German Town Jamaica, Documentary

[@ioniedavids414]

Manners and Respekt Codie 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾, Love your poem. Am a Jamaicain 🇯🇲 living here in Germany 🇩🇪, am a mother of two children plus my stepson and a grandmother of 7 beautiful adorable blessings grandchildren and they all Born here in Germany 🇩🇪, this country welcome me and and my family so much, the opportunities that was given to us here am so so thankful and grateful for it, this Documentary was very inspiring and interesting . I just wish we could all just live as one ☝🏾. Learn to start by loving Respecting and understanding each others more. Just come together and live as one . Love and Blessings all 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@mawdyardie]

Iam half German and half Jamaican,and watching this made me feel very connected to these People

[@israelslone478]

L K B 6😮y6

[@Age_Of_Aquarius84]

I've been German Town several times as I have family in Westmoreland. They're Jamaicans just like the rest of us, and I love the diversity of my island.

[@zumaanandrade3961]

I used to go there with my Grandma when i was a kid i am 56 now i think i spent a summer with them. The older folks knew about them a lot of them went abroad early though.

[@shamar8411]

they're not Jamaicans, they are Germans. As you can see they clearly don't want to mix with the black people. Stop loving white supremacy.

[@Imforeverlemarz]

Did u not hear how racist the old lady is?

[@Adonis300]

yup @17:10 @@Imforeverlemarz

[@simo1463]

Faciñating

[@holgermessner851]

I just stumbled over this video. I'm now 60 years old. Left Germany in 2005 because I couldn't find work in my area anymore. Moved to Canada. In 2019, I booked a flight to Panama to escape the Canadian winter months. Pandemic stranded me in Panama. After 2 years trying to get back to Canada, I thought: "Actually why? I can stay here too." Since 2019, I am here. Traveled as a young guy a lot. But in this video, it came up what I did hear everywhere I had a talk with people. "You Germans are very hard workers!" In Canada I worked 70-100 hours a week. After 5 years I got me a house. No vacation. Always work. 2 years ago, I bought a lot in Panama from the little money I had left. Started this year to build my house. All by myself. My neighbors think that I am crazy. "Why are you working so hard? Enjoy life." I thought about it for a couple of seconds and said: "I enjoy life. I am happy when I can work very hard on my house." I have no help. So everything is done by myself. So it must be true. We Germans are hard workers. 😊 I have a girlfriend here in Panama. When she comes to the lot and we passing the farmers on the way, she has a small talk with them. "Your "husband" is working very hard on the house." - So my girlfriend is always saying: Wow. They really respect you. Well. I'm German. I can't deny it. 😂

[@rbyfield]

Well, I for one admire Germans and Germany. I like your emphasis on great engineering. I like your cars. I have a 1964 VW Beetle, which is iconic.

[@holgermessner851]

@@rbyfield I wished I had one Beetle. I’m a certified VW/Audi car mechanic (Yes. It was in the old good days that VW & Audi was sold and serviced under one roof). I’m driving now a 2003 Mercedes E240 with lots of electrical issues. A Beetle wouldn’t had this issues at all.

[@carlosasolis]

¡Excelente! Ya se está haciendo parte del país. Ojalá pronto se casen y tengan hijos en esta tierra bendita.

[@holgermessner851]

@ I hope not, Señior. My girlfriend and I are over 60. If she would get pregnant, our story would end up in the bible! ;)

[@carlosasolis]

@@holgermessner851 indeed!

[@WrighteousBrand]

they don't have to be afraid to share their history and speak of their people because in jamaica we welcome everyone we dont see color we see character. i'm from Manchester Jamaica and have also lived in St Elizabeth and we have plenty white folks living in these areas and we all lived as one we never look at anyone color i'm so grateful for this documentry. my great great grandma is white. lets continue to live in one love as we always have dont let outside influence change us we love our Jamaican people no matter their ethnicity. One Love One Heart.

[@lucygreen8549]

This is Jamaica. Completely different in The West. Black People have always Welcome other Races, But Our Own. This is why they were able to give us the Bible, told Us to Pray, then divide and Conquered until this Day.

[@dorreettrichardson2609]

Amen word's of truth same way so.

[@TS-ck1bm]

Ur stupid. That's why bm own nothing. They welcome ppl to steal from them.

[@ReggaeKush]

Really? But black Jamaicans want to be white if that was true what you said. You don't see color but most jamaicans do thats why dem bleach out.

[@elainewilson4172]

+

[@chemsiesmall2162]

As a Jamaican i learnt a lot from this documentary.

[@chemsiesmall2162]

Never learn this in history class.

[@Sunkissed_Michelle]

My grandmother was German. She gave me the most beautiful person I’ve met this lifetime….my dad. He’s the best human being I’ve been blessed to know. RIP dad. Your legacy lives on.

[@cmariebarnes8228]

Just beautiful Sis❤

[@juliebee2494]

My father was born in Seaford Town. The very sad thing is that we were never taught about this very important part of our / Jamaica's history in school. It should be included in the curriculum.

[@PurpleWizrd2712]

last name hacker by any chance?

[@emaenimongo5359]

@@PurpleWizrd2712 LOL

[@cmartin5903]

Perhaps in research generally for all the races that came to Jamaica in University but a touch on those in primary education. ❤

[@marcblair3781]

My father grew up on Berkshire, not too far from Westmoreland. I never knew about the German town until I went to visit my family in Berkshire. We stopped off at a little shop in Seaford, where a woman and her daughter worked. It turns out they knew my father and he had been going to that shop since he was little.

[@chubs8127]

This is where am from, it's so good to see some familiar faces that are still alive.

[@marleeeden250]

im a jew who recently learned about the jamaican jewish population which made me fascinated. so i started learning about all the different cultures in jamaica. what an interesting history i would love to visit the country one day.

[@NiKiMa023]

Randomly, have you studied the historic synagogue in Barbados?

