Yeah, im suprised he didnt add anything about louisiana since Louisiana is basically an inland carribian place. Lots of simular traditions and languages and history.
Yup we have origines from all across the world, from the native of the carribean, Europe (France, Spain, Portugal),South America, the continent of africa, India and even from China.
For those who don't know Dominica and Dominican Republic are 2 completely different countries but in both countries the people are called Dominicans....
I think people from Dominica are called dom-in-knee-cans and the people from the Dominican republic are called dom-in-uh-cans. Very close in pronounciation
A correction. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao (the ABC-islands) speak a native language called Papiamento/Papiamentu. Dutch and English are also official languages, but are less popular on the islands. Dutch is mostly spoken by Dutch people living on the island, and is also taught in school, but isn't really spoken by native Curaçaoans on the island, outside of school.
Awww! How sweet, love from an american Barbadian🇧🇧, we are all truly one! I'm teaching my future kids that we are united, despite the slight difference in language or culture ❤
@@audielamayaestrada3083 stop it! Caribbean is a true CULTURE! Latino is a fake culture! Latino is a colonists term from a euro centric point of view. The Latins killed indigenous people and enslaved Africans and now the label Latin robs indigenous and Afro culture of its unique representation.
In Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao we actually speak our own language 'papiamentu/o'. It is a mixture of many languages, with Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch elements that are easy to identify. Dutch is only for official purposes such as education and law, not everyone speaks it fluently
8:46 Latvian actually. As you can see on the map Duchy of Courland was the southern half of modern Latvia. It was a vassal state of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the ruling elite at the time was mostly the German minority.
@@eilisoneil7217 I'm Estonian, but well, a half of modern Estonian lands were (forcefully) ruled over by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, so I'd say that I'm qualified to talk about the topic. No, Livonian definitely wasn't the main language back then. From what I have read, the elite consisted of Baltic Germans who owned the land and rented it out to the peasants (on extremely unfair conditions) and Polish (and seldom Lithuanian) people who may have been the rulers, but had no regional power. The people under the commonwealth spoke whatever language was their mother tongue (Lithuanian, Estonian, Livonian, Polish etc), however, Livonian was not a language with that many speakers even back then. Unfortunately, the beautiful language has become extinct nowadays.
Technically it was Lithuanian-Poland Commonwealth, but actually it was Latvian because of stated reasons above. As Lithuanian I can say that we do not consider this reagion to have something in common with Lithuania besides the fact that it was incorporated during Commonwealth times. (And most of Lithuanian people does not even know this fact since it was not teached in school or just breathly mentioned).
William N, from what I know here in Jamaica, Haitians are the most loved and admired. They didn't wait for emancipation and independence, they fought and won it. VIVA HAITI.
@@stevenbarrett4110 jamaican Government' always help out Haiti when there war and crisis going on no other Caribbean islands wants to help them out our take them in
In the Dutch caribbean islands Dutch and English are indeed spoken, but arent the only main languages. Papiamento is very widely spoken there. This language is a Portugese creole language that also has major influences from Spanish and Dutch.
Only on Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao is Papiamento our native language, Dutch we learn in school because of colonization, English and Spanish we learn because of tourism. But on the island everyone speak papiamento.
@Tamar Brown: He didn’t killed them. Diseases did. And before we get into the morality, it was bound to happened. The Chinese actually were sailing east and exploring new places. If they had made it to western North American, the natives would still be f*cked.
I always loved the Caribbean. My mom is Jamaican 🇯🇲, but I never knew just how special it was, until I saw this! I’ve been to Jamaica 🇯🇲, Aruba 🇦🇼, Martinique 🇲🇶, and Puerto Rico 🇵🇷! But damn I really want to go to the Bahamas 🇧🇸 now to feed the pigs 🐷 🌊!
🇩🇲🇰🇳Much love I’ve been to parts of Europe but I wanna do the Middle East. Maybe I’ll do Egypt Saudi and Kuwait or just Saudi and Kuwait for less travel😂
I'm from Trinidad and deadass like Trinidad is for business and industry while Tobago is for tourism that's how we operate except for carnival😔Trinidad got the vibes for that but at the end of July every year Tobago has a cultural festival with goat racing, old time weddings, folk tale etc. 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
We speak papiamentu, dutch, english and spanish on the island of Curaçao. Also on Aruba and Bonaire. These 4 languages are a must to learn when you live on these islands. Papiamentu is the local language of the Islands. Papiamentu is a mix of spanish, portugese, dutch, a little french and english. Some words come from other african languages. Take care and be good. Hope you visit soon :-
Puerto Rico, should it stay or should it go? (Asking seriously, I've always thought it'd be cool for it to become a US State and didn't learn until high school that there's a lot of debate on the island about what should happen).
@ShAdOwMaN no good. Ignorant. Learn more about the island and its people. Sadly, a lot of Puerto ricans no longer live there because of politics. And they must because they belong and know the island. Americans do not know how to take care of this land. Es la isla del encanto. Puro vida. I pray we fix our island and take back our land for the sake of el caribe.
@@ianruiz5610 no one cares about puerto pobre the island of hurricanes and the most dependent territory in the world because without US they are nothing
You forgot to mention that the virgin islands are the only part of the USA that drives on the left. ...... I normally don't do this, but thank you for 100 likes.
I hate it when people say PART of the US when talking about the territory’s(colonies) because in fact they are not. They belong to but not a part of the US. That’s why they are deemed unincorporated.
