The Croatian Colony on the Edge of the World (History of Chileno-croatas and Argentino-croatas) 

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I'm an expat from the States living in Argentina. One day an older gentleman from my neighborhood approached me happily on the street while I was out shopping and started speaking Croatian to me. When he realized that I didn't understand him he quickly changed to Spanish and said "You're not from Croatia? I was told that you are from Croatia.". "Sorry sir, I'm not. I'm from the US." "Oh," he said sadly, turned and walked away. It broke my heart!

Zimbabwean here. My great grandfather on my dad's side was a Croatian from the island of Korčula. Great video. 👏👏👍

Looks like there are more Croats of full Croatian descent outside of Croatia, than in Croatia...

Chile has the largest number of descendants of Croats in Latin America and the fifth largest in the world (Betwen 250.000- 400.00 aprox), many important characters in Chile have been or are descendants of Croats, and their surnames are well known, such as Luksic, Tomicic, Papic, Mirosevic, Tudor , Tomic, Baburizza, Ivanovic, Boric, Prokurica, Vodanovic, Goic, etc etc in fact in Punta Arenas that has a large number of descendants of Croats, its mayor is called Cristian Radonic. Even my cousin is the grandson of Croats, his last name is Kovacevic, Viva Chile and Viva Croatia, luck in the world cup, greetings from Chile to all the Croats of the world.

When Europeans migrated to other parts of world, they didn't do it to live from social benefits, but to build those places with their hard work. Croats are one of those examples.

Ties between Argentina and Croatia are so strong that even Maradona has some Croatian ancestors.(his grandmother)

Currently the richest man in Chile is Andrónico Luksic, of Croatian ancestry

I'm Argentine, but my grandpa was Bulgarian. I have a friend who is of full Croatian ancestry, though.

Hi, im Croat from Dalmatia, most of my ancestors moved to South America because of Plasmopara viticola, its devastating disease of grapevines. in 19. century most of our economy was based on wine exports, after fall of economy most of us migrated because of great famine.

Most Croats in Chile came from Dalmatia, and most of them from the island of Brac. Virtually most Chilean Croats are genetically a big family

I’m Croatian and a group of distant relatives tracked down our family name and decided to come visit us in Croatia this year.

There are a lot of people in my province of Croatian heritage. I'm one of them and I feel proud of it

fun fact about Croats: "According to United States Congress Joint Immigration Commission which ended in 1911, Polish immigrants to the United States born in around Kraków reportedly declared themselves as Bielochrovat (i.e. White Croat), which with Krakus and Crakowiak/Cracovinian was "names applying to subdivisions of the Poles"

Pozdrav svim hrvatima iz hrvatske.

Croats are amazing workers and highly skilled tradespeople

There are so many Croats in Chile! Yes, most of them came in the first wave to Punta Arenas, but after that, many established in Antofagasta, Iquique, Santiago and Valparaiso. The sea-faring blood of Dalmatians explains in part why they liked living in ports. As someone already said, most Chileans Croats come from the island of Brac, but also from nearby islands like Korcula or Sipan...basically, they’re all distant cousins. I live in Santiago and Croat influence is felt everwhere, in street names, politicians, TV personalities, the Croat Stadium, etc. My husband’s grandfather was born in Sipan and came here after WWII (he fought the Nazis but didn’t like Tito). Last year we visited his hometown of Sipanska Luka, his house is still there. Such a beautiful place! I loved visiting a place I had heard so much about and meeting the people there.

I legitimately got baited by the thumbnail. I thought for a second this was going to be about a group of croats that tried to settle antarctica.

Croats also moved to New Zealand. Tarara people in New Zealand .. A mixture of Croatian immigrants and Maori women. Maori with Croatian surnames :)

Also, the fingerprint method was invented by the Croat-argentine policemen Ivan Vucetic, who migrated with his parents to Argentina when he was a kid and later took the more Hispanic name Juan Vucetich once he became an Argentine citizen.

There are also many Croatian descendant in north chile, especially Coquimbo, Iquique and Arica! Great video! lov it! Greetings from a german descendant in Chile =)

I am a Croat. And a couple of years ago I've met a lot of my relatives from Chile, and from Argentina. Most of them are not my relatives any more, since they moved more then 100 years ago. But minority of them are, since they moved during and after WWII. Nice people, but I highly doubt they consider themselves to be distinctive from local population. They know where they came from, and they (somewhat) support Croatia in sports. And that's about it. And that is the way it should be. Know your heritage, but adopt to local culture. I can totally respect that.

I'm Polish and have large number of cousins in Mendoza, Argentina. Together with people of German origin they got upper middle class status there.

Thank you Argentina for helping Croatia during our hour of need in the 90's.We Croats will never forget!!!

I hope one day all croats come back to homeland

I'm from Patagonia (argentine part) and croat/south slavic surnames are quite common, nobody maintains a "distinct identity" here though.

