I watched this when it came out... and I learned more in that 90 mins- 2 hours than I ever did about my own people from 4 years of high school & 8 years of grade school.
Whose fault is that? You Americans are pathetic. Race Race Race Race Race Your school is their to teach you BASIC FACTS of History, Geography, Math Science & English. Its not a place to cater to your own personal family history. Its their to get you used to waking up and being somewhere at a certain time .. like a job is. Give you basic facts the REST OF THE 🌎 KNOWS but Americunts are so moronic most of you dont even know where any countries are on a globe or unmarked map 🤣
As a Puerto Rican who moved out of the island and never got the opportunity to learn my history especially since American history becomes over taught in the island , this made me cry . His crisis was a crisis I have and seeing someone like me dealing with it it felt like a huge weight off my shoulders but it makes me somberly sad and I mourn that I will never see what our people could have been if Yt people didn’t sneeze on us
@Shawn,.. wow what a pathetic life you have. To be so focused on race and not the other 90 million other things that make up life & the world. You had American privelage, which means if you have no criminal record YOU can work and save a little each year to get a base and a passport AND MOVE to any of the other 194 COUNTRIES If dirt poor people can manage to scrimp & save for years to get from Afghanistan allllll the way to America... WTF is your excuse?
I am white and Hispanic. I studied the history of Hispanics in college because my babies are indigenous to the US, black, European. When we study one race we are studying others. I don’t like having Hispanic Heritage Month. Or, Black History Month. We should be teaching as much about all cultures as we do about the Western World. In my last job we ‘taught’ World History but it was really Western World History. My heart broke and I didn’t want to teach anymore. India has a glorious history. Indigenous History is equally glorious. Curriculum didn’t mention Aboriginal’s history wasn’t mentioned during our studies about religion because it wasn’t a ‘main’ religion. However it is the longest consecutive practiced religion that I know of. Well, you get my drift. I was told I needed to teach about important history. I was so glad to retire. I am sorry we, the Ed System let you down.
I just finished watching this show and am two years retired from teaching Social Studies. I feel the battleground on this information. I taught this in my classroom in AZ. I also taught about great cultures of Africa. When I moved to Missouri this changed. I was teaching ‘too much about unnecessary information’ and needed to teach to the governed curriculum. I hated my job then. Why has truth been so hard to accept? Why don’t we celebrate the people entrapped by slavery while also condemning slavery itself? Why not understand the truth of all the treaties that have been broken by the US government? Every people is worthy of honor and Justice. Every people and nation in this World contributed and needs recognition through one system. Honor our identities within classrooms that recognize the greatness of each kind. Climb the hierarchy for change. John, this was so worthy to watch and I thank you. My babies are brown and black and I love them and their history.
Nicholas Gonzalez I was thinking the same thing, one of my favorite comedians I would kill to be able to see him live, figuratively speaking of course.
Too many people on here not even listening to his jokes and taking them as "John thinks this is Latin history". No. He is making a mockery of what society assumes they know as Latin History. As if it all started with the Mayans, and somehow we magically came to be Latinos. That was the joke. If you're too confused to get his humor and sit through this show, then open a freaking book people.
Melinda, U R right on and a great observation. John is a true entertainer who plays more than just the role of an actor, he is a true multi-talented ENTERTAINER.
You should'nt say things like just open a book, there are a lot of books and you still may not understand without proper schooling. It is the persons job that is disseminating information to make sure it is correct and to cite their sources and if they are joking to make that fact crystal clear. We are living in times where people ask celebrities opinions all the time regardless of whether they are educated or not we also put them in positions of power so it might be safer to let people know up front. Also I'm pretty sure he is not joking.
He's a comedian!!!! Not a history teacher. Take it for entertainment value and do you're own research. He's telling a personal story from his life, point blank. Anyone who knows his comedy understands his one man shows are stories from his life.
I have been a fan of his since I was a kid. He and British Actor, Bob Hoskins both played brothers who were Italian Plumbers. It was an adaptation. I loved his Freak Special, I can't believe that was 20 years ago.
Saw this last night at studio 54. Great show. Very raw. Good facts and cites his sources as he goes. Good to see a different view on things and laugh at it.
Como artista multidisciplinaria y México-Americana, conecto profundamente con la narrativa de 'Latin History for Morons'. Ese sentimiento de ser invisible y no valorada en este país resuena en mi propia experiencia. Gracias, John, por dar voz a nuestras historias con humor, valentía y una pasión que inspira. Tu obra nos recuerda la riqueza de nuestras raíces y la importancia de reclamar nuestro lugar en la historia.
This a must see show for all Americans especially latinos to see. I live in Texas where the state board of education removed Cesar Chavez from our curriculum. Preach and keep on testifying John.
No, it shouldn't. This is not historian. I get it is a comedy show, the problem is that there's a lot of people in here, like you, for example, who believe this is history. It is not. It is a show. In fact, he butcheeres Hispanoamerican history quite a lot, and perpetuates stereotypes and fake assumptions about history.
I am saddened and angry that they removed Cesar Chavez from History classes in Texas. He is a hero. Bless his name. So much good was created by his hard work.
@@goodaimshield1115why do you believe this isn’t true information? I know the part about syphilis is still debated, but everything else he said was pretty spot on with what I was taught in college. He isn’t ‘just’ doing comedy. JL is taking something personal and answering the question in his heart. He has a irate information, although I am not convinced Mochtezuma turned on his own people. Records from that time are hazy. There are images of Mochtezuma being tortured by having his feet burned by flames and Conquistadores waiting for him to give in. So, where did he get it wrong? Maybe he should have mentioned how badly the Conquistadores smelled and the Nahuatl people thought they were dirty. Or maybe about the Chiapas that cleaned the water of the lake which surrounded Tenochtitlan until it was safe to drink again. So much more could be learned.
Thank you mr. Leguizamo's for sharing with us of the contributions that Latinos made at all wars.... one that is overlooked is guy gabaldon a young man from East Los Angeles California with his ability to speak Japanese he helped capture hundreds if not thousands of prisoners ww2 .. ..
You're right. "As a" because he is not a latino. He's a repentant or assimilated latino who should be despoil from his surname. His ancestors must be embarrassed.
I hate that Netflix, on the video clip for this show, when John Leguizamo starts with "Mayans 10,000 B.C. and they show the AZTEC stone of the sun... Get it in your heads... The Aztec Sun Stone and the Mayan Calendar are two different things and with 10,000 years of difference between them
Regina Grafe (Chile) has done excellent work on the economy of the Spanish empire. Maybe people could stop dealing in simplistic cliches and actually learn some history that’s not written by the enemies of the Spanish world.
I need to teach my kids, daily, that they are not second class citizens as they are taught in school; they are called Mexican, Hispanic, Latino's and based first on how dark their skins are, they are American and American does not mean white. My kids are very light to very dark skinned, and EVERYONE (white, black, brown, teachers, students etc.) try to tell them who they are based on their skin color. Cristobal Colon aka Christopher Columbus, did not speak English and did not land on Plymouth Rock, he spoke Spanish and Italian, a form of "romantic" LATIN. Latin, Latino, Latina was already in a Spanish dictionary in 1789 (Diccionario de la lengua española). In United States the Census Bureau defined Latino/a in 1970 to herd people into groups to better control them. You cannot create a new definition and not expect to have confused masses, their neurons get crossed as Leguizamo's was and went to counseling for it. Imagine other Latin words in everyday English then changing the definitions, it would change everything we know..... A citizen is an person in a country where you are documented as a citizen........... American is American.... Divide and Conquer is a true strategy used even today on the every day person, "they" tell you who you are and it tears society apart from the inside. The new definition of "Latino" is not correct and should not be used as it is, but those calling themselves that need to understand that they ARE those "White People", along with being Native American Indian and African (depending on the individual), "Latinos" ARE, what they consider others, as the good and the bad in history.. If they knew the correct historical facts they would know the strength in their bloodlines and use the actual, hundreds of years old definition and not the newer incorrect definition........ Not knowing facts makes us all weaker....
