Life in the Basque Diaspora: From Basque Country to San Francisco

The Euskara program at the University of Helsinki invited my father and I to sit down for a Zoom question and answer session. We discussed many interesting topics: my father's journey from the Basque Country to immigrating to the United States, life as a sheepherder in rural Montana, how the Basque diaspora maintains Basque culture in the United States, Basque identity, and thoughts on Euskara Batua from the perspectives of a Basque language learner and a native Basque speaker.
Organized by Kayleigh Karinen and Araitz Claramunt Oregi, this session took place on March 22, 2021 between San Francisco, California and Helsinki, Finland.
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  • @felipeperez2991
    @felipeperez29913 жыл бұрын

    I can see why my parents, especially my father, are such hard workers. My mother and father are from a very small town in Mexico with a lot of basque influence.

  • @michelleg7

    @michelleg7

    Жыл бұрын

    are they from zacatecas?

  • @longbowandwarbowcraftingbo2859
    @longbowandwarbowcraftingbo28593 жыл бұрын

    wow Basque girls are stunning ;)

  • @darktimes3823
    @darktimes38232 жыл бұрын

    My family on my mother’s side are from Zarautz in Gipuzkoa. Some of them migrated to Cuba in the late 1800s and so my mom never learned to speak Euskara. I’m dying to visit Zarautz and go visit Casa Portu which is my moms maiden name and it’s linked to our family! I’m so glad I found your KZread channel. I was born in Miami, Fl after my family in Cuba migrated due to the Castro regime. I’m fluent in English and Spanish but would love to learn Basque.

  • @juhahaikio9245
    @juhahaikio92453 жыл бұрын

    I guess I have to comment that I'm also from Helsinki and got interested in Euskera while I was living in Catalonia for many years. I've visited Euskal Herria couple of times and I really hope I get to move there at some point and learn more about the language. Agur!

  • @norcal0076
    @norcal00762 жыл бұрын

    So coincidental..I live in the Bay Area , grew up in Montreal for 25 years and have Basque ancestry

  • @ronpetraqueas7075
    @ronpetraqueas70753 жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love his accent...it´s like listening to my aitona speaking English. Great work Hella Basque!! Fightera!!

  • @ronpetraqueas7075

    @ronpetraqueas7075

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@miketonon7946 Don´t be sorry, better you do something about it.. I found your comments on this channel highly inappropriate .Please do consider to stop .There are plenty of channels on youtube , where your sense of humour and irony will be understood.

  • @EvaLasta
    @EvaLasta2 жыл бұрын

    Wow he looks so Basque I could tell just from the thumbnail before reading the title lol

  • @michelleg7
    @michelleg7 Жыл бұрын

    I do genealogy and one of my tios was a priest from Mexico and he spoke three languages, he spoke castellano, purepecha (indigenous language from Michoacan) and he spoke Euskara. They continued to speak it even after being in Mexico about a 100 years after his ancestor came from Bizkaia.

  • @mariegrace7097
    @mariegrace70973 жыл бұрын

    Loved hearing the story of his leaving the Basque Country for Canada & then Montana. Great story. Thanks for both of you

  • @iratiml7433
    @iratiml74332 жыл бұрын

    Kaixo! Duela gutxi aurkitu nuen zure KZread kanala eta izugarri gustoko dut. As a proud basque from Iruñea, I am so grateful of any basque and not basque that appreciates the culture and languages and spreads awareness. As a linguistics and minorities lover, I also wanna thank you for teaching me about my language, history and culture. SEGI HORRELA!

  • @user-lq3jr5to6e
    @user-lq3jr5to6e11 ай бұрын

    MY family had one the first Dairies in Los Angles but my great Grand father came though San Francisco then sent for my Great Granmother mother later from Spain. loved my Basque side better then my Irish side Basquse more fun with food and more friendlly when we had Basque family getogether.

  • @xabitxuto
    @xabitxuto3 жыл бұрын

    Wow! This was a mazing! my eyes are filling up! Eskerrik asko! i"ll share this with my family. My aitona did 2, 3 year work stints as shepherd in and around Baker's Field and my aita immigrated to Canada. For the last two years I've been learning euskera from an 80 year old euskaldun berri that also immigrated to Canada. sometimes our our lesson is watching live streamed pilota in euskara. I'm very grateful for this interview, for your stories and the work you put into your site. we hope to take your tours some time. Eskerrik asko berriro zuri eta zure aitari, eta zaindu.

  • @sherrynewington1120

    @sherrynewington1120

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bakersfield area was sure popular. My family herded here too.

