The Swiss Colony of Uruguay

[@RareEarthSeries]

Thank you for letting me tell stories. Sorry if they're a little late these weeks. Quarantine has sapped our creative engines. If you have the capacity to support us, please consider our Patreon: www.patreon.com/rareearth

[@Hazzard0]

No. Thank YOU for telling stories!

[@luiscardozo0000]

this time you make me cry ....from brampton ontario thanks from an uruguayan who miss a lot

[@doniestauntonul7813]

There is a storie like this in Ireland of the Poilish coming to work in Ireland it's not in any history books as it is happening now but I would love to see the story told before it becomes a footnote in some thousand page book in the future. Loved the video hope u can trave agen soon after the pandemic and keep telling forgoted stories

[@tonycooke8545]

Have you checked out the Descendents of a former Welsh Mining community/colony in Argentina?

[@rolfs2165]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet, but minor correction to the end card: > _Von_ Bergen und Meer umgeben > Haha nur _ein_ Scherz But otherwise pretty good German for someone claiming he doesn't speak German. ;)

[@alejandromechina5959]

Im from Uruguay. Nueva Helvevia is a beautiful calm rural town 2 hours away from the country Capital. The cheese there is excellent.

[@bautistarojo6388]

Ah mira no sabia q habia gente de argentina aca

[@peoplesrepublicofliberland5606]

Y el chocolate?

[@wickedtexan]

Are there any pretty ladies there?

[@ricksantos1580]

@@wickedtexan yes absolutely...

[@Spartanübermensch]

@@wickedtexan What kind of question is this??? Pretty ladies are everywhere.

[@mauriciorivas2533]

As an Uruguayan, I'm loving this serie. The history of this country is so, as you say, silent, that it simply vanish and mixes with us, its alive, but in silence. I never knew that Colonia cheese were "swiss" made, I'm never gonna eat it the same way after this video.

[@fargoflagrant7796]

* mirada introspectiva mientras corta el queso para la tostadita *

[@jofrn294]

Todos los uruguayos viendo esta serie sobre nuestro propio país jajajaja

[@stevensonDonnie]

I’ve been there several times. There is a Swiss presence near Colonia and between Montevideo and Punta del Este. Good food!

[@carlorielmendez6505]

So how are you going to eat it this time onwards.

[@kkuukkoo2]

@@carlorielmendez6505 With swiss accent of course

[@alpenschatz]

Loved this episode. My family split apart around 1890; one part moved to Nueva Helvecia, the rest stayed in Schaffhausen. I keep in contact with the Uruguayan part of our family over Facebook. It's great to see this little part of Swiss (and Uruguayan) history being covered! Thank you Evan. Cheers from Switzerland! 🇨🇭

[@kiranshashiny]

How do you communicate ? The Uraguayan-Swiss speak Spanish, and I believe you speak Swiss Language ? Common language is English on FB.

[@mayube9292]

@@kiranshashiny the official languages of switzerland are french, german, italian, and romansh. The last one being the closest to a "swiss language" and predominantly spoken in one region of the country. And Facebook has no "language". English has become the common language of the internet solely because english-speaking countries like the UK, Canada, and the US were among the first to adopt the internet.

[@BlackTiger3645]

We uruguayans are much like hobbits- we like living quiet lives, we like eating and we like drinking. We don't like war, and we don't like to stand out.

[@biponacci]

Love your country; gotta visit sometime

[@aymanbarakat8780]

But you guys have two worlds cups and many cupa america 😄.

[@dewinmoonl]

@De St man how did you survive for a month eating only steak haha it was great for the first few meals but after that I literally had to go to mercado fernado to eat poke bowl hahaha. maybe the uruguayan diet is so different from chinese one I just couldn't handle it after the first week. siempre parrilla y papa fritas jajaja. punta del este is great, but you're not missing much, it's just like any other playa.

[@evanw2195]

I’m gonna visit Uruguay with my Spanish speaking brother because of this, Puerto Rico was great but Uruguay seems cool

[@evanw2195]

De St can i ask why you refused to go to punta del este does it have bad history?

[@koantao8321]

As a Swiss (with Swiss-German and Swiss-Italian roots) who lived most of his life away from his country (I wasn't even born there as my father, working for a Swiss company, was abroad at the time) this beautiful video brought a small tear. I actually had a colleague who returned to Switzerland from Uruguay and we bonded because I could speak Spanish, however she felt cramped living in a mountainous area, coming from flat Uruguay.

[@koantao8321]

@@DJTreviCSRecordings No, I took the name from a citation by Danish Physicist Niels Bohr and Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics. Very exciting and deep reads.

[@peterpluim7912]

I must have a long talk with my mum about my ancestry. I’m from Flanders in Belgium - Le Plat Pays from Brel and after all these years the monotony of the landscape makes me uncomfortable. Hills and mountains make me a happier person so my wife insisted we move to the Ardennes in the French-speaking part of Belgium.

[@ccarter1378]

@@koantao8321 I loved that book! I read it in the in the '80s, but I was exploring metaphysics.

