In Malacca there's an area called Portuguese Settlement. There, the Kristang language (one of the Portuguese creoles mentioned in this video) are still very alive. I was there last year but I didn't have any expectation to talk with them in Portuguese but when I was in one the restaurants and one of the waiters asked me where I was from and I told him I'm Brazilian he switched to Kristang and soon he brought a lot of other Kristang-speaking staff and the owner of the restaurant and they were all talking with me. Very surprising experience.

@pauloseara1638

3 ай бұрын

Esse aldeamento foi criado na primeira metade do século XX, para reunir o maior número possível de Kristang pois a língua e a cultura estava-se a perder, foi uma obra de missionários católicos.

@yogasapoetra

3 ай бұрын

May the Kristang Creole language continue to thrive, unlike what happened in Indonesia. We previously had Portuguese Creole languages, more than one. They were Papia Tugu in Jakarta, Ternateño in Ambon and Ternate, and Bidau, native to Timor-Leste but also used in some areas in Indonesian Timor. Unfortunately, all three have become extinct, with no native speakers left. Among them, Papia Tugu is relatively fortunate as they have a written tradition, and the language is still used in the lyrics of their traditional Keroncong music.

@blitzxer017

3 ай бұрын

​@@yogasapoetrathe Mardicas (Merdeka) from moluccas island settled in Manila once then they permanently settled in Cavite and named their town Ternate to honor their hometown in Indonesia. The portuguese creole language of mardicas later evolved to spanish creole now called chavacano.

As someone with ancestry from Macau (I don't have a Portuguese surname myself, but my ancestors converted to Catholicism under Portuguese rule) it's always fascinating to think how such a tiny country had such a large influence on the world. Growing up in the Catholic school system in Canada, nearly half my classmates had Iberian surnames, but very few of them were actually Spanish or Portuguese themselves-they were Latin Americans, Filipinos, Goans from India & Africa, etc. As a kid, I always found it funny looking in the yearbook and seeing European, Hispanic, Indian, Asian, and occasionally some Africans next to each other all sharing surnames like "Gomes" or "Fernandes."

@TheJosman

4 ай бұрын

In Spanish, Gómez and Fernández (or Hernández). In Portuguese, Gomes and Fernandes.

@Smoothalcoholic

4 ай бұрын

Feel you bro

@evelinoliviafroes4393

4 ай бұрын

Those surnames have visigoth origin.

@wavstudionet

4 ай бұрын

Finally Mason covers this! In 2001 as in English tutor i met my first Macanese student- a green-eyed Chinese-looking guy with the name ‘Filipe da Cunha.’ After he pointed to Macau on the globe, i researched the history on my own. And came to learn Macau is a Special Administrative Region. Very rich colonial history.

@wavstudionet

4 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@TheJosman yep. Conejo/Coelho, Nieves/Neves, Gonzalez/Gonçalves, Garces/Garças, Perrera/Perreira, Blanco/Branco, Nieto/Neto, Reyes/Reis….

Here in Myanmar, there is a small Luso-Portuguese people called Bayingyi in the central Myanmar.

My parents are catholics from Mumbai which was colonized by Portugal and my last name is Fernandes which is also Portuguese. Being born and raised in Los Angeles i've noticed countless similarities between Luso-Indians and Hispanics; Iberian colonization, Iberian last names, catholicism, our mutual love for spicy food etc. That said, the past is the past and I genuinely like Portugal and would love to visit someday 🇮🇳❤🇵🇹

@ricardo82shadow123

3 ай бұрын

Why don't you come visit Brazil!?😊

@manuelmelo8415

3 ай бұрын

I hope you can come visit Portugal soon, we would love to have you here :) I have always wanted to go to India, especially Goa, mumbai, and the regions of Kerala, Rajastan and Tamil Nadu 🇵🇹❤️🇮🇳

@pmlbeirao

3 ай бұрын

The first European to visit California was Portuguese: João Rodrigues Cabrilho, better known for his Spanish name Cabrillo.

@firstminecraft4721

3 ай бұрын

​@@pmlbeiraoI thought he was Spanish because of the name, but why did his Spanish name got much more popularity than the portuguese one?

@pmlbeirao

3 ай бұрын

@@firstminecraft4721 He was working for the Spanish Crown.

Not a Luso-Indian (have some Luso-bengali & Portuguese relatives) but being from the Catholic community set up in the 16th century in Bengal, I have a Portuguese surname, we are tiny minority in India & Bangladesh

@jvms190

4 ай бұрын

Does yours still use Portuguese in some aspect?

@ArcasBelissari

4 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t say Catholics are a tiny minority in India, there are tens of millions of them. India actually has the second largest Catholic population in Asia next to the Phillipines.

@savioblanc

4 ай бұрын

​@@ArcasBelissariCompared to the wider Indian population, they only make up around 1/2% of the population, so in the context of India, they are a tiny population. But compared to other countries, they're huge

@joel12388

4 ай бұрын

​@@ArcasBelissari In North East India Christians are from Protestant. But in South India like Tamil Nadu, Kerala. Maximum amount of Christians are from catholic.

@SiPakRubah

4 ай бұрын

​@@ArcasBelissaritens of millions compared to 1 billion population really shows how small the community is, actually You need at least be a part of a 100 million groups of people to be at 10% of the population

Portugal's history sure is quite impressive

The influence of the Lusitanians extends beyond the regions they colonized. For instance, the Portuguese intervened in the war between the Ethiopian empire and the Adal Sultanate which ultimately helped to save the political and religious traditions of Abyssinian and Coptic Christians who were threatened by the encroaching Islamic world. The fact that the Ethiopians were the only natives who successfully resisted colonization during the Scramble for Africa is ironically due in part to the help of the first colonialists they encountered.

@pmlbeirao

3 ай бұрын

One of the missions of the Portuguese in Africa was to find a mythical Christian King with which they could build an alliance against the Muslims, which they named "Preste João". They knew there was a Cristian kingdom somewhere in Africa, maybe from Muslim traders.