[@marleeeden250]

@@NiKiMa023 no i have not heard about it, i will definitely look it up :)

[@ReginaMcNeish]

My family is from Germantown. My grandmother was half German Jew (her mom ) and AfroCuban (her dad) and my Aunt tells me the stories of how we came to be. She said “My mom would always talk about Germantown.” She at the time was like “yeah yeah German town🙄” but now with the history she knows about it and how we are a direct link she sees it very different. We do not look German anymore lol (we all have a permanent tan lol). She told me that the reason we came to be was because there were no men and the women started to uproar and complain and they finally “let them intermarry “. I find that part interesting. My Grandma would always say I reminded her of her Grandmother because she had long brown hair to her waist, I was one of the black girls with really long hair and never realized why until I got old enough to understand the mix. It’s funny how genes are.

[@marleeeden250]

@@ReginaMcNeishwow thats so interesting!! so interesting how jews really spread all over the world. i am told something somewhat similar my great grandmother was in romania and her parents made her leave bc she was dating a boy from a church lolll. I am fascinated to know what it was like for them to move to jamaica tho :)

[@lunalea1250]

I just had this convo with a YM who said he is 4th generation US born, I asked if he knew that most of the Jews in JA/Caribbean came from Chile/Spain/Portugal during & worked as "money men" for slavers, he had no idea, blew his mind when I told him Sean Paul had Jewish Ancestry!🧠👀📚

[@Xedd1]

bro noway !! that bradley eldemire kid was my classmate back at meadowbrook high in 2010-15. i never questioned his heritage but seeing this makes me super happy i was close friends with a german.

[@orchidbabe45]

i went to meadowbrook

[@marlenemaymay128]

So many people are ignorant about history. Not necessarily their fault. It’s good to read, study and learn

[@Truther2001]

@@marlenemaymay128 HIStory (is his-story) and is written by the ones who win the wars. In most cases throughout modern history that was Britain and it stands to them to NOT teach the truth about their colonialism and the true nature of their brutish behaviour!

[@Therealroom316]

I am a Jamaican, born and raised of German, British, African heritage. My German ancestors lived in Manchester. Migrating to the USAand serving in the military, we are now actually living in Germany and I am learning so much about that part of my ancestry living here. This is so heart breaking to hear and see something that I never ever thought existed in Jamaica. Classism yes, racism no. If yuh born ah Jamaica, yuh ah Jamaican, regardless wey yuh ancestors come from. Out of many (race, color, creed), we ARE one. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇩🇪🇩🇪 and proud🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@charleneforrest8950]

Am amazed..i am Jamaican i was born in Kingston..i have been living in St.Thomas for years now,thats Yallah,St.Thomas Jamaica West Indies..i would love to visit this place Seaford Town Westmoreland..to meet these wonderful people of German ancestry..am a black woman am feeling so proud in listening to this documentary..this looks like a peaceful place mixed with Germans an Jamaicans..am at a loss for words..i have heard about Germans in St.Elizabeth but not Westmoreland

[@charleneforrest8950]

This looks like a crime free place..am happy

[@jenniferwilmot7023]

Same here Sis, I was just about to forward this link to my Sisters. My ancestors are from Europs, and I never once think that way or even talk about my race. I was shock when I heard the woman telling the reporter not to mix with the black race.😔

[@esbarrett2868]

Classism is worst than racism. Look at India as an example.

[@boristhegeezer]

Ooooooook I remember when I started to see reggae dances in Germany and the following being huge, I'm from the UK couldn't work it out makes perfect sense now!

[@claudineallen5601]

This is so amazing, I was born in Jamacia and never knew of this part of history. This town should be on the tourist map like the Maroon towns, showing the various culture of Jamaica. This is what makes Jamacia unique, I pray this small town stay strong. I like the lady fiesty reply to the taxi man, had i been in her situation i would have responded the same. I can see they are proud to be Jamacians. Thank you for the education.

[@ForgottenFaces001]

thank you Claudine- David

[@shawniepirie8719]

Lots of people go there as tourists, maybe you didn't work in tourism, that's why you weren't aware of it

[@ForgottenFaces001]

@@shawniepirie8719 After filming in this village for a month and a half I did not see one tourist enter Seaford Town. Many Jamaicans know little to nothing of this village. this response is common.

[@dwrighte1]

If you were from Westmoreland, there is a high likelihood that you would have heard about this story. Walking around Sav-la-mar, it would not have been uncommon to see some white Jamaicans.

[@floydknight6944]

Claudine Allen which lady are you talking about. The old lady who said don't ever mix with black people, and keep white people pure white. If that is the white lady you are talking about. You do realize that she is white woman from Germany living in a black people country. She clearly doesn't want to be there and doesn't want to be a Jamaican. She wants nothing to do with black people. That old lady is a strong supporter of gentrification. But there is also the possibility that we are not talking about the same white lady. So this comment doesn't necessarily apply to you.

[@dianabraley8307]

That one farmer looked like Paul Newman. Wow, the German European features are strong in Seaford Town. I believe my grandmother was descended from these Germans. She had grey eyes and very light skin. She was from Trelawny which was listed as one of the towns settled by the German migrants. Jamaica is rich in history. Let's just all get along.

[@patrickmatthew4803]

Absolutely fascinating! Who knew!

[@lattymartin9038]

You ppl are racist loving on our island and no Christopher Columbus found Jamaica

[@andrenefinn704]

Yes

[@sgraham1hotmailcom]

Diana Braley, are you sure you don't mean Charlton Heston?

