Not unusual, try to be born in Japan or China or get born white in Africa. I mean Africa is a great country but these problems have been artificially injected globally to cause wars.
“He’s doing it from a sense of appreciation and love” Damn they still never got the point. He’s doing it because he’s literally fucking Jamaican. It’s not a choice.
Being asked by strangers if you have a passport to prove you belong to a people is so degrading and dehumanizing. This pissed me off to watch. Boy never even claimed to be black or anything.
The levels of disrespect and outright ignorance in the questions and statements in the interview was appalling. It's a good thing he kept his composure.
If he was raised in Jamaica he is Jamaican! Not sure why that's hard to wrap your mind around! And obviously the Jamaican culture has influenced him throughout the greater part of his life!
This is the truth. That’s how we classify people by nationality, unofficially official/standard. If this makes sense. From yuh grow up yah, yaah Jamaican.
That comment from minute 1.38 just blow my mind. So he rather look at a paper then his hole life. So you weren't born there, I don't see how's that relevant as you can get nationality by other way and then "call" you whatever you want because you have the nationality. People just focus on things that are irrelevant for no reason to the point that everyone just keeps looking to the next one and try to criticize. Just live and let live, he's Jamaican end of conversation lool.
Look at it another way, Lennox Lewis was raised in Canada but we say he's british, Harry was raised in Jamaica we don't say he's british, see the difference?
Real talk Pamela. I was raised in jamaica for my entire life. From 3 months old. Lived the country life. Went to school all my life there etc. And it's not until I came to the UK to live didni ever have someone put argument to me regarding being jamaican or not 🤣
Proper response would have been "When did you decide u were British?" I'm not saying that they are not British, it's just a direct comparison of saying that this guy is not Jamaican.
Born and raised in Jamaica, he's Jamaican. Imagine telling someone born and raised in the UK that there not British. I love how Jamaican people have stood up for this man. Much love to Jamaica.
He wasn't born in Jamaica. He said that his mother few out to Britain to be born in a British hospital. The point of contention is that he's white and was born in Britain, as if that somehow negates the fact that he was raised in Jamaica since before his first tooth, never mind first words.
White Yardie gave really intelligent responses to extremely condescending and borderline disrespectful questions. "Why do you *think* you're Jamaican?" "When did you *decide* that you're Jamaican?" Props to White Yardie for even having the patience to deal with that.
@TR please help me understand where they are coming from. I was born and raised in Jamaica, Mandeville Manchester to be exact. I grew up with every race of people in my little town, so I don't get where they are coming from with all this ignorance and prejudice...so please, help me see because it makes no sense.
@@prislaem3838Exactly they were just being ignorant I also lived in st Elizabeth and just like u saw many different races from Southfield to Ginger Hill my own family is in the spectrum they should have done some kind of research before asking such ridiculous questions 🙄🙄
@@goodintention3900 how can u understand where they’re coming from? It’s hypocritical Wouldn’t they call themselves black British? Same way he’s white jamaican?
Indeed, if Jamaicans HAD to be Black then would it be fair to say British and Americans had to be white? Are these people thick or what. Stoking up division and getting paid to do it.
I may be wrong here, given that I'm a white guy from Wales, but it seems to me that this is a case of a group of black British people who like to think of themselves as Jamaican, quickly realising that they're more culturally British and that ethnicity does not define nationality. I think this white Jamaican guy turning up makes them feel uncomfortable about their own identity and lack of connection to a heritage they have claimed all their life. Because, correct me if I'm wrong, but Jamaica has a lot of white, Indian, Chinese etc. minority groups. The vast majority of the population is black of course, but it's a multi-ethnic society like most of the Caribbean.
Yuh see it. If he looked "black", noone would be questioning him and talking about "appropriation." It just goes to show how much ignorance is still out there about Jamaica. He handled himself well though. Proud of him.
This chick..."he's doing it out of a sense of appreciation?" After all of the discussion she still doesn't get it. He's NOT doing it out of a sense of appreciation, he's doing it because that's what he was born unto.. It's his culture too.
She treats him like he's an imitator and doesn't actually belong, she's ignorantly telling him that his identity is false. White Yardie handled it a lot better than I would've. I don't know if the word "calm" would've been in my vocabulary.
It was like all his explaining was in vain because they still didnt get it. No sah, I definitely wouldn't have had the patience WY had. I know its helpful to educate but we can only lead the horse to the water, cya mek it drink. Me? Woulda give up.
My jaw dropped to the floor when the host said, "Clapping for the white man" with such lofty arrogance. The ignorance of the presenters in this programme is truly embarrassing and disgraceful. He should not have to defend his culture to people who clearly have no knowledge of their culture. Could you imagine a Black man being questioned by ignorant white presenters about being English and when the programme ends the presenters say, "Clapping for the Black man"? This is absolutely shocking and stomach turning.
They need to delete this show smh. Pure ignorance. Its amazed me that a mixed race girl said it as well, doesn't she have white uncles,l and cousins, or even dad depending on who was white out of her parents.
Fuck me as a black man who follow Yardie for years this is disgusting! My people are great people but sometimes we can be shallow and ignorant... Just look at how we treat each other sometimes!! Yardie is an ALLY to the people and bridges gaps we cannot! This whole mentality of ALL white is bad is exactly like the mad racists who dont accept black people! Yes as a whole the black community is distrusting of culture appropriation but if you cant feel the Love and Oneness of Yardie then you need to check their prejudice and humanity levels. Stay Blessed Yardie u are loved!
Bruh how hard is it really to understand this man’s background and how he relates to a specific culture. He’s not up here saying he identifies as a black man he’s clearly saying he’s Jamaican. Let the man breathe in peace.
Literally why is this even a conversation lmao. My mum is Jamaican she was born and raised there but if you genetically look at her background it’s Indian descent. Culture is different than race. If these people follow their own logic why are we not asking them to prove if they’re British -.-
That "When did you decide to be Jamaican" is such an insult. If he said to the guy "when did you decide to be British" then all hell breaks loose. If they actually go Jamaica one day they might see its not just black people there. Big Up Yardie. Held himself respectfully when nobody would've blamed him for getting riled up
@@aidygooner of course. White Yardie will remember sky juice, and will know the national anthem. I doubt anybody on the panel knows either of those things… shame on them
The one dude asking him "when" he decided to be Jamaican is ridiculous. Man was raised there and grew up there. Also Jamaican is a nationality not a race. Confusing how that's so hard for some to understand.
@@RazPerignon say that to them and even your own race will turn on you so don't say to much my g whites are soppy fools alot of blacks laugh about it all because whites don't stick up for theirselfs and let them riot smashing their own community up how tf that work? Lol surely that makes your community put another step down by them actions?? Idk or they are right, maybe they are right building mud huts in africa 30miles walk away from the nearest water source?? Haha, hate on the white but who was the 1st and last slave trader? Who sold their own people to the whites? But its all the whites fault cause they took over but built schools,colleges, homes ect,talking south Africa, but nah whites felt sorry gave back the land now who's starving cause there's no white farmers?
It’s not basically, it is the same it’s racism in the most clear form. Questioning a white dude because he’s not black enough to be Jamaican 😂 he should have said when did you decide you’re English and turned it back in the guy
Jamaica's motto “Out of Many, One People” shows that Jamaicans are. indeed one. No matter what race, class, religion, age or gender, we are all. Jamaicans!
He is Jamaican. End of. The underlying tone of conversation is they simply can’t get over the colour of his skin. If this was a young black man who was born, raised and educated in the UK with Jamaican parents, this wouldn’t be a discussion. This man is Jamaican. The end.
