Paraguayans: The World's Weirdest Latinos 

he's not a genius, obviously calling a nation weirdos. Argentines are the nation of weirdos not yu who kept your heritage but argentines who pretend they have no indigenous blood bc they commited a genocide to kill their indeigenous and paid europeans to settle the argentines are weirdos.

Lol, I was shocked when he said that. All my life I thought Paraguayans were a Spanish-speaking people's. Then as I continued to listen, it became clear what he meant. Thanks for clarifying it anyway! Greetings from USA via 🇲🇽

Wrong...They speak Spanish...You wish...

GOOD FOR SAYING IT...THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE US FREE...

They are ignorant and choose to speak without knowing the truth...They can try denying the truth and what is obvious...but they can't...Ethnically, culturally, and socially, Paraguay has one of the most homogeneous populations in South America. About 95% of the people are mestizo (mixed Spanish and Guaraní Native American descent). Little trace is left of the original Guaraní culture except the language, which is spoken by 90% of the population.

*I got here because I want to know why I'm the weirdest latino Tambien somos los más buena onda. El paraguayito ivaleterei. Todos los extranjeros que vienen aca se enamoran de nuestro país...y de nuestras mujeres.

@@inglesonlinesnpp5976 somos los mas mente cerrada querras decir, porfa saquenme de este pais

@@araara953 AJDJFJAJSJSJA AYUDa

@@araara953 CONFIRMO jakska todo bola que somos el país más buena onda, si son re selectivos con el tipo de persona que van a tratar bien y la mayoría tiene prejuicios (no todos obvio)

@@noemic.4542 si sos diferente fuiste ya aca 🤡🤡

Man, you born in Paraguay and you practically are speaking four languages: Spanish and Guarani obviously, but also portuguese because all the brazilians and an advanced english is teached in schools. Also somewhy there's a lot of germans.

Your girlfriend has too much free time on her hands to learn 4 languages!

​@@dexterspeights3484bruh... most people around the world speak more than one language, here in the US we are culturally and linguistically illiterate over our Anglo Saxon exceptionalism.

@@Thiago_Alves_Souza Because AMERICAN GOVERNMENT wants to LIMIT YOUR OPTIONS to LEAVE AMERICA!

@@Thiago_Alves_Souza most people I know speak English and Spanish, and I live in New England

Ironically though the word for 'yuck' sounds beautiful. The English 'yuck' or even the current 'eeeew' are much more expressive.

probably desendants of old nazi's.

Im also from a german colony here in paraguay, do u remember how the colony was called? Mine is called "Hohenau", it was founded by germans back im the 19 century, also im from german family and speak fluent german.

Argentina and Brazil received bunches of germanies and italians in the XIX century, there are some cities in the south brazil wich the official language is Germany, same could have happened to Paraguay but I don't know too much

He was probably a "menonita", germans descendants living in the Chaco

@@panochadeliciosa3949 maybe

Great if you play against a spanish speaking team, clever

If I could I would too!

Oh we do that whenever we find someone who doesn't speak guaraní 😂😂😂

They all speak Spanish but choose to communicate in guarani when they play so that other Spanish speaking teams won’t understand them.

Just like in The Chaco War

Wow what an amazing mix! I’m Paraguayan and live in NY! Where do you live if you don’t mind me asking?

This comment section is so exciting for me, I'm over in LA and have never met any Paraguayans I'm not directly related to, lol. It's wonderful to see!

I am adopted from Paraguay, greetings

Bro I'm from Uzbekistan and I know exactly how you feel(( You just described my country

@@user-zu6ne7yd6y bro your country is about to have a civil war

I'm paraguayan too and I live in Brazil, and I would say here is unbelievable corrupt as well. In my opinion this is a problem of south american countries in general. But then I have to remember my times in Europe and Ukraine and other eastern european countries are the same level of corruption. The problem is power and human beings.

besides of the corruption, it's still being one of the safests countries in latin america

Is it true that in Paraguay 60% of people speak guaraní?