[@MiaRen178]

My great great grandmother is from Westmoreland look much like these ppl ..possibility it's my descendant too

[@avennichols5176]

Excellent documentary David. So happy to see this. For those of us born in the 60’s and before, German Town was public knowledge and taught in schools. Many of us have family members born and raised in German Town. The Jamaica Observer did a historical series I think it was called “Pieces of the Past” They identified various ethnicities such as Lebanese, Germans, Chinese and Indians, and noted some came freely, but most came to Jamaica as indentured servants. This history has been intentionally hidden for political agendas to only recognize or promote African slavery as the origins of Jamaica. Every race or group that came to Jamaica seeks to maintain their own racial identity including slaves from Africa. That is not unique to German town, Africans or any other race. The Arawak Indians who were original to the island were said to no longer exist and that is not true. They are currently Jamaicans who carry the ancestry of the Arawak Indians who are the rightful indigenous people to the island before all others arrived on the island.

[@zumaanandrade3961]

There are full blooded Arawak Indians in Cuba there is a documentary about it. look it up. The thing is they have their own parts in Cuba however they might have to interbreed with some other Caribbean tribe to survive without interbreeding.

[@dianemoore-eubanks7130]

Most were not SLAVES FROM AFRICA. They came to various countries and were ENSLAVED. There is a difference.

[@samanthastiegler9955]

I’m part Arawak. I’m Jamaican mixed with indigenous Arawak & European. They still exist they just don’t want people to know we exist& that there are full blood Arawak & Carib indigenous people still living in the Caribbean islands.

[@catejedar]

@@zumaanandrade3961 that's not true one bit. The Cuban population is mixed (mostly Taíno, European, African).

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

They were captured by competing African tribes and enslaved in Africa, sacrificed in mass rituals, or sold as slaves to be exported. So i don't see how your distinguishing makes sense. They were captives in Africa and only became slaves once sold to Europeans? If they were captured with the intention of being enslaved at home ir abroad, then they were enslaved immediately upon capture. I doubt the captives made the distinction by the color of their masters skin. ​@dianemoore-eubanks7130

[@bridgetfoster2635]

My great grandmother was born in Seaford Town in 1900. She lived with us until I was 12 yrs old until she became very ill and had to be cared for in a nursing home. I got chills watching and seeing a tombstone with the last name Brown. That was her maiden name. Thank you for this documentary. I learned many things from her as a child, but it has been so long since I have heard things about her village.

[@markwarne5049]

Were her children your grandparents brought up in Seaford or your parents and you also?

[@anderslarson6813]

My grandmother was Brown too

[@charmaineeaton2327]

Wow,that's good to know, all my family on my dad's side are from Seaford old town German Town a big family and there Surname is Brown Hazel and Eddie Brown are my Granparents, so good to know my Family Heritage

[@anderslarson6813]

@Charmaine Eaton my grandmother on my dad's side was Marie (Brown) Buckeridge on my dad's father was Joseph Buckeridge. My grandmother's mother was Ada Maud Brown. The name Hazel sounds very familiar to me. I am going to ask my parents about it . May I ask Charmaine how old are you?

[@charmaineeaton2327]

@@anderslarson6813 Hi, thanks for your message I just turned 51yrs on 16 of January, my nan and Grandad had a lot of Children I think 10 children first names was keneth, Freddie, Rosey, Silbert, Linda, Mage, Steven,Bobby, Beverly. My Nan and Grandad moved to London UK and my mum met my Dad Silbert in London and I was the first Granchild born in 1072 in London all my Aunts and Uncles have children Big Family.i just wandered how common the surname Brown was in Seaford old town

[@talk2jenn]

As A German that visits Jamacia often I never knew about this town. Great Documentary.

[@rbyfield]

I think these people could easily move to Germany if they care to as the German Government allows anyone with German heritage that they can prove to move to Germany very easily.

[@jessepeterfenton3973]

Really enjoyed watching your Well produced Video/Documentary of Seaford Town. Its a shame that until this day Jamaica keeps failing on teaching its children our full History Werther good or Bad Positive and Negative. I am a German Jamaican Germaican/Jaman😁 mother German father Jamaican Born and grown in Jamaica Up until 19 yes of age and i never knew German Town existed until around 2 yrs ago on KZbin. I've been living in Germany now since 2003 and Hope to visit Seaford on my next visit. I Hope the Younger Generations become more integrated to feel at Home and Like Jamaicans because for me nuhweh nuh feel Like yaad. And i say that after living in Germany for now almost 20 yrs and visiting Other Euro countries and countries in Africa. Jamaica is Special ! My Love to every fellow Jamaican wether white/yellow/black or brown 👍🏽🤜🏾

[@larosemurphy6640]

Teach our children what??? Just thank god you are a life

[@jessepeterfenton3973]

@@larosemurphy6640 thats a very wonderful comment you have given. There is saying If you have nothing productive to say then say nothing. I for one believe its very Important to know the History. If you dont thats upto you.

[@larosemurphy6640]

@@jessepeterfenton3973 well sitt on wait on it...that will never happen bye

[@cognitionup5211]

A suh di ting set mi Breda wi naw mek dem trick wid dumb slave master mentality!! Laage up yuhself King🇯🇲❤️💯✅

[@davidscott3726]

The African Majority will get offended

[@Addi_Teacha509]

That young man with the hat will go far, he has a great heart.

[@OpalCrossCoaching]

As a Jamaican, this is the first time I am hearing about this community, this is a well done documentary. Before this lady spoke about not wanting to mix with black Jamaicans. I was here wondering how is it that I have not seen any interracial persons. This is very interesting because they are so small in numbers where are they finding partners. This is borderline crazy. Oh the racism, "don't ever mix darling". The need to remain a pure breed for sure will cause their community to dwindle to nothing.

[@honeynation]

Agreed. The old lady saying "don't ever mix, darling" really did bothered me a bit. You would think being in Jamaica for generations would have made them more open minded and accepting towards other races. Smh

[@lenks1018]

@@honeynation She still has the mind of a WS.

[@jamaicanprincess4124]

Yep, she is acting like white men always stay with white women and white marriages don't end in divorce. Lol

[@monjue55]

Jamaica is the most “African” of the Caribbean Islands, so if white Jamaicans feel estranged because of skin color, they should understand that being a tiny white minority in a predominantly black country comes with some challenges. The upside is that they seem to be getting along with their fellow black Jamaicans.