Well at the end of the day it is a discussion and I think he could have done a little better to explain the title of the video which is Jamaics is a country with it's own culture it's not a race and he being primarily born and bred there is a Jamaican he didn't choose the culture or country he grew up in. Another thing the panelist seems to be very ignorant of is that their are white Jamaicans and Asian Jamaicans it's a multi cultural island just like many Caribbean countries. I am also confused as to why the panelist would think he chosed to be a Jamican probaby he didn't know his backstory but I am positive a short profile would have been given. Why weren't there actual cultural appropriators on the show. You cant appropriate a culture that you grew up in.
Y’all say that but then almost all the wealth in the island are held by non blacks and not black Jamaican descendants of slavery. Thus the colorist, bleaching, and classism. Stop capping!!
@@hello_04 who’s capping? You telling me that the Indians who came in 1845 weren’t indentured slaves? Look elsewhere. Who owns the businesses? Who owns the hotels here? Who owns the banks here? Who built the super highway! Who gave away the bauxite mining rights? Who gave away the shipping lanes? The Government pardy! You have business here? You live here? Maypen is where I’m from, everyone here hungry! When you want to start that nonsense look at the political system. Come to me with this foolishness. About capping!! Furthermore what did I say that had nothing to do with Jamaican is a culture?
@@gopium1976 and “indentured” servant is a whoooole different animal that be property in chattel slavery, or a descendant of chattel slavery. We’re not talking about voluntary servitude as an indentured servant to pay off debt, pay for the opportunity to leave ones country for chance at greater opportunities latter. The wealthy Scottish and British land owners (of which my white Scottish wealthy great grandfather was one) still maintain those holdings today. As do the generational wealth and greater opportunities allowed indentured servants once their time contracted was over vs actual property (Black Slaves sold into this by slave traders for profit in Africa to Europeans). You surely do NOT see a plethora of Black owned gold and fine jewelry stores which are primarily owned by Indians. The Chinese own most everything else in the free market of business, and the whites still are holding onto the wealth and land assets they acquired on the backs of black slaves. The gaslighting of acting like the majority population of Black descendants of Jamaican slavery have the same assets and businesses and access to capital that people who were not considered and treated property and denied opportunities as such is supreme gaslighting. That’s why you have Jamaicans bleaching and singing about Brownins to separate themselves from their surroundings. Yes the government is corrupt...but the government itself has had mostly non Black heads. This whole out of one many front is a lie to pretend the blatant colorism and classism and asset building opportunities aren’t distributed largely along racial lines. You say that to assuage yourself from reality.
Can you imagine if this was a group of children/grandchildren of Polish immigrants questioning a black person who was born here as to whether they’re British or not?!? 🤦♂️ This man is Jamaican. “Out of many, one people”
White Yardie, we KNOW you are really Jamaican. 🇯🇲. No justification needed. This interview is an insult to all Jamaicans. We know our culture, our heritage and the diversities of our people! That's the national motto! These British or British Jamaican or Black British, whatever they classify as, are just rude and even a little snobbish. Especially, that guy and the lady who had the audacity to say, 'clap for the white man'. Very distasteful how they treated you during this interview. You did very well! God bless 🙌🏽
The interview run me the wrong way. I didn't like how they to talk him as my Jamaican brother at all. if you don't grow up in the culture u can't question him like that. he is our people end of story.
Black Americans and Black British people have been told for a couple of decades now that they can't be racist. And as a result this sort of thing is now very common. Whereas immigrants from the caribbean and sub saharan Africa in the U.K, and USA often actually point out to them, that they are being racist, and then are called race traitors etc.
@@thepubquiz3198 I don't know what planet you live on but I'm American black and I get called "racist" "separatist", "in favor of segregation" all the time by Latinos, whites and Asians because I vociferously say we need to build our own independent social and cultural institutions.
As a Jamaican... I can tell you just because of his accent he's Jamaican.. being born here, being raised here... MAKES YOU JAMAICAN. The Jamaican Motto literally tells you that no matter what you look like we are all the same... "Out of Many, One People"
this motto was made by colonalism and so we can open arms to the chinesse and others .... in china do they accept us, in europe do they accept us.... we should prioritize ourselves first...as you can see in jamiacan now, all the ports bought by the chinesse... the grocery market byy korean and chinesse.... they come in and take over due to lack laws ... this out of many people motto.... the watch you like a hawk when a woman try to purchase a weave....although. i am for only natural hair...the point ...the locals should be the priority... He is born in jamaica but he isnt jamaican...he is european same with the china man....
It's not just words, either. People there really think this way. That's how they live. So, British/Indian/Chinese-ethnic Caribbeans have to deal with the culture shock of people telling them they're not from there. Makes them think that Americans and British people are just stupid, lol.
I had a born and raised Jamaican boss who was white and immigrated to Canada. He had the accent like this guy. He 100% considered himself Jamaican but he turned heads when he spoke to people all the time.
He doesn’t simply “appreciate” Jamaican culture, he just IS Jamaican, period. It’s just that simple. He was raised there in that culture, therefore that HIS culture.
I am a born and raised Trinidadian 🇹🇹 and I accept White Yardie is a Jamaican🇯🇲. He live and grow in Jamaica and that is all he knew. He didn't choose to be Jamaican. That is what he IS. "Out of many, One People." Race is NOT Culture. This panel did no research what so ever and then looked to insult the man by saying " We clapping the white man!🙄" at the end! Yall just came across as ignorant, uninformed and clueless. ❌❌
"White" Yardie is Jamaican because he was raised and educated and lived in Jamaica and is Jamaican. Jamaica is primarily a location, a geographical area. Associated with that geographical area is a culture and he is part of that culture.
@@lorrinimes9008 I don't know because this is my first time seeing them and I don't know their history and past recorded episodes. Do you think they would have a show if they knew the difference
Can’t lie I feel it stems from an inferiority complex. British people with Jamaican heritage who don’t know as much about their homeland as this white guy (like Zeze said) so they try and discredit him. I can’t lie I used to think he was just “playing a Jamaican” but after hearing his story I get he’s just being himself in the way and environment he was raised
I thought it was just me, but These questions were full of ignorance & AUDACITY!! I’m sorry that he had to sit through that… 😢 He held himself & represented well though! ❤❤❤❤ #OneLove
“When did you decide to be Jamaican???” “To call yourself Jamaican is interesting…..” Where do they get these idiots from? Seriously these people are ignorant and unintelligent. “Is he cultural appropriating?” What? White Yardie is white. There is nuff white Jamaicans in Jamaica. Fact! People need to educate themselves. If you are educated from young and raised in a system of a particular country then thats what you know. I’m saddened and mad that you had to go through with that.
That's exactly what I'm saying. I'm flabbergasted. Dude in that Grey button up needs to realize Jamaica is a country just like America is a country. Which means if you lived their your whole life and you were raised there you are from that country.
Imagine if a white person asked HIM when he decided he was British. Oh wait, you don't have to imagine, because white racists ask that to black people all the time yet somehow this idiot didn't suss that parallel
The fact the first guy who’s probably lived in England his whole life has the cheek to sit and question you on weather your Jamaican or not is a piss take
My kids grandmother is Puerto Rican but pale as they get, she's scared to be around American non-whites besides her husband who is dark because of shit like this, she's been attacked in Tampa for being a "white woman acting Hispanic" by these nut jobs, she was born and raised in Puerto Rico as was her mother and her mothers mother and doesn't even speak English well.
And have the gall to say, people may think you are more jamaican than me. Bitch the man is Jamaican. He is more jamaican than you in everyway. He would be your guide and telling you about His country if you decide to visit because that is what you would be doing. Visiting.
Imagine being asked "when did you DECIDE to IDENTIFY as Jamaican" like he just woke up one day and decided where he was gonna be from. In that case, you could ask black Jamaicans the same thing because technically they're of African descent - I doubt it would go down too well in that situation though.
Being a mixed race individual from the UK (Barbados an British) these interviewers are treating the white yardie like the racist British people would treat us, he's white and from Jamaica, exactly the same as us being black and from Britain, this is giving me racist vibes
Agree. I was flawed when they called him "white man" at the end. Would that fly the other way around?? And I don't get why they're questioning him in the slightest if he grew up there...