How can you find a "Latino Hero" if the definition was recently changed 1970? If the latin word 'Solo' was redefined as being a happy stinky worm picker, what would you thick of Han Solo?
I am confused about what word would be accurate. I am white. So is my spouse. However by DNA I am about ten percent Iberian Pennisula, Welsh, Scottish, of Vikin heritage, and British. My Soouse is Indigenous, Black, Asian, European, Jewish, and Iberian Pennisulan. What would we be by words? We state Hispanic, because aren’t we?
If he wants to study further, he can, he’s got the money to do a b.a in latin American history, got the time (how long since he been in anything on t.v.), but he doesn’t have the courage to study further because he would then have to face his simplistic views, he has mostly iberian blood and his grandfather was a wealthy colombian landowner this just gets better the more wikipedia i read. Stay in school ya’ll lest you end up like him😊
Both his parents are from Bogota Colombia..His grand father was Puerto Rican and John was born in Bogota and emigrated when he was a child to New York.
John seems to be somewhat confused about who it was that conquered South and Central America. It was Conquistadores from Spain and Portugal. Not WASPS from Great Britain.
Great Britain didn't conquer central and south but they were super into it with Spain and Portugal. I'm from Brazil and Great Britain does have an influence in a big part of our history
I bet he omitted the real roots of Latin culture - Ancient Rome and modern day Spain. If he takes a DNA test, he’ll come back with more Spanish “conquistador” blood than anything indigenous. Garantizo.
He shows his ignorance, people that might be bilingual, have an Spanish surname are not a monoblock, they are are NOT a race or a common culture. Being called " Hispanic " " Latino" is a derogatory term, how about considering all English speakers a race? Calling an Irish, Scottish, Australian, English? We have different cultures, values,traditions, way of life, gastronomy. A Cuban dosent have nothing in common with an Argentine, a Bolivian with a Puerto Rican. We are white,black,mulatto, indigenous, nisei . I refuse to be lumped together , and he dosent represent my own culture. And it is one that should learn.
There seems to be many Hispanics that simply don't know their own makeup and even assume that they are more Mayan and or Aztec than Spaniard at times. Michelle Rodriquez, Jessica Alba had their DNA profile done on the George Lopez show and they both came up 70% European. I would bet Sophia Vergara is the at least the same. George Lopez was 50% European. The Spaniards came and mixed with the indigenous and Hispanics are a mixed ethnic group with varying percentages of the mix. Your eyes don't deceive you, it is pretty clear that Sophia V is dominantly European. It is clear that George is not. Spanish is another white language, Catholicism is a white religion. It has long been proven that Mayans, Aztecs and all the rest have Asian bloodlines so really Latins are a Asian and European mix, and in some cases even African mixed in.
He could have said this quicker "i am a physical representation of SAmerican history...African,Indian,European blood,.....but fuck the European part of me..."
Is this show touring? Also, will John played Lin-Manuel in Lin-Manuel's biopic? Or will Ln-Manuel play John L. in John L's biopic? Or will Ricky Martin sneak in there somehow??
I know its a comedy but he takes history so lightly on México. The way he talks about Aztecs or Mayans civilization is way to vague. As mexican living in México all my life i feel he´s not being respectfull enough to our ancestry and culture that we love so much we not only had those two cultures but so many more like Olmecas,Toltecas, Zapotecas, Mixtecas, Mexicas, etc, etc. How he describes Moctezuma and makes fun of him makes me mad, he´s being kind of a bully on its own. He never even talks about how Aztecs kept fighting untill they managed to take out the Spaniards form the Great Tenochtitlan and how the last Emperor Cuauthémoc reorganised the mexica army and fought bravely to his defeat later to be tortured, burned his feet and hands with oil and fire, he was a true HEROE. Fast forward 1808 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (HEREO), José María Morelos y Pavón (HEROE), Agustín Iturbide (HEROE), Vicente Guerrero (HEROE) fought and won "La Independencia de México" on wich they defeated the Spaniards crown to proclaim our country as "México". As you can see Spaniards never really won this war, we maintain mexicans from México with all our richness in our culture we sure lost a lot and should give more respect to our Indigenas but pur history as country is not to take lightly.
Alejandro Gonzalez I do agree with your thoughts on this. I'm not sure exactly what ancestry Leguizamo is but at least he's the only latin actor/comedian who's doing something to give attention the Mexican history. Yes, I do see what you mean about how simple, quick and light his conveyances are on history but it would be a bit lengthy if he were to express as much information as your pointing out. I was amazed at how much he explained with the time he did. I thought it was very funny! Having a good amount of knowledge of history It was refreshing a encouraging as an American of Mexican descent to see how he gave all the history that was explained in such a comedic way. I cried at the tragedy and losses through the history explained and laughed so hard at his eccentric satirical presence and comedic stand up. There should be so many more performances like this!
He also said 20 million aztecs.... The Aztecs were only found in MEXICO CITY(downtown district-zocalo) and Tenochtilan was at max 100,000. He also miserably failed to mention the CHICHIMECA wars in which Spain got their ass whooped by the Chichimecs(the aztecs had already defeated them). Also the MAYANS were never conquered by Spain, it wasn't until the 1900s that Porfirio Diaz finally annexed them and included Yucatan, Campeche and Quintana Roo Mexico, prioro to that the Mayans were independent. Also didn't mention that the Fall of Tencholtilan was because of the TLAXCALAS ( puebla super state). Also the Spanish cannons were weak , remember this is the 1510s and it took 5 minutes to reload a Musket, none of the Spaniards were trained soldiers. Only 40/200 Spaniards survived. Also the Racial genetics he points out are so innacurate. At least 40-60 % of Mexicans are 80-100% indigenous pure bloods. The Spanish didn't really mix with the Mexicans to have 100% of the country today be mixed. Its IMPOSSIBLE. At least 20% of Mexicans today are descendants of the Spanish and Mexica mix but that was only found in the Big Cities like DF,GTO, Guadalajara, Veracruz. If youre from OAXACA you are not a descendant of the Spaniards, the MIXTEC and ZAPOTECS are a homogeneous people. So Mexicans should not be included to this LATINO list. His history is accurate of the rest of South America and Carribean but Mexicos is way too complex for him to understand.
The entire southwest is occupied Mexico. See the uproar the Absolut vodka ad had in the US all the way to Congress--for an ad by a Swedish company that was to be shown only in Mexico www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-absolut/absolut-vodka-pulls-ad-showing-california-in-mexico-idUSN0729018920080409.
Te olvidas de TU "Ley Lerdo de 1856" en contra de los Nativos Americanos. Sabes algo de los 300 años del VIRREINATO DE NUEVA ESPAÑA?? XD. Sabes algo de las Leyes de Guerra de aquellos tiempos?? jaja. Como tampoco sabrás de las Leyes y PRIVILEGIOS de los Nativos Americanos en la Corona Hispánica ;)... Y me guardo lo demás jeje.
