The Polyglots of Mexico’s Underground Chinatown (Everyone Speaks 5 Languages!)

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The Polyglots of Mexico’s Underground Chinatown (Everyone Speaks 5 Languages!)

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2 жыл бұрын

Mexico’s biggest Chinatown is in the middle of Mexicali, right on the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border. 100 years ago, Chinese workers started arriving, and its peak, the population of Mexicali was 90% Chinese. This has led to a crazy history filled with underground casinos, secret tunnels, and crime. My wife Rita, my friend Brian and I decided to go check out this city where many of the locals can speak Mandarin, English, Cantonese, and Spanish, along with a bunch of southern Chinese dialects. What are these mysterious Chinese polyglots like? Let’s go take a look!
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@MexicanosenChina 2 жыл бұрын

Muchísimo respeto para el muchacho. Me dejó impresionado, pero sobre todo motivado!

@Anonymous------ 2 жыл бұрын

Almost no one outside Mexico has heard of Mexicali, even many people in Mexico don't know anything about Mexicali's Chinese historical past. Stories and history about Mexicali are shocking.

@Brianoshea93 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s amazing!

@darkalligraph 2 жыл бұрын

@@Brianoshea93 It's super interesting!

@gzhang207 2 жыл бұрын

The settlement history of the Chinese in the American continent repeated similarly at different time and locations. Initially Chinese immigrants first arrived at Monterey peninsula California in two boats with only one safely reaching the coast. The survivors made a living from fishing and traded with the locals. A local born Chinese woman bearing the nickname Spanish Mary spoke ~5 languages to facilitate the communication between the Chinese and locals of both native Indian and the Caucasian’s. Their villages were burned multiple times with the Caucasian’s cheering at the Chinese escapes from fire. They were forbidden from re-build and as a result they left Monterey. The gold rush attracted them to other regions. The subsequent fires at San Francisco and then Medically just repeated the same bad treatment to the Chinese settlers.

@Thelomes1 2 жыл бұрын

All mexicans know about the Chinese and Chinese culture I'm Mexicali and in Mexico

@kevintsui7499 Жыл бұрын

@@gzhang207 there's very old chinese grave stones in santa cruz, right off the hwy 17 completely carved in chinese.

@jayf4612 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed that video. So glad you were able to go to Mexico and interact with the ethnic Chinese community there. They truly are polyglots. I'm in agreement with that one son that worked in the kitchen. I prefer to speak in English...lol probably because it comes easiest to me. English and Taishanese/Kaipinghua are my strongest languages. It was great to see the auntie keeping the Taishanese dialect alive south of the border.

@yiyang8374 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing with us the video about Mexicali. I guess very few Chinese know about the small border town, the stories of those Chinese workers more than 100 years ago were really touching and saddening.

@darkalligraph 2 жыл бұрын

This is fascinating, the fact you share so many languages, yet come from completely different circumstances. I'm adding this to watch later so I can rewatch it from time to time.

@hjgong6542 2 жыл бұрын

小家伙真的是天才，前途不可限量。曾经在秘鲁工作6个月，西班牙学的贼快，说的舌头打结，大舌音那个溜。但是当我回来后，西语无语无之地慢慢的也就淡忘了，如果有机会再说西语到一个西语环境，我相信我会捡起来。我西语比英语基础扎实

@hswonderX 2 жыл бұрын

This kid interviewed at the end is going to places !

@MarkusBlue 2 жыл бұрын

I loved the authentic/vulnerable last few seconds of the video. It means a lot. Keep it up Chris you’re doing awesome. It must be tough! You’re an inspiration, no joke.

@wuweilin 2 жыл бұрын

馬老師早日完全康復

@egggang5998 2 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Macedonia bro your're my favourite Chinese speaker KZfaqR

@user-ul9uk2wx4q 2 жыл бұрын

感謝老砲🙏🏼 本集的節目很精彩很豐富很有意思😎👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@yiqunwang2450 2 жыл бұрын

我们一家在伦敦也得了早日康复不过我觉得会说只是会交流算精通的话还是要会看和会写

@mikalau6914 2 жыл бұрын

这期视频好有意思，涨知识了

@user-tj5sh3dg1s 2 жыл бұрын

要以救度眾生為己任, 以幫助別人為責任。慈悲為懷。

@IchorX 2 жыл бұрын

An unexpected, very well produced mini-documentary. Well done, and thank you.

