This is Why You've Never Heard of the Nation of Chagos
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- The story of the island nation of Chagos is an extremely interesting one, albeit with a possible tragic demise for the native Chagossian people.
In this video, I discuss the origins of the unique Chagossian people or the Îlois, a multiracial ethnicity with origins from Africa, Europe, and Asia. These creole people have inhabited the island chain of Chagos for a couple hundred years until the British came along and created a little trouble in paradise.
If you have ever met a Chagossian, or even a Mauritian, Seychellois, or Réunionese person be sure to share this video with them. Spread the word about Chagos! We shall convert them into lovers of the all mighty Kek before too long!
Thanks for watching!
This is fasinating and a bit sad. I'm surprised I never heard of Chagos and being sold to be a military base. Thanks for making this video and enlightening us.
J. Matiyas I wish our media I the United States would talk about this instead of other pointless stuff. Thanks for watching!
Mauritius has gone to the International Court of Justice since two days ago to help regain Chagos. The last remaining person alive who was in the Mauritian committee for Independence from the UK revealed that actually, they were pressurized to give away Chagos cause it was either Independence but give away Chagos or never get the Independence that the Mauritian people so desperately hoped for. Only US, Israel and Australia are against Mauritius and Germany claimed to support neither side. 22 other countries are in favour of giving back Chagos to Mauritius so that they can help the Chagossians get back to their country.
ALL displaced, culturally homogenous, people deserve a nation of their own!
#FREECHAGOS
@@Arthur-pe2sr that doesn't matter that doesn't matter. Their ancestors were forcibly stolen and placed into that territory to then be taken out of that territory by Force, it's their home
I lived with a Chagossian guy when I lived near Gatwick airport just outside of London. He was a really friendly guy and we never really brought up the subject of Diego Garcia, I feel bad about what the UK did to his family and the other Chagossians. The creole sounds a lot like French and he has a lot of family that lives in Mauritius, the cuisine is somewhat like Indian but with lots of seafood! As you would expect.
Bonzur mo ene mauricien
Hello I am a Mauritian
It is true that creole was similar like Français and some African languages because it was used by the slaves from Africa and soon became the national language of Mauritius and including the Republic of Mauritius like : Rodrigues, Agalega, St Brandon, Tromelin and Chagos Archipelago
Hello I am an Afrikaner came here from your South Africa video. I have been to the island of Mauritius many times since my husband works there. You seem very well-informed. thank you and may God bless you.
Judy Kester Huh, wow that's really cool. I heard that a lot of white South Africans go to Mauritius to work and go on vacation.
Du solltest eigentlich zurück nach Holland gehen, und die schwarzen ihr Land zurück geben.
@@playgirl7305 South Africa doesn't belong to anyone and it's decolonised. The white south Africans are integrated. Stop being racist.
I was on Diego García around 2012 as a member of the US military. Beautiful island but very sad at the same time. Mostly just us, Brits, and Filipino workers who were quite obviously exploited by an American contracting firm. I had no idea about the forced removal of the indigenous population until now.
Bantu, they required Filipino workers to do labour. Not like Filipinos were immigrating there.
Josef Perez ...Of course Josefa.... Sad Island because al the happy people, the real owners of those beutyfull lands are not living there.... More vídeos pepernews, lawyers.etc... Yo rescue tour properties.! Oh my God... Al tour Power to help that lovely people... Thanks. Merci, Gracias...
I ment ... Newspapers..
Which firm is that contract firm...
Wasn't the mass removal of the population a crime against humanity
+Codex
No, they were in fact forced.
'agreed'
Yeah.. It is certainly a choice if American Imperialists point guns at you and say "Leave your nation or die".. Nice joke, Codex.
It has been declared by the human right
It is
My man pulled up in a suit 😂😂😂I give you respect for that
I know someone who was stationed in the British Indian Ocean Territory during the Gulf War. They are under a 99 year contract to not speak about what went on there, unless the US declassifies it. My best guest is POWs.
POWs? I am thinking that it might be some sort of secret project.
AN2 Prisoner of War
Torture probably.
Nuclear and chemical weapons my father was in the navy on amo ships in the 80s stopped in the often it's a huge weapons warehouse basically
#LiberateChagos & Praise Kek!
