Here's how the Caribbean became the most Racially Diverse Region in the World
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- This is how the Caribbean became the most racially diverse region on the planet, after having it's ancestry and genetics permanently altered through European colonialism and migration.
In this video, I'm going to give the rundown for several Caribbean countries such as Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, along with many others. We will look at the demographic history, and just what spawned the drastic fluctuations in the racial makeup of the region.
We're also going to touch on many of the surrounding areas such as Central America, the Gullah coast, as well as the Guianas of South America.
Please let me know your thoughts on my analysis, especially if you live in, or have ancestry from the region.
Videos over the latter regions will be released soon.
Thanks for watching!
I am so glad to hear someone explain what we Caribbean people have to explain on a daily basis,especially those of us who are mixed
Tyrone White at this point when i get ask r u mix i just say yes
Tyrone White Exactly especially to black Americans with their obsession of the one drop rule. Mixed is mixed n black (African) is black!! there's a difference!
we are a mixed race people
Tellthetruth aaaah shut up. Take yo Black Isrealites conspiracy theorist ass on.
thank you. I completely agree
Next time somebody ask me "So you're from the West Indies but you don't look Indian?" I'm sending them this video 😂🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
Aliyah Khan yes that's what I'm saying. Some Americans I've encountered assume it means only Indians inhabit the islands and I always have to explain that there were Indian indentured servants and African slaves.
Yes show them this video because I guess in their mind west Indians all suppose to look like Indians.😂😂😂...Im so done with them.....Trini to the bone 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
Leeann W. That doesn’t make sense. It’s usually someone not understanding how I have sub continent indian ancestry, when my family is from the WI. They think only African descendants exist in Trinidad.
Fellow Trini here: please send them 😂
Anybody notice how he pronounce 'dougla' 😅🇹🇹
I'm Puerto Rican, and I got my Ancestry DNA results recently, I'm 51% European, 27% African, 13% Native American and 8% Middle East. We really are diverse af.
JO EL that's a nice mixture
Liky Laila you’re like a wuzz when you speak like that. just saying that he could be a synonym of bravour. just saying...
JO EL hey donde se puede comprar El DNA test?
Every single Puerto Rican has Taino blood.
Also from PR, mine said 63% European, 22% African, 14% Native and ~1% others
The next time someone replies, " but you look Indian", when I tell them I am from Jamaica, I will make them watch this video. Lol. I have to give a history lesson with each new introduction.
Chrisceil Caballero You shouldn't be shocked by that. There are Black people in India. If a Black man came and told you he was Indian you would probably be surprised too.
Neg Ste. Lucie I am cultured enough to not be surprised. I have friends and family all over the world. I travel often and take every opportunity to gain knowledge. I am truly a xenophile. But thank you for your reply random person who thinks they know the way I think.
Chrisceil Caballero When Black West Indians travel they are sometimes asked if they are African. No big deal. People barely even know the islands of the Caribbean apart from The Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic.
Chrisceil Caballero whether or not one is surprised has nothing to do with being 'cultured'. If White man came and told me that he was a Zulu warrior I would most certainly be surprised. I don't think this makes me any less cultured than anyone.
Chrisceil, they should say you look gorgeous, because you do.
I'm an Islander. Shout out to all you guys in the region.
Love you, bro!
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The Caribbean became so "diverse" because for about 200 years, Europeans battled for land that wasn't even theirs.
Eve you don't use it you lose it simple as that case closed
@LUIS VELEZ you mean genocide or extinction of Arawak and Caribs.
@LUIS VELEZ yes, that true. Also don't forget the Arawak and Carib committed suicide too. Because they didn't want them or their children to live a life of slavery.
Truth truth 💯👊
@@michaelmend8959 bitch shut the fuck up you agree leave a comment you disagree keep on damn scrolling
The Jamaican dialect Patoise is pronounced PATWA.
marciaEK17 Haha, thanks man.
patious
marciaEK17 ...lol, I laughed so hard when he said that.....also, I believe he pronounced Taino wrong. He said it like TAY-noh, when its really pronounced Tah-y-noh...
natalie storm arggh I got spell check by phone 😓
marciaEK17 Patois is pronounced Patwa not patoise
When you live here, sometimes it's hard to realize how diverse this region really is. I live in Trinidad for example and it happens to be one if the most diverse islands in the region. Like the video stated the majority is our population can trace their roots back to India.
And even today, with economic crisis happening in Venezuela, Trinidad is seeing an influx of alot of South Americans (mainly Venezuelans) on the islands. In a couple years, if this trend continues, the whole demographic landscape of the island can change again.
Nice video, glad to finally see one about race and genetics in the Caribbean.
Yeah but Venezuelan dem a mixture of 3 to 5 different races and have European ancestry from France, Italy, Germany, & Portugal more than or less so than from Spain.
Venezuelans also celebrate 5 yearly bachannals. Same ting fi apply to Cubans, Panamanians, Brazilians and dem.
Don't forget d other ethnic African majority of Trinidad which I am a part of with VENEZUELAN ancestry other European tribes and native peoples that make up my DNA Trinidad and d Caribbean is truly a diverse place.