❤️💛💚! Very nice synopsis of the Caribbean but it is more complex because Belize 🇧🇿 , Suriname 🇸🇷 , Guyana 🇬🇾, French Guiana 🇬🇫 are all considered Caribbean but physically located in Central & South America!
all people saying Guyana, Suriname and french Guiana aren't Caribbean, yes we are. We all have historical, political, economical and cultural ties to the Caribbean, maybe not geographical, but the Caribbean isn't just based on geography
The Caribbean is great. Although my Island Puerto Rico does not participate in the Cricket team you still get people playing it on the streets every once & a while. Baseball and soccer is more popular though
As a Trinidadian Barby, I gotta say, you did us dirty. Just tacking on Nicki Minaj at the end there. Could've mention our Carnival or our Steel pan, the only instrument created in the 20th century, the fact that we invented limbo! Calypso! The very 'sound' of the Caribbean. A noble prize winning writer, V.S. Naipaul! I'm waiting on our full episode Barby! I'm waiting on that full episode! 🧐
@@thejompi I think he just tries to make that comparison more relatable and understandable for especially western audiences. He probably didn't mean any real offense there. lol. Also, being an American, Hawaii would probably be the first thing to come to mind for him when describing a scenario with overseas island territories that are considered tropical/recreational spots by the larger sovereign nations. To put things into better perspective, if he were a Chilean youtuber from Chile that covers geography topics instead, he'd probably find himself drawing comparisons of all the oversea islands with Eastern Island/Rapa Nui.
There is a fourth group of islands in the Caribbean, and I don't know why they didn't mention it: the Central American Islands. This group includes the Guna Yala and the Boca del Toro Islands in Panama, the Corn Island and Myskito Keys in Nicaragua, the Islas de la Bahía in Honduras, the Ambergis and Turneffe Keys in Belize, and the islands of Cozumel, Mujeres and Contoy in Mexico.
@@Schumanized 🇺🇸 We are working on ousting criminal Trump. His corruption is the least of his crimes. His betrayal is the worst. However, legal proceedings are delaying his removal.
Hey Barbs, great video! And I think you should consider to do "ASEAN EXPLAINED" for the next explained video. How about dat? Greet here from Indonesia:)
I know Belize is Caribbean but the poster and island people will say "oh no it's not Caribbean" blah blah blah. what they don't realize that this is called the West Indies not the Caribbean. The Caribbean also includes mainland countries as well. The West Indies are the islands in the Caribbean Sea AND Atlantic Ocean. The Caribbean are islands AND mainland countries that are in and/or face the Atlantic Ocean (eg. Belize, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana).
Trinidad is an independent nation and a republic. I hope you do more research than this when you actually start the series. Also, 'So-ka' not 'soccer.' It's music, not the sport.
Im Puertorican and I still havent been to the beach this year. Its actually funny how a lot of people dont go to the beach in winter cause its "too cold" and instead go to the mountains for the whole "winter experience", though its really like 70 to 60 degrees there.
You missed the caribbean islands of Nicaragua (Corn Islands), Honduras (Bay Islands) and Belize (like San Pedro, famous because of Madonna's song La Isla Bonita.) It is also important not forgetting that the caribbean coast of Centralamerica shares culture and language roots with other caribbean nations such as Jamaica since english creole or patois is the main language spoken in Costa Rica's, Panama's and Nicaragua's caribbean coast; and Garifuna (an african-native caribbean language) in caribbean Honduras.
he knows dude, he mentioned T&T in the sovereign countries part of the video. If you based this opinion on the list he showed at the first part of the video, then he was just lazy to crop it out
Cricket is the only sport that connects majority of Caribbean islands, they go under the name West Indies in international stage. I love how close they keep their ties and roots.
11:25 small correction, we dont entirely speak Dutch, we have Dutch school and education (everything from it is entirely in Dutch), but we primarily speak papiamento, it's more like a secondary language also with English and Spanish (some even Portuguese)
Emmanuel Maldonado oh my god do I really have to say this but We share the same food like oh my god stop saying one thing is your when we both make the same thing
Guys.... You Are NOT Islands! Get over it. And why do you call yourselves West Indians and the Greater Antilles are not West Indies? Hello. Christopher Columbus named indios the inhabitants here. Anyway. You're not islands.
11:24 All three speak Dutch, but actually, Papiamentu is the native creole language. We speak Dutch because basically we're forced to learn it in school.
@@marciabryce8451 Christopher Columbus set out to find a faster sea route to India in the late 15th century. He landed in the Caribbean islands instead of his destination in Asia, but he thought that he had reached India and therefore called the place Indies
The Caribbean is confusing because some people falsely label it as the West Indies. When Columbus set sail to the Indies (Modern Day Philippines) he got lost and ended up in the Caribbean. He then called the Caribbean the Indies. Decades after….captains realized that there were 2 Indies and were forced to rename the Caribbean the West Indies and the Philippines the East Indies to stop captains from getting lost.
So too St Kitts & Nevis, St Vincent & the Grenadines, and Turks and Caicos Islands. With regard to the geographic areas the is also the Netherland Antilles (Aruba, et. al.)
Yes, make a separate video for Puerto Rico. We were first conquered by Spain and many countries battled for the country but ultimately USA won. It's very complicated.
@Rob Luv they didn’t say they were the first to be conquered by spain. They said they were first conquered by spain. Meaning spain was the first external power to control the island. Which may or may not be true since we don’t know much about how the tainos governed.
Spain had it. Haiti offered to help liberate and its independence, they sided with Spain. Spain sent polish, Italian peasants etc to quench the independence fever. USA beat Spain and took control. Not complicated at all.
@@freyn11and then usa is being hispanized by that. We're pushing anglos to The hell. BLACKS, asians, help us. We promised you a better future for "nom-anglo" USstatians.
That´s absolutely right! The capital of Courland was Mitau. It was an independent duchy until Russia occupied it in the 18th century - and in opposite to Lithuania never a part of the Kingdom of Poland.
