Why do some Mexicans look Asian?
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I'm Mexican and I was living in Vietnam. When I was there, I was asked a hundred of times if I'm Asian. Why do they keep asking this question if there are loads of Mexican with similar features like me?
Update: Everyone asked me to do a DNA test so I took a test with MyHeritage and here are the results:
• Why do I look Asian? M...
In Mexico, a lot of people would say my features are indigenous though. We Mexicans look so different that we are very used to see people with different features in our country.
So I started to think more and more about this topic and I found some interesting parts of history that I didn't know.
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As a Mexican once in a london airport a security guard smiled at me and asked "hindi?". He was indian, with turbant and all and I said, "no, I'm mexican" and his face got so confused 🤣
Ha. That's kind of adorable. He looked at you and said "hey, a brother"
🤣😂 im in los angeles with a large mexican population.... i seen a few i thought were india-indian
Im from a Pakistani background, some of my friends think I look Guatemalan 😂😂😂
@@Candyrock15 Yes, his face lighted up when he asked me that. I got he was happy seeing someone from his country. It was an old man. I felt kind of bad telling him I was mexican xP
Now that I think about it when I was doing street photography in London I took photos of people with turbants and long beards and they all smiled at me in a friendly way when I snatched a picture of them. Perhaps they all thought I was one of them xD
When i went to Los Angeles back in 2002 there were a few occassions where ppl thought i was actually Guatemalan.
I'm Mexican. When I eat at an Indian restaurant, the waiters speak to me in Hindi or their regional language lol
Do you look Indian?
@@arealpersona715 When I went to Turkey, they speak to me in turkish and some people had hard time to believe I was mexican.
@@Cid_Hi true, Mexicans, middle easterers and indians look similar
@@arealpersona715 "True Mexicans"??? .... So Mexicans with "white" skins are fake Mexicans?
@@odettecintatovilla9575 im sorry, that's not what I meant. I forgot to add a coma. What I was tryna was that what he said was true.
I'm Asian and Mexicans think Im Mexican. We are all one! ✊️ You are beautiful.
Flipino are you?
You do not look Asian. You definitely look Mexican. 👍🏽
What Asian country r u from?
Mexican is much similar looks to Filipino 😂 it's the same looks both side man and woman because of Asian Blood and Spanish Blood.
@@Mr-pn2ehIdk what type of stereotype you have, but Indonesians, filipinos, thai, and malaysians just look the same. It’s like saying Some mexicans look a bit southeast asians (SEA). But hey, mexicans looking asian is a compliment for mexicans since most of them are obsessed towards asians lol
I am from a Slavic Balkan country but I have a dark-skinned great-grandmother, I went to study abroad in Scandinavia, and some other international students were coming to me from time to time and started speaking in Portuguese. Turns out I had a Portuguese or Latin-American doppelganger that I had never seen. I was so confused by random people acting warm to me. :D
Both my parents are Mexican. Growing up in the USA I was always mistaken for Filipino. I am very proud of my heritage and I admire the Filipino culture.
You are filipino now 😂
Welcome to the Filipino delegation!
Once a random guy aproached me speaking filipino, I was like 😅
Filipinos are also mixed race back then during 15th century there was a Galleon Trade of Mexico to Philippines for trading Purposes so in the Philippines you can heard those Mexican surname but they are Filipinos
@@Winters777 Filipinos are not a mixed race. This is a common misconception, since the Filipino culture itself is heavily influenced by other nations. I.E. Spanish last names from conversion to Catholicism. Ethnically Filipinos are Asian Austronesian which is the same peoples of Native Taiwan. The largest admixture of Filipino people is Sinitic(Chinese) with as much as 40% of Filipinos have Chinese ancestry, only about 2% have Spanish ancestry.
I'm an afghan with mongol descent and the amount of times I've been mistaken for a mexican is crazy. I love it though. Love Mexico 🇲🇽 ❤
You're a Hazara right ? :)
Thank you😊
BROOO SAME LOLLLL
There are secretly saying you're very beautiful. ❤🙏😊
Thaaank you!
Mexico loves you too! ❤️🧘🏻♀️
I always thought many Filipino and Mexicans that I've met in life had similar features. There are so many reasons why and i just think it's pretty cool! I've also been called China (CHEE-nuh) bc my eyes are smaller but this runs in my family. The history is interesting but sad...i didn't realize there was persecution of Japanese in Mexico too. Thanks for sharing all this.
This was so interesting! Thank you for your research, honesty, and video. I liked the pleasant way you presented the information.
I’m half Japanese, but I’ve been asked “are you Mexican” more often than I’ve been asked if I was Asian
are you mexican?? lolololol
then what's your other half?
From watching street videos of Japan I was surprised to see so many tan individuals, especially people with facial hair. As a Mexican I’d probably mistake as well. Though I have mistaked some of my Mexican friends as Asian as well.
@@crayonburry wym they could be asians?Mexican isn't a race
I was told by a Vietnamese if I was Philipino or Laotian.
I had a wy girl lose her shi* when she heard me speaking Spanish, she thought I was Hmong
I was told by many Chiuauans, Regio(monterrey) if I was Burmese or Navajo.
I met a Korean girl that said I reminded her of her Korean cousin, when I met her brother, he reminded me of my uncle.
When I went to Mexico City(hometwon) and told my friends that the Nortenos thought I was asian, they laughed their tail off. They were like.. have they never met a Mexican from Mexico City before?
Plot Tiwst , i later did DNA test, 12% Japanese, 2% Koreanic 3% Khazak Altaic. No pinay at all , but 80% Haplogroup Q between Otomi and Mixtec.
Otomi descend from Tibet and also related to Jomon and Ryukun/Okinawan Japanese.
Also the 12% came from TULA , Tula is where the Toltecs were from. Toltecs had highest concetration of dna related to Jomon. My grandmas town was known as like a China town pueblo.
I'm Mexican and people constantly ask me if I am Asian, they have even told me that maybe I am adopted lol
I'm full Mexican as well and I swear people mistake me for anything but Mexican especially Asian and Native American lol
@@fabiansanchez10000 most Mexicans have Native American blood so yeah that’s probably why
Me too...
@@mia6470 I'm Filipino American and I can agree with you there... Generally Mexicans don't look East Asian unless they have recent mixing from Asian Mexicans (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans) from Baja California or Mexico City. Native Americans are thought to be a mix of ancient ppls from East and West Asia coming in separate waves through the Bering land bridge, so they have a pretty unique look. Though I would never mistake a Mexican as an East Asian, I taught English in Japan, and I have seen some Japanese that look eerily SE Asian... but that's probably due to more Jomon admixture ahah
@@mia6470 many Mexicans look more south Asian
Thanks for the interesting facts. I didn’t knew them. Greetings from Australia.
I’m also Mexican and I’m told I look Asia. I lived in Japan for 6 years (2016-2022) and traveled throughout Asia, and people told me I truly looked Asian. When I told them I was Mexican, they looked confused. I never really paid attention to that when I lived in USA because there’s diversity in the gene pool population, but when I moved to Japan, it was mentioned to me constantly. I accepted and actually noticed that my whole family looks Asian 😆. I thought that was just my family’s normal look. 😅
It is.
