I am part of the Basque diaspora. I was born in the Basque country, but grew up in Australia. I am bilingual in Spanish and English, and speak very little Euskera, but grew up with parents who were Euskaldunes, and who would always speak Basque when they did not want us to understand. The thing about having eight Basque surnames is about showing that you had no mixed blood, with either Jewish or Muslim heritage. It became important after 1492, where "conversos" had been forced into Christianity but never really accepted. The vascones on the other hand had fought the Saracens around Roncesvalles and so were granted honorary aristocracy. It meant they were free from paying regal taxes, and were given heraldic coats of alms, if only you could show that you had 12 Basque surnames. Even today people can recite their 12 surnames without blinking, unfortunately I only have 11 of the 12, offhand they are Iriondo Arriola Iriondo Zubizareta, SAN MARTIN, Orozko , Carriega, Lizundia. If you understand Spanish there is a fantastic series on KZread called "Una Historia de Vasconia" made by a Basque historian. It gives a rich cultural history in about 20 episodes. I have spent a couple of years teaching English in the Basque country (Euskal Herria), and I have been told very clearly that I have Basque Blood in my veins, and should be proud. What makes you Basque is cooking and eating Basque food, and singing the songs like the Bocheros, after dinner.

@luzrivera1353

9 ай бұрын

Interesting 🤔 I will check it out. I know I have Basque, middle eastern and Sephardic so it makes sense that conclusion.

@alisonandrew4547

Ай бұрын

Cool an Aussie! I am also Australian but Cornish ancestry ,plus some Iberian blood in my dads side. My only claim is O neg blood and the Basque eye colour (might be Basque after all) 😊

@navarrenavarre

3 күн бұрын

Basque identity has nothing to do with language but I will NEVER CONDONE Killing people over it and that is the problem. Communist propaganda

I was born in Canada, I speak English, a little bit of Spanish, and no Basque. I didn't even know what Basque was until a few years ago. My dad is from Mexico and has 2 Basque last names, while my mom is British. I rock my Basque last name proudly, and I'm not about to stop calling myself Basque. I may have absolutely zero connection with the language, culture, people, identity, or geography, but damn it, I want to be a part of it!

@HellaBasque

4 жыл бұрын

I love that you're repping that Basque name! Anyone who is interested in the Basque Country and Basque culture is a-okay in my book :)

@aboyhasnoname5356

4 жыл бұрын

Same here! except i speak spanish and am learning catalan so I'm arounddd the basque region haha

@princetonimran7524

2 жыл бұрын

you probably dont give a shit but does someone know of a tool to log back into an instagram account?? I was stupid lost the password. I would appreciate any assistance you can give me!

@lawsonwilliam2056

2 жыл бұрын

@Princeton Imran instablaster :)

@princetonimran7524

2 жыл бұрын

@Lawson William Thanks so much for your reply. I found the site thru google and Im in the hacking process atm. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later with my results.

When I lived in Spain, every single time someone found out my last name was Ibarra, they would say, "That's a Basque name. You're Basque." So for me, it seems like, I'm Basque. 😊 No, but seriously, when I went to visit Basque country, I honestly felt a very strong connection to it. One of the happiest memories of my life was standing on the foothills of the Pyrenees. It felt like I had come home. I'm a Cuban from California , by the way. I'm also a Flamenco dancer, which of course has nothing to do with Basque anything, but that one is explained by my large amount of Andalusian DNA. 😁

@HellaBasque

3 жыл бұрын

That's really interesting. I have the same feeling when I go back to the Basque Country. It just feels familiar :)

@tarawiselove

3 жыл бұрын

I have yet to go. We didn't have time to go further north the last time I visited Spain. My ancestry is Basque. It would be so neat if we could get a small group to go over and enjoy and explore Basque country and culture for a couple weeks.

@mikesallaberry3718

3 жыл бұрын

I totally understand the feeling of connection, even though I've spent less than a few months total of my life there! I went to my Ama's village after having not been there for 18 years and the feeling of "being home" again was incredibly profound and totally unexpected as I walked down the main road into town.

@iraultzabeitiagoitia5315

2 жыл бұрын

Ibarra in English would be Meadow.

@ladyaly864

Жыл бұрын

I’m a Cuban from Miami…Been here since I was two months old…I’m an Arboleya, which are all one very old blood line from Asturias…It does feel like home to me too…

I just found out that I'm part basque in a DNA test and trying to learn about my family's history. Thank you!

I grew up in Idaho, I am not Basque but my best friend was born in Guernica. My family was Catholic and Idaho was very Mormon ( love and respect both) but my fondest memories are of the Basque culture. The food, the traditions and the culture are the best. It was so amazing.