@@16blank45 Navassa Island belongs to Haiti way before 1857,which is the date that US claimed any islands in the world belongs to them from Oceania,to the Caribbean,and to the gulf of Mexico,most of them ain't even close to the USA,they just put their stamps on anywhere they can profit... Navassa Islands belong to France from the 1697 Treaty Of Ryswick,when we beat them and take our lands and freedom, it became ours
Make a video about Puerto Rico if you havent yet! Very complicated island in politics. There is a lot to say and i hope you do thorough research. Fantastic youtube channel. Keep doing great work!
Nah, French Polynesia is semi-autonomous. Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean, and Mayotte and Reunion in the Indian Ocean, really are better analogues, since they are departments in the same standing as the other departments of mainland France, the way Hawai‘i is a state in equal standing with the other 49 states. French Polynesia is more like... the French American Samoa. Ish.
It happened and failed. Didn’t have the entire Caribbean collective, it lacked the Latin Nations. I’d say it’s tough to do one without the Latin Caribbean taking part and one big problem is that those nations tend to have identity crisis or vehemently fight them (DR and PR especially. Cuba is a hot mess. Haiti is complicated and mostly seems nullified into no action). Without these it genuinely makes no sense.
Puerto Rico os a territory of the US but we are so rich in history and culture that you have to do a episode of it... Did you know that if PR becomes a State Old San Juan will become the oldest city of the US...
I think I speak for most Puerto Ricans when I say please make a video explaining the complicated history and relationship that PR has with the USA. I would be great to hear your opinion on the complicated political status and many historic happenings of the island.
@@sarshanewton2647 I done know what part you visited. We are the headquarters of the Caribbean community (CARICOM) and I don't know any guyanese person who doesn't call themselves Caribbean/West Indian.
Hehe St. Kitts needs to chill. You requested it so...Hope you enjoy this one!
:)
Geography Now hello
Hi! I was the first to see
hi
Yes of course we enjoy
Jamaica. The only Olympic Bobsled team from a country that has no snow. Cool.
I thought Nigeria too
@@jcm_r He was referencing the movie "Cool Runnings"
Jaycinta M.
Yeah and Brazil- Quite a few warm countries with Bobsledding now but Jamaica were the warm weather pioneers in the sport
Duly noted!
Puerto Rico also had a bobsled team
The Caribbean. So small yet so diverse. It's like a world within the world
Yeah, im suprised he didnt add anything about louisiana since Louisiana is basically an inland carribian place. Lots of simular traditions and languages and history.
Sadly its diverse by colonization of European nations
@@mellochello77 oh shut up!!
And that world within the world has worlds within the world within the world
Yup we have origines from all across the world, from the native of the carribean, Europe (France, Spain, Portugal),South America, the continent of africa, India and even from China.
For those who don't know Dominica and Dominican Republic are 2 completely different countries but in both countries the people are called Dominicans....
@@Kronflax people from Dominica call themselves Dominicans...
@@Kronflax were did you get that information about Dominica? i need to update my knowledge
@@Kronflax wiki is wik-id
I think people from Dominica are called dom-in-knee-cans and the people from the Dominican republic are called dom-in-uh-cans. Very close in pronounciation
Judy Cohall I was about to comment with this. Spelt the same but pronounced differently if you’re using English throughout.
A correction. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao (the ABC-islands) speak a native language called Papiamento/Papiamentu. Dutch and English are also official languages, but are less popular on the islands. Dutch is mostly spoken by Dutch people living on the island, and is also taught in school, but isn't really spoken by native Curaçaoans on the island, outside of school.
Do you have any proof that their primary language
I'm from Curacao, yeah we rather speak way more papiamentu than Dutch cause it's just seen as the national language by almsot everyone.@@zachv
@@zachv also from aruba and yeah, it's the main language here
@@zachvidk he's probably from there (I'm also from there if you're asking)
Divided by ocean, United by culture. Proud to be a Caribbean from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
@knowledge power jajaja estos charritos se meten hasta en la comida del gato. Si. Si Rusia también fué parte de Mejico. Jajaja!!
Awww! How sweet, love from an american Barbadian🇧🇧, we are all truly one! I'm teaching my future kids that we are united, despite the slight difference in language or culture ❤
MilkTrafficker the end bit was correct
However it's divided by language
Latinossss
It's nice to see a fellow latino
@@audielamayaestrada3083 stop it! Caribbean is a true CULTURE! Latino is a fake culture! Latino is a colonists term from a euro centric point of view. The Latins killed indigenous people and enslaved Africans and now the label Latin robs indigenous and Afro culture of its unique representation.
Might wanna consult a Caribbean person on some of the pronounciation
Hell yeah, his pronunciations are way off!
I was going to ask who he talked to about pronounced words but he killed some of them but got most others correct great job
we are referred to as West Indian not Caribbean people.... but yeah he should've
Gaelle Kercy actually no, Greater & Lesser Antilles are “West Indian”. That includes Cuba, Haiti, Dominicans, etc.
U mean socca? Lol.
In Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao we actually speak our own language 'papiamentu/o'. It is a mixture of many languages, with Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch elements that are easy to identify. Dutch is only for official purposes such as education and law, not everyone speaks it fluently
Hello beautiful, love you from Martinique; I wish to visit your island one day
You got it baby 🇨🇼
My Best Friends are from Curacao
do you guys speak spanish?
@@JJAY66 no, english, dutch and papiaments
Love to all my Caribbeans 🇩🇴 we family
We are called west indians.
🇩🇴
@@Ariel-to2ev Same
Im North America so we are friends with the caribean
Love from Belize 🇧🇿
How did you get thru this whole video about Caribbean without mentioning a word about cricket?? That sport is very much in the Caribbean culture.
He didn't talk about culture and traditions, just geography.
satyakrishna reread the title
@@cortion730 I know what the title says. He did cover a lot of areas related to Caribbean culture and the video is not solely focused on geography.