Love being Dominican. My mix (based on DNA tests) is (about) 60% European 25% African 9% Native American and about 4% Asian. My whole life people were never really sure what I was. I used to hate it as a child and now it’s my favorite part of me. Love being mixed
@Millinial Picasso Didn't say or imply that we weren't..
60% white thats a lot for a mixed person
@@idkman290 yeah but yk how strong other dna is? My girl is 30% native and is dark brown looking like a full native. European gene is recessive and dna is random anyways so people could look completely different from there dna percentages
@@idkman290
How?
Most Dominicans are 60-65 European.
@@idkman290” white” is a social fabrication, not an ethnicity or genetic condition.
Great video Mason
Some of the comments towards Dominicans are just beyond comical. Mason clearly mentioned many other groups in the Caribbean that have mixed for 100s of years like African and South Asians and so on, and everyone is cool about it. But the minute the topic of Dominicans not comes up the ignorant comments surface. People have been mixing in the Dominican Republic for over 400 years. What's the problem if many of us do not consider ourselves blacks or Europeans. But mix, we have developed our own identity and our own culture . With that said MOST Dominicans don't deny our African roots as is illustrated in many of our Merengues songs. I'm proud Dominican, and I'm proud to be mixed, African, European and Taino, in no particular order
Ther are jealous !!
as a Dominican i am so tired to explain that to gringos
Nosotros no tenemos que adaptar lo que ellos consideran de una raza u otra, en cada país tienen su perspectiva.
@Rolls Royce African American is a misnomer.
Indigenous aboriginal native copper colored people of Turtle Island the Niigi-Dane Calloway channel @imjustheretomakeyouthink
Boom they just hate eso mmg to jjjjjj and that’s how we always gon be dominicanos and thats is proud to be we don’t claim white or black at all fuck what ppls say don’t speak black and white in. Dr so the outsiders ppls need to shut the fuck up and mind theirs own business we Dominicans and that’s it hate it or love it haters
lol the way you pronounced patois had me dying 😂
makimoments 😂
makimoments r.i.p.
makimoments Indeed 😂 but good share
Masaman It's pronounced "pat wah" but that was a valiant attempt ::hug::
Lol i was just about to comment
I’m born in England 🇬🇧my parents are from Jamaica 🇯🇲 and my grandmother was Chinese 🇨🇳
The Caribbean is my favorite region in the world because of its turquoise waters and majestic islands.
and the climate - humid but breezy, and gorgeous storms
This was really informative and eye opening with the way our history is told outside. But #1 We are Trinidad AND TOBAGO 2 Island never forget Tobago.❤🇹🇹
#2 The way you pronounced Dougla 😂 priceless it's "Dough-glah"
#3 Most Trinbagonians will say that we are our own ethnic group because most of us are mixed with everything. E.g. I'm French, Amerindian, African, Portuguese, Indian and who knows what else🤷🏾♀️
#4 🇹🇹 "Side by side we stand islands of the blue Caribbean sea, this our native land where every creed and race may find and equal place"🇹🇹
#5 Awesome video 👌🏾
Well said my fellow Trinibagoinan 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
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He cant pronounce stuffs he mis pronounce so many words in the video😂😂😂😂
Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sao Tome and Principe and Antigua and Barbuda are always forgotten past the "and" part.
As a Trinidadian I'm pure blood indian but alot of mix I see
Dude, thanks so much for making this video. I was born, raised, and have lived my whole life on Curacao. It is nice to see people know the history of this part of the world and especially awesome when someone my island and gets the facts right!
I'm Trinidadian, and am mix, with African, Indian and Spanish, but people call me Dougla. I'm fine with that. I enjoyed watching your video. It's very informative.
People always want to claim you. Why do people ask you if your black, white, Indian your Trinidadian that it.
@@orlandovelastegui1391 No Trinidadians come from all ethnicities. When someone asks what you are you tell them how you identify it's that simple.
Sheep lesslol so you identify as Trinidadian. I respect what ever you want to be known as. I’m not one of those person that are trying to tell you who you are.
your ladies keep winning Miss Universe! So. I guess its a good mix
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I'm from St Lucia 🇱🇨🇱🇨
Our island was fought over by the British and French for a period lasting 150 yrs. They each won seven times, the British won the last battle. That's why St Lucia is also called Hellen Of The West compared to Hellen Of Troy
As a Dominican, you did us justice in your coverage. Thank you
No justice, Identify doesn't mean U ARE. Identify is what you feel. For a male identify as female, so is he a Male? 😂
Dominican can identify as Chinese, but they are not chinese. 😂
I'm Haitian and Jamaican!
But I'm also a Jamaican Indian and French Haitian, and Syrian, and Panamanian!
Ah yes another puzzle human much like myself. What did they peg you as in the states sweetheart.
@@hainleysimpson1507 Alien
Wow
Coolie 🎉😊!
