Garifuna - A Culture Close to Extinction

[@bemetu1]

There are still many of us who live here in the United States that do speak Garifuna. I am embarrassed to say, I never taught my children who were born here in the U.S. But I am desperately trying to make up by teaching my grandchildren.

[@HOPROPHETA]

I plan to learn too. Shame isn't it? I wish Rosetta stone would help us especially because the language is endangered. That happens when your heritage is not known. Did you know we are probably descended from pre columbian africans!?

[@petersonarthursr.1956]

Teach your children about their ancestors and the beautiful island of St, Vincent and the Grenadines, where they from.

[@blackwolverine1]

Teach the babies, the children our illustrious Garifuna culture. Its never to late family, the time is now.

[@kingpharaoh7262]

interested to learn the language I'm from st.vincent 🇻🇨

[@GOILL]

Being Guatemalan I always make sure I mention that the Guarifuna are part of my people.

[@maryurimendez7271]

When I was younger I grew up by the beaches where usually Garifunas live and we used to dance Punta (I am from Honduras)

[@daroldbannister7496]

Yes Maryuri, I too lived in Tela, Honduras. Lots of good times with the Garifunas.

[@culturequeens1734]

@@daroldbannister7496 Hello to the both of you. will either of you mind speaking to me about the language? I am trying to do a project for my course specifically on Language attitudes in Honduras where it relates to Garifuna.

[@blackwolverine1]

The Garifuna Culture and language will never die. And that is a fact coming from a Garifuna person.

[@moneymediaja]

very interesting watching this video through the eyes of an outsider. makes me realize how other people probably perceive us.... a tear came to my eye watching the little ones at the garifuna school in dangriga. wish i had the opportunity to learn the language, but like many, my father never taught it to me.

[@immigrantedificationtv8401]

Bless up to Kalilah ,always listen to you from NYC when you was at Krem.

[@milascave2]

I lived among the Garifuna in in 1977-78. Evan back then, they listened to plenty of African American and Caribean music. And, when the older folks did their traditional dances, the teens called them "old heads." Yet when I came back in 1993, they had spawned Punta Rock, sung in the Garifuna language, which had gone viral all over Belize and beyond. Despite prejudice, yes, other ethnic groups sometimes complained when they spoke their own language, this struck me as a very vital culture. I hope I was right.

[@juanmelendez4037]

Opinunate ted That's why Garifunas from Belize , act different to other garifunas like them , the original are from Honduras , meaning no ashamed of being garifuna.

[@BeingGarifuna]

Solid review on the Garifuna people of Central America, Franc Contreras. I will spread the word about this video report soon. Teofilo Colon Jr. Being Garifuna

[@darrylwatters5175]

Hello , Garifuna my name is Kwabena am of Ghanaian Senegalese and Lesotho heritage I was told some of my ancestors are also from Belize who are Garifuna am learning more about the Garifuna right now am trying to get a Belize Citizenship as well . But I was born in the USA to African parents .

[@theoriginaganstafary]

soy uno de los tristes garinagu que perdio su identidad viva GUATEMALA

[@manuelalonso351]

I have many Garifuna friends and family and unfortunately it is true the new generation here at the states do not speak the language that is sad.

[@BeingGarifuna]

By the way, you neglected to mention the country of Nicaragua. That country also has a sizeable concentration of Garifuna people who live in towns on the Caribbean coast. Interested viewers might also like to know that that hymn sung in the opening moments of this video is the Garifuna version of The Our Father prayer. Teofilo Colon Jr. Being Garifuna

[@anthonyclark4239]

And many other places fam just as the bible says we are scattered in four corners of the earth ApttmhYah Anu know everywhere he's placed his people

[@janiceysaguirre325]

I love this culture.

[@allenfrancisco6124]

This is all a lie garifuna people are growing much stronger than ever !!!

[@Hotters9060]

I don't want to see my culture die out. Something needs to be done about this. Although I was born here in the United States of America, I still consider myself Garifuna because both of my parents are Garifuna. It is sad that young Garifuna people born here in the United States, listen to too much Hip Hop music and live like African Americans. They don't even cook the food that our ancestors ate. Me I love my Garifuna culture and I refuse to live a life like an African American. I don't even like Hip Hop music like that.