True true
Facts! Cricket is huge in the Caribbean
Shout out to my Cubans and Dominicans 🇩🇴🇨🇺
Its pronounce soak-a not socca, Much love from Trinidad 🇹🇹
I Cringed once he said "Socca"😣😣
SOCA
Lindsay Burgess listennnn I almost had an anxiety attack. I hate when people pronounce Caribbean things wrong ... lord 😩
Lol that lit me up... Ahahahah
Lindsay Burgess thank you lol 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
The Caribbean is the most amazing region of the world.
8:46 Latvian actually. As you can see on the map Duchy of Courland was the southern half of modern Latvia. It was a vassal state of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the ruling elite at the time was mostly the German minority.
Wasn't Livionian spoken by the majority?
@@eilisoneil7217 No
Widzę że nie tylko ja z Polski xD
@@eilisoneil7217 I'm Estonian, but well, a half of modern Estonian lands were (forcefully) ruled over by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, so I'd say that I'm qualified to talk about the topic. No, Livonian definitely wasn't the main language back then. From what I have read, the elite consisted of Baltic Germans who owned the land and rented it out to the peasants (on extremely unfair conditions) and Polish (and seldom Lithuanian) people who may have been the rulers, but had no regional power. The people under the commonwealth spoke whatever language was their mother tongue (Lithuanian, Estonian, Livonian, Polish etc), however, Livonian was not a language with that many speakers even back then. Unfortunately, the beautiful language has become extinct nowadays.
Technically it was Lithuanian-Poland Commonwealth, but actually it was Latvian because of stated reasons above. As Lithuanian I can say that we do not consider this reagion to have something in common with Lithuania besides the fact that it was incorporated during Commonwealth times. (And most of Lithuanian people does not even know this fact since it was not teached in school or just breathly mentioned).
🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 “Out of many, One people”... it may be our national motto but it connects for the entire West Indian culture. We stick together
Hey ....I am a proud jamaican
That's similar to usa writing on the 25 cent piece
William N, from what I know here in Jamaica, Haitians are the most loved and admired. They didn't wait for emancipation and independence, they fought and won it. VIVA HAITI.
Jamaica all the way
@@stevenbarrett4110 jamaican Government' always help out Haiti when there war and crisis going on no other Caribbean islands wants to help them out our take them in
Barb:go to Africa.
Also barby:upload video explain of Caribbean
This was prerecorded some days ago, before the African trip.
Nandi Collector
Dude, we know just don’t ruin the comment
@@hamzahaytham3940 I'm ruining the idea that Barbs is Superman.
🇧🇧 Rihanna
🇹🇹 Nicki Minaj
🇯🇲 Spice
🇯🇲 Usain Bolt…
🇯🇲 Bob Marley…
@Katie K Then don't
@Katie K lol
@Katie K speak for your self
Soca is pronounced "sew-kah". Also the steelpan was invented in Trinidad and Tobago and is the only instrument invented in the 20th century! 🇹🇹
More like so cah
Xavier Joseph isnt it
Soh kah?
From jamaica
@@IamINERT NO it was invented in Trinidad & Tobago we were the people who also invented Carnival
@@jameelabdullah2472 I know.i was referring that i am Jamaican.
@@Denners868 we didn't make reggae....
In the Dutch caribbean islands Dutch and English are indeed spoken, but arent the only main languages. Papiamento is very widely spoken there. This language is a Portugese creole language that also has major influences from Spanish and Dutch.
Only on Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao is Papiamento our native language, Dutch we learn in school because of colonization, English and Spanish we learn because of tourism. But on the island everyone speak papiamento.
In Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire 🇦🇼🇨🇼🇧🇶 we speak Papiamento tho. A mixture between Spanish and Portuguese
JJ Uzumaki ocho bando has the best breakfast
SuperModel Atlanta who’s ocho bandi
@Blacka Đøn What do you mean?
And it sounds so cool. I was there and just listened to the locals and it was like music.
This guy didn't do that good of a job with this one at all.
As a Jamaican & Carib-being I applaud and thank you for your overview!
You forget to mentioned that Trinidad and Tobago is the land of steelpan ,which is our national instrument.
Yesss it is
Oliver would be to differ.
You can’t expect a white man to teach you about your culture! Boycott him bloodclart n do your own version better version ✊🏿
We created it bro lehwe go
Yep
Looking forward for the Puerto Rico filler episode. If you need help with the research let me know.
Same
It'd be awesome if he made one 💯
this would be awesome
YESSSSSS Please do a Puerto Rico episode!
Same
Grenada people: bath in oil to express freedom
USA: wait thats illegal
The same thing happens in some parts of Cameroon
@@CarlosAsunder yeah but you can't see it on the cameroons
Yea I explained the whole Jab Jab Oil thing under the Grenada episode
bathe
USA: Hippity Hoppity, you're now my property
As someone who is from the Caribbean(Jamaican and Cuban) it’s nice to see people enjoying our culture😌
5:55
Barbs:"People cover themselves in oil to express freedom"
USA:"HMMMMMMMMM"
Been there, done that, went back home.
Pffft, I am in the USA and I already cover myself in oil... every time I have to work on my car, haha.
Christopher Columbus did not discover Bahamas 😂 he came and found natives in all of the Caribbean
Until he killed them
Exactly. That mongrel discovered NOWHERE.
Fyah Bun dat tiefin' scoundrel Cristobal Colon.
@Tamar Brown: He didn’t killed them. Diseases did. And before we get into the morality, it was bound to happened. The Chinese actually were sailing east and exploring new places. If they had made it to western North American, the natives would still be f*cked.
Christopher genocidous?
*Spain's autonomous communities has to be the next filler week* it's so complex, I'm extremely fascinated.
indeed.
Agreed!
Yep!