Try to travel in Philippines 😂 because ask a filipino I already travel in Mexico, and Mexican think I am a Mexican too 😂 but I said no I am a Filipino then they start laughing to my accent because it's almostly same as Mexican Accents.
O sister, I'm from Viet Nam and when I traveled to Mexico in 2013 I had my own identity crisis! Not only everybody thought I was local, everything in Mexico looked like home and felt like home to me, both figuratively and literally. Generic descriptors like "colorful cultures" or "flavorful food" don't faithfully reflect the similarities between Mexico and Southeast Asia. Even the nuances are the same. I have found the same Mexican color palettes in far-flung corners of Indonesia. Tasted the exact flavor profiles in food all across SEA and during that trip to Mexico, most surprising of course was finding for the first time in my life another country's food tasting exactly like street food in Ha Noi. Quesadillas and bánh tráng nướng must have gone through convergent evolution. I even had the latter in Sai Gon after going to Mexico, and immediately named it the Vietnamese quesadillas. The sounds of the streets in Mexico brought me right back to the Philippines. I found beach towns in Mexico reminiscent in every way of beach towns in Malaysia. Every since that trip I've been missing Mexico so very dearly. Really hope to spend a few months exploring my accidental 'homeland' after this pandemic is over, this time with my kiddo in tow to show him this so very dear people and land. Stay safe! x
You obviously don’t understand the history of food...during colonial days and how fruits, vegetables, chili peppers n such travels. What is Vietnamese food today compare to 1k years ago? Same with Mexican/indigenous food. The food are not the same as 1k years ago. From Alaska to South America, there were no pigs, chicken rice, citrus, etc. same with the rest of the world who doesn’t have corn, chili peppers and so on from the Americas.
Vietnamese and Mexicans use similar ingredients like cilantro & lime
Makes me want to visit Viet Nam and experience what you went through but in reverse!
Tu ya eres mexicana
not every country in southeast asia has the same flavor palatte. The phillipines doesnt have spicy food for example
Yes, your video is correct. The people in russian Siberia look similar to the indigenous people in the americas. Also many people from Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan and other stans (lol) look similar to some indigenous people in the americas. For example in Cancun Mexico they really look like tajiks and I studied with many tajiks)
Omg yes there’s a guy I always see who works at Trader Joe’s and I can tell he’s Russian because I’ve heard him speaking a Slavic language but he looks Asian! It’s so cool
@s Indigenous people???Samis or Lapons are caucasians Indigenous ...
How does you assume looks a Indigenous people?
@s Yes they Do!
I think uzbeks and tadjiks look more persian
@s bla bla I live in the south of Mexico and the people here look like tajiks
Karencita, déjame empezar por decirte que me encanta tu manera de ser, tu manera de hablar (timbre de voz) y tu manera de expresarte. Eso dicho, a pesar de estar en E.E.U.A. desde los 6 años, nunca olvide mi descendencia y mi cultura. Estudio y leo todo lo que puedo sobre mis antepasados. And, despite the fact that no one has ever come up to me and asked me if I am Mexican, (vea foto de perfil) I have done my best to feel the pride for my heritage that I insisted my sons understand. Did they learn to love Mexico and my culture as much as me? Who knows. But I tried. You bring up some interesting points, and, although I found myself nodding my head in affirmation at almost everything you said, I could not help but think that the Behring straight theory has never been proven, although it probably the most likely. Te felicito, Reina, tienes un sin fin de talento y cualidades positivas. Te aplaudo y te deseo mucho exito. Oh, y que no se me pase decirte que eres una mujer extemadamente linda. Me encanta tu carita y tu tez de piel.
Wow! I had no idea about that history. I appreciate your diving into it. You do look and even sound Asian (you remind me of both my Vietnamese friend and my Filipino acquiantances). I'll be sure to watch your DNA test video!
Her DNA shows that she has Vietnamese in her. I agree she also sounds Asian as I have never heard a hispanic accent like this one when speaking english or even spanish.
pathetic. every child knows about that
I’m Mexican. My grandma said we had Asian ancestry also. I don’t look Asian but some of my relatives do. I did the DNA test and it resulted me the Philippines and Siberia as some of my roots... amazing!!
That’s so cool! Philippines was a colony of Spain...and Spaniards actually bought Filipinos to the USA and Mexico since they were really good sea farers...
Filipino is not an ethnicity. Just like “Mexican” is not an ethnicity. The original inhabitants of Philippines are of Malay ancestry. Most modern day Filipinos are ethnically Chinese, with som admixture of other East Asians, South Asian, and Micronesian. Mexicans who have Asian ancestry are Amerindian, who can trace their ancestral roots to the Mayans, Aztecs and Incas who arrived to Central and South America from Polynesia and Micronesia.
mexico and the philippines were part of new spain! interestingly, filipinos have their own versions of empanadas, tamales, chocoflan, etc.
@@OniMishima I wouldn't say that most Filipinos are ethnically Chinese. Loads of people have part Chinese ancestry but not everyone. Certainly not the majority of people.
Can u share which DNA test you purchased?.. There's so many. I would love to take the same one you did....
To see if there's a chance my Mexican roots pull up any filipino also.
(as I am Mexican but I am fascinated with the philipines) ----Thank u in advance if u can share the Test Name
Another fun fact about the Philippines and Mexican link is we have Nahuatl Aztec words in the Tagalog Filipino Language. This is due to the Philippines Islands trading consistently with Mexico under Spanish authority.
Under mexican authority, it was a bi kingdom
@@iutub619 Virreinato bajo la autoridad de España. Dejen de mentir.
@@iutub619 LOL, under the authority of Spain, actually.
All Native Americans have their origin in Asia, the native peoples crossed the Bering Strait thousands of years ago and settled in America there, creating the various native peoples. Of course they changed, but the Asian characteristics are still present.
Like the word Palengke, it's an Aztec word, which is Filipinos used it also or borrowed
Wow they never taught us this history in school. Thank you for sharing.
I live in Thailand i am from Peru,,,, and I been confused as a local in Indonesia and the Philipnes ,,,, there is some similarities with South East Asian Countries with Bolivia Peru Ecuador Mexico ,,,,,
Yeah we have a similar face don’t you? I’m indonesian 😂
@@setiawanyunus5605 terimah kasih
I am from Indonesian and Dutch descendent (Indo), but live in The Netherlands. When I visited California, people really thought I was Mexican or from Peru. It was really funny and so interesting to see how we look so similiar/ familiar. When I was watching this youtube video, the lady looks so familiar to me.