Im from Chile and I probably know around 20 or more friends with croatian names if I look in my facebook list. Also, The number 1 millionaire here ik Chile is called Andronico Luksic and he or his father is croatian

As a Croatian in Holland, this still makes me proud =]

Also in Chile the croats also settled in large numbers the north (desert), specially in a city called Antofagasta, as well in the middle part of the country. Here in valparaíso(middle) there's a place called the "yugoslavian viewpoint" where was the former house of a croatian businessman that gifted his art collection and now it is the museum of the city. Greetings!

My grangrandfather was a croat from dubrovnik, his lastname was kukurelo

Any Croats here? P. S. Patagonia is one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Very interesting video and History of our people in Argentina, amazing & interesting fact that D. Maradona's grandfather was originally from KORCULA - Croatia, Thank you to Argentinian people for their settlement, GOG bless you .!💕👍🌿

Peru and Bolivia also received many Croats.

I have a relative in Chile. The cousin of my grandfather moved there 70 years ago.

Love your videos mate, keep up the good work. Cheers from Slovenia

They're Croats, not Croates.

Glad I've found your channel recently. I've always been interested in people and regions which are in a way unusual or unexpected, and your videos seem well-researched. I'll be checking out the rest soon.

Im Croatian, thank you Masaman for this video :)

thank you for this educational video...I knew something you said in the video but not in details...my family was immigrating to US,both on my mother's and father's side...Chicago and New York....I live in Indianapolis for a while but now live in Croatia...we are not a big nation by numbers but it is interesting to see the influence we left all over the world,not to mention New Zealand and Australia but US also,especially us Dalmatians...when you count Stipe Miočić ....well it says a lot about determination and strenght.Thank you for the video and greetings from homeland Croatia ;)

Interesting fact, at the beginning of the 20th century there were about 100 Croatian restaurants in San Francisco.Even today there is a Tadich grill restaurant in that city, officially the 3rd oldest restaurant in the United States of America! Croats also opened the first fish factory in the US!

Pozdrav Hrvatima u cijelom svijetu i faljen Isus!

This was an awesome video but I wish there was more information on the Croatians in Chile! Viva chile!

This channel is fantastic!!!! I love your videos so much! somehow you always manage to produce videos that blows me away! Keep it up!!! Greetings from a part Saami, jewish swede in Gothenburg!

I am an Argertinian who lives in Spain. I have Croatian ascentry (as you can tell by my name), but also Italian, Galician, Castilian and even Charruan (is it correctly spelled?) ascentry. I always felt like a mix-up and in my house we have a very mixed culture even though here in Spain I only live with my parents and brothers. If there is one thing I can feel proud of is the embracement of the best of the several cultures my family is based on. Porque una vez uno emigra siempre es emigrante, pero la sensación de hogar la lleva consigo, en el corazón.

Love Croatia from Hungary!

🇨🇱🇭🇷 Chile - Croacia

Thank you for video greetings to all Croats and to all good people in whole world.😘😘😘😘😘

Nice video! Keep it up

No wonder my friend in Chile had green eyes and blondish hair, he was born in punta arenas, this is cool 😎

Diego maradona also had croatian ancestry

Great video! Thanks!

Love your videos!

There is an great story of Croats that settled in Egypt , they formed a settlament that in the end grew to a big city that is Cairo today, totaly crazy story... Djawhar ben Abd Allah is a name of a general that created Cairo, heas a Croatian decent but took a local name.

Always great videos! I suggest that you make about austrian, Polish and Ukrainian in Brazil! Great job!

This is my favorite RU-vid channel

Nice content dude!

Brazilian girls loves croatian guys! 😍

Okay, I know this is nitpicky, but as a Croat, the way you Americans pronounce ć (or ignore it completely by writing names with a c) is pretty mind boggling for me. The letter ć is easy for you peeps to pronounce. It's like saying the "ch" part of Chile, church, chicken etc. It's not (example Radić) RadiC, it's RadiCH. Same works for the letter č, but you gotta hear the difference to understand that pronunciation.

Great video!

Very interesting, thanks!

This actually helps my friend from Argentina his Father was born in Argentina and his parents were of Italian decent while his mother was 2nd generation Argentinian and she said to me (since I come from Former Yugoslavia) that he cane from a country around there and moved for a better job... I was confused because I’ve never heard of any Slavic migration to there I’ve heard to other European countries and the Americas.... this truly helps as the chances are the father was from Croatia... meaning he is of Croatian decent (also what was the father last name I do not know as she said he changed it but he did have a Slavic name for Croatia being Petar) interesting I cracked the case!

Oh nice, you already surpassed 70k subs. Anyways mason, when can we expect a video about the Germanics ?

Dude i live in Argentina and i love youre vídeos. Good Work

Maradona had croatians roots! The Peruvian Sofia Mulanovich (Croatians roots) She is the first Peruvian surfer ever to win a World Surf League World Championship Tour event (ex ASP) and the first Latin American ever to win the World Title In 2004, she won three out of the six World Championship Tour events, and finished the season as Absolute World Champion. Sofia is the only one Latin-american surfer to win 2 ISA World Championships. Sofia won the ISA Championships, 2004 in Salinas-Ecuador and 2019 in Miyazaki-Japan.[4] Her main sponsor is Roxy. Mulánovich was inducted into Surfing Hall of Fame in 2007 due to her achievement in 2004 and 2005. In 2004, she became the first South American and Latin American (man or woman) to ever win the world title. Sofia’s list of credits to date is impressive, having won the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, U.S. Open of Surfing and the Surfer Poll (2004 and 2005)[5]

Masaman please do a video on Sicily!

