddhism before the arrival of Islam
I was really expecting to hear about the Magyarabs of Sudan 🇭🇺🇸🇩
Thanks for the video! I learned so much today
this would be a cool mini series
Definitely wanna see more of these Unusual Diaspora videos. Like the Welsh in Argentina. In regards to my own British Bangladeshi background its unsurprising for a Bangladeshi to be in the UK. Whats surprisingly to me is Bangladeshi diaspora in countries like Seirra Leone, Palau, Poland and Italy. Id like to know the stories behind them
Imho the Hindi/Tamil/Sinhalese/Bengali communities in Italy are not that uncommon: they were assumed as either manual labors in cattle and chicken farms in Pianura Padana in early 1990s (starting with the Hindis) or as housemaids for the rich people. Then they grew up in size and developed their italo-Indian subcontinental cultures.
As much as I've seen so many Sinhalese Italians talk in regional dialects way better than us, the natives
The same thing is nowadays occurring with subsaharian people, especially Senegalese and Ghanian people
In Italy they sell roses, Spawn with umbrellas when it starts to rain or have small shops that close late in the night or never close.
I always confuse them with Indians or Sri Lanka to be honest
I was watching Simon Reeves in the Americas and apparently many are flying to Mexico and Central America to try and get into the USA.
Don't forget Greece. Also the uniqueness is Bangladeshis don't usually bring their families. It's mostly the men who work and send the money back home.
And for the most part, they donot mix with the locals(may be the cultural identity is too strong), interracial marriage is out of question. It's like reverse colonialism, it's the same thing white colonialists did 2 centuries back...and I am sternly against it. When u go to a country, embrace it, instead of trying to change it.
P.S. - I am a Bengali myself.
My hometown Södertälje here in Sweden has a large Syrian ortodox and Assyrian diaspora since the 70s. They operate many of the restaurants in town. There is also a lot of people from India and Iran who have moved here due to work related immigration. The international corporations Scania and Astra Zeneca is stationed here.
Pretending like multiculturalism has been good for Sweden 🤦😳😔
More of this please!
Until the 1980s one of the university systems in West Virginia used to have an agreement with Syrian universities to do medical student exchanges. To this day there are still a number of Syrian doctors practicing there, many who stayed and married into local Appalachian families. Most of them are older now but I always found it interesting.
There's also a notable Kuwaiti diaspora in West Virginia as well
There is the "Siddi" community in the Indian state of Karnataka and a lot more in Pakistan, who are of African origin. Basically afro indians. They are descendants of Bantu ppl in Africa.
A Siddi person got representation in Karnataka state assembly for the first time in 2020.
didn't know they were also in India, in Pakistan they are rather well integrated into society. course they look different to locals but with the extreme tanning that many locals suffer in the Sindh sun they blend in rather well. do you know what religion the indian ones are?
The Marshall Islands have less than 10 permanent diplomatic missions, and one of them is a Consulate in Springdale Arkansas. It's also worth noting that the Marshall Islands has bout 60,000 citizens, so Arkansas has a diaspora of about 1/4 the size of the home nation.
In Bolivia there is also a big japonese community, my friends and I usually go to their festivals every winter
I have recently moved to Arkansas and worked for a bit at a Walmart in Springdale. And was definitely wondering why so many people from the Marshall Islands were in Springdale. Didn't know that you were going to explain that to me. Thanks.
Interesting that you made the thumbnail about the Afro-Abkhazians. The main reason why I clicked. It really is unexpected to see that there was a diaspora of Africans in the Caucasus mountains long before the Information Age and the village they were mainly in is called “Adzyubzha”
Another interesting one is about the Indians in the West Indies + Northern South America. It's easily overlooked since we Indians are everywhere now 😅 but many of this diaspora have families present there since the British brought indentured labourers from India to work in the plantations.
Yeah I have send some stuff about the Santa Rosa First Peoples Community in Trinidad and Tobago as well as the Kalinago people in Dominica
🇮🇳 in Trinidad are not the same as the kalingos of Dominica who are native to south America 🇩🇲
I am one of the Indian and Black mixed people in Jamaica, there is a lot of us. My mom's dad was Indian and his grandparents came to Jamaica, grandpa would have been 100 now if he was alive. Plus my Godfather is Chinese Jamaican, he's not mixed but his kids are. His family came over a little after the Indians.
There's quite large group of Bohemian-Moravian (Czechs) in the Texas. In 1930-1960s there were even some Czech-Texas country bands.
Wow. Excellent video!
As someone that is from a pretty obscure diaspora i was really excited for you to make this video and i was kind of sad that you didnt include the massive amount of germans in south brazil since both of my parents come from there and i was born in germany but the other diasporas were also really cool and i liked your video a lot hope you make more of these cause theyre great
A whole video could be done about Germans around the globe alone. I'm of partial Sudetengerman descent, this summer I was in Kyrgyzstan where you can find German stuff, etc.
The germans In south america is pretty well known and not that obscure, still cool tho
@@Argacyan one of my best friends is from Kyrgyzstan and she also has German roots. Her parents and her emigrated to Germany in the 90s like many other people from the former Soviet Union with German roots.
Your grandparents or great grandparent might have some questionable back rounds
I would not call this a diaspora at all. Im from southern Brazil and I have mainly German heritage but we usually have almost no cultural connection to Germany. We just speak Portuguese like everybody else. I dont really know how to explain this but having German heritage doesnt make u different from the rest of the population because the descendents of the Germans are just the average Brazilians in this part of the country and there are a lot of them.
The Lebanese have had ties to Africa for millenia, as the Phoenicians would travel out of the Mediterranean and down the coast of West Africa to trade. Though of course none of them would actually settle there until the eras mentioned in the video.
Also, in the Sudan episode, I remember a comment mentioned the "Maygarabians" or something like that. Basically, they're Hungarians that settled in Sudan and mixed with the Arabs. Thought I would mention it.
Oh yeah...forgot about that 😂
Great video. Thank you!
Superb video ❤️.
When I was staying in Iceland (central Reykjavík) for a few months I was surprised to meet a good number of Filipino and Vietnamese people and a few Nepalese too.
Tbf I just feel like south and southeast asians are everywhere probably just due to how large their populations are.
@@kip741 I don’t think it’s due to the populations. I think it’s due to their underdevelopment. People from poor nations have absolutely no care where they move to as long as it’s better than their home nation, and it’s easy for them to move to
Filipino people are quite common in Northern Europe too nowadays. They mainly go up there from countries such as Italy and Spain
@@ppppppppp64 sounds very easy for a philipino to move to Iceland 😮
In Germany are for example are not many of them in between all the groups of immigrants
My favorite videos are actually filler week, especially the ones that explain regions/country subdivisions. Please consider doing those again, a lot of interesting country subdivisions are yet to be covered such as Mexico, Italy, China
Mexico subdivisions would be awesome!
Czechia too
Love this kind of videos :) Pls do more :)
Whenever you run out of countries for the regular videos keep doing these “filler week” videos, they are so interesting
He also should expand shorter videos about early-covered countries.
@@martintuma9974 agreed
Thanks for the video. One small addendum regarding deportation in New-Caledonia, it wasn't specific to this war in Algeria, it was used commonly for political repression at the time, a lot of Communards were deported there roughly at the same moment. Kind of a French adaptation of the British Botany Bay thing.
wow a very interesting topic as usual with you guys vey considerate indeed
I was at a museum conference, and one of the presenters was from a museum in northwest Arkansas that made a Marshallese canoe as a way to engage with that community.
Great topic! Would be great to hear more stories like this
Ruined by the OBVIOUSLY incorrect information