Hi Anne Marie!! I was born and raised in Bizkaia by Galician mother and Basque father born in the diaspora. I have lived in bizkaia for all my life and I can not other things but to feel 100% basque though I, unfortunately, don’t speak basque. It was difficult to learn basque in a city just after the dictatorship, and later on I didn’t pay enough attention to learning basque. Nowadays I can speak a little basque and understand most. But what I think that really make us basque is our intention of being basque itself. If you read about it, Bizkaia was one of the first places in the world that recognized that everybody was equal to laws. That’s a law from the 16th century (I think) that is called the law of “Hidalguía Universal”. It means they everyone who lives in Bizkaia is an Hidalgo (a Lord) to the castelian courts. It was a condition that every castellian king had to accept this if he wanted to rule in the basque territories. So taking this into account, I think that we can update that 16th century law and do it a little bit more casual... So as we say in Bilbao, everybody who wants to a “Bilbaíno” is a bilbaino. You only have to want it. So I think that if you want to be basque, and feel basque, how is anybody going to tell you you are not basque only because you were not born in a certain place?? I think that we all are basque, if we want to. It doesn’t matter if you were born or US or Argentina or in Zaldibar. And I really think that this is what really makes being basque special, as you can be basque as long as you had a link with the Basque Country along your life. Who are we to judge “basqueness”???

You offered a great summary of the different theories. Eskerrik asko. I have a Basque lastname out of four but I'm within the relative small percentage of people who speak Basque. To encourage everyone to learn Basque I will say that if you learn Basque you will be euskaldun, which makes you automatically Basque. It's easy to get our citizenship!

Thank you for this!

Hi I'm from the Basque Country who has minimum 31 basque surnames so I feel like I'm quite basque😂 And by the way, thanks for talking bout basque from California! Love you ❤️

I am Basque. I'm proficient in French and Spanish, but regretfully I don't speak Eskuara and it makes me feel like a fish out of water when I am among eskualdunak.The old kingdom of Navarre was divided between France and Spain which in my opinion was the cradle of the Basques. I enjoy your videos very much!

@HellaBasque

3 жыл бұрын

I can relate! Thanks for your comment :D

I just found your channel and I feel like I've known you for so long, because the things you say resonate with me. As a diaspora kid myself (as my name might imply) with only 2 apellidos vascos, I feel you so much! Being Basque is all about connecting with our culture and our country. I visit almost every year and I feel so much at home. Like I belong there in the Pyrenees, or the bay of Biscay, or Donostia, Iruña, Biarritz...

@HellaBasque

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found the channel and that it resonates with you! :)

@trinidadapodaca7027

2 жыл бұрын

this lady dont know wat she's talking about

@trinidadapodaca7027

2 жыл бұрын

the basque initial migrated to the iberian peninsula and then to france as the neolithic period as the cromagnon

@trinidadapodaca7027

2 жыл бұрын

in the neolithic* it is said that the basque has more atlantean d n a then the egyptians

@trinidadapodaca7027

2 жыл бұрын

the basque were already civilized when they migrated to iberian penn

i relate heavy!

I am over 55% basque, got a blood test and everything ❤️💕 my family immigrated here during WW2! We have the immigration papers and everything it’s such a beautiful place so I’ve been told! My family pretty much all looks alike, our basque genes are strong as fuck. Our family didn’t teach us any type of basque because I guess People were getting murdered for speaking our language so they have been scared to teach us. We know everything else but not our language. Our last name we know is Bascochea, people couldn’t understand my great great grandpas accent so that’s the only name in the US we know.

I related to this video a lot! I was born in and live in Murcia, a Spanish region located in the Southeastern corner of the country, but my parents are both from the Basque province of Araba/Álava. However, even though my parents never taught how to speak euskera, my Basque name and Northern accent (very much unlike the Murcian accent people have here) have always made me stand up a lot, so I think "not being Basque" was never an option available to me, people have always thought of me as "the Basque kid", and in fact almost everyone constantly forgets that I wasn't born in and have never lived in the Basque Country. Things must be totally different in the US though, since here everyone knows what the Basque Country is while there most people have no idea, so whereas you struggle to get people to see you as Basque, I struggle with being so singled out for being of Basque heritage, and with people completely disregarding the Murcian identity I also have (I was born and raised here in Murcia after all, this is my land as much if not more than the Basque Country) because of my Basque ancestry.

@HellaBasque

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Mikel, thanks for sharing your story. Sounds like a very interesting upbringing, and I can only imagine how complicated this question of Basque identity must be within Spain.

