People of The Caribbean - Ethnic Diversity of Independent Caribbean Countries

[@Sango-po5pi]

Trinidadian here. I see our ame has been called in absolutely everything, and thats absolutely correct. Nothing vexes me more than when i hear a trinidafian try to say they are pure anything. Like sis, no one here is pure anything. Even if you actually are, once you are born and taised in trinidad you are culturally Trinidadian and ethnicity is more than race and religion its about the larger culture. It is why we as Caribbean people must shed the narrow definitions of race and ethnicity coming out of other parts of the world and being imposed om is, and identify ourselves firmly as Caribbean, which also pits firm respect where it is due to our native ancestors whose lands were stolen from them and changed. As a trini, i proudly carry african, indian, portugese and amerindian (carib) bloodx and who knows what else. I refuse to be labelled as anything else but as Caribbean.

[@CarlosRo.]

Dominican here. Black Americans are the ones who want us to identify as African only, what about our other ancestry? They get pissed when we say "We are Dominicans, not black, white, yellow"

[@1MissMarnaj]

@@CarlosRo. your skin color would be considered as black before any other race I’m Haitian and Dominican and I’m from the states before anything else I would be considered as BLACK because I am Not African American but BLACK it’s not that hard to understand.

[@1MissMarnaj]

@@CarlosRo. stand next to a white Man and see if somebody would consider you white or black

[@TrollinOn22s]

​@yowCarlos Bajan here and a DNA test says I'm black black black so speak for your mixed self.

[@AJXO-30]

@@TrollinOn22s That's nice, however, the majority of the Caribbean are mixed people.

[@Alexis-ln2hp]

All of us are more alike then we think. Its a beautiful thing really.

[@leorowse3612]

Miss two the Syrians and Lebaneses.

[@roberto48135]

Nice video and true about Surinam, 🇸🇷 but you missed the people from Indonesia that also were brought to Surinam and are a pretty large group too..... some foreigners mistake them for Chinese people....we have indigenous people, Blacks, Indians, poeple from Indonesia, Chinese, and whites..many are still pure but also a lot are mixed with one another......some parts of Surinam are like you are in Africa, some as if you're in India, another as if its Indonesia etc but in the Capital you have all those Groups together and alot mixed to see there 🇸🇷❤️

[@kakakhodenn9128]

Maybe bc their #s are very very small,,, 🇨🇼🇩🇲🇨🇦

[@leorowse3612]

@@kakakhodenn9128 The Jewish community are very small but they get a mention.

[@vernicejillmagsino9603]

@@leorowse3612Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2021 has Jewish roots her grandfather is Holocaust survivor who move to the Caribbean like her Israeli Counterpart

[@leorowse3612]

@@vernicejillmagsino9603 🙏🏽🫶🏽

[@Westindiangyal1111]

Guyana has six ethnic groups🇬🇾

[@cleo63100]

You speak of the Jamaican lady of Chinese descent sounding ‘Jamaican’ but she is Jamaican’. No one race has more claim to being Jamaican than another. Those of African descent might be the majority but they have no more claim to being Jamaican than those of Indian, Chinese, Syrian etc. They were all brought in from somewhere else and over the centuries have all become one - all Jamaicans’!

[@kakakhodenn9128]

The Caribbean is said to be the most diverse region worldwide, love it and am proud to having birth there. I visibly exhibit multi ethnicity, fair complexion, negroid look and hair, with grey eyes. Go figure… 🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇩🇲🇩🇲🇨🇦

[@MyNatasha73]

You forgot the South American e.g. Venezuelans. They came to Trinidad to work on the coconut, coffee and cocoa plantations. They are not a new issues. I'm a Gen X Trini, with a great great grandmother who came to Trinidad to work. Had family and returned! I'm not unique in that aspect of ancestry.

[@elainebrown3546]

What about the Jewish and Germans in Jamaica.

[@curtisthomas2670]

Jews in DR

[@davidscott3726]

What about the German and Irish who came to Jamaica.

