Being White and from the Caribbean - The Global WI
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- Nikola Simpson ( Director, Caribbean Blue) speaks on her experience studying in Canada and having to explain that yes, she is from the Caribbean.
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The minute she opened her mouth I knew she was Bajan.
rachybaby72 we have a unique accent 😂😂
lol
facts lmao
Same
My hero T’CHALLA 🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧
We have everyone in the Caribbean
Mr S Gee right
Exactly 💯💯
We dont do we have the people our indeginos people no because we kill them
@@mariaesdelle6971 True, a lot were killed out unfortunately, but there are still Calinago and Taino tribes throught the Caribbean. And others like myself have indigenous ancestry, where a great grandmother or a great grandfather was an indigenous person originally from the Americas.
Yea of course we do and don't forget the descendants of the slave traffickers/ owners/colonizers.
i can hear the cornwall scottish and irish accent in the bajan accent still
Freddy Parkinson We get that a lot
75% cornish which i guess kind of makes sense
Irish with a hint of a Scottish lilt added to an African melody. Don't hear the West Country claim at all...
@@BajeTiger that's a pretty thick Bajan accent
Ive always heard a kind of Irish/Scottish brogue in Black Jamaicans' accent. Whatever the origin it's beautiful to me. ✌️❤️
Totally understand. I get the same reaction when I tell people I'm Jamaican. I'm of Chinese ethnicity but I was born there so that's what I consider myself. That said, I've lived in America since 1976 and now an American citizen but still think of myself as Chinese Jamaican
One love brother 🇯🇲 🇯🇲
Well you should think yourself an American of Jamaican origin
@@Van-nk4ee Why is that to be preferred to "Chinese Jamaican that immigrated to America"? I would simply say you're both.
@@Van-nk4ee Or he should think of himself as whatever he wants.
Americans dont understand this lol. Im not chinese jamaican. I look more mixed like black and white. But i always have to explain to people that there are even chinese jamaicans in jamaica lol. They dont realise jamaica is a culture and not a race.
I'm Irish and she sounds like someone I'd meet down the road from me lol
GOrDoN ReMseY she has Irish or British heritage. She’s the descendant of either british slave masters or Irish indentured servants.
elijah oye That has nothing to do with her accent. We all heritage from other places but that had no impact in her accent. As a Bajan, a lot of white Bajans have a stronger accent than some black Bajans
I can say the same when I hear some words when native Irish people speak.
@@zammymoore7412 Elijah Oye is correct
@@elijahoye8216 no. She has a bajan/barbadian accent which has british origins. A bajan accent has elements of irish and Scottish accents. That doesnt mean shes irish or scottush
Sweetheart, you're from the most ethnically diversified region in earth - the Caribbean !!!
And in keeping true to the Caribbean tradition - you are a beautiful sight to behold !
Big love from T&T
Heard my home accent immediately 🇧🇧 the more I travel I also now picked up that we have some Irish in our accent too.
Yeh the Bajan accent is not new to me, but after hearing her say people sometimes suspect she is Irish I started to hear it.
As soon as she started talking I could tell she was a Bajan.
Stolen comment but ok
@@MrMIND-lk1sy or maybe multiple people can have the same opinion? Crazy right
New Zealander
A def Caribbean person could pick up on that Bajan accent lol. Bajan accents always sounded "a bit" Irish to me, even as a Trinbagonian, so I can get why people might think she sounds Irish.
If I didn't know better, I'd guess she was Irish.
It’s not Irish, the English undertone is from Gloustershire. It’s where Bristol is locked Englands major port/sailing hub. It’s where the slave ships would set sale for west Africa, the slave coast.
@@peoplebeforeprofit yeah man it definitely sounds West Country!
I'm originally from Saint Lucia 🇱🇨 like both my parents, but much of my dad's family come from Barbados. I've visited Barbados several times when I was both child and man, so the moment she started speaking, I knew where she is from. I'm proud of my Bajan heritage 🇧🇧
I’m a white Bajan also and totally relate to what you were saying. We are all Bajan together and proud no matter your skin color.