@hikore01

3 ай бұрын

One of the sons of Vasco de Gama, Christopher da Gama, died during a battle against Adal in Ethiopia, 1542.

@zitarodrigues7336

3 ай бұрын

Portuguese troops joined followed by the troops of the Empress of Ethiopia, Seble Wongel and her son Gelawdewos and, then, defeated Adal who was killed in 1542 (?), too.

@brixcosmo6849

3 ай бұрын

Indeed! I often use that case around 1540 to say that the Age of Discovery History is not linear like some want to portray it. Portuguese not only helped to save Ethiopia from the Adal Sultanate, Mamluks, Ottomans & Co. As the soldiers that survived stayed in Ethiopia and married Ethiopian Women giving birth to the Birtukan (Orange in Amharic) which was what Ethiopians called Portuguese and Portuguese-Ethiopian descendents 'cause Portuguese had introduced sweet oranges from China in Ethiopia. Birtukan became a common female name in Ethiopia to this day. 🇵🇹❤️🇪🇹

The Portuguese empire legacy in the whole world is astonishing.

Although Indonesia was colonized by the Dutch for a long time and Islamic culture is still highly influential, we still have some Portuguese heritage, especially in eastern Indonesia. 1. We once had three Portuguese Creole languages. They were Papia Tugu, Ternateño, and Bidau. Unfortunately, they have all become extinct. 2. Keroncong is one of the music genres whose arrangements have been incorporated with Portuguese music. The lyrics of keroncong songs still written in Portuguese creole 3. Many Moluccan and Lesser Sunda Islanders have surnames with Portuguese influences. Some are obvious like "de Queljo," but there are also Dutchified variations like "de Queldjoe" or even Indonesianized versions like "de Kwelju." 4. The rapid growth of Catholicism in Indonesia is due to the efforts of Portuguese missionaries during the colonial era 5. The city of Ambon in the Moluccas was founded by the Portuguese with the name Nossa Senhora da Anunciada, named after a Portuguese fortress in Malacca, Malaysia 6. Portuguese creole, particularly Papia Tugu, was once a lingua franca alongside the Malay language. As a result, many Portuguese loanwords are present in Indonesian languages 8. Some Portuguese traditions, such as Semana Santa, are still practiced in the Lesser Sunda Islands, especially in Larantuka 9. We once had Catholic kingdoms under the suzerainty of the Portuguese Empire They are a few Portuguese heritages in Indonesia, often unnoticed by the majority of our society

@voaniopalm3209

3 ай бұрын

At some point the Portuguese almost help the kingdom of Pajajaran, the last hindu kingdom in western java to resist the influence of the islamic sultanate of Banten and Demak

Although I'm Vietnamese, I've got a cousin from Mumbai, India; and she's got a Portuguese family name.

Fun Fact: A large number of Sri Lankan Buddhists too hav Portuguese surnames such as Perera, Silva, Fernando etc.

@bunnystrasse

3 ай бұрын

Why

@piyavisapukotanage7610

3 ай бұрын

@@bunnystrasse I guess that's mostly cuz many Sri Lankans adopted Portuguese names as personal names which later on became their surnames Also many local elites in the low country had Portuguese surnames such as Corea (localised version of Correia,) , De Fonseka (Fonseca)

@pedroluis758

3 ай бұрын

​@@piyavisapukotanage7610corea = Correia 😅

@pedrofaria6236

3 ай бұрын

@@piyavisapukotanage7610 sup bro. i dont wanna be that "🤓" guy but Perera is Pereira in Portugal, Corea is Correia and Fonseka is Fonseca, "de" is just the portugal word "of the" or smth like that. Cool explanation tho, all best

@piyavisapukotanage7610

3 ай бұрын

@@pedrofaria6236 oh yes..thnx fr the correction brother🙂🤜🤛

This reminds me of how there is still a Portuguese village in the middle of Bangkok who are decended from mercinaries of the portugese empire since the ayuttaya period. They still cook Portuguese food and have portugese style architecture, with a bit of Thai and Chinese mixed in Edit: here’s an OTR video about the village of kudejeen, a neighborhood that had been isolated for 400 years and they still cook food that are extinct in the rest of the luso world. He also said that throughout his travel and food tour throughout the luso-Asian community throughout Asia ,this village is actually very different from the rest.kzread.info/dash/bejne/oKCD25SFqsS1hbA.htmlsi=NJJ3MuAZa4oxIuBE

@douglasknupp4574

3 ай бұрын

Name of the place please

@thefolder3086

3 ай бұрын

@@douglasknupp4574 kudejeen village( กุฎีจีน). Here’s a video by OTR about the village food and history They still cook many dishes from the portugese empire that had gone extinct in the rest of the luso world. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oKCD25SFqsS1hbA.htmlsi=NJJ3MuAZa4oxIuBE

13:23 Japan's significant number of Lusophones are from Japanese Brazilians currently working or living in the country.

@brixcosmo6849

3 ай бұрын

Yep. Medieval Portuguese presence in Japan since 1543 was short although those relations and influences shared are still celebrated by both our Governments that hold cerimonies together. 🇵🇹❤️🇯🇵

We in Sri Lanka full of Portuguese surnames like frenando, Silva, Pereira, soyza, Costa, peiries,. We are proud of Portuguese ancestry. They given us the dress cord which is skirts, kimona, 🩳 shorts and Christianity. Not only that European food cultures. To add music baila ryhthem a very unique music pattern and dance a social gathering given by Portuguese. Today in Sri Lanka the Portuguese fortress are some monument that are showcasing sites for tourist. We wants to go back and discover Portuguese ancestry. We want to re-link and reastablish our Portuguese ancestry again.

I’m from Sri Lankan and my family has a Portuguese last name left from colonisation

@jackylynn

4 ай бұрын

What is your surname?

Here in Mexico, most aren't aware that many of the "Spanish" conquistadors didn't have Spanish origins. There were a lot of Portuguese settlers that came here alongside Spaniards, African slaves, Crypto-Jews, Moriscos and even Iberian Gypsies (the latter three fleeing from persecution in Iberia). Many notable conquistadors of Portuguese origin that came to Mexico were Sebastián Rodríguez (born in Oliveira, Portugal), Lorenzo Suárez (born in Évora, Portugal), Francisco de Oliveiros (born in Lisbon, Portugal), Diego Correa (born in Santarem, Portugal), Pedro and Francisco Borges (both from Algarve, Portugal), among many others.