[@Azarable]

@Allen Francisco Garifuna people who were born and raised here in the United States hardly speak the Arawakan language. They listen to Hip Hop music and they act just like African Americans. They forget where they come from and it is sad to see that. The Garifuna people born here in the United States are not African Americans. They are still Garifuna and they should stick to that.

[@msstacy3667]

My mother's parents spoke Garifuna and from my mother says her father didn't wnat them fo speak anything but english ...mostly due to there migration to the states and in

[@jachtancrozomer1508]

most of the st.vincent population is Garifuna, most garifuna's fleed to the mountains of st.vincent, other's were exiled or turned into slaves, Joseph Chatoyer and the other slaves for for freedom from 1770s to 1790s.

[@wamaassa]

propaganda......we are still here and we are not going nowhere.

[@marciajones4038]

I can see how the emphasis on extinction can be alarmist, nevertheless, this piece is closer to the truth than we would like to admit. Garifuna culture is taking a shift toward loss than gain. We need to imprint ourselves so that we can stay a vibrant culture.

[@vincyman80]

The Garifunas People are all Vincentians from St.Vincent And The Grenadines.

[@queenkimmylifeisgolden3265]

very true..

[@makstaz79]

Actually, we are Africans who settled on a few Caribbean islands. The island of Yurumein wrongly called St Vincent was just one of our strongholds. If you are from that island may the blessings of our ancestors be on you

[@yudahel8521]

@@makstaz79 they are not African

[@makstaz79]

@@yudahel8521 Then what am I sir

[@yudahel8521]

@@makstaz79 you're ignorant and believe anything the white man have taught y'all dumb ass. A ship wreck of slaves and they settled, 😂😂😂😂 yet they have no african languages, culture's, or traditions. The Garifuna ain't no damn african people

[@wamaassa]

these people need to do their homework,we were never slaves we were in this area looong before any european pirates came to the caribbean

[@danielaugustine9168]

wamaassa thank you!

[@yudahel8521]

Exactly. The Garifuna were never slaved and they didn't come from no damn Africa

[@Hotters9060]

@@danielaugustine9168 The Garifuna people were originally yellow and red caribs, and including Arawak people. The African slaves escaped from the ships and later intermarried with the original inhabitants of the island of St. Vincent who were the yellow and red Caribs and the Awaraks and created the black Caribs or Garifuna.

[@Hotters9060]

@Gualean Creek Lodging Co LLC The Caribs attacked and killed the Arawak men and kept the women. You are right about that. The Carib men intermarried with the Arawakan women after killing the Arawakan men and created the Yellow or Red Caribs. There are people saying that the Garifuna people came directly from Africa which is false. There is no origins or evidence about the Garinagu people originating in Africa. The Caribs and the Arawaks were the original inhabitants of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. There were slave ships that were wrecked on the island of St. Vincent.... The black Africans escaped from those slave ships and got help from the Caribs and the Arawakan people. Sometime later the black African slaves intermarried with the Yellow or Red Caribs and created the Black Caribs or Garifuna race.

[@Hotters9060]

@Chicano Azteca The Garinagu people are a mixed race of Carib Indians, Arawaks, and Africans who originated in the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. Garifuna people are not from Africa. Do your research.

[@FLRinternational]

I noticed the same and I raised the same concerns. I love the Garifuna people but when I visited Belize I was concern the younger generations did not know the language, many only understood it. When a generation who only understands a language dies so does the language. The adults thought it was o.k as long as their kids understood their language. I am happy to hear they are now schools teaching the language.

[@idag7521]

Did this newslady say a ship full of PRISONERS ? Wtf Beautiful people...

[@traceebclaybrook]

Update how is the population now?

[@venessamorgan9450]

All of the garifuna did not leave St Vincent they are still garifuna still Liveing they

[@Joles0]

Such courageous, resilient and loving people. Share your history with everyone!!