[@thetrickster42]

This is fascinating. I’m Irish, and more than 1m of us emigrated, mostly to America, in the 19th century but the story of the Irish in America is well-known. It’s crazy to think that the same level of emigration happened to Switzerland and so many people don’t know!

[@RareEarthSeries]

I bet you don't know about O'Higgins and the Chilean Navy! I almost did this exact style of video on him and the Irish Chileans. Interesting dude. Huge hero of theirs.

[@thetrickster42]

Rare Earth wow, no I didn’t. This looks like an amazing rabbit hole to go down

[@BlackWolf9988]

im a descendant of one of the swiss that emigrated 200 years ago but instead of going west they moved east to russia and greatly suffered between ww1 and the end of the soviet union.

[@iGabenewell]

@@RareEarthSeries Have you heard/done a video on the Patagonian welsh?

[@relo999]

The Dutch have a similar story, though instead of immigrating out of necessity. We were asked to move to Canada, got a free plot of land some seeds and asked to farm because we were great at farming (and still are, being the second largest agricultural exporter in the world). My dads uncle was one of those farmers moving a Canada to be a farmer there. (and another one sold his wife in Canada if family stories are to believed, he didn't become a farmer though)

[@constanettlin5087]

I'm from there, and in fact im a swiss descendant, thanks for making this great video, actually it was a great great uncle grandfather of mine who brought the colonia cheese to Uruguay

[@Rementu]

Interesting. How is the cheese compared to swiss types of cheese? And do you know from which Kanton your ancestors came from?

[@rickc2102]

Isch guet, u gibt e guete Lüüne!

[@JM-ws9cm]

saludos de uruguay xd

[@marioadiez]

Love Colonia Cheese and see my avatar! About to consider your grand uncle father a national hero!

[@evanw2195]

The further back you go the more likely you are related to people by you, lots of people end up marrying 5th or 6th cousins

[@lukasgalli]

I am swiss and did not know this. Thank you

[@MisterPyOne]

You might have family there you didn't know about, I recently found a big part of my German family Tree in Germany not living very far away (my Grandparents went to Uruguay and my mom and me came back to Germany when I was a small child)

[@rickc2102]

Grüezi!

[@TheAwillz]

Is the link between the Swiss banks and the Templar’s after Friday 13th commonly know by your people?

[@yzorgone]

i found out when the facebook started. was puzzled to find, there were quite many people with the same last name as i have in south america. :) befriended some back then.

[@MicroBIOS]

You are welcome to visit us whenever you can.

[@derrickmantie2413]

This is Uruguay, this is Rare Earth, and THIS is a sheep sneeze-pooping

[@tannerpetersen3744]

Time stamp?

[@tannerpetersen3744]

3:20 I found it

[@jimify2338]

This is Patrick

[@diegobarcena8446]

Get fuck you racist prick

[@codybroken]

oh man, laughed 'til I cried. Thank you Derrick, and thank you Tanner and of course, thank you Evan

[@aassug]

Something interesting is the statue in the center of the square. That is the only central square in Uruguay where Artigas does not appear. They are just two anonymous man pushing a plow, which really complement the tematic of the video if you think about it...

[@gaston24uru]

pretty sure there are other central squares in small towns without Artigas

[@theodoxa]

The central square in Minas has a Lavalleja statue and the other important square in the city is called Plaza Rivera.

[@frankerzed973]

I'm Brazilian, I've been to Uruguay and it's a really charming country full of hidden richness My love for all the uruguaios out there ✨

[@BK01012]

How to fight poverty: Switzerland: get rid of poor people

[@agschwend]

@@morrisse0_088 yes it would. Thank you for your input.

[@mattipra]

@@morrisse0_088 Could be worse. At least you haven't voted to join them and afterward telling everyone how you were the first victim.

[@henryc1000]

Education/skills ≠ poverty.

[@sonjak8265]

Keeping bank information secret is a more effective method.

[@dinolandia8978]

Yes - the old idea of sending them off to die in a war wasn't working anymore.

[@jupena]

This was very interesting, thank you RE! Bit of history here: During WW2 the first nation to open its doors to the Jews was (get this) the Dominican Republic! about 1,000 families migrated to a small town call: "Sosua" in the norther side of the island (some of the most beautiful beaches in the entire island) where they form a small colony that exist to this date, Rare Earth should check it out. Uruguay is still on my bucket-list of countries to visit.

[@killercaos123]

I live in Oregon, and just north of me there is a Swiss farming community that stretches back to like the 1840s or something. The town name is Helvetia. And they make ice cream there. So yeah

[@croth75]

There is a Swiss settlement in WV with the same name.

[@0patience4flz]

So, yeah. (...cripes.)

[@JW-qj3se]

@Cegesh Leavenworth isn't Swiss

[@cantbother]

As a proud Uruguayan, it fills me of joy that you are making this series so everybody can see what a beautiful land this is!

[@kolibri5523]

Much love to Uruguay and Uruguayan people from Switzerland. ♥️

[@gilbertbeltran1562]

"The world doesn't need to know your name for you to be remembered" that was so beautiful. I took it sort of as, 'you can make meaningful contributions to the world without it being about your ego'. Well done!