@amandadegenhardt

4 ай бұрын

Interesting.. I have a couple of Mexican matches on MyHeritage and was wondering if they were partially Portuguese (as I’m mostly of Azorian origin with some German and African) from Brazil as I know there are almost no black people nor Germanic people in Mexico I believe it’s the Iberian connection.

@jdheryos4910

4 ай бұрын

The Portuguese did not 'stumble' upon thier discoveries as Massafool patronising puts it, my friend. Portugal had through the establishment of the first specialised college of navigation by Henry the Navigator. Refined navigation into the science of Cartography. The Portuguese mathematically, knew exactly where they were going in time and space, as far as the globe was concerned. What lands and oceans existed was the mystery. Another historical error is the Massafool that the was a 'Catalonian kingdom' at the time of 'The Age of Discovery.' There was not. Any Iberian high schooler knows the Mediterranean Empire of Aragon had long before absorbed the Dukedom of Catalonia. The disdain Massafool has for the Romance nations is palpable. Another Masafool insult was to project 'a lust for power.' As if the Ottomans, Chinese, Persians, Mongul Imperial India or any other smaller empire where more virtuous by default. Another projected patronising sop to divide the Romance Civilization is the crumbs of accidental virtue Massafool gives to the Italians. There was no Italian Kingdom or even identify at the time. All the independent city states like Genoa, Florence, Venice etc. Where more proud and ethnical invested in thier own republics than any lost Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy. The prosecution of 'divide and conquer' that he attributes to Portugal as if it was a novel 'nefarious strategy' is laughable! Every kingdom, republic or empire practised these tactics. The Portuguese made best advantage of these at the time. Apparently, if other Asian powers of the time succeed then this is a virtuous application of 'the undermining of states,' whereas Portugal is not. Massafool purposely leaves out for example, that the Chola Indian maritime empire conquered all the coast line and kingdoms in the Bay of Bengal, not two centuries earlier. Including Burma, Ceylon, most of the Indochina peninsula, half of modern Indonesia and onto parts of Malaysia. Apparently this Imperialism is good by default because it's 'local imperialism.' Massafool purposely perpetuates the 'Black Legend.' Especially in case of Portugal and Spain. This propaganda cultural war has been fostered for 500 years, starting with the 'Reformed' protestant imperial of Holland. Later taken up by the 'Enlightened' imperial British and Germans. Till today with the constant historical propaganda war against the Romance nations by the Anglo-American empire. Massaman is an apologist for this Anglo-American historical cultural war. Time to wake up. That is why the thirty nations making up the Portugal Spain speaking world including Philippines and Andorra, formed the Iberofonia collective diplomatic, legal and cultural block of nations, two years ago in the Canary islands. The Chinese government sent an official delegation which recognised the new Iberian world cultural block. The Iberian world from Manila, Equatorial Guinea, Brazil to Lisboa is awake and striking back. El Resurgimiento has begun.

@Eriksen-wp3tv

3 ай бұрын

Crypto-Jews? Wtf? They trade cryptocurrency?

@migspeculates

3 ай бұрын

the spotlight is in Asia, not in your Mexico Querido...

@stevens1041

3 ай бұрын

@@jdheryos4910 I'm Italian and usually its me writing spicy comments like this. Very nice read, thanks.

Could you also once explain why almost all Vietnamese have "Nguyen" in their name? Heard many theories about it but some say it's because of the French colonisation?

@impudentdomain

4 ай бұрын

LOL or why are all Koreans either Kim or Park.

@hitmusicworldwide

4 ай бұрын

Actually that's an old sinitic root name. Chinese also have it as well. Nothing to do with the French.

@TTminh-wh8me

4 ай бұрын

It has nothing to do with french colonisation, and in fact more to do with vietnamese settler colonisation. You see, all the land known as 'south vietnam' used to be inhabited by the cham, khmer people. The vietnamese from the north gradually took these lands and assimilated the local population. This process speeded up from the 16 century by the nguyen clan, which then ruled the south, hence many of the settlers/ assimilated people took their family name. There is a long and bloody civil war between the north and south (not the vietnam war you think of), which the southern nguyen clan ended up winning, and they unified vietnam and ruled as the last imperial dynasty. Many people in all regions of vietnam changed their family name to nguyen to gain privilege/ avoid persecution and revenge after that war.

@Bourbon_de_Gironde

4 ай бұрын

In fact, the name Nguyễn has nothing to do with the French colonisation! In fact, one of the Nguyễn, the 'former' emperor of Vietnam, Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh San, has been exiled in Reunion island (his children are my distant cousins), and Nguyễn is the name of the Vietnamese dynasty of which he was the heir...

@mik823

4 ай бұрын

How do you know what massaman claims is true?

In Sri Lanka, most Simhalese in the low lands/coastal areas have Portuguese names like Perera, Silva or Almeda because Portuguese forced adopting a european surname on the natives so many just picked a portugese surname.

@robertwilloughby8050

3 ай бұрын

Agreed, but it was usually a weird kind of forcing, being "You can keep your names and your religion if you want, but remember, if you want aid in times of famine or disaster, people with Portuguese names will get aid before you will". So, when times got hard, a lot of them caved in and took Lusophone names, also converting to Catholicism.

@robertwilloughby8050

3 ай бұрын

Agreed, but it was usually a weird kind of forcing, being "You can keep your names and your religion if you want, but remember, if you want aid in times of famine or disaster, people with Portuguese names will get aid before you will". So, when times got hard, a lot of them caved in and took Lusophone names, also converting to Catholicism.