[@valeriehancotte-galan4790]

Save the language. All languages are important!

[@BeingGarifuna]

A year and a half later, what's the verdict?

[@anthonyclark4239]

I wish to learn the tung and embrace it fully ApttmhYah

[@slspn2]

It's funny how "African-Americans" are being portrayed as the scapegoat for the loss of the Garfina cultural when it was clearly evident that the Garifuna elders made a conscious decision not to teach their own ways; due to willingly wanting to participate in their colonizers ways. Remember to thank an "African-American" when money is being sent "back home" from the United States. African-Americans gave all they had to make it possible for all kinds of people to be treated like a human in the U.S. workplace and in U.S. society.

[@eucinaporter845]

We need to learn the language in the mother land. St. Vincent.

[@bambam5265]

Yes we do they need to bring our culture back. After being forbidden for so many years!

[@robertmitchell8630]

When it comes to cultures Note When a lion consumes a lamb , the lamb becomes part of the lion Look at North Africa, Egypt, Iraq etc the Berbers, Christianity,Coptic Egyptian near obliterated by Islam and Arabic super imposed Same as the European Spanish conquistadors on the indigenous of the Americas 🌎

[@thatlchiponda3368]

These people look alike with Bantu people not west Africans as you claim...they must came from central Africa , majority look like Angolans,Cameroonians,Congolese to mention only few not Nigerians..

[@BronzeSista]

You are absolutely right they do look African, but why are they trying to downplay there African heritage. They look like different tribes of Africans.

[@morganic88]

nice film (-:

[@yudahel8521]

The Garifuna did not come from no damn africa and their culture and traditions is no where near dead

[@Hotters9060]

@Yudah El You are correct. The people who are claiming that the Garifuna people are African have no idea what they are talking about. They forget about the Caribs and the Arawaks who originally came from South America and migrated to St. Vincent years later. The Africans who were on slave ships escaped to the island of St. Vincent and later intermarried with the Caribs and the Arawak Indians which created the black Caribs.

[@topdogvids]

That shipwrek story is made up w By Europeans to justify attacking the garifuna ppl... the garifuna are the descendants or king monsa abubakar the brother of king monsa musa

[@josea.3763]

These comments are ignorant 🙄🙄#Garinagu #GariGang 🇭🇳

[@carlosg6164]

l feel sad for that girl, shes very intelligent, but her parents are the damnest people in the world, lost souls really, we don,t need them in the garifuna culture really, they embarrassed us as a culture

[@bambam5265]

No slave ship ever wreck the black who were there came free

[@jerryguillen3000]

👊🏾❤️👊🏾👋💪🏽❤️🙏🏽🙏

[@jroc3715]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

[@megakevin49]

dont believe the hype

[@kingaqua37]

I right here Bally on line nonsense

[@quimicar6021]

AS MEXICAN THIS IS HORRIBLE, FOLKS U DONT WANT THESE CHILDREN TO BE INFLUENCE BY THE USA BLACK YOUTH, PLEASE DONT

[@quimicar6021]

That sounds like usa government. Black americans are biggest disgrace to black race

[@quimicar6021]

Black americans is look down upon among black race. Africans dont respect u even dominicans look down on u guys

[@quimicar6021]

Im sorry but no one cares about black americans. Business lol hahaha blk americans have no business or investment this is why dominicans look down on u as retarded and stupid. Fact u allow mexicans to walk all over u and spit at u and what u do. U bow down to them?? Blk americans are weak

[@tiha6708]

+Damon Crigler Dont lower yourself to that idiots level! Ignore him.

[@LevelOlive]

He is glossing over the fact that the origin of this culture is escaped slaves who killed off all the Arawak men on St. Vincent and raped their wives.

[@rbuckins12]

that's bullshit...

[@pgbk87]

+junk Not only is that untrue, but how would that make them different from the average Latino who is a product of indigenous and African rape?

[@rbuckins12]

Perhaps u should do some more resesrch and who are u to tell those who identify as Garifunas that they atr junk

[@rbuckins12]

The only people raping were EUROPEANS...get real

[@jachtancrozomer1508]

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