When people say “black people cant be racist” show them this video. As a Caribbean man myself, I have to deal with this on a constant basis. You are the ambassador of our islands, not only Jamaica. Our islands accept, educate and raise everyone as their own. You handled this interview with grace
Your post does not make any sense here. So many people misconstrue the term racism and it needs to stop. Racism is essentially belittling, demeaning and showing hate towards one's race. Yes black people can be racist, but these black people were clearly not racist. How common is it for a white person to be both heavily immersed in Jamaican culture and communicate in a Jamaican accent? These people were really curious, hence why they asked questions to be better educated. We as a society should be able to ask questions rather than assume and dispel fraudulent information about others.
First and foremost the definition of racism, according to Oxford: “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.” Anyway, go to the 0:40 and listen to where the man questions his authenticity. Jamaica, like any other island, is a melting pot. For a person to question that, according toOxford the definition- is racism. He’s a minority in Jamaica and they’re pressing him with prejudice allegations based on his skin tone. You’re solidifying my comment by saying, “Yes, black people can be racist.” You can’t say my post doesn’t make sense and then agree with me. Racism isn’t exclusive to any particular group… Look at Dominicans and Haitians right now. You’re right, they should ask questions WITHOUT involving prejudices based on skin color.
He grew up in Jamaica so he is jamaican. Anyone that finds that hard to understand has some racial issues in their head that they need to resolve. This guy is Jamaican and no real Jamaican or rasta man will ever deny that, its just these 2nd and 3rd gens that find it hard to understand that skin colour doesnt mean a damn thing.
I'm a 2nd gen and i completely understand the difference between, nationality, ethnicity and race. These individuals regardless of their heritage are just extremely uneducated and ignorant. I feel so sad that people might think all black British people of Jamaican descent think this way. Such awful representation for us. Most people aren't this ignorant, it's a shame they have a platform to do this to people like white yardie. The only people they embarrassed are themselves. They think all three, Nationality, Ethnicity and Race are the same thing. White yardie is Jamaican in nationality not Ethnic background and he never claimed to be anything he wasn't, any ethnicity can be of Jamaican nationality, it all just depends on where you grow up. Race plays no part in your nationality or the culture you grow up in. Seems they only know how to identify with Jamaica through their race and not through the actual culture itself which i find sad because the culture extends far beyond race and real Jamaicans know that.
@@thinkinyblinko6666 A mouse grew up in the stable. He knows stable culture pretty well. Then he goes to the city where he meets horses that grew up in the city even though their parents are from the stable. Those city horses don't know shit about stable culture but question the mouse about it. City horses are know confused because they think they should now better than mouse, but they don't. They have never been in a stable before. See how that logic works when you take all the emotion out?
@@nesepo right? This mouse and stable shit makes no sense. If a mouse grows up in a stable it will be a mouse with a stable as his home. If a white person grows up in Jamaica he will be a white person with Jamaica as his home. Can you Imagine if some Yankee told this people he's actually British and they are not because of his and their ancestry?
And the last woman "he's clearly doing it [appropriation] out of a sense of love" - nah, he's not doing 'it' at all. He grew up in Jamaica, went to school, made friends whatever. Ridiculous.
That's what's so infuriating about this interview. The man literally says he was raised in Jamaica from the time that he was a baby. Yet these interviewers think it's some kind of self-identification on his part. He should have asked them when they started identifying as British, given that they're all black yet grew up in England.
Yeah they seemed to take his statement that he wasn’t born in Jamaica and ran with it like that somehow that doesn’t make him Jamaican I wasn’t born in PR, but I was born to Puerto Rican parents, raised in a Puerto Rican family, and grew up, well, Puerto Rican lmao. We went back to the island every year to see family. I lived mostly on the mainland so my experiences are different from my cousins that never left the island, so I know I don’t know 100% everything when it comes to living there long term, but that’s what empathy and solidarity is for. And no one on the island has ever questioned me being Puerto Rican 😂 the idea is absurd Like, I can somewhat understand the British Jamaicans discomfort because they probably, as 2nd and 3rd gens, feel a connection to Jamaica and DO have heritage, and then this man is breaking their own sense of identity and worldview. But to question someone RAISED there? “When did you decide to identify” bruh he lived there is whole life. See him as “adopted” into jamaican culture if you have to (even if it’s not the right way to think) but dude is Jamaican straight up
He wasn't born in Jamaica, that's why they asked him that. He clearly said that his mother gave birth to him in a different country, then he went back to Jamaica. Some people identify with the country they are born in more than the country they grew up in, for some it's equal and for some the country they grew up in is their entire identity
As someone who was born in the UK, went to school in JA for 4 yrs from the age of 14, and has been in the UK permanently since, I think that racism has been so entrenched in the UK/black British psyche that observing White Yardie is very difficult in terms of trust. On the other hand, the school I attended consisted of white kids (born in JA) as well as black. Everyone is accepted there as 'out of many one people'. Depending on the religion you are part of, colour and variation of each other's hue is a thing of beauty and highlights the Creator's depth of unfathomable character. You only need to take a peak at the rest of the animal kingdom.
The way you responded to ignorance is more than commendable 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. Love that. The hosts maybe need to do research about Jamaica. My parents are black and Jamaicans and my mother cooked Chinese food since I was a child. She said a Chinese friend, who was Jamaican, taught her how to cook chinese food in Jamaica. I cook it to this day. Talk about missed opportunity to educate themselves and wider audience about Jamaica and the diversity of Jamaican people.
Being a Jamaican doesn’t mean that you have to be black. Jamaica is made up of different ethnicities, as our motto says”Out of Many, One People”. He’s not showing an appreciation like a tourist….. it is who he is………a Jamaican. 🇯🇲
I could not have said it better. living and growing in Jamaica you do not question if you are Jamaican or not your just being you.. I think this interview shows the interviewer's ignorance.
Shoot I'm not even Jamaican and I agree with and get everything you are saying. The Carribean islands all together are a melting pot of different races and culture. There are white, Asians, blacks, and natives. So it's very ignorant for the panel to tell white Yardie that he's not Jamaican just because he's not black
And this goes for any country not just Jamaica Iam from Scotland and have friends who came over from different countries when they were young grew up here and consider themselves scottish as they are !
Big up Yardie! I hope to one day stay cool like you in a discussion. Respect! When that guy said, when did you decide you were Jamaican? 🤯 like what bro! Those people interviewing you are something else! So disrespectful and ignorant.
The fact that in 2021 people are still not able to grasp the difference between ETHNICITY. And NATIONALITY is honestly mind blowing. Stop making jamaica an ethnicity there is a difference. Big up to you for conducting yourself in a professional manner 🤝
The ignorance of these people is offending my sensibilities. That man had the nerve to ask "when did you decide to be Jamaican". 🤦🏾♀️ Yardie you betta than me, cause I woulda let loose some bad word on these fools.
But then people would be calling him racist. He did the right thing by politely answering their stupid questions and showing them up as being ignoramuses.
The most astonishing thing here is that when it comes to the immigrants in Britain these exact same people would say it's deeply racist to question their Britishness.
This panel was uneducated about the Jamaican culture & they were very disrespectful to White Yardie...dem need fih apologize Brite & Outta Ahda...🇯🇲 Jamaicans in England need to let the panel know how dem feel
My cousin was born in England, but my aunt brought him to Jamaica at 22 months. No one ever questioned whether he was Jamaican; in fact no one would even know he was born in England unless he told them. My point is yes there are white Jamaicans, and no need badgering anyone who identifies as such. In fact in Jamaica we’re all Jamaicans (Black, White , or Asian). 😊
that is so true yes he is white skinned but he was brought up raised in Jamaica. He is a Jamaican. I am a Jamaican heritage but born and bred British so I am more whiter than him even though my skin is darker. This man is 100% Jamaican n i love everything about who he is and what he represents nuff luv big up white Yardie
This part of the interview enraged me. HES JAMAICAN we have black British people trying to question that. You go Jamaica and I would chop of my own arm if they don’t call you English Boi!