I loved this, so informative! I'm Afro Caribbean. Cuban father and a mother from Dominican Republic, Haiti and Grenada are all in the mix too. I love our people and all the wonderful mixes out there, despite the good and not so good history.
facts sake pase i love all my carribean people im half haitian and half american and a little bit of cubans
@@Donp580 smh mbn
Awesome! Lovely Caribbean peopleI’m half Grenadian and half American :)
I am Dominican and although I have not taken a DNA test. I do know that my family descended from Spain and came to the Dominican Republic in the around the 1800’s and a big chunk of my DNA is Spanish because of that. But I am also mixed race. My uncle took a DNA test and he was mostly Spanish and then he had North African, West African, Arabic, and Asian. The funny thing is that a lot of people tell me I look Arabic due to my face and the way my hair is. It’s crazy how mixed race us Dominicans are. Even the current president of the Dominican Republic is Lebanese.
And you'll be called the real dominican because you are part of the whitening process or the "improving the race process" in DR dor pride of being MIXED 😅
I can tell already my pronunciation of "Caribbean" is gonna ruffle some feathers.
Let me know your thoughts on the video! Thanks!
Victor Reed I live in Texas pal. Whites have never been racist to me, my Black mom, or my non-White girlfriend, even if/when they find out I'm part Black. Take your anti-White bigotry somewhere else.
Masaman you pronounce it in the way we British pronounce it!
Masaman you said it correctly. here in britain we pronouns it the same way.
Great work, you are the first person outside of the Dominican Republic to put the Haiti-DR situation in few words and get it right
Caribbean (Carib-be-an) has been the pronunciation, suddenly people have been and are saying (Ca-rib-be-an). Smh..
This is GREAT work, Mason! Love the eloquence and the straight flow of the narration. Dude, i am DEEP into ANYTHING Caribbean so I really appreciate this. I am from the Virgin Islands and my wife is from Guyana. My father is from St. Kitts. My mother is from Nevis. My stepfather is from French St. Martin, my ex wife is from Jamaica and I have tons of family, descendants of my paternal grandfather and his siblings, who were born in or now live in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic. Needless to say, you can see the reason why I am fascinated by our region.
Taino is pronounced "Tah-ee-no" or "Ty-no." Patois is pronounced "pat-wa."
@ZULU MATUBU so the Taino were the Latin Caribbean natives. The Latin Caribbean was taking by Europeans and he stated in the video that Latin caribbean people are mostly considered white due 67% European heritage. Which means people from Puerto Rico can have both European and Taino blood. They can have light/white skin but still be Taino in blood, relax.
@ZULU MATUBU and this dude didn't even say he was Taino. He just said how it's pronounced.
Taino beach is in the bahamas. The bahamas has one of the largest region with indian amd asain decent. These are not facts.. so only arficans are in the bahamas? Stop it. Just stop it
@@byronscott8108 Trinidad being the Caribbean country with the largest amount of Indian ppl throughout the Whole Caribbean
@@EmpressAshe in your eyes okay. You never been to the bahamas my friend. We have a chain of islands, people we never seen before.. sooo chill. We the original taino people in the carribbean. 🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸
Great video. I grew up in Trinidad and Tobago, with family also from Barbados and St Lusia, and ancestors mostly from West and central Africa, and the rest from northern Europe: Great Britain, western Euro and Scandinavia. You did ur research and very close to accurate. A lot of poeple don't realise how diverse the Caribbean islands are. I like the calypso quote at the end :)
J. Matiyas Wow, it's crazy just how many Americans have ancestors from the Caribbean. I think it's something like 15 million people or 5% of the population.
Where was I off in the video? Thanks.
J. Matiyas Man your fortunate to have live in Trinidad I been twice only and my great Grandma there passed I love how at home I feel there and people never stare or ask where I'm from til I speak lol, My Ancestors in Trinidad r from all over, West Africa I'm sure and India maby south India since my Great Grandma was dark and Europe like France and England on my Trini side I am Creole, Black and Indian
I respect your immense research on cultural history of humans. Everything may not be completely accurate to the letter, but your intend to educate is very impressive. Keep it up.
Slaves weren’t paid wages my friend.
I Am Terane good point
Another person that was not paying close attention to this video.
I think he's implying that the Indians that were brought over sometimes weren't paid at all.
He meant they where brought over to be slave as well
Indentureship sir
It feels great that someone finally mentioned the ABC-islands, more specifically Aruba and our beautiful language of Papiamento!
Haitians liberated themselves and the reason why they are so poor apart from government is because the French forced them to pay reparations for lost profits in slavery! What was the amount? 90, 000, 000 Franks. Equivalent to around 21 billion USD.
No true its because of the haitian corrupted government and ofc THE U.S and we had a lots of natural disasters
@@riahnonya6534 im sorry but ur very incorrect. There is actually documentation about this matter from a large variety of sources in text and online. Just read.
@@Chatillgbt yes haiti paid france but it was still doing fined. its the haitian government fault im haitian myself and the haitian government they had a lot of money to change haiti but they took the money and shared it with each other. They even gives the gangs gun to destroy the capital this is how corrupted they are.
And there used to be garbage truck cleaning the street but one of the haitian president suspends it and haiti had the best corn machine again one of the haitian president sold i to D.R those idiot just want to get in power then leave when they got wealthy.