Nazi's hiding out

@@crisportugal6703 my thoughts exactly! I gotta find my corner in the sky, mossad is coming for my ass. --- the Nazis'

@@crisportugal6703 Aryans Hiding out... Dont support the Jews from ypur posture...

Hahaha in Brazil we have this too

Nazis

No entendí una mierda

We speak both, guaraní and spanish

We can speak both languages very well

The Republic of Paraguay is a mostly bilingual country, where both Spanish, an Indo-European language in the Romance branch, and Guaraní, an indigenous language of the Tupian family, have official status.[1]

If you had to guess how much of your DNA is european vs guarani? 50/50? You ever take DNA test? My grandfather migrated to Uruguay from Yugoslavia in 70s and a Uruguay is 95% European DNA

Es común tener nombres de pila rusos en Paraguay?

As a paraguayan, I'd say thats definitely true, haha. Our curse words are unique in the entire world, I Guess.

with me are 2, i understand more english than guarani

@@JouDA61 lmao same

yup!! Only reason I speak bits of Guarani also ( jopara ) is because my parents always spoke it to me back home in Jersey! Its hard as hell to speak it really fluently! not many people can do it...Props to you for knowing some!

Tapiti moroti opopo tapepe. (That's what I can come out after everything I was taught at school. Do not ask for more)

Entonces te perdiste un par de cosas del video

please pick me up of this country

Claramente tenes 0 ingles o no viste el video

No shit

@@araara953 salí entonces

Did you live in Ciudad del Este or Pedro Juan Caballero?

Quetal por nueva York yo iré pronto en Manhattan trabajo en energía limpia

So few Paraguayans live in UsA huh? Do you guys still speak guarani here? Saludos desde Connecticut.

@@abrahamlima5052 otro saludo para ti

Filipinos love empanada too.

@@ialexander8715 aguante la yerba pajaritooo

yerba mate campesino is better bro, try the menta y boldo, superb flavour

@@prosymbian4814 pajarito oikove cocidorã

Aguante la caña kp

Oh what a coincidence! I have also only met one single Paraguayan, he had blue eyes, brown hair and a German last name starting on H letter. He felt a bit familiar tho

Emmanuel Strasser really hitler had neither blonde hair or blue eyes

@@omgitsjoetime He was referring to my reply

Fake people.

What was her last name?

Yo

@@corvii_jr6575 Yo

Matias Ruiz Díaz X2

@pry098 *XD*

se mas ingles que guarani JAJDSJA

Thx for visiting then!

Thank you!

Im gonna emigrate from the netherlands to paraguay next year. Do you think i can have a good fiture here

@@duncanstrik8764 yes you can i recomend you Colonias únidas or any City in itapua or alto parana

Jajajjajajajajaja

Jajajajaja añarako

I'm a native Paraguayan living in Argentina, I have learned English and guess what... You have made my day 😂

Cierto jajaja!

Lmao

Paraguay era un País industrializado estaba avanzando muy rápido, y Argentina, uruguay y brasil estuvo en guerra en Paraguay y si, murió el mariscal Lopez en combate, pero también mataron al 90 porciento delo hombres y tuvieron que repoblar el país con europeos.

Wtf

nada que ver

Hi is right XD

Jajajajajja

wtf, fotos del mercado 4 y los indigenas en la plaza y eso pio que son, torta?

Saludos 💌

hi

H

Saludos desde Paraguay 👋🏻👋🏻

Thanks man!

JAJAJAJA lmAO

JAJSDJJDA amo

Watch and judge for yourself [Dr.adnab.ibrahim.eng.YB] thank you 🎁

I think he meant that "doesn't speak Spanish only"

We Speak spanish and Guarani. That afirmation is more like Brazil

Woah! Such a smart joke, did you come up with it yourself?

Mba’e la porte che’a?

Even if you were offended. It woudn't matter. 😎

long live the paraguayans!

Leave it to an American to call noble action weird. Wish more of the world would think like Paraguay.

According to what I studied in History of Paraguay, it is correct to say "I die with my country", since López believed that when he died, the country also suffered

@@juanmanuelayalabenitez4852 Yes it makes sense but is wrong translated because "con" means "with" and "por" means "for" So "Muero por mi Patria" means what i say if not it would be "Muero con mi Patria" Greettings!!

