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Smith Island in Maryland still speaks Elizabethan english. It was a very remote island until recently. It could be an interesting topic

@jimj4583

Жыл бұрын

Nearby Tangier Island, Virginia does too. I visited there many years ago, after watching a PBS documentary series called The Story of English.

@dgwear69

Жыл бұрын

@@jimj4583I was going to say the same! Very cool. Community of fishermen which shouldn’t be surprising. I worked for a hospital in salisbury Maryland and we were the closest hospital and it was always noticeable hearing them

@spiritmatter1553

Жыл бұрын

Smith Island cake is the official dessert of the state of Maryland.

The Hispanos of the southwest, Creoles and Cajuns of southern Louisiana, and the West-Virginia-sized Navajo Nation, would all make excellent additions to a future episode of this series. Great work as always Carter!

@regular-goose4129

Жыл бұрын

thank you for metinoning the hispanos.we people are not talked about much in history.

@kingspike8458

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was gonna say, yet more.

@Wildstag

Жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, but he actually touched upon a similar language to that of the Navajo (Diné). The Dena'ina that he mentioned in the Alaskan/Russian section are Athabaskan and from the same language family that the Diné language is from.

@rackss1661

Жыл бұрын

Don’t forget the Gullah Ceechee in the coastal regions of the Carolinas Georgia and North Florida

@Wildstag

Жыл бұрын

@@rackss1661 They were touched upon starting at 3:51

Here are others: The Cajun and Creole communities of Louisiana and the French Acadians in northern Maine each speaking their own dialects of French. Hasidic Jewish communities that speak Yiddish. Various American Indian tribes are making efforts to revive and restore their languages and some have achieved notable success especially the Havasupai, Miami, Wampanoag, Ohlone, and various pueblo nations.

@RyRy2057

Жыл бұрын

oh, really, you could put pretty much every indigenous nation. hell you could argue the Black Belt developed its own culture in this way too due to the century of forced segregation from the rest of society after Emancipation.

@sammexp

Жыл бұрын

They speak French, not French dialects. Just with different accents

@roybabineaux5353

Жыл бұрын

​@@sammexp Creole in Louisiana is a french main dialect meaning they could understand french but they can't understand Creole.

@danicad.3278

Жыл бұрын

@@sammexp Accent, regional variety, dialect, patois, creole... labels are always political. It's just a linguistic spectruum. The French are famous for labelling any slight regional variation as patois. That being said, there's a specific linguistic group known as Kouri-Vini in Louisiana (different from Louisiana French speakers) and they identify as creolophones. There's also a specific group of Chiac speakers in Northern Maine (different from Acadian French speakers) and they identify as speakers of a historical pidgin.

@heatherfulmore3412

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know about this.

Orthodox Jews in NY are an interesting isolated cultural community.

@thinkabout602

Жыл бұрын

yes 👍

@jimbobjones5972

Жыл бұрын

Came here to say this. Also in Chicago.

I think it’s be interesting to hear more about the Hmong people in the Midwest, so many live in Minnesota and Wisconsin with their own markets and language. I have been really lucky to live and work with several Hmong folks in my time in the Midwest

@montananerd8244

Жыл бұрын

Luckier than you know! We used to have a very large Hmong community in the 70s and 80s, but most moved to CA or MN after that first Gen (hmong ppl mostly came under refugee program & were resettled). We have only a few families left, one married into a northern Laotian family and now you can get two kinds of Laotian food here, but few families remain. I've been working to gather embroidery & artifacts for our museum, we don't have much from their brief time as a subculture here. I saw that, despite our politics here, the line is very long to get food from the Muslim Afghan refugee family selling their food at street fairs. Hopefully, we'll be welcoming more Afghan people soon. It's the same geography in many ways lol.

@BadgerCheese94

Жыл бұрын

Would that really count though? They're just an immigrant group. This is more about a group of people born and raised in the US who have a very different culture than the rest of us. The experience of the Hmong isnt radically different than many other immigrants esp Asian.