[@DuffyElmer]

9:33 Minor pedantry: New Helvetia, not New Helvetica. Helvetia is Switzerland, Helvetica is "from Switzerland/Swiss" (and also the name of a typeface).

[@RareEarthSeries]

Hahah, even more pedantry, it is Helvecia, as it is Spanish. :) What's funny is right before I released this I turned to Kata and was like "I just know I got the Helvetica wrong"

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

@@RareEarthSeries I missed that one, but what made me giggle a bit (I do have a warped sense of humour) is that like so many other mass emigrants from Europe, this has Celtic connections. Being Welsh I know more about Patagonia than Uruguay, though still not enough, but I do know that the Helveti (Helvetii? I can never remember which) were also Celts. My sister lives in Germany, on the flat but just before the Alps. It takes about 2 hours on the train to get to Zurich, so I've been to Switzerland a few times. When I'm there, it never feels like there is anything Celtic about the place, but I have only been to the German-speaking part, so maybe it's different in the French part (although I believe that where sis lives was once Celtic land. We got about a lot a couple of millennia ago :D. Anywhere that starts Gal- or Gaul- in Europe & Turkey is definitely Celtic). It would be interesting to know if any part of Switzerland feels Celtic to its inhabitants. Definitely wouldn't be anywhere without alcohol or music ;) I absolutely love your stories. Have you considered writing a book about your travels, or about the stories you've learned and shared, and maybe turning it into an audiobook? I'm sure it would be very popular.

[@iandalziel7405]

@@RareEarthSeries - I guess it's a case of juggling between being a font of all knowledge or having a knowledge of all fonts... Being landlocked Switzerland doesn't have much 'serif'...

[@etepeteseat7424]

@@y_fam_goeglyd The Celtic character of most of Western and Central Europe was already diminished by centuries of Roman control of those regions which had been inhabited by Celtic-speaking peoples, and with the influx and ascendance to political hegemony of Germanic-speakers such as the Franks, Goths, and Alemanni in most of the regions historically associated with Continental Celtic populations, many of the traces of those peoples that remained were further elided to the point that, for all intents and purposes, the dominant cultural identities of people living in those regions were, if not tied to a Germanic ruling class, then certainly a syncretic regional identity (i.e. Frankish versus French). In any case, it's been nearly 1,600 years since those areas of Continental Europe came under the control of the medieval predecessors to the modern states of the region, and in the intervening millenium-and-a-half, completely new, post-Classical identities have developed-in short, whatever traces of Celtic language and culture that remain there are minimal at best, generally speaking. However, by then many of those regions had widely-recognized names due to associations with past inhabitants, and many-especially Latin-place names were retained, often in modified form, hence Germany (Germania), France (Francia), Helvetia, Scotia/Caledonia (Scotland), etc. The most notable exception would be the Bretons of Brittany, who have retained some small measure of uniquely Breton cultural and linguistic identity, though they have largely been incorporated into the larger French cultural and linguistic hegemonic sphere due to more than a millennium of French rule, and the effects of standardization policies undertaken since the French Revolution (which have cognates in those major Western European countries whose national language was standardized early in the Modern Period, such as English). There is a movement to revive the Breton language, much as with other Celtic languages, etc. Breton is a P-Celtic language like Welsh, so they're more closely related than Welsh is to the Q-Celtic Goidelic languages of Scotland and Ireland, and like the Welsh, the Bretons are the remnants of populations which once were more widely distributed on the island of Britain and in Continental Europe. Of course, by now the Welsh have a lot more in common, generally speaking, with Scottish and Irish folks, due to being subject to English, rather than French, rule. Anyway, as an American with a Welsh surname and predominantly Scots-Irish ancestry, I hope the essay I just wrote in a KZbin comments section was interesting and informative. ^^;

[@lilianmaggiolo9556]

The town's name is Nueva Helvecia.

[@AndyValdiv]

This season has made me really want to see Uruguay one day. Thanks Evan and crew!

[@ax6356]

same!

[@anonanon5627]

As an Uruguayan, you are welcome any time.

[@VisibilityFoggy]

Uruguay was supposed to have been my next trip - last month, April 2020. I've been practically everywhere in South America, but never Uruguay. I was going to start in Montevideo, then rent a car and see where the road took me, which is how I usually travel. But coronavirus put a stop to that. Hopefully in the time that it is winter in the US next year, I'll head down for summer there, maybe hit Punta del Este for a little beach and fishing time, too.

[@valentinaolm949]

@@VisibilityFoggy i hope you got to visit! Punta del Este is amazing.

[@edgelord8337]

Switzerland. One of the world's most peaceful nations. has a colony in Uruguay. Nothing like seeing some Swiss farmers in uruguay

[@carlosUY1]

Though this one was not ruled by Switzerland. So Switzerland being peaceful or not is not really relevant.

[@jasoncreamer5747]

Their reputation for being peaceful is a rather modern one. They were known for anything but peaceful in the past.

[@okofreak01]

Peaceful yes, but neutral only on paper.

[@twZera413]

It's quite fitting, given how Uruguay used to be called The Switzerland of America.