In Reunion island, where my mother was born, a lot of people have Luso-Indian ancestors. In the first times of the colonisation, 14 Luso-Indian women from Daman, and 1 Luso-Indian man (the son of one of the 14, the brother of two, and, probably, a relative of the others), contributed to the expansion of the Reunionese population. The names : Texere (Teixeira), Des Rosaires/Rosaire (do Rosario/Rosario), Héros (Eiro), Fonsèque (da Fonseca or Fonseca) Pereire (Pereira), Mila (Milão), Rabelle (Rebello), Vincente (Vicente)... In fact, the man, Emmanuel Teixeira da Motta is the ancestors of the Techer (alteration of Teixeira)... Techer is the eleventh most common name in Reunion Island... Personaly, I have Teixeira, do Rosario, Eiro, Milão, Rebello, Vicente and da Fonseca ancestors... (Nota bene, Raymond Barre, former prime minister of France from 1976 to 1981, a distant cousin, has [had?] do Rosario, Teixeira and Vicente ancestors...)

@theviniso

4 ай бұрын

That's such an interesting bit of history.

I am from Bangladesh🇧🇩. During Portuguese dominance in Bay of Bengal, their Slave trade from Chittagong, Barisal & other surrounding area was widespread. They supported various Kingdoms & Rulers according to their interest & new leaders often seek to ally themselves with the Portuguese as it was most favorable. Piracy along with the Muggs was also a very Portuguese thing in the Bay of Bengal during 16 & 17th Century. My local river was known for the Piracy as it was often attacked by the Portuguese. Thus the name of the river became "The River of Pirate" or "Dakatiya River" in Bengali. We have 100s of Portuguese word in Bengali language such as Cadeira (কেদারা), Câmara (কামরা), Janela (জানালা), Chave (চাবি), Gamela (গামলা), Balde (বালতি), Botelha (বোতল), Armário (আলমারি), Igreja (গির্জা), Saia (সায়া), Camisa (কামিজ), Aia (আয়া), Alfinete (আলপিন), Botão (বোতাম), Pão (পাঁউরুটি), Couve (কপি), Caju (কাজু) and many more.

@Kanukosan

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for your knowledge.

@testerpt5

3 ай бұрын

Hi, I am portuguese and I didn't know this, need to have a word with my bengali girlfriend about these words, she never mentioned this.

@sayedmahbub8933

3 ай бұрын

@@testerpt5 This is not common knowledge here as most of the Portuguese history has been overshadowed by British colonial period. Its even rarely mentioned in school textbooks. But if she ever studied in Bangladesh she should've learned the Portuguese words in "Bengali Grammar" subject.

@sayedmahbub8933

3 ай бұрын

@@testerpt5 I researched a lot about Bengal's history, that's why I know this.

@faiyazahmed6280

3 ай бұрын

Camera comes from the arabic word qamara not Portuguese.

Great video! Portugal's history is so underrated, such an epic and insanely important to world history nation.

Kristang just means Christian. It was never meant to describe Portuguese mixed people. It's just that when people converted to Catholicism, they changed their names to Portuguese

Just so impressed that Mason dedicates his life to understanding people all around the world and how they got there and what that means. Genuinely heroic

There’s a cluster of Portuguese decent in north Jakarta. The modern krontjong music is also heavily influenced by Portuguese music.

@ghfudrs93uuu

3 ай бұрын

Any recommendations on the music?

@yogasapoetra

3 ай бұрын

​@@ghfudrs93uuu there is a keroncong song titled 'Cafrinho' or 'Kafrinyu,' written in the Portuguese Creole language called Papia Tugu, which used to be a lingua franca in Batavia (now Jakarta). The word 'cafrinho' itself is a diminutive form of the word 'cafre,' derived from the Arabic word 'kaffir' (كافر or infidel). 'Cafre' was used to refer to Portuguese sl°ves in the East Indies who were reluctant to convert to Catholicism

To put this into perspective , Portugal's excursions were equal to today's space explorations and race to Mars .

Portuguese language were diplomatic language of Southeast Asia from the 16th to 18th centuries. Siam kingdom communicated with England and the United States by using Portuguese language. Until the 19th century The Siamese officer began to use English for diplomatic communications.

This reminds me of Russel Rebello from the Costa Concordia. He is from a town in India called Vasai that used to be a Portuguese naval base, where there are still many Indians with Portuguese surnames, thanks for posting

I'm Portuguese born with East Timorese mother and living in Australia I can relate to this video so much

I had a science teacher in Canada who came from Hong Kong. He is Macanese Portugese-Chinese on one side and Australian-Chinese on the other, he could pass as both Asian and South European.

Obrigado pelo video Masaman. É bom saber que estás de volta!

@mik823

4 ай бұрын

Masaman is a liar.

SO HAPPY MASAMAN IS POSTING AGAIN!!! LIFE IS ALREADY BETTER!!!!

@mik823

4 ай бұрын

Your life is pathetic if that's how you feel. Massaman is a well known liar.

Japan has today a healthy and numerous Portuguese-speaking community due to Brazilian immigrants of Japanese descent. The most widespread cultural influence of Portugal in Asia is the cuisine.

So glad you are posting videos again. Thank you! 😊

@mik823

4 ай бұрын

You are a fool. Massaman is a well known liar.