I didn’t hear anything on the Special that wasn’t rue. He took a stance with the syphilis thing, but stances are legitimate until disproven. Everything else is what I have been taught or learned through historical documentation. Primary sources type of documentation not a dried up history book.
WTF? Not at all "the same way"! Anglo-Saxons were Never on this continent and don't share lineage, while Mayans and ANY indigenous from this continent DO share lineage as Latinx as our indigenousancestors have ALWAYS BEEN HERE. Jeez, you must have dropped out of middle school and missed everything from the third grade forward!
@@mariagarcia-eggly9833 shup up you ignorant communist tool illegal freeloader take that latinx word and put it in your dirty ass come back to mexico and cut my grass
@Michael Cristian OK then. So Spanish Isn't entirely white language. What is a white language?? There is no such thing. Is there a brown or black or yellow language.. You see how stupid it all sounds. Also Spanish was made up of more than those. But yes those are the most popular.
@Michael Cristian There is no such thing as a color anything. You fell for the manipulation. There are supposed "white people" who don't even consider them selfs white! You also don't quite understand me. So just stop it.
I personally see a lot of honour and glory in Hispanics cultural heritage. Especially during the 300-year Viceroyalty period. Hispanics were like NASA astronauts of 500 years ago - Exploring the unknown, and the unthinkable from the Mediterranean to the Antarctic sea, as well as the massive Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. I was shocked when I found out from the biography of a German-Protestant-Freemason (The incarnated historical rival of a Mediterranean-Spanish-Catholic); whose name was Alexander Von Humboldt, describing in his memoirs the advancement and the progress he saw in different regions in Hispanic-America during his travels in 1805. Back then, Hispanic-America was ahead of the game! Truth is that after the Hispanic Monarchy collapsed in the 1800s, the political elites that led the new independent countries were probably the most cynical and corrupt the western hemisphere had ever seen. Simon Bolivar, Jose de San Martin, Bernardo O'Higgins, Miguel Hidalgo, Vicente Guerrero, Miguel de Santa Maria, among others - They all sold their respective national sovereignty to the best bidder... "Un pueblo que desconoce su historia, esta condenado a repetir sus errores" - Jorge Santayana. 0:50 NOT Santana. I find all cultures fascinating, the English, the Italian, German, Ethiopian, Scandinavian, Arab, Chinese, Mayan, etc. I do however find the Hispanic quite especial. I also believe that Hispanics really need to learn their own history well. Leguizamo is a talented and funny actor, but Hispanic History is no joke, because sadly a great number of Hispanics tend to buy all this crap as factual. (Lectura recomendada - Maria Elvira Roca Barea - Imperiofobia).
John leguizamo.. I appreciate what your doing bringing lost knowledge to our attention, but specifics are important.. u r still missing some of that in wonderful stand up, i understand the comedy point of view in it, but it would be nice to see it again, with more specific facts
What reason did the French or english have coming to the Americas? What did Europe lack that was 100% necessary for survival that only native American bloodshed could save Europe?
@@saulteauxfirstnationsman5180 are you dumb? I said what reason did they have? You made it sound like they had any rights or reasonable justification for coming to the Americas. The english and french side of things don't matter at all. They'll just try and sugar coat everything.
@@alexandrahenderson4368I don’t think there was a need or reason other than seeking power and greed. But imagine if we had multiple cultures teaching this history for the varied cultures. Wouldn’t your question be even more significant then? It would also teach the mainstream culture about another viewpoint. Those varied viewpoints are how Nations grow and change and become better. I would love to hear an indigenous lesson in context like this one by JL. And what about the French chronicle? Dutch? Wouldn’t we all learn better. WWII was about bread.
@@yogispinoza717 spain, Portugal, England, france, italy, the netherlands, Germany and more. 😊😊😊 Any country who made money by raping and pillaging the Americas and it's original people should pay back and give back every last thing they can. Especially the land.
@@alexandrahenderson4368 oh we got a fuckin Indigenista in the comment sections. Why didn't the Aztecs, Incas, and other natives ally with eachother like Spain and Portugal??? I ain't no victim of Spanish colonization and i love my last name. I don't know everything about the Indigenous but at least we got our Pupusas, cumbias, and some words that come from Nahuatl. Im a proud Hispanic. I ain't no victim of colonozation
@@roninjolin7687 that whole rant is literally how a displaced victim sounds lmao. You are obviously a victim of ignorance caused by colonization. Incans weren't anywhere near the Aztec for one they didn't even know the other group existed or was being attacked... Spain and Portugal didn't become allies they took parts of south America and fought the indigenous people there on multiple fronts over a long period of time. And their diseases were weaponized and killed 90% of the population of the Americas... What Alliance were indigenous people able to make? When they were all being attacked at the same time in multiple waves by multiple groups of people? Dumbass.
As a European watching this it’s so confusing…John Leguizamo looks like a typical Spaniard. It’s like watching Matt Damon talk about the genocide of the Cherokee implying he is a Cherokee and not from the people who did it.
@@espectaculosloar4495Bien. He states he came back Indigenous so perhaps he had been taught he was Mestizo and found out that wasn’t really true. Either way, where I live (AZ) many are Mestizo.
Latino history coming from woodside queens how u go from north America Mexico then south what happend to Central America Aztecs Incas taino”s we’re the Mayans ? At ??? What u for forgot about what’s right in the middle ???
It does seem like a mockery and it's the only thing stopping me from calling Mr Leguizamo an idiot. "European art is fine art; and our art is folk art" as if -ez-surnamed Visigoths are somehow super ghetto Latin English accented types.
Hum, while in one teaching position I was told that the only Fine Art was art based on GrecoRoman traditions. Look at older Art History books and you will see that is how it was taught. Even now one of the most used books to teach World History is biased towards European Art. John L got this right. I was ordered to use the sentence, ‘Fine Art is based on the concepts of Ancient Grecian and Roman Art’. I did. I would state, ‘According to some people Fine Art is based on the concepts of Ancient Grecian and Roman Art. However, we know that the highest art forms from any culture are considered Fine Art. And if you didn’t know this, you do now.’
No it's just the that Legiuzamo (who I now can confirm is an idiot cause he called Al Pacino a white man despite the fact that he's clearly brown and Latino and has a Latin English accent) says that Spaniards are Hispanic and that Nuyoricans and Italians are white. And the "Seinfeld" cast is non-white. "Friends" cast are white.
He did a DNA test. He has Native American Blood. As do most Latin Americans. I've seen white Americans claim Native Tribes. Knowing damn well they ain't barely got 5% of any of that.
statue of david idea came from the Greek nudes, that stole it from the bynzentines, who borrowed it from the egyptians, that thought they owned everything Sudanese, until Ethiopia stepped in to have a word of logic and reasoning.
Latin should be replaced with native american or indigenous because most of the things he talked about were indigenous people. But I still fucking love this special
Your "Latin" history you invented it yourself. You forgot that everything Latin/Latino be it the Latin people, the Latin Language and the Latin Culture all comes from Italy and not from Latin America? You have no idea of what Latin means. No, Latin it's not your "native" heritage. It's the heritage of the Italians and of the Latin Europeans. You are Latin Americans and Latin is not your skin color, not your race, not your ethnicity, not your blood. The Latin in "Latin" America was brought by the Latin European colonizers, French, Portuguese and Spaniards, with their Latin-derived languages. French , Portuguese and Spanish, which were imposed upon you. This is why called that area "Latin" America. . ruclips.net/video/jyAjG4hPckA/видео.html
Occasionally funny. Yet on the serious side, one can't talk about, slice, dice, examine explore, write about etc., latino history, heritage and culture without the African component.