[@schaulinnoam]

@@okofreak01 Hey, were neutral! We sell weapons to everybody and take money from everywhere 😉

[@Larry82ch]

Never heard of this before.. And I considered myself as a well informed Swiss citizen. Thank you for this!

[@SARUJAN5]

Same. It's history they never teach us in schools

[@richardnavas2207]

As a native of Uruguay, and 35 year resident of New Jersey, you gave me goosebumps, and knowledge. For that, I thank you.

[@fargoflagrant7796]

00:47 It's actually Nueva Helvecia (Elve-ess-ee-ah), not Nueva Helvetica. I've never been but I visited neighboring La Paz which was originally a Piedmontese colony. Great episode! edit: typo

[@RareEarthSeries]

Oops, Helvetica/Helvetia is the German and naturally I switched to German in my head. Thanks! I even discussed that I was going to be wrong on this with Kata right before we released. At least I'm becoming prescient.

[@PWN3DU01]

@@RareEarthSeries Helvetica is just the font :D

[@fabiandietler9857]

@@PWN3DU01 switzerland calls itself Confoederatio helvetica in latin (even is on the money, coins specifically)

[@user-vq4pi1pc9m]

fargoflagrant little correction there, Colonia Valdense is actually the Piedmontese colony, not La Paz

[@fargoflagrant7796]

@@user-vq4pi1pc9m This seems to be true for both towns. La Paz is also known as Colonia Piamontesa.

[@stillwaiting4Wonder]

I’m half Swiss and half Uruguayan... did you make this video for me? Joking obviously, but it’s amazing that I never knew the connection between the two, especially since I got to know swiss-german speakers in Uruguay. Love the vid, keep it up!

[@lhanat.6901]

I'm Swiss and would like to come visit Nueva Helvecia. Are there many Swiss people and are there many who speak Swiss German?

[@javierferrongorlo5789]

I’m from Nueva Helvecia, and I can’t believe that this video appeared on my timeline from nowhere. Great video!!

[@lhanat.6901]

I'm Swiss and would like to come visit Nueva Helvecia. Are there many Swiss people and are there many who speak Swiss German?

[@pogliot338]

​@@lhanat.6901There are some more swiss colonies in Argentina and Brazil but only some old folks speak the language.

[@issuesboy]

I love this series. I’ve been itching to visit (move to?) Uruguay for decades..,

[@AlexGreat87]

It makes me remember the Welsh colony in my province (Chubut, back in Argentina). I'm not Welsh at all, but it's just fascinating.

[@bdm-astroscorpion5025]

I heard about them years ago. I heard they kept the Welsh language alive in their part of Argentina, parts of Patagonia. I am not Welsh but have friends who are 100% Welsh. I travel to Wales many times.

[@mjk97dubstep]

There is also the history of the Volga german comunity in all over Argentina. It's pretty much the same as the one of the video but now we are a quite large population haha (but please don't confuse us with nazis)

[@lanahanbrian0]

Can you speak Cymraeg?

[@samjl4]

It rather shocked me to learn how many british immigrated to Argentina, tierra del fuego may even of had a majority british ancestry. it makes me wonder how the falklands war even happened, either people simply had no choice but to go with it under a military junta or we British integrate so well people forget where they’ve come from after a generation or two.

[@ludwigmack]

El mejor te gales se toma en Trevelin! =)

[@BurnRoddy]

This is kind of what happenes to every immigrant group in Uruguay even tho Italians had by far the biggest impact.

[@MrMighty147]

The whole "Poor people will die periodically anyway so screw them, let them starve" mentality hasn't really gone away amongst the rich people, hasn't it?

[@mrnice4434]

Nope

[@Farmeraap]

No, eat the rich

[@daedraq]

Well in Switzerland it isn't to bad. No one is starving here. We have great social systems that prevent such scenarios. Just go out in the streets in a Swiss city. It will take a long time to spot beggers or homeless people compared to other European or American cities.

[@PaulLemars01]

@Christian Gamer 69 Why? Rich people are raised on the best of everything. They even tell you constantly that they have great taste. Believe them.

[@koantao8321]

@@daedraq Yes, but the rich (btw, I am one of them) still f@@k the middle class with the health insurance system which is meant to be single-payer, but actually is a fixed-rate tax, no matter what your income is. Private insurers, who make mountains of money, f@@k the tax-payers by getting paid by the state for the low-class insured who need subsidies to pay their health insurance.

[@deboraskinner]

I loved seeing the streets I used to walk some years ago (not just in this video but in the previous ones as well). I’ve also enjoyed listening to a review of our story. These are definitely videos I would share with my friends when they ask me about Uruguay. Thank you!

[@josephtokarz7305]

I was surfing KZbin and you popped up. I was like, "Uraguay?" Swiss!?..... learn something new everyday, That was very good! Thank You!!

[@IRosamelia]

Much like in Switzerland, I noticed those streets were squeakly clean ☄

[@rickc2102]

That's why I love Ticino, it's just like Italy, only squeaky clean!