being one of such peoples from india, with ancestral surnames in the family such as Fernandes, Barretto, DaSilva... i appreciate having someone cover my peoples history and my origins. To add more info on our civilisation, we are Catholic, with different subtribes under the ethnicity of (East Indians), sometime in history also known as Portuguese Christians, which may sound like we come from the east, although we actually are the native tribes of Bombay and the surrounding areas, close to the Goans and with similar culture although with our own traditions, dialect of Portuguese mixed with the local Marathi language. I would also add that some of our people tend to have portuguese ancestry, although other lack that and adopted the culture when converting to christianity, and further assimilated into the larger group of christian indians in their specific area or region. Therefore, with the goans its much easier to determine their ancestry, although with my ethnic or communal group it would either be hard to track down the documents, or have lost or missing documents after the independence of the country. As our people come from a developed area, where people such as the Goans come from an area that is more of a costal vacation spot and with a lower population. Our peoples including my ancestors have built churches, are in various parts of the economy, have had and lost land and property as well as having some well known celebrities from our ethnicity. Added to the fact that we educated both boys and girls, adopted more western culture through clothing, education, foods that are partially part Portuguese recipes blended into local tastes. various Bollywood movies with characters with english, portugese or spanish sounding names usually tend to depict our community, or the Goans as they are more popularly known since Goa was majorly christian dominated, although such depictions tend to be biased especially in movies where the christian character is portrayed as an antagonist, a wrong doer or someone who goes against the norms of other indian tribes and cultures. on the other hand having even one series getting cancelled due to its positive depiction of christian people. while other portrayals tend to show our men as drunks, which has some truth due to the acceptance and production of native spirits or wines we make, such as port wine or cashew fenni/ coconut fenni (spelling might differ), mixed with some facing poverty and discrimination who turn to alcohol. Although i would say christian indians are not really openly discriminated against in public or daily life, usually only in movies or behind closed doors, while the muslims are discriminated more openly and directly. It is to be noted that all or at least most ethnic groups in india have people of different religions who speak the same language and tend to have some similar culture although due to their religion their culture is different. Not being a big group, probably around a million more or less, and with the diversity in cities, there is a prominent rise in intermarriage as well as many of our people or similar christian indians who in the past century who have scattered all over the globe. personally having aunts, cousins and distant relatives who are spread from new zealand to UK, to Canada, some back in portugal, and so on. im not a historian and i havent researched in detail on my peoples, most of the above is from my own knowledge and what i have heard from others.

@migspeculates

3 ай бұрын

Barretto? Some famous actresses in the Philippines have the last name. Search "Julia Barretto"

Great video, thanks for sharing our heritage.

@Masaman Not sure if you can read Portuguese but I'd recommend the book "A viagem do descobrimento: Um olhar sobre a expedição de Cabral" for a Brazilian perspective on the Portuguese wanderings in the Atlantic and Indian ocean (that led to the Portuguese settling of Brazil)

What a coincidence. I was literally reading up on Luso-Asians right before this video was posted. I'm a Blue Jays baseball fan, and we just signed a Dominican pitcher who played in Japan. Which got me thinking about Latin Americans in Asia, which led to me reading on Luso-Asians.

@GenericUsername1388

4 ай бұрын

Interestingly enough Africa has a large portuguese population as well

@theviniso

4 ай бұрын

@@GenericUsername1388 Fun fact: Technically Portugal still owns land on Africa since Madeira island sits upon the African tectonic plate.

@joiesamaniego3056

4 ай бұрын

Haha me too. I just learned about them and wondering where the South Asian people (I didn't know how they were called before) from 1800's came from. They settled mostly in Taytay Rizal. They intermarried with the local Filipina women here and made successful businesses one worth mentioning is the Carinderia from the root word KARI. I'm going back to read more about them.

@GenericUsername1388

4 ай бұрын

@@theviniso yep that's true. My grandparents were actually born on Madeira and I visited a few times as a kid so I'm well aware 😂

As a Portuguese of Indo-Portuguese origin, particularly from Goa, I know what the reality of a Portuguese-Asian is like, it is in my family, in my culture and in my day-to-day life. The Indo-Portuguese communities have more influence than we think, for example here in Portugal, we have already had 3 prime ministers of Goan origin and a government that had 4 ministers of Portuguese-Indian Goan origin, not to mention businessmen and of the relevant Casa de Goa and Comunidade Hindu de Lisboa. The Indo-Portuguese form a proud community that is quite integrated into Portuguese society, sometimes even imperceptibly. But on the other hand, it's a shame that Portugal doesn't value and enhance its contact and influence with the various Portuguese-Asian groups, I think it should even help them culturally and to protect their unique identity, even sponsoring the use of Portuguese among them. , but of course without wanting to make them considered foreigners, outsiders or not integrated into the societies they find themselves in. According to some of my research, I was able to trace the following groups of Luso-Asians or with Luso-Asian or just Portuguese influence: - Luso Asiáticos: - Luso-Indianos (Luso-Indians/Casados/Mestiços): - Goeses (Misti/Goans/Luso-Goans) - Goeses Católicos (Goan Catholics) - Católicos Karwari (Karwari Catholics) - Católicos mangaloreanos (Mangalorean Catholics) - Católicos Latinos de Malabar (Latin Catholics of Malabar) - Norteiros (Damaneses and Diuneses) - Indianos Orientais Católicos (East Indian Catholic) - Cristãos Kupari/Kadodi (Kupari/Kadodi Christians) - Cristãos Koli (Koli Christians) - Cristãos Korlai (Korlai Christians) - Católicos Bardeskars (Bardeskars Catholics) - Burghers Portugueses (Portuguese Burghers) - Cafres ou Cafrinhas (Sri Lanka Kaffirs) - Luso-Birmanês (Luso-Burmese) - Bainguis (Bayingyi people) - Luso-Malaio (Luso-Malay) - Indonésios Portugueses (Portuguese Indonesians) - Lamno - Larantuqueiros - Mardicas (Mardijker people) - Povo Indo (Indo People) - Cristang (Kristang People/Malacca Portuguese People) - Topasses - Luso Timorenses (Luso Timorese) - Luso-Tai (Luso-Thai/Luso-Siamese) - Kudi Chin - Luso-Chineses/Sino Portugueses (Luso-Chinese/Sino Portuguese) - Macaenses (Macanese) - Luso-Shanghainese - Luso-Japoneses/Nipo Portugueses (Portuguese-Japanese/Japanese Portuguese) - Kirishitan/Kakure Kirishitan

@man58652

3 ай бұрын

You look like a normal south indian, i thought you would look more like a north indian?

@migspeculates

3 ай бұрын

​@@man58652Many Marathi and Goan people are closer to South Indians than North in terms of appearance

@CookiesNCreme-ty6wz

3 ай бұрын

@@man58652 Same, I always thought that Indian Catholics are mixed with Portuguese so they have to be fairer skinned.