Mexicans are beautiful 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽❤️💯
Your beautiful too
So are Afghans ♥️♥️♥️
Love to Afghanistan ❤🙏
@ Vic-torino ❤️ I’m Peshawar 🇦🇫 Afghan
@@afghanempire1713 wow I'm peshawar pakistan
As a Mexican-American I’ve gotten these comments before, and a lot of my classmates assumed I was Asian for years without even asking me, I think I inherited spanish traits like light skin but I have strong indigenous facial features that people mistake for Asian features
Same, but all my class mates know I'm mexican
I think a lot of mexican are born light skin but when they grow older there skin gets brown because of the sun that's why people call mexicans brown because a lot of mexican work out in the sun
@@andresgallegos1830 Thats true, I can get brown if I go outside but I don’t 🤣
Wow me too! People thought i was Chinese. My parents called me güerito (:
Mistake for Asian features? Asian features are prevalent in Mexico due to exactly what the video host outlined. Do your DNA. Mexico may be your nationality but not your entire ancestry.
This was very informative. Thank you
Very insightful and informative ❤you have a new subscriber I love Mexican culture 🌹
I would have guessed Filipina. Your accent even has a slight Filipino lilt to it.
Who conquered the Philippines and named it after their king? ☠️ Boom, filipinos are technically hispanics too. 🤷🏽♂️
@@andresc5915 Not all islands and tribes in the Philippines were conquered by Spaniards.Possibly the 250 years Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade gives a thousand reasons for many similarities between Filipinos and Mexicans.
@@HuangHwei ofc, but the overall culture of the Philippines was influenced by the Spanish. Even in terms of money and language. But the Spanish also loved to mix and match people all over their colonies. Transporting people back and forth. They brought indigenous Mexicans to the Philippines and indigenous Filipinos to the americas. It’s very interesting
@Lucky Charm Hispanics isn’t a blood or race, it’s a culture/ethnicity
@@andresc5915 Filipinos are not "technically" Hispanic. And not conquered either, rather colonized until National heroic Filipinos who fought for the independence of the country to fight back for the land and of the people. Yes there is strong history with Philippines and Spanish but despite all of that Filipinos prevailed to fight back for their land. And just like the other comment, there are islands and tribes that still exist which speak more majority now than what history has done. Philippines is in Asia. The people are Asian. There is no technicality.
My dad is Taiwanese and pretty dark-skinned, and people tend to mistake him as Mexican. When my parents went on vacation in Mexico, they thought he was Mexican. My brother and I are mixed, and people think we're Mexican. It's gotten to the point where people come up to me asking for directions in spanish.
😂😂
I listened to a Mexican lady speak Spanish the other day and some of the words she used sounded as if they were from Asia. I thought that was very interesting and wanted to know more.
Maybe you're mexican, maybe you're adopted
Similar. I'm taiwanese, and when I was more tanned, I definitely had ppl come up to me speaking spanish in Chicago.
I know! I’m Chinese too and that happened to me so many times
Very interesting and informative video. Congratulations. Encanto y cultura de tu parte.
Fascinating!! Thankyou 😊
I’m Filipino and I get mistaken for Mexican almost every time I get Mexican food lol. We definitely share food dishes and Spanish words, names etc.
Well the Spaniard did conquer you guys for 333 years
@@boristheanimal6942 so true.
While ordering Filipino for the first time I was surprised how familiar some of the dishes appeared. We are definitely brothers.
@@mikeramirez4405 the dishes are so good and full of taste. It's funny how similar it is
Like what Karen said, the Manila-Acapulco trade route brought the exchange of goods and people. My great-great-grandfather was an orphan from Mexico brought over to the Philippines, as told to me by my cousin, who was told by our grandmother. So I have 6.25% Mexican blood (father's side). A very few see my 12.5% Chinese blood when they ask if I have it.
Off topic, I saw a video of a lady belonging to an indigenous tribe of Taiwan. She has very round eyes and had facial features that looks like a Filipina or Malay.
I'm Mexican but people in the usa often think I might be Filipino. One day I went to a grocery store and I swear the self identified filipino cashier looked exactly the same as my mom when she was younger. Maybe I have Asian heritage :)
Indigenous people who settled the Americas and make up your ancestral background came over from Asia on the land bridge 16,000 years ago. We share a common ancestor with Asians. That's why you look Asian.
Hehe as a Filipino myself I found your story's really cool.. but of course Mexicans is mexicans and filipino is filipino😁
We are Filipinos and my best friend and former classmate in college looks 100% Mexican and speaks fluent Spanish.
His other brothers and sisters, however, have very fair complexions and look more like Spanish mestizos.
you'll never know unless you take a DNA test
I’m Ecuadorean and sameee
Great video Karencita!
Great video. Thank you. So funny that in Nicaragua we also say “chinita” but in an endearing manner… in fact, that was my mother-in-law’s nickname. Filipinos always come up to her speaking Tagalog. 🤣
When I was in Spanish class my teacher told me my Spanish name was Chinita. Real name Chanese, but it wasn't until this video that I understand why she picked that name. 😊
@@TwistedLyfofTV in Philippines all whiter Man and Woman called "Chinita if Woman" and "Chinito if Man" that is also Spanish words that even Mexican and Spain that understand by anyone. Just like "Iho" means young man, if girl "iha" means young woman. 😂😂
There's something amazing, beautiful and profound in having a face that represents / reflect many Nations.
@@savila1348 I know
I get "what are you anyway?" a lot.
Beacause god intended for us to be mixed. Mixed people have better genes and less health issues also. My entire friend circle is mixed and married / had kids with people of other ethnic backgrounds. Growing up in northern NJ/NYC this is the norm.
That is their turkic-mongolic origin. You will find the connection in their Haplogroups.
I'm African American, but after watching your channel on this subject, it makes me wonder how diverse the world really is!! Your information was amazing to hear. I think you can have many cultural stories to tell. Keep going!!
@@sleeplessgamingct4227 I never thought of it that way!! You are right!! Thanks for taking me back to the original time.
It's incredible that this much diversity came from one woman who lived about 150,000 years ago in East Africa.
If you have the chance, TRAVEL! Go everywhere! The more you do, the more amazed you will be. There is more we have in common than differences. There are GOOD people all over the world. :)
@@parrotletsrunearth1173 Yes, "this is good" (I speak, read, write Japanese - was born/raised in Japan). I was proud of my nickname, "hen na gaijin" LOL. Culturally, I am very Japanese. Appearance is DEFINITELY hakujin. I actually had culture shock when I moved to the USA. And you are right. It is fascinating we all originated from the same woman.
@@melanieanne2066 Yes, Melanie Ann. I wish we could convince all the people that you are right! You have a good and open mind.
U look very filipina. I think you may have filipino ancestors because a lot of filipinos travelled to Mexico when the Philippines was under the Spanish rule.
I am of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. While I was living in Los Angeles CA USA, I often got mistaken for being Latino, or Black (especially after I shaved my hair off). I also used to find a lot of Latinas reminded me of Asian Indian women as well.
I’m a Mexican-American growing up I was mistaken for a Chinese kid. Then when my skin started to tan in High school my Filipino peers would come up and ask if I was Filipino and it would happen not only in school but at my job as well when an elderly couple form the Philippines asked the same thing but I did have a basic conversation in Tagalog with them because I was mistaken so much at school,but I’m studying Japanese
That’s because people from Asia travelled across the Berin Strait into North And South America. Why would you not know your origins ?