[@sophiascott1032]

Thank you for doing this Documentary of Germantown. Although I came to the United States young, I've maintained loving my country of Birth. & the old lady in the Documentary said to the guy don't mix. But if it was that bad, most of the offspring of their ancestors, should havego e bk then. J.A. is Beautiful & we're proud people! So I love the mixture of people, & they should also!

[@paulcameron3510]

A segment of caribbean history jamaica is always being made out of many 1 ppl a refreshing historical recap . Thanks and respect.

[@mathstar4176]

David Ritter is an incredible documentary movie maker. We think he should try his hand at a feature film now.

[@susanseballo550]

I love this history. I had some German friends over in Seaford Town back in the 19s. They were good friends and I wish i could meet them again.

[@anderslarson6813]

Try to give out the names of the people you knew back then, just give out some last names

[@beautifulheart5528]

I think I’ve seen a previous documentary about Germans living in Jamaica, but watching this one just brought up some stirred up feeling inside of me which made me want to write this comment. Me being a Jamaican, heard of slavery and the slave trade, and Christopher Columbus discovering Jamaica and all the others things that we were taught in school. We were never taught the whole truth about anything that happened back then. We still don’t know half of what took place back then because the veil has been covering our eyes all these years. It is now that I’m grown and have moved away from Jamaica, that I have researched and learned so much more about some of these things. I’m more enlightened and able to see the wickedness and the atrocities that were done to us as a black race and to other races too. But.... make no mistake, of all the races in the world, black people have been treated like shit by every other race, and even now when umpteenth of years have passed, and you think the racism and the mistreatment of black people would have stopped, it still exists everywhere. I know everyone is not racist but it still exists largely in a lot of countries. Even in our own Jamaica, it exists. Just as how black people were brought here from Africa and lost their identities, so were these Germans. I feel sorry for them that they felt that they didn’t want to mix with black people, therefore they kept their breed amongst themselves. Likewise, I can understand how and why black resent white people because of the history of the brutal treatment and slavery which they inflicted on us. If no other race understands that, then try being a black person in a racist white person’s world. We have every right, never to forget where we came from and under what circumstances we got here. These Germans didn’t teach their children their language and did not teach their children their heritage. They know where they came from but maybe none of their traditions are with them now. How do they think we feel?Black people were taken forcibly from their homeland, brought to a different country. We lost loved ones, cultures, languages, identities, taking on white men’s names, and still had to live and survive in the worst of conditions. Yes, our motto is out of many one people, but just the way we were brought here unwillingly, they were brought here unwillingly. We are the only race I see that is willing to forgive and forget our history to marry into any other race. Many times, other races are not so accepting of us marring into their races. You heard what that old white woman said. Don’t mix with them!!!! Lady, if we all had choices to make a decision as to where we wanted to live, most of us wouldn’t be where we found ourselves today. Life goes on and we have to try to make the best of our situations. So whether you are Black, White, Chinese, or whatever mixed up races you find yourselves in, be thankful for life and stop looking at the color of other peoples skin. Never forget where you’re coming from but live with love and try to be at peace with all men.

[@normacoote9856]

Well said! Life goes on….

[@vernabar7093]

Couldn't have said it any better myself!!!😊🇯🇲🇺🇲

[@delfatogun9999]

So well said!!! I’m slightly lucky in so far as I’m part Nigerian and Jamaican. My mother was quite enlightened but I also have my father’culture. You are so right about the lies and wool that was pulled over our eyes. ( grew up in the Uk) We should always be proud with our heads held up high and unite .

[@donaldramsamugh1723]

Well said my sister, we have come a very long way and still have a way to go as we can see from minor documentary, pore editing but we understood the story and appreciate it muchly, thanks again 👍🏾. Mi proud to be a Jamaican living in Canada 🇨🇦 .

[@MS-happybebbie]

So well said 👍👍 they came to out island and own 500 land and the natives didn’t got anything..

[@lisiepoo6933]

What a great documentary on Jamaican culture. Being Jamaican and of mixed race as well it is refreshing to see the focus. Good job.

[@normahamilton2985]

The school curriculum needs to include this history. Beautiful poem the young man read.

[@charmawingingitlewis1259]

Really!

[@Truther2001]

@@normahamilton2985 HIStory (is his-story) and is written by the ones who win the wars. In most cases throughout modern history that was Britain and it stands to them to NOT teach the truth about their colonialism and the true nature of their brutish behaviour!

[@normahamilton2985]

@@Truther2001 Yes Columbus

[@christelpaul3851]

The man who says he is a Germaican, sounds very lovely. May God bless all of them 😊

[@kurlenejohn5463]

Excellent production!❤Very informative, well-made and meaningful documentary filled with reality and sentimental value and nostalgia.... thank you for your great work in producing this for the public knowledge! - Excellent filming and stories.

[@ForgottenFaces001]

Thank you so much for watching.

[@kurlenejohn5463]

@@ForgottenFaces001 You are welcome. I am watching from Old York...🙃🌞 ( New- York City ), but born in the Caribbean and raised . You are an excellent filmmaker and I would appreciate you work on some more film that deals with history, roots and culture. This documentary touched me on so many levels of human understanding. It also shows how Race and culture crosses path and often MERGES... become one.... in terms of a culture. This is what makes us unique as Caribbean people.

[@ForgottenFaces001]

@@kurlenejohn5463 There are many projects posted on this you tube channel showing past and present projects. I am currently focusing on work I have been doing in South Africa. I hope you can gain from it. - David

[@hilarysutter7503]

I love seaford town, thats where my great grandfather is from. Its not anymore pure blooded since the late 30. They where in many places and they also have alot of mix generation, and my Family is one of that mix

[@delanoblanco2248]

I am from SAVANNA LA MAR IN WESTMORELAND and went to HEART school for skills there in 2007 and fell in love with seafood town. Hope to go back there. So quiet

[@Uncilro]

WHHHHAAAAA!!!! The full documentary is finally out, after all these years??? Amazing!