@lleouriii ! smh kinda racist bruh
@lleouriii ! bruh what did you mean by not really
@lleouriii ! that's cap
@lleouriii ! white people created race haha 😆 Great new discovery
@lleouriii ! Oh just shut the fuck up. Have you heard of the ottomans? Arabs? Ummayads? They opressed white Europeans years before the Atlantic slave trade. Saying "whites can't experience racism" IS LITERALLY FUCKING RACISM you uneducated piece of shit
great video, its heart warming to see that although Nikola has a European background she fully recognizes and is proud of her Barbadian heritage. Nuff respect .
Why would she not be proud of her Barbadian heritage? It's where she's from.
@@EASYTIGER10 life is complicated.. its possible to be born and raised in a country and still feel alienated from that country! Especially if your race is a clear minority in that country..makes sense? so just because you are from a country you might still not be proud of it..Nikola is and I'm happy she is.
What you said makes no sense because Barbados does not have an ethnicity indigenous to the island anymore so now either African or European DNA is Barbadian
What is there to be proud of--her foreparents owned/traded in human cargo?🤷♂️
@@terrencejohnson8731 race relations have come a long way , let's not hit it in reverse, yes white people are guilty of a history of mass slavery, do you think black Africans can say they had no part in that horrible practice?...no because they enslaved their own to for centuries, and in fact would round up slaves for the Europeans slave traders. Are you proud of this? No one is..but we should welcome the newer generations like her who don't deny the wrong done by their ancestors. One love.
Bajan To De Bone! Love we accent!🇧🇧🌴
People forget that Black People aren't Originally from the Caribbean either.
Very true, the whole reason black people are even in the Caribbean is because of white people. Africans were taken from there homeland..
No that is false black people were everywhere before white people, black people were in the Americas and Asia long before Slavery
Knowledge Born False?! So you’re saying that black people weren’t taken from their homeland? That they willingly ended up on the Caribbean? The Caribbean islands language consists of French, Spanish, English, and Dutch. It would be different if Jamaicans were speaking Swahili, but they don’t. They didn’t have that option.
@QTee The indigenous people of the Caribbean Islands are and always will be the Carib & Arawak Tribes. To deny this is merely lies. Black people are Originally from Africa and began to populate the Caribbean during the slave trade, facts. Please spare me the poppycock.
@@chrisprk1134 Not true, the whole reason black people are even in the Caribbean is because of black people taking Africans from there homeland to sell in the white people land.
Wow that Bajan accent hits you with her first word.
Not too many people realize that there are Jamaicans who are Caucasian
-- Errol Thomas: I LITERALLY had a coworker from Peurto Rico tell me that Sean Paul (the JA entertainer) is not Jamaican. The MISINFORMATION about Jamaican heritage is rampant in a linear sense across MOST nations (even with the advent of CZcams now 14 yesrs).
To those LAKING info, Jamaicsns are "OUT OF MANY ONE PEOPLE" because they are a conglomeration of people from; 1. China, 2. India, 3. Germany, (see German Town in Jamaica) 4. Scotland, 5. Ireland, 6. Africa (most people THINK Jamaicans are ONLY from here), 7.Canada (Carol Joan Crawford, Miss JA, Miss World 1963) and Cindy Breakspeare, Miss JA, Miss World 1976), 8. Lebanon (Ex-Prime Minister, Edward Seaga), Jamaicans were joined by Middle Easterners, primarily Lebanese (Jamaicans call them Syrians), 9. An interesting mix of nations is Kaci Fennel-Shirley (Miss JA Universe 2014) from French, Indian, English and black roots, just to name a few. Dec 26, 2019.
@@rowsofshaflowers4284 The Reggae film The Harder They Come was directed by a Caucasian Jamaican born of English ancestry. As for the dude who told you that Sean Paul isn't Jamaican needs to do his research on him.
@@errolthomas9426 I myself is a walking melting pot. Even other Jamaicans question my Jamaicanity.
@@chillbillyhimself Have you ever watched a documentary called Forgotten Faces? I've seen the trailer of it. I have yet to check out the movie itself.
@@errolthomas9426 Yes I've watched it a few years back. That's the documentary about the Germaicans (German-Jamaicans) by David Ritter.
Just saw your video, loving it! Great Content. A true inspiration
Yes ma'am island girl here, so happy I found your page.
Jamaica's motto is 'Out of many, one people'.
that motto does not represent jamaica
@@mauricedaley9267 how would you know?