True my history of Latin America class started with the teacher specifying this very fact. The poverty continues today due to corruption.
greetings from Haiti
sake pase
Interesting video. Just got my DNA results! I am 39% African, 47% European, 9% Native American (Taino), and 3% west Asia (Middle East). While watching your video about the Cajuns and Creoles, I saw that my percentages were similar to the Louisiana Creoles. BTW- I am Puerto Rican.
Miriam Campbell Cool fam I need to get mine.
~Haitian
Im Trinidadian and I want to get one done so bad. My parents are India (as in India) and african.
lol
Daniel ayy I'm half Trini my mums dougla and I'm half Nigerian NAIJA
Jojo Purplez mashup!
You should do a video on the Guyanas. The
Guyanese, Surinamese and French Guianese populations are very diverse too much like the rest of the Caribbean! Your content is so interesting, keep the videos coming!
The Caribbean fascinates me being an Islander but from the Pacific. I sometimes wonder, as a Native Polynesian, if the african slaves and european colonisers landed on our Pacific Islands, would I still be here? What would be the face of the Pacific if they did land on our shores. Really interesting
Sosaia Tuifangaloka Not African slaves, enslaved Africans. Africans did travel on their own too apart from Europeans. They probably would have made their way to Polynesia. Remember the world was settled by ancient Africans.
Sosaia Tuifangaloka you probably would be part african and european
You guys had to worry about the Chinese.
wow very interesting
Proud caribbean queen.
I'm a South African of mixed race and found the video very informative. It also proves the world is fast becoming more mixed and very beautiful!
Wow! Great job! Thoroughly enjoyed this presentation, so thrilled to see the ending featuring the lyrics of one of my favorite calypsos. As a native of Trinidad and Tobago, well done!!
Caribbean proud 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Latino caribeño=hispanos y franceses
Caribeño=ingleses y holandeses
👍👍💪💪💪🙏🙏🙏😤🌴🌴🏄♂️🏄♂️🏄♂️🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺
Sometimes I'm African, some days I'm European. when I feel like it I'm an Indian or even native American, I can be who ever I choose to be, no one can judge me...Because I am TRINI, I am a Caribbean woman!
I came here for Trinidad..
Same lol
As did I
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Same
For Barbados!!!Mentioned early in the vid too!!
There are also Amerindian people in present Dominica and other parts of the present day Caribbean region
Kevin Clepps St.Lucia too
EL CHAPO MMG 26 no we don't have Amerindian communities like Dominica does. However, some St. Lucians (who appear to be black) do bear some physical characteristics of the native peoples.
So-called "pure" descendants of the original Amerindian people of the Caribbean only survive as a distinct group in Dominica. In other islands, especially Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and maybe St. Vincent, there are lots of people with indigenous ancestry, but they're mixed with European and/or African. But there are no unmixed Arawakan natives left outside of Dominica. To be honest, I think a lot of the "pure" Caribs/Kalinago in Dominica are part black now as well.
So the carib Indiana I saw with my own two eyes in Dominica on the reservation do not exist?
XVII-FEAR-GOD-XVII 1728 XVII yep. Was just about to say that.
This explain why music from the caribbeans is so amazing!
Great video, its exactly what I was looking for:)
Where my Dominican ppl at 🇩🇴🔥💪
Creoles are not "devolved" versions of languages. Creole are languages that have structure. They may have several basal ancestor languages, but are not "accents". Haitian / Antillean Creole, Papiamentu, and Jamaican Patois (pa-TWA) are languages.
Well technically it was happens when people adopt a pidgin language as their native language.
Jayson James tank yuh!
Nah they are devolved. They are still a form of english. If you can understand the accent you realise this.
Ally Pat they’re technically evolved languages. The way Spanish evolved from Latin.
Kyle Kariba the difference is to discredit Black cultures
I just identify myself as a Caribbean man and I´m very proud of it....and love all the brothers and sisters from the rest of the islands.
Greetings from Trinidad and Tobago. I must say you did excellent research.
I'm glad TH-cam recommended this video. I love all the breakdowns and explaining how diverse the Caribbean really is.
I'm Cuban and just looking at my family range from black to ginger to Asian to so many in-betweens, it's so frustrating when damn near all of us get told "You don't look Cuban." Like bruh, Cuba is a mix of all sorts of backgrounds. There's SO many family braches with different mixes of people all over the Caribbean. It's so cool to learn that there's even more different groups and languages!
Peace to all my beautiful melanated ppl💛💙💛💙
It's a Caribbean thing.🇵🇷🇵🇷
Cut the guy a break. No history from man is 100%. This was very good and informative. And no. He didn't pronounce every little word "correctly" (I put this in quotations because everyone has a different idea of what it means to pronounce a word correctly). But, you can tell he knows his stuff and he really put a lot of work into this video. He knows more than most of the people born and raised in these regions. Many of them claim their nationalities but not their roots. I just love learning more about my origins. I really appreciated this!!!!!! Definitely sharing!!!!!!
I am of Jamaican descent and have African, East Indian, Spanish, British, Haitian Middle Eastern and German roots.
I like you presentations bro. I'm a American Belizean. So I think of my self as an afro-Latino with an open mind on religion.