@@ivorysteele: Really very Interesting plus not to also even mention again on the same video I've commented already on twice and three times already while now currently leaving my fourth one about the 200 hundred million years ago's Plate Tectonic Tectonic Plates's Continental Drift that formed up the oceans that many years ago while Canada was Connected to East Asia and the United States was Connected lower East Asia and upper Southeast Asia based from the map earlier below Syria Russia in Alliance with China while Central and Latin America was connected to Southeast Asia before as I've already explained back on my three other comments, yeah so good but yet interesting question about him not knowing his own Heritage while I'm actually a Filipino Canadian who has family back living over in Souetheast Asia and has Visited them before in past recent years...Generally people who Look Filipino and are actually not are generally Latinos and while some people whoo look like their Mestizo Mexicans are actually Mestizo Filipino.!!! Not Mexican in which both are actually Awesome, it's just that some Filipinos are Mixed with Chinese but not Mexican so it's easy to get confused enough to mistake them for another Ethnicity and Ethnic Background including since because they were Connected millions of years ago before the Continents broke away and broke apart away from eachother forming up our oceans today.
That's because even way before Asian People started Migrating and Immigrating to parts of Central and Latin America and not just Canada and the US such as upper and lower North America for the US and Canadian Border, well there were already people living back down over in Mexico and other parts of Latin and Central America who already looked Asia due to the Fact that they were Connected 200 Hundred Million Years ago during the Plate Tectonic's Tectonic Plates actually Drifting away from eachother causing the Huge Earthquake that broke the Continents apart away from Eachother forming up our Oceans Today while not to also mention that there were Mexican Hispanic Latino Settlers in the Philippines back during the Spanish Period.!!! That's Exactly why the Philippines has more than ever when it comes down to Mestizos and Mestizas.
I'm Chicano I work at a turkey processing plant in Turlock CA there about 90% Mexicans working there they told me I looked. Hawaiian of Filipino are they are Asian people I've been on native American reservations and some looked Asian and some look Mexican and some looked white
I was in the Army in south Korea I.worked with Korean people they told me I'd pass for Korean I'm Mexican American but I do look Asian Siberians look like native American people Chukchi people
Im Filipino and I love Mexican, Viva Mexico.
Visit the Philippines someday.
I was sent to the Philippines for two weeks many years ago ( not long before the volcano blew). I took a walk one day, and out of the jungle came these people (Don't know which ethnic group they came from - Agta, Aeta, Ati, Ata or Batak). They just appeared out of nowhere, and were VERY friendly. They were very small, but VERY warm and welcoming. When I got back to the states I started researching them. I was fascinated and delved into anthropology more so than I had before. I really enjoyed it there and would love to visit again.
@@melanieanne2066 They are the original settlers , Filipinos are mix of Malay and Indo.
Of course, yes
@@funlanguages7922 I think youre referring to the Three Waves Migration Theory. I think that's been less popular among academics in recent years. More focus on the Austronesian Theory now.
My father is Filipino, my mother is Mexican. Yeeee..
I am a Chinese who lived in North America for a long time (roughly 15 years on each side).
Interestingly, I think i would identify you as a Latino if I met you in North America, BUT i would think you were South East Asian (Possibility: Filipino> Taiwanese aboriginal> Thai> Laotian, Vietnemese etc ) if i met you in Asia.
Great Video, thank you for making it.
I appreciate the Spanish subtitles, I might want to learn more Spanish because of this.
Edit:
It is actually easier reading the subtitles, like watching an English video at 1.25x. now it is up to my head if I can memorize the words coming out of my mouth but I guess I get the jist of how Mexicans-Spanish sounds by listening to you guys more. The one language I get confused is Brazilian Portuguese, it sounds more European, like Estonian language.
I've gotten scolded by a Filipino restaurant owner for not being able to speak Tagalog once, amongst other experiences of being racialized. My family is from Acapulco and have a deeper skin tone as well as curly hair. A lot of people outside of Mexico aren't aware about Mexico's multi-racial history or it's caste system
i dont think alot of mexicans are eitherrr, because they act like black mexicans dont exist
I got curly hair and I get mistaken for Arab, Jewish, Italian, and black somehow 🤣 I think I got European curly hair not African coily type of curly
Get back to Africa
African American hair can be wavy, loose curly tight curly and coily to kinky 😂😂 we’re not pure African by anyany means . I have 3 textures on my Head
It's rather simpler than that - as she says native Americans broadly related to North East Asian people, following migrations trends of thousands of years ago. Now recent migrations don't change much.
I’m Filipino and my ancestors were from a town along Manila bay where the galleons docked. One of my ancestors came from Acapulco via one of these galleons. Now that I live in the States, I’m often talked to in Spanish because people assume I’m from Mexico or Colombia. I was once in an elevator in a hospital with two Filipino nurses who were talking about me in Tagalog saying I was cute (☺️). Of course I blushed, but they were redder when I said “salamat po” (thank you) before I stepped out upon reaching my floor.
jajaja chida anécdota!
What are you wearing?
pinoy di alam pinoy ka? nye
@T Jelani Alkebulan you didn’t get the point. That I don’t look like the typical Filipino.
@@nenabunena I think you need to get out more to know the world around you.
very insightful video! I did not know about the north usa asking other parts of the Americas to intern Japanese part.
Im from the Philippines and our history said some Filipinos travel some parts in Mexico and live there i donno which part or state in mexico but said if you see a bunch of coconuts and make tuba then theres a Filipino descent there...
I'm Filipino and almost everyone thinks I look Mexican. Like the comedian Jo Koy would say "Filipinos are asians that look Mexican."
LOL
Jo Koy’s a trip😂
Ahahaha so true ! I love him saw him live 4 times
You do look Latina from your profile picture
@@marioguti9887 People have mistaken me for Mexican since I was a kid. There were 2 times in my life someone guessed I was Filipino and another asked if I was Asian. Ha! Ha! Sometimes when I smile you can see the Asian in my eyes and I have the big Filipino nose. :p. Ha! Ha!
I'm from the Philippines, and you look a lot like any other pretty Filipina. By the way, this is an intelligent and insightful discussion.
I mean, we pinoys and the Mexicans have tons of trading during the Colonial Era
que intersante! Subbed :)
Muchas gracias por la historia de Mexico ! Me gusta mucho !
Thank you for the story of Mexico, I loved it.
Fact: Native Americans have the Mongolian birthmark when they are born! So they are definitely descendants of the Asian-Siberians who crossed the Bering strait 15-35 thousand years ago!
That’s so true I did my DNA I got 10% Asian and 20% European 70%aztec mejica
Yes , yes and yes!!!
Siberia was a very important spot and meeting point for two migrations that came out of Africa, the West Eurasians (people where Caucasians came from) and East Eurasians (where East Asians came from), Native Americans are a product of the two being 14-40% West Eurasian and two thirds East Eurasian, who knows why humans chose Siberia, likely the weather.