This was a crazy interview. Obviously these people don't realize Jamaican people come in all different colors. WTH, man! That dude saying "if the community embraces you" Omg someone needs to box his head.😂
exactly, condescending and downright rude. That bloke was talking down to him, he was lucky he didn't get licked around the face with a backhand. The bloke was so arrogant and had an upper class attitude
nuttin bout dis was woke, dis sum straight 'sleep talkin'. Dem should learn to do research before openin dem mouth. Dis a 2 min or less explanation. Him raised in a Jamaica, he Jamaican, full stop.
“When did you decide you were Jamaican” how fucking rude is that question. How would that dude like if it he said “when did you decide you were British”.
He grew up in Jamaica, from three months of age, and he has a Jamaican passport. His WHOLE life has been based in Jamaica, he's not putting on an accent or pretending to be Jamaican he's legit! So what makes it so difficult for this panel to understand? If an American is born overseas to American parents, due to them being on holiday for example, that person would still consider themselves to be American without a doubt.
Well done mate. You conducted yourself better than I would in that situation. These idiots are struggling with their identity and don't understand the distinction between heritage, nationality and culture. You're a wise man. These guys are fools.
I think a lot of second or third generation immigrants struggle with identity issues (understandably). I think that’s why these people are so threatened by the fact that a white guy is more Jamaican than them. They don’t feel British enough and they don’t feel Jamaican enough so having a white guy be more Jamaican than them is triggering their identity issues. That especially seems to be the case with the guy who asks when he ‘decided he was Jamaican.’
Quite frankly if you’re second or third generation you need to assimilate to the country you’re living in. Period. There’s no debate or room for debate about that. If you’re missing your “roots” that much then go back to them. Nobody forcing them to be in white nations.
@@Commander23c to be fair, it's not just a black/latino thing. There are like 6th generation Italian-Americans whose whole personality is being Italian, but they don't know anything about the culture, even worse, those Scandinavian Viking larpers. I once was talking to a white American and he told me "I really care about family, you know, I'm Lithuanian". He meant one of his grandma's was Lithuanian, never been there, didn't know the history, didn't speak the language, like wtf?? Also, what nationality does not care about family?
I think a lot of British blacks are not aware there are other races that thrive and identify as Jamaican. 'Out of many, one people.' AND unlike the British they do not go to Jamaica and try and influence the culture to be more like them. They embrace Jamaican culture. Great interview
I’m biracial, born in a “white” country grew up in a Caribbean country. I was never really accepted but in my heart I always identify as being from that country. No one can tell me who I am.
Only people who have spent no time of consequence in the Caribbean would look at a person who isn’t black and say they can’t be from the islands. I lived in the Caribbean and I’ve met people of all shade that don’t know anything but the islands. People have to remind themselves about how the west was settled to obtain perspective in its current inhabitants. If you were raised there, that’s what gave you your identity so you are Jamaican.
Wow. As a black man I got to say that this was one of the most ignorant things I've seen in a while. Looks like to me there's these groups of people who just need people to stay divided.
Real born Jamaicans know this! That's why we have the saying out of many one people!! These black British people don't have fucking sense! Hence why so much Jamaicans are angered in the comment section
Our motto is “out of many one people “ our skin pigmentation does not define our culture only our race. It’s time the rest of the world understand that there are more to Jamaica than just what they heard on tv, read or hear from their neighbors.
"When did you decide you were Jamaican?" & "clap your cheeks for the White man" ...Da fuq?! Are these people for real?! Come through White Yardie - you answered these questions so eloquently and with intellect👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾! I hope these interviewers have learnt from you!
"It's funny hearing you say you are Jamaican, when you just said you weren't born there. But, I guess..." What the actual fuck. Dude was born to Jamaican parents who went somewhere else to give birth, and come back 3 months later to live the rest of his life in Jamaica. He's Jamaican.
Yeah, but they obviously are into those Japanese style citizenship scenarios... Like the little moustache man or something. Joking aside, I don't know if all of this was supposed to be some sort of comedy show and this was like a thought provoking jest or something such, but if it was, they sure flopped in that delivery, because the whole segment just came across like a kkk meeting or at least what you would imagine one must be like.
Wow Yardie you handled this interview amongst ignorant people exceptionally well brudda.I don't know why its so hard for people to understand that Jamaicans come in all colors. "Out of many, One people" Its crazy that these people just wanted to try and belittle instead of actually understanding your story. While the vast majority of Jamaica is black there are Syrian-Jamaicans, Chinese-Jamaicans, Indo-Jamaicans, White Jamaicans and a whole heap of mixed up people. My family is from Jamaica and I have cousins that are white, dark, lightskinned and the whole lot. Glad you went on there showed them what it is, you're a real one and will always have my respect.
I am so confused, I wonder if the panel has seen any part of Jamaica outside the tourist cities? "When did you decide to be Jamaican?". Born to Jamaican parentage and growing up there isn't enough? My family is Jamaican (St Ann and St Elizabeth). We have every colour of skin from white blonde and blue eyed to brown eyes and chocolate skin, all Jamaican with a lineage that has been traced back 100s of years. We are all proud of our heritage as Jamaicans. For some panel members to equate 'blackness' to 'Jamaican' is not only reductive and harmful , but sadly also means an opportunity to educate people about the rich culture and heritage that Jamaica has was missed. Perhaps spend some time away from the resort towns and cities and see what the country is actually about. What do they think the national motto means? Well done White Yardie. St Bess salutes you. 👏👏👏🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
British born St Lucia and even I know the Jamaican motto. This was so disgusting, that last insult, cause it was nothing less, clap your cheeks for the white man, offended me to the core.
The funny thing is the people on this panel would be the first ones to cry racism if someone said they weren’t English 🤣 but well done to the Jamaican people for defending white yardie against these racist idiots who can’t accept the fact a white man is more connected to Jamaican culture than they will ever be.
@@judyleonce6143 It was more a joke on the historic implications of the adoration for the white man from my point of view . I understand if someone misunderstood why it would seem like an insult though.
Three of the most influential Jamaicans of the 20th Century ,Edward Seaga, Alexander Bustamante and Michael Manley, were of mixed/mostly white heritage and lead Jamaica from 1960's onwards for different political parties. To hear two of them speak by today's standards they'd be appropriating black culture. The conversations around race now are so counterproductive and ind numbingly stupid. He was raised in Jamaica, therefore he is Jamaican. Imagine 4 white British people questioning whether a black man born in London is 'British'. It wouldnt happen because it's stupid + some of these identity concepts are so ambiguous.
So you have 4 British people questioning a Jamaican on his Jamaicaness 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Its a set up to gain engagement... (successfully done)
Correction. 4 so called British people
Facts 😂😂😂
@@MrMbisker bro their British deal with it.
@@mkt106 😂😂😂😂😂 they are as British as
Rachel Dolezal is Black
Imagine telling a British born black person they ain’t British bc they’re black. That’s pretty much what they’ve implied for yardie 🤣
Not unusual, try to be born in Japan or China or get born white in Africa. I mean Africa is a great country but these problems have been artificially injected globally to cause wars.
@@notinterested8452 Africa is a continent
@@notinterested8452 lol
I know man, if this was flipped it would be seriously racist
@@notinterested8452 Africa is a cool country but not as good a country as Asia 🇪🇺💪
"When did you decide to be Jamaican" that was foul.
Especially coming from a gay black Brit. Should’ve asked him when he decided to be gay and watch hiM have a melt down
He should've asked him when did you decide you were british? And have you had british whites looked at you like you didn't belong? Thought so..
