Meet The Paraguayan Descendants Of Australian Socialists

[@danielg.w5733]

This might be the only interview Robin Wood ever did in English. Important document indeed

[@22grena]

They celebrate a land that their ancestors lived in a shorter time than they have been in Paraguay. Odd.

[@helena_aña]

We paraguayans cherish our worldwide-mixed DNA and cultural roots, no matter the continent our ancestors came from out of respect of their suffering and resiliency - they all went through a lot. Over the centuries since the first Spaniards and Guaraní met until today, we have created a beautiful and truly diverse cultural amalgamation out of that. Yes, in our modern narcissistic and extremely individualist western world, to honour the ancestors is odd. And we love that kind of odd. Saludos. 🤗

[@22grena]

@@helena_aña Au contraire, I agree. The Irish fought for their freedom for 800 years and is now being overrun by foreigners because of traitor politicians. Ireland for for the Irish.

[@helena_aña]

Probably those ancestors liked/missed Australia a lot, and the descendants inherited that nostalgia, can't blame them: the Sun, the beaches, the families.

[@helena_aña]

@@22grena yes, it's heartbreaking what is happening now in Ireland (and the rest of Europe) - some are trying to import/copy some shitty laws from there (UE/UK) claiming they come from the "first world" and we should follow the "example", but we're rejecting everthing so far. And btw, we know how brave Irish are, one of our heroines from the Great Triple Alliance war (was a genocide basically) here was Irish, Eliza Lynch. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Lynch

[@KD-jb9pq]

Home? Why are they obsessed with returning. They been in Paraguay longer than their ancestors were in Australia. “Home is where one starts from.” -T.S. Eliot

[@andres6868]

I don't think they have actual nostalgia for Australia, the reason they want to return is simpler: Australia is a rich country and Paraguay is a poor country

[@wilsonblauheuer6544]

@@andres6868 I don't think Paraguay is all that poor. people have enough food, and they seem to have a nice rustic simple life. There are riches inherent just living that way. Course they do live under a military type government with a history of human rights outrages, so THAT is one thing to worry about, but if they have the right to own good firearms, they can mitigate that threat.

[@andres6868]

@@wilsonblauheuer6544 Actually, Paraguay has for the last three decades been a democracy, certainly imperfect, but they are not under a military dictatorship

[@wilsonblauheuer6544]

@@andres6868 would you want to go to court as a defendant there?

[@andres6868]

@@wilsonblauheuer6544 I have visited it, and I find it nice but I wouldn't live outside my country. Of course it's imperfect, but you mention a military-type government and this is not true

[@theflaca]

My mother would speak of a colony who went to what she thought was Argentina. Her father, a strong socialist and teetotaller christian, who fought for better work conditions for the fruit packing women and was sacked, would speak of this colony. He too, never believed in gambling, drinking or prostitution. He would receive communist news and propaganda which at the time was illegal, though my mother stressed he was not communist. Thanks for this upload. A decades long story has now been confirmed.

[@chad3358]

Can’t imagine moving from “the new frontier Australia” to an even more remote and lagging country like Paraguay only to see a few generations later that Australia turned out great and Paraguay is still kind of a country that lags terrifically behind

[@graemewilliams1308]

In 1893 there was a bank crash in Oz. That's one reason why they left plus other socialistic things. I read about these Oz to Paraguay people in history books, often wondered what became of them, now I know.

[@jomac2046]

I'm Australian got to 4:28 and have decided to force myself to also check out Paraguay.

[@ajc8815]

I swear Paraguay is somewhat an odd country. Over half of the population had perished just under a single war, and they have been a breeding ground for incestuous Socialists and Nazi fugitives. No hate to Paraguayans, they have been through a lot in history.

[@shortsparaguay6024]

65 años mas tarde tuvimos otra guerra con Bolivia donde ganamos.

[@helena_aña]

Yeah but strangely - perhaps because of the Guaraní spirits of the land 😬, none of those extreme belief systems worked out in the long run. We paraguayans (since the first proud mestizo, and now castizos) are known in our Iberoamerican neighbourhood for being stubborn. 🇵🇾🇦🇺🌴☀️❤

[@Eliasrs-iw9hk]

De echo si hay otra guerra iremos a una guerra total hasta el último hombre. ​@@helena_aña

[@shortsparaguay6024]

Sandra Mcleod. Fue por unos cuantos tiempos intendenta de Ciudad del Este a de ser descendiente de estos Austrialianos. Saludos🇵🇾👋

[@petechamings8734]

So they want to return to their roots..(Australia)..why not let them..I don't know why aussies are complaining..they run over to England every chance they get like they're homesick for mommy England

[@sinoxenon1005]

If only, all the Brits end up in Australia to escape their miserable weather.