Seriously though, hope you guys enjoy this video and maybe learn something new!
oy vey
make a video about kekistan
Masaman what's with the suit? Why not go full Third Right and put on a bib?
Murzynka Zgwałcenie thats not a dead meme at all
You should make a video of socotra island
i have heard of the british indian ocean territory
but not chagos
Because the western propaganda is very efficient
My husband was stationed on Diego Garcia back in the late 1970's. There was a mix of US and British Troops (Plus a whole lot of wild donkeys) and they used it as a supply base especially during the Persian Gulf War. We were just falling in love at the time and when he called they would have a phone line from Connecticut to San Diego California. From there they had a radio to Diego Garcia. When I talked I had to say my sentence and then OVER so the radioman knew i was done with that sentence and it opened up to my then boyfriend to speak. Typical conversation" "I love you, over" "I miss you, over" " How are you, over" "I am fine, over"...very romantic, lol!!!
+lamp 81 My uncle was also in Diego Garcia during that time.
Really? I wonder if they knew each other. What is your uncle's name? Was he British or US Navy? I'll ask my husband if he remembers him. That would be incredible! :-) My husband is Duane Phillips, aka Thumper. The Brits named him that because any time he would get mad he would hit inanimate objects.
+lamp 81 He is American. His name is Vernon Brigner.
lamp 81
Is that all you've got to say after hearing about what happened to those poor people? All You and Your Story. Stop being so narcissistic. Your husband had no right to be there.
I noticed the date when you posted this and the first 4 minutes of this video I thought it was an april fools joke. Sad to find out this thing is real!
What got you into this? It's really interesting. Thanks for information.
You're awesome
It all started in the 9th grade when we had a geography test, and I got everything right, but mixed up the Republic of the Congo with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I've never forgiven myself for that grave error... and ever since then, have been obsessed with learning about places! I'm gonna guess by your name that you are French?
Thanks so much for supporting the channel man! It means a lot.
Masaman French Canadian yes.
Jean-Michel Rolland Aw, Quebec, amazing province. I've been there many times since my dad used to live and work there. Funny story, everyone asked him if he owned cattle and rode horses because he lived in Texas.
Masaman too bad Québec isn't free from those lunatics in the canadian governement
I always thought the Chagossians were the first inhabitants, I didn't know they were a mix of races.
Me too.
They are the first inhabitants, it's just that they are also a mixture
Most people from those islands are mixed
@Ian Brown
Wrong. Their ancestors were imported 300 years earlier. At least 10 generation of chagosians after that were born on the island making them full owners the same way all other countries in the world where the colonial powers imported millions of slaves.
@Ian Brown
There are many places in the world where citizens were also imported. The ancestors of today's citizens of the Caribbean countries and other countries like Australia, Guyana, Suriname, Belize, French Guiana were also imported.
Masaman, Another great video! I love how you remain basically neutral, whatever the ethnic/political/religious makeup of the parties involved is. Like yourself, I have always been fascinated by the makeup of the different countries across our world.
Before this video loaded I thought "someone should do a video on where the island on Lost would be" and you mentioned it
Fun fact the Chagossian was sent back to The Archipelago without any esscort and One of the island was taken away
The place isn't going to be giving back to them, is just one big military base that U.S. and British forces are going to keep for themselves irrelevant of how fair or unfair it may be to the Chago people. The other country I see it also sharing it might be India as a way to deter Chinese ambitious on the Indian Ocean, but probably no one else.
That bomb name....... Smiling Buddha...? That's like the west naming a weapon of mass destruction, "Buddy Christ." Hmmm maybe it makes you less likely to drop it.
Great Elaborate History..... all clear matter....no nonsense.
Let those who lost there homes get back the land soon....let it be a indipendent new Nation....Totaly Free from Neighbours Seychelles & Mauritius...because the former land owners have a mixed race of boat people who settled here from these Nations 300+ years back
Hope it will raise the U.N eyes to give the Land back to its owners and free Nation with full Indipendent rights will be set
As someone from East Africa I got to know this island few years age and the atrocities committed by British and Americans is appalling today the people from this beautiful Island live in Slams in Mauritius and Camoros Islands and some in South Africa and those in who live in SA went to the UN and tried to reclaim their ancestral land but American troops with the help of British looted their land
#FreeDiegoGarcia
And the rest of chagos
Another well made video about a subject that I had no knowledge about in the slightest. Thanks Mas.