[@MrCoxson]

So fascinating. I´m german. In Germany NO ONE knows anything about Seaford Town and the german descendents living there! Excellent. Danke und auf wiedersehen - wir sehen uns :-)

[@rbyfield]

Germany is a good country.

[@franklinchinquee8762]

Not true! Angela Merkel sent à person to German Town to enquire about the German Jamaican. That I recall!?

[@ernestbain]

I was born in Jamaica Kingston. My mother is black Jamaican and my father is white German and I never knew of German town. I leave Jamaica to live in England 50 years ago.

[@camo4610]

OMG, thank you for producing this documentary. I know the Hackers and Kamekas; It's good to see that Ms Kameka is still around.

[@anderslarson6813]

I know the Kameka's as well . I am a Buckeridge

[@mariejohnson8192]

Loved this documentary. My grandfather was of German descent lived in Manchester. I appreciate the honesty 💕

[@ForgottenFaces001]

Thank you Marie. This documentary was made with people like you in mind. - David Ritter

[@peaceloveharmony8736]

@@ForgottenFaces001 Most of the people in Saint Elizabeth are of mixed Germans and Africans ancestry.

[@peaceloveharmony8736]

@@ForgottenFaces001 Cool

[@peaceloveharmony8736]

@@ForgottenFaces001 Hey bro,can you read,speak or understand the German language?

[@derricklangford4725]

@@peaceloveharmony8736 I live in Chicago and I know a kind elderly couple who are from there, they look like they have mixed ancestry, very nice couple.

[@shavarmartin7139]

I am a Jamaica and is the time I have heard about the German living in Jamaica that is new to I am so glad to that thank David

[@Maria-sy1yo]

Codie I wish you all the best for the future. Wishing all of you 'love, peace and harmony'. from a Guyanese in London

[@florencechin6509]

Absolutely the best documentary I've seen about Seaford Town/German Town and it's German-Jamaican residents. Alas, only a few remaining. I find it melancholy that they've lived and will die here knowing badically nothing about the other homeland. Beautifully narrated. Beautifully produced.❤️

[@ForgottenFaces001]

Thank you so much for saying so and thank you for watching.

[@gennisparry4352]

If they were born in Jamaica, that’s their homeland.

[@andrewDaMack]

Millions of Afro-Jamaicans know nothing about their ancestral homeland either, that too is melancholic.

[@theaffiyaeffect]

@@andrewDaMack Thank you. Its weird to me how so much empathy is granted to white people when they are in situations that non-white people are in every day and have been experiencing for centuries....yet nobody seems to feel a way about the melanated people's experience.

[@andrewDaMack]

@@theaffiyaeffect As you know we have been conditioned to this - centuries of slavery and oppression and decades of mass media, movies and pop culture indoctrination. With each generation though, we as melanated people and Black people specifically are awakening.

[@christa3224]

I find it odd that at the end, the elderly German lady said if she could leave and move elsewhere, she would. But where would she go? I would think Germans in Germany would probably find her to be very odd, and I imagine it would be a culture shock for her too.

[@kaizentruth8098]

Grass is always greener on the otherside

[@rbyfield]

Germany considers her German. She can move there. But she would probably miss Jamaica as soon as she lands in Germany. It would be so foreign. She just needs to look at the former East Germans. Ethnically, they are the same as the former West Germans, but to this day the former East Germans don't feel comfortable in Germany.

[@MELSELECTA101]

I met a white woman in Massachusetts and when she spoke I said you sound Jamaican, she said I was born in Jamaica...... I said yea right your not Jamaican. We spoke for an HR and she educated me on her town.... No Jamaican in 40 years has told me about German town... Very interesting!!!👍🏿

[@ForgottenFaces001]

there are white jamaicans of German, Polish, scottish, Irish, British, Welsh, Spanish, portuguese, Jewish, Middle eastern and various other caucasian backgrounds from many other areas around Jamaica.

[@rbyfield]

@@ForgottenFaces001 Polish? That must be a recent happening. All the others, I agree with.

[@ForgottenFaces001]

ethnic polish families came to Jamaica with the german migrations

[@Mel-zy8ri]

The school curriculum in Jamaica needs to be revised because on thing is sure they don’t teach us about our own history just a brief introduction and I feel this is such a disservice that only as an adult you have to go search to find these things out for yourself. As a Jamaican born and raised I didn’t know this town existed and it’s a shame that someone outside had to do a documentary for me to learn this. Great documentary thank you! Hopefully these people start to feel more apart of the culture because they are very much Jamaican. We like to boast out of many one people but still we don’t know who the many other people are that make up this great culture..

[@moniwilderness1936]

Let’s be honest here. This town is built on segregation mentality. I don’t know if this is a good idea to teach it.

[@pitchblacktv9278]

@@ForgottenFaces001this attempt at a rebuttal speaks volumes.

[@rasempress9724]

@@ForgottenFaces001 weh u get dat from..ur mindset seem to cloud ur interpretation of what the Hon. Marcus Mosiah said n believed..feh

[@phillyyardyvibes808]

You do know the British devise the education system. Do we still call British the mother country, instead of the C word

[@racheljones4561]

​@@ForgottenFaces001 Marcus garvey and farakan's desire to separate was based on their love for black people, whites desire to separate is based on their hatred of black peoplle and people of colour. That's diffrence.

[@judinun8813]

My grandmother is also a German descendant, and she didn't talk much about her heritage until as teenagers my sister and I would question her. It skipped generations as none of her children had green/hazel eyes but several of the grandkids did. She said her parents put her sister on a ship to Jamaica and that's all she knows. Then they went to live with a family in St Ann until she married my grandfather in Kingston.