[@Matthew_Ssali]

They are Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Austrlaian-Paraguayans

[@Kabaselefh]

My next destination vacation from Canada 🇨🇦 is Paraguay 🇵🇾 I see some cute 🥰 latinas on this video

[@alandemaio3043]

Paraguay is boring as fuck. Go to Peru instead.

[@jaxmahn17066]

Pauline Hansons long lost relative

[@glamrock3976]

4:37 R.I.P Robin Wood 2021

[@boxingandrum]

Love paraguay. Super lovely people.

[@paul67ism]

so your ancestors came from the British isles then spent a couple on generations in Australia then moved to Paraguay where you spent six generations and you think you are Australian? Or do you just want to move to a country that is in better shape.

[@mgmail7279]

yeah, these people aren't so bright.

[@petergbrics7260]

M gmail They are socialist ,don’t accpect brightness,rather darkness....assholes

[@fragolegirl2002]

Gypsies have been in Europe way longer than that and are not seen as Europeans due to their appearance.

[@fragolegirl2002]

peter gbrics yep, I met gypsies. They seem weird. Met them in Italy and Spain. Some gypsies in Spain have no more gypsy culture and are assimilated but Spaniards still call them gypsies cuz they are brown or look different. I been there too. The ones in Italy are immigrants from Romania. Some Romanians see them as the same. One Romanian spoke to me in her language, thought I was Romanian, (btw I am brown) it turns out some Romanian are dark because they are of gypsy origin while the more common Romanians are Slavic in their racial origin ironic cuz their language is latin origin. If you live in Italy for a while Romanian and Italian look different and the gypsy Romanian even more different.

[@petergbrics7260]

fragolegirl2002 Awesome.Now next step you should move in to a neigbourhood where gypsies live and you will see that not their skin color is the reason why they are hated.I’m from Hungary by origin.Same situation like everywhere in Eastern Europe.There are the natives,Slavs,Hungarians,or Italians and these people who came in to Europe and do the same thing wheverever they go.Probbaly Romania and Bulgaria is the worst today,they have millions of them by now.Do not trust those people ever of you may pay a heavy price.

[@MrGroganmeister]

The redhead woman looks like Pauline Hanson

[@sinoxenon1005]

Yes that child is Australian 1:34 haha beer....

[@mrdeurknopp]

quatro x

[@kapachangos]

The song being played on the boat is mexican.. sinaloan.

[@mgmail7279]

That was funny when he said it was from his motherland. hahaha

[@gabriel_024_]

La primer canción que suena cuando empieza el vídeo es checa

[@croman6456]

NOPE!!! German!!!!!!!!!!

[@carloswhisper1281]

2:14 same tune as "Ay Jalisco" but probly goes way back to Europe.

[@matthewstuart3482]

The Ship the Royal Tar was built by John Campbell Stuart in Nambucca NSW

[@MiguelMartinez-nu2jj]

I think i would love to live with this people

[@elennet4116]

Beautiful story....Good Country

[@thejuanmata343]

"Descendants of Australian..." Australians are just British once they step outside of Australia

[@alejobuc50]

British are just German once they sted outside of deutchland

[@helena_aña]

Probably their ancestors felt more Australian than British. The Sun from the Capricorn tropic changes self-perceptions. 😬 I'm Southern European descendant, ancestors from the Mediterranean. I feel more Paraguayan than Greek, French or Iberian.

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

Sheers to y'all - from a fellow American

[@DClean]

Interesting, great work.

[@tristanauspride]

they also didn't agree with drinking nor any non whites

[@RamonGonzalez-fv6xb]

Sorry, but this music IS NOT paraguayan, in Paraguay we play POLKA paraguaya and GUARNIA, Music that we listened in the video are Mexican and Russian.