You should do a video on the people and cultures of the most remote islands in the world (Saint Helena, Tristan Da Cunha, Easter Island etc.)
there are no native people to Diego Garcia... there has never been a native population....
the people that were imported there were plantation slaves and operators. they grew coconuts for copra a crop no longer in great demand... the plantation shut down for lack of profitability and the workers were abandoned....
they were doomed to inbreeding and would have died out in grinding poverty...
these plantation slaves were not seafaring people, and they had insufficient local resources to maintain a healthy population...
the nearest native seafaring people did not expand into the islands as was stated in the video.
Howard White those guys were fishermen, farmers ect. Like most island nation, there economy will have grow over time through tourism, regional commerce. You can't say that they would have die if left alone. Mauritius is the first African country with most millionaires. If you have visited this country, you will notice that famine doesn't exist in other island under the sovereignty of Mauritius. The fact that the origin of the chagosians are from different countries is the same like any other nation, like Australia, Canada, south Africa ect. A nation build under immigration, it's fact.
Nonsense Howard.
Your opinion
The same as Falkland Islanders.
Your content and research is great - just one small suggestion. Iraq is pronounced as e-raq not eye-raq
tighten that tie! lol
Fascinating. So frustrating that a whole group of people were moved from their country like that.
thanks so much i really needed to know this and was running out of time, thanks
American imperialism at its finest.
That was your only takeaway?
@@fgialcgorge7392 i mean thats essentially what it was lol
More like uk-us imperialism
British imperialism, smooth brain. It was the Brits that conducted the expulsion themselves
Been to Diego Garcia and Seychelles. DG is in the middle of no where but since the military is there it's like being in the states. Seychelles is pronounced
Say-shells.
WOW JUST WOW thank you for dropping some knowledge
Thanks for informing the public , it's an little talked about piece of history .
Thanks for this video. I learned something new. BTW, if you loosen your tie undo the top shirt button, otherwise tighten the tie all the way.
There are lots of innacuracies in your statements
Mauritius did not voluntarily sold the islands to the the UK, it was not given any choice at all. At that time, Mauritius was under British colonial rule, even if Mauritius disagreed they would have remove the islands from Mauritius, the best choice for Mauritius was to cede it TEMPORARILY and have its independence. In the agreement, the UK promised to return it when it will not be required for defense purposes which at that time was the Soviet Union war. The £3 Million that you mentioned was only a meagre compensation given to Mauritius, the UK used it to pretend that it was the price of the islands. After 50 years the UK is still using all type of pretexes to use the island for defence purposes. Both the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) confirmed that the islands was ceded under duress and that its completely illegal under international law to dismembered a territory before its indepemdence. After the Chagos was removed from Mauritius territory, Chagossians who went to Mauritius for medical purposes were not allowed to return home, food supply was cut off on Chagos islands, the Chagossians was threaten and all their dogs was gased with vehicle fumes. Finally all remaining Chagossians was deported like cattle to Seychelles where they were temporarily kept in prison before they were dumped on the street of Port Louis, Mauritius without any belongings. Lots of Chagossians died and many commited suicide. Chagossians brough a series of court cases against British govt in UK courts, they lost many cases but also won but the UK decided to overide the decision using the powers of the Evil Queen. To fool them, the UK decided to give chagossians UK passport and eventually some Chagossians move to the UK but other Chagossians generation was not given British citizenship which led to break up of families. Despite the martyr that they endured by the British, most Chagossians has been supporting British sovereignty over the Chagos islands especially those who live in the UK became obsessed about British citizenship and though that the UK will have much more money to re develop their islands and instead blamed Mauritius for their suffering. But now after realising that the British govt has been fooling them for nearly 50 years and have no intention to let them return to their islands, then they decided to support Mauritian sovereignty except those living in the UK.
I’m blow away by your interest about the Chagosian people I’am a descendent of Chagos I remember my grandma telling us stories about how nice life was there as a sailor I wish to sail there one day
I hope your community manages to return someday
Great insight..... would love to hear more about Chagos Nation. My blessings to Chagos
good stuff dude I love learning about other race of people
0:22 - believed the island chain of Chagos was well known by Maldive islanders but they didn't stay there because it was too far away from Maldives.