[@theultimateartist4153]

Weirdly enough the Irish in Jamaica are kinda like ghost it seems they arent even thought about in jamaicans schools. Monsterrat there influence is strong but Jamaican seems forgotten

[@tamarasalters1240]

That is true

[@1MissMarnaj]

Um what about em? They have No ancestry there they only came to make a profit and go back LMFAOO

[@marvelhenry]

They would be European, no big deal Europeans came too and they were mentioned as “Europeans”

[@Arubaanse]

The oldest synagogue in the Caribbean is in Curaçao. I noticed how little ppl know about the ABC islands

[@heatherfulmore3412]

There is a Jewish synagogue in the USVi. There is a Jewish cemetery in Nevis.

[@Arubaanse]

@@heatherfulmore3412 yeah but I said THE OLDEST

[@heatherfulmore3412]

@@Arubaanse I only wanted to mention where some more Jews are in the Caribbean.

[@kakakhodenn9128]

very few know that fact. Am tri-national, why I know. 🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇩🇲🇩🇲🇨🇦

[@fridocalifornia6276]

I was born in Bluefields, in Nicaragua's Caribbean coast (Founded by Dutch pirate Blauvelt). The majority are Africans mixed with native American, German, British, Dutch, Middle Eastern and Chinese. Main language is English (not Spanish) and most are members of the Moravian Church (bought by Germans from Moravia). My ancestry according to my DNA is: 20% South-Central European, 13% Native American, 13% Spanish, 10% North Africa,10% Ashkenazi jew, 10% Levantine, 7% Senegal, 3% Somalia, 5% Caucasus, 5% Iranian, 3% Irish.

[@heatherfulmore3412]

This is amazing.

[@NMiller80666]

What about the indentured Irish and Scottish workers sent tothe Caribbean by Cromwell? On my island of Grenada the Irish/Scottish descendants are known as Redlegs or MongMongs. We also have Lebanese and Syrians.

[@PanteA..]

Very interesting in fact . ❤

[@kenjamcintosh243]

Guess I'm here too early I'll come back for the comments 🙃

[@hyacinthgordon5295]

What about the history of the Lebanese people in Jamaica? A

[@zidane8452]

Them nuh important

[@cleo63100]

@@zidane8452Nor are you!

[@kakakhodenn9128]

Curaçao has the oldest synagogue in the Caribbean, fact. 🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇩🇲🇩🇲🇨🇦

[@joeritchie2]

One of the biggest omissions of this video is the Javanese-Indonesian population of Suriname, who make up about 14 percent of the population, with nearly 80,000 people, many if whom still have Javanese (Javaans in Dutch) as their first language. The vast majority of the Javanese Surinamese are Sunni Muslim. Their origins, much like the origins of the East Indian population of Suriname, Guyana and Trinidad, were as indentured workers brought in after the 1863 abolition of slavery; the difference between Suriname and Guyana/Trinidad being that the colonial power there was the Dutch, who also controlled Java. The video mentioned the Chinese population of Suriname, but there are far more ethnic Indonesians in Suriname than Chinese!

[@curtisthomas2670]

Also Courlanders (modern Latvia), Irish, Scots, Jews, Syrians and Lebanese, Venezuelans, Americans

[@elianperez534]

Hey buddy puerto rico have no east indian people,we have African, indigenous and European descet misleading spot 😅.

[@migspeculates]

What about Southeast Asians? Javanese in Suriname and Hmong in French Guiana. There were also Filipino descendants in Cuba!

[@youtubestreetz4201]

The narrator misspoke when he said the Chinese were brought as slaves. Some may have come as indentured labour but many fled due to war instigated by the British. The indigenous peoples and Africans are the only people who were enslaved in the Caribbean.

[@mariecarr3344]

Wrong, the Chinese were slaves too. Sad but true. 😞 Do your research.