As I see it, all of us African Descendants are ignorant OF EACH OTHER, regardless of where we were born and raised. The bickering going on here is infantile.
th-cam.com/video/DNKpjRdD5HA/w-d-xo.html
True talk ...if you are yellow,red,brown,black,olive, all roads lead right back to Africa ,at some point in time ,if you say the middle east ,that was and is still Africa ....Europe only came about after the ice age ,as far as we know everywhere was hot up until then, you may have had blue ,and green people because of the Floraforna and the eco system at the time !!!
@@devogrant2817 All mankind originated from the "east"-Gen 2:8;Gen 10;Gen 11:1-9
I am an american residing in Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 and the island is mainly made up of, blacks, Syrians, Chinese, Indians and Spanish. people may say one ethnic group is more dominant than the other but honestly it seems that we all are equal, because most of the diversities are not documented
I'm lightskin Puerto Rican and Trinidadian 🇹🇹🇵🇷 :)
I was very happy to hear how well you speak about the Caribbean but you left out a few more Islands like Saint kitts-nevis Antigua Saint Vincent Barbados Anguilla Tortola and many more ...please let me know more of the mixtures and culture ....of these islands that you forgot about... It was lovely thank you..
I’m mixed race my parents are white English and black Trinidadian. I had my DNA done, thinking it would be predictable but oh how wrong I was. I’m: Nigerian, Ghana, Indian, Carib, English, Polish and German...my gene pool is a melting pot!
It's a nice mix. But the DNA is not 100%. It's part of the Eugenics project. You could have even more admixtures then you realise.
I’m gonna ignore the part where you said the majority of the Jamaican genome is of Europe, and in my mind I’m gonna replace that with African, sure we have small percentages of English ancestry but 8-9 out of 10 of our ancestry and genome is of African descent.
Jamaican never put their African ancestry down.
I am Jamaican and my DNA shows that I am 57.7% European, 31% African, 10% admixture of purvian, Puerto Rican, Mexican and Colombian, 10% West Indies, Chinese, Japanese, Indian; so yes a lot of Jamaican have European ancestry even though our physical appearance don’t show it.
My ansectry has Nigerian, Scottish, and Little tiny bit Norwegian
@@karenmccarthy8778 definitely got raped
Latin Caribbean islanders where you at ( Cuba Haiti DR PR)
wally reynolds, here I am!
Aquí!
Haiti is not Latin
Ek Hatch only 5% of Haitians descend of French people
Ek Hatch what you mean? I don’t get it
He has unintentionally the most brilliant historian on TH-cam
I like your video's. They are very interesting. My parents are from Surinam 😀.There are a lot of blasians and other "mixes".We also call them "dogla".Keep up the good work 👍👍👍
Thank you!
I commend you on your video. Being a Caribbean myself I felt you summarized very fair and well our region.
Great cliff notes. Alot of these things were taught to me in College. Living in New York you get to experience just about every Caribbean culture. My neighborhood is mostly Guyanese and Trinidadian Indian. Awesome food!I myself am Puerto Rican. Definitely consider myself white despite some mix and living the United States.
I SPEAK PAPIAMENTU!!! Even tho I'm born in The Netherlands 🇳🇱. But my mom is from Curaçao 🇨🇼 and my dad is from The DR🇩🇴
EliAndrO NLCurDom I speak papiamento too... I'm born in Aruba, my mom is from Aruba and my dad is from the DR aswell... my spanish is a bit off though.... ki un sorpresa :)
Wow... Some people That I can connect with 😁 I am born in 🇦🇼.. my mom 🇩🇴 and my dad 🇨🇼... Esaki so mi no a verwacht... ✌️
GRIDAJH damnnn had ik ook niet verwacht!! Awsome!😂
Hey if one of your parents are dominican republic tu eres un platano 🍻😂😂😂😂😂
I speak Papiamento too!!! , Born in the Netherlands 🇳🇱, My mom from Curaçao 🇨🇼 with Dominican blood from both sides :) 🇩🇴 and my father is half Venezuelan 🇻🇪
I love your videos, it's so good to learn about the worlds people and the history of them all. I'm half English half Trinidadian and it's so good to see a video explaining the people of Trinidad. Living in England most people think that everyone from the Caribbean are just black. It's difficult explaining to people about indentured servitude, you have definitely made things easier for people like me. Thankyou, keep up the good work, you are a legend. ONE LOVE 🙂 ❤💛💚
We're All BLACK
@@WhiteAreGarbage
Go back to the hole you came from. I dont need an answer from a pedophile who also sleeps with animals. You're disgusting, people like you dont deserve anything in life
This video illustrates why race is so completely and utterly meaningless for me. My own ancestry is precisely as ridiculously diverse and mixed as those of the people in this video, to the point where identifying with any one particular group over another would be dishonest. I have ancestry from almost every corner of the world to some extent or another, because of the history described in this video. The poem quoted at the end describes my own sentiments precisely.
That means you're something new.
Does it mean it’s bad though, what so bad about connecting with your many races that you’re supposedly mixed with?
Race doesn’t exist in biology. It is an asinine invention of Europeans for the purpose of mistreating people on the basis of “ color”.