@man58652

3 ай бұрын

@@migspeculates i know this, but i am only talking about north indians in terms of punjabi. Not marathi i always thought they are more like south indian same like biharis

@man58652

3 ай бұрын

@@CookiesNCreme-ty6wz google Jacqueline Fernandez indian actor or Remo D‘Souza

And this is also how Portuguese food hides in so many national cuisines of other countries.

Proud Portuguese here ♥️🇵🇹 Love my country. It’s sad to hear the atrocities that were committed in the past but Im glad my people are focused on building bridges now.

@joel12388

4 ай бұрын

I'm from Tamil Nadu, south India. Your country influence is very good in our state.

@jdheryos4910

4 ай бұрын

The Portuguese did not 'stumble' upon thier discoveries as Massafool patronising puts it, my friend. Portugal had through the establishment of the first specialised college of navigation by Henry the Navigator. Refined navigation into the science of Cartography. The Portuguese mathematically, knew exactly where they were going in time and space, as far as the globe was concerned. What lands and oceans existed was the mystery. Another historical error is the Massafool that the was a 'Catalonian kingdom' at the time of 'The Age of Discovery.' There was not. Any Iberian high schooler knows the Mediterranean Empire of Aragon had long before absorbed the Dukedom of Catalonia. The disdain Massafool has for the Romance nations is palpable. Another Masafool insult was to project 'a lust for power.' As if the Ottomans, Chinese, Persians, Mongul Imperial India or any other smaller empire where more virtuous by default. Another projected patronising sop to divide the Romance Civilization is the crumbs of accidental virtue Massafool gives to the Italians. There was no Italian Kingdom or even identify at the time. All the independent city states like Genoa, Florence, Venice etc. Where more proud and ethnical invested in thier own republics than any lost Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy. The prosecution of 'divide and conquer' that he attributes to Portugal as if it was a novel 'nefarious strategy' is laughable! Every kingdom, republic or empire practised these tactics. The Portuguese made best advantage of these at the time. Apparently, if other Asian powers of the time succeed then this is a virtuous application of 'the undermining of states,' whereas Portugal is not. Massafool purposely leaves out for example, that the Chola Indian maritime empire conquered all the coast line and kingdoms in the Bay of Bengal, not two centuries earlier. Including Burma, Ceylon, most of the Indochina peninsula, half of modern Indonesia and onto parts of Malaysia. Apparently this Imperialism is good by default because it's 'local imperialism.' Massafool purposely perpetuates the 'Black Legend.' Especially in case of Portugal and Spain. This propaganda cultural war has been fostered for 500 years, starting with the 'Reformed' protestant imperial of Holland. Later taken up by the 'Enlightened' imperial British and Germans. Till today with the constant historical propaganda war against the Romance nations by the Anglo-American empire. Massaman is an apologist for this Anglo-American historical cultural war. Time to wake up. That is why the thirty nations making up the Portugal Spain speaking world including Philippines and Andorra, formed the Iberofonia collective diplomatic, legal and cultural block of nations, two years ago in the Canary islands. The Chinese government sent an official delegation which recognised the new Iberian world cultural block. The Iberian world from Manila, Equatorial Guinea, Brazil to Lisboa is awake and striking back. El Resurgimiento has begun.

@Adam-wg2rf

4 ай бұрын

I'm from the UK an i agree to many people are looking at the bad but we did a lot of good to and no one is looking at that only the bad which not only europe did just did in a more effective way .🇵🇹🤝🇬🇧

@leo-messi61

3 ай бұрын

Messi >>>>>> ronaldo

@IndianTigress98

3 ай бұрын

My parents are catholics from Mumbai which was colonized by Portugal and my last name is Fernandes which is also Portuguese. That said, the past is the past and I genuinely like Portugal and would love to visit someday 🇮🇳❤🇵🇹

I met a Portuguese Indonesian in college. She said her dialect of Portuguese is unintelligible to people in Portugal or Brazil because it's a very archaic dialect. Akin to the Shakespearian English to us today. Because their dialect hasn't evolved from the 15th century to now.

Thank you for making this video. Even as a Portuguese person, I get so wrapped up in all the mundane chores of life like dreams and ambitions that I forget to research deeper into the history of the nation I was born into. Not that I didn't know the basics of what you explained here, but I still learned a bunch of new things. Pretty Nito.

There’s a big Tamil community in Switzerland where I lived for many years. In a famous catholic monastery called Mariastein there are many ex-votos. I was surprised to find many Portuguese family names from the Tamil. Later I also knew a Tamil with the same middle name as me. I’m Portuguese, of course.

Masaman you're still a legend, your passion comes through in your voice and makes me want to dedicate even more of my time to studying history.

Amazing! Thank you for your knowledge!

Wow Timorese increasing Portuguese use, when i lived there that 35% in 2012 felt a bit less but sure many of them can understand when watching TV and reading simple stuff. Its a good bet for their future.

Speaking on this subject i have an emirati friend who recently did a dna test and got 19% Portuguese dna stemming directly from the portuguese invasion of the region of the uae. Another intresting note in the town of rak (ras al khaimah) also in the UAER many of the inhabitants mixed with British officers and the likes during colonial times and to this day many have half english ancestry and even kept british last names

very interesting and glad to see you back in form. I'm an anglo-indian living now in Australia. My grandmother was a Luso-Asian. Her maiden name was Rozario. I have also known the spelling as Rosario.

@arldsouza8463

4 ай бұрын

Im Indian and have a Portuguese ancestor whose surname was rosario as well 😅

@shackworks

3 ай бұрын

@@arldsouza8463 so much mix in India caused by the various countries occupying the country. This video puts it all into perspective.

@arldsouza8463

3 ай бұрын

@@shackworks Right , India is really heterogeneous

@kaizennojujutsu6134

3 ай бұрын

​@@arldsouza8463 India is India

I’m so glad Massman is making regular videos again

Nice vídeo!Interesting!❤🇵🇹👍obrigado

i’m so glad you’re back to uploading, i love your vids

@mik823

4 ай бұрын

You should do your own research before you make such claims. Massaman is a well known liar.

He's back!! Thank you for the super insightful and original content

Most excellent content, thank you!

