My Afro Peruvian friend told me that in the mall yesterday a group of Dominicans had confused him for a Dominican until he started speaking. The Dominicans surprised he wasn’t a fellow Dominican asked him where he was from. My friend said he was from Peru and that he is part of the Afro descendent “black” community of Peru . Promptly he was told by the Dominicans he’s not black, which surprised him. My Afro Peruvian friend is light skin and has loose 3B curly hair.

I’ve been to several Latin American countries, and I have visited several Afro descendent communities. Obviously due to the nature of Latin America a lot of of these people in these communities are heavily mixed. Several of the Afro descent or black latino groups have substantial Indigenous & European admixture as well. For example Afro-Ecuadorians have up to 30% indigenous ancestry. However, many of these Afro Latino groups still identify as black because they have substantial sub-Saharan African ancestry and Afro cultural base.

How do Dominicans reconcile with the fact that these Afro-Latinos from Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Cuba, Brazil etc, who look no different from the average Dominican identify as black while the average Dominican tends to shy away from that label?

I am not here to judge or be disrespectful, but I am just curious.

I'm Italian and I married her in Haiti, now she needs to go to the Italian embassy in Santo Domingo but it's hard to get her a visa for Dominican Republic, can someone help in any way?

I know that Jamaicans praise really spicy things as what sounds like “wahsee.” Have I got the sound and spelling right? Thanks!

Dont jamaicans sometimes say "move up" to someone to tell them to get away from them, or to essentially tell someone stop their nonsense, or am i imagining things. Somebody tried to tell me jamaicans only say it in a positive manner, which confused me. Ive been around caribbean ppl for years, so i thought i knew, but im also autistic so sometimes expressions are hard for me

I was in class the other day and some Garifuna guy was saying he was indigenous and he spoke an indigenous language. Some Puerto Rican guy said the Garifuna guy can’t be indigenous because of his Afro descendant appearance and that Puerto Ricans have Taíno blood and have a stronger resemblance to indigenous people.

I googled an apparently the Garifuna developed on St. Vincent from a population that included Kalinago/Island Carib people, Arawakan-speaking Indigenous Caribbean people. These people have retained their indigenous culture, language and ethnic identity.

The average Garifuna has anywhere from 15%-40% indigenous blood. The average puerto rican has 13-25%. As far as I know Garifuna is a proven indigenous language with 100,000 speakers while puerto rican taíno has no modern day speakers although it is working on being revived.

Do you guys split the bill.

Would it be appropiate to take a Caribbean woman on a first date to McDonalds?

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Since their slave masters were Danish not British like a lot of the other islands but they speak English today and their food and culture is fairly similar to the Anglo Caribbean islands?

Anyone experience it on your island is it
Common?

Hello, my Caribbean friends, I'm American artist and I trying to draw something that represent the Caribbean as a regions. Music immediately came to mind so I started researching, but I didn't realize how many music genre the Caribbean had.

So I want to asked which Caribbean genre is popular among most Caribbean people, as culture influence out of the Caribbean, and/or as important history to the your or other Caribbean countries. If you are knowledgeable on both the Spanish, English, and other parts Caribbeans can you give me 2 for Spanish, 2 for English, and 1 Wildcard (Dutch, Franch, etcs) please.

Also I know I asked for for 4 music genres because I want to represent at least 4 music genre, but if you have an honestable mention feel free to add it. If I get the chance I will add more.

With Notting Hill Carnival happening in London, Caribana in Toronto having just passed, and a summer full of carnivals and fêtes across the Caribbean and the diaspora, soca is being played all over the world right now, including at my house here in San Francisco 😂

I’m a big soca fan, and one thing I’ve noticed is how often lesbianism, or women being involved with other women, comes up in the music. It seems surprisingly common given the Caribbean’s history of social homophobia and colonial-era same-sex and buggery laws.

So why does lesbianism show up so often in soca when homosexuality in general has historically been so stigmatized?

Is it mostly male fantasy and sexualization? Is female homosexuality treated differently from male homosexuality? Does Carnival culture itself create more room for those themes?

I’m not trying to police anyone’s views or turn this into a morality debate. I’m genuinely interested in the contradiction and in how people from different parts of the Caribbean understand it.

And in case anyone wanted to look into this more, apparently someone already beat me to exploring the idea lmao. I found a peer-reviewed academic article hosted on the Stanford Humanities Center’s website called Queer Tactility: Same-Sex Intimacies Between Women in Chutney and Soca Music.

I am just curious, I can't really understand Jamaicans, Trinis and Bajans even when they speak standard English

With a population constantly migrating to the USA, a fertility rate of 0.9, growing wealth disparities and an aging population, what does the future of Puerto Rico look like?

I have a question to any Caribbeans regarding flag waving to make sure I’m not disrespecting anyone.

Would it be appropriate to wave a blank flag that’s not associated with any country while dancing to soca at carnival?

For context, I’m Indian and dance to dancehall and soca. I recently attended a ‘ready for d’road’ soca and dancehall dance weekend and was given a Trinidad and Tobago flag during that but I understand that was in the context of the event. I’ve also been carnival before with Caribbean friends and they’ve given me either TT or Guyana flags. I’m not sure I should be waving a flag of a country I don’t have ties to otherwise.