@@InspiredByEbonyLove
Y'all are racist
Bl... ppl hate white people.
Interesting video, full of information. But here's just a small correction: there was actually a Dutch colony in the northeast coast of Brazil, were today are the states of Pernambuco and Paraíba. Check out for that, it's a very interesting story and deeply connected with the foundation of New Amsterdam :)
Hello guys dont forget that Venezuela is the best kept secret of the caribbeans. In fact about 2,500-3,000 years ago, farmers and potters related to the Arawak-speakers of northeast of actual Venezuela established a pathway into the Caribbean. Using the delta fingers of Orinoco River Basin like highways, they travelled from the interior to coastal Venezuela and pushed north into the Antilles islands of the Caribbean Sea, settling Puerto Rico and eventually moving westward. Their arrival ushered in the region’s Ceramic Age, marked by agriculture and the widespread production and use of pottery.
Over time, nearly all genetic traces of Archaic Age people vanished, except for a holdout community in western Cuba that persisted as late as European arrival. Intermarriage between the two groups was rare, with only three individuals in the study showing mixed ancestry.
Many present-day Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans are the descendants of ancient people from Venezuela , as well as European immigrants and enslaved Africans. But researchers noted only marginal evidence of Archaic Age ancestry in modern individuals.
Haiti is the only country in the carribean that keeps, its original n
ayiti, xamayca, and cuba are all OG names
Madinina,Martinique’s original name.we still use it when talking creole
Guadeloupe's name which is Karukera, we still use it. There is a water mark which is named Karuline
If ya was so original ya would be tainos
Unbelievably insightful. Thank you soooo much.
Proud Papiamento speaker from Aruba🇦🇼
I'm from Guadeloupe, and here the mostly spoken language is the guadeloupean creole. We speak french after and some english sometimes. Its very different from the haitian creole but it have less french words and is more complicated than H creole
Haitian Creole has less French yours has more French
Don’t y’all do compas to like Haitians why they never talk about Caribbean speaking creole
@@rophnaicadesruisseaux8950 Zouk and Kompa are not the same, learn.
Our creole is not the same but we can understand each other, that's nice. I'm glad that creole is most spoken in that french department, sorry if I don't say country, cause you are not independent yet.
I thought french was the first language there, because i always see on facebook they are speaking french. Keep on speaking our beautiful creole ❤.
Of course Zouk is different from Konpa, and Zouk is beautiful too. But, Zouk derived from Konpa, so Konpa gives birth to Zouk
@@pierrelouiswalkenslove7679 We are speaking french on social media because most Guadeloupean ppl can't write it. But we speak it more tha french for sure
Haitian Creole is not French, it is a language in its own right.
Neg Ste. Lucie It does not mean it's French, but it's very much based on French.
DianaSoleil M The vocabulary is largely based on French but the syntax is very much African.
Neg Ste. Lucie Creole is a mixture of both languages so we are not saying anything different, LOL. And there are many ways of twisting the creole language. For example my mom always says ecoute mwen or moi well my father says ecoute'em or tande or also tand'em. Ecoute is from French and Tande is more of the African. Both my parents are from Haiti and they speak there Creole very differently due to the area they grew up in. So creole is very complex.
Yes I understand what you are saying but we demean the language when we say it is French or Broken French. It is a language like any other with it's own rules. Let us be proud of the uniqueness of the language and not try to assimilate with French or Europe. English was a creole at some point. A large percentage of English vocabulary is derived from French.
Piman Mann Jaques Every languages have been based from another language. So rather you like it or not it's the history. languages change and shift all the time. French Canadian is not exactly French from France. Spain's Spanish is not the same as Latina America's Spanish. People fail to realize languages changed and evolved before slavery.
Waiting for my 23andMe results, my father is a full-blooded Dominican (as well as the rest of his family) while my mother is a Spaniard from Spain. I've always wondered what I am because I have always found this stuff interesting and want to learn more about these cultures.
Mixed, it's not rocket science lol. Natives, whites and enslaved people. You don't need 23and me
Yes, you are awesome, great job. Please do a separate video on Guyana, my country is diverse and its history will amaze you.
From an (Indian) Guyanese living in the US.
Thanks I'm a douglah from Trinidad and Tobago
hi i'm from Aruba.. and its true.. i am from amerindian / german/ irish decent ... my skin is white and i have wavy hair... i have cousins from every end of the spectrum.. from blonde and blue eyes to black... and everything in between... you explained it perfectly i subbed
Belize has TWO main Afro-descendant populations. One of them are Kriols or Creoles who vary in African, European and to a lesser extent Native ancestry, and have COLONIAL ties with only SMALL foreign immigration from Jamaicans and Barbadians (NOT Trinidad).
The other are the Garinagu or Garifunas who are predominantly African but with around 20% admixture from native Caribbean people (Caribs, Arawaks, taino-related people). They came to Belize from 1802 - 1832 after being EXILED from St. Vincent & the Grenadines via Roatan, Honduras.
Some Trinidadian did immigrate, I should know because family over there.🌍
@natille foxy the number is very low. Most West Indians that came to Belize were from Jamaica (like my great grandfather) and Barbados. That's how you get Wiltshire, Leacock, Genus, Haynes, Yearwood, Mckenzie, Cumberbatch, some of the Browns, some of the Gordons, some Andersons, some Morgans, some Smiths, some Williams.