@goodaimshield1115

3 жыл бұрын

That's funny. Because that region was fully Castilian until the 19th century, while the creation of the actual autonomies Basques said they wanted Alava to be integrated in their administrative territory because why not. And the Basque identity was not a problem at all till proto-nazi Sabino Arana came up with his lunatic proto-nazi funny ideas. Quite the opposite, till that racial supremacist madman dared shared their supremacism with the rest of the world, the more Basque you were, the more Spanish you became. You just couldn't get any more Spanish than a Basque, and there was no Spabiard as Spanish as a Basque. Sabino Arana turned everything upsidedown with racial and supremacist theories, and since he was so deeply hispanophobic, and there was no one more Spanish than a Basque person, almost no one but a few madmans paied him any attention at all. Quite the opposite. Most people were infurated with him, with his attempts to separate Basques from their deeply Spanish identity. The Basque identity conflict is a made up one, thay had never existed previusly to good-old-19th-century racial supremacism and stupidly romantic nationalism, which ended in the form of Nazi Germany and WWII.

@mikelmontoya2965

3 жыл бұрын

@@goodaimshield1115 that's just false. It's true the Basque language was almost lost in Álava, but that doesn't make us any less Basque, the same way Irish people aren't any less Irish because of the loss of the Irish language.

Eskerrik asko for this video! :D I happened upon your channel because I'm in the process of exploring my Basque heritage. Both sides of my family are mad travellers so my generation of the family has ended up with this weird cultural mix (Kenyan-born Spanish/Basque/Italian/French/British). My abuelo's mother and about eleven generations before her were all Basque, and as that's the only section of my family tree that is traceable so far back, I feel like I owe it to myself and my ancestors to learn about their homeland.

My paternal ancestry /dna is about 95 per cent Basque, have distant relatives all over Cuba, Texas, Latin America :-)

@HellaBasque

4 жыл бұрын

Very cool!

@trinidadapodaca7027

2 жыл бұрын

yeah I have kin in texas my gramps had a ranch there

@trinidadapodaca7027

2 жыл бұрын

settled there when they migrated from spain

I think being Basque is hard to define since no Basque state exists. Basque in EC grow up with Spanish accent and culture and the Basque in France grow up with a French culture. And then you have Americans of Basque origin and other people. I think if you appreciate the culture and the language, especially now since it is more popular, is what makes someone Basque.

Eskerrik asko, from a fellow American with some Basque ancestry. When I was young the neighborhood kids would tease me because my grandpa dutifully wore his beret. Only girls and old school basques wore beret's in the 50's & early 60's.🙂

One of the distinctions some people make here to differentiate; you can be Basque and not be Euskalduna, since those terms are often used as equivalent but they have a slightly different meaning in their cultural and social context. So vasco is often used as someone who's from or has lived in the Basque Country, or is related to the Basque Country by ancestry or in any way. Euskalduna is someone who speaks the language and is deeply rooted to the Basque identity through language, despite heritage or where they live.

My moms from Lekeitio, Bizkaia but I was raised in the US! It’s really cool coming across this video!

@HellaBasque

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, so glad you found the video! Were you raised in a Basque community here in the US? Lots of people from Bizkaia in Idaho :)

@bencano4663

3 жыл бұрын

Hella Basque nah, unfortunately northern Virginia isn’t a very popular place for basques

@MakeshiftMartyr

3 жыл бұрын

Not too long ago we traced my heritage to Germany, a bit of viking, Scottish and Basque region in France. A new discovery included a bit of Jewish heritage as well. I am RH- (A- while both brothers are O-). I'm from Pennsylvania, USA and I really just want to understand my ancestry and why RH- blood comes with certain "gifts"

My grandpa was a Basque musician who was kicked out from Spain when Franco used to rule the country. He was in the communist party openly against the dictator and he started to get chased and ended up in America (place where her mother was raised despite of her being basque too) and never wanted the nationality from Argentina even though he could have one but he felt like he was literally betraying his nationalism. He never went back and died before the democracy came back to Spain. But now i have a family who appreciates basque culture and my dad even speaks some basque since he only spoke in that language while at home, my grandmother had to learn the language to communicate with him because he refused to speak Spanish lol

@HellaBasque

4 жыл бұрын

Wow what an interesting family story! It sounds like your grandpa had a lot of struggles, but as you say maybe it helped your family appreciate the Basque identity.

I think there are a lot of people in Spain and in Mexico(the place where I'm from) that forget through the various generations that they are part Basque. In Mexico there were a lot of Basque people that came but a lot of people don't know that their last name is Basque and associate themselves with Spanish. For example before the Romance languages arrived in Spain, there were other languages. I think the average Spanish person is a combination of the people whose languages were Celtic, Aquitanian, Germanic, and Afroasiatic.