  • @urutimaterauncher-orev
    @urutimaterauncher-orev2 жыл бұрын

    Qué bonito que todavía haya esa ilusión por querer mantener la cultura vasca en otros lugares del mundo, por lo menos aquí en Europa los euskaldunes están demasiado infravalorados por ser una étnia minoritaria como también les ocurre a la étnia de los saami en Laponia

  • @memyselfandchristina
    @memyselfandchristina3 жыл бұрын

    I just learned about your channel today, and I really appreciate the content :) My dad passed in 2015; he was only 1/2 Basque but I swear he looked soooo so much like your aita. I appreciate the efforts you are making to document his life, and I'm sure you will look back on these videos fondly in the future :)

  • @zortzitaldea6519
    @zortzitaldea65192 жыл бұрын

    Agurrak Euskal herritik Anne Marie !! Merci pour la vidéo, très intéressante. Nous avons pris connaissance de ton blog, car nous avons écris une chanson sur la diaspora basque (plutôt sur le point de vue d'un jeune né en Amérique, ayant les parents venus du Pays Basque), et en sommes, naturellement, sensibilisés. Segi hola !!

  • @RobertMontano-oj8dc
    @RobertMontano-oj8dc6 ай бұрын

    I live in New Mexico... and have 12% Basque. I find it very interesting,,, And these videos are great , learning about my ancestors.

  • @koldoascunce2706
    @koldoascunce27063 жыл бұрын

    osasuna aita!!!!

  • @starshimmerministries
    @starshimmerministries3 жыл бұрын

    Where I grew up I only knew 1 other Basque person, this is in Imperial Valley,California. I speak English,Spanish, and a tiny bit of Hebrew. My mom was Basque and Ashkenazi- her last name was Yznaga.

  • @EvaLasta

    @EvaLasta

    2 жыл бұрын

    Im half ashkenazi and half spanish/portuguese basically but I didn't see any Basque, would it show on AncestryDNA or 23andme?

  • @EvaLasta

    @EvaLasta

    2 жыл бұрын

    You need to learn yiddish next! Its the language my grandparents speak and theres gonna be no native European ashkenazi speakers very soon sadly 😔 only the hasidish jews in nyc are really keeping it alive but they made this standardized yivo yiddish which isnt like real galitzianer yiddish or lodzer yiddish or litvak yiddish

  • @starshimmerministries

    @starshimmerministries

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@EvaLasta idk from what my brother said it shows up as Iberian. The Basque we know about from my mom's family.

  • @fionaokeefe1906

    @fionaokeefe1906

    Жыл бұрын

    @@starshimmerministries Shalom! Erev Tov!

  • @michelleg7

    @michelleg7

    Жыл бұрын

    yes that is a spanish last name, i have seen it before

  • @johngoad
    @johngoad8 ай бұрын

    Thank you it’s fun learning about my heritage. Most of my relatives came through Idaho. My Grandma was totally fluent and tried to teach me so I know a tiny bit Euskara because I was a kid. One thing I noticed is all of my relatives call us Basquos like your dad… is that an English translation thing? or is that universal? Example I cook breakfast in a single pan, (i.e chorizo eggs potatoes and peppers) to me that is a Basquo Breakfast How do I spell that correctly? if you know? (not concerned if thats a proper basque breakfast) So how do you spell Basco? Is it slang? Eskerrik Asko! Animo!

  • @barbliska6420
    @barbliska6420 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much appreciated .❤

  • @noelsamson876
    @noelsamson8762 жыл бұрын

    Got to know Basque culture in california then in nevada and boise idaho and found out there are some in washington state where i live now. Just found out i have basque ancestry and now it's even more interesting!

  • @allande1977
    @allande19772 жыл бұрын

    And now, european networks call the Basque Country (Iparralde & Hegoalde) the California of Europe... A reading that I recommend: Sweet Promised Land, by Robert Laxalt. A thought for the whole diaspora.

  • @Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96

    @Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96

    2 жыл бұрын

    lmfao, Basque country is beautiful but is kinda far from being "the California of Europe"

  • @allande1977

    @allande1977

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 Journalists always need to use bombastic qualifiers: the California of Europe, the Germany of Spain ... Euskal Herria is the new black ... for the media.

  • @terrencesauve
    @terrencesauve3 жыл бұрын

    Extremely interesting background and life path for your papa. I'm sure it wasn't easy to move in a country that didn't speak both of his native languages. Thanks for sharing.

  • @DrAlexVasquezICHNFM
    @DrAlexVasquezICHNFM2 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful. Thanks.

  • @GrognardJakBo
    @GrognardJakBo3 жыл бұрын

    0:56 "ça va être on Facebook ça ?" Excellent !

  • @sherrynewington1120
    @sherrynewington11203 жыл бұрын

    These videos are gems! Thanks for sharing I wasn’t able to listen to this live.

  • @mikelzabaleta3050
    @mikelzabaleta30503 жыл бұрын

    I love your channel Ane Marie!!

  • @HellaBasque

    @HellaBasque

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much!!

  • @igorgauna6412
    @igorgauna6412 Жыл бұрын

    Oso interesgarria!!!