Very interesting video as always ! You're doing a great job
Meli ssa Thanks! I hope your country of France is not destroyed by your upcoming election like ours was.
Almost ... our country is divided. It's really sad.
Another really interesting and well-made video! I did not even know about the Mighty Dougla and I'm Trini! * covers face * Thanks for making me aware of this!
my mother is Trinidadian and is mixed portuguese and black and my dad is Antiguan but is a dougla and has family ties to puerto rico and the dominican republic. you got your history right bruh.
Javon Armstrong Why 'but?' Douglas are found everywhere.
most enjoyable, accurate and entertaining piece of work. Excellent young man!
The title of this video is so true. I'm from Belize which is not apart of the caribbean geographically but certainly culturally. I have no idea what my ancestry is made up of but practically no one here does. My surname is Lopez but I don't spanish despite my hispanic appearance. From what I've personally gathered, I'd say I'm European (Spain and British), Indian, Native American and mostly some African . I'm also 6' 2" which is very tall for a non-black person here. My brother is a bit of an anamoly too, he has very pale skin and blonde hair, and he doesn't share my hispanic look. I really need to take a DNA test.
I’m Belizean as well. We might just be the most diverse country in the Central America/The Caribbean
Nicely done. I am a Trini of African decent and found your video to be quite informative. Three points I want to bring to your attention...(1) the word "patois" is a french and is pronounced "patwa". (2) the poet you quoted at the end "Mighty Dougla" was really a calypsonian not a poet and the excerpt is from a calypso, not a poem. I don't know if you already knew this and found it simpler to call him a poet, but I feel it's an important distinction to make. (3) Trinidad is the larger sister of the two island nation Trinidad and Tobago. I found it curious that Tobago was left out altogether. Tobago is ethnically different from Trinidad being comprised almost 100% persons of African decent. It is in this regard closer to other islands of the Lesser Antillies. This was, in my opinion the largest of the three minor sins I found in your presentation. Others more educated that I am will no doubt find errors I cannot see. Yet others will express outrage (both manufactured and justified) at one or another of your classifications, designations or descriptions. Issues of race can be prickly. I found your attempt sincere and would advise that you absorb the constructive criticism and rebuke the trolls. Excellent effort, you clearly have a love of the subject of the origin of peoples and I'm glad I found your channel. Take care and continued success in your future endeavours.
It’s not a crime to embrace your African roots - The Africa you see on TV is what the media wants you to see.. Mother Africa is blessed
This guy is anti black
Concerning the lack of official data about ethnic origins in the French Caribbean, the French have a long-standing policy against collecting official data on ethnicity or religion. Since the Revolution, France has been a civil state, not a state based on ethnicity. The modern French language is a bit of an artificial creation based on the language spoken by lawyers in the 1700s (Most of the leaders of the revolution were young unemployed lawyers), and starting in the 19th Century police and school teachers were usually sent to work in regions from which they were not originated so as to help spread a single national language and identity. Even today the French do not tolerate the use of minority languages. A good side of this policy is that most Jews who were French citizens survived the Nazi occupation, simply because the government had no official statistics on who was Jewish, unlike almost any other country in Europe, so they could not be rounded up by the police because the government didn't know who to round up.
I meet a girl from Suriname I thought she was straight up Caribbean. She pronounced it as (Suhr-nahm). She was telling me how diverse it was there. Sure it's beautiful down in those lands
Minixi their culture is west indian
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nice touch with the music and scenery--more fire from Masaman. Would like to hear about the kreyol of Haití vs Louisiana Creole
Hey thanks Bobby. I will probably for sure do a video on the Louisiana Creoles in the near future. Have you taken a look at my footage for our collab yet?
did you send me a link Masaman? The last I saw you were working on this series and the cape colored --but ill check my Skype /email. I've been working on a Janet Jackson piece. Did you send me via email or skype?
AngstVision Aw, is it over Janet Jackson's Muslim husband? Funny stuff. I sent you a link on Google drive. did you get it?
Masaman yeah it's comparing responses and hypocrisy of male vs female high-asset divorce requests. It's more about Janet "big cash grab" than it is about her bamboozled billionaire beta lol. I'll check my messages for Google drive links. thanks
I am from Trinidad & Tobago and I am of mixed descent, a "dougla". I have seen other videos you have done and I must say you are doing okay. This is the one I enjoyed the most, of caused. We call that type of poetry - CALYPSO.
