In case you're wondering which country will elect a Jewish head-of-government next, the most likely candidate seems to be Jamaica 🇯🇲. However, I doubt people will be as weird about that as they were about Mexico. I also don't expect it to be the next special as I've already made plans.
SamAronow
"50% loan words from English and 50% curse words" Ah, sounds like how I learned Irish lol
Gallalad
I wasn't surprised to hear you speak Spanish since you are from California. It really is interesting to find what people in MC thought you sounded like.
I am curious what you sound like when you converse in Hebrew. When you say single words and names, your accent is perfect in modern Israeli Hebrew standarts, but carrying a conversation is a whole other thing.
aviad
Your comment about the varieties of Spanish is quite intriguing to me because it reminds me of the situatuon of Afrikaans in South Africa, which likewise consists of numerous varieties distinguished by geography and ethnicity.
For example, even though I grew up Cape Town in the 2000s, I've heard people say that I speak Afrikaans with a Dutch or German accent despite English being my first language.
Then again, my grandmother's mother and grandmother spoke to each other in Standard Dutch.
benjaminklass
Next episode being “In the Jewish diaspora” gives me hope that we’ll talk about the people who we now know as Mizrahim. I hope the Jews of MENA are given their own prominence, beyond their existence in the context of the State of Israel, as is so often the case.
MRender
Spanish from México is normally easier to understand based on how beautifully they pronounce it, and how it's normally a bit slower than plenty of other dialects out there. I say this as an argentinian, not trying to be weird about it lol, but I have colleagues from México and I adore their accents.
My spouse also understands them perfectly as an immigrant, even though Spanish is their fourth language, and they understand them better than they do local variants of Spanish. Not even because of media exposure, so it really does feel like it must be about the clarity, intonation and speed of my colleagues speaking Spanish rather than anything else.
I also have a friend from the US who struggled both in Argentina and Chile but did just fine in Mexico as a second language speaker. I'm unaware of how much access to media they had but they grew up next to Mexican immigrants so they did have a lot of exposure to their Spanish.
MaryamMaqdisi
I assume most people who are surprised to learn you speak Spanish would be Israelis. Most Israelis don't have a good understanding of the US, so they have no reason to think a Jewish person from California would speak Spanish, and speaking 3 languages is just generally impressive
whydoi
Your Spanish was great. You didn’t sound aristocratic or weird at all. You simply sounded like an American with a great proficiency in Spanish.
juanmiguelreyesguerr
@SamAronow you have to make a video on Judaism in Argentina!
It has the highest Jewish population of Latin America and any Spanish-speaking country since the late 1800s, there's a long history of Jewish communities migrating to different rural areas and coalescing in Buenos Aires, tensions between the larger Ashkenazi and smaller Sepharadi communities, and our frankly weird non-Jewish President keeps tweeting Torah verses in Hebrew and is likely to convert after leaving office.
There were two large waves of aliyah in the 1960s and 2000s, so you'll likely find Argentine-Jewish friends in Israel.
krel
OMG SAM IS A CONFIRMED DROPOUT FAN!!! Why does this channel just keep getting better
scottygordon
If we're talking about Mexico, Jews, and baseball players...may as well mention 1st baseman Rowdy Tellez, he is all 3 of those things
lapotencia
Again my beloved “Shul de Justo Sierra”…
How sad that you could not film there, it is such a nice building. I love that synagogue, wakes up so many sweet memories. I remember running up and down the stairs while playing with my cousin, we were about 10 years old. Our grandmother tended Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services there and it was so hard to keep us quiet.
In another matter, in contrast with USA and Argentina, a big percentage of the Jewish community in Mexico is Sephardic and/or Misrahi. Much of the XX century Ashkenazi immigration was possible because of the regulations softening during Lázaro Cárdenas administration, in order to accept Spanish republican refugees. Friendship between Jews and Republicans was not uncommon.
By now, Mexican Jewish community has flourished, their members are generally wealthy (for Mexican standards), unlike when they where just arriving as immigrants/refugees. People in general tend to change their political views as they improve their status, often leaning to the right. Yet, Claudia has not.
Claudia is a physicist (studied in Facultad de Ciencias UNAM), so she is Mexico’s first woman president, with a Jewish origin and a scientist too.
ruthdiamant
I was also happily surprised by your Spanish. Much better than many actors in Hollywood films.
Iván-tws
@SamAronow have you ever thought of making new channels where you would post your old videos translated to Spanish and Hebrew? I’m pretty sure if you contact someone in Netanya then you could also have them do voice overs for a Russian channel.
jeremyyusufov
If you ever catch up to the modern day will you go back to ancient Jewish history and make more detailed vids?
princekrazie
Weird that people were surprised you speak Spanish. I would think you're a polyglot.
eleids
Sam Aronow Dropout reference? Was not expecting that…
arielyaari
Ngl ever since sheinbaum was elected I tought well I guess is gping to make the Mexico video I suggested in the first survey
fenecchilango
I am sorry you think you sound like an aristocrat :(, to me it sounded just like anyone from El Pueblo. Don't worry.
KriZtiaNVL
Sam, love your channel! You should definitely come to Brazil sometime. We have the oldest Jewish community in America, we had a large community in the Amazon jungle of Jews that were expelled from Morocco by it's sultan. We have many such stories! One qestion: where is that video on Bela Kun?