6:03 - if I were a Chagosian I'd probably want 2b in Britain.
Great video! Please do a video on Scotland!
Enjoy your videos, Thank You.
I heard about it!!! From another Video of you...
We aren't giving up Diego Gracia it is worth to much. I do not understand why we can't let the natives work on the base bc they ship in Indians and Africans to do the work
wagerlone selassi ok good for you for knowing that. You hippies can keep thinking the USA is horrible I really don't care what you think at all
What if Polynesians became the majority of the world Races?
WOW you may not believe this, but I just worked on Diago Garcia half a year ago. Boring as fuck, but then again I was working as a contractor.
Masaman, can i give you some advice? I’ve noticed the pattern of your mispronunciation of place names and i wish you would look up their pronunciation on the ones you’re not sure of.
Geographically it belongs to the Maldives. Mauritius have no rights of claiming it
No no the Chagossian was mostly sent to Mauritius and they lived in Mauritius so it belongs to Mauritius because it is there land
@@sreeiop3020 bring chagossians. NOT Mauritius
@@hussainshaffah6488 Do you know that Chagos is in British territory which was taken by force so it belongs to the Mauritians temporarily, then will give the Chagossian independence
- From Rodrigues
I didn't want to start the fight
@@sreeiop3020
British didn't take it from Mauritius. I also do support chaos independence. But Mauritius claiming rights of those islands is big mess
@@hussainshaffah6488
Yes they did they forced the Chagossian out of there land and Chagos would have been in one piece on the 12th of march
Similar things have happened to a few UK villages. Imber and Tyneham come to mind, and maybe Ashopton and Derwent too.
Yes !
diego garcia is where that missing Malaysia airlines flight was landed when it "vanished mysteriously"
So sad 🥺
Man
The US really can do some just terrible things sometimes
Wow! This is kind of sad! I hate war!
Chagos Archipelago.
Explored by Maldivian people.
People refused to settle because of isolation.
Mascaranus disocereved it. France later claims it.
French saw no real purpose.
French family imported Indian, and African slaves. Mauritius and Reniun island similar language.
French elites left. The Creole population stayed.
Great Britain claimed this.
In 1965 they bought the islands for 30 million dollars.
US built a military base their to defend against India for the Cold War if they turned red. 1967 the whole population was moved off the Island.
They had a language, culture, ethnicity, and even a church.
Today around 10,000 left. The rest populating the Seychelles, and the Mauritius (70%) and many have gone to the United Kingdom.
The one in Mauritius are integrated better because of the commonality of the Creole culture.
Used for troop deployment into Middle East.
Island of Diego Garcia. It might be returned after the US’s lease.
wow i really want to visit this island
Only military personnel can go there, there are no tourist.
Who already knew about the chagos archipelagos?
SomeDumbGamer well I'm from Seychelles so me
Not I, and I was a geography major!
I'll come stay there I'll be too scared of tsunami will come or are we still on the water from the ocean would get on the island it's just too small and no other land nearby LOL no for me
interesting doc. i was in DG in 2006. the "islanders" then was mainly Filipino
You should to talk about the Comoros Island
I first that’s one of these troll videos that geography now used to make but then looked it up and was super surprised
There is no nation of chaos.
that music came out of nowhere ;D
why dont the 30% of chagos in the uk move to matious
Cause better welfare in the UK.
Hmm🤔..sounds a lot like what the American gov’t did to my homeland if the Marshall Islands during WWII. We gained independence in 1986 but the US base is still there(StarWars program). Comedian Eddie Griffiths said it best, “everywhere the American gov’t goes, it doesn’t leave!” Awesome video masaman.
It's good to see that you quite well informed. I wouldn't want chagos to anex mauritius. I'm Mauritian and I know a lot of them. As you know India got big plan in the Indian ocean and I don't see them going back there again or I'm sure if mauritius win the island will be least to India. And most of these people because of there African origin they had been discriminate against. I wish that the British government take responsibility and help them build their lives that they well deserved. There's a very nice lady in Scotland that did a lot of research about them.
We don't trust the British..
We wish to be part of Mauritius...
Forced removal of a non-sovereign population would still be classified as a crime against humanity today.
@@mattroules6691 put your trust in Mauritius... you mean the government of Mauritius? All government in this world will do what is best for their own cause and not the people.