Man said "coolie" like it was just a regular word and had no weight lmao
Very informative did some good research, good job on that. Not going to lie I came to see if he would mention Guyana. I'm so glad that he indeed mentioned non-island nations that are part of the Caribbean as well, such as Guyana and Belize, because it can be frustrating when for example, as I've personally experienced and seen in the comments when I say I am West Indian,Caribbean, and Indo-Guyanese people feel like we aren't part of the Caribbean/West Indies being that Guyana is located in South America, when in fact the Caricom headquarters is located in the capital of Guyana, Georgetown 🤦♀️. Guyana touches the Caribbean Sea too people. Our culture, history, and many other factors are that of the Caribbean/West Indies. Our Amerindians are mostly those of the Arawak and Carib tribes as well. Everything about Guyana is that of the Caribbean/West Indies. Guyanese, Surinamese, Brazilians, and French Guianese are not Latino, despite being located in Latin America. The term Latino only refers to the Spanish speaking countries in South America. Another note, his pronunciations of certain words could be better, but I know he was trying lol; as other comments have corrected Patois is pronounced Pat-wah. Also Dougla is pronounced Dug-La, but it could be seen as a racial slur, so it should be refrained from one's vocabulary. The same goes for the word Coolie, it is a racial slur just as the N-word. It was used to differentiate Indian slaves from African slaves in these regions. Yes, history books have it written that the people of Asian descent brought to the Caribbean were "indentured servants," but only because at the time slavery was "abolished" so they had to give the slave labor another name as sort of a loophole legally. It was slavery as well, as he hinted at. Asians were also tricked, sold, and kidnapped into slavery forced to cut sugar cane in these regions along side of our brothers and sisters of African descent. Also, correct Trinidad is very much similar to Guyana, hence another reason Guyanese are considered to be West Indian/Caribbean.
Here in Jamaica, a Maroon is a mix of black and First People, as there was in Seminole society in the USA. As a proud Jamaican (who happens to be very mixed), I was glad to see the research, but it nuh dun! Both my grandmothers were Maroon mix & both my grandfathers were European & the rest of the world mix, as such the Jamaican motto applies readily “Out of many, one people”! Tek care 😃❗️
The Caribbean is still a predominantly Black area no matter how diverse it is.
9 million Cubans would contradict your "black area" assertion
To begin, I am not considered with the hispanophone Caribbean. To continue, even if we do discuss Cuba, that's only one island. Not only that, yes there are Cubans directly of Spaniard but there are plenty of direct African descent. So, no matter how much you want to troll, the Caribbean is still majority Black region whether we are discussing the French, English, Dutch, or Spanish speaking islands.
English speaking Caribbean is only 6 million(here I am hoping that you can do some math!)...so I will continue Cuba is 15 million 60% White and a large percentage mixed, therefore 60% x 15 million is 9 million which by itself is more than the entire English speaking Caribbean and by the way the English speaking Caribbean is not ALL black!
...Also This video is about the Caribbean not just the corner you like to consider!
And by the way just because I corrected your idiotic assertion dose not mean that I am trolling DA
Once again, you are focusing on one island. If you count all of the islands no matter English speaking or not, the majority of the residents of the Caribbean are Black and I'm not even considering mixed ones.
Randy Hos Black people don't only live I'm English speaking islands. They live throughout. The thing is many of the people classed as White in Cuba are actually mixed.
Very interesting video. One of the few videos that has looks at the demographics of the Caribbean in significant detail. Well done, you did a great job.
On a more serious note: Your job here with these videos is impressive!
Lmao i was waiting for u to do this video im trinidad and bajan and i have so much in me
LifeWithCourttny Sweet! I have a great uncle that is from Barbados. Hope you enjoyed the video!
Ive never really had an experience like that my husband is American and my family never had a problem with him idk maybe st Lucians are different
Am from Cuba and living in the U.S and well kinda as a Cuban most of the Cubans and Haitians i know are ok with black Americans as long as their not hood.
PerDirPir Why such generalizations. Such statements only create antagonism.
Bruh..."PAHT-OYS?" It's pronounced "PATWA."
I died when he said it
I does laughing
And it's definetly not english
Your "Patwa" is not english in origin but french, which is written "patois". Jamaican Creole means exactly the same.
He tends to force American phonetics onto foreign words, but with very little effort into pronouncing them correctly. The worst I've heard were on the videos about Filipinos and Japanese.
Nice vid overall, but want to note that all three native groups you mentioned might be the same people. While first called Arawak, the Arawak tribes of the Caribbean were called Taino as clarification. In the Taino language, Taino approximately meant noble people. And Caribs meant warriors. It's super unclear whether these were tribes of the same peoples, that just responded differently to conquistadors (primary literature apparently having called the cooperative natives Tainos, and the hostile natives Caribs). I don't know enough Spanish myself to read the literature. They also didn't hassle themselves too much with learning a lot of the local language. So it's possible that this was all one big people group, or several people groups just generalized for convenience.
Also lol at patoys
i was wondering if you ever got any angry comments because people are sometimes sensitive talking about race, and i know it's become a talking point among folks like Bill Nye that "science says there's no such thing as race". But i think you do a very good job explaining the subtleties of how different people have intermingled, and really you just want to explain how history has led to the world being the way it is. i'm glad to see that most people support you.
The mosquito were largely from the island of St. Vincent and were called the Garifuna people who were like you said a mixture of maroons and native caribs. They did not move to Central America however, they were displaced by force by the British due to them rebelling under British rule.
Mason, I love your videos! I, too, reside in DFW. I studied Spanish and am from Florida, but my mom is from Acadiana, so your videos teach me so much and appeal to so many of my interests! Keep up the awesome work! 😁