YAY me too
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I always loved the Caribbean. My mom is Jamaican 🇯🇲, but I never knew just how special it was, until I saw this! I’ve been to Jamaica 🇯🇲, Aruba 🇦🇼, Martinique 🇲🇶, and Puerto Rico 🇵🇷! But damn I really want to go to the Bahamas 🇧🇸 now to feed the pigs 🐷 🌊!
Nice to see you visited my island love from aruba🇦🇼❤️
I am from Kuwait 🇰🇼 and I wish someday I get the chance to visit all the territories of the Caribbean. Love you guys ❤️
Buju Banton wow that’s disrespectful that you think of women that way...
Katie K mucho gracias ❤️
Respect to Kuwait from Jamaica 🇯🇲🤝🏾🇰🇼
🇩🇲🇰🇳Much love I’ve been to parts of Europe but I wanna do the Middle East. Maybe I’ll do Egypt Saudi and Kuwait or just Saudi and Kuwait for less travel😂
@@noone-bx6hfHello I love Jamaica🇯🇲❤ greetings from South America continent🌎🇦🇷⚽🥰
I'm from Trinidad and deadass like Trinidad is for business and industry while Tobago is for tourism
that's how we operate
except for carnival😔Trinidad got the vibes for that but at the end of July every year Tobago has a cultural festival with goat racing, old time weddings, folk tale etc.
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monothae 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
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Sounds like Grenada and Carriacou. Grenada has lost lots of their tradition but it's very rich in Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
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Much love to all my Caribbeans, I love us! We have our problems but we're a beautiful and diverse people.
We all have extreme issues 😂 but because of that, we are beautiful people.
Amen
We speak papiamentu, dutch, english and spanish on the island of Curaçao. Also on Aruba and Bonaire. These 4 languages are a must to learn when you live on these islands. Papiamentu is the local language of the Islands. Papiamentu is a mix of spanish, portugese, dutch, a little french and english. Some words come from other african languages. Take care and be good. Hope you visit soon :-
I can talk to natives in Spanish?
@@danx4813majority speak it
If you need help on a filler week about Puerto Rico I can help. Have family members that are Puertorican history professors.
Puerto Rico, should it stay or should it go? (Asking seriously, I've always thought it'd be cool for it to become a US State and didn't learn until high school that there's a lot of debate on the island about what should happen).
I can help too. I am a history teacher in PR.
@@emridatla3886 leeeet's.. don't start this debate. I have mental conflicts in this subject.
@ShAdOwMaN no good. Ignorant. Learn more about the island and its people. Sadly, a lot of Puerto ricans no longer live there because of politics. And they must because they belong and know the island. Americans do not know how to take care of this land. Es la isla del encanto. Puro vida. I pray we fix our island and take back our land for the sake of el caribe.
@@ianruiz5610 no one cares about puerto pobre the island of hurricanes and the most dependent territory in the world because without US they are nothing
You forgot to mention that the virgin islands are the only part of the USA that drives on the left.
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I normally don't do this, but thank you for 100 likes.
Pfft. You should see me when I'm drunk
Yup we kept that from the danish as well as the street names
I hate it when people say PART of the US when talking about the territory’s(colonies) because in fact they are not. They belong to but not a part of the US. That’s why they are deemed unincorporated.
and that Tim Duncan is from the Virgin Islands (st. croix)
@@jesusjesus534 tocayo, which part of the USA is not a colony? They bought or stole the whole USA! Lol
As a Caribbean girl, I loved this video🇯🇲! Buttttt soca is pronounced (So-Kah) and Bajan is pronounced (Bay-Zhin)
More like (Bay-John)
Baje-jin
ok but how bout beige-zhin
Bay jun
It’s pronounced “hot chicks”
❤️💛💚! Very nice synopsis of the Caribbean but it is more complex because Belize 🇧🇿 , Suriname 🇸🇷 , Guyana 🇬🇾, French Guiana 🇬🇫 are all considered Caribbean but physically located in Central & South America!
Belize is Caribbean. The rest is not
Only Belize is caribbean. The rest are wannabes
Agreed. Caribbean identity is a cultural and historic thing.
all people saying Guyana, Suriname and french Guiana aren't Caribbean, yes we are. We all have historical, political, economical and cultural ties to the Caribbean, maybe not geographical, but the Caribbean isn't just based on geography
Exactly that is the reason why Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana are part of the Caribbean. These countries have Presidents in the Caricom. @
Hope you do an ASEAN filler week episode Barbs! 😊
Agree!!
Me AndMeToo oof im triggered
@@meandmetoo8436 are pacific islands still considered as Asia ?
Fantastic idea!
Lamont Joseph Yesss
Best thing I like about Caribbean that most of them play cricket under one flag. West Indies
Best thing about our part is: they don't play cricket.
The Caribbean is great. Although my Island Puerto Rico does not participate in the Cricket team you still get people playing it on the streets every once & a while. Baseball and soccer is more popular though
What's cricket? Like the insect?
Cricket? Here in the Dominican Republic we just play baseball and basketball and girls play volleyball
Yes I love that too!
As a Trinidadian Barby, I gotta say, you did us dirty. Just tacking on Nicki Minaj at the end there.
Could've mention our Carnival or our Steel pan, the only instrument created in the 20th century, the fact that we invented limbo! Calypso! The very 'sound' of the Caribbean. A noble prize winning writer, V.S. Naipaul!
I'm waiting on our full episode Barby! I'm waiting on that full episode! 🧐
Adrian Ferrette 👏🏽👏🏽 well said
this guy deserves a medal
That and how he pronounced Bajan made my ears bleed, also the constant "like Hawaii " nonsense.
Ent
@@thejompi I think he just tries to make that comparison more relatable and understandable for especially western audiences. He probably didn't mean any real offense there. lol. Also, being an American, Hawaii would probably be the first thing to come to mind for him when describing a scenario with overseas island territories that are considered tropical/recreational spots by the larger sovereign nations.