I Love Croatia 😍😍😍😍

Wow I was just researching this last night, what a coincidence.

A couple corrections regarding some common mistakes; Croatia isn't a Eastern European country in spite of it being a Slavic country with a communist past, but is rather located in South Central Europe with only 42% of its land lying within the Balkan Peninsula. Also, the number of croats in Latin America far exceeds what you mentioned. According to the most recent academic analysis, approximately one million "croats" account for the Chilean population of today, exempli gratia. It was a good and informative video, nonetheless.

Thumbs up for an informative video. A bit of advice for the future: a lot of slavic surenames ending in -ic/vic are written with the letter Č/Ć, which is pronounced as "tsch" (watch, coach, Nikola Mihanović) , and not "K".

Do a video about the Polish people in Haiti

This was a very well researched video on an obscure subject - I'll be damned, that is impressive! Subcribing!

Serbian girls had lot of fun with turkish, kurdish, albanian, arab, chechen pashas + bulgarian, avar and mongolian horse riders.

why is antarctica in the thumbnail when it wasnt discussed as much. i thought there were croats in antarctica

For me this video is especially interesting and enjoyable as I was personally in the Croatian Club in Puntas Arenas. During 1990-ties I lived for several years in Santiago de Chile. Every Sunday we would go to the Yugoslav Club, which later on was renamed the Croatian Club. The club was completely renovated in early nineties. The club has has extensive sports facilities, including a soccer field and a swimming pool. The restaurant offered full course meals, The waiters always served with white gloves. It was a classy place with music and singing. I was told that overseas South Slavs were the first promoters of the idea to create a South Slavs State. And that the Slavs of Chile were the greatest enthusiasts. It is too bad that Yugoslavia fell apart and that those problems came also to us who live overseas. With love from a Slavic Canadian.

Finally! Someone who can pronounce Chile correctly! Chee•Lay, not Chill•Lee XD

WOW! There was no "We wuz…" comment for 30 minutes. Somebody call gineus, I think this is a new world record.

It seems like almost every ethnicity was in south america do they got Eskimos and Australian aboriginals over there too.

Uruguay also received quite a big number of Slavic immigrants. Sure , not as many as the Spaniards or the Italians, but we have them. Our current Vice President is surnamed Topolansky , she’s of Polish origin.

please do a video on Sicily!

feels fresh

CROAT EMPIRE WILL RULE WORLD💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷😎😎😎😎🌎

A video about Tibet and Tibetans would be really cool.

There is a lot of famous people in Chile with croatian names... actors, journalists, politicians, businessmans (the last name of the richest man in Chile is Luksic)... Names like Vodanovic, Goic, Tomicic, Pavlovic, Pesutic, Boric, Mirosevic, etc. are known by any chilean...

It will be interesting for you to do the story about the Serbs from the beginning when they came into Europe until the 14th century when the Ottoman Empire invaded and all the way until the present moment

Greetings for brother croats from Germany

Member of my familiy was one of founder of city puerto natales. I am also croat

Masaman You should consider professionally doing voice-over or documentary form audio. You are easy on the ear and have great articulation, you could do alot for corporate training & such.

Well thank you for this video. We have more people outside of our country than inside it. Thanks to our glorious capable politicians. Greetings, have nice day and more time for more videos:)

Could you do one on the ethnics of Germany? And bohemia in that general area?

In Chilean politics theres many descendants of Croatians: Vodanovic, Mirocevic, Boric, Galetovic, Marinovic, Prokurika, Ljubetic, Vuskovic, etc. Those are the first ones that come immediately to my mind, but theres more. Most of them are clearly from upper class.

in mexico and other spanish speaking latin american countries people's second names sounds very spanish such as hernandez, diaz, carrillo, juanes, etc. but here in argentina many people have european second names such as vrietzky, carbiechi, martinolli, olivetti, phyta, alyzovich, millei, sergei, dretzman, etc.

You really know how to summarize information, what a talent. You should do an episode in modern inmigration, I read that actually more europeans move to latin america than vice versa.

Thats not true, there are up to 200.000 Croats in Pittsburgh, 150.000 in Chicago Area etc. also large numbers in Sydney and Melbourne.

We speak our OWN language, Croatian.....

in Argentina , in the Patagonia we have wales colonies is so curious

Love the video. I never knew my country (Argentina) was so diverse I just have two correctios the city of Codobá is not pronounced Cor-DOH-ba its Cor-do-BAH and the Ex president, which was terrible, is pronounced Kish-ner. Have a nice day :^)

Argentina is Latin Croatia hahah

Do a video about iraq or iran ethic groups please

Man great videos but you should consider upgrading your microphone or maybe create a sound proof booth

I'd love to see a video about FYROM (The country who must not be named) It would be pretty funny to hear you tiptoe around not mentioning the name.