[@Sango-po5pi]

They were brought as "free labour" to provide and initial buffer between whites and african slaves. In trinidad, this started with 200 men from southern china the majority of them left and went back under the harsh conditions. 50 years later is when chinese were brought not as "free labor" (slaves but volunteer slaves in a way) byt as indentured labour which was basically slavery by another name. But most of the chinese men took local african (at this point many had mixed with native caribs, so already carried familiar features) wives as only 300 chinese women came with the second migration wave, so lots of trinidadians who may or may not identify as mixed or african actually have chinese ancestry. When its not visible in their faces its often visible in their family names.

[@tiffineemoore2878]

​@@mariecarr3344chinese wa labour not slave onlu afro and amerindain were.slave

[@michaeltexeira6185]

You need to redo this.

[@CaribbeanFocus]

Why?

[@caribbeannekoak4188]

6 million in Cuba, but that doesn't include the mixed African and other races. So afro descendants in Cuba are about 9 million from 11 million Cubans.

[@LuisCarlos-cs3zq]

O sea, si hay una identidad cultural muy fuerte de África en Cuba, pero se nota en la población que hay muchos más blancos hispanos que negros o mulatos. Soy cubano, se lo que digo.

[@elsapenaloza6317]

South America? They came to the Antilles from from Venezuela thru Trinidad island until Cuba and Bahamas

[@brunocauz7383]

Hello guys dont forget that Venezuela is the best kept secret of the Caribbean.

[@ms.a.mayers5612]

How so?

[@aaliyahbelfon8142]

Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 💖 are here 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

[@Don2024yhgfjjkj]

Arab Caribbean

[@garychung4238]

👍

[@nydv4370]

You did not speak about the French.

[@matthewmann8969]

Yeah you have various races, sub races, sub sub races, and mixed races yeah.

[@Roseau112]

Dominica has over 3,000 plus not ,2,000

[@xzing7]

This is just a scientific project. No focus on the Lost tribes of israel who were there on slaves ships with yokes of iron around their necks.

[@Shaqkai]

Indentured servants…. No sweet heart they were slaves to

[@cleo63100]

Indenture was another name for slavery! All the ‘indentured servants’ were housed in the same cabins of the now freed slaves of African ancestry. The Indians (and Chinese) pretty much carried on from where the Africans left off!

[@ms.a.mayers5612]

@@cleo63100 Incorrect! They were paid contracted workers who would have a choice at the end of their 7 years of a PAID returned passage back home, OR a plot of land in the colony where they were. No former slave received such a grand offer. That being said, the were definitely treated like crap!

[@tiffineemoore2878]

No were no ,u ppl were never kidnap and had chain on your feet ,u willing came to the caribbean

[@tiffineemoore2878]

U were not slave ,cuz u choose to leave asian the leave mastor did noy force like the did to african they force us

[@caribbeannekoak4188]

Guyana ain't Caribbean

[@cilantrolemon3542]

True, they are South American country but their culture and traditions are like Trinidadians, I had a Guyanese friend and she says she West Indian.

[@Alexis-ln2hp]

We still have slow ppl saying this? 🙄 geographicly, no culturally yes. Just like Belize, they are part of the Caribbean because culturally, they are part of the Caribbean, but they're located in Mexico. Who doesn't know this by now?

[@teri_ccc5160]

And you ain’t smart. -Some of y’all are OBSESSED with calling GUYANA’s name….if you aren’t familiar with the history of the Anglophone Caribbean and the history of Guyana then DON’T call Guyana’s name because you sound UNEDUCATED. 🇬🇾😒 GUYANA is BOTH South American and CARIBBEAN! -The Caribbean isn’t only synonymous with location. It’s funny how people who aren’t from GUYANA love telling people about GUYANA…LEF WE ALONE NAH MAN!

[@caribbeannekoak4188]

@@cilantrolemon3542 The term West Indies was first introduced by Columbus who thought he was in The West Indian sea when he got to The Bahamas and Cuba, they are not Caribbean and not West Indian, they just part of Caricom

[@caribbeannekoak4188]

@@Alexis-ln2hp then Panama, Venezuela and Colombia are Caribbean… and Brazil. That’s it, we all Caribbean

[@one-old4travel757]

IT is ready for the REAL story ARMA-GET-ON.the final round.