Breaking news! Johnny boy is emmigrating back to his Puerto Colombia to be part of a new dawn. He will unit all disgruntelds and build a superior country/class and show the european/us idiots how to build a nation. We may just see a migration change and disillusioned people start heading from north ...to south. May I carry your bags to airport or nearest dug out canoe station ?
Why do have to go south? Our indigenous peoples have traveled these lands from the beginning of time. BEFORE the creation of your borders so GFY. We were here first dumb ass.
I don't jump to conclusions about John. He does seem like a smart man. However, his reference to George Santayana, who is an -ez-surnamed person, and his quote makes a reference to -ez-surnamed people being Hispanic and no it's no reference to indigenous peoples btw, no one argues that -ez-surnamed people are indigenous Americans. It's a reference to Visigoths. Like no (more to idiots than John), -ez-surnamed people are the ones who created Spain by conquering the indigenous Spaniards, they're the ones who were oppressive, they are Germanic, and they are white with Frank Lopez English accents and say "scumbag" left and right. Nuyoricans and Italians are non-white with Latin English accents and say "bro". And while this piece doesn't say anything along the nonsense of the opposite of the last sentence, it comes dangerously close. I've seen multiple dumb things said in "Rocky" and "Saturday Night Fever" and "Sopranos" (Nuyoricans [in the first two] and Italians [Spaniards are shown to be Riveras and Delgados instead of -ez-surnamed, a flip flop from the previous two, last one] are white with Frank Lopez English accents) - which is just dumb.
I started watching this...got 20 minutes in... and I am intrigued from a layman’s take on documented history. Leguizamo is not a historian. He is a comedian. And he now has a wellspring of fodder. If he is so confident, let him have a panel discussion with historians of the time and region. Because he is talking about 3000 years of Latin history. Guess what, Latin and is truly a linguistic classification. Latino, “LatinX” are a blend largely people of Spanish descent mixed with indigenous peoples of the Central American continent, up through Mexico and the southern American states over a few hundred years. It must be remembered that metzisos , who he is largely identifying in his preliminary analysis, are a blend of indigenous peoples and the various groups with which they mixed.
JEJEJEJE, oh my gosh you made me laugh! Such a deep bellied laugh! What happened to all the Indigenous Nations North of your lines? And, what about migration? The many Asian people who came to the Americas and the Africans? What about people of India and Eastern Europe who have come to the Americas? We are a people of multiple heritage. I’d like to see those historians, who should specialize in Pre-Columbia History, African History, Southern American History, Northern American History and add linguist in there discuss what JL has put forth. He is very close to perfectly spot on.
La Malinche may not be interpreted correctly either. I did not see where he painted indigenous people as one harmonious group either. He speaks of Indigenous people as being The People of the Lands now known as America, North, Middle, and South. Or, Just North and South or the Americas. No cultures have been that good so far in history, not that I heard of anyhow. Heard of the Inquisitions? The forced slave labor the Europeans inflicted upon those Indigenous cultures? Why is there a difference? Because we don’t relish any of the bloodshed. Any High Art form will include aspects of culture including politics. Comedy includes it all. Maybe there is this anger because everyday my children went to school they were not taught about all their history. They just seemed to be taught a lot about some dead white guys in Europe.
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I watched this when it came out... and I learned more in that 90 mins- 2 hours than I ever did about my own people from 4 years of high school & 8 years of grade school.
Whose fault is that?
You Americans are pathetic.
Race Race Race Race Race
Your school is their to teach you BASIC FACTS of History, Geography, Math Science & English.
Its not a place to cater to your own personal family history.
Its their to get you used to waking up and being somewhere at a certain time .. like a job is.
Give you basic facts the REST OF THE 🌎 KNOWS but Americunts are so moronic most of you dont even know where any countries are on a globe or unmarked map 🤣
I used to teach a lot of this during class, but I still learned things. I wished you had known this earlier too.
As a Puerto Rican who moved out of the island and never got the opportunity to learn my history especially since American history becomes over taught in the island , this made me cry . His crisis was a crisis I have and seeing someone like me dealing with it it felt like a huge weight off my shoulders but it makes me somberly sad and I mourn that I will never see what our people could have been if Yt people didn’t sneeze on us
Lots of Americans feel a loss to their roots, even the white ones.
@Shawn,.. wow what a pathetic life you have. To be so focused on race and not the other 90 million other things that make up life & the world. You had American privelage, which means if you have no criminal record YOU can work and save a little each year to get a base and a passport AND MOVE to any of the other 194 COUNTRIES
If dirt poor people can manage to scrimp & save for years to get from Afghanistan allllll the way to America... WTF is your excuse?
I am white and Hispanic. I studied the history of Hispanics in college because my babies are indigenous to the US, black, European. When we study one race we are studying others. I don’t like having Hispanic Heritage Month. Or, Black History Month. We should be teaching as much about all cultures as we do about the Western World. In my last job we ‘taught’ World History but it was really Western World History. My heart broke and I didn’t want to teach anymore. India has a glorious history. Indigenous History is equally glorious. Curriculum didn’t mention Aboriginal’s history wasn’t mentioned during our studies about religion because it wasn’t a ‘main’ religion. However it is the longest consecutive practiced religion that I know of. Well, you get my drift. I was told I needed to teach about important history. I was so glad to retire. I am sorry we, the Ed System let you down.
I just finished watching this show and am two years retired from teaching Social Studies. I feel the battleground on this information. I taught this in my classroom in AZ. I also taught about great cultures of Africa. When I moved to Missouri this changed. I was teaching ‘too much about unnecessary information’ and needed to teach to the governed curriculum. I hated my job then. Why has truth been so hard to accept? Why don’t we celebrate the people entrapped by slavery while also condemning slavery itself? Why not understand the truth of all the treaties that have been broken by the US government? Every people is worthy of honor and Justice. Every people and nation in this World contributed and needs recognition through one system. Honor our identities within classrooms that recognize the greatness of each kind. Climb the hierarchy for change. John, this was so worthy to watch and I thank you. My babies are brown and black and I love them and their history.
I really hope this becomes a buyable recorded special for those who can’t make it to see it on broadway. I love his shows.
Nicholas Gonzalez I was thinking the same thing, one of my favorite comedians I would kill to be able to see him live, figuratively speaking of course.
Itll be on netflix November lineup
Its on Netflix
@@pbabuik fuck Netflix #CutiesIsKidfiePorn
@@P_Partridge spoken like an ignorant asshole that didn't even watch the movie but read a Qanon rant and saw the poster
I miss his comedy, I'm glad he back doing comedy.
Too many people on here not even listening to his jokes and taking them as "John thinks this is Latin history". No. He is making a mockery of what society assumes they know as Latin History. As if it all started with the Mayans, and somehow we magically came to be Latinos. That was the joke. If you're too confused to get his humor and sit through this show, then open a freaking book people.
Melinda, U R right on and a great observation. John is a true entertainer who plays more than just the role of an actor, he is a true multi-talented ENTERTAINER.