[@pepperoni243]

Uncle Eidolf Nothing like a bit of casual racism... Even if you were to make this argument, it would have to do with culture, not genetics

[@IRosamelia]

@madelfuns a madelfuns, I'm not assuming, I'm commenting on what I saw in the video. I have lived in South America and Spain and such a level of cleanliness in the streets is very rare

[@IRosamelia]

@Pepe TheFrog Pepe, you're wrong, culture doesn't have to do with genetics but with education

[@IRosamelia]

@Uncle Eidolf Adolf, you go fuck yourself mate. Btw, there's no such thing as a true pure blood european, even if there are plenty of idiots like you claiming to be thus

[@dewinmoonl]

isn't it amazing? went to uruguay in januaray this year, and it is such an amazing country, just people sipping mate on the playa and eating great steaks. nothing fancy, but really no glaring issues such as racism and inequality. I hope uruguay stays the way it is for years to come. gaucho power!

[@gaston24uru]

lol gaucho power.

[@Dragoncam13]

My great grandfather was one of those Swiss that left Switzerland during the great Swiss migrations and he came to Louisiana. It's pretty awesome honestly to see how widespread across the Americas the Swiss immigrants landed and lived.

[@Moncho1234]

The grand-father of my grand-father came from Switzwerland to Uruguay. He was one of the fist settlers of Colonia Suiza.

[@lhanat.6901]

I'm Swiss and would like to come visit Nueva Helvecia. Are there many Swiss people and are there many who speak Swiss German?

[@newpanda5982]

​@@lhanat.6901Maybe some of them.

[@darugla]

Very nice report. I am a swiss-german and jewish descent. My great grand parents emigrated from Zurich in the late 1800 to Uruguay. If you know someone with last name Glättli is part of my family. They were a bunch of brothers, only one of them went on and decided to stay in Argentina. I emigrated 21 years ago to the States, and I also have some cousins in here. We are also in contact with some cousins in Switzerland.

[@Lic51]

I'm Uruguayan and a foreign friend showed me this. Good job! It's great to see good material in English. 👏

[@TwinIonEngines]

South America can be summarized as the place of people that, despite not having much to give, will still give you a meal and a place to stay, because all of us there have at some point come from somewhere else to find a new beginning, and we know what that's like, maybe not personally, but our grandparents knew, and they passed that to their sons, and their sons sons. We're a conglomerate of fugitive cultures, alive today because those with little, gave us a meal and a place to stay.

[@TwinIonEngines]

@Patricia McCoy Patricia, as a born and raised Brazilian who actually lived and grew up there, with all due respect: You have no fucking idea what you're talking about

[@Dangic23]

Uruguay is looking more and more like the place I need to move to. Jumped to #3 in my list after Spain and Philippines. Lets see if it moves up my list during this next year before I pack.

[@veljkoradovanovic1130]

Where you ended up moving?

[@Dangic23]

@@veljkoradovanovic1130 Napa, California. Destin, Florida. Bought a house in Batangas Philippines, but not moving there yet.

[@holaeltipo]

Very good video! As a Uruguayan whose grandparents were born and raised in Nueva Helvecia, I must admit the quality of the video was well-over my knowledge! Keep up the good work!

[@eduardohugo8552]

My Grandparents too, were born and raised in Colonia Suiza

[@lhanat.6901]

I'm Swiss and would like to come visit Nueva Helvecia. Are there many Swiss people and are there many who speak Swiss German?

[@lhanat.6901]

@@eduardohugo8552 I'm Swiss and would like to come visit Nueva Helvecia. Are there many Swiss people and are there many who speak Swiss German?

[@holaeltipo]

@@lhanat.6901 there are many descendants of Swiss, though not many of them may still speak the language.

[@taimunozhan]

One of the things I like the most about this channel is how it will often focus on stories that would hardly be on the spotlight otherwise; untold stories others gloss over. I doubt most Uruguayans would think of the Swiss in Nueva Helvecia as a topic to be featured in a series about the country. It doesn't appear to be so note-worthy Yet, this video did put the topic on the spotlight but not so much as a local story about a town in Uruguay but as a much more general reflection on several universal topics, from poverty to immigration to the construction of one's own identity in relationship to one's heritage.

[@ulquiorracifer3359]

Uruguay is so interesting could you make more videos about it?

[@santigestido]

Thank you for your videos about Uruguay, I can't stop learning about my own country with you. I feel like going to Nueva Helvecia next weekend, I have never been to it yet. Its a shame that many Uruguayans will not see your channel because they don't know English but im really surprised about the quality of your videos and the possibility you give to English speakers to know about us. Keep it up.

[@camilamorales5102]

Amo ver gente hablando sobre Uruguay like. URUGUAY ES EL MEJOR PAÍS 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@ghostd00r]

This is a good moment to point out that Uruguay has a swiss colony, a german colony and a russian one, all within the same county. (Yes, they do make great cheese, beer and liquor respectively lol)

[@ghostd00r]

@Telos de Aries Of course! How could I forget, they even hold a Chocolate Party during the wintertime~

[@FloreMar-yp3iz]

Nueva Helvecia has a lot of celebrations. The Bierfest on early december, a Chocolate fest on late July, some Switzerland festivities around August, between other small ones :3

[@YAYKUTTEL]

It feels really weird to finally see some portion of my family history here. My ancestors kept sailing all the way past Tierra del Fuego and only stopped when they reached Washington. But some of their relatives stopped in Argentina and Uruguay

[@Alfonso162008]

Washington D.C? Or is there another Washington in the south of the continent?