Que bom ver que você ainda está ativo Masaman eu realmente gosto muito dos seus videos, eles tem um ar de profissionalismo e sinceridade que eu não acho em outros canais

This guy is so fucking awesome dude. First with the austronesian Japan video and now this he’s literally making these videos for me or something

I love your videos Great source of knowledge

@mik823

4 ай бұрын

That's because you are lazy. If you bothered to do your own research instead taking everything that massaman say as gospel you would see that massaman isa liar and a fraud.

M. Man: great facts, wonderful report!

So glad your back

I'm glad to see you back. I missed you. Your work is outstanding. Keep going.

Loving the flurry of new content man. Keep it up!

Another related and interesting topic you could address is the history of how the Azores was discovered and later populated by the Portuguese a century before the discovery of the Americas. Centuries later the population that grew up there migrated to the south Brazil, east and west USA, Canada and Hawaii. A high percentage of my DNA (mother and father) all came from those islands in the North Atlantic.

I'm from low country, Sri Lanka and we have a portuguese surname. But, my family, relatives and most of the known ancestors are Buddhists (Theravada). The exact reason for having this name is not clear. At that time Portuguese were religious extremists as you said. It was reported that they destroyed antient Buddhist and Hindu temples in portuguese teritory such as Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya and Munneswaram Kovil persecuting Buddhist and Hindu faiths. So, our ancestors may have embraced Catholicism to escape the persecution and later, they may have reverted to Buddhism. If not, these surnames were taken to please them or they were enforced on us. I don't think that we have a sephardic jewish or portuguese ancestory, but that was also possible. Both Sri Lankan Buddhists and Christians have portuguese surnames such as Silva, Perera, Almeda, Pinto, Costa, Fernando and so on.

@CookiesNCreme-ty6wz

3 ай бұрын

Interesting, even Buddhists have Portuguese names in Sri Lanka?

@Nature_Lover-do7vf

2 ай бұрын

​@@CookiesNCreme-ty6wz Yes

@no1reallycaresabout2

Ай бұрын

​​@@CookiesNCreme-ty6wzYes a key example being Sir Ernest de Silva en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_de_Silva

Thanks for coming back, being following you since like 5years ago. Plus im somehow also Luso descendent, cuz i gave Gallician blood.

Wonderful work once again by Mason.

I am a descendant of the Malacca Portuguese then migrated to Singapore circa 1820. The British officially categorised us along with mixed British, Dutch or any other European ancestry as “Eurasians” and this ethnic label was perpetuated by the independent Singapore government from 1965 onwards. As such, if anyone looks at me Singapore Census of Population, they would see the exact number of Eurasians residing in Singapore at any given decade.

I am so glad you’re back making content

Congrats ! great video , don't know where you got your information from , but it seems pretty much on point , specifically when it comes to the getting along with other ethnic groups...let's keep it that way.

Portuguese empire is underated.

9:59 - The Português had connections to the Sri Lankan Burghers from the beginning: The Dutch settlers in Sri Lanka preferred to marry Sinhala-Português mestiça women instead of pure Sinhala or Tamil.

East Timor only became independent in 2002, after almost three decades under Indonesian rule.

Great video. Thought I knew a lot about the Luso diaspora and former colonies and such, but this video presented all kinds of other information I was unaware of. Thanks for that.

I’m very fascinated with the Portuguese and Iberia cultures/history. Thanks for posting!

Really interesting video, never knew much about the history of these people

thank you for creating Freida Pinto

So glad your back and making videos again

most of these people have no Portuguese ancestry. They just converted to Catholicism and changed their names. The same thing happened in the Philippines

@pvdp2

3 ай бұрын

Yes, only 3% of the Philippine population has Spanish ancestry.

@marimar3161

3 ай бұрын

@@pvdp2 Nope. There's no study that says that. I'm on 23andme and almost all Filipinos have some Spanish, usually less than 5% per person though

@migspeculates

3 ай бұрын

​@@marimar3161after eating Spanish Sardines for breakfast why yes we can devolver à un poco Español cada dia 😂

@YanyKim

Ай бұрын

@@marimar3161 23andme ancestry results of Filipinos dna by Samantha Ancona Esselmann, Ph.D., product scientist at 23andMe 23andMe scientists added a “Filipino” population to our Ancestry Composition report two years ago, customers were excited to see their Filipino ancestry reflected in their results for the first time. Only, there was a twist! Many customers with no known Filipino ancestors were getting 5 percent, 20 percent, even 50 percent or more of this ancestry, and were understandably confused. In response to customer feedback, our team performed more analyses and confirmed that we were missing a big part of the story - or maybe a better way of saying it was that we were missing a big part of the human migration story. It was true that people with the highest proportion of “Filipino” in their ancestry estimates were actually of Filipino descent (over 90 percent on average), but this so-called “Filipino” ancestry Our ancestry scientists realized right away that this shared ancestry was a reflection of human migration and the major expansion of seafaring people who spoke Austronesian languages that began around 5,000 years ago near Taiwan and spread across a vast part of the world. Filipino is not a race but it's a nationality of people living in the Philippines, the vast majorities of the population are Austronesian descent that can trace back their roots to taiwan and some parts of Southern East China. We renamed the population to “Filipino & Austronesian,” and the population description was updated to shed light on this shared linguistic, genetic, and cultural history. The study also identified smaller contributions from other populations. Approximately 8.3% of Filipinos were found to have East Asian ancestry, indicating historical connections with neighboring countries such as China and Taiwan. Additionally, about 0.7% of Filipinos showed evidence of European ancestry, likely a result of colonial history and intermixing with Spanish and other European communities. Philippines Over 90% Austronesian (Filipino) 8.3% East Asian (Mainly chinese) 0.7% European ( Mainly Spanish) -- 23andme genetics ancestry Source:⬇⬇⬇ blog.23andme.com/articles/what-is-austronesian-ancestry 23andme genetics ancestry ( Google)

OMG you are back. I thought you'll never make videos again. Used to wonder what happened to you. Now I see that you've uploaded 3 more videos recently. So glad you're back. Wish you make a AMA video someday.