  • @suefitzke194
    @suefitzke1943 жыл бұрын

    Hi Anne Marie just found your web site .My mom is Basque and she knows very little about her nationality both parents died young.She has eight siblings and 4 are alive we live in O.C. California but would live to here about the culture. MY FATHER ALSO HAS BASQUE NOT SURE HOW MUCH.my moms maiden Name was Yilizaliturri her first name Jeannine Anne Rosa's her married name.

  • @damantis4412
    @damantis44122 жыл бұрын

    Hi , was wondering how much influence does Basque have in gypsy culture in Spain ? Thank you

  • @larryorr3571
    @larryorr35717 ай бұрын

    Great Job😂😂😂😂😂

  • @mikelzabaleta3050
    @mikelzabaleta30503 жыл бұрын

    Oso gustora egon naiz zure aitari entzuten, ni Gipuzkoan bizi naiz ta. Benafarroa ezagutzen det, Baigorri ta Donibane Garazi gehien bat. In my opinión Batua is necesary nowadays in order to have a pattern of reference in education, literature, etc, but euskalkiak are a wealth we have. But the most important is the every day dinámic, because language is comunication.

  • @fermineguidazueguen8798
    @fermineguidazueguen87982 жыл бұрын

    Esta. Claro. K. Le. Quiheres Mucho. Ha. Tu. Aita Y. Estas. Muy. Orgullosa De. El. Y. De. Su Descendencia Musu. Bat

  • @UnitedPebbles
    @UnitedPebblesАй бұрын

    Soo you guys are Basque? I am Pollock Basque Asian. I need to know where you lived densely so I can blend in??

  • @eu46
    @eu463 жыл бұрын

    Oso interesgarria hau ere. Eskerrik asko

  • @bloodandrain
    @bloodandrain13 күн бұрын

    Hi, I’m a Basque and from San Francisco currently residing abroad. I was wondering if you’d be willing to come on my podcast to discuss Basque diaspora in California

  • @cynthiaperalta5841
    @cynthiaperalta58413 ай бұрын

    My family are Urtiaga last name

  • @peery_continental
    @peery_continental3 жыл бұрын

    Are Basques known for any tea culture? When I learn about new countries and territories, the first thing I consider is, what the food is like and whether they have a prominent or semi-existing tea culture. Tea is important all around the world so maybe this might spark new video content for ya in the future.

  • @r.artilesuriarte599

    @r.artilesuriarte599

    3 жыл бұрын

    As a Basque, the answer is no. While tea culture has certainly grown (not a lot tho) lately, it's definitely not a common or very widespread thing as let's say in Russia, for example. Coffee is far more common over here; I recall my grandmother for example talking about how her father would always drink black coffee with sugar, which seemingly was a popular thing amongst men back then.

  • @peery_continental

    @peery_continental

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@r.artilesuriarte599 eskerrik asko, personally, I love tea. In all countries I am always looking for a sort of tea culture idk why lol. I love tea so much and it often becomes a make or break issue when choosing to learn a language and is one of the reason why I had chose to learn Chinese and Japanese at one point. I even avoided Germany because their food wasn't as green and adventurous as say India and East Asian countries. Basque definitely has a unique cuisine and so I'll give them that....and who knows maybe they may develope a tea culture in the future and if not.....just like those countries, we gotta find the beauty in other things such as sights and what they DO offer in terms of food and drink. Just one of those important things to me haha

  • @michelleg7

    @michelleg7

    Жыл бұрын

    @@r.artilesuriarte599 nope but good vino they have huh?

  • @r.artilesuriarte599

    @r.artilesuriarte599

    Жыл бұрын

    @@michelleg7 we do have some pretty decent wines nowadays, but most of it was heinous until recently (take txakolina, for example), contrary to popular believe 😅

  • @UnitedPebbles
    @UnitedPebblesАй бұрын

    But where in Texas?

  • @robertdonalaya9991
    @robertdonalaya999110 ай бұрын

    Where are you?

  • @Chankonabe69
    @Chankonabe699 ай бұрын

    Where’d u go did u died 😢

  • @saturday2618
    @saturday26183 жыл бұрын

    Oso interesgarria izan da elkarrizketa. Ez balitz sudurreko arandel hori gehiago irabaziko luke. Itsuzitu egin du, asko.

  • @peanutbutterandjellyy
    @peanutbutterandjellyy3 жыл бұрын

    The nose ring is repulsive.

  • @saturday2618

    @saturday2618

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm agree with you. It`s disgusting

  • @ernesstocaratiesto

    @ernesstocaratiesto

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, I do disagree.

  • @Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96

    @Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ernesstocaratiesto and I agree back

  • @Gabriel-vj1cf

    @Gabriel-vj1cf

    2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine having such a strong opinion about it that you had to make a comment. You can barely notice it. Don't be such a weenie. I think it's pretty alright.

  • @jessastephenson3260

    @jessastephenson3260

    2 жыл бұрын

    If you don't like it, simple don't watch the channel, she is free to wear whatever she wants in the USA!