@Katherine Wilson The term "Asian" is a very broad term, if you mean full East Asians came to America, that's inaccurate, it was Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) men with YDNA Q that took East Eurasian women with MTDNA D as war brides and brought them to the Americas. Native Americans are two thirds (at least 60%) East Eurasians, same ancestry as modern East Asians and 14-40% Ancient North Eurasians, so Native Americans were mostly Asiatic/Mongoloid and partially what we would call Caucasoid.
Why are you screaming?
I think we are a mix of a whole bunch of races!! I was actually surprised when I got my dna results, I have a bit of Chinese/Vietnamese in me. 🤷🏻♀️😌🇲🇽
Mexicans have more indigenous features ... Uruguayans and Argentines have Italian and Spanish features. Therefore, Argentines and Uruguayans are more European
@@marianao79 Most of us do have indigenous blood, some have more or less and usually mixed with other races. I don't know why you felt the need to bring up Argentineans or Uruguayans or the fact they look more European when I never mentioned that in my comment.
@@marianao79 mexicans from north of mexico have more European blood and the south of mexico is more native American and even African and Asian roots.
That’s interesting. I’m Asian let’s have a baby now and see how our kids turn out.
@@marianao79 who tf cares that Argentines and Uruguayans are more European? You still have that colonist mentality, and for your information in Mexico there’s a lot of white people. And the people who aren’t, they are absolutely beautiful
0:23 You said nothing right here but I heard you loud and clear LOL
Very interesting!! Not in Mexico, but when I was in Argentina, many people mistook me as native/indigenous mix and were surprised when I told them I'm fully Chinese. When I'm tan, people often say Hola/Gracias to me in NYC too lol.
That's so interesting that you pointed about the Asian ancestry in Guerrero! My mom is from Guerrero and when she travels people often times asks her if she's from the Philippines.
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@@Someone-zx7xd It’s the other way around Asains look Maya/Aztec
Guerrero are primarily Mayan and not Aztec. Hence their strong Asian appearance. Whereas Aztec/Michoacán Indians look different
I get that too
My mom is from Guerrero tooo
I'm a Filipino. As the trade routes of Spain as you mentioned, a lot of Filipinos settled in Mexico. You can certainly pass as a Filipina.
She definitely looks Filipina.
she even sounds Filipina @@Ericwolf520
started in Barra de Navidad, Mexico
you look KOREAN.....
@@brucehur2051not really
what an excellent video! I like the style with which you present information, and have great respect for your good English - I have tried to learn a 2nd language and have not succeeded - it is so hard. Kudos to you for doing the hard work and study that you have done.
You actually look Filipino and sound like one which is totally beautiful. Continue to be proud of who you are. 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤❤❤💎💎
I was thinking the same thing. Even her dialect has some inflections like I've heard in some Asian languages more than Spanish speaking.
That’s definitely the dialect kicking in
¡Hola a todos! Soy de Filipinas y a mí me da gusto que unos mexicanos se empiecen a enterar que tienen raíces en Asia o en mi país. Llevo un año y 4 meses aprendiendo español e hice muchos amigos mexicanos. Nos tratamos como hermanos por mucha similitud de los dos países en la cultura, las costumbres, la religión, las comidas y la apariencia física de la gente. Una evidencia de los mexicanos que vinieron aquí es la creación de un idioma crillo que se llama "Chavacano". Hay algunos dialectos del chavacano pero se dice que el de la ciudad de Zamboanga fue originado del español mexicano. También hay una municipalidad en la provincia de Pampanga que se llama "Mexico". Ojalá la relación entre Filipinas y México vuelva a revivir. Les mando unos abrazos virtuales a mis hermanos mexicanos y Saludos desde Filipinas.
Así es, tenemos muchos lazos históricos, pero se habían olvidado por décadas, hasta que llegaron las peleas entre Manny Paquiao vs Rafael Marquez je je je
@@leothor7128 jajaja es cierto.
Hola amigo Filipino!
hola soy venezolano en Costa Rica y tengo un amigo filipino,aprendi mucho de su tierra
@@jennielarios7692 ¡Hola amiga mexicana!
I’m Mexican, when I went to the Philippines everyone thought I was Filipino
Mabuhay!
That’s probably because you’re Spanish and Asian… if you go back far enough, same difference
@@maggiemonroe7299Spaniards are white...they don't look Filipino...Filipinos have a lot less Spanish blood on average than Mexicans do. So if there's any similarities then it's because of their indigenous ancestries
Even she looks Filipino 😂
Well I was going to get on and leave a comment but then read yours. When people say “Asian” I think they mean like Filipina. Both Mexicans and people of the Philippines if you go back 5-600 years, basically have a lot of the same ancestry. I was married to a Filipina. I’m in Mexico as I’m writing this. I see women all the time and think,, she looks just like my ex-wife.
Señorita the another reason is about the Spanish Galleon Trade in which Pilipinas&Mexico involve on that activity, My Great Grand Parents specially my Great Grand Mother also had Mexican&Spanish ancestry that came from Guadalajara, Mexico& Burgos&Barcelona, Spain.
You are beautiful and your English is superb! Thanx for this vid .
I’m Asian and people think I’m Mexican 😂 we’re all related
I’m Mexican buy some ppl think that I am white 😂
@@Ads.eddy1 just the other year my friends asked if was Asian or white but I’m Mexican
Well many Mexicans are white you have Spaniards blood
Yes we are I'm black and people think I look Mexican but I did a dna test and I found out I have Filipino blood. They Filipinos and Mexicans look similar
@@Ads.eddy1 probably because you are
En México jamás faltará tu amigo o amiga al que le dicen "Chino" o "China".
La neta
Por supuesto, todos tenemos un amigo a una amiga al que le digamos chino o china porque tiene los ojos rasgados.
Es también el caso en Ecuador. De hecho, una compañera me contó que cuando se fue a Disneylandia, se le acercó una familia hablando en chino y ella les tuvo que explicar en su inglés masticado que ni era china ni sabía chino, jajaja.
Y es porque parecen chinos o tienen el pelo chino, siempre
Soy hondureña y conosco a varios "el chinito"
There is no more confusing face than ours Malagasy people (from Madagascar). Because of a large variety of settlers from around the world (mainly from Indonesia/ Malaisie, West africans, and ancient arabic tribes) we have so many facial features that can be related to many races. In one day I can be confused as a philipino, a mexican or an indian. When I worked at front desk of a hotel, we once had guests from Thaïlande and I saw in their eyes that they wanted so much to speak with me in thaï. Everytime I enter in a little grocery shops (they are usualy owned by indian or pakistanese people here in Paris) they always ask if I am from Bengladesh ahahah
Wow! So very interesting!