@@jacinthpearson7716 because I am a Jamaican
@@mauricedaley9267 That's Jamaica copying the US as usual.
@@seanwilson5516 how is Jamaica copying america
Wow, awesome! Beautiful accent.😍 Makes we want to go to Barbados right now. 🇧🇧🌴
Big up Barbados!!! Looking forward to moving there when I’m older.🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧
People forget the carribean was slave colony for spanish/ French and English. So obviously there will be European folk still there.
British, not English. Learn the difference and stop being ignorant.
I know you’re right, but I wouldn’t say it’s ignorant, most people don’t even know that Scotland had the rights to colonies in the Caribbean. Before we had GB it was English colonies, owned by English people
elijah oye it is ignorance as it is misinformation. Also that’s very true what you said and is the reason why there are more Campbell’s per capita in Jamaica than in Scotland
Don’t forget the Dutch
@@i_know_youre_right_but Irish aren't British learn that difference, and Irish accounted for 50% of the population around 400 years ago
Like any other languages/accents. The many West Indian accents are formed from their various distinct island history & influences: e.g. Trinidadian accent has West African, Southwest Indian, Amerindian, Spanish/Portuguese, French & Welsh/British contributions. The accent, like the people, food & culture reflects our rich & diverse influences! One love! One Caribbean! 🇹🇹
Shalom.
Thank you for sharing your lovely and interesting knowledge! That's what I mean when I say that good education is just SO important ♥️
@@footballman7028 Free Palestine
It’s soo true what you’re saying 🇹🇹🏴
I love her "Ahk-cent". Lovely. 😊✌️
I like the way she says the word 'accent'
Extraordinary complex accent; sounds quite familiar to my (Australian) ears, yet has North American (and Caribbean?) rhotic "r" PLUS an English glottal stop for some consonants ("bo'l" for "bottle" etc). A real melting pot. Delightful young woman too.
That Bajan is strong lol. No mistaking where she’s from 😂
It sounds like a mix of Irish, Cornish and Jamaican. Fascinating accent.
Sounds Bajan
Just wait until people find out how many southeast Asians live in the Caribbean.
Brian L That’s no surprise to me they are all over the Caribbean especially in Trinidad and Jamaica
Owen Hankey ok thanks for proving my point
Owen Hankey I’m a fourth generation Indo Trinidadian. Ancestors were brought by the British from India in the 1800’s.
Mr Web oh wow I got some East Indian in my family as well
A lot of Chinese people live in Suriname to.
Of course I knew that anyone of any kind can live anywhere, but it's still interesting to gain some more knowledge and insight on it, as well as visualize it better, it's pretty cool how diverse the world is in terms of land and heritage and everything.
So sweet & humble
What an understanding person
Love this! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Big up Bim! The Bajan accent is like our rum, smooth!
Southern
This takes me back. I hooked up with a white Bajan girl on holiday many years back. She was so lovely, damn.
Shes Bajan to a T.
I can relate. My Family have lived in Trinidad for over 200 years!
How many slaves did you guys own?
@@listenup2882 How many slaves did you own?
I hear a bajan accent and i am Trinidad that understand the different Caribbean accents ,also as many of our Caribbean people.
She has such a nice way of saying people sure can be ignorant sometimes.
I love the Bajan accent
My Girl..YOU ARE A BAJAN💖💖💖💖
I cant understand fully obviously as im from the UK but I totally get what you're saying, and also im trying to learn Patwah as its such a happy language I would love to go to Jamaica someday and speak Patwah without sounding like im taking the mickey lol!
0:43 she was about to curse😂
😂😂😂😂
Kiki G are ffff serious ?
no
I thought the same, but then to be fair she might have been close to saying "for real".
When last some of you visited Cornwall Scotland, lreland or Northern lreland
Every island has their own accents and sounds
I feel ya. I hate when people assume things about certain nationalities. My family is from Peru and even though I may not look like most of them over there I don't really appreciate comments like "Oh but you are too light-skinned", or "but you are too tall", and my favorite "but you are too handsome and good-looking". LOL. People are so ignorant. Peru is a multi-ethnic country with literally millions of people who are not Indigenous.
Same but I’m Mexican and light tan female with green eyes and is kinda tall so most people think I’m Italian.