@HellaBasque

4 жыл бұрын

Yes unfortunately a lot of people with Basque ancestors much further down their family tree aren't aware of their Basque heritage. But that's the way it goes. I don't know my ethnic heritage farther than a few generations back, so for all I know I had ancestors from centuries ago from a different land.

My dad was adopted, never unsealed his adoption papers. I tried locating his biological family after he passed but couldn’t. I did do a DNA kit and found that I’m 50% basque (from him), my mom is Native American- so this is super fascinating! ❤

My grandmother was born and raised in Bilbao. She and my grandfather immigrated to NYC in 1908. My grandmother and great grandparents all had at least 2 (usually 4 or more) Basque last names each.

I am colombian and our distant ancestors were basque. I want to learn more about the heritage

My great grandfather was basque . My dads last name was Garay. My blood type is RH negative

@Mavrek2012

3 жыл бұрын

My mother's maiden name is Garay. Her father was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. His great grandfather was from the Basque country from the town named Garay (Garai).

@Hemestal

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mavrek2012 There's plenty of people from Basque and French descent living in Jalisco. I traveled there during my vacations and i met two girls with basque surnames in two different places, Gorrotxotegi and Iduarte. Kind of funny because they had no idea of the origins of those names.

What an awesome attitude towards self identity! Mendoza (Mendi Hotza) here!!!!!

Kaixo from the Basque Country!!

@HellaBasque

4 жыл бұрын

Kaixo from California!

I have 2 basque last names so I might be from there! That’s why I’m trying to learn about basque.

My grandfather's both had Basque ancestry, the one who was a Sea Captain used to tell me that Basque people were traditionally very skilled sailors and adventurers. Basque ancestry is probably very widespread around the world because of this fact.

@trinidadapodaca7027

2 жыл бұрын

because they descended from the atlanteans

@trinidadapodaca7027

2 жыл бұрын

and it says that on google that basque have atlantean d n a check it out if u get a chance

Congratulations on your channel! I believe it's important to celebrate your heritage because somehow it keeps the Basque culture alive. Unfortunately the Basque have suffered a lot with cultural suppression in Europe over several generations, and now a lot of this ancient culture is in danger. I discovered I had Basque ancestry from a region in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques not long ago and I was surprised. I wish I can go there next year or in 2022 when this virus is (hopefully!) gone for hiking in those beautiful mountains!

@trinidadapodaca7027

2 жыл бұрын

i like idaho i might settle there byt the boner ferry area. i took a trip through u tah and idaho and it was pretty cool

My Father, was born in Cuba from both Basque parents from Bakio.

I've found out my last name comes from Basque. So your channel intrigues me thank you for you info. Thank you.

My mom was born in the USA Price Utah, raised in Elko Nevada. Her Mother & Father Were Basque from Spain. Last name of my grandmother was Arambarri & Grandfather Onandia. I am 1/2 basque my Father was Spaniard last name Saguar.❤️🤍💚🥰👍🏼

My grandparents were from the Basqe country. Then migrated to the USA, and homestead to Gooding Idaho.

hi how're you happy Thanksgiving I discovered your channel and to surprise I did a DNA ancestry and it says I'm Basque I'm so proud of it at first I didn't know I was Basque thank you for teaching me about Basque now I want to learn about Basque as much as I can I'm from mexico df districto federal la capital the capital of mexico

@HellaBasque

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Hilda, happy Thanksgiving to you too! And I'm glad you found the channel! There is a Basque club in Mexico City, if you want to get involved with some Basque events locally. :)

@hildaortiz7537

4 жыл бұрын

@@HellaBasque that's wonderful awesome I didn't know sadly I'm not in mexico I'm in boring michigan do you know of anything in this place or in Chicago

I discovered my French / Spaniard /Andorran ancestry recently, and kind of immersed myself into anything I can get my hands on in terms of mythology and folklore, etc. It's so amazing to learn this side of my ancestry.

@leod-sigefast

2 жыл бұрын

Why have you got a German surname then?

@Maevelikeschampagne

2 жыл бұрын

@@leod-sigefast she could be married.

Very curious about Basque art or crafts?

I'm only 1/4 basque (two names on 8), and I don't speak Euskera, But I was born and grew up in basque country, I have a traditionnal outfit for the traditionnal festival of my city, I know what patxaran, taloak, ardi gasna are, I drink basque cider (which is very different from breton cider, there are not a lot of french people who like basque cider ^^) and I call my grand-parents Aitaxi and Amatxi, so I think I am basque. But this felling became stronger when i left basque country.