@@enmanuelgrau3887 "pues no se sabe si dijo «¡Muero por mi patria!» o «¡Muero con mi patria!» . Se cree sin embargo que dijo esto último, sabiendo que el país estaba destrozado y a completa merced de los aliados, propenso a desaparecer." Wikipedia

it means i die because of (in the cause of) my country (partriatism) . por in spanish is more like , representation, in exchange for, by, .... por and para meaning for is a difficult concept to understand by english speakers. you pretty much just have to understand the language to understand this statement..

Up to this day it's impossible to know what he said, even if he actually said something..

el auto corrector te quitó una "s" en "Impossible"

Si, los gringos y su obsesion con los colores es algo que veo mucho.

B-B-But how could that be, Latinos are all brown and Mexican!!!

@@imannam erai

Plot twist, latins in us will have much more sons that "whites", and there will be an America for all humanity ;:'"*D

philomelodia I think “weird” in this use isn’t an insult. I also see it as a marketing tool - potential viewers are more likely to click on weird than interesting or unique.

Mangoré is a marvellous, world-class composer. I can hear some of his beautiful compositions right now, in the complete silence of my study. He is a gem still to be discovered by many.

my ex..

Being weird isnt a bad thing.

Wingalaxi could not agree with you more! I will never forget the first time I had the privilege of hearing un sueño en la Floresta. Sublime.

And as a Paraguayan, I'm still grateful about that noble gesture from Colombia. We paraguayans even consider the colombians our only true brothers in South America. Fact.

Apparently there were some decent people in the Colombian government then.

Interesting. I did not know that. Thanks for sharing.

And guess what man stopped the disappearance of Paraguay? Dom Pedro II. Also the Count of Eu pushed for slave abolition in Paraguay's new government

This confirms what commenter JCG wrote, that the Brits intended to destroy Paraguay, and take it.

❤️

*Mr. Worldwide*

Lodbrok Let it go, they are weird. Lol

@@Gabez82 ya, its true

Hola Tico. I love your country. Pura vida

lets face it bro, youve rarely heard of paraguay hahaha

have you ever met a paraguayan before lol

They can speak it just fine, though "proper" Spanish tends to mostly be used in more formal settings or when talking to non-Paraguayans. The reputation for speaking it poorly comes from other Latin Americans hearing them talk when speaking among themselves (more casual Spanish tends to have a lot of Guarani mixed in and vice versa)

Broadway JR Thats called jopara

Thank you.

@@BroadwayRonMexico bold to asume that other latin americans speak the proper version of spanish, none other country speaks spanish properly anymore, not even Spain, that´s because of globalization. And in Paraguay we do have a spanish linguistic class on how to speak-write it properly.

​@@mirthaadrianamezacaballero6989 Nowhere did I say Paraguayans can't speak it properly, so I dont know what you're on about. I was just explaining why Masaman mentioned in the video that Paraguayans have a reputation with other Spanish speakers for "speaking two languages poorly". Some hear Paraguayans speaking Jopara, and assume that Paraguayans cant speak standard Spanish

agreed

I agree. They always got to the worst parts and show only that... As if in the states everything is all perfect!

claudio guanes doldan I mean the states are quite nicer in comparison obviously and paraguay is very poor but many of the pictures chosen weren’t nice or representative of the country

@@julianlopez1534 I'm not comparing obviously the states is a much more developed country but trust me I lived many years there and there are ugly places to but of course they don't show that in their movies! But if it's Mexico or South America they always show slums and poor places as if that's all that there is...

@Julio Argentino Roca half the population of Paraguay lives in a city

That culture is also Spanish whether they want to accept it or deny it...and here is why? Ethnically, culturally, and socially, Paraguay has one of the most homogeneous populations in South America. About 95% of the people are mestizo (mixed Spanish and Guaraní Native American descent). Little trace is left of the original Guaraní culture except the language, which is spoken by 90% of the population.They are probably denying their Spanish side because of the black legend...But they are very much of Spanish descend...as much as of Guarani ....