This is the story of my life. I'm Mexican and people are always telling me I look Asian. Until 1 of my friends said you have very Indegenious features my features started to make sense to me. Then I started meeting Mayan people and it felt uncanny how similar my features are to them. I took a DNA test and yup, I'm 40% Native American. I basically look Native just stretched out. Lol
I’ve known people who look the same way, including my child’s father (he is from Chiapas). My family said, “They can’t be Mayan, or they’d be 5 feet tall.” HA! They were wrong. Height can definitely change in one generation. In fact, I can’t believe my family said that. My father is very tall and my mother’s side (even all the men) are quite short. What’s funny is the side with the “short” gene seems to be dominant. I was one of only two cousins who are tall! Because of my dad, I was tall. My children both have tall fathers, but my kids are short. All of my mother’s children, grand nieces and nephews are short. Her grandchildren are Native American (mesoamerican and Native American), black, white, and Latino. All of the grandchildren, grand nieces and nephews of my mom and her siblings are short! Maybe that’s why they thought my kids father would be short, if he had Mayan in him. 😂. Genetics can go either way, up or down, dark or light, in one generation.
The native Americans ancestors are from different parts of Asia so there's reasons why they look similar
If 40 percent is Native, what's the 60 percent?
Probably a bit of European like most Mexicans have. There's been 500yrs of mixing. I'm actually 60/40 native/europea and Im mexican@@failyourwaytothetop
It took a visit to mexico to make your realize that you have native blood and features lmaoooo, it's well known that we have native and spanish blood don't know why that came off as a shock to you
look up a Mexican show called "Los que llegaron" explains how a lot of cultures got to Mexico including from asian countries
Yeah, but those stories are relatively recent. 🙄 Not so much insight can be taken from that show.
@@hectorcardenas2171 most Asians in Mexico are recent migrants (from the 1800’s to today as in recent Mexican history)
@@tonyminutti5277
50 to 70 years is recent history.
Lol I've watched every episode. Pretty interesting. I believe those episodes were filmed around 2010-2012 ish
Galleon trade between Acapulco Mexico and Manila Philippines for over 300 years!
great video, chula.
Thank you for this... I'm half Peruvian and all very interested about the history of the Latino blend ❤
My dad is Filipino and gets mistaken as Mexican to the point that a bunch of angry old Mexicans get mad at him for not speaking Spanish. Luckily, my mom (who is Mexican) taught my dad a lot of Spanish to handle these situations. Also, I have a few friends who are FULL mexican but look FULL Filipino/a. It's a total switch lol.
Ha! Ha! I understand how your dad feels. They give me dirty looks too. It's because they think we're Mexican and we're just being rude that we're not speaking it. It doesn't help that my last name is Spanish now that I'm married to a Puerto Rican.
I'm Filipino and at times get mistaken as a foreigner by Filipinos. I haven't even opened my mouth to speak yet. When I do speak in English , they totally light up and tell other people in the area "I told you so".
Hahahahah when I was in Hawaii,USA some years ago, Filipinos in Hawaii, were thinking that I was probably from South America. Until they see the Philippine Flag on my military uniform. Even Americans got confused, and asked me if I still know how to speak Filipino? Because my English was American.
Sometimes some Filipinos were shy of speaking to me because they really think I'm foreign. Until I speak Filipino. Then they breathe a sigh of relief
Yeah, last names dont help at all because most of my mom's side of the family is Perez, Hernandez and Mendoza. And i met alot of people in Philippines with the same last names.hahaha
If it makes your Dad feel any better - I’m Mexican/White and people get mad that I’m white washed and because I grew up with my white grandma didn’t learn Spanish as a kid. (Though our community is very Hispanic so my friends have taught me simple things and I’ve learned commonly cultural things by association)
Lol its the reverse for my aunt. She lives around alot of Phillipinos and theyve gotten upset with her because theyre convinced she was and think she doesnr want to speak tagolog. Lol
In Mexico there are people with Asian, Hindu, Middle Eastern and even Caucasian features with clear eyes, Mexico is very diverse in the features of its inhabitants, only that the stereotypes imposed worldwide by American cinema have made the world think that all We are Middle Eastern type with Indian skin color, being that Mexico is a mixed race country
We’re basically mutts 🧍♂️
Not Hindu - indigenous yes but not Indian lol
We are the cosmic race indeed
I studied with kids from Guerrero who were as black as it gets, and kids with blonde hair and green eyes. All of them were as Mexican as nopales, there was no question about it.
@@DonVigaDeFierro Mexican born yes especially the darker ones they are natives.. the white ones are Mexican born with European decent
Remember this too .. yes any Latino can look ACHINAITO... n yes sometimes surely Arab. Go way back n Spain had connections w Arabic World. Even the words .. OJALÀ.. take it apart ( means hope to God) Oh Allah!!! More or less . All the "Al "n 'El' beginnings don't have a typical Spanish sound.. we're all cousins in the end, if not brothers
I read about that too-a bridge connecting Asia to America. Also, I read about Asian DNA marching Indigenous people from Alaska to North and South America.
One group of Asian Mexican you missed was Philippines. They came over when Spain traded silver for Chinese goods in Manila.
Soy mexicana, del norte de Veracruz. Viviendo en España y Alemania la gente me pregunta directamente si soy filipina, vietnamita o tai
My sister-in-law is from Vera Cruz she looks Black and Asian.
I get a lot if I'm Fililina or if I'm mixed. Have family that was born in Veracruz.
@Carlos Martínez: Stay safe and healthy during this pandemic my friend.
Your face is a story, a history, of your family, your people, and above all, yourself!
Tu rostro es un cuento, una historia, de tu família, de tu raza, y sobre todo, tú misma!
Beautiful
I'm Mexican and even Mexicans ask me if I'm Syrian or middle eastern. It happens so often that it makes me wonder if I have Middle eastern blood.
Same here sister! I actually found out I'm turkish as well.
Long ago, before the discovery of the Americas, much of Spain was conquered and ruled by Muslims. During the hundreds of years of rule, migrants came to Spain from many parts of the Muslim world (North Africa, Arabia, Persia, etc). Many Spanish immigrants to Mexico likely have the DNA of those Muslim ancestors that came to Spain. Mexicans truly are a mixed bunch lol.
Muslim/middle Easterns ruled Spain for more than 800 years ,that was way before the discovery of South America , alot of Spaniards has middle Eastern blood , those same Spaniards colonized Mexico and Latin America, so there's alot people in Mexico with middle-East blood.
Lebanese?
The Moors conquered Spain and inter bred with the people of Spain long before the Spaniards came to the Americas. So long ago in fact that Spain was able to be conquered and retake their country before going on to conquer the Americas. This is why Spanish has a lot of arabic elements like the use of the words El or Al for example. Spanish and thus Mexican people even have arabic sur names like Ulibarri, Baca, and the suffix "ez" as in martinez and hernandez means "the son of" and was commonly used by moors at the time of the moorish invasion and became part of Spanish sur names. Martinez or "the son of Martin"
So yes it is not only possible but quite probable that you and other Mexicans and latin American people share genetic markers with arabic people. Not enough to identify or label one as an arab or middle easterner but certainly enough to have a resemblance.