That guy from the 19th century who you said was laying down Basque criteria whom you called a pure blood, well wouldn’t it come from much further back in time than the 18th century? It seems like something should have been in place long before him! You are very nice to do these videos on the very interesting prople of Basque ancestry! Everyone should be proud if their ancestry, no matter what it is, I think it’s all really cool. Thank you so much!

My maternal grandfather has Basques surname which is Aguirre and I'm so proud of it.

I have no idea if I have basque. I know I have several national ancestries from geneology studies. but basque has not come up in my family line as of yet. I first heard about basque when I started searching about RH negative, which I am. The Basque people come up in my search every time. This is very interesting.

@goddesswarrioress6123

2 жыл бұрын

I Too researched my rh negative bloodline and basque is linked I have been doing more research and I am definitely connected in more ways than one I really feel it is Definitely through the bloodline so I claim my basque roots...

Hello Ann Marie. I wanted to thank you for your work and being an ambassador for the Basque diaspora. Do you ever get over to the Basque cultural center in South San Francisco? I am thinking about joining as a member. Wondering if you know people in that place? Thanks again

I knew some of my family came from spain when i asked my grand ma she said near sivile most of our Spanish dna was from near siville but we also had some basque and Portuguese

In my home, we usually use the therm "euskalduna" to refer only to basque speakers. I do like this idea because, although it certainly discualfies a lot of inhabitants of the basque country, it also makes "being basque" open to anybody no matter their origin. I personally do feel that an inmigrant who uses basque in his everyday is more basque than a non speaker with 8+ basque surnames. I may sound disrespectful for someone. But I can't avoid being a bit disgusted when people who lives in the basque country but don't know basque use basque symbols and isolated words (like aita and ama). I fear we could go on a path like the Scottish and Irish, losing the core of our culture while keeping irrelevant folclorism. And my impression is that this has already happened to some extent in iparralde. Last year we went on holydays to Lapurdi, and despite seeing a lot of Ikurriñas (now whenever we see an Ikurriña we jokingly say we are on Iparralde), basque dishes and words, we struggled to find any basque speakers.

My family is from Mexico. But I did my DNA test, I was curious. I have 51% Spanish blood, 5% is basque. Last name is Alarcon, so it’s not basque; at least I don’t think so. I find it very interesting and attempting to learn the language.

My gramps was from the Basque region, spoke Basque and Spanish.

I don’t want to be a basque but my dna shows I have basque DNA. I’m a very proud colombian with Spanish /Italian/Portuguese and basque DNA

Kaixo lugunak, Yea, what does it mean to be Basque? It’s a question I’ve asked myself over and over. One highly enriching source that could help to understand this question is found at the Basque Institute located in Donostia or at their website, etxepare.eus. If you look at the website pull down menu and pick the Basque Culture tab then choose Traditions you can find an article written by Joseba Zulaika. The article is presented in Euskara, Spanish and English. The Etxepare website is packed with an incredible amount of information and resources about everything Basque. The following is a quote from the article: “In 1545 the first book in Euskara, Linguae Vasconum Primiae, was published by Bernart Etxepare, who expressed one wish: Euskara, jalgi hadi mundura Euskara, go forth into the world. The Etxepare Basque Ins􏰀tute takes its name from this first Basque author and, moreover, converts his wish in our mo􏰂tto. The institute’s objec􏰀tive and mission is to promote and diffuse the Basque language and culture throughout the world. On the one hand, our task is to promote knowledge about our language, and its study in the academic sphere. And on the other, we want to introduce the crea􏰀ve expressions of our artists: visual ar􏰀sts, musicians, dancers, writers, film directors, actors, and so on. One of the first tasks in the interna􏰀tionalisation of our language and culture has been to create this collection with the aim of informing people about our language, Euskara, and about the arts and cultural disciplines that make up the wealth of our culture.” Eskerrik asko Anne Marie for addressing the question.

Anyway, I’m here because my genealogy search and DNA test has confirmed that I am a direct descendant of Juan Bautista Elguezábal and his son Juan José Elguezábal who were governors of Texas (the elder was an interim). Juan Bautista was born in Bilbao and I found his father and mother listed on the baptismal record from the basilica of Santiago in Bilbao but now I’m having trouble tracing the lineage further back. Do you know of any resources that might help? Thank you!