To put things into better perspective, if he were a Chilean youtuber from Chile that covers geography topics instead, he'd probably find himself drawing comparisons of all the oversea islands with Eastern Island/Rapa Nui.
Fun Fact: Caribbean countrues are the only countries who put any thought into making their flags
I’m French and I’m sad to see how few people know about Guadeloupe and Martinique
The lands of Zouk music😊
Ok next time France. Eed to grab all of the carribean so guadeloupéen and martinique will be more known
Le zouk c la base !
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Give them independence. It's really difficult to watch these Little island when they're part of france's centralism
Please make a video on Puerto Rico at some point.
frankcastle498 I live their :D
Si por favor
It's done in alphabetical order
@@KuyaBJLaurenteAfter countries are over, he'll do dependencies and territories in alphabetical order
Caribbean and Florida: *do nothing*
Hurricane: *I'm about to end these countries and states' whole career*
Trinidad and Tobago: *laughs in tropical storm*
Florida: *laughs in hurricane party*
Why do we have hurricane parties? IDK
Cuba:I have bigger problems...
Aruba: *laughs in desert with no hurricanes*
St Maarten: OW ####
There is a fourth group of islands in the Caribbean, and I don't know why they didn't mention it: the Central American Islands. This group includes the Guna Yala and the Boca del Toro Islands in Panama, the Corn Island and Myskito Keys in Nicaragua, the Islas de la Bahía in Honduras, the Ambergis and Turneffe Keys in Belize, and the islands of Cozumel, Mujeres and Contoy in Mexico.
We just kicked out our corrupt governor last wednesday💪🏽🇵🇷
You guys are badass!!
Thanks man!! Means a lot!!
🇨🇺 congrats, were still waiting on ours to die 😂🤣
Pablo Isnt Here saaaaaaaaaaammmee
@@Schumanized 🇺🇸 We are working on ousting criminal Trump. His corruption is the least of his crimes.
His betrayal is the worst.
However, legal proceedings are delaying his removal.
Hey Barbs, great video! And I think you should consider to do "ASEAN EXPLAINED" for the next explained video. How about dat?
Greet here from Indonesia:)
As a Caribbean myself, good job. Thank you for making this video. 🇩🇴
You forgot about Belize, on the western edge of the Carib sea. We have the second largest barrier reef in the world and the cays.
I know Belize is Caribbean but the poster and island people will say "oh no it's not Caribbean" blah blah blah. what they don't realize that this is called the West Indies not the Caribbean. The Caribbean also includes mainland countries as well. The West Indies are the islands in the Caribbean Sea AND Atlantic Ocean. The Caribbean are islands AND mainland countries that are in and/or face the Atlantic Ocean (eg. Belize, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana).
Trinidad is an independent nation and a republic. I hope you do more research than this when you actually start the series. Also, 'So-ka' not 'soccer.' It's music, not the sport.
This video has many, MANY mistakes and things left out. Not enough research for this video. Its disappointing.
The New Paulo Coelho hello 👋🏻 I’m ok 🙂
Lots of the nations and territories are mixed up
He did introduce it by stating he is going to introduce the SOVEREIGN states ie INDEPENDENT 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
soca love lol, its soca
As a citizen of the Bahamas we no longer acknowledge Christopher Columbus. Thank you
Peasndough what?
The only Christopher they acknowledge, is Wallace.
@Peasndough. Fyah Bun dat tiefin' scoundrel Cristobal Colon.
@@SoundScientist1 😂
@@SoundScientist1 him nuh teef bai
Indians and africans living together peacefully is what i love about this region.
indians?
@@Capshortsbeamng yeah. Indo-Caribbeans
@@Skeletorr24 no? there is no indians in the caribbean
@@Capshortsbeamng hahahaha ok 😂😂 Search Ram Naresh Sarwan,Shiv Naraine Chanderpaul.
@@Skeletorr24 but you are saying it like there is a big part of the population being indians.
Love to all my Caribbean brother and sister 🇧🇸
all day
love from Barbados
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Love from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
One family one blood my Tieno bredda 🇯🇲🗣!!!
Im Puertorican and I still havent been to the beach this year. Its actually funny how a lot of people dont go to the beach in winter cause its "too cold" and instead go to the mountains for the whole "winter experience", though its really like 70 to 60 degrees there.
So proud to be Jamaican 🙏🏾
Happy Independence Day!
Jamaica known for Ussain Bolt and Chris Gayle...love from India🇮🇳
Yea big up
@@Ujjwaldev6444 Jamacai has the fastest runners in the world.
You missed the caribbean islands of Nicaragua (Corn Islands), Honduras (Bay Islands) and Belize (like San Pedro, famous because of Madonna's song La Isla Bonita.) It is also important not forgetting that the caribbean coast of Centralamerica shares culture and language roots with other caribbean nations such as Jamaica since english creole or patois is the main language spoken in Costa Rica's, Panama's and Nicaragua's caribbean coast; and Garifuna (an african-native caribbean language) in caribbean Honduras.
He meant the ACTUAL islands not the mainland territories.
I get your mistake though
Awesome video. I think Caribbean is such an interesting place. Lots of cultures mixed.
Bro Trinidad and Tobago is a sovereign republic state.
Dwayne Francis we also HAVE THE HIGHEST GPD!!!! Coming in 3rd in the America’s. This guy need to learn how to research then do some
Yesss
Who cares!
Malachi _ Footballboss you do in commenting
he knows dude, he mentioned T&T in the sovereign countries part of the video. If you based this opinion on the list he showed at the first part of the video, then he was just lazy to crop it out
Loved the video but if you are really considering doing a separate video of Puerto Rico that would be fantastic, I love how you explain stuff
They are not a country, maybe when they cover up all the countries they will talk about such islands individually...