[@amacrad]

@@Alfonso162008 You know there is a state named Washington in the north west of the USA, don't you?

[@Remo_Wo1kenstein]

I m swiss and I never heard of it! So thank you.

[@thiagoferrermorini9417]

Uruguay also had between 1955 and 1967 a collegiate system of government (formed by the two main parties) that, as far as I know, only has existed in the last century in another place on Earth... Switzerland.

[@ninac4501]

Nueva Helvecia is a delightful town where I spent the night in, and made friends with a family there, on my past trip to Uruguay.

[@sethmatson7654]

Reminds me of the Welsh town in Argentina, Y Wladfa. You wouldn't expect them there and yet...there they are!

[@SARUJAN5]

Wow. I learnt something new about my county. Greetings from Switzerland

[@saraalcaire8802]

I’m Uruguayan but I live in USA !!! Very interesting this video !! I’m born in Montevideo and never visited Colonia Suiza and Nueva Helvecia same day I will go to there and buy delicious cheese!! Thanks for made this video !!!

[@kayakero1969]

Me too.🇺🇾👍

[@consciouspointers]

Your script writing is beautiful and your reading of it and the video editing as well. Exquisite. It moved me.

[@ShinigamiInuyasha777]

The most hilarius part is that Uruguay is considered "The Switzerland of the Americas"....But not for the Cheese!

[@Avesh_Khatri]

now I started loving Uruguay, thanks for the video.

[@ThousandTimesBefore]

As a Swiss person, it's weird to see this footage. Beautiful sides of Switzerland, but not how most of us live haha xD

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

It's with most countries. Germany isn't all a quaint old Bavarian city Russia isn't all the Kremlin The Netherlands isn't all tulip fields The US isn't all the grand canyon Canada isn't all the Rocky mountains

[@myrddinemrys1332]

@@-gemberkoekje-5547 I probably wouldn't have gone with the Rockies for Canada as they are around an even split between the US and Canada. Ontario or Toronto might have been a better pick.

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

@@myrddinemrys1332 they are internationally as far as I know the image of Canada

[@myrddinemrys1332]

@@-gemberkoekje-5547 I dunno. I'd at most say their surrounding forests in BC were the image.

[@SARUJAN5]

Same here. I learnt something new. I was never taught this

[@jorgefantoni3182]

I was born and raised in Uruguay until the age of 25 when I moved to Texas, I've been to Nueva Helvecia, a few time , really nice town ,I didn't know the story, thank you so much for let us know 🇺🇾

[@fedeiink]

como uruguayo tremendo orgullo que subas estas cosas, graciass

[@GuntherRommel]

This video escaped me for two long years. But now, I watch.

[@deanndu2374]

Sehr schoen, und der Kaes ist spitze! I am planning to visit Uruguay in December to see if it's a possible retirement fit for me.

[@mauricio1194]

Uruguay is an amazing country but you have to know we are an expensive country to live. Saying that just for your knowledge. Cheers!

[@gb8518]

I been there in the late 70's We spent a couple of days at that hotel I remembered it wasnt in a good shape but the place was beautiful Like to be in a farm The food was awesome So delicious. Homemade meals. I cant believe at this time of the night found a video from a place 50 years ago.

[@danielbergmann4330]

Kind of an unrelated storry, but since you mentioned in the video about people speaking thire ancestors language, in southern Brasil you can easly find Italian colonies that most people speak Talian, a unique offshoot of old venitian italian and Portuguese, it is quite interesting gramatically. Thers even a tiny luxemburghian colonie founded by ex napolean officials exiled from europe with theire families.

[@fabianreusch4870]

Encountered some German speaking people from southern Brazil as well It was a little weird though, they were giving off somewhat racist vibes lol

[@TheProcrastinator6]

@@fabianreusch4870 maybe nazi exiles lol

[@thalissevero7627]

@@TheProcrastinator6The first german immigrants came to Brazil mostly in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Most of them arrived before WW1 even happened. I'd bet that 99% of the german descendants in Brazil today have no connection whatsoever with the nazis who came to South America after WW2.

[@lolo4976]

There´s a lot of this type of colonies around the region, my ancestors came to Uruguay from a German colony in Brasil. I know for a fact these people in Nueva Helvecia have their bank accounts very clear of any debt, it didnt surprise me, knowing how wealthy their old country is...

[@JanB1605]

Thank you for this video. Today I learned something about my country (Switzerland) I didn't know before. And your German on the end card is really good (despite two little errors but German is hard, I know that)!