@MichaelFieldsJr-qr6jm

8 ай бұрын

There is a large Hmong commumity all over East Texas. They mainly work in the Poultry industry. They are very nice people.

Here in Orange County California we have the largest diaspora of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam. “Little Saigon” as it is called has areas where Vietnamese is the primarily language spoken and the area is still growing as well.

@danielm5535

Жыл бұрын

Lived there during the mid 1990s in my early teen years- my schools were about 60% Vietnamese at the time. I wonder where the demographics are now!

@MichaelFieldsJr-qr6jm

8 ай бұрын

I live in East Texas. Vietnameese is the third most spoken language in our county. Our city website has English, Spainish, and Vietnamese options. Cambodian is the 4th most spoken language. They are very nice people.

It had been 45 days since TII made the Indiana state video. It should be about time that he uploads the Mississippi video today or tomorrow. In a course of 827 days he made over 20 state videos related to US explained which is 1 video per 41.35 days on average.

@pureteddybear_

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this info, as a Mississippian I've been waiting eagerly

@pureteddybear_

Жыл бұрын

This aged poorly.

There are other parts of Alaska that speak Russian Siberian languages, namely the Yupiks, who can be found on both sides of the Bering straits

@heatherfulmore3412

Жыл бұрын

St Thomas, St Croix, and St John have their own dialects. Their language was Dutch.and Danish before 1917.

You really flubbed the stats for Alaska. One in 5 Alaskans speaks some Russian; there is a significant recent immigrant population. Russian Village, Nikiski, and other small towns have state mandated half-day in english requirements, but Kenai Peninsula Burrough school district has a number of schools where the other half day is in Russian. It was, in 2010, about 5% use Russian at home. My kids had readers in both English and Russian. Most of the OCA priests in Alaska are conversational in Russian and in Russian Church Slavonic; about 18% of Alaska are OCA; another 1.5% are other ethnic Orthodox Churches (Greek, Antiochian, ROCOR). And two of the KPB russian speaking villages are Russian Old Believers. Most of my pastors spoke some northwestern Church Slavonic and Ukrainian - Ruthenian aka Carpetho-Rusyn Catholic. Which is easily mistaken for Russian Orthodox unless you can tell the difference between Ukrainian and Russian. (There are major pronunciation transforms and different borrowed words.) You also missed the Quakers in the North Slope Burrough.

I would love this to become a series. The topic of cultural enclaves is so fascinating!

@JaredtheRabbit

Жыл бұрын

It sure is! :)

@heatherfulmore3412

Жыл бұрын

Interesting

8:07 Dutch is not a mispronunciation of Deutsch, rather Dutch used to have a wider meaning in English, referring to both high and low German.

Can’t lie I hate these Masterworks ads, their marketing reach is similar to Establish titles and that makes me suspicious of them, but your transition to that ad read is masterful

@jdkoz98

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha I was like this dude is a natural!

When my Great Great Grandfather was growing up in Pennsylvania he learned the local language, German, and when he first went to school the instruction was in English. He eventually learned 3 languages, the native language from his home country, German, and English. Just an interesting story of the culture in Pennsylvania

Many of the islands in Maryland, Virginia and the Carolina's have isolated islands with English speakers who speak like the English settlers hundreds of years ago.

This is, of course, interesting, as are all parts of the series. The segment about Oklahoma contradicts what I was taught about the Diné [Navajo] Nation. Specifically that they are the largest federally recognized tribe, with the largest area. Since the Navajo lands and population overlap several states, and as there are several smaller enclaves and exclaves, this may have complicated the research. The Navajo certainly should be included in a sequel. One interesting cultural element can be expressed by a picture of a Navajo hogan proudly flying the flag of the USMC. The Navajo are proud of their traditions and language, but as a part of the warrior tradition there is honor not shame in going to war with other great warriors. Ira Hayes, of the O'odam, was one of the Marines raising the US flag on Mt. Suribachi, Okinawa, showing that this is not just a Navajo custom. Also the US military confounded Japanese intelligence during World War II by having Native Americans give orders in their language rather than a breakable code.