@Mustafa Alam Where do you see that...I have not said that...Do you understand English?

@BenTeachesEnglishOverseas wow you're really lucky.It's one of my dreams to visit all of Latin America along with Eq. Guinea too

@Mustafa Alam all latin america countries

@Mustafa Alam When I see a Pro West politica country with a solid capitalism, then it can exist a 1st world, and Cuba in the 2nd worls is so pathetic.

All south Americans are weirdos except Brazilians

I am Brazilian and it seems weird for me. We abandoned these pagans linguages here as well.

@@eddiesantos4978 What do you mean by 'pagan languages'? Is it a Brazilian expression? Because, if you say it for religious reasons, you know that Portuguese (as well as Spanish) comes from an incredible pagan society (the Iberian people), right? Greetings from Colombia.

The weird doesn’t mean as an insult 🤣it’s just exaggerated so people will click.

@@bajoespacio Spanish and Portuguese come from latin, from the romans, not th iberian people, though I agree the term pagan languages makes no sense, the old testament was writen in hebrew and aramaic and the new testament in greek, therefore all other languages including latin could be named pagan.

I'm brazilian as well and I don't think this is weird. It should be something to be proud of. I wish we spoke our native languages fluently as well as Portuguese.

A lot of flaws in his video, and you just say highly accurate? Please grab a kuatia and keep studying your story, ejavyete voi!

Hi I'm from Ethiopia I liked your country's history actually reminds me of our own being different and so on big ups Paraguay

Jaestudiakeeee

@@inakijesus17 "higly accurate" no dice es todo perfecto obvio que tiene unos que otros datos que omitio y otros que capaz no esté correcto. Lee entrelineas, saludos

@@edohpy oh please

The most suicidal country in the Americas*

@@factsoverfeelings1395 Have you ever heard of the war of the triple alliance? The Paraguayans were a bunch of suicidals who even forced kids to go to the front. You guys are nuts.

@@factsoverfeelings1395 I'd rather surrender than kill myself.

* the bravest country in America

They also assimilated Spanish as their language...Both are spoken

Thanks bud

I’m Paraguayan and my nation don’t have weirdos

@@rafaelaquino4230 yes we do.

@@rafaelaquino4230 of course we're weirdos

hecc yes we are

thenobletariq i would bet that it is the most unknown (in the USA at least) country in (spicy) Latino America. Well Paraguay and those two loser countries in the north/northeast of the continent (Suriname & Guyana).

thenobletariq watch iranian Kurdistan on my channel

I went to Paraguay in 1998, it's really different. You'll like it, just don't go to Ciudad del Este (it's a dump)

Katie Frank - I read about the cheap electronics and illegal business CDE.

He man, you should definitely come. Theirs tons of cool things to see here. Lots of nature tourism and Asuncion is a very fun city to be in. Also everything is pretty inexpensive.

Estuve en Viña del Mar y Valparaiso en 1996, me encantaron, quiero volver un dia a 🇨🇱 Maitei (saludos), desde Lambaré 🇵🇾

Mk a mi siempre me ha fascinado y encantado tu país. Aunque nunca lo he visitado, solo lo conozco a través de libros y vídeos. Espero algún día poder hacerlo. Un saludo desde Colombia❗

Paraguay no existe amigo

@@bjack8315 buen punto, Nose ni de lo que estaba hablando

We learn the map of Central and South America in mandatory Spanish class in France.

Boliviano aqui... nosotros hablamos un poco de ustedes... jaja

Eso es muy purete.

my greatgrandfather fought in the chaco war

I wrote a book about it! “Sin laureles sobre sus tumbas” 😊

That’s cool, but he probably got wrecked.

Meanwhile my great-great-grandparents came here from Italy just after the war with their 12 children lmao. Although my family couldn't escape war, as the husband of one of those 12 children, my great-grandmother, got to fight in the chaco war, but luckily he survived it even tho he got injured by a grenade.

Interesting, thanks for the heads up. Learn something new everyday!