My family is European based Spanish American and my father was often mistaken for being an arab man and one woman from the middle east even asked him to marry her so she could get her green card and not stray from her faith lol he obviously declined.
This is a very important part of history, its a shame so many Mexicans have shunned the Spanish side of their history, Mexico as an independant nation is only a couple of centuries old. There is much more history to embrace. It belongs to you.
I'm middle eastern with mostly mix of Persian, Levant, and Caucasus DNA. My husband is Slavic (Macedonian/Bulgarian) and when I attended his family church, many members (including Russians) tried to speak to me in their native tongues assuming I was from their countries. They were suprised when I told them I was Iraqi amd only spoke Arabic (well, along with English). When I take photos with his relatives, many people that I'm either their cousins or my people think they are my cousins. That's just my mix 😊
It makes a lot of sense, I was born in Central America, and I have lived in the States for the most part of my life. I have been asked the same question as well. I have learned to informed them that yes, I have some Asian in my blood which I strongly believe so. Thank you for your information, God bless you
*I’m Mexican and people confuse me with all types of colors, ethnicities, races and backgrounds.* I’ve heard white, Asian, mixed, Iranian, I’ve been called all types of things. I don’t care what you call me as long as I have a seat at your dinner table to enjoy some of that cultural food. 😄
So your dalmatian now?
@@dustincana1906
Eh?
GOOD ONE BRO!
You should be happy that nobody call you alien 👽.
Mexicans kind of do that to themselves by acting like they are a race
The ancestors of Native Americans were from Asia. Genetics have said that for years. Not sure why this is mystery.
It depends... there was a land bridge, but they have been discovering different early human remains that bring that theory into question.
@@andresc5915 all the remains show they were from Asia.
@@andresc5915 no it's based off DNA and archeological evidence. Both of which support the land bridge theory.
@@andresc5915 u don't understand how DNA works. Taking different test to find ethnic identity isn't exact science when u talking about telling the difference between two close groups of Europeans in the past 500 years. Which is different from testing connection between people in the past 10,000 years. The markers are clear. DNA test vary from companies because of sample size not interpretation.
@@andresc5915 secondly if humans were in America before the strait u still have to explain were they came from. All modern humans came from Africa so u still have to explain how they came to America.
Muy interesante tu vídeo, saludos.
This is so cool, I had no idea about the Filipino / Asian connection.
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I'm Mexican and I'm always asked if I have asian ancestors. I only know my dads side of the family came from Oaxaca so the information you shared opened my mind to the Philippine/Asian ancestors that lived in that area around the time my grandpa was born . It breaks my heart a little that I'll never completely know their story, so much knowledge that was lost trying to hide their identity when they were being persecuted. Love your channel
unlikely...most Asian looks in Latam come from Asian ppl that crossed into the Americans a few thousand years ago
if your family are from oaxaca you’re probably very Native American that’s where you get those features. You can also always take a dna test and find out
Very few filipinos were brought to mexico. It was really hard to seatravel during those times and it would take years. Not many filipinos came here. Recent immigration like japnese, chinese and koreans made a bigger impact on mexican genetic makeup.
probably in the future there will be a complete DNA test to see if U do have Filipino ethnicity... that IS how today ppL get DUEL citizenship etc. due to DNA also....
@@matagringos999 if you're genes are so distant you are not going to get any papers... the real explanation i repeat is that indigenous ppl in Mexico are from long back Asian origin.. thousands of years back
I remember having heard that Native American ancestors were Asian.
Some of them remember d Mayans? And head hunters of Asia who migrate to America
@jomax clux yh
20,000 years ago the original Native Americans migrated from Asia to the Americas. So of course indigenous people look Asian. It’s in their root DNA! They are a mix of East Asian and Western Asian genes... www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/131120-science-native-american-people-migration-siberia-genetics
Its on the Canadain history book too which new immigrants had to study for citizenship
Basically they came from the middle east. Traveled to russia and settled in Siberia. Then moved to the Americas. The entire Americas was then filled with these people.
I have seen documentaries in the past that made correlation in ancient Mexican cultures art and ancient asian art. For example the feathered servant God Quetzalcoatl closely resembles the dragons depicted in ancient Asian art. In the same documentary, the archeologists had found ancient asian anchors on the shores on central America, leading them to compare and contrast the histories of the two cultures in antiquity.
Great video
My Grandmother once visited her sister who immigrated to the U.S. They were near the border in SoCal when immigrations officers spoke to them in Spanish so they replied in Spanish. They were almost deported to Mexico had she not brought her Filipino passport. People sometimes forget that 3+ generations ago everyone in the Philippines spoke Spanish and not a word in English. You wouldn't be able to distinguish Mexican from Filipino back then. Same physical appearance, same language, and same Spanish names. Filipinos now speak English and have American First names. We retain the Spanish surname.
Lmao so US immigration officers saw your poor Filipina Lola just minding her own business visiting family in SoCal, assumed she came here illegally through the southern border, and then tried to deport her to Mexico cause she spoke Spanish??? Wtf America 🤣🤦🏻
Wow facts
Filipinos on average do not look like Mexicans. They favor, but you can clearly see they are not the same race. So, as far as them being indistinguishable, that simply isn’t true. Also, Mexicans have far more Spanish blood than Filipinos have. I don’t know why that’s the case, but it obviously is.
@@troyelam8978 not sure I guess it depends on the area. My family in the states get confused for Filipino all the time including strangers telling me too except we're from Mexico. DNA ancestry reveals that the native American side stems from Asia between 5,000-50,000 years ago. So perhaps that's why many natives can get confused for Asians as the face structure has similarities.
@@troyelam8978 messed up that was true
The reason why some Mexicans--and other Native Americans--look Asian is simple: because the migration that took place during the initial settling of this continent came from Asia via the Bering Land Bridge that once connected the two continents, meaning that the American continent's first people were of Asian ancestry. Add to it that for over three hundred years the Spanish colony in Manila communicated with Spain through Mexico because the Manila galleons that sailed annually from Manila to Acapulco, Mexico, so undoubtedly there were many Filipinos and other Asians who came from Manila (Manila was the center of the Spanish trade hub in Asia) and put down roots in Mexico via this trade route. There have also been many Chinese and Japanese immigrants who were brought over as cheap labor to work in agriculture and mining enterprises in Mexico (the Boleo copper mining enterprise, in Santa Rosalia, Baja California, comes to mind)
I once had a Filipina wife and whenever we traveled in Mexico it was a regular occurrence that Mexicans we encountered along the way would automatically assume she was my Mexican wife (I'm a bilingual white American who grew up in Mexico) and would start speaking to her in Spanish...which usually got a giggle out of her as she doesn't speak the language.
But why don't Native Americans look as Asian as a lot of Mexican Americans?
Beat me to it man.
There were humans in North and South America long before the Bering Land Bridge
Exacto, los indigenas americanos provienen de Asia.