@user-om6dz3fk8x 2 жыл бұрын

我是台山隔壁恩平的，想起之前看到香港拍的广东人（主要是台山恩平）到南美打工的历史纪录片，感到很悲伤和无奈，为什么这些人操劳一辈子一样都是打工由早到晚，赚不到多少钱依然还不回家，年轻人碍于面子各种理由的也算了，中年或以上的为何不回来啊，特别是那些很多亲戚在老家的，同样是打工，何必呢，我恩平的同学很多都发展很好，个个都有钱买楼，我在广州还是艰难拼搏

@jonnyh7848 2 жыл бұрын

老马保重，注意休息

@moronizul5456 2 жыл бұрын

我是墨西哥人我住在墨西哥城我很高兴中国文化所我开始了学习中文我有很多中国人朋友这个视频很厉害我希望中国人欢迎在我的国家

@fungmeiho2976 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting trip. Thank you very much and take care🙏

@paradin87 2 жыл бұрын

These Videos are the best and fun to watch.

@chrissieng8146 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this video. Never heard of Mexicali nor know so many people from Guangdong migrated there. Hope you recover fully soon.

@russellng7730 2 жыл бұрын

Shd come over to Singapore or Malaysia... u can find many who can speak english/ mandarin/ malay/ hokkien/ Cantonese etc..

@aifeili888 2 жыл бұрын

非常棒！有機會我已經會去那邊。我們公司也需要會講中文英文和西文的人，說不定我們那邊也可以給社區創造很多機會

@SmallvilleSP Жыл бұрын

Tengo que decir que, el tema del video, el lugar, y los idiomas hablados con los locales es lo que me hizo apreciarlo muchísimo. Soy políglota como tú también y cada historia, cada cara y aventura que mostraste mientras grababas y platicabas con la gente en español, mandarín, cantones e inglés me dio tremenda motivación. Mexico remains a country by which I’m utterly fascinated and I cannot wait to explore its various corners one day. There’s so much hidden beauty in a country like this where people have to put up with the stereotypes perpetuated by the media and whatnot but just keep working to eke out a living. I loved that you kept the narrative in the video overall balanced and brought up Mexicali’s dark past with respect to (Chinese) immigration there. 我真爱你的视频，和你式我很高兴。我迫不及待看见另外语言的视频啊！再见🎉！

@Brianoshea93 2 жыл бұрын

Dude that Clamato was saltyyy😅😅

@AshinAsia 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed watching this film, great to hear polyglots, and learn some history, even bad history. I never heard about this before, but then again, I know nothing about Mexico.

@jadenyuki3637 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I found your video on Bilibili thru Brain, I decided that your video was so well made, I wanted to both give you a like on there (san lien) and also to like the video over on youtube as well. Respect man, this was a phenomenal video.

@manman-wb8he 2 жыл бұрын

很喜欢这期视频，另外最近发现了我订阅的rita是老马的妻子，太惊讶了啊

@thesincitymama Жыл бұрын

You'll meet plenty of polyglots here, in Belize! Besides English and Kriol, locals also speak Mayan languages, Garifuna, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and German. Everyone I've met here speaks multiple languages. Please come visit Belize!

@ragtop63 Жыл бұрын

It's funny that San Francisco is mentioned in this video because during the intro I was thinking, there are cities in the US where people speak English, Some form of Chinese, and Spanish. San Francisco and other parts of the SF bay area is one of those places.

@-mey5392 2 жыл бұрын

Muy interesante!!! 特別有趣的🧐🧐 Gracias Chris !

@rfcgong1 8 ай бұрын

Some facts of Mexicali - The temperature can be as high as 120 F, there are over 100 Chinese restaurants in Mexicali and many are crowded after Sunday mass. The food court in one of the large malls are all run by Chinese. I asked one person and she told me that life could be better, but also everyone's waiting for a phone call from the US saying arrangements have been made for you to come over.