@montananerd8244

Жыл бұрын

So true about warrior culture. A local speaker was explaining why her son was named "Kills Seven" for his Apsaalooke name. The man who named her son his traditional name was a great warrior from the Vietnam War and, in their tradition, named the child for his own heroic act. Our speaker explained that, tho white people don't like names that reference killing, if a warrior kills to save his brothers in arms, you commemorate that! Kills Seven isn't a name bragging about death, it's honoring the act of he who killed seven so that he could save his troop, and honoring the sacred duty of the warrior to face death to keep the elders and children safe.

I would definitely add the French speaking Cajun in Louisiana along with the Creole population there too. You could also feature the native Hawaiians and their language, as well as the increasing smaller population of German-speaking Texans.

always been fascinated by cajun, creole, gullah/geechee, and amish/pennsylvania dutch ppls

Saying hi from Hershey Pennsylvania! The Amish certainly are different but they are friendly and polite in an old world way. They have amazing food and are very good with money!

I have ideas! 1. The Cherokees of the Qualla, NC 2. Dearborn, MI 3. Wisconsin Wallons

You could also talk about the Hasidic Jewish communities of the Hudson Valley in New York, specifically in Brooklyn, the town of Ramapo, and the town of Palm Tree. Very interesting communities to learn about

@spinkid2000

Жыл бұрын

Like the village of Kiryas Joel. Its very different from the surrounding community. In New York City you have so many heavily diverse neighborhoods its expected in some way.

@cypothingy

Жыл бұрын

@@spinkid2000 Palm Tree is the legal name of the town that is coterminous with the village of Kiryas Joel. It was originally a village within the town of Monroe but petitioned for and was successfully granted independence as its own town. Originally the village and town weren’t quite coterminous but they are now. There’s also an effort in Monroe to create a new village, Seven Springs, by some members of the same community

The "hoi toide" brogue that used to be spoken on the Outer Banks of NC might be an interesting addition to a future video in this series. I think it's still spoken by a few people on Ocracoke Island.

There is also a large Mennonite presence in northern Mexico.

@koiue.g8709

Жыл бұрын

And their language is actually considered a national language by the Mexican government

Might be a good video to also cover the first asian enclave in America, the manilamen of the Louisiana bayou

@revinhatol

Жыл бұрын

As a Filipino, I agree with you an this!

pls make this into a series. great video. really enjoyed it

Excellent video, I look forward to more of the series!

Where I live in western Pennsylvania, there is a very high Amish population, but not as high, or “famous” as Lancaster County.

Thank you for sharing! Great video! Interesting information!

I lived near Holmes County Ohio, known as Amish country. We'd go there often to buy cheese and wine at Heini's Cheese Factory or Troyer Market, and have lunch at Alpine Alpa and see the world's largest coo coo clock. I miss those trips so much.

Despite the end of The New Netherlands' Dutch rule in 1664, the Dutch language continued to be spoken on that land for another 300 years until the last speakers of Jersey Dutch died around 1958.

@kaiga9341

Жыл бұрын

We had a Dutch president!

@bobwillis9190

Жыл бұрын

That’s crazy

@riograndedosulball248

Жыл бұрын

Dutch lost the vote to be the US' oficial language... By one vote

@bobwillis9190

Жыл бұрын

@@riograndedosulball248 No

@meekos699

Жыл бұрын

@@riograndedosulball248 The United States has never had an official language nor even got close to establishing one

Little Saigon in Westminster CA. When the US pulled out of Vietnam thousands of south Vietnamese fleeing to the US were put in Camp Pendleton. At the same time an actress was trying to get California to translate the tests for a nail technician license (what you need to open a nail salon in CA) into another language. So California translated it in to Vietnamese. This is why all the nail salon in LA a owned by the Vietnamese.

Yes for making this a series!

Super cool video! A couple cultural enclaves I know of include the Paw Paw French community in Missouri, the Lumbee Native Americans in North Carolina, the Texas Germans, and the New England French

Please keep this series going! 😊

It should be noted, Iowa has a very significant Amish population too. I quite enjoy visiting their communities and shops. They are excellent craftsmen and live a way of life that is almost enviable in today's modern society. All of my belts I own were made by Amish blacksmith and they are of the highest quality. Nothing but respect for the Amish!!