@@ChristianDoretti It wouldn't be a separate video as if PR was a separate country, it simply be as a filler week in the future
Despite the mere (but complex) technicality of its colonial status, Puerto Rico IS a country and deserves its own full country video.
@@videolanderen get over yourself!
I love visiting the Caribbean... Especially Jamaica, soooo lovely and filled with vibes and fun.. The people is so chill. Love it.
Cricket is the only sport that connects majority of Caribbean islands, they go under the name West Indies in international stage. I love how close they keep their ties and roots.
You rolling your "r's" is amazing! And yes, please do a whole Puerto Rico episode🙏.
Wepaaaa!!!🇵🇷🤗
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51 state end of the episode
You should totally do a special video about Puerto Rico!!!
He's going to do one soon, he just finished Pakistan
Of course... Boricua!!
Yo soy Boricua! Pa q tu losepa!!!
Well... Puerto Rico is not a country, it’s a colony
The most overrated territory in the world
11:25 small correction, we dont entirely speak Dutch, we have Dutch school and education (everything from it is entirely in Dutch), but we primarily speak papiamento, it's more like a secondary language also with English and Spanish (some even Portuguese)
He's not wrong about Haitian food it's really good
The absolute BEST :D
One more reason they hate us lol
@@riahnonya6534 For your food you can't be serious
Guyanese have the best food.
@@riahnonya6534 it's ok but its not the best..so get careied away ..
Mofongo is Puertorican, what you were thinking of was mangu . 2 different things...
Emmanuel Maldanado you are fine😍
@UrDesignatedShooter we only claim mofongo to make prs mad
My bf is PR and introduced mofongo to me 👍🏾
Ikr?
Emmanuel Maldonado oh my god do I really have to say this but We share the same food like oh my god stop saying one thing is your when we both make the same thing
Guyana and Belize is also part of the Caribbean
Guys.... You Are NOT Islands! Get over it. And why do you call yourselves West Indians and the Greater Antilles are not West Indies? Hello. Christopher Columbus named indios the inhabitants here. Anyway. You're not islands.
@@christianardon8155 Yes I'm born and raised in Puerto Rico. That's pretty much middle of the Caribbean.
Christian Ardon Wtf Belize and Guyana are not Caribbean countries. They’re not even islands.
@@geopixels6886 they are called mainland Caribbean countries for some reason. and they are apart of caricom (Caribbean community)
guyana isn't
11:24 All three speak Dutch, but actually, Papiamentu is the native creole language. We speak Dutch because basically we're forced to learn it in school.
You should defo make a whole episode about Puerto Rico
And i'm hoping that you'll cover regions of Spain in the next filler week episode
He should Canary Islands, for example. 🇮🇨🇵🇷
We're all called *west Indians* not Caribbeans we're just from the Caribbean I thank u 🇯🇲
Caribbean! Most negros here we not Indians.
@@marciabryce8451 Christopher Columbus set out to find a faster sea route to India in the late 15th century. He landed in the Caribbean islands instead of his destination in Asia, but he thought that he had reached India and therefore called the place Indies
@@marciabryce8451 so yes I'm black but I'm west Indian I don't know about u
I really hate that term... its not even a real word
Jamaica a shythole island
So proud to be from St-Martin, small yet unique island 🇸🇽
My cousin’s wife if from St Martin and I went there for their wedding. It’s a beautiful island
I visited back in 2017, it was amazing!
The Caribbean is confusing because some people falsely label it as the West Indies.
When Columbus set sail to the Indies (Modern Day Philippines) he got lost and ended up in the Caribbean. He then called the Caribbean the Indies.
Decades after….captains realized that there were 2 Indies and were forced to rename the Caribbean the West Indies and the Philippines the East Indies to stop captains from getting lost.
0:36 saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago are nations...
So too St Kitts & Nevis, St Vincent & the Grenadines, and Turks and Caicos Islands. With regard to the geographic areas the is also the Netherland Antilles (Aruba, et. al.)
Me: *scrolling through my recommends sees CARIBBEAN on thumbnail*
Also me: Oh hey I’m from there 😃
Me too
Trinidad and Tobago?
Puerto Rico??
Jonelle ‘s haha same
Yes, make a separate video for Puerto Rico. We were first conquered by Spain and many countries battled for the country but ultimately USA won. It's very complicated.
@Rob Luv they didn’t say they were the first to be conquered by spain. They said they were first conquered by spain. Meaning spain was the first external power to control the island. Which may or may not be true since we don’t know much about how the tainos governed.
Spain had it. Haiti offered to help liberate and its independence, they sided with Spain. Spain sent polish, Italian peasants etc to quench the independence fever. USA beat Spain and took control. Not complicated at all.
... look at my pfp
@@freyn11and then usa is being hispanized by that. We're pushing anglos to The hell. BLACKS, asians, help us. We promised you a better future for "nom-anglo" USstatians.
Greetings from Curaçao🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼, dude keep up the glorious work👍👍👍👍😎
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You got it wrong - "Courland" was Latvia not Lithuania.
That´s absolutely right! The capital of Courland was Mitau. It was an independent duchy until Russia occupied it in the 18th century - and in opposite to Lithuania never a part of the Kingdom of Poland.
Courland is Latvian. However at that time it was a vassal state to Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Was Latvia? So where is Courland now ?
이현진 still in Latvia...
John Boudreaux BOI you're wrong
Any Jamaican in the yard!?😏🍻
WILL -I-AMZ I’m Ugandan but yo my jamaican
Blacka Đøn Ugandan light skinned here bro wag 1
Yep!
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I'm here😎😎😎
🇧🇧 I appreciate your effort. More research is needed, as my sisters and brothers highlighted, but we do acknowledge the attempt.