You should'nt say things like just open a book, there are a lot of books and you still may not understand without proper schooling. It is the persons job that is disseminating information to make sure it is correct and to cite their sources and if they are joking to make that fact crystal clear. We are living in times where people ask celebrities opinions all the time regardless of whether they are educated or not we also put them in positions of power so it might be safer to let people know up front. Also I'm pretty sure he is not joking.
@@musicizair1188 that's why he referred the books he read in his skit.
He's a comedian!!!! Not a history teacher. Take it for entertainment value and do you're own research. He's telling a personal story from his life, point blank. Anyone who knows his comedy understands his one man shows are stories from his life.
I am with you lady, but also all the facts are real. No joke in there.
I have been a fan of his since I was a kid. He and British Actor, Bob Hoskins both played brothers who were Italian Plumbers. It was an adaptation.
I loved his Freak Special, I can't believe that was 20 years ago.
jflores85 hahaha
Saw this last night at studio 54. Great show. Very raw. Good facts and cites his sources as he goes. Good to see a different view on things and laugh at it.
Como artista multidisciplinaria y México-Americana, conecto profundamente con la narrativa de 'Latin History for Morons'. Ese sentimiento de ser invisible y no valorada en este país resuena en mi propia experiencia. Gracias, John, por dar voz a nuestras historias con humor, valentía y una pasión que inspira. Tu obra nos recuerda la riqueza de nuestras raíces y la importancia de reclamar nuestro lugar en la historia.
Wish I had this in school. Loved it
I learned so much history about our Hispanic Heritage from this show! ❤❤❤❤
This a must see show for all Americans especially latinos to see. I live in Texas where the state board of education removed Cesar Chavez from our curriculum. Preach and keep on testifying John.
No, it shouldn't. This is not historian. I get it is a comedy show, the problem is that there's a lot of people in here, like you, for example, who believe this is history. It is not. It is a show. In fact, he butcheeres Hispanoamerican history quite a lot, and perpetuates stereotypes and fake assumptions about history.
I am saddened and angry that they removed Cesar Chavez from History classes in Texas. He is a hero. Bless his name. So much good was created by his hard work.
@@goodaimshield1115why do you believe this isn’t true information? I know the part about syphilis is still debated, but everything else he said was pretty spot on with what I was taught in college. He isn’t ‘just’ doing comedy. JL is taking something personal and answering the question in his heart. He has a irate information, although I am not convinced Mochtezuma turned on his own people. Records from that time are hazy. There are images of Mochtezuma being tortured by having his feet burned by flames and Conquistadores waiting for him to give in. So, where did he get it wrong? Maybe he should have mentioned how badly the Conquistadores smelled and the Nahuatl people thought they were dirty. Or maybe about the Chiapas that cleaned the water of the lake which surrounded Tenochtitlan until it was safe to drink again. So much more could be learned.
One of THEE most underrated talents of my lifetime
Thank you sir for the enlightening everyone......
I loved this. I wish he’d do a Ted talk or be a history teacher. Funny and educational! Love John ❤
John Legiuzamo was definitely the original actor who voiced La Sombra in Hey Arnold!
I just watched last nigh in Netflix .soo good ,sooo Smart!
Does anyone have a list of the history books he used during to show? I’d love to read them and learn more.
Tavo De Leon he doesn’t use history books, he just says what north american people want to hear about their sad past...
JOHN YOU MADE ME FEEL PROUD OF WHO I AM!!!!! TO BRING THE TRUTH OUT OF OUR PEOPLE✊💕😘💋
Thank you mr. Leguizamo's for sharing with us of the contributions that Latinos made at all wars.... one that is overlooked is guy gabaldon a young man from East Los Angeles California with his ability to speak Japanese he helped capture hundreds if not thousands of prisoners ww2 .. ..
Went to see this. It was fun.
Im so Proud he Made this as a latin man
@Briana Gebell you're so lost lmao
Briana Gebell how many mental breakdowns you had this week
You're right. "As a" because he is not a latino. He's a repentant or assimilated latino who should be despoil from his surname. His ancestors must be embarrassed.
He’s not latin
@@pedro_navarro why should he despoil from his surname when he's probably 50% Spanish/European LOL
I hate that Netflix, on the video clip for this show, when John Leguizamo starts with "Mayans 10,000 B.C. and they show the AZTEC stone of the sun... Get it in your heads... The Aztec Sun Stone and the Mayan Calendar are two different things and with 10,000 years of difference between them
Because netflix is ✨fucking stupid ✨
Yeah, but the point is that its Native blood Native DNA. Its all one
Ohhh I wish that I could go see this!!
Bad Kat I saw it on Saturday night. Amazing!
For real though, this isn't that Chicano/Hispanic studies they teach in community College.
Me too!
Bad Kat I saw it this weekend. It was AMAZING
It on netflix now
Regina Grafe (Chile) has done excellent work on the economy of the Spanish empire. Maybe people could stop dealing in simplistic cliches and actually learn some history that’s not written by the enemies of the Spanish world.
Our history books need to be updated with Leguizamo's researched history & with the real history of "great" men, like that they owned slaves, etc.
I need to teach my kids, daily, that they are not second class citizens as they are taught in school;
they are called Mexican, Hispanic, Latino's and based first on how dark their
skins are, they are American and American does not mean white. My kids are very
light to very dark skinned, and EVERYONE (white, black, brown, teachers,
students etc.) try to tell them who they are based on their skin color.
Cristobal Colon aka Christopher Columbus, did not speak English and did not
land on Plymouth Rock, he spoke Spanish and Italian, a form of
"romantic" LATIN. Latin, Latino, Latina was already in a Spanish
dictionary in 1789 (Diccionario de la lengua española). In United States the
Census Bureau defined Latino/a in 1970 to herd people into groups to better
control them. You cannot create a new definition and not expect to have
confused masses, their neurons get crossed as Leguizamo's was and went to
counseling for it. Imagine other Latin words in everyday English then changing
the definitions, it would change everything we know..... A citizen is an person
in a country where you are documented as a citizen........... American is
American.... Divide and Conquer is a true strategy used even today on the every
day person, "they" tell you who you are and it tears society apart
from the inside. The new definition of "Latino" is not correct and
should not be used as it is, but those calling themselves that need to
understand that they ARE those "White People", along with being
Native American Indian and African (depending on the individual),
"Latinos" ARE, what they consider others, as the good and the bad in
history.. If they knew the correct historical facts they would know the
strength in their bloodlines and use the actual, hundreds of years old
definition and not the newer incorrect definition........ Not knowing facts
makes us all weaker....
How can you find a "Latino Hero" if the definition was recently changed 1970? If the latin word 'Solo' was redefined as being a happy stinky worm picker, what would you thick of Han Solo?
I am confused about what word would be accurate. I am white. So is my spouse. However by DNA I am about ten percent Iberian Pennisula, Welsh, Scottish, of Vikin heritage, and British. My Soouse is Indigenous, Black, Asian, European, Jewish, and Iberian Pennisulan. What would we be by words? We state Hispanic, because aren’t we?
I'm using this as my monologue assignment for my drama class. Thanks, Mr. Leguizamo
Plz John come too Tampa....plz and put on a show
I had the opportunity to see this in December but I missed it :(
If he wants to study further, he can, he’s got the money to do a b.a in latin American history, got the time (how long since he been in anything on t.v.), but he doesn’t have the courage to study further because he would then have to face his simplistic views, he has mostly iberian blood and his grandfather was a wealthy colombian landowner this just gets better the more wikipedia i read. Stay in school ya’ll lest you end up like him😊
Both his parents are from Bogota Colombia..His grand father was Puerto Rican and John was born in Bogota and emigrated when he was a child to New York.