@user-ur1cn1rz5u 2 жыл бұрын

1991年時我在墨西哥的墨西加利不遠處的提瓦拿一家餐廳裡，用1美元換了3,000匹索時的印象至今仍然記憶猶新。當天氣溫攝氏40度，熱得人腦袋發昏。我望着嬌小的墨西哥小姐把3,000匹索交給我，我昏昏沉沉地數了半天才數完，忽然對她產生了一股同情心。然而我卻沒有想到要給她小費，如今每一想起就後悔不已。

@jcchan2008 2 жыл бұрын

我的两个儿子也是在美国出生的，从5,6岁开始学中文（普通话），家里说的是粤语。所以现在，大的孩子19岁，会说流利的粤语，说过得去的普通话，会写的中文字不多，但是会用拼音打中文，一般简单的会看。小的那个就差得很多了。有一个小心得，等孩子学会一点拼音，就让他注册微信账号，每天在朋友圈发一篇50字以上的小日记，如果那一天漏了，就让他多加一个亲戚的微信。大儿子如是写了一两年，中文打字就练出来了，现在轮到老二写日记了。

@user-if5jf9mp6o Жыл бұрын

牛啊，你这个连小子的方法好厉害，在美国会很多语言优势还是很明显的

@hockysa Жыл бұрын

Eric was impressive. Kid will go far.

@shirleyleong892 2 жыл бұрын

恢復白白淨淨的靚仔了！

@AmelieZh 2 жыл бұрын

好妙啊。这些二代普通话都比广东话好。 muy bueno

@drix4275 2 жыл бұрын

9:02 "Wo ai ni...all the basic words." I don't know about you guys but "I love you" is one of the hardest things to say.

@lavinelee5803 2 жыл бұрын

This video is fascinating !

@chenyang9336 2 жыл бұрын

勤劳勇敢的中国人👏👏👏

@Thelomes1 2 жыл бұрын

México is amazing, plus adding Chinese culture More amazing!!

@ladycrx1 2 жыл бұрын

Going there as a kid in the 90s was so crazy, didn't realize it's changed so much! Need to find someone that speaks Taishanese so they can get that good old dialect out. It's memories of Mexicali and San Francisco to hear Taishanese.

@Mal17281 Жыл бұрын

I really like this video. Thanks

@leslielin5121 2 жыл бұрын

马老师，有机会您应该去大马见识下当地的华人，大部分讲至少英语，马来语，粤语，普通话，多的还说客家话和福建话（闽南语）😂😂😂

@chasenhao6469 2 жыл бұрын

其实我们中国某些地方也是要说3种左右语言，普通话和英语是必须要学的，然后北方沿海和朝鲜边界的人可能还要学习日语或者韩语，这是工作需要。。。

@AdanSensei 2 жыл бұрын

Super happy to see you come to my home State in Baja California Chris! 然后我非常惊讶,你也会粤语吧，好犀利！

@relaxwhc 2 жыл бұрын

Nei hou, nei sek zuo mat ye ah? Cuo dai, yam bui cha, sek guo bao 🔥

@MarkRose1337 2 жыл бұрын

That was awesome. Perhaps my favourite of your videos.

@roadkillwill111 Жыл бұрын

That food looked amazing 👏

@OtomoTenzi 11 ай бұрын

I'm glad you said it! 😋👍

@AlbertJafar 2 жыл бұрын

I was just in El Centro all last month. The heat is soooooo brutal! Muy interesante el video y la cultura/historia de Mexicali.

@teachermatt 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool video! Hope all is well.

@Carakali101 Жыл бұрын

This is fun to watch

@wyphonema4024 2 жыл бұрын

前面部分的历史，真喜欢看看有人写书

@shirleyye4872 2 жыл бұрын

很喜欢看你的视频，保重身体！加油！

@matthewcolvin6462 Жыл бұрын

The translation to, English, while not direct as that is impossible, is very well done. Speaking the languages I love the actual interactions. 完美的, esta perfecta, perfect. You leave that little bit of extra that you can get if you know without alienating those that do not.

@lulydia6585 2 жыл бұрын

感谢分享，很喜欢您拍的视频！！我也感染上新冠了现在正在居家隔离，希望都能快点康复！！！🙏🙏🙏

@kaimanip5196 2 жыл бұрын

我是广东开平人，也是香港人

@Alex-bb1xn Жыл бұрын

你是香港人, 為什麼不會寫繁體字？

@holyy2651 Жыл бұрын

@@Alex-bb1xn會就一定要寫嗎？

@hawching5755 Жыл бұрын

@@holyy2651 基本上沒幾個香港人用簡體

@holyy2651 Жыл бұрын

@@hawching5755 現在香港學生用繁體簡體都可以，越來越普及了

@jdnw85 Жыл бұрын

Most of the chinese persecution in México happened in Sonora, that's why the chinese took refuge in Sonora's neighboring states of Sinaloa and Baja (Mexicali).