[@sandrachambers5492]

I was born and raised in Kingston Jamaica in 1961 migrate to USA in 1993 and I was never taught of German history or that Germans are living in Seaford in Jamaica so surprised when I came up on documentary,thanks for info,like the motto says out of many we are one

[@yardie4636]

I was born in Jamaica never knew about German town. I live in New York now and internet as thought me so much about my culture. My grand father mother parents are white and I have no idea where they came from. When Jamaica got independence from Great Britain no was able to describe Jamaica because Jamaica have a multi race culture. This is main reasons our is motto is state out of many one people

[@sabrinas3981]

excellent never knew this about my country Jamaica 🇯🇲 good to know the history

[@Jamdat33]

thank you for putting this together. I learned alot JM

[@marlondavis1230]

They seem to be more disappointed that their ancestor's culture did not survive than being Jamaican. The same way African descendants feel robbed of ours by various European powers. Though they feel ostracized by the greater Jamaican society, they have contributed to it and should feel proud to be one.

[@theaffiyaeffect]

I dunno. It sounds to me that the dissapointment is more about being white and still having to struggle. It sounds to me that some of them have feelings of entitlement believing that their whiteness should have given them more. As per feeling ostracized, is it fair to claim you have been ostracized if (historically) you have isolated yourself? They WANTED to be separate from the rest of the population. So with that in mind, to turn around and say the wider community has ostricized them seems false. Though I found this documentary very interesting, (being of a somewhat mixed jamaican background myself) I did find it difficult to connect to the ''white plight'' narrative.

[@marlondavis1230]

@@theaffiyaeffect I share the same sentiments as you do that they are angry at not having the same privileges as their white British counterparts. I wouldn't say they isolated themselves as they did intermingle with the local black population, speak patois and assimilated into Jamaican society. They just seem disappointed that their German culture didn't survive. I do suspect that they descend from the dregs of German society who were looking for a way to start over and Jamaica was that opportunity.

[@rurua6050]

@@marlondavis1230 Actually they have mentioned they have tried to preserve their race over the years by not mixing with other natives hence most of these German defendants still look white and some even dabbled with close bloodline to do so. Some of the German Jamaicans are very entitled about their whiteness and it means more to them than being Jamaican.

[@rurua6050]

@@theaffiyaeffect So true👍🏾

[@TheMilkMan714]

@@theaffiyaeffect my mother's family are all from Seaford town and I've been there as a child. What I'll say is that yes the Germans have definitely not mixed bloodlines with the black Jamaicans very much but there actually are quite a few who have, and it seems actually that there is more mixing going on now than there used to be. To the point of a sense of entitlement, every single person in Seaford town is fully Jamaican my grandmother and her brothers and sisters came to Canada when they were young and built lives here in a developed nation but still chose to go back to Seaford town it's who they are so when people treat you as if you are rich or treat you as different to them because of your skin color when you are just as Jamaican as them is not a fun thing to experience

[@natashamcfadden4569]

My friend who was born and raised in Westmoreland his from Seaford town. She’s related to Mr. Hacker the guy talking in the video but she moved to Canada. She has also a tik tok creator and it’s interesting because she talks about this story on her page. I’m from St Elizabeth so I’m well aware of this story

[@melodyrose6380]

My great grandfather was an Irishman that came with several Irish to escape extreme poverty in the early 1900.

[@sideshowtink]

Fascinating documentary! I never knew about the German settlements in Jamaica! Thanks!

[@tahliah6691]

My dad was from Seaford Town and spoke fluent German….. and would often speak to us in German 🤣we were always aware of the Germans in Seaford Town. My mother and all of her 12 siblings all have German first names I never understood the connection until she did her ancestry dna and it shows she has German ancestry 👀 I will have to do some more digging regarding this side of her ancestry as she is from St Thomas 🤔 also related to the maroons

[@hainleysimpson1507]

Multiple waves of German migrants. Also people moved out of those towns for wprk and education.

[@ITSTYTYNYC]

Me as well same thing my grandfather was a German Jamaican my grandmother was a Jamaican maroon mixed with Spanish I’m assuming descendants of the moors from Seville Spain I’m watching this video to get some insight on my German Jamaican heritage

[@emailvonsour]

Pretty sure the people who gave them the German names would know about the "connection"...

[@emailvonsour]

Then why couldn't this documentary find anyone who knew any German at all?

[@BananaJoe1979]

Its so nice To See People come togheter with out raising their eye brows

[@josephinehibbert27]

There are many people of German descents living in Belvedere, Beaufort, lambs river and Barney sides. Also many can be found all over Montego Bay as owners of various business and working in many industries. There are many professionals to include teachers lawyers doctors etc.

[@jameswalsh2427]

Very interesting documentary thanks. Reminds me when I was in Venezuela, there is a German town there high up in the mountains. The Germans arrived there in 1850s and established a settlement called Colono Tuvar perhaps different spelling, The German settlement there is like a actual German Town, with original style German architecture in the houses and still speaking German language. James J Walsh in Limerick city Ireland 🇮🇪

[@VTRAQUEVNVMPLVSVLTRA]

The spelling is "Colonia Tovar" (Tovar Colony).

[@angelapalmer3542]

Very very interesting documentary. Thanks for this history of Jamaica

[@lisejuste1531]

My great grandparents August and Mary Anne came on the Oldbrecht from Bremen but they settled in Alva, St. Ann.

[@deirdremurray1411]

Just came across this documentary found it to be very interesting and informative greetings from the UK

[@konradyoung7116]

Very interesting documentary. My family is from Manchester with Irish and German heritage. Thompson and Groves.