[@rickc2102]

Nicht so schwer wie Schwiezerdüütsch! 😄👍

[@prajnaseek]

Really well done. My ancestry is Swiss-English Canadian. My grandfather came from Switzerland to Ontario to start Canada's first Swiss cheese factory. Migration, independence and entrepreneurship seem to be in my blood - and Uruguay is looking like my top pick, ironically, following the trail of my ancestors. But to more important points, I was very glad you gave Malthusianism the good thrashing it deserves. This is far more important than most people know, because the Western elite have been in love with Malthusian and social Darwinian self-rationalizing delusions for a century and a half, up to and including the present. The current "de facto world government", as the leading business journal of the Western world, the Financial Times calls the World Economic forum at Davos, is comprised mainly of billionaire corporate oligarchs, who by in large are Malthusians, social Darwinists, and eugenicists, and they are quite literally neo-fascists, as we are clearly seeing now. See Vandana Shiva, Rocco Galati, Peter Phillips, James Corbett and John Perkins, and my own writing, for more details.

[@jebbo-c1l]

The same happened in Sweden, many villages completely empty

[@RandomPostcards]

To add a little detail to this story, on the other side of the "freeway" from Nueva Helvecia, where the Swiss settled, there is a town called Colonia Valdense, where the Italians from Val d'Aosta settled in Uruguay (same as in Europe, Switzerland north, Val D'Aosta south). These Italians went to Uruguay escaping religious discrimination (they were Protestants and this was Italy before Garibaldi). So I think the idea was to have two Protestant settlements next to each other in the New World. And this is the beauty of Uruguay and its approach to openness, immigration, and mixing. Uruguay is today, what Europe would hope to become some day.

[@ArtifexExMachina]

Is this leftover footage from the Lichtenstein video interspersed with some extraneous shots from Uruguay?

[@RareEarthSeries]

Sort of, it is maybe 20% liechtenstein border region (the only place I'd filmed industry while there) with 30% just Switzerland and the rest the town of Nueva Helvecia, Uruguay.

[@JanB1605]

@@RareEarthSeries Yeah, some border region film material but the rest is all Switzerland (and Uruguay, but I can only confirm the Switzerland part).

[@Alfonso162008]

Basically, if you see mountains and snow, it ain't Uruguay.

[@Tairneanach]

There's at least one shot from Zurich in there. I recognised the church with the two towers.

[@JanB1605]

@@Alfonso162008 Basically, yes. :D

[@20FGUY]

Diego Godin was born near these town in Rosario. The former President of Fifa Josepp Blatter used to visit Nueva Helvecia

[@CalamityDiamond]

Glad you're still putting content out, given the state of the pandemic I was afraid you might end up in a bad spot. Stay safe.

[@Peter1986C]

He filmed months ago.

[@NoahDiesSlowly]

2:01 is the most unreasonably beautiful shot of a cow I've... ever seen?

[@Amadeus_DC]

Well as a swiss I want to visit urugay now XD

[@L.K.48]

Bisch choch? Bisch vo Bärn? Dari? ^^

[@Amadeus_DC]

Nai sorry bi vo schwyz :)

[@L.K.48]

@@Amadeus_DC easy :D

[@lhanat.6901]

Bisch gsi in Uruguay, hesch Nueva Helvecia gsee?

[@Soofi1906]

I went to the resturant you showed there (8:35) Fantastic place in Colonia Suiza, lovely owners!

[@Sabrowsky]

"they just came and farmed" So they're pretty much hobbits then?

[@LogicReel]

That's basically every immigrant in 19th century Uruguay.

[@dunzerkug]

Hobbits drink more.

[@InEmberClad]

Tolkien travelled extensively through switzerland before writing LOTR. Where do you think he got the inspiration for the shire and the hobbits from?

[@burzwild2292]

@@dunzerkug Dwarves drink, hobbits smoke

[@dinolandia8978]

Hobbits also love smoking pipe weed. Uruguay is also known for legalizing that stuff too.

[@rmeyer5452]

I love your intro of Switzerland, very valid points you're making and interesting history aspects! Greetings from todays Switzerland

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Dutch: *G E K O L O N I S E E R D* Swiss: Hold my neutrality

[@johnc916]

Avery the Cuban-American Why are u in every comment section lol

[@rehrbar]

Good video! I always enjoy watching films about immigration. Was born in Switzerland but as a Young lad of 4 was brought to Canada by my parents.Left to go back to the old country at 22 and 0ver 30 years later I am still here with my four children and wouldn’t want to live anywhere else! Greetings from the “ Ostschweiz” Lake Konstanz (Bodensee).

[@nathanseper8738]

Malthus didn't know what he was talking about. The more people there are, the more people who can innovate and solve problems. If you give people education and a decent life, they can go on to create new things that can advance human society.

[@shadowmax889]

How he would know?, he lived at the start of the industrial revolution, he didn't have the decades of experience and history we have

[@patrickmastrobuono310]

Malthus ignorance had more to do with his timeline, and with the typical aristocratic disdain for the people. Seeing the poor as animals to be slaughtered has been a mainstay of these monsters since ancient times. From feudalism, to the new capital overlords seeing workers as meat for their machines. There's a reason they and Hitler's Nazi party took this as their core belief.

[@weirdshibainu]

You're not entirely correct. The more people there are, the more consumers that have to buy from the elite who as write this are consolidating even more power and wealth against the backdrop of the pandemic.

[@jorgegomez524]

True, but only until a point. Where’s that point?, nobody knows.