@chinitaensudamerica Жыл бұрын

太厲害了

@gordonjiang3590 2 жыл бұрын

take care, buddy.

@pdh6585 2 жыл бұрын

Muy curioso Chris, a ver cuando te escapas a Perú y nos enseñas la comida chifa y la influencia de los chinos allá. Gracias por tu contenido

@kinglam6349 2 жыл бұрын

take care!

@ot7stan207 2 жыл бұрын

my cousins are chinese but born in colombia and it was hilarious when they came to ameirca n orderd mcdonalds n were bickering in spanish and the cashiers were so confused lol

@segundapedro1642 2 жыл бұрын

É realmente agradável ouvir-vos 🤩🤩

@marcialynn3469 2 жыл бұрын

I live 2 hours south in San Felipe....by the beach. 1 Chinese restauraunt, 1 Asian grocer. I go to Mexicali Monthly, and Calexico

@marcialynn3469 2 жыл бұрын

I studied the history when I moved here. There is a local Asian polyglot community here in the fishing village,. Im a NY Jew and cook International cuisine for fun, when not at the beach here in Baja

@tonylu718 2 жыл бұрын

Would love see the part where you "hopped over" Trump's wall. 😆 Great episode! My Mrs. is a polygot, she's fluent in Eng / Mandarin / Hakka / Cantonese / Malay, and a little bit of French and Hokkien that she has learned from me.

@bensy010 2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos and Brian is a fun guy!!

@florahuang89 2 жыл бұрын

台山话，哈哈！以前的旧金山唐人街也是遍布台山话

@kathy2888 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this video!!

@michaelcph0505 2 жыл бұрын

👉 嗶哩嗶哩 👈 連他都不推介真的非常可惜 👉 郭小霖 👈 80 年代的創作才子香港最早唱 R & B 曲風、唱法跟現代最接近的大神 👉 從不知 👈 👉 愛情蝙蝠俠 👈

@gimgoh9447 2 жыл бұрын

Chris, you seemed a bit tired and down at the end of the video, are you doing okay? Still trying to recover from covid? I hope things work out for you and your family. Take care!

@murrymu4632 2 жыл бұрын

0:49 羡慕思端左拥右抱😄😄😄 但看到我们华人曾经遭遇的破事感觉很难过。

@Niowuli 2 жыл бұрын

兄弟，祝你早日康复！！

@t3rr3sl4 Жыл бұрын

Buenísimo video, no me esperaba para nada un sitio así. I hope i can reach at some point a decent level of Chinese to have similar experiences, and listen to interesting stories of Chinese people around the world

@user-jr2cn1wg4c 2 жыл бұрын

马老师：能不能出一点关于语法的视频，比如：in whom,of whom,with whom,by whom, to whom,和whom放在句首，如何使用？谢谢

@elenabrionesandres3251 2 жыл бұрын

Is the first time I ve heard about Mexicali, realmente me pareció interesante. Jajaajaj yo hablo 5 idiomas y ya me doy un canto en los dientes.我最喜欢的是，他们同时会说广东话和普通话，而且如此流利，隧道的设计也很壮观，特别喜欢那扇圆的门，太漂亮。Vous savez, j'aime beaucoup vos vidéos, continuez comme ça ! Bona nit des de Valencia.

@amiquigonzales7917 2 жыл бұрын

C'est super que vous puissiez comprendre toutes ces langues-là. Ma complète admiration pour vous, et je suis sûr que les descendants de ces sino-mexicains (on dit comme ça?) feront d'énormes choses dans l'avenir. Bravo à tous, tan trabajadores y ganándose la vida sin usar sus excelentes conocimientos. Que tengan un futuro tan brillante como su sapiencia.

@elenabrionesandres3251 2 жыл бұрын

@@amiquigonzales7917 ojalá

@elenabrionesandres3251 2 жыл бұрын

@@amiquigonzales7917 oui! La difficulté est de se spécialiser dans un certain secteur et vous devez utiliser le vocabulaire spécifique de cette langue 😿 for example. I will work in a shipping company, so , the logistic and shipping vocabulary c'est trés Important.

@ParagonPKC 2 жыл бұрын

This is simply great journalism!!

@MattAndImprov Жыл бұрын

I've been hearing about a remake of Big Trouble in Little China for years. I'd much prefer an authentic Mexicali story, partly in the past, and in 5 or 6 languages.