@@chubbydubby1 Stupidity’s not a crime, so feel free to go

These historical tidbits are so incredibly fascinating. Would love to visit Paraguay someday. Knew a beautiful paraguayan girl in university. A couple actually.

I agree with John Anthony. I have visited the site. Also a main avenue in Asuncion is named Madam Lynch. I am a Paraguayan who lives in the US; I hope to retire in Asuncion; I just love the place,

yes we are Irish descendent all Paraguayans are

When they taste the only solid soup of the world... Itavyta!!

Yo en Paraguay ya hablaba 3, ahora vivo em Corea y ya hablo 5 😂 (Español, Guarani, Portugues, Ingles y Coreano)

@@calebcancian9321 Yo también hablo Alemán y francés😂

As a paraguayan, thank you!

He forgot to mention Don Carlos Antonio López, our first elected president (father of the mentioned one Fransisco Solano López)

I was about to comment something like this. Here in Argentina we study how that war was sponsored by england and performed by the triple aliance which was of brasil with a lot of slavery, uruguay with it's president overthrown and argentina goberned by the reural aristocracy of buenos aires. It's really sad that none of this is mentioned on the video.

That’s why you don’t mess with Brazil.

@@ADAM-tx4nvwell, old paraguay against the Brazilian empire 1v1, I wonder how badly paraguay would beat them...

Greetings from California as well. Paraguay seems like a pretty dope place. I would love to taste authentic Paraguayan cuisine. I bet their food is bomb.

@@jonathanaldecoa1099 that's right!

@@jonathanaldecoa1099 As a Paraguayan I can confirm food is amazing right here, and not like the vid said we do speak Spanish. I reccomend you try some mbeju or empanadas!

Hey! This video is not an accurate representation of Paraguay and there is a lot of False and inaccurate information disseminated in this video!

As a paraguayan, why the fuck would they teach you about Paraguay in school? That's more something you would do by yourself if you care about history.

For a while the remaining men were legally allowed to have multiple wives, so that all the widows would not starve to death.

it was the adult male pop so there was like kids still

It's because Uruguay Brazil and Argentina allied together and made a massacre. Some Argentinians nowadays meme around about their ''military triumph'', shameful as that crap nation they have.

As there were so few men after the war there was a massive amount of women compared to men so they could be complete arses and still have women falling at their feet. Even today it is one of the most machista countries around.

the confusion comes that the total casualtes were estimated to be 50% of THE TOTAL population (men, women, adults, children), while 90% of the FIGHTING FORCE and that estimation comes from the 1870s census, which they compared to an unofficial guess done in 1850s. the remaining population was 300k people, and the guess was roughly 600k, therefore "half was lost"

Jauuuuuuuminaaaa

Japita la inea

Watch and judge for yourself [Dr.adnab.ibrahim.eng.YB] thank you 🎁

Te di like para que tengas 69

Ja'umina kape 👌

*Berberawy* Thank you for the info I’m going to give it a whirl and see what’s what

@*Berberawy* The DNA tests are fake...I learned that they are cheating people...They don't tell them the truth...I am not sure why...

@@amparoalvarez9001 not really, I know where my family came from and I did the DNA test and it's spot-on. No surprises.

@@elizabethelias1005 Suit yourself...I said the truth...You want to follow them go ahead...

@@amparoalvarez9001 ok then. At least you are passionate about something.

You misunderstood: he meant sailing through Paraguay's rivers and cheap exploitation of Paraguay's resources.

@JCG Is the depiction of Paraguay as a bilingual state accurate? Do you speak both Spanish and Guarani? Thanks and cheers from Brazil!

yes, we speak both languages

This is great to know. Never ever heard about any history of Paraguay.

I can't tell if this is just a bad joke or pointless nationalism...

Which president?

Balmaceda y Allende hicieron otro tanto, eh.