And uncalled for. As black Caribbean man married to a Jamaican woman. There’s white people everywhere. Just like there’s black people everywhere.
Yeah
The most asinine question ever
“He’s doing it from a sense of appreciation and love” Damn they still never got the point. He’s doing it because he’s literally fucking Jamaican. It’s not a choice.
Spot on. That one guy wasn't sure at all and then the passport thing made him happy 🙄
fuck these guys are just so stupid. painful to listen to.
Yeah she didn't have a clue!
@@NalieJoy yeah they were acting like he was just pretending and putting on an accent or something
Being asked by strangers if you have a passport to prove you belong to a people is so degrading and dehumanizing. This pissed me off to watch. Boy never even claimed to be black or anything.
The levels of disrespect and outright ignorance in the questions and statements in the interview was appalling. It's a good thing he kept his composure.
Exactly but at the end he was like 🙄
Trashy ignorant people sounded like listening to a closet stupid racists
Clap your cheeks for the whiteman 🤦🏽♂️
Especially from that black gay guy
I know I couldn't of
If he was raised in Jamaica he is Jamaican! Not sure why that's hard to wrap your mind around! And obviously the Jamaican culture has influenced him throughout the greater part of his life!
This is the truth. That’s how we classify people by nationality, unofficially official/standard. If this makes sense. From yuh grow up yah, yaah Jamaican.
That comment from minute 1.38 just blow my mind. So he rather look at a paper then his hole life. So you weren't born there, I don't see how's that relevant as you can get nationality by other way and then "call" you whatever you want because you have the nationality. People just focus on things that are irrelevant for no reason to the point that everyone just keeps looking to the next one and try to criticize. Just live and let live, he's Jamaican end of conversation lool.
They are crazy.
Look at it another way, Lennox Lewis was raised in Canada but we say he's british, Harry was raised in Jamaica we don't say he's british, see the difference?
Real talk Pamela. I was raised in jamaica for my entire life. From 3 months old. Lived the country life. Went to school all my life there etc. And it's not until I came to the UK to live didni ever have someone put argument to me regarding being jamaican or not 🤣
"Wen did u decide u were Jamaican"?!
What a fucking jack ass of a question!!!! JAH bless u yardie!
Proper response would have been "When did you decide u were British?" I'm not saying that they are not British, it's just a direct comparison of saying that this guy is not Jamaican.
Born and raised in Jamaica, he's Jamaican. Imagine telling someone born and raised in the UK that there not British. I love how Jamaican people have stood up for this man. Much love to Jamaica.
He wasn't born in Jamaica. He said that his mother few out to Britain to be born in a British hospital. The point of contention is that he's white and was born in Britain, as if that somehow negates the fact that he was raised in Jamaica since before his first tooth, never mind first words.
White Yardie gave really intelligent responses to extremely condescending and borderline disrespectful questions.
"Why do you *think* you're Jamaican?"
"When did you *decide* that you're Jamaican?"
Props to White Yardie for even having the patience to deal with that.
You got to understand where they are coming from. When you understand you can’t be upset. I’m happy he’s educating them
You know coz that fool wanted taking out back and beating
@TR please help me understand where they are coming from. I was born and raised in Jamaica, Mandeville Manchester to be exact. I grew up with every race of people in my little town, so I don't get where they are coming from with all this ignorance and prejudice...so please, help me see because it makes no sense.
@@prislaem3838Exactly they were just being ignorant I also lived in st Elizabeth and just like u saw many different races from Southfield to Ginger Hill my own family is in the spectrum they should have done some kind of research before asking such ridiculous questions 🙄🙄
@@goodintention3900 how can u understand where they’re coming from? It’s hypocritical Wouldn’t they call themselves black British? Same way he’s white jamaican?
He was raised in Jamaica, he’s Jamaican. Not all Jamaican’s are black. Let’s not be ignorant please. Our motto out of many one people.
The fact that visually he isn't even white either.
Thank you
Indeed, if Jamaicans HAD to be Black then would it be fair to say British and Americans had to be white? Are these people thick or what. Stoking up division and getting paid to do it.
@@here.3070 what’s funny is, the Taino people’s of Jamaica (the natives) wouldn’t be classed as Jamaican by this panels logic
Exactly
"When did you decide to be Jamaican?" hits hard when you are actually Jamaican.
"when did you decide you were Jamaican?"
My dude it wasn't his decision 😂😂😂
I may be wrong here, given that I'm a white guy from Wales, but it seems to me that this is a case of a group of black British people who like to think of themselves as Jamaican, quickly realising that they're more culturally British and that ethnicity does not define nationality. I think this white Jamaican guy turning up makes them feel uncomfortable about their own identity and lack of connection to a heritage they have claimed all their life. Because, correct me if I'm wrong, but Jamaica has a lot of white, Indian, Chinese etc. minority groups. The vast majority of the population is black of course, but it's a multi-ethnic society like most of the Caribbean.
A nice observation. Agree 100%
Bravo!!!! You've put into words all I wanted to say
Seems legit.
Correct!
Perfectly said.
How can you appropriate a culture when you're actually from that culture?
Yuh see it. If he looked "black", noone would be questioning him and talking about "appropriation." It just goes to show how much ignorance is still out there about Jamaica. He handled himself well though. Proud of him.
Great ?! I am sure he identifies more with Jamaican culture than he does to British (England) culture
It’s because of the umbrella term “black culture” and if you’re not black you’re not apart of it.
Africa is the most genetically diverse continent in the planet. Jamaica's diversity pales in comparison. This should be a non-issue
@@officiallydreama4412 Jamaican doesn’t equal Black culture though.
This is insulting, if these questions were reversed or posed upon any other ethnicity it would be considered racial hate
"You can't be Jamaican because aren't black" So is the black guy not British then?
This chick..."he's doing it out of a sense of appreciation?" After all of the discussion she still doesn't get it. He's NOT doing it out of a sense of appreciation, he's doing it because that's what he was born unto.. It's his culture too.
She treats him like he's an imitator and doesn't actually belong, she's ignorantly telling him that his identity is false.
White Yardie handled it a lot better than I would've. I don't know if the word "calm" would've been in my vocabulary.
I thought exactly the same thing, the level of ignorance is shocking.
Ignorance is not always bliss!.. l cringed whilst listening WY is Jamaican 100 percent!
It was like all his explaining was in vain because they still didnt get it. No sah, I definitely wouldn't have had the patience WY had. I know its helpful to educate but we can only lead the horse to the water, cya mek it drink. Me? Woulda give up.
Exactly!
My jaw dropped to the floor when the host said, "Clapping for the white man" with such lofty arrogance. The ignorance of the presenters in this programme is truly embarrassing and disgraceful. He should not have to defend his culture to people who clearly have no knowledge of their culture.
Could you imagine a Black man being questioned by ignorant white presenters about being English and when the programme ends the presenters say, "Clapping for the Black man"? This is absolutely shocking and stomach turning.
They need to delete this show smh. Pure ignorance. Its amazed me that a mixed race girl said it as well, doesn't she have white uncles,l and cousins, or even dad depending on who was white out of her parents.
Well said. Shouldn't treat any human that way.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽very uncalled for, how about "can we please give *insert name* a round of applause" 🙄🙄 shit like this gets me annoyed
Fuck me as a black man who follow Yardie for years this is disgusting! My people are great people but sometimes we can be shallow and ignorant... Just look at how we treat each other sometimes!! Yardie is an ALLY to the people and bridges gaps we cannot!
This whole mentality of ALL white is bad is exactly like the mad racists who dont accept black people!
Yes as a whole the black community is distrusting of culture appropriation but if you cant feel the Love and Oneness of Yardie then you need to check their prejudice and humanity levels.
Stay Blessed Yardie u are loved!
Is that young girl mixed . These people need a whole lesson on JA and all Caribbean islands. Its 😳
They gaslighting him hard asf, my brudda is Jamaican
Im british indian and i totally agree with the jamaican gentleman. I hear you.