Therefore, I was wondering if it would be appropriate to wave say a blank orange bandana as my rag or I have a carnival warm up flag from Brixton Brewery? I love flag waving but would rather not do it if it’ll be culturally insensitive to do so - just not trying to offend anyone! Thanks! :)

Let me make this short and easy I just need clarity. I genuinely don’t know what to think and I’m confused.

My girlfriend told me she’s going to carnival with her cousins and friends. I’m going to be stuck at work.

I don’t know what to feel or how to feel. I trust her I know we solid but for some reason it rubs me the wrong way and I can’t pinpoint why. I don’t wanna be controlling or anything and regardless if someone is actually going to cheat they’ll cheat whenever not just there. So yeah idk man am I just letting my dumb man emotions get to me? It’s her culture it’s part of it so who am I to say not go you know?

Edit: thanks for the replies, some very helpful others super silly I might delete this might not and leave it in case another young person out there has these same thoughts. Thanks.

It’s my first time me and a friend doing carnival but we have different tastes in costumes because we think a certain color fits our skin tone better so we are doing same band different costume sections. How is it being that way? will I never get to be with her throughout the day/night and I have to stay in my section alone??? Will people tell I’m alone??

I hope that this is ok to ask here. I am in need of some deep cut Caribbean music. It does not matter where it’s from, what genre it is, what language it is sang in. However I would like it to be lesser known artists, or lesser known songs from popular artists.

Can anyone recommend some things? Drop an artist or a track for me to listen to? Give me something fun and new to listen to, if you wouldn’t mind helping me out. Thanks in advance.

I feel like being the eldest daughter in a Caribbean family comes with a very specific kind of pressure 😂 You’re expected to be responsible, help with your siblings, understand what’s going on, make good decisions, and sometimes basically become a second parent (mind you) all while still figuring yourself out. And because it’s so normalized, you don’t always realize how much it affected you until you get older.

For the Caribbean eldest daughters here: what’s something you were expected to know, do, or handle because you were the eldest that you wish you didn’t have to learn so young?

I’m especially curious whether this experience feels different depending on which Caribbean country you’re from

EDIT: For anyone who relates to this, I’m also building a small space for eldest daughters to connect and share their experiences
Big Daughter Club is on TikTok & Instagram if you want to find us❤️

I love the region of the Caribbean, so I was searching more about the islands to see, and I came across Saint Barthélemy. I already knew it was a place that rich people went on vacation, but Jesus, WTF does this island have to be so over-the-top expensive?

Is there some gold mine there that I'm not aware of? You can pick any island paradise you want: Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, BVI, Cayman Islands, and even the most over-the-top, Anguilla itself. How the fuck can Gustavia be more expensive than even Anguilla? I thought that Anguilla was high enough. In Anguilla, you can find hotels for $1,500 a day; in St. Barths, the average is a staggering $3,000+ per day.

Please, someone from the region, enlighten me. There are way better islands than St. Barths, at least beauty-wise (I think that Cayman has way better beaches, like Seven Mile Beach). And vibe-wise, what does this island have that's different to justify this ridiculous price tag?

Been trying to choose between a few, and open to more suggestions too

• Here Comes the Sun
• Breath, Eyes, Memory
• Annie John
• How to Love a Jamaican

Can't tell which one to choose. I'm looking to read something more culture and modern-day focused than historical or traumatic, to have something to dive into around Notting Hill Carnival, then I'll read something more historical around wintertime

Good morning, Goedemorgen, Buenos dias, Bon dia everyone! I am a 31 year old woman who lives in the US and is half Surinamese 🇸🇷 and half African American. I am perpetually single, and ready to settle down (marriage and kids). I was curious if there's a dating app that could connect me to Caribbean men? Tbh I'm sick of all the gringos that the US based dating apps keeps showing me. If anyone is interested in chatting, feel free to send a chat 😊.

i'm asking this, because i wonder that an lot of islands near each other,People from one island probably travel to other islands for i don't know maybe work or school,So i wonder if people travel often intercaribbean between the islands.

i think that would be interesting like i wonder if its similar to europe as the countries are very near each other does people intertravel between them easily. like how many people from your island travel abroad ? Travel between the islands is easier or required passport ? Do most caribbean islands accept easily locals of other islands or not ?

I know that each island is unique but i do think that would be interesting knowing more about your rotines like i read that you guys have an university that has campus in an lot of islands( the university of west indies) so probably an island that doesnt have college people who go to college live in another island untill complete their degree do they accept essily locals of other islands ?

i'm sorry if my text is an little convuluted english is not my first language.

Looking for radio stations or streams of current big chune. Ideally everyone posts a bunch of DJs and links to some good mixes. I just need a decent starting point. Trying to tap in. Any help is appreciated

Been on my mind lately as I’ve seen an influx of Trinis and Jamaican for Spiceland in Grenada. I’ve overheard convos as a kid where extended family would disparage and insult Jamaicans and Haitians. Jamaicans would not listen to Soca, Trinis would not listen to Reggae.

See this vid for an accurate representation of this: https://youtu.be/0xVtGQAdzr0?si=qAayH32pzTZq-Wn-

With all the fetes going on I expect a lot of pan-Caribbean babies in the future