I am originally from Puerto Rico, but my ancestors are from the Basque country. My last name is Irizarry, and I know there is a village with that name in the Basque country. Can't wait to visit one day.

quess i need that dna test about now

My last name originates there. My first ancestor in American immigrated from there to Jamaica on the second boat during colonization. From there they went to Florida and throughout southern states and Mexico.

I'm not Basque, but I think your videos are very well done.

@HellaBasque

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much :)

My great grandmother was basque from the pyrenees mountains but moved here and never taught any of her children basque, so none of my other family memebers speak basque and she ended up getting married to someone who isn't basque. I am currently trying to learn basque and I look basque but I don't know if I should even say that I'm partially basque because her last name was also chanegd to an american name when she moved here. Should I even consider myself of basque ancestory?

@giosepher1308

3 жыл бұрын

I also have O blood if that counts to anything.

I discovered many years ago that my last name is of Basque origin. It seems that my ancestors left Navarre or Spain in the 18th century. Strangely enough, they didn’t settle in cities or near ports; they settled in rural areas far away from the city and from the church, they settled in the mountains where the Church was weak and where they didn’t carry out their trials. They settled in these places just as if they were running away from something, as if they were being persecuted. My ancestors lost most of their traditions and language, they didn’t completely mixed with the local population, but they adopted their language gradually and Therefore they forgot their origins. Then wars came and children lost brothers and fathers. Mothers usually followed local traditions and that’s what they taught their children, my great grandfather and my grandfather. I’m the only one in my family that is aware of what it means to descent from them. My parents don’t share the same enthusiasm and neither my brothers.

I’m from America but my parents are from Spain in Navarre which borders the Basque Country. I question if people from Navarre are considered basque since they were berets and in some parts they speak basque

My grandpa was From Osses. Minaberry is our name.

is Pamplona (Navarra) considered basque by the basque? My grand grandfather was from there and my grandfather was born in Buenos Aires, but by four moved to Montevideo. Urtasun.

@nelschristianson7650

Күн бұрын

My grandmother was Urtasun from Zilbeti, Navarra.

My great-grandfather was Atocha-Baca (Probably Atotxa) and my DNA results show a bit of Basque DNA. I really love Sagardo and Donostia. Does that count?

I am from Croatia and I was always, like most of the time🙂.., into Atlantis. Maybe it was, subconsciously, because of Basques. Like, they are 70% or 85% from Atlantis. I generally like Spain, I mean entire country. People from that country. And La liga is my favourite league. 6:13 - 10:19.

My grandpa was basque, he was from Forua. I feel myself very strongly basque.

@nievesarriola3713

3 жыл бұрын

I can certainly suggest that you do the Camino de Santiago, in starts in Roncesvalles generally, on the border with France. It is the Pyrenees and very beautiful. Mind you if you do it properly it is an 800 kilometre walk, I have done it.

I have RH NEGATIVE blood type, but do not know if I got it from my Dad or my Mom.

My DNA says I’m 5% Basque, which makes sense because I’m negative RH factor blood and many of the distant relatives I found on my father’s side, dating back 300-400 years ago were from the area around the France/Spain border. My father is the one I get my negative RH factor from too.

awe! im an american too! I understand what its like to be basque and try to explain to people that im more than just a mexican.

@HellaBasque

3 жыл бұрын

Ethnicity seems to be a difficult thing for many Americans to grasp...

@dyskelia

3 жыл бұрын

That turn of phrase ‘more than just a Mexican’ really bothers me...and I say that as a Mexican. Wow. Like somehow you’re better than most Mexicans because you have basque heritage? Again, I say this as a Mexican with basque lineage and a total of 85% European lineage. Way to put down Mexicans...very gross, dude.

@Michelle-ld4me

3 жыл бұрын

@@dyskelia I agree with you. Mexicans are a beautiful people with a beautiful culture.

I looked up my last name Esquivel and it is from basque I’m not sure but does anyone know?

My father is from Guatemala and his mom's last name is Arana. My great aunt tells us we're Basque.

I am 7th Generation in South Africa. Our first ancestor ariived in SA in the mid 1700 from Belgium. Soldier by profession. I only recently found out we are Basque

I consider myself basque, I was born in the basque country (Iparralde) and I have family from Baxenafarroa but it only represents 1/4 or 1/8 of my blood. I have learnt basque since am a child and I really connect with the principle of considering myself as basque with the language To me anyone can be basque even if they have never lived here or have no ancestry, you just have to learn the language or at least learn about the culture. I think the concept of Euskaldun has nothing to do with nationalities or whatever, it is just about the way you perceive yourself. I know old people who have basque as their first language and have been raised here in the culture but don't consider themselves as basque. I think it is just about the way you see yourself, some people think you can only be basque, some other consider themselves as both basque and french/spanish, it is all up to you, I think

Me llamo Andres Arana Urioste, séptima generación de vascos en Bolivia, con dependencia vasca de casi 89% no hablo vascos y vivo el los Estados Unidos mi identidad es vascos y pienso que tu eres la vasca más auténtica de KZread. FELICIDADES.