[@Jcwhiggins]

This is a very interesting video but it does gloss over a lot of William Lane's Racism and troublesome views. New Australia wasnt founded on mateship and equality as this suggests. Before leaving Australia Lane wrote "White or Yellow?: A Story of the Race War of A.D. 1908" and pushed to have New Australia as a "Brotherhood of English Speaking Whites" which is probably why he didnt stay in Paraguay when the other New Australians didn't share his view. He later died in New Zealand, probably moving there after Paraguay absorbed New Australia because it was more caucasian. Its all very interesting, but its important to remember that he was a product of his time and there most definitely was an element of racism in his approach of a socialist utopia

[@Jcwhiggins]

@varalderfreyr8438 his racism. He was very against interracial relationships and even after the land for new Australia was practically given to them by Paraguay with no taxation, he still considered them dirty people, troublesome and savage. There was definitely racism at play here. That’s probably the most troubling views that he had, especially when Paraguay was so generous to him. He eventually became fed up with the rest of the group and left after complaints of him acting like a dictator. M. De C. Findlay who visited wrote about how Lane managed to take a bunch of men that worked the land back in Australia. They had many applications for new Australia and chose the cream of the crop, who described as “a fine class of men who “would be sure to succeed” then after settling and living under Lane (who was described as having mannerisms of a dictator), Finlay arrived in the new colony expecting to see the blossoming of a socialist Utopia; he was instead greeted with what he described as “hell upon earth”. There are a few records written about this that are still pretty accessible. It seems like people in that day were excited and curious about this as it was billed as “the first socialist experiment that could work” by enthusiasts and critics alike. If you don’t find racism and an overbearing figure of government troublesome then you probably wouldn’t have had any issues with the setup

[@MiguelMartinez-nu2jj]

Why not with the local girls its hellllllllllll see you

[@fredperry9235]

We should let me all back

[@mickeymouse1697]

WOW

[@No1important88]

Are there any American diasporas?

[@nunyabiz7021]

No1important88 Liberia I suppose.

[@No1important88]

Nun Yabiz: That definitely doesn't count.

[@nunyabiz7021]

No1important88 why?

[@No1important88]

Nun Yabiz: Because it was made precisely because they were not considered American. The closest examples i can think of were were exiled Loyalists and confederate ex-patriots. Though arguably those were colonists and CSA Americans.

[@22Doriano]

Yes, besides Liberia, there were the Confederados that got land grants in the Brazilian Empire during and after the American Civil War, the colony is called Americana I believe? The Brazilian Emperor at the time brought in thousands of American confederates. The Mexican Emperor, Maximilian I, also gave Confederates land grants and established various colonies throughout Mexico. There are tens of thousands of descendants around Mexico of these colonist as well, but not as organized as the ones in Brazil, where they even have Confederate parties and such, but are very ignorant on the slave history of their ancestors, even though Brazil at the time still had slavery, one of the reasons they moved there.

[@Chapps1941]

That's how they get back to Australia. The cunningly built a rocket to look like a church. 5:19

[@wilsonblauheuer6544]

why would ANYONE leave Australia? There is no more beautiful place on earth

[@yzero4action133]

wilson blauheuer New life, to start over, don’t know their true reason.

[@yzero4action133]

wilson blauheuer boiii watch the video it tells why, smh

[@mgmail7279]

I knew a woman from India who lived there for a couple years. She said she got island crazy (just like people who move to Hawaii) because the rest of the world was so far away. I grant you though, Oz does have a lot of pluses!

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

There was almost a revolution in queensland in the late 19th century.. the military was deployed against them.. many were fed up with the peverse system they were living in.. some also went to the phillipines.. argentina.. new zealand.. america and hawaii as well ..

[@rjturini]

Travelled a lot, have you?

[@vinanoir]

workers of the world, unite! ☭

[@fredschwentafsky2641]

Paraguay is indian country...not white mans land.

[@octaviosardi3337]

Fred Schwentafsky Its not indian and there are quite a lot of white people here

[@280682pato]

False.. paraguay only have 1.5% of indian.. they are mestizos more like white european...but not blond.

[@alejandroscorsetti7392]

Australia is Indian country too

[@fragolegirl2002]

Thank you, guaraní will never die in Paraguay 🇵🇾 love this country’s fight for their native tongue. It’s the only bilingual country

[@fragolegirl2002]

@Hugo Fernandez Do you speak guarani? :D