Bruh how hard is it really to understand this man’s background and how he relates to a specific culture. He’s not up here saying he identifies as a black man he’s clearly saying he’s Jamaican. Let the man breathe in peace.
Perfectly put👏
Yeah the other guys are asking really disrespectful questions and low-key safeguarding their culture and weird sh*t.
Disrespectful buffons.
All these people were pissing me off, just because they’re black doesn’t mean they know anything about Jamaican culture.
Literally why is this even a conversation lmao. My mum is Jamaican she was born and raised there but if you genetically look at her background it’s Indian descent. Culture is different than race. If these people follow their own logic why are we not asking them to prove if they’re British -.-
Original Jamaicans were not black
That "When did you decide to be Jamaican" is such an insult. If he said to the guy "when did you decide to be British" then all hell breaks loose. If they actually go Jamaica one day they might see its not just black people there. Big Up Yardie. Held himself respectfully when nobody would've blamed him for getting riled up
🎯
Also, the Jamaicans would class White Yardie more Jamaican than any on the panel there. 😂
@@aidygooner of course. White Yardie will remember sky juice, and will know the national anthem. I doubt anybody on the panel knows either of those things… shame on them
Should have asked, "when did you decide to be an eediat!"
The one dude asking him "when" he decided to be Jamaican is ridiculous. Man was raised there and grew up there. Also Jamaican is a nationality not a race. Confusing how that's so hard for some to understand.
Its crazy that this man was basically on trial by these people defending his life and why he is who he is 😂😂😂
Facts about schools too. When we went to school in the Caribbean, “Black History” was just HISTORY!
Imagine telling a black British person they're not British because of the colour of their skin! This is basically the same thing
It is literally the same thing
But blacks get away with it or its racist fam don't you get it like blm fuck all the other races
They aren’t really British though
@@RazPerignon say that to them and even your own race will turn on you so don't say to much my g whites are soppy fools alot of blacks laugh about it all because whites don't stick up for theirselfs and let them riot smashing their own community up how tf that work? Lol surely that makes your community put another step down by them actions?? Idk or they are right, maybe they are right building mud huts in africa 30miles walk away from the nearest water source?? Haha, hate on the white but who was the 1st and last slave trader? Who sold their own people to the whites? But its all the whites fault cause they took over but built schools,colleges, homes ect,talking south Africa, but nah whites felt sorry gave back the land now who's starving cause there's no white farmers?
It’s not basically, it is the same it’s racism in the most clear form. Questioning a white dude because he’s not black enough to be Jamaican 😂 he should have said when did you decide you’re English and turned it back in the guy
No Jamaican is questioning White Yardie’s Jamaican creds. We love him.
Say it again my girl. Ah wah wrong wid dem line ah questioning?? Di host dem did a puss poor job at this interview.
I seen 100% of Jamaicans defending white yardie on Twitter. Which made these fool interviewers look even worse 🤣
Exactly!!!!
Yeah because of we already know and seen white and asian Jamaicans
A dat mi a seh to lol a who dem ppl yah?
Jamaica's motto “Out of Many, One People” shows that Jamaicans are. indeed one. No matter what race, class, religion, age or gender, we are all. Jamaicans!
Just love how hard he was trying to hold back the Jamaican slang to be understood 😅
He is Jamaican. End of. The underlying tone of conversation is they simply can’t get over the colour of his skin. If this was a young black man who was born, raised and educated in the UK with Jamaican parents, this wouldn’t be a discussion. This man is Jamaican. The end.
Uh zeet
Yes, yes
The man who asked him must’ve never been to Jamaica. He’d be shocked to see all the white and Indian Jamaicans on the island
Remember mi people opinion is like asshole every idiots have one,how the b....c, dem a tell him that him not a Yardie
Well at the end of the day it is a discussion and I think he could have done a little better to explain the title of the video which is Jamaics is a country with it's own culture it's not a race and he being primarily born and bred there is a Jamaican he didn't choose the culture or country he grew up in. Another thing the panelist seems to be very ignorant of is that their are white Jamaicans and Asian Jamaicans it's a multi cultural island just like many Caribbean countries. I am also confused as to why the panelist would think he chosed to be a Jamican probaby he didn't know his backstory but I am positive a short profile would have been given. Why weren't there actual cultural appropriators on the show. You cant appropriate a culture that you grew up in.
As a Jamaican Indian I just roll my eyes at this. Out of many. One people 💚💛🖤
Ya mon!
Y’all say that but then almost all the wealth in the island are held by non blacks and not black Jamaican descendants of slavery. Thus the colorist, bleaching, and classism. Stop capping!!
@@hello_04 Based on statistics, most of the wealth worldwide are not owned by black people either.
@@hello_04 who’s capping? You telling me that the Indians who came in 1845 weren’t indentured slaves? Look elsewhere. Who owns the businesses? Who owns the hotels here? Who owns the banks here? Who built the super highway! Who gave away the bauxite mining rights? Who gave away the shipping lanes? The Government pardy! You have business here? You live here? Maypen is where I’m from, everyone here hungry! When you want to start that nonsense look at the political system. Come to me with this foolishness. About capping!!
Furthermore what did I say that had nothing to do with Jamaican is a culture?
@@gopium1976 and “indentured” servant is a whoooole different animal that be property in chattel slavery, or a descendant of chattel slavery. We’re not talking about voluntary servitude as an indentured servant to pay off debt, pay for the opportunity to leave ones country for chance at greater opportunities latter. The wealthy Scottish and British land owners (of which my white Scottish wealthy great grandfather was one) still maintain those holdings today. As do the generational wealth and greater opportunities allowed indentured servants once their time contracted was over vs actual property (Black Slaves sold into this by slave traders for profit in Africa to Europeans). You surely do NOT see a plethora of Black owned gold and fine jewelry stores which are primarily owned by Indians. The Chinese own most everything else in the free market of business, and the whites still are holding onto the wealth and land assets they acquired on the backs of black slaves. The gaslighting of acting like the majority population of Black descendants of Jamaican slavery have the same assets and businesses and access to capital that people who were not considered and treated property and denied opportunities as such is supreme gaslighting. That’s why you have Jamaicans bleaching and singing about Brownins to separate themselves from their surroundings. Yes the government is corrupt...but the government itself has had mostly non Black heads. This whole out of one many front is a lie to pretend the blatant colorism and classism and asset building opportunities aren’t distributed largely along racial lines. You say that to assuage yourself from reality.
Can you imagine if this was a group of children/grandchildren of Polish immigrants questioning a black person who was born here as to whether they’re British or not?!? 🤦♂️
This man is Jamaican. “Out of many, one people”
asking "when did you decide you were Jamaican?" to a person who grew up in Jamaica is WILDDDDD racist asf
White Yardie, we KNOW you are really Jamaican. 🇯🇲. No justification needed. This interview is an insult to all Jamaicans. We know our culture, our heritage and the diversities of our people! That's the national motto! These British or British Jamaican or Black British, whatever they classify as, are just rude and even a little snobbish. Especially, that guy and the lady who had the audacity to say, 'clap for the white man'. Very distasteful how they treated you during this interview. You did very well! God bless 🙌🏽
How is di interview a insult...kmt
The interview run me the wrong way. I didn't like how they to talk him as my Jamaican brother at all. if you don't grow up in the culture u can't question him like that. he is our people end of story.
Black Americans and Black British people have been told for a couple of decades now that they can't be racist. And as a result this sort of thing is now very common. Whereas immigrants from the caribbean and sub saharan Africa in the U.K, and USA often actually point out to them, that they are being racist, and then are called race traitors etc.
@@thepubquiz3198 I don't know what planet you live on but I'm American black and I get called "racist" "separatist", "in favor of segregation" all the time by Latinos, whites and Asians because I vociferously say we need to build our own independent social and cultural institutions.