He has no Puerto Rican in him. He wishes..
His father is Puerto Rican...
Bullshit . look him up I did.
I think John L also states his DNA came up Indigenous.
I watched this on Netflix and it really shed light on why my latino husband is so angry and miserable
I saw this in person pre COVID, people obviously weren't familiar with John's routines, people left! I enjoyed it immensely
John seems to be somewhat confused about who it was that conquered South and Central America. It was Conquistadores from Spain and Portugal. Not WASPS from Great Britain.
In the spirit of full disclosure....
it was actually the catholic church. 🤚😎👍
Great Britain didn't conquer central and south but they were super into it with Spain and Portugal. I'm from Brazil and Great Britain does have an influence in a big part of our history
PASS IT DOWN HAVE THE WHOLE FAMILY SEE JOHN'S SHOW!!!! WE ALL FIGHT THIS OUR🇺🇸 COUNTRY👊
Well most Latin Americans are indigenous so you are right
@@ogreman-lll-957My family is both.
Love John and Latino people/culture.
I bet he omitted the real roots of Latin culture - Ancient Rome and modern day Spain. If he takes a DNA test, he’ll come back with more Spanish “conquistador” blood than anything indigenous. Garantizo.
Funny as hell but true man so much wanna see the hole show
It's not Latin history but Americana historia
new found respect for this man... his masterpiece in a lot of ways.. just watched the netflix special
🇨🇴😍 Me encanta como inicia bien peinado y termina hecho un loco. Grandes verdades paisano!
Grandes verdades? Pero si está haciendo parodia...
Dijo una palabra que no es de nosotros
He shows his ignorance, people that might be bilingual, have an Spanish surname are not a monoblock, they are are NOT a race or a common culture.
Being called " Hispanic " " Latino" is a derogatory term, how about considering all English speakers a race?
Calling an Irish, Scottish, Australian, English?
We have different cultures, values,traditions, way of life, gastronomy.
A Cuban dosent have nothing in common with an Argentine, a Bolivian with a Puerto Rican.
We are white,black,mulatto, indigenous, nisei .
I refuse to be lumped together , and he dosent represent my own culture.
And it is one that should learn.
What is the song tht he played I been looking for years but don’t know Spanish so I can’t find it
he inspired me to learn more about my history
This show was so awesome it had me laughing from beginning to end. He had me in stitches laughing so hard. You really must see the show.
There seems to be many Hispanics that simply don't know their own makeup and even assume that they are more Mayan and or Aztec than Spaniard at times. Michelle Rodriquez, Jessica Alba had their DNA profile done on the George Lopez show and they both came up 70% European. I would bet Sophia Vergara is the at least the same. George Lopez was 50% European. The Spaniards came and mixed with the indigenous and Hispanics are a mixed ethnic group with varying percentages of the mix. Your eyes don't deceive you, it is pretty clear that Sophia V is dominantly European. It is clear that George is not. Spanish is another white language, Catholicism is a white religion. It has long been proven that Mayans, Aztecs and all the rest have Asian bloodlines so really Latins are a Asian and European mix, and in some cases even African mixed in.
He could have said this quicker "i am a physical representation of SAmerican history...African,Indian,European blood,.....but fuck the European part of me..."
Is this show touring? Also, will John played Lin-Manuel in Lin-Manuel's biopic? Or will Ln-Manuel play John L. in John L's biopic? Or will Ricky Martin sneak in there somehow??
I've always said señor was the shit. I'm 38. He's been a staple in my life since he jumped. Peace to John Leguizamo.
? jumped
I know its a comedy but he takes history so lightly on México. The way he talks about Aztecs or Mayans civilization is way to vague. As mexican living in México all my life i feel he´s not being respectfull enough to our ancestry and culture that we love so much we not only had those two cultures but so many more like Olmecas,Toltecas, Zapotecas, Mixtecas, Mexicas, etc, etc. How he describes Moctezuma and makes fun of him makes me mad, he´s being kind of a bully on its own. He never even talks about how Aztecs kept fighting untill they managed to take out the Spaniards form the Great Tenochtitlan and how the last Emperor Cuauthémoc reorganised the mexica army and fought bravely to his defeat later to be tortured, burned his feet and hands with oil and fire, he was a true HEROE. Fast forward 1808 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (HEREO), José María Morelos y Pavón (HEROE), Agustín Iturbide (HEROE), Vicente Guerrero (HEROE) fought and won "La Independencia de México" on wich they defeated the Spaniards crown to proclaim our country as "México". As you can see Spaniards never really won this war, we maintain mexicans from México with all our richness in our culture we sure lost a lot and should give more respect to our Indigenas but pur history as country is not to take lightly.
Alejandro Gonzalez I do agree with your thoughts on this. I'm not sure exactly what ancestry Leguizamo is but at least he's the only latin actor/comedian who's doing something to give attention the Mexican history. Yes, I do see what you mean about how simple, quick and light his conveyances are on history but it would be a bit lengthy if he were to express as much information as your pointing out. I was amazed at how much he explained with the time he did. I thought it was very funny! Having a good amount of knowledge of history It was refreshing a encouraging as an American of Mexican descent to see how he gave all the history that was explained in such a comedic way. I cried at the tragedy and losses through the history explained and laughed so hard at his eccentric satirical presence and comedic stand up. There should be so many more performances like this!
He also said 20 million aztecs.... The Aztecs were only found in MEXICO CITY(downtown district-zocalo) and Tenochtilan was at max 100,000. He also miserably failed to mention the CHICHIMECA wars in which Spain got their ass whooped by the Chichimecs(the aztecs had already defeated them). Also the MAYANS were never conquered by Spain, it wasn't until the 1900s that Porfirio Diaz finally annexed them and included Yucatan, Campeche and Quintana Roo Mexico, prioro to that the Mayans were independent. Also didn't mention that the Fall of Tencholtilan was because of the TLAXCALAS ( puebla super state). Also the Spanish cannons were weak , remember this is the 1510s and it took 5 minutes to reload a Musket, none of the Spaniards were trained soldiers. Only 40/200 Spaniards survived.
Also the Racial genetics he points out are so innacurate. At least 40-60 % of Mexicans are 80-100% indigenous pure bloods. The Spanish didn't really mix with the Mexicans to have 100% of the country today be mixed. Its IMPOSSIBLE. At least 20% of Mexicans today are descendants of the Spanish and Mexica mix but that was only found in the Big Cities like DF,GTO, Guadalajara, Veracruz. If youre from OAXACA you are not a descendant of the Spaniards, the MIXTEC and ZAPOTECS are a homogeneous people.
So Mexicans should not be included to this LATINO list.
His history is accurate of the rest of South America and Carribean but Mexicos is way too complex for him to understand.
The entire southwest is occupied Mexico. See the uproar the Absolut vodka ad had in the US all the way to Congress--for an ad by a Swedish company that was to be shown only in Mexico www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-absolut/absolut-vodka-pulls-ad-showing-california-in-mexico-idUSN0729018920080409.
Te olvidas de TU "Ley Lerdo de 1856" en contra de los Nativos Americanos.