@@eileebc9178 Doesn't matter what race you are. There are good looking people of every color. It's ridiculous when people just assume that only white people look good. Look at Rodney Dangerfield and the Naomi Campbell. There's no contest there, that's for sure.
@@coupleofbeers31 for real or aishwarya rai and idris Elba
I'm from Peru too and I also get that. Specially whenever I go to Lima
To someone from Great Britain or Ireland, she might sound like she's from Northern Ireland. Honestly I wouldn't be able to tell without being told so this is super interesting.
No 🤦♂️
She’s so cutee 🥺
Love my Caribbean people
Such an interesting accent. Sounds a bit Scottish, a bit Irish, a bit English, a bit Jamaican. If I met her I wouldn't have guessed she was from Barbados.
southern
I am originally from Jamaica and American look at me like I am crazy when i tell them there are Indian, white and Chinese Jamaicans.
That is typical of being from the Caribbean and going to UK, Canada and USA because i also experience the crazy questions and i'm black. One questions that sticks out studying at Delaware State College now Del State University was do we live in trees and that was coming from another black student. lol
I can relate to this. I'm a white guy from Anguilla and people in other parts of the world can't wrap their minds around the fact that there other ethnicities besides Black people in the Caribbean.
The entire history of the Caribbean consists of different waves of migrants throughout history so this shouldn't surprise anyone.
Another anguillian bless up brother 🇦🇮
If you’re white or Asian, and you go to a black country and you end up being white for many many generations, your family is probably racist. It’s not usual the majority of black countries remain black, because intermixing ends up with the offspring being either mixed or going right back to Majority black DNA. The only two places in Africa that have white people really is South Africa and certain places in North Africa where people have deliberately only mingling married people of their own race, because if they mix with the people of our black country, their offspring will be black. So it is surprising when a white person is in our country’s for generations. I’m still look like a white person.
Beautiful accent 💕
I can hear a mix of English accent and Irish accent, but when she says words like "really", "town", "here" and "Barbados" there's a definite Caribbean inflection that is very clear that comes out.
Wish I knew my Bajan side of the family. I only know my Jamaican roots.🇯🇲🇺🇸
damn im the opposite, i know nothing about being Jamaican lmao. Youre liberian also?
@@fruitflyhunter No I'm not Liberian. My apologies, I wasn't paying attention and chose th Liberian flag by mistake. I corrected it, thanks for bringing the mistake to my attention.
@@melanier7309 oh okay, no problem lmao
Melanie R I’m Bajan and Jamaican too 😊
Is true dat. I get the same thing. I look like I'm Puerto Ricans yet I'm from England with a Jamaican slant, I lean closer to the white line, yet this amazing accent, it just sends the lady's floating over to me, like the smell of curry goat but it don't stink so much. Also I've had two shots of white rum with my great uncle i didn't know existed online having a laugh. Coz me big so, and them maga, them no eat off da fatted cow like we. Well it's nice to know we live as one people.
Love it
I’m Scottish and her accent is similar to mines
Floridian
Bajan! Awesome.
Lovely accent
Shouts to all my anglo Caribbean brothers N sisters ❤❤❤❤❤✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊😘😘😘
Anglo mean English. She could be of Irish or Scottish descent
My Anglo Saxon brothers big up
Anyone can be born anywhere and sound like anyone.😎
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Exactly
i can her bajan accent but also an irish accent both mixed
No its just bajan. Bajan accent has british origins so theres gonna be similarities
@@MM-gp9mbi know im bajan btw and i heard her irish accent
@@camalbruce2348 that's just how white bajans sound
@@MM-gp9mb ok
Apparently we sound a bit Scottish and Irish as we don't sound African 🙄
I could completely understand being from 🇧🇿
I am from the Cayman Islands and of European ancestry with my last European ancestor to arrive in Cayman Islands about 1838
Having said that though I could not identify her accent as being Barbadian
Cayman differs from the rest of the Caribbean in that only a small percentage of its multi generational Caymanians ad being of unadulterated or near unadulterated African ancestry maybe 15 per cent and 10 per cent of unadulterated or near unadulterated European ancestry with practically no division in wealth based on skin color
There are several Caymanians who are black and very wealthy as were their parents and grandparents if not in cash but in huge amounts of property
I ONLY HEAR THE CARIBBEAN WEST INDIAN ACCENT AND THAT'S WHAT NEEDS TO BE ONLY HEARD.