Hubieron 2 corrientes migratorias que poblacion el continente americano: una provenia de Asia y la otra de las islas del Pacifico. Luego llegaron los europeos y los africanos@@CGJUGO80
Being Kazakh woman from Kyrgyzstan, I learned Spanish in my university years(always had that crave to learn Spanish). And many times in my trips abroad I was told if I am mexicana😊my Spanish teacher told me I look indigena as well as many people all around the world asked me If I am Latina, even Latin people themselves❤I feel good about it, coz I love all about Latin America and its people, cuisine, music, dances, culture. Maybe In my past lives I was part of your great authentic world! With much love and respect❤❤❤
My parents are mexican and so I look very ambiguous in race, people usually don't know what I am lol. In fact we don't know our exact dna makeup either. I have three siblings and we all look slightly different too. They look more native american/asian and me European due to the light hair and skin color. It's really interesting how genetically diverse we can all be and yet follow the same traditions
I saw a video from Dan Inosanto who is a Filipino Martial Arts instructor giving a brief history and how some Filipinos were shipped to Mexico and some Mexicans were shipped to the Philippines from the Spanish to try and control the people. It is pretty informative.
what do you mean "shipped"? they werent shipped...MASSIVE numbers of people took paying jobs on spanish galleons and lots of people stayed in the countries they travelled to.
there is truth and then there is a narrative meant to push an agenda.
Yes thats so tru. Also alot of philipino words are Spanish. My grandpas last name was Vizcarra. He was Philipino.I know mexicans with the same last name straight from Mexico.
They weren't shipped, they were part of the crew of the Manila Galleon. There were also Italian and Portugese in the crew. But it was Mayan of Yucatan, Tlaxcalans of Puebla and Mexica from Mexico City that joined the Manila Galleon. The majoirty of the crew was Native American. They settled in Santos City and over time the langauge of CHAVUCANO developed. It has 30% Nahuatl influence. It also trickled into Tagalog. Manila Galleon would sail from San Diego/ San Francisco California into Philipines then return to Acapulco Mexico connecting goods and people of E.Asia, N&S America, W Europe. I'm not sure why this is suddendly news. in California you have to read about about the Manila Galleon. I'm not sure why schools in Mexico & Philipines never taught this at school.
@@enduring_the_struggle1319 last year the president's last name of Perú is Vizcarra
@@chibiromano5631 my moms family is named Santos and they’re from Estado de Mexico. I wonder if there’s any relation to this?
I am from northern México and people from Turkey spoke to me in Turkish, because they thought I was from their country. We are truly a mixed country.
Yes! I recently googled this because I found so many physical similarities and it shooked me to know that there was a Turkish immigration during El Porfiriato and my thoughts were correct. I'm from the north of Mexico too (:
@@Moniiuri97 mexico is a cross road country just like the Philippines that's why you could find different looking individuals, see Solomon's Gold some of it could be mere speculation while some are true
Mexico’s international relations are based on helping other countries and support their sovereignty. Lots of countries who were in wars or slavery went here looking for job or go to USA. That’s why we are a mix of lots of nations
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Bro I relate to this cause I’m Mexican and people tell me I look Korean or mistake me as a korean
My mother's family always claimed to be just basque and Spanish until I researched the origins and we're from an ancestor that was from the Philippines and came to Mexico from Chile in the 19th century
Now everyone hates me because I proved we're not just white european
And they should be so excited to learn their heritage. But I understand. It was ingrained in some latinos that the more spanish passing they were the higher in society they could aspire. Colonialism really did a number on us all.
My grandfather was from the Basque Country in Spain. My parents were from Mexico. Once I really asked my mom over and over if I had any American Indian ancestors. Finally she told me Yaqui. They are as it turns out related to Athabaskan, from Alaska, and that is where I live now. When I visited Italy, especially Florence, I was mistaken for a Florentine. I have been mistaken for a great many nationalities, Pakistani, Israeli, Japanese, Greek, and so on.
@@Czarina888777 what you say is true, historically and as well by my life experience, I agree. Good observation.
@@Czarina888777 Yeah, Europeans did EVERYTHING in their power to portray anything and anyone that didn't have European blood or culture as backwards or non-human.
Mexican-Philippine trade
I'm mexican and my family and friends have always talk about my Asian appearance but I never saw myself as asian-like, just a little. Everything changed when I went to China to study, I was shocked because many people thought I was Chinese.
The opposite thing happens to me lol. Mexicans often ask me if I'm Mexican or half Mexican. In actuality, I'm part White, Filipino and Arab, so I can kinda get the confusion.
It also makes it a little more confusing since I can speak a little bit of Spanish, some are surprised at the fact that I only started learning it in college. I wish I could have learned more but all of my college courses were online because of Covid :(
Fascinating!
It’s like being Puerto Rican. Just 2 days ago I was asked if I was Persian by Persian ! I get asked if I am Indian by Indians and even if I am Armenian by Armenians. Mexicans are the ones that always know I am Puerto Rican. And Black peoples see the African in me. It’s so interesting how mixing African, Spanish, Portuguese with a little Taino Indian makes me look Persian. It’s like mixing the colors when I was a kid in Art class.
Os afrodescendentes enxergam todos os povos que não são descendentes de europeus como subsaarianos. 😅 Cristiano Ronaldo por ter nascido em português é branco pros Yankees, mas a irmã dele nascida no Brasil é "latina" . O Brasil tem a maior colônia de italianos sendo 80% do norte da bota em compensação os descendentes de italianos dos EUA a maioria são do sul e eles tem a mesma opinião sobre isso. A segunda língua mais falada no Brasil é o alemão e a terceira seria os dialetos italianos e a própria língua italiana.
Yet as a white dude I get y'all browns mixed up and I'm rascist.
@@Solek95 The German and Italian being spoken in Brazil is a more recent occurrence. Think after WW2. I know many White Brazilians with German last names...
As a Puerto Rican from the states people assume I'm from Trinidad or Italy.... Wepa
There are only so many possible phenotypes in humans I guess. Or, it could be thanks to Spaniard heritage. Spain having been under occupation by Berbers, Moors, Arabs, etc. for hundreds of years there has to be some middle eastern DNA in Spaniards
Mexicans are beautiful ❤️
Love from New Zealand 🇳🇿
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1:37 - I remember going to a Dan Inosanto seminar over a decade ago where he gave a really interesting in-depth talk about not only Stockton, CA but also the Spanish naval empire and the degree to which they tried to keep populations unstable by shipping Filipinos to Mexico and Aztecs to the Filipins. Obviously at an Inosanto seminar we were there for the kali and that was part of why the Spanish liked having the Filipinos around as warriors, similar to how the British appreciated the Gurkhas.
It’s true my son is 100% Mexican and looks like he is Chinese.
mexican isnt a race
@@vaderentertainment8879 she never said it was
@@supmaidoods8753 “100% Mexican” then what else would the person mean by that
Yes, indeed Mexican is not a race. Because It comes from so many different races to make one ethnicity of people. In terms of race, I don’t consider myself as the “boxes” suggest, Aboriginal, African American or Black, Asian, European American or White, Native American, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or. Māori. Soy Mexicana.
Was the mail man chinese??