My wife and I honestly thought about not posting this week because of the situation in Ukraine. For those that don't know my wife is Ukrainian, her family is still there, I lived in Ukraine for 4 years, and we both have friends on the ground in the country. We made a video last week talking about the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARXdHB4ZprM&t=8s  

This channel is our full-time job and our source of income. And we don't want to change over to a channel focusing on politics. We could spend every Sunday posting videos about political strife and suffering since the world has never had a shortage of it. Some people have said why didn't you post about what happened in Kazakhstan, Iran, Haiti and the list goes on and on. The simple reason is Ukraine hits very close to home for us so that's why we jumped out of our usual format to post a video about it.

The reason why I started this channel was to show a world distant from the political angles the mainstream media shows us. To show a world that excites us and makes us want to venture into it. A view into cultures or ways of living that perhaps you're not familiar with but can learn something from. And this is what we will continue to do.  

But there will be times in the future when we might drop occasional content about Ukraine if we feel we can give you a look in that others aren't showing, but for the most part Sunday videos will continue as usual.  

We've been somewhat paralyzed since the war started, especially my wife. I can't imagine how hard it is for her knowing her parents are living in a country currently under heavy invasion.  

Some of you have asked how you can help in Ukraine and this is the best organization and way to send money that we've found so far: https://novaukraine.org/?fbclid=IwAR3CdNRb0ryyi2mcAN0w6FwhglM6xLMVBC5pdc2RhafA4iepdFV10ovbK98  If we find a better way we will update this.  

To the Ukrainians... the world admires you for your strength and courage. We are humbled by your resilience. You will be victorious, and peace will come to your country again.

For the next 7 weeks content will be from our latest trip to CA. So everything you will see for the near future has already been filmed.

Thank you for caring and for being part of this journey!

Peter & Natalia

As a black dude, I 100% agree that Mexican Especially older folks, know how to love people no matter who they are or where they're from. As long as you are respectful towards them, they will treat you like one of their own

I’m Asian and most of my friends growing up were Mexican. They and their families took me in like their own kid.

I went to Japan in 2019 and I legit saw a Japanese guy with a low rider and a Mexican flag. My jaw dropped lol

Most people aspire to be Lawyers, doctors, cops. My boy just wanted to be Chicano ❤

Nobody adopts other cultures quite like the japanese, they go hard in whatever they do.

This dude was speaking Japanese with a perfect accent, then sound like an OG Chicano speaking English LOL culture is such a trip!

I've heard of Japanese people embracing the Chicano culture but man. This dude is dedicated and I have nothing but mad respect for him and your videos. Japanese people and their culture are amazing in itself

This is very cool to see. I am covered in Japanese traditional tattoos and am a Chicano. Never thought I’d see the day where the Japanese want to adopt our culture into their lives. You are valid homie 🫡

One of the biggest things I learned when I was studying in California was family love. He was my roommate and Mexican-American. He treated me as his family and let me spend time with her family which I could barely experience here in Japan. Since then, I started facing and communicating with my family in Japan. I had used to avoid communicating with them because I had thought it was worthless. But after I met with my roommate, I changed and learned how to love my family. Unfortunately, he passed away due to the corona, but I never stop appreciating him for what he has given to me. This video reminds me of the family love Mexican-Americans embrace.

I'm a white girl and I grew up with nothing but chicanos. They always made me feel more like family then a friend. I learned a lot more than I was taught at home while hanging with the " homies" and their families.

Man, humble to the max. Shoutout Japan and Mexico 🇲🇽 🇯🇵

I love these Japanese folks… Love how they showing love for our people, our culture, & our area. Big props for coming out all the way from Japan to be part of the cultura!
RESPECTO ✊

As a Latino from South LA, I can say we accept anybody that feels inspired from our (Mexican) culture, especially Japanese people. Nothing but love and communication.

Filipinos in the Philippines also love Chicano culture, from the music, the clothing & the slang. Muchos amor y respeto to the Mexican people

He wasn't lying, many of the businesses in Little Tokyo are run by Koreans Lol. In general, that area is more or less, a tourist attraction in many regards... Most of LA's Japanese population are located in the South Bay area (Gardena, Torrance, etc). It's about 15 mi. south of Downtown.

This guy was Mexican in his past incarnation.

I spent three weeks in southern California on a basketball tour with my high school. I stayed for two weeks with a Mexican American family, the house of one of the students of the schools we played against. Literally from the second they met me I was part of the family. They organised a bbq for my arrival, there was like 30 people there, I didn't realise at the time but they did it just for me. This was early 2000s so smartphones didn't exist, calling international wasn't easy but the mom went to the store to buy me a calling card even though I had already purchased one, they insisted I save it and use theirs, I remember her saying that I was her responsibility and I had to call my parents. I was there for new years eve and they went so out of their way to make me feel welcome at their party. I was pretty intimidated as I had guys with tattoos on their scalp coming over and asking me about Australia and bringing me drinks lol... I was totally overwhelmed. But looking back now 25 years since that and I still get emotional thinking about my time with them. Never in my life have I ever been treated like that. The two sisters gave up their room and slept on the couch so I could sleep in their room, I didn't even thank them...
This was a time before social media, I was a naive and arrogant teenager so I had no idea how to react and I haven't seen or spoken witn them since. I've tried searching for them on social media but the surname is too common... it was strange for me at the time but looking back it was like it was totally normally for them, you have someone staying with you, they are family, that's it. I wish I had the life experience I do now so that I'd react differently.

Brazilian-Japanese in the house shout out to all the Mexican-Japanese out there! 🇯🇵🇧🇷💛  🇲🇽 🇯🇵

I’m Mexican and lived all my adult life in Tokyo, Japan totally immersed in the culture here. It is nice to see this story. Great content.