@Fif5t0014 2 жыл бұрын

This is such a great video

@joshuawigan1 Жыл бұрын

The chavela cocktail is very similar to the Bloody Mary cocktail. Absolutely delicious 😋

@MbisonBalrog 2 жыл бұрын

I crossed into Mexicali a few years back, and did not see any Chinese really. I saw some hood chinese restaurants, but no nice chinese restaurants. But I only stayed near border crossing because I had no car.

@Weeping-Angel 2 жыл бұрын

This is so cool

@OtomoTenzi 11 ай бұрын

Another AWESOME video!

@winglow7615 2 жыл бұрын

Mexicali is next to Calexico on the U.S. side. 35 years ago it was a scary city. I turned my car around after half an hour. At the border crossing Mexicans looked very depressed. Sand storm occurred at that time. Had to cover up the camera.

@JoseOrtiz-zz6gw 2 жыл бұрын

You should've visited the elementary school where the signs are in Spanish and Chinese and the teachers speak rudimentary Chinese.

@heesingsia4634 2 жыл бұрын

If you count dialects as languages, Malaysia has plenty of polyglots. I know a couple of people who speaks 5 languages (dialects included) and doesn't speak English.

@Weeping-Angel 2 жыл бұрын

I think it only counts if it’s mutually unintelligible

@xyes Жыл бұрын

Most Chinese dialects are not mutually intelligible. Ya, it's pretty normal for Chinese & Indian born before the millennium to speak at least 4 languages, English, Malay, Chinese/Tamil, plus the mother tongues of the parents, or the common dialects in the community.

@xuser9980 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if any of Mexicali's history is shared with its border sister city of Calexico? 🤔 I imagine so. I used to see signs for Calexico / Mexicali on our way from southern Arizona to California during family car trips when I was younger. Thanks for sharing.

@xdd2220 2 жыл бұрын

那个阿姨很厉害，说的都是地道的方言

@Doing_Time 2 жыл бұрын

We have a restaurant "chain" called nuevo mexicali in our rural california county which touts itself as being mexican food made by chinese owners but they put lard in all their food so we don't eat there...

@richardkleinberger7031 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video. Any plans to visit Taiwan?

@Life_of_Doll-Crafter Жыл бұрын

I can speak Russian, Turkish and English.😁 I also learned mandarin, but I haven’t used it for 10 years, but can still understand some.😅

@qwe7410 Жыл бұрын

Come to Singapore and you will be surprised no more, everyone is a Polyglot who knows at least 2 languages fluently + 1 to 3 more dialects/languages

@LaomaChris Жыл бұрын

I really wanna go!

@jacoblee9765 2 жыл бұрын

天呐，这四种语言也是我说得最好的，y el español que hablo es el mexicano 😎，我现在真的太想去mexicali了😭

@oceanoy2017 2 жыл бұрын

太厉害了

@xiaohongluo8973 2 жыл бұрын

我也是😭😭

@jacoblee9765 2 жыл бұрын

Xiaohong Luo 真的假的？？这玩意儿上怎么私信哈哈哈哈

@watchan1908 2 жыл бұрын

@@jacoblee9765 Aca uno mas. Parece que ya somos mas comunes cada dia. Mi espanol es centroamericano.

@jacoblee9765 2 жыл бұрын

@@watchan1908 ayyy como que no hay nadie acá donde vivo yo? casi puro inglés jajaja

@bennymartinez4306 Жыл бұрын

From the imperial valley! Border town or Mexicali and Calexico.. the best Chinese food ever!! I'm Mexican duh, but have great uncles who are Japanese anc Mexican.. crazy 🤣

@jorgecastaneda3289 Жыл бұрын

En nombre de México y aunque paso hace mucho tiempo quiero ofrecer disculpas a la comunidad china que sufrió maltrato por parte de una pequeña población mexicana ignorante. Afortunadamente hoy en día en un mundo más civilizado la comunidad china en Mexicali y en el resto del país goza de un engrandecimiento comercial y económico. Los chinos son una parte muy importante para México.

@_MoRZiLLo50 2 жыл бұрын

Impresionante. cuantos idiomas a la vez en un solo video jajajaja

@JoshLai Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile in Malaysia, generally everyone speaks English, Malay, Chinese, Cantonese, some speak Hakka and Hokkien too, so thats a total of 6 languages/dialects?