Sabes algo de los 300 años del VIRREINATO DE NUEVA ESPAÑA?? XD.
Sabes algo de las Leyes de Guerra de aquellos tiempos?? jaja.
Como tampoco sabrás de las Leyes y PRIVILEGIOS de los Nativos Americanos en la Corona Hispánica ;)...
Y me guardo lo demás jeje.
@@youxme78 aun asi que se siga jodiendo españa
Pure talent
Remember people it’s comedy not real history. Just sprinkles of historical truths and personal opinions coño!
Which part wasn't true though?
Its Comedy & Real History THE TRUTH . you fuckinIdiot gtfoh
I didn’t hear anything on the Special that wasn’t rue. He took a stance with the syphilis thing, but stances are legitimate until disproven. Everything else is what I have been taught or learned through historical documentation. Primary sources type of documentation not a dried up history book.
Any one know if there is a full video on the show? Or is this just a live show only?
Hammer Gainz yes, the full show has 1 hour on netflix
Just saying, "Mayans" aren't Latins in the same way that Apaches are not Anglo Saxons.
WTF? Not at all "the same way"! Anglo-Saxons were Never on this continent and don't share lineage, while Mayans and ANY indigenous from this continent DO share lineage as Latinx as our indigenousancestors have ALWAYS BEEN HERE. Jeez, you must have dropped out of middle school and missed everything from the third grade forward!
Today’s Mayans and Aztecs all have European/Spanish names
@@mariagarcia-eggly9833 shup up you ignorant communist tool illegal freeloader take that latinx word and put it in your dirty ass come back to mexico and cut my grass
People should get a history lesson not all of us that speaks Spanish are Mexicans
Luis Rodriguez no shit
You have a problem with the comment
@Michael Cristian We understand that actually. But you also should know that, Spanish is made up of different dialects and languages aswell.
@Michael Cristian OK then. So Spanish Isn't entirely white language. What is a white language?? There is no such thing. Is there a brown or black or yellow language.. You see how stupid it all sounds. Also Spanish was made up of more than those. But yes those are the most popular.
@Michael Cristian There is no such thing as a color anything. You fell for the manipulation. There are supposed "white people" who don't even consider them selfs white! You also don't quite understand me. So just stop it.
I personally see a lot of honour and glory in Hispanics cultural heritage. Especially during the 300-year Viceroyalty period. Hispanics were like NASA astronauts of 500 years ago - Exploring the unknown, and the unthinkable from the Mediterranean to the Antarctic sea, as well as the massive Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. I was shocked when I found out from the biography of a German-Protestant-Freemason (The incarnated historical rival of a Mediterranean-Spanish-Catholic); whose name was Alexander Von Humboldt, describing in his memoirs the advancement and the progress he saw in different regions in Hispanic-America during his travels in 1805. Back then, Hispanic-America was ahead of the game!
Truth is that after the Hispanic Monarchy collapsed in the 1800s, the political elites that led the new independent countries were probably the most cynical and corrupt the western hemisphere had ever seen. Simon Bolivar, Jose de San Martin, Bernardo O'Higgins, Miguel Hidalgo, Vicente Guerrero, Miguel de Santa Maria, among others - They all sold their respective national sovereignty to the best bidder...
"Un pueblo que desconoce su historia, esta condenado a repetir sus errores" - Jorge Santayana. 0:50 NOT Santana.
I find all cultures fascinating, the English, the Italian, German, Ethiopian, Scandinavian, Arab, Chinese, Mayan, etc. I do however find the Hispanic quite especial. I also believe that Hispanics really need to learn their own history well. Leguizamo is a talented and funny actor, but Hispanic History is no joke, because sadly a great number of Hispanics tend to buy all this crap as factual. (Lectura recomendada - Maria Elvira Roca Barea - Imperiofobia).
I found his presentation pretty factual myself. Where was he off? He did make not of the parts he joked about, like the ‘Santana’ mention.
John leguizamo.. I appreciate what your doing bringing lost knowledge to our attention, but specifics are important.. u r still missing some of that in wonderful stand up, i understand the comedy point of view in it, but it would be nice to see it again, with more specific facts
Just saw this today after winning rush tickets sooooo worth it
Man, if a native can do this from the English and the French side that would be a perfect 3 side history lesson 😂
What reason did the French or english have coming to the Americas? What did Europe lack that was 100% necessary for survival that only native American bloodshed could save Europe?
@@alexandrahenderson4368 are you trying to justify the taking of both North and South America
@@saulteauxfirstnationsman5180 are you dumb? I said what reason did they have?
You made it sound like they had any rights or reasonable justification for coming to the Americas.
The english and french side of things don't matter at all. They'll just try and sugar coat everything.
This is no history lesson, it is a comedy show.
@@alexandrahenderson4368I don’t think there was a need or reason other than seeking power and greed. But imagine if we had multiple cultures teaching this history for the varied cultures. Wouldn’t your question be even more significant then? It would also teach the mainstream culture about another viewpoint. Those varied viewpoints are how Nations grow and change and become better. I would love to hear an indigenous lesson in context like this one by JL. And what about the French chronicle? Dutch? Wouldn’t we all learn better. WWII was about bread.
Funny and brilliant, of course. Love this guy. "Melted all our folk art into coins..."
One of the few who pulls off angry and hilarious.
Talk about a race that's entitled to reparations!!
What's the current market value of all that silver, gold, and precious stone?
And land.😖
Who should pay? Spain? Portugal?
@@yogispinoza717 Who have both been broke for hundreds of years compared to when they were rolling in gold like Scrooge McDuck.
@@yogispinoza717 spain, Portugal, England, france, italy, the netherlands, Germany and more. 😊😊😊 Any country who made money by raping and pillaging the Americas and it's original people should pay back and give back every last thing they can.
Especially the land.
@@alexandrahenderson4368 oh we got a fuckin Indigenista in the comment sections. Why didn't the Aztecs, Incas, and other natives ally with eachother like Spain and Portugal??? I ain't no victim of Spanish colonization and i love my last name. I don't know everything about the Indigenous but at least we got our Pupusas, cumbias, and some words that come from Nahuatl. Im a proud Hispanic. I ain't no victim of colonozation
@@roninjolin7687 that whole rant is literally how a displaced victim sounds lmao. You are obviously a victim of ignorance caused by colonization. Incans weren't anywhere near the Aztec for one they didn't even know the other group existed or was being attacked... Spain and Portugal didn't become allies they took parts of south America and fought the indigenous people there on multiple fronts over a long period of time. And their diseases were weaponized and killed 90% of the population of the Americas... What Alliance were indigenous people able to make? When they were all being attacked at the same time in multiple waves by multiple groups of people? Dumbass.
Why no HD? #STUCKIN20S
Ken Ruan you can watch on Netflix
what history ?
#OnPoint #Truth #Facts
This does look good, thanks John:)
This one is different from netflix wow
Lol Super Bowl LIV pregame show with Pitbull.
As a European watching this it’s so confusing…John Leguizamo looks like a typical Spaniard.
It’s like watching Matt Damon talk about the genocide of the Cherokee implying he is a Cherokee and not from the people who did it.
False.
He doesn't look like a typical Spaniard. You either are not European, or you've met not a single Spaniard in your entire life.
Leguizamo is mestizo
@@espectaculosloar4495Bien. He states he came back Indigenous so perhaps he had been taught he was Mestizo and found out that wasn’t really true. Either way, where I live (AZ) many are Mestizo.