How interesting, man. Please do a series!

Kentucky also has a large population of Amish people. They're definitely an interesting people, and I appreciate the way they choose to live their lives.

Not sure if its different enough for a video but I think Fall River MA is an honorable mention. The city is populated by a lot of portugese-americans, and the influence is all over including specifc holidays/ feasts and the local cuisine

I just made a comment mentioning Alaska Creoles but came to where they have been mentioned. Nice EDIT: Also it would be cool to see Clarkston, Georgia brought up and discussed in a video

Fascinating video!

That was a nice little video.

Native aleutians would be a good topic

a good project keep it going we nreed to know more about our people.

You could do an entire one of these on North Carolina alone. The Eastern Band of Cherokee in the mountains; the Lumbee, Waccamaw Souian, and Crusoe Island in the southeast, and the Hoi Toiders in the Inner & Outer Banks. Super diverse state, could be worth a look for a video. Anyways, great work!!

Cool vid. It would be interesting to continue this, and perhaps add in all the amazing diverse ethnic immigrant communities in the USA, old and new. They might not be defined as enclaves as you define here, but come close. Along with many listed in the comments, I would add the Tibetans in Jackson Heights, NY. Such a series would show the world what a truely unique nation the usa is. No other country is so diverse. Its a blessing, and we should be proud as one nation.

This is really interesting. Would love to hear more about other cultural enclaves. I also would have enjoyed hearing about Cherokee, NC, as it is another enclave that was mentioned in the video, but not explicitly explained. It is a really awesome part of Nc, and the history of why it’s still there is pretty cool.

Love love love this video

Very interesting in my country México we have the Mennonite, mayan and other indigenous nations in the north that are kinda isolated form the rest of the population, many reasons being not only their culture but that the Mexican government waged war on them at the end of the XIX century so they tried to scape the Mexican settlers sponsored by the gov

The Bruderhof could be a population group to look at if you are doing this as a series. An offshoot of the amish if I'm correct. I grew up near their land in SW Pa and my grandfather did business with them. They helped repair our barn after it was hit by lightning, it was so old no one else in the area had the tools and knowledge to seamlessly do the repairs. They also built some tools for us like a cow shoot that could hold a cow and open up on the sides to make it easier for us and veterinarians to give the cow medicines and treatment. My grandfather either paid with cash or a combination of cash and livestock.

Loved this!

Really interesting!

I could see Star Island being a masterwork ad from like a mile away lmfao

Geography King briefly talked about these islands of diasporas. You can look at the Hispanic, Haitian and Jamaican communities in Florida. Calle Ocho (SE/SW 8th Street in Miami) is in a region "Little Havana". Little Haiti is just north of Little Havana in Northern Miami-Dade County. Lauderhill (aka "Jamaica hill") is a community of Jamaicans in Broward County. There is also Ibor City, a Cuban community in Tampa once known for its cigars.

Great video.

Great video

Hey Carter, Koreatown in Los Angeles could be a great episode.

Talk about the hutterites of the upper Midwest and the west of both the U.S. and Canadia

I thought, islands meant places like Guam, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. Cultural islands are interesting, too.

Tangier island Virginia is interesting in terms of dialect close to colonial English, not sure if this would qualify

Tangier Island Virginia & Smith Island Maryland in the Chesapeake Bay, Ocracoke Island in the Outer Banks, and the Down East and Lumbee areas of North Carolina all have unique dialects, all of them dating to Elisabethean or Jacobean times. They all seem to be united by the "hoi toide" pronunciation. THIS was the English spoken in England during Shakespeare.