My last name is Navarro which means someone from Navarre I’ve never lived in the Basque Country but I have a basque last name. I don’t consider myself basque but I suppose there’s a potential genealogical connection since I was always told my ancestors are from Spain.

@HellaBasque

4 жыл бұрын

With a name like Navarro, yes, Basque heritage seems very likely!

My Mom’s dna test say she has some basque ancestry. Her maiden name is Ibarra. I apparently did not inherit very much.

Basque last names exist in Mexico. For example, Esparza.

@HellaBasque

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely :)

I was told my last name, Zozaya, comes from the area. If it does, awesome. If not, I gotta do more research lol.

I heard the gold ring around the pupil in my eyes is a Basque characteristic/trait. Also, i have O- blood type. Among other things.

@HellaBasque

4 жыл бұрын

Super interesting. I'd never heard of this gold ring around the eyes theory. But lots of other people around the world have O- blood, it's not just Basques.

@yoshiwood13

4 жыл бұрын

Wow interesting about to xheck it looks yellowish around my pupils but that blue line I jst now notice is the same color of blue my nieces and nephews eye color. I have brown eyes with a blue line sealing all the brown and yellow rays of color around the pupils.

@imaginempress3408

3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather had gray eyes that were like that. He was "Black Irish" which I've heard was related to the Moors. When my mom had cancer her oncologist said she had a very rare Mediterranean component in her blood like the Moors. She was a RH- and needed a shot when pregnant with me. She was not an O blood type but one of the As or B. So far my ancestry testing says I am a small part Spanish or Portuguese long ago. It used to say Northern African before the test was updated to say Spanish Portuguese which probably points to the Moors again. This Basque info is fascinating and makes me wonder.

I just found out I'm 13% basque is in my DNA..Wow I'm happy n proud thank you for sharing this video..

wow that symbol on the blanket in the back is something i have been looking for for a long time. thank you. i am also the grand daughter of Maricruz San Jose Baelo who was from Spain. So far I have traced my lineage back to Leon. I wish I could get there because Spain calls to my soul. I am also O neg. Scares me bc the hospital stole my blood last night to do research. My momma asked me when will i get my first pay check lol. They said it was to see how resistant my blood actually is to the aids virus. i want to know what they have to say about it

@israelchavarria4006

2 жыл бұрын

Jessica I am also ROH- and every day the local government ask me for blood donation, but being pinched scared me a lot. Thanks and take care please.

Learn the culture, respect it and love all the basque history and understand it can makes the connection which means being basque, in my opinion, and if you learn the language even more! Somebody used to say: a basque can be born wherever he/she wants😜

My paternal last name is Cold Hill (Spanish Basque) and maternal last name is to Re-cultivate Land (French Basque).

The pattern on the cover over your seat look Basque

The only three things that would lean towards Basque ancestry for me is one, Blood type- I am O neg. DNA test shows I am 5% Basque. . I have an ancestor who was Basque in the last 500 years and definite over the past 5000 years. It seems that one always returns to there ancestral roots. I feel a kinship with Basque culture. Some of the names of towns sound familiar. Especially San Sebastian. Wanted to learn more. But otherwise I would not qualify as Basque, Thank You.

@HellaBasque

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Tina, nice assessment!

Five hundred years ago Laguna was important, we have genetic deafness in our family, our core is now sign

Love the channel 🤘😎🤘 im euskal/mexikar ARRIOLA

Just because you didn't grow up in the basque culture doesn't mean you can learn, live, or love it. My ancestry is from the basque country, I was born in the Philippines then to Florida when i was seven so I am pretty much an American. We all can learn about our ancestry.

Do Basque country citizens have a separate Basque country passport??

@bluessolutionsolution3027

3 жыл бұрын

No, that is a pity. Every Basque people even if they are Euskaldun or just Basque have a Spanish or French ID. Hauxe zorakeria, ezta?