@@Y0utubeIsFuckingHomo that literally is segregation. By definition., it’s not a matter of opinion
As a Jamaican... I can tell you just because of his accent he's Jamaican.. being born here, being raised here... MAKES YOU JAMAICAN. The Jamaican Motto literally tells you that no matter what you look like we are all the same... "Out of Many, One People"
What a beautiful motto that is
@@louisenewson-smith9519 thanks, I appreciate that
this motto was made by colonalism and so we can open arms to the chinesse and others .... in china do they accept us, in europe do they accept us.... we should prioritize ourselves first...as you can see in jamiacan now, all the ports bought by the chinesse... the grocery market byy korean and chinesse.... they come in and take over due to lack laws ... this out of many people motto....
the watch you like a hawk when a woman try to purchase a weave....although. i am for only natural hair...the point ...the locals should be the priority...
He is born in jamaica but he isnt jamaican...he is european same with the china man....
It's not just words, either. People there really think this way. That's how they live. So, British/Indian/Chinese-ethnic Caribbeans have to deal with the culture shock of people telling them they're not from there.
Makes them think that Americans and British people are just stupid, lol.
I had a born and raised Jamaican boss who was white and immigrated to Canada. He had the accent like this guy. He 100% considered himself Jamaican but he turned heads when he spoke to people all the time.
If he’s not Jamaican then their not British
Thank you for Educating them Yardie..
He doesn’t simply “appreciate” Jamaican culture, he just IS Jamaican, period. It’s just that simple. He was raised there in that culture, therefore that HIS culture.
Yeah the ignorance is so immense here!
It pissed me off. It's not a hard concept to understand
Seriously. They took a L for this disrespectful interview.
Yeah but he wasn't born there so technically he's not.
Precisely what I was thinking!
I am a born and raised Trinidadian 🇹🇹 and I accept White Yardie is a Jamaican🇯🇲. He live and grow in Jamaica and that is all he knew. He didn't choose to be Jamaican. That is what he IS. "Out of many, One People." Race is NOT Culture. This panel did no research what so ever and then looked to insult the man by saying " We clapping the white man!🙄" at the end! Yall just came across as ignorant, uninformed and clueless. ❌❌
Yeah, that was particularly nasty. They appear obsessed with race.
Exactly. Woiii I so vex
Well we ain't giving him up without a fight yardy for life
EXACTLY ..THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE THINK WE LIVE IN .. STICK HOUSE AN WE DONT HAVE WIFI AN STUFF LIKE THAT ..😬😬😫😫😫
That last bit was so offensive, down to meh soul was offended.
Sorry the whole "when did you decide you was Jamaican?" Q's had me laughing 😅😂😂. White Yardie is Jamaican straight up.
"White" Yardie is Jamaican because he was raised and educated and lived in Jamaica and is Jamaican. Jamaica is primarily a location, a geographical area. Associated with that geographical area is a culture and he is part of that culture.
"Jamaican" is a nationality, culture and way of life, IT IS NOT A RACE.🤦🏾♂️
Thank you!!!!!
I do not understand the lack of comprehension on this panel
Dervin👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿thank you. This panel is so confused
@@Adgegbe50ag
Do you think they would have a show
If they had sense
and knew the difference between
Race and nationality
@@lorrinimes9008 I don't know because this is my first time seeing them and I don't know their history and past recorded episodes. Do you think they would have a show if they knew the difference
A lot of people do not recognize the difference between race, ethnicity and culture.
...not even black people - sadly.
Can’t lie I feel it stems from an inferiority complex. British people with Jamaican heritage who don’t know as much about their homeland as this white guy (like Zeze said) so they try and discredit him. I can’t lie I used to think he was just “playing a Jamaican” but after hearing his story I get he’s just being himself in the way and environment he was raised
And nationality
pornanyone Yes!
Add citizenship / nationality as well and you get a good mix.
I thought it was just me, but These questions were full of ignorance & AUDACITY!! I’m sorry that he had to sit through that… 😢 He held himself & represented well though! ❤❤❤❤ #OneLove
"CULTURE NOT COLOR"!!!!
"BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD"
🇯🇲 ❤💚🖤💛❤
“When did you decide to be Jamaican???” “To call yourself Jamaican is interesting…..”
Where do they get these idiots from? Seriously these people are ignorant and unintelligent. “Is he cultural appropriating?” What? White Yardie is white. There is nuff white Jamaicans in Jamaica. Fact! People need to educate themselves.
If you are educated from young and raised in a system of a particular country then thats what you know.
I’m saddened and mad that you had to go through with that.
Idiotic and RACIST
That's exactly what I'm saying. I'm flabbergasted. Dude in that Grey button up needs to realize Jamaica is a country just like America is a country. Which means if you lived their your whole life and you were raised there you are from that country.
Facts. Ignorant and uninformed.
He really held his composure during that interrogation, I mean interview. 🤔🤔
Imagine if a white person asked HIM when he decided he was British. Oh wait, you don't have to imagine, because white racists ask that to black people all the time yet somehow this idiot didn't suss that parallel
The fact the first guy who’s probably lived in England his whole life has the cheek to sit and question you on weather your Jamaican or not is a piss take
My kids grandmother is Puerto Rican but pale as they get, she's scared to be around American non-whites besides her husband who is dark because of shit like this, she's been attacked in Tampa for being a "white woman acting Hispanic" by these nut jobs, she was born and raised in Puerto Rico as was her mother and her mothers mother and doesn't even speak English well.
And have the gall to say, people may think you are more jamaican than me. Bitch the man is Jamaican. He is more jamaican than you in everyway. He would be your guide and telling you about His country if you decide to visit because that is what you would be doing. Visiting.
Yes it’s the double standard woke racism that’s taken over the west
Good point. Probably why he's so defensive about the concept of a white Jamaican.
Imagine being asked "when did you DECIDE to IDENTIFY as Jamaican" like he just woke up one day and decided where he was gonna be from. In that case, you could ask black Jamaicans the same thing because technically they're of African descent - I doubt it would go down too well in that situation though.
Fully Jamaican 🇯🇲 out of many we are one people. Three months old he went back home
Being a mixed race individual from the UK (Barbados an British) these interviewers are treating the white yardie like the racist British people would treat us, he's white and from Jamaica, exactly the same as us being black and from Britain, this is giving me racist vibes
sadly there are racists of all colours, clearly the black community has its twats too
@@here.3070 you are correct
Yep! So true Joel
But they are going to tell you black people cannot be racist because they are not the dominant powerful group. I never understood what it means.
Agree. I was flawed when they called him "white man" at the end. Would that fly the other way around?? And I don't get why they're questioning him in the slightest if he grew up there...
When people say “black people cant be racist” show them this video. As a Caribbean man myself, I have to deal with this on a constant basis. You are the ambassador of our islands, not only Jamaica. Our islands accept, educate and raise everyone as their own. You handled this interview with grace
where blacks being racist in this video? you are just reaching.
That’s not racism. Please go and get fresh air. Dork
Nobody is stopping him from saying what he thinks he is? A real racist could stop someone from living their truth, black folks can’t stop that!!
Your post does not make any sense here. So many people misconstrue the term racism and it needs to stop. Racism is essentially belittling, demeaning and showing hate towards one's race. Yes black people can be racist, but these black people were clearly not racist. How common is it for a white person to be both heavily immersed in Jamaican culture and communicate in a Jamaican accent? These people were really curious, hence why they asked questions to be better educated. We as a society should be able to ask questions rather than assume and dispel fraudulent information about others.
First and foremost the definition of racism, according to Oxford: “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.”
Anyway, go to the 0:40 and listen to where the man questions his authenticity. Jamaica, like any other island, is a melting pot. For a person to question that, according toOxford the definition- is racism. He’s a minority in Jamaica and they’re pressing him with prejudice allegations based on his skin tone.