Two videos within a week. What a great start to the year.

This doesn't surprise me. Portugal is an isolated country in Western Europe. They're cut off from the rest of the European countries, but they had a very long coastline in the Atlantic. They always looked like they were ready to set sail across the world.

@testerpt5

3 ай бұрын

Portugal is not well isolated from the rest of Europe, in fact we were also envolved in lota of continental conflicts

@pmlbeirao

3 ай бұрын

Today isn't very isolated, there are numerous Portuguese communities in Europe, especially France, Luxembourg and Switzerland, and it's a popular tourist destination.

@miguelpadeiro762

3 ай бұрын

I wouldn't call Portugal isolated 1. Portugal was the hotspot of European warfare in the High Middle Ages. Knights from France to England and Germany traveled to Portugal to help fight the moors. It was even one French knight, Henri of Burgundy, that was gifted the county of Portucale for his efforts and sired the future first king of Portugal, direct ancestor of all other kings in our history. Countless European migrants also came to Portugal to help the repopulation effort, namely French. 2. We grew close ties with England in the 14th century 3. Christopher Columbus, an Italian Genoese man, spent his youth years studying in Lisbon and eventually asked for patronage in the Portuguese court. Only when he was declined did he move to the Spanish court. Though yeah, there was one problem. We were isolate from one thing, which was the wider Mediterranean. So we expanded outwards from our Atlantic coast and set a mission to cut the Mediterranean middle men entirely from the equation That was one of our incentives. Our country wasn't made up of just merchants. We also started sailing to find news lands to spread Christianity (Look up the Goan and Malaccan inquisitions...brutal stuff) as well as new lands to conquer for the landed nobility

@jeanjacqueslundi3502

3 ай бұрын

It's all planned by the gods. The role of each nation across time. There are no coincidences.

@migspeculates

3 ай бұрын

​@@davidgarcia5593the Dutch have a similar relationship with the sea. If Portugal is sail and come back, Dutch more like cement and build a house 😂

Dude, glad you are back.

No way! The legend is back!!!

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

Thanks. Love your videos.

It's truly lovely to have you back , brother . I thought you had died ... God bless you masaman from your Irish brother 😊

You forgot the “ ilha Formosa “

@fredleung616

4 ай бұрын

Portugal definitely left a lasting cultural legacy in Taiwan, though certainly not in terms of people. No one there is of Portuguese descent. Though the famous pro-independence song 台灣翠青 lyrics do end with the Portuguese "Ilhas Formosa!"

@tiagotimoteo4004

3 ай бұрын

Being called the "Formosa" Island is really a great compliment. The adjective is generally used to describe a beautiful person, but in the context of objects or things it serves to describe something more than beautiful, alive in a poetic way.

@JoseSantos-xh9mp

3 ай бұрын

In past ( sec 20) the name "Formosa " was more comum to use in the press . Today the press use the word"Taiwan"

@migspeculates

3 ай бұрын

Before Taiwan became "Chinese" it was shortly Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese. Way before all of that, it was Austronesian.

My mum was born in Burma and her surname is britto, there were rumours for years that we have Portuguese in us but a dna test proved that she is Chinese burmese, so I'm guessing that the name was adopted and not due to having a Portuguese ancestor.

@possiblyijt7400

3 ай бұрын

If you had one portuguese ancestor hundreds of years ago it wouldn't show up on a dna test most likely, so you still could have a portuguese ancestor. However if your family practices or practiced catholicism its more likely they just adopted a surname after converting.

You produce excellent videos.

Omg first .. I'm so glad you're back!!

Very interesting!

Absolutely loved the video, and I would love to see more videos about Latins and how we expanded culturally throughout the world, assimilating and inter-breeding with other peoples

Thanks for making more videos Mason.

@mik823

4 ай бұрын

You are a fool. Massaman is a liar.

I would love to see a video with your new shaded maps in regards to all the world religions. That said full videos on every religion’s distribution its sects and their subsequent denominations. Things I’d be particularly interested in are: Christianity as religion. Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Nestorian/church of the East, and Protestants as sects. The religious orders of the Catholic Church, the orthodox nations, and Protestant churches as “denominations”. This same structure could be applied to Islam with Sunni and its law branches and Shia with Zaydism, ismalism, and jafiri. If you could further articulate those into subgroups that’d be really cool. Perhaps Sufi orders prominent to each area. Perhaps you could break Judaism down into what groups most readily accept the Zohar, Talmud, and perhaps other texts. A mention of the Samaritans would be appreciated. You could follow this same structure for Hinduism, Buddhism, paganism, Shinto, Taoism, voodoo, Sikhism, Jainism, and Druze. You could also do anything else you’re interested in. Or nothing at all it’s your channel after all.

Masaman, this is such a comprehensive video. 'Im in awe

@mik823

4 ай бұрын

How do you know? Have you done the research that verifies his claims? I Doubt it. You are a gullible fool.

Goa was Asian capital for Portuguese spanning all the way till Japan

Hoah... After years of total absence😂😊 i miss your videos a lot.. You should do a Colab with polyglot channels😊 peace your Brazilian follower

Thanks for this interesting video. I hope the Portuguese start to research our "brothers" from Asia.

Portugal and Spain were all over the world or many parts of it. In the Philippines, a lot of Filipinos have Spanish last names - Rodriguez, Flores, Reyes, De la Cruz, Gamboa, Garcia, etc.

please fix English caption timing, not only copy and paste, love your content from Istanbul

I'm buddhist and 100% pure Sri Lankan. It's amazing to think that Brits colonized us and it was continued for a long time than Portuguese colonization and even Portuguese didn't colonize whole Sri Lanka but we have Portuguese surnames than English ones

@josesilva4171

2 ай бұрын

Portugal created globalization (not colonization). Back then they were the world super power but the population was very small (for example Portugal population (just 1 million) was 14x smaller than France's). Portugal promoted intermarriage, there was no racial protocol, and all people became one family (India, Sri Lanka, China, Malaysia, Indonesia.....), you are the legacy of this.

Missed you so much dude