@@pparisps5141 Presidente Mariscal Francisco Solano López, died in the genocide against the paraguayans

@@mathiasbarrios8359 I had thought that he was referring to Solano López, I just asked because I wanted to confirm. Because in my country (Brazil) Solano López is considered a monster, (after all he invaded Brazil). And yes, Brazil has genocided several Paraguayans, something to not be proud of. Even though Solano was a good person or a bad person, the fact is that he invaded us, made a provincial president die in jail after being captured by Paraguayan troops (if I am not mistaken the president was from the province that is now Mato Grosso), soon he was the cause of the war. There are theories that Paraguay was a superpower that threatened England and this was all a plan by England to destroy Paraguay but that is not true. Paraguay had the best army, with more men, but it did not quite threaten the British Empire. Even with the atrocities of the past, what matters today is the harmony between our South American nations and those of all Americas. 🇧🇷🇵🇾🇻🇪🇧🇴🇨🇴🇪🇨🇺🇾🇦🇷🇨🇱🇸🇷 Saludos desde Brasil

@@pparisps5141 Hey what's up, I see your point and that's how your country teaches you the history, after all the "Acuerdo de la Triple Alianza" is quite known and Brazil's and Agentina's intentions, also that the British Empire wanted a place where to import cotton from after the civil war in the US. Also, back then, the propaganda was that Lopez was a savage dictator and we paraguayans needed to be saved. This propaganda even claimed that the three countries would bring us civilization, anyway I guess what I mean is that I would really like to know more about how you see this war and how Brazil teaches its people about it. Here are two videos from Argentina that I really like. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--R79OPrOv5w.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lK89bYWclq8.html Saludos desde Fernando de la Mora - Paraguay

@Dory & Co This is so true. People in Py are wonderful, calm, homely. Really genuine people, in my opinion, even in Asuncion. A traveller who speaks some spanish will be highly rewarded if he/she is curious about people and cultures. Having said that....living here, well, might be a real challenge if you don't have an open mind and complain about services, infrastractures, puntuality, lack of cultural events etc.

Como brasileño, a mi tambien.

Rafael Romagnoli Eles nos invadiram e vc tem vergonha? kkkkkkkkk

Pasado pisado hermanos, pero cabe destacar el error en el vídeo, de que Brasil quería quedarse con Asunción, y gracias a los Uruguayos, que desistieron de ello, honrando el tratado al que se había llegado, no se hizo.

No importa, esas son cosas del pasado, no tienen que sentirse asi por algo en lo que ni tuvieron responsabilidad. Saludos desde Paraguay 🇵🇾🇦🇷🇧🇷

@@Beartic. Cierto, al menos yo, como Paraguayo, puedo decirles que no tengo rencor contra mis queridos países vecinos, saludos!!

Jajajaja y si

la verdad q si

What year did your German forebears arrive in Paraguay? Aren't you famous for winning world beauty contests?

@@sidstovell2177 Lmao, just being white doesn’t make you beautiful.

@@shutapp9958 it's an inside joke

"was" born here

@@anonmon6236 You are not very bright since you cannot realize that English is not her first language, she speaks 5 languages and you? How many languages ​​do you speak?

It does.

Saludos a Paraguay! Y saludos a mi hermano boliviano tambien!

Luis Saavedra gracias Bolita

@@davidgutierrez8795 buena paragua

No, no la conocen tan bién y si la conocen la niegan.. Esta es la verdad y lo he conseguido en la computadora...Paraguay es el 95% mestiza...the españoles y guaranis...y no queda casi rastro de los Guaranis originales...Solo queda el idioma...Y otra cosa que o no saben o no quieren aceptar es que los españoles son blancos y existen muchísimos de ojos azules, y verdes y de pelo rubio...Hay que ir a España y verlo con tus propios ojos.... Ethnically, culturally, and socially, Paraguay has one of the most homogeneous populations in South America. About 95% of the people are mestizo (mixed Spanish and Guaraní Native American descent). Little trace is left of the original Guaraní culture except the language, which is spoken by 90% of the population.

Luis Saavedra gracias

Cause we DO speak spanish, tho we prefer to speak in guarani with our friends and family cuz it hears funny JAJAJAJA tho we use spanish in some schools, politics and international relationships

And the name Paraguay itself is in guarani

we mostly speak spanish, at least in the capital...

If it serves of any consolation this whole video is so poorly researched that even that innocent piece of data is wrong lol.