I have a hypothesis about linguistic evidence of New Sweden. It is common in the area around the Delaware Bay and river (such as Philadelphia and southern New Jersey) to refer to grandparents as ‘mommom’ and ‘poppop.’ This is oddly similar to the Swedish terms for maternal grandmother ‘mormor’ and paternal grandfather ‘farfar’. But I haven’t been able to find any evidence that it’s etymologically related.

sounds like an interesting series, but please make sure to continue your US states series

The ultra-orthodox/Hasidic Jewish communities in Brooklyn and further upstate communities (Kiryas Joel, New Square). Almost totally cut off from their surroundings despite being in heavily populated areas

Tejanos in TX. Even have their own genre of music which had a heyday in the 90s

Northern Rio Grande of New Mexico and Colorado. 16th century Spanish is still spoken in rural areas. The San Luis Valley from Santa Fe to Alamosa CO is the heartland. These are the oldest Spanish culture in the US, dating from 1590.

Excellent video, but I have one pedantic quibble: the magnitude of earthquakes is not measured on "the Richter scale" they are referred to as a "magnitude X" earthquake.

We're working to put back the history, but I'd love to hear about the Latino enclaves of sugar beet country. I grew up about 2 hrs from Canadian border, in a town that was about 15% Latino. Montana has a Mexican food tradition going back to 1905. Mexican-American (and American people of Mexican heritage from Texas) families built the sugar beet industry, and used to live in enclaves like La Colonia in Billings MT. The enclave itself is gone, but Latino Montana continues to grow, building on over 110 years of history.

Ꭳꮟᏺ! I'm Cherokee and live in Citizen Potawatomi Nation jurisdiction...if you'd like to learn more about what Indigenous lives in Indian Territory are like in 2023, I'd be happy to help! :)

@koiue.g8709

Жыл бұрын

Do you speak Cherokee?

@ToniAllen

Жыл бұрын

@@koiue.g8709 A tiny, tiny bit. Can't hold a conversation, I just know a few words and phrases. But I'm trying to learn.

I find the discussion of Russian in Alaska quite interesting here. When I was in high school, we went on a trip to Washington, DC. On that trip, there were several schools also part of the trip from all over southwestern Alaska and they all still spoke Russian and even spoke English with a Russian accent. They even dressed in traditional Russian clothing.

You could discuss the Hutterites in a future video. They are Anabaptists, like the Amish, and have a lot of similarities, but even more focus on living communally.

@daholyspirit2783

Жыл бұрын

True cause some of those counties highlighted I’m pretty sure were other mennonite groups.

My great grandmother spoke fluent PA dutch. I have seen some of the grammar and it looks quite similar to German, the language that I am learning currently!

The Hasidic Jews in New York might be an interesting group to talk about if this becomes a series.

@MN12warbird

Жыл бұрын

Theres other more prominent groups that were here 1st that deserve the attention more jews. Jews were imported here.

@nickparadies350

Жыл бұрын

@@MN12warbird pretty racist bro

@MN12warbird

Жыл бұрын

@@nickparadies350 to you, yea

@MN12warbird

Жыл бұрын

@Nick Paradies its not racist to point out jews always trying to hog the attention when the initial topic wasnt about them in the first place. Typical jewish behavior. Finding offense where there was none lol

I think Smith and Tangier islands in the Chesapeake count as a cultural enclave.

As a Lancaster County native, THANK YOU for pronouncing it correctly!

I don't know why but i get the impression that the Amish have a strong sense of community and good work ethics ;-) Perhaps you should've mentioned that in your video? ;-)

Checkout Smith Island Maryland!

A group you should include in your series is the Cajuns of South Louisiana

@ThisIsMyYoutubeName1

Жыл бұрын

It’s a hard topic because there are a lot of confusion as to what a “Cajun” is. When doing my family tree, all my ancestors were part of the deportation. I’ve always believed we were “Cajuns”. I’ve recently discovered that there really aren’t any true pure Cajuns. I’ve grow up in the outskirts of Lafayette, speak “Cajun French”, it’s the only life I’ve known. Speaking with historians, there are very little, if any true Cajuns in Louisiana. This is only in terms of pure Acadian (which we know how, or at least have a general understanding of how the term Cajun came into play). Despite my grandparents being Broussard’s, Babineaux’s, Leblanc, Chiasson , Hebert and other names documented as Acadian, knowing all my grandparents in that time were exiled, after they settled here they married Creoles and a few Germans. But the next married back Acadian, keeping Acadian surnames. Then learning that we are the ones responsible for banning Cajun French, so it’s our own fault such a beautiful and unique culture is being lost, it’s disheartening. Nonetheless, I’ve also found some who have a very different opinion about it. Hopefully it gets talked about more. We may not be Cajuns by some standards, but our culture is dying. I’d absolutely love to see it talked about more. I wish more schools offered French immersion. We just need more people wanting to preserve it. Kids these days have no interest.