[@helloimbanned]

No, Malthus was right. Population has the capacity to grow faster than anything necessary for life, and he use the example of food, but also applies to housing, water, energy. Look at the rest of the world most people are extremly poor, there's starvation, lack of sanitation, lack of water, medicines, etc. Take a look at India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, etc. Even in the 1rst world. California is overpopulated, there's a water crisis and a housing crisis, many homeless people and overpriced houses. That's why California needs high taxes in order to sustain the high standard of living but most people don't know this.

[@minisithunknown5568]

There are so many interesting comments on every video for you. Love each and every video you put out. Keep up the top notch videos and keep safe.

[@farkasishtar5565]

Im from Uruguay, in the uruguayan golden age, Uruguay was called "The Swideland" of America PD:Sorry for my bad english

[@chrismclean5047]

One of your absolute best. Thank you.

[@Kameeho]

Nobody: Rare Earth: Did you know there is a swiss colony in south americas? Everyone: wait what?

[@gracielarilovignoli8965]

I'm uruguayan...thaks for this lovely video...IT's a beutifull place! I LOVE MY COUNTRY!!!

[@C_hoffmanni]

Best shot of the video was the goat pooping then walking towards the camera

[@RareEarthSeries]

He sneezes out a poop rocket I mean cmon what a shot

[@IRosamelia]

Hypnotic 💩

[@rickc2102]

😅

[@stevefarb9422]

I was a self-funded volunteer street minister in Uruguay during the Junta in 1983-84. I once visited friends living in Colonia Suiza and knocked a few doors. I thought I was smart and asked the first lady that answered her door, “Sprechen Sie Deutsch?” Her face lit up and she started talking in German...which I didn't to my great embarrassment. I lived in Colonia del Sacramento at the time and was impressed by how nice Colonia Suiza was.

[@FloreMar-yp3iz]

OMG I literally screamed when I saw this video, is my hometown :D (Also i screamed more when I recognized some people in the video ngl)

[@Inuzumi]

I'm from Uruguay and didn't know about this. Mind blowing.

[@PepperoniMilkshake]

No wonder cheese over there was so good!

[@virginiaandreon558]

Please! Dont forget Waldensians! Neighbors from Nueva Helvecia, rich in culture and religion. They founded the first Middle and Highscool in all the rural Uruguay.

[@Peristerygr]

This comment senction is another proove that those who leave toxic comments barely watch the video.

[@daviaurelio7035]

Theres a town in Brazil called Campos do Jordão that had a swiss colony too, nowadays it is a touristic place

[@brookeking8559]

Malthus was shortsighted, classist, and wrong.

[@RoyalFusilier]

Yep. The human race makes enough food, right at this very moment, to feed every single person, probably several times over. The problem isn't space, nor production, it's on the distribution and societal end. People go hungry, because we've decided that's fine and we're cool with it.

[@ZzraphMedia]

Malthus was a child of his time. He lived during the year of no winter and the Irish famine. I'm quite sure that you wouldn't believe that hunger will no longer be a thing in 200 years if you were living back then... How could you predict technological progress? ;)

[@nathanseper8738]

@@RoyalFusilier One example is DR Congo: if the country produced food at an industrial level, it could feed the world. Starvation is never about a shortage of food, but how the food is managed.

[@thepablorz]

That's true now, in the early 21st century, but the basic concept of the 'Malthusian trap' could still apply at some point in the future if humanity keeps doubling every 50 to 70 years. The finite resources of our Earth can only support a finite number of people. So unless population growth will slow down to a halt before we reach a state of inevitable world hunger (or unless our resources somehow become limitless, or close to limitless, which I suppose might become possible in some sense somehow in our unpredictable technological age, though I am skeptical), the Malthusian trap will eventually apply at some point in the coming centuries.

[@brookeking8559]

CheshAr, excellent point. I will point out Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798, 18 years before the Year With No Summer, and still agree that he was a child of his time. Another child of the same time was David Ricardo. I don’t know if Ricardo ever argued against the Malthusian Growth Model. It could be documented , but I don’t know. It is known that they influenced one another. Ricardo’s Comparative Advantage Theory could lead one to conclude the Malthusian Growth Model was incorrect, but more work would be needed so one cannot fault Malthus or Ricardo. Malthus was brilliant and also blindered to possibilities because of his lack of respect for and confidence in the working classes to be sources of ideas as well as sources of labor and new workers.

[@stevensonDonnie]

I had lunch at the Hotel Suiza. There is another, smaller Suiza restaurant on the road between Montevideo and Punta del Este.

[@georgewbushcenterforintell147]

Sometimes homer Simpson amazes me with his simple mind brilliance.

[@victordeoliveiramelo]

I've was there in 1.8.2011 with my Swiss girlfriend. We even got to meet the Swiss embassador that came from Montevideo for the event....very cool experience...

[@MichaelDeHaven]

Thank you for the laugh, I got at that ending.

[@tonybarrios5045]

One of my favorite things to watch on youtube. A wealth of information!

[@MatiasND]

Can you talk about russians colonies in Uruguay: San Javier and Colonia Ofir

[@CS-kt7or]

Superb narration. Not canned like in many documentaries, but very passionately delivered. Excellent screenplay and editing. Concise and Crisp. Wonderful.