[@stuckintha90s]

Seaford Town would be like a mecca for German tourists in Jamaica if some things can be packaged properly. Think about it

[@rbyfield]

I don't think it would be any more special to a German than anywhere else in Jamaica. Germans probably do not feel much kinship to these Jamaicans of German heritage. People from "motherlands", whether Germany, other European countries, China or even Africa usually do not feel much kinship to their kinfolks who are in other lands. They do not see them as Germans anymore since they have been away from the homeland so long. If you read around, you will notice how Europeans are amazed that Americans would call themselves names like Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, etc. Maybe a few more Germans would visit, but I think they would be looking for the German influence in the town such architecture and not so much these German Jamaicans. As far as I see, not much German architecture is around in any of these Jamaican "German" towns.

[@emailvonsour]

@@rbyfield The English can't talk. Half of their population is proudly Pakistani and Jamaican despite being born in England.

[@maureen1234mc]

My Grandfather was from Scotland and came down to Jamaica.. married and had 9 children with my Grandmother.

[@tanice2007]

I have a similar story! Three brothers from Scotland. I have so many cousins!

[@maureen1234mc]

@@tanice2007 , Never know who is related to each other..

[@alfa_romeo55yush82]

And you married a chi-nie man. Youre about as mixed up as my children are.

[@alfa_romeo55yush82]

@maureen stephens Chung

[@maureen1234mc]

@@alfa_romeo55yush82 , 😁,. Well my daughter is more mixed; 3 ethnicities,. 😃

[@levarallen824]

Thanks so much, it was wonderful to learn something knew about my country’s history. My family is mostly African with Indian descendants. My great-grandmother was half Indians and the rest was strongly African descendants. My sisters and I have really nice hair, mine is curled up most times even after I brush it curls back up and also hairy skin. I love these people and so happy they are apart of our culture.

[@rbyfield]

Nice hair? People still use that term? Amazing!!

[@scorpioreign1115]

That old lady looks like she needs a one way ticket to Germany so that she will be in her element.

[@BelladoniusMonk]

Are you talking about the old lady who wants to keep her white race "pure"? If so, I completely agree.

[@trishnewman910]

@@BelladoniusMonk Yes. She could definately represents one of Hitlers children. Den look at har to?

[@davidscott3726]

@@BelladoniusMonkDon't you want to keep black pure,,We are too damn obsessed with our own struggles that we fail to understand other humans..Sad,no wonder why we can't strive.

[@ForgottenFaces001]

@@davidscott3726 It is interesting how a walk through Kingston Jamaica you will see murals painted in honor of black nationalists every where Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey and most all Jamaicans see these men as heroes to be respected and honored. Men who were against multi racialism and against races mixing but if an elderly white person who grew up in the turn of the century says only whites should marry whites they are deemed an evil nazi. Hypocrisy is an interesting thing.

[@lisakmar]

@@ForgottenFaces001 the black nationalists and granny nazi were both wrong, so wrong they would marry their first cousin and subject their children to lives with disabilities. Sick!

[@ceactoceava6203]

My grandmother's grandparents were part of the German population I wish I could find my ancestors there. History has it that there was a passing ship with Germans that developed problems, the passengers were temporarily offloaded and was told that they would return for them but it didn't happen they were stranded. I was told this by my great grand parents.

[@markwarne5049]

You could go there and see

[@hainleysimpson1507]

Multiple sets of germans came to Jamaica.

[@hainleysimpson1507]

Also it was a scheme bt the British to whiten the local human population. By aby meabs so long as it was not the offspri g of local high status whites.

[@Goldun-nah]

The original inhabitants of Jamaica were the indigenous Taíno, an Arawak-speaking people who began arriving on Hispaniola by canoe from the Belize and the Yucatan peninsula sometime before 2000 BCE.

[@joemorgan636]

Wow wow I love this documentary so much I’ve heard of Germantown from years back by my father he was from Saint Catherines Red hills The next time I go back to Jamaica Seaford town is definitely my next port of call 100%

[@cbhim2709]

Interesting but sad. The life of an immigrant is never an easy one. There are multitudes of obstacles and challenges especially if you are a minority. My heart aches for the young man speaking of the discrimination he suffered from. Myself...an immigrant ...understand and have experienced everything...climate,food, culture shock..discrimination, bigotry, racism but survived and still feel grateful...

[@SaltyMinorcan]

yeah but after decades they usually blend in

[@imanimarshall3226]

I mean it doesn't help that he looks a lot like the ppl who came and divided/conquered that same island. There a lot of non-black ppl from Jamaica its just that they are more accepted by the rich and tourist then the actual everyday Jamaican you see. They know how they got there and many of them like my father come from the maroons that fought and won Jamaica's freedom. So its a reason he went through what he did 150 years ago was time of hard ship for actual Jamaicans being an immigrants was nothing compared to that.

[@artsmart]

Interesting documentary. Reminds me somewhat of the poorer Dutch/Afrikaans people living in South Africa. Good video!

[@Tens8a]

Out of many one people. So proud of Jamaica's motto.

[@saxaphonica5679]

As usual very enlightening documentary about Jamaica. It might be useful to know there are similar stories to this, which refer more to the last world war between late 1930s to late 1940s, where some Germans escaped from their homeland, whilst others became refugees and lived a segregated life in other areas of Jamaica. That particular documentary on KZbin is called Germans in Jamaica War, Spies and Camps.

[@janbrien9907]

The grass is not always greener on the other side.....life is what you make it! Love Jamaica and Germany! But then I love every place I go and I've been to 120 countries.

[@contessadunford3017]

Thank y’all for sharing your knowledge. Be blessed!

[@heathersmith6420]

On my first visit to Jamaica I went there and heard of this town.

[@ToniaAlex13]

I'm a millennial born and living in Jamaica. I have known about the German descents here in Jamaica.

[@davidritchie1658]

As a jamaican i know about the german people living in st Elizabeth tresure beach area.

[@earns01]

This is a very good documentary, shedding light on Jamaica's history

[@trishavilmont5967]

In Haiti, these are also living on so many places for soooo long now. However, Casale is the place that you can find them the most, but at the end of the we are one, Haitian 🙏👌

[@tubsewhyte]

What an EYE opener. God bless our country Jamaica.