@@lip8995 not if the government is govern by the people
I might be ignorant but I don't think the Chagossians themselves are native to the island. I mean, they were French slaves, and brought from Africa by boat, just like most African-American were brought to America as slaves. Unlike other natural migrations of indigenous peoples (eg Native Americans who have resided in the Americas since human migration out of Africa and Asia). If this island belongs to someone and not the British, I think the Maldives is the right owner, because the Maldivian are already there to use it for plantations and fishing.
I know that the US Navy SeaBees used the island as a training facility in the 80's.
I know this is an unpopular opinion but i think the Uk goverment should sell that island to the US and give the money to the originals people of diego García that money.
Robert Does Wrestling,
That would work if the US was interested in buying it. If the Brits and Americans leave;
India will want Diego Garcia to counter the Chinese commercial/naval port in Pakistani
Baluchistan and the other port that the Chinese are building (have finished building?) in
Sri Lanka. China also has a large marine/naval base in Djibouti (US and French also have
small bases in Djibouti) across the Bab-el-Mandeb ("Gate of Tears") strait from Yemen.
We own an island in Diego Garcia called Nelson Island. We got screwed.
They did'nt really qualify as natives because they arrived there in the age of European colonialism, still forcibly removing them does complicate the issue, but it doesn't sound like there's really room for them anymore. I understand that loosing their land and community would be difficult but as long as they're being treated fairly where they are they may just have to move on with lives and make the best of things.
Just Because
Truth is the british decide to take the chagos from Mauritius in exchange of their independence and offered 3m as compensation. However, you can't sell an island which is occupied by native people. The chagosians were deported against their will. Their home were destroyed and animals killed. The UN rules are clear about these situation. You can't seperate a country like that. The UN has rule against China for doing so, against the appropriation of an island belonging to another country. If UN is not bias, they have to accept that Mauritius has the sovereignty of chagosians and not UK.
Fascinating nation, bit of a tragic story though.
wait, why did they have to move the native population off to build a base? There are other places in the world which this happened where the native population could stay,
landed on this video and its at '6,666 views;....phew, it will now be 6667 :P, close call! lol
finally we got em back!
IN TUTELA NOSTRA LIMURIA (Coat of arms of the "British Indian Ocean Territory" meaning "under our charge, Lemuria"), those bastards, usurpers... let Chagossians return to their homeland!
The will be to Mauritius if returned am afraid.
Maldivians discovered the place first and is part of the so called "Maldive Ridge", the King at that time have stated the archipelago as part of his Kingdom in his official letters, however the Maldivians who lived there were killed by the colonizers and later occupied by slaves. So dont they deserve the place more than the slaves who were brought in by the French?
Hey mate no Biggie but you were saying Seychelles wrong as someone who lived there for five years you should say it phonetically as in Say chells
Really, chagos islands shall be independent, or under the rule of Mauritius (I'm Mauritian btw). I think if Mauritius helps them to rebuild their country, Mauritius and chagos islands will be great friend after all. Mauritius is a great country with the exception of drugs and alcohol and stupidity of the government, usually politics.
I suggest you learn a bit more and delete this video and publish a corrected version. You could start by watching "Srealing a Nation".
Does anyone know if the Africans were sold or captured
Dooky Really difficult to get any direct certainty when it comes to things like that; but even if they were bought or directly captured by the French, they were likely captured either way.
Are there any Chagossians in the comment section? Would love to hear his or her perspective directly :)
im half Seychellois half Chagossians, My mum is from Chagos & im a 2nd Generation.
I am the Mauritian born guy living in South Africa...............what the Chagos will be used for in the next 20 years: Simple, it is about 3 hours away by plane from India, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria and the Arab gulf. Next best option would probably be the island of Guam........20 hours away by plane! The Chagos is also extremely important for the security of the South East Indian Ocean.......and with that............the security of all of the Western Coast of Australia! Forget giving the place back to the islanders...............instead give them a choice of becoming US, UK or Australian nationals. Together with that create a pension fund with 5 billion US$ capital and pay each of the 10,000 Chagossians, US$ 100,000 up front and a monthly pension from the remaining 4 billion. To the Mauritian Government you pay 1 billion US$ for them to end all sovereignty claims.