Why
Huh
Thank you. The research is lacking and somewhat ethnocentric. ⚽ Football and cricket dominate the West Indian islands of the Caribbean.
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Lol, the way you wrote you sound like a diplomat or something.
Haitian food is elite 🔥🔥🔥
Huh. Tell
Puerto Rico definetly deserves its own episode!
Why??
Huh
You forgot to mention the Jerked food in Jamaica. Other than that, amazing vid. [Edit] I didn't expect this many likes on my comment!
InfiniteJOfTheJs no one puts “ed” on the end of “jerk”
Dylan A.J.R. On gawddd
They jerk off the food..?
@@dylana.j.r.903 Thanks for reminding me.
Nope he just didn't find it as good as hatian food to mention it.
The ABC islands also have their own creole language, Papiamento.
Precies!!
Exactly!
Danki amigo
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
@Boi for real? That's pretty cool, do you think a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker who doesn't know Dutch can understand it well?
if only all youtubers promoted their ads like this... honest, straightforward, no bs.
Navassa belong to Haiti 🇭🇹
Kevens Henri sureee 🇭🇹❤️
Navassa is claimed by Haiti, Jamaica and the USA...but he only mentions the USA!!
@@16blank45 Navassa Island belongs to Haiti way before 1857,which is the date that US claimed any islands in the world belongs to them from Oceania,to the Caribbean,and to the gulf of Mexico,most of them ain't even close to the USA,they just put their stamps on anywhere they can profit... Navassa Islands belong to France from the 1697 Treaty Of Ryswick,when we beat them and take our lands and freedom, it became ours
Trinidadian-Haitian here
Plz make a video about Puerto Rico!!
Akagi 144 Puerto Rico Belongs to America
It's not a country
Please make a video!!
thats gonna be a filler week since its not a country :/
Sí aja somos Estados Unidos.
“Car-nee-vol” and “socka”
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DeAnn Connor-Cenac 😏😂
Guyana is in the Caribbean as well, not geographically but culturally
Only y’all say that
I think everyone in the Caribbean knows that especially because the CXC headquarters are located there
Make a video about Puerto Rico if you havent yet! Very complicated island in politics. There is a lot to say and i hope you do thorough research. Fantastic youtube channel. Keep doing great work!
Yes!‼️👍🏻 I would love ❤️ a video about Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Spoken Truth dude the honest truth is he probably can’t because your not really a country because of America
I'd argue that French Polynesia is more like the Hawaii of France.
Marc Exner I agree!
Yeah, as a child I'd keep confunsing Tahiti and Hawaii
Corsica
@@michaeltricoli5008 Corsica is more the Mallorca of France - or maybe the Catalunya... :-)
Nah, French Polynesia is semi-autonomous. Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean, and Mayotte and Reunion in the Indian Ocean, really are better analogues, since they are departments in the same standing as the other departments of mainland France, the way Hawai‘i is a state in equal standing with the other 49 states. French Polynesia is more like... the French American Samoa. Ish.
Pronounce it with me now Soooo-cah “Soca” not Socca
Shakesha Williams For real, but at least he said Tobago right.
You're beautiful
Samuel Gilbert thank you!
Shakesha Williams that pained me when he said it that way 😩😩
Thanks kus i was like... well what he trying to say there
Imagine forming a Caribbean Federation 😍
It was kind of almost a thing but that fell apart quickly.
Would be one of the most powerful and influential coalitions on the planet.
Happened=failed
there is association des etats de la caraibe
It happened and failed. Didn’t have the entire Caribbean collective, it lacked the Latin Nations. I’d say it’s tough to do one without the Latin Caribbean taking part and one big problem is that those nations tend to have identity crisis or vehemently fight them (DR and PR especially. Cuba is a hot mess. Haiti is complicated and mostly seems nullified into no action). Without these it genuinely makes no sense.
Puerto Rico os a territory of the US but we are so rich in history and culture that you have to do a episode of it... Did you know that if PR becomes a State Old San Juan will become the oldest city of the US...
Well... Puerto Rico is not a country, it’s a colony
That's cool about San Juan.
I think I speak for most Puerto Ricans when I say please make a video explaining the complicated history and relationship that PR has with the USA. I would be great to hear your opinion on the complicated political status and many historic happenings of the island.
Puerto Rico should be Independent country
Just to inform: So for Barbados, cou cou and Flying fish is the national dish. But Flying fish is not the same as Salt Fish.
Barbados is also the only Caribbean island not located in the Caribbean Sea but actually Atlantic ocean🇧🇧🔥🇧🇧🔥🇧🇧
@@aceheru7855 Did you not watch the video?
Salt fish is dried and salted. It’s fried up with tomatoes and onions along with other seasoning and serviced with dumplings or provision.
@@aceheru7855 so i guess we'll have to move it.
the fact that squeezing all that massive amount of information about the Caribbean in less than 15 min video is something impressive
Dollar Shave Club is pretty discriminating to people like us, without body, just soul
bruh i'm the opposite 😳😳😳
Don’t lie we lost our soul in 2012
@@based6819 End of the world (supposedly)
Yess!! A whole filler week video on Puerto Rico, please!!
When he said "sexiest", I understood him to be a divine soul, a good man.
Yep, I'm half Jamaican, I understand his sentiments.
SIR YOU FORGOT ALL THE MAINLAND TERRITORIES, IE. BELIZE, GUYANA, SURINAME & FRENCH GUIANA....
This video only mentioned island countries in The Caribbean,not countries in the mainland.
@@kuocdo1938 thank you
Idk if things have changed but when I visited Guyana the majority of them didn't even count themselves as Caribbean
No
@@sarshanewton2647 I done know what part you visited. We are the headquarters of the Caribbean community (CARICOM) and I don't know any guyanese person who doesn't call themselves Caribbean/West Indian.