I guess that for a small nation like Euzkadi, "identity" is a rather important issue. I am not going to speak here about the political perspective, since that is something that the people in the basque country now much better since they live there on a daily basis. In the diaspora, separated by thousands of kilometers and many generations, and not speaking but a few words of euskera, you can still feel, and thus be, very basque. Part of my ancestors left Bilbo and Gasteiz for Sevilla in the late 17th century (merchants in colonial goods) and sooner or later went further to Latin America. The other branch left SW Ireland during the cromwellian repression for Bilbo, became spanish citizens and served in the Real Armada, so they also moved later overseas to the Philipines and South America. There both branches were reunited again (by chance) because 2 families from my irish branch intermarried with my basque ancestors (both originally from Bilbo and Gasteiz). Since then, most of my relatives have been basque-irish, irish-basque (besides swiss, french, welsh & locals). Especially because of this migrant background and the coincidence of the "reunion" after crossing seas and continents, did many of us get interested in "identity", and since that moment we were absolutely sure that we were also a part of Euskadi (and Eire). We feel the "connection of kinship", so much so that we planed to visit our ancestral homeland in Euskadi and Eire this year, but then Covid said otherwise. We feel foremost and primarily as "south americans" (although we have lived mostly in Europe/USA/Australia), BUT our "identity" also extends to the lands of our ancestors, that we still see as "our thing", which means "home". So answering your question: yes it has to do with ancestry, but it also has to do with "identification", which is "recognizing"...Gora Euskal Herria & Nefarroa!

I figured I was basque because of my blood line being rh null ND having royal ancestors

That red you are wearing is why I joined the Navy

I found out I am 13% Basque, 26% Spanish and 3% Portuguese. I assumed this was all the same or similar. I am also half "Latino" of native Mexican decent.

You look like my cousin. I don’t have the language like I should, but my mother was 100% Basque, with all Basque names going back as far as we can record them. You are family. No one can take that from you. My grandfather had to flee with the family in the ‘30s because of the war. He fought against Franco, and escaped to the UK. Let anyone tell me I am not Basque to my face. 😄

I subscribed. Thank you for these videos, they're helping me understand my ancestry and furthering my investigation into RH- blood. Why do we have "gifts" others don't? Gaaah I just want to know why lol I literally know nothing about my Basque heritage, just the normal stuff like language shouldn't exist, we may be aliens or the first humans (theories) etc

Blood and soil define a people. The culture springs from that and time. The Basque people were described as people who made their way to the lands to which they are historically identified, including regions between Spain and France, and which were sustained by indigenous and exogenous genetic material as they maintained their national/tribal existence through different epochs of their history. It can be genetically, historically, linguistically, and culturally mapped. There's your answer to the question which you couldn't answer. So it is primarily a distinct race of people, with genetic branching factors over time in their relations to other peoples, with attending cultural and sociopolitical and linguistic changes down to this day.

I did a DNA test and got 60% french and 20% basque almost all my family live in south of france (close to spain) would that explain the basque ?

Loads of the basque people know many more than 2 surnames. It's to keep in touch with the feeling that the more basque surnames you have the more basque blood you have. It's said that you have to have 50% basque surnames to be considered basque. From at least 8 surnames. And yes, if you have 8 surnames you are 100% basque... This is just old stuff... Nowadays we all can consider basque as far as we love this culture and feel like it!

My last name is Penunuri, learning about my Basque last name! I'm from Southern California, my Father's Dad was Basque and his Mom was from Chihuahua Mexico. My Madre is a Mexican American born and raised in Colorado and her parents were from Durango. So, I guess I hear saying hey! I knew my last name was not Italian, but if is Basque and I will learn the language and educate myself about the basque blood I have in me!

@HellaBasque

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for commenting! I'm glad you found the channel. Sounds like you have a very interesting family history. I'm not sure if your last name is Basque - maybe someone else in the comments could speak on that subject.

@GOBruins64

3 жыл бұрын

@@HellaBasque Google it.

I look very Basque. My family is from Asturias. Asturias and Basqueland has to be related

Wait, so I’m not Basque? I have 10% blood of basque. I am Iberian mostly from Spain and Portugal. Plus my grandma’s maiden name is Zayas. This is confusing.

I love learning everything I can about different cultures. Especially the ones that come back with DNA that says what you are. They can say what they want but they can't take our DNA from us.

@jenniferclark7826

Жыл бұрын

Yes I just found out I have basque ancestry from doing a DNA test.... and I want to know more I find ancient civilization amazing and the DNA markers dont lie

I'm Mexican American and my last name Elizando. which is Basque and it means near by a church. Eliza meaning church and ondo meaning near by.

@HellaBasque

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Elizondo is also the name of a beautiful town in Navarra.

@akatxupowell4431

3 жыл бұрын

Elizondo=near church

I am a croat who learned basque (to a B1 level) does that make me a basque Ni kroaziako naiz nor ikasten Euskera (B1 level) Ni euskalduna naiz ala ez?