So for 6 billion US$ Chagos problem solved........10,000 extremely happy Chagossians.....now US, UK or AUS citizens!
Half the price of the wall! And if the Mauritian Government drags its heels, just invade the island and make it British or US territory............then you will have over 1 million happy Mauritians! The 300,000 remaining ethnic Indian ruling class can be sent back to India, if that would be their preference!
My guess is they will all grab US or UK citizenship instead!
I will choose to settle in Florida...........or Arizona...........or even Texas.........thank you very much!
GOD Bless you for your extremely well made videos.......!
Lawrence Nicolin lol. You sound like you want the U.S to do everything for you.
Not sure where you are coming from with your comment..........but the requirement for the protection of the interests of the West in the South East Indian Ocean is what it is!
Lawrence Nicolin Or Cyprus and Turkey...
Monty, the Chagossians, in the big picture , are a small problem. 20 years from now, there might be a US that is barely just recognizable from what it currently is..............and the ones hiding under the umbrella of all this are the Australians.................without ongoing UK and US support in defense matters, these guys will not exist for long...........they are destined be invaded by their more than 1/2 billion moslem neighbors crammed in confined territories, just north of their borders. The American Base in the Chagos is also very much about its proximity to the middle -east and the massive logistical advantage that this location provides for the area under consideration. As for the Mauritian govt......they can't use the Chagos other than for tourism and/or fishing.............but they could use education grants and work permit opportunities for their population in the US;UK;AUS;NZ @ Canada. So, yeah................for the price of just a few aerial sorties over the Middle-East..........the Chagos problem can be made to go away for at least the next 20 years.......if not for ever!
Lawrence Nicolin 5 billion is outrageous
Mall- DEEVS
Archipelago is pronounced ARK-ipelago.
When Mauritius was made independent we were given no choice by the UK that we were losing the island it has been a big cover-up if you do your research you’ll be able to find it
Can you please do ghana
Diego Garcia is a forward bomber and airlift command base, with a dozen or more strategic stores ships and several ware houses of army/Air Force military stores, forward deployed in case of conflict in Indian Ocean basin. We have the same set up in Guam, Azores, ascension island and nation states Israel, UK, northern Australia to cover different parts of the world
lproth, Yep- America is an empire. Not really surprising that something so cruel occurred to these people, stripped from their homes due to imperialistic paranoia. The nation of Chagos is just one of many, of course- yet they fair the best, as they retain their lives.
Well by a hundred years from now it probably would have sunk into the sea so it's actually better I think for the people to have left to bigger land masses.
Damn, I thought Chagos was an April Fool's prank like Geography Now's Bandiaterra. But after researching, it turns out it's real! Interesting video and TIL about Chagos and the Chagossians!
Buddy, i knew about the Chagos because the Slave Trade was actually held along the Indian Ocean and not West Africa.
It's Deutsche-Hollandisch History. They took the Pagans (Nword, Tri Racial Aboriginals, Coloreds, Austronesians, Blacks).
They are 100% Indian.
You are 30 40 years late and I've been telling you this for many years.
The slaves of color were always documented as being the Pagans. Not African Slaves as falsely reported by Americans and UK
Lost Cause History.
The language they speak is literally called N word! That's why you've never heard of it. It's a global Asian indo language. Like a global Kreol language.
Example: Yes is Ja just like in Deutsche.
They say Wit(tey) for White(s) and the Dutch say Wit(te).
Jew(s) is Djoe or Djoeka'. Moor is More and is a civilized N word.
They are not new and far from it. Find yourself a Dutch library and every thing you need to know about them is all layed out in books that existed before the slave trade and why they were chosen. Again, the slave trade was 90% Europeans (Coloni) and 8% N word and 2% other Asians.
But all slaves regardless where they came from were Orientals because even Europe is in the Orient.
Point being there were no Races only Asians.
You see, they are EURASIAN ABORIGINALS, Kanaka!!!!
Stop saying their language is due to contact with Europeans when fact is they are "Mother" to all men.
Why not call it the African Ocean?
Chagos for the chagonians!
Chagos will return. Mothera
Huh, poor Chagos :((
Mauritius never sold the island was stolen from us
True Vive Ile Maurice
can you do ur tie properly. it looks bad
My skin is brown but I am Black.
loool it is SAY-chelles.