@@Mansellyn where is AZ?
Latino history coming from woodside queens how u go from north America Mexico then south what happend to Central America Aztecs Incas taino”s we’re the Mayans ? At ??? What u for forgot about what’s right in the middle ???
It does seem like a mockery and it's the only thing stopping me from calling Mr Leguizamo an idiot. "European art is fine art; and our art is folk art" as if -ez-surnamed Visigoths are somehow super ghetto Latin English accented types.
Hum, while in one teaching position I was told that the only Fine Art was art based on GrecoRoman traditions. Look at older Art History books and you will see that is how it was taught. Even now one of the most used books to teach World History is biased towards European Art. John L got this right. I was ordered to use the sentence, ‘Fine Art is based on the concepts of Ancient Grecian and Roman Art’. I did. I would state, ‘According to some people Fine Art is based on the concepts of Ancient Grecian and Roman Art. However, we know that the highest art forms from any culture are considered Fine Art. And if you didn’t know this, you do now.’
No it's just the that Legiuzamo (who I now can confirm is an idiot cause he called Al Pacino a white man despite the fact that he's clearly brown and Latino and has a Latin English accent) says that Spaniards are Hispanic and that Nuyoricans and Italians are white. And the "Seinfeld" cast is non-white. "Friends" cast are white.
If he really wants to get technical, he should talk about roman conquest of the iberian peninsula, birth of spain. Mexican independence. Etc
Then attila and the Huns conquered Rome & their closely related to native Americans and share an ancestor
Sorry but Spain birth after. In 1492. Thank you.
I hope they bring this to video or the big screen
GENIUS! When are you performing in Los Angeles?!! 👍🏽🙋🏻♀️🐶🐾
Why does he claim indigenous heritage? In fact, why non-indigenous hispanic people do that?
He did a DNA test. He has Native American Blood. As do most Latin Americans. I've seen white Americans claim Native Tribes. Knowing damn well they ain't barely got 5% of any of that.
@@jamesbond8348 nice try but he's has even more European blod
@@GAMECUBEINDIGO-yr6jg Says you.
8 million Apache, Comanche, and Navajo. I'd be the only Navajo in the audience cheering, lol.
And we are all glad you were there to represent. ❤
@@Mansellyn ❤️❤️❤️
OH good for Jorge!
golden
a ver si me aceptan los hombres superiores siendo un bufon de los herejes
great show.. it's history and comedy on the same time.. some thing Rong.. but .. it's comedy
san antonio tx 7/27
statue of david idea came from the Greek nudes, that stole it from the bynzentines, who borrowed it from the egyptians, that thought they owned everything Sudanese, until Ethiopia stepped in to have a word of logic and reasoning.
drum artifacts from the congo
The Byzantine Empire was after the Greeks
Aren’t latins white from Spain and France
One of the best performances I’ve ever seen live
Latin should be replaced with native american or indigenous because most of the things he talked about were indigenous people.
But I still fucking love this special
Your "Latin" history you invented it yourself. You forgot that everything Latin/Latino be it the Latin people, the Latin Language and the Latin Culture all comes from Italy and not from Latin America? You have no idea of what Latin means. No, Latin it's not your "native" heritage. It's the heritage of the Italians and of the Latin Europeans. You are Latin Americans and Latin is not your skin color, not your race, not your ethnicity, not your blood. The Latin in "Latin" America was brought by the Latin European colonizers, French, Portuguese and Spaniards, with their Latin-derived languages. French , Portuguese and Spanish, which were imposed upon you. This is why called that area "Latin" America.
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Mayans Aztecs aren't Latinos. No such thing as a Latin or Latino
I know I think what hes trying to say that the people u call latinos or Latin are Indigenous people
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Indigenous people who speak Latin language
Latinos are decedents of Aztecs
From being famous, he makes rude jokes I give him an F, take it rude man!
Occasionally funny.
Yet on the serious side, one can't talk about, slice, dice, examine explore, write about etc., latino history, heritage and culture without the African component.
I have great respect for this man. The show was terrific ⭐️
I AIN'T MAYAN... IM AZTEC MA BOY
Breaking news! Johnny boy is emmigrating back to his Puerto Colombia to be part of a new dawn. He will unit all disgruntelds and build a superior country/class and show the european/us idiots how to build a nation. We may just see a migration change and disillusioned people start heading from north ...to south. May I carry your bags to airport or nearest dug out canoe station ?
Why do have to go south? Our indigenous peoples have traveled these lands from the beginning of time. BEFORE the creation of your borders so GFY. We were here first dumb ass.
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I don't jump to conclusions about John. He does seem like a smart man. However, his reference to George Santayana, who is an -ez-surnamed person, and his quote makes a reference to -ez-surnamed people being Hispanic and no it's no reference to indigenous peoples btw, no one argues that -ez-surnamed people are indigenous Americans. It's a reference to Visigoths. Like no (more to idiots than John), -ez-surnamed people are the ones who created Spain by conquering the indigenous Spaniards, they're the ones who were oppressive, they are Germanic, and they are white with Frank Lopez English accents and say "scumbag" left and right.
Nuyoricans and Italians are non-white with Latin English accents and say "bro". And while this piece doesn't say anything along the nonsense of the opposite of the last sentence, it comes dangerously close.
I've seen multiple dumb things said in "Rocky" and "Saturday Night Fever" and "Sopranos" (Nuyoricans [in the first two] and Italians [Spaniards are shown to be Riveras and Delgados instead of -ez-surnamed, a flip flop from the previous two, last one] are white with Frank Lopez English accents) - which is just dumb.
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Can you please educate America John.
Shit I know my family history shit I come from taino Indians from Borinqueña
I started watching this...got 20 minutes in... and I am intrigued from a layman’s take on documented history. Leguizamo is not a historian. He is a comedian. And he now has a wellspring of fodder. If he is so confident, let him have a panel discussion with historians of the time and region. Because he is talking about 3000 years of Latin history. Guess what, Latin and is truly a linguistic classification. Latino, “LatinX” are a blend largely people of Spanish descent mixed with indigenous peoples of the Central American continent, up through Mexico and the southern American states over a few hundred years. It must be remembered that metzisos , who he is largely identifying in his preliminary analysis, are a blend of indigenous peoples and the various groups with which they mixed.
JEJEJEJE, oh my gosh you made me laugh! Such a deep bellied laugh! What happened to all the Indigenous Nations North of your lines? And, what about migration? The many Asian people who came to the Americas and the Africans? What about people of India and Eastern Europe who have come to the Americas? We are a people of multiple heritage. I’d like to see those historians, who should specialize in Pre-Columbia History, African History, Southern American History, Northern American History and add linguist in there discuss what JL has put forth. He is very close to perfectly spot on.
La Malinche may not be interpreted correctly either. I did not see where he painted indigenous people as one harmonious group either. He speaks of Indigenous people as being The People of the Lands now known as America, North, Middle, and South. Or, Just North and South or the Americas. No cultures have been that good so far in history, not that I heard of anyhow. Heard of the Inquisitions? The forced slave labor the Europeans inflicted upon those Indigenous cultures? Why is there a difference? Because we don’t relish any of the bloodshed. Any High Art form will include aspects of culture including politics. Comedy includes it all. Maybe there is this anger because everyday my children went to school they were not taught about all their history. They just seemed to be taught a lot about some dead white guys in Europe.