[@philliplyn2692]

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work on my wish list when I return home 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@jaydebeer7251]

Very very interesting, I have visited seaford and knew about the Germans, and its very interesting hearing the whitr boy talking about how he has a hard time in school due to him being the colour he is... Jamaica is a land of many, out of many one people ✌️

[@michahtaylor1182]

Greetings, I once went there as a child, we knew a particular German-Jamaican family " the Collins " the family was a big one. Noel was a helpful man who came from that family, and he also stayed with us for years back in St. Andrew (Kingston) where we first met him. He carried us to where he was from and that's how I and my family got somewhat an experience of Seaford Town. Good video!

[@annahheard9207]

I was told my grandfather was from Seaforth Town, got married and live in Belvedere. My next trip I will visit.

[@michahtaylor1182]

@@annahheard9207 Greetings, make sure you do without any regrets

[@christelpaul3851]

What a beautiful poem from the young man ❤, bless his heart ❤

[@tyronecurling2699]

Love your documentary. Every aspect of racism included and still exists and it’s both class and colour. I can say for the Indians of jamaica they two was promised land by the English. Upon arrival they too like the Germans, chinese etc. we’re promised land and when landed no land they were like the rest of the black to struggle. As for the lady talking about mix “Dnt ever mix” is not strange even into todays people say the same thing and that’s facts not faction

[@uniquebeauty633]

love jamaica, its so rich with beautifull people❤

[@chrisper94]

There are many narratives to the Jamaican experience and identity. Many Europeans also make up that narrative. It is ignorant to boast that Jamaicans are only black Africans and that they only comprise the narrative. I remember during festival at the stadium, the floats and groups told the stories of the many people that are Jamaican. Yes, the majority are of African descent, but we cannot leave out the other groups. We must tell the truth and not redact history.

[@thelovepodcastnetwork4375]

Shut up 😂😂

[@juliebee2494]

I'm Jamaican born and raised. My father is from Seaford Town. I don't know of ANY Jamaican who is racist against another Jamaican, regardless of color or background. That line about Jamaicans being proud to be mainly African is bullshit. Taken out of context. We are proud of our African heritage, but are just as proud of any other lineage!

[@famitsus987]

No Europeans say that or think that Americans and lefty’s think Caribbeans are just black Africans due to the fact most are most white/European Caribbean people left long ago same as Chinese/Asians only Indians stayed mostly in Trinidad etc

[@rbyfield]

Boast? Who boasts that Jamaicans are only Black?

[@madtrain556]

Jamaica was never black,its was always a multicultural.. Same like South Africa..

[@FrequentFlyer_MIA]

Cool history! Love learning about the cultures of the world

[@Anthony-w7i5g]

I am a white British guy who had a lovely two weeks in Montego Bay 20 years ago. Never experienced any racism and felt safe everywhere I went. I worked with a Jamaican in the U.K. by choice until after 7 months of him moaning about racism whilst being the biggest perpetrator I quit the job. We are going backwards, it is such a shame.

[@ffi1001]

Quel surprise. A white man moaning about a black person’s experience of racism.

[@adebolabloke6962]

You should marry a Black Jamaican woman and walk hand in hand in Jamaica away from tourist areas and then you'll see, away from the fake friendliness, just how racially accepting they are

[@bridgetown45]

Some time ago I came across a Jamaican with the surname 'Soltau', and could not figure out how a Jamaican is able to come by this name. I even thought that it was an assumed name. Soltau, located south of Hamburg, is (was) one of the largest NATO exercise training areas,in what was then West Germany.

[@alfa_romeo55yush82]

Ha thats my cousin's Husband. They are all living in Canada now. ( Tony Soltau )

[@syd5831]

I never know any of this but I’ve learned a lot.🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@kingstonian7066]

No shit

[@source4magic]

Well done. Give thanks.

[@naturalmystics-kd9vt]

They are our brothers and sisters no matter if they are black or white the earth 🌍 is a island and we all live on it

[@fernandoscrenci4874]

Amazing Historical History !! 1835 !!👍🏻 A very interesting look into these situations !!

[@starpeople134]

Haile Selassi was the first who visited Germany as a states guest. The children of Selassi living in Germany. I visited Jamaica and found tombstones with my family name. Since I was born I had this connection to Ethipopia and Jamaica anď it was a miracle for me what I never understood but it is a fact. Germaicans

[@errolthomas9426]

Someday, I'd like to see a documentary on Italians born and raised in Jamaica 🇯🇲

[@cultivatingwellness4028]

I agree with Peter Gardner, the Germans did not arrive in Jamaica as indentured servants. They arrived at the height of the Prussian War, that is the first wave. The second arrived in World War 1. There are quite a few 'German Towns ' across Jamaica though. Some used to have some delicious bread bakery. I do not know the situation now. Visited one in Trelawn

[@KurtKind]

The village was founded in 1835 and the Prussian war was in 1870/71, so the village is older than your first wave.

[@ParkHillProjects]

​@@KurtKindbro prussia always had wars. 😅

[@annmariecampbell4360]

Yes That story about the runaway german soldiers is story I' ve heard as a child. I lived there and many blond hair grey eyed people with a very strange Jamaican accent lived there.

[@ABi-xu5zq]

That older lady if you listen closely she sounds Jamaican with a German accent, its very distinct, listen to her pronunciations of words, its so funny they say dont mix but people like my grandmother encouraged me to mix with white or " high colour people"so I can have a "brown baby" thank god for knowledge education and self love.

[@moniho6907]

No she does not sounds German, I live there for 3 years she sounds nothing german

[@alfa_romeo55yush82]

She sounds pure white Jamaican.

[@blazefairchild465]

That was a sight for sore eyes a 5th generation blond- blue eyed German ,born and raised in Jamaica playing Folsom Prison Blues on his guitar !