I never knew they speak Spanish in the Filipina’s ! Because it’s a former Spanish colony right ?

@@JimskiBeatz some of us still do, but I would say only 2-5% now (at the most). It was a highly hispanicized culture in most of the North and Middle group of islands (Luzon and Visayas), although some tribes kept to the old ways particularly those in the North North highlands and some aborigine and/or pagan tribes and Moros in the South. In a place in the North and South a ethnic minority speak a pidgin Creole Archaic Spanish called "Chavacano" which sounds like you are talking in Ancient Spanish akin to Don Quixote. 🇪🇸 spent a longer time lording over most of the Philippines than any Latin American country. 300-333 years depending on when you want to measure "Spanish rule" as they were not able to colonize some tribes and groups. More like bribed really, as opposed to outright conquest. Then we simply fought amongst ourselves some choosing to be Mercs for the Spaniards (as a people we have a long history of Piracy and Mercenary work, throughout Southeast Asia, kind of like an ancient Blackwater or XE -one only need to ask the ancient Thais "Ayutayah" or Ancient Burmese). Most of us were largely immune to smallpox during the Spanish conquest because as you know smallpox came from Asia. So we were somewhat inoculated to most of their diseases. Hence we kept some of our culture and language. Not to mention some tribes already had metallurgy and working canons and arquebuses even before the Spaniards came. So they were not conquered. Spanish radio shows playing old style Spanish songs were still on the air until about the late 1960s, when Marcos the dictator went on a massive Nationalistic campaign and got rid of chief instruction of advanced Spanish in primary schooling. Which was good for us! :) . But my family remembers my great grandfather who was born in the late 1880s. He was still singing along to those Spanish radio shows. Bolero music is big for a certain really old demographic of Filipinos. Almost all dead now of course. Hope that helps* to clear some stuff up. Despues de Colon. The Spaniards never really left as a lot of the rich Tycoons are Spaniard, Filipino admixtures like the Ayalas and Zobels. :/ .

​​​@@JimskiBeatz The ratio of Filipinos who know the term "desde" is about 1 in a million, or generously about 1 in every 500,000. Fluent speakers of Spanish, well of course even less. Even during Spanish rule, only a maximum of 10% could actually speak Spanish, and that's quite generous coz that counts to 1 million people, which is way too high an estimate lol. Mostly it was just nobles who learned Spanish because they were legally required to in order to communicate with the Spanish government and be granted privileged status, as well as other wealthy folks like merchants and some middle class later on when they could afford education. However, Spanish was very rarely a native language. It's very much like Indonesians speaking Dutch.

And we are very proud to speak it :D

The Republic of Paraguay is a mostly bilingual country, where both Spanish, an Indo-European language in the Romance branch, and Guaraní, an indigenous language of the Tupian family, have official status.[1]

They also speak Spanish and about 95% of the people are mestizo (mixed Spanish and Guaraní Native American descent). Little trace is left of the original Guaraní culture except the language, which is spoken by 90% of the population.

@@amparoalvarez9001 95% is mestizo AND white.

You can learn it in Duolingo I think!!

Paraguay se merece una pelicula de hollywood...mel gibson please..

Anyways Bolivia remains saying Paraguay robbed their territory and teach their children history episodes and geography that made Paraguay a little country and Bolivia near the Paraguayan river hilarious, just as Americans teach their children US is the biggest country in the world

Saludos, amigo paraguayo

Y dps hay gente la que no le gusta ser Paraguayo/a.

The same happens today in many conflict zones of the world. It is a crime of war, the use of child soldiers. Nothing to be proud of.

Not true...Some have forgotten....90% of them speak it...Not one 100 % Spanish is spoken by 87%

@@amparoalvarez9001 But it's still taught at most schools, the one school i'm not sure about is ASA lol

@@julirodas9761 That is the way it should be...Forgetting a language is forgetting who you are...They should keep on teaching guaraní...

@@julirodas9761 they do, schools are required at least 2h of guarani a week, but 2h a week for 12 years is not enough to be fluent, specially if they dont even want to learn

I don't

Podes poner en los subtitulos la traducción automática al español XDDD

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