Give your life to Jesus Christ
Caribbean
I have a French colleague from Martinique, just as ginger as she is.
A white creole 😉
I knew she was bajan right away
Love You Princess
My friends speaks with a banana accent and I’ve always said it’s got an Irish twang to it hehe ❤️
My friends speak with a limberger cheese accent and I've always said it's got a Welsh twang to it hehe ❤️
Tf is a banana accent 😂
@@MM-gp9mb am saying dawg ion know what tf she talkin bout
I met her once in Maryland
As a Trinidadian you are Barbadain
Love her accent, it has a heavy Scottish tinge to my (Northern Irish) ears.
Sounds pure Irish to my Aussie ears. :P
No Clean Out Your Ears You Prick !!
She sounds like she could be Rihanna's cousin.
William Baker I won’t doubt it considering Rihanna got Irish/Scottish heritage
Rihanna is from Barbados too
Rihanna sounds American. This chick sounds Irish.
@@NovaPrima Many people in Barbados of all colors have Irish heritage but this woman and Rihanna are unmistakably Bajan
@@waynehawley3910 Yes I know they both have the Bajan accent.
My father-in-law has the same problem and he is white from Trinidad.
Definitely bajan
The roots of the Bajan accent is West Country English and West African syntax.
Also Barbadian influenced early the American accent look up Barbados calorina accent
@@surfboarding5058 The Gullah people of Carolina reportedly have links to Barbados!
@@PaulNigelWarner yes both the Gullah who are the African descendants and also white Europeans who originated in Barbados first of the English Irish Scottish stock who have now been in the Carolinas for centuries
I heard that bajan upfront with Irish
I was told by my Trini tutor that she at a certain point gave lessons to Barbarian white girls.Seemed an oddity to me. I was told how kind they were .This was all in either the 1990s or early 2000s.
Think I'm in love
Yea i can hear the Bajan accent. I hear the Irish accent too. Lets not forget Europeans ruled the Caribbean in Colonial times. Even though they were the minority, many stayed here.
Obviously bajan, but the Irish accent is prevalent in her accent. The carribean is a diverse place
I could tell that she was Bageon from the her first sentence. :)
I don’t understand people, she sounds like bajan 100%
She sounds like a Kerry woman who's been living in the states for a while.
Listen to this one, I was told by a Southern White American that I couldn't possibly be of Jamaican descent.
The reason? Well, because I am brown and everyone knows that Jamaicans are jet black! (FWIW, my parents are from Jamaica 😅)
The caribbean is very diverse.
I knew she was from Barbados!
246 all day
In Canada, I was once asked where I was from. Convinced that my interlocutor would not know my island, I decided to make it easy for him. I said, I'm West Indian". He looked surprised. "Oh! You do not look Indian to me. Heh heh. Need I say more?
I mean, you are clearly ethnically British/Irish, or some form of Anglo or Anglo Saxon, so when people ask you if you are British, Irish, etc it's technically true. Ethnicity is different than nationality or regional belonging/where you live.
She’s talking about Barbadian nationality she is ethnically Anglo Saxon but doesn’t have that nationality
She said her family came in the 1620s which is when the indentured servants started to arrive in Barbados from Ireland, meaning she’s most likely of Irish descent, that makes her Celtic not Anglo Saxon
@@mikkiminach9539 history expert haha 😆 👍🏼
@@mikkiminach9539 though you might be right, you’re assuming a lot. Her ancestors could have sailers from Bristol/Gloustershire. That where all the slave ships set sail from… The English part of the Bajan accent is most tied to Bristol/Gloustershire. If you spend time in Gloustershire it becomes shockingly clear.
As soon as she opened her mouth i knew she was from Barbados.
amen
can hear the bajan accent straight away.
Trini?
As a West Indian I know that the westindies has all kinds of ethnic groups and mixtures , I deal with them all the time and always had knowledge of that from a very early age. All the islands are made up of people of all ethnic groups
You’re Bajan for sure!
I could never guess her accent. It sounds both British and Irish.
she is a real bejan.