⚠️Please do one on the Cape Verdeans in Massachusetts and Rhode Island⚠️

How about Sveadal in Santa Clara County (yes, Silicon Valley)? It’s a summer resort community that exists inside a state park.

Americans have off handedly referred to Germans as Dutch for hundreds of years. "Black bumper" Mennonites drove cars, but painted the brightwork black.

Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

I’d watch a mini series

High Tiders in coastal Virginia, Melungeon in the Appalachians, Arab culture in Detroit metropolitan area

The Acadian and French Canadians in the boarder regions of the Atlantic/north east regions (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York), the Abanaki, Mi'kmaq, and other indigenous nations which span the Canadian/American boarder

That is extremely interesting..... 🤔

Seconding Tangier Island VA, you can't do a series like this without them. It's wild how different their english sounds.

I think Marin City California is an interesting cultural exclave to include in a part 2

Good content, but apart from the Amish, islanders (Saipan, guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico) take the cake if you count non-continental.

I really enjoyed this video. So educational. One thing: I wish you can talk more slowly. I am Japanese and it's a bit difficult for me to follow your speed. Please take my plea into consideration🙏

Topic Idea: Asian migration and cultural influence, San Gabriel Valley, Ethnoburb in Los Angeles County, CA.

I used to deliver newspaper on Star. Island.

Do the Cajuns/Creoles I live in NOLA now and need more insight

the PA dutch is a wider group, but the Amish in PA are considered a subset of that group. PA dutch include the descendants of the PA German immigrants... a lot of them aren't Amish. Though not a lot of them outside of the Amish actually speak the language.

@andrewvollo263

Жыл бұрын

The use of PA Dutch is rapidly declining across eastern PA. 30 years ago, one could hear non-Amish speakers conversing in dutch in the stores, out and about. Dutch could be heard from York to Easton PA. Sadly the younger generation no longer speaks it.

i would mention the finnish people of michigan’s upper peninsula

12:55 Gosh, my mind is laughing! 💀

Michif (Cree+French) spoken by Métis tribe in North Dakota and Montana Pointe au Chien French (spoken by Houma tribe in Louisiana) Muskrat French (Illinois) Paw Paw French (Missouri)

Here are some interesting ones that might not be so obvious: The Isleños of Louisiana, who are like the Hispanophone community that intermingled with Cajuns/Creoles/other groups; the significant religious community of Minnesota's Twin Cities known jokingly as "Paganistan;" Niihau in Hawai'i, which is privately owned by some rich family under some sketchy (quasi-colonial) circumstances, though a plus side of this is that the Indigenous people have been allowed to stay and have pretty much preserved most aspects of their culture; neighborhoods in cities that have retained relative homogeneity (i.e. Little Italy, Chinatown, etc.); Appalachia has some interesting arguments for being in the Cultural Enclave category, especially since there are lots of stereotypes; the small Sámi population in Alaska; places like Greenwich Village, Provincetown, and the Castro which are known for their thriving LGBTQ+ communities; some travelling/nomadic communities in the US which retain their ways; maybe a footnote for communities which have unique local customs that don't fit neatly into other categories, like Slab City, Intentional Communities, Boonville in Northern California where some older people still speak a sort of cant which arose in the 1890s, etc.

@cynthiaAndTheSea

Жыл бұрын

Also the Hoi Toider dialect of the Outer Banks and Chesapeake Bay Islands, and the Ramapough of New York/New Jersey.

That Is Interesting

you should do high tiders or hoi toiders of the outer banks

10:48. There are (or were, at least) Amish communities in Central and South America.