You’re solidifying my comment by saying, “Yes, black people can be racist.” You can’t say my post doesn’t make sense and then agree with me. Racism isn’t exclusive to any particular group… Look at Dominicans and Haitians right now.
You’re right, they should ask questions WITHOUT involving prejudices based on skin color.
Wow, that’s so frustrating. I can’t believe how calm you were. 😧
Hilarious watching these people debate his "Jamaicanness" based on his skin colour, but their "Britishness" would NEVER be questioned.
He’s Jamaican they from Woke-kanda!
He grew up in Jamaica so he is jamaican. Anyone that finds that hard to understand has some racial issues in their head that they need to resolve. This guy is Jamaican and no real Jamaican or rasta man will ever deny that, its just these 2nd and 3rd gens that find it hard to understand that skin colour doesnt mean a damn thing.
A mouse grew up in a stable, therefore he is a horse. See how that logic works when you take the emotion out of it?
I'm a 2nd gen and i completely understand the difference between, nationality, ethnicity and race. These individuals regardless of their heritage are just extremely uneducated and ignorant. I feel so sad that people might think all black British people of Jamaican descent think this way. Such awful representation for us. Most people aren't this ignorant, it's a shame they have a platform to do this to people like white yardie. The only people they embarrassed are themselves. They think all three, Nationality, Ethnicity and Race are the same thing. White yardie is Jamaican in nationality not Ethnic background and he never claimed to be anything he wasn't, any ethnicity can be of Jamaican nationality, it all just depends on where you grow up. Race plays no part in your nationality or the culture you grow up in. Seems they only know how to identify with Jamaica through their race and not through the actual culture itself which i find sad because the culture extends far beyond race and real Jamaicans know that.
@@thinkinyblinko6666 A mouse grew up in the stable. He knows stable culture pretty well. Then he goes to the city where he meets horses that grew up in the city even though their parents are from the stable.
Those city horses don't know shit about stable culture but question the mouse about it. City horses are know confused because they think they should now better than mouse, but they don't. They have never been in a stable before.
See how that logic works when you take all the emotion out?
@@nesepo right? This mouse and stable shit makes no sense. If a mouse grows up in a stable it will be a mouse with a stable as his home. If a white person grows up in Jamaica he will be a white person with Jamaica as his home.
Can you Imagine if some Yankee told this people he's actually British and they are not because of his and their ancestry?
@@thinkinyblinko6666 did you grow up in a psychiatric ward?
It's the "When did you decide that you're Jamaican" for me the shade and the Insult omg Respect to you Yardie for holding your cool
Like where else could he come from but where he came from? 🤣
Yeah, I get undertones of entitlement and resentment from him.
Bro the resentment they have for you 😂
That Carlton sounding brother keep pressing my man😂😂
And the last woman "he's clearly doing it [appropriation] out of a sense of love" - nah, he's not doing 'it' at all. He grew up in Jamaica, went to school, made friends whatever. Ridiculous.
ya he aint "Doing" Jamaican
he IS Jamaican
Watching this was fucking hard...
That's what's so infuriating about this interview. The man literally says he was raised in Jamaica from the time that he was a baby. Yet these interviewers think it's some kind of self-identification on his part. He should have asked them when they started identifying as British, given that they're all black yet grew up in England.
Yeah they seemed to take his statement that he wasn’t born in Jamaica and ran with it like that somehow that doesn’t make him Jamaican
I wasn’t born in PR, but I was born to Puerto Rican parents, raised in a Puerto Rican family, and grew up, well, Puerto Rican lmao. We went back to the island every year to see family. I lived mostly on the mainland so my experiences are different from my cousins that never left the island, so I know I don’t know 100% everything when it comes to living there long term, but that’s what empathy and solidarity is for. And no one on the island has ever questioned me being Puerto Rican 😂 the idea is absurd
Like, I can somewhat understand the British Jamaicans discomfort because they probably, as 2nd and 3rd gens, feel a connection to Jamaica and DO have heritage, and then this man is breaking their own sense of identity and worldview. But to question someone RAISED there? “When did you decide to identify” bruh he lived there is whole life. See him as “adopted” into jamaican culture if you have to (even if it’s not the right way to think) but dude is Jamaican straight up
Right? Like she gave his "behavior" her blessing!!
Frrr
"when did you decide you were Jamaican?"
"You see, Billy, when a woman and a man really love each other...."
🤣🤣🤣
Oh that's how it works 😆😆
Radical
He wasn't born in Jamaica, that's why they asked him that. He clearly said that his mother gave birth to him in a different country, then he went back to Jamaica. Some people identify with the country they are born in more than the country they grew up in, for some it's equal and for some the country they grew up in is their entire identity
Lmfaooooo
As someone who was born in the UK, went to school in JA for 4 yrs from the age of 14, and has been in the UK permanently since, I think that racism has been so entrenched in the UK/black British psyche that observing White Yardie is very difficult in terms of trust. On the other hand, the school I attended consisted of white kids (born in JA) as well as black. Everyone is accepted there as 'out of many one people'. Depending on the religion you are part of, colour and variation of each other's hue is a thing of beauty and highlights the Creator's depth of unfathomable character. You only need to take a peak at the rest of the animal kingdom.
I watched a clip of a 90 year-old Chinese guy born and raised in Jamaica as was his mother. We need to expand our minds a bit people.
The way you responded to ignorance is more than commendable 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. Love that. The hosts maybe need to do research about Jamaica. My parents are black and Jamaicans and my mother cooked Chinese food since I was a child. She said a Chinese friend, who was Jamaican, taught her how to cook chinese food in Jamaica. I cook it to this day. Talk about missed opportunity to educate themselves and wider audience about Jamaica and the diversity of Jamaican people.
Respect! I have Jamaican & Chinese heritage & others. I'm very proud of my heritage so thanks for your comment.
@@lexico8165 Pure love and respect 😀
The ignorance is absolutely off the charts here loool. I can't understand what was so hard understand here lol.
@@sapphire1817 Right!!
@@mitchkay9898 What Really got is when theaat lady said "clapping for thr white man". So rude...
Being a Jamaican doesn’t mean that you have to be black. Jamaica is made up of different ethnicities, as our motto says”Out of Many, One People”. He’s not showing an appreciation like a tourist….. it is who he is………a Jamaican. 🇯🇲
I could not have said it better. living and growing in Jamaica you do not question if you are Jamaican or not your just being you.. I think this interview shows the interviewer's ignorance.
Exactly
The fact that it's 2021 and these grown people think that you have to be black to be Jamaican... Just ignorant!
Shoot I'm not even Jamaican and I agree with and get everything you are saying. The Carribean islands all together are a melting pot of different races and culture. There are white, Asians, blacks, and natives. So it's very ignorant for the panel to tell white Yardie that he's not Jamaican just because he's not black
And this goes for any country not just Jamaica Iam from Scotland and have friends who came over from different countries when they were young grew up here and consider themselves scottish as they are !
Big up Yardie! I hope to one day stay cool like you in a discussion. Respect! When that guy said, when did you decide you were Jamaican? 🤯 like what bro! Those people interviewing you are something else! So disrespectful and ignorant.
Why is the bloke in the white jumper looking furious throughout the whole clip? 😂
He's known for despising white people. Stand up 'comedian' apparently.
The fact that in 2021 people are still not able to grasp the difference between ETHNICITY. And NATIONALITY is honestly mind blowing. Stop making jamaica an ethnicity there is a difference. Big up to you for conducting yourself in a professional manner 🤝
Yeah real racist take.
ONLY BLACKS IN JAMACA NO WHITES.
IMAGINE I said only white people could be in the UK
2022
@@Guitar-Dog i’m guessing you love dreaming about that
Ironically if Jamaica has an ethnicity it wouldn’t be black… they wasn’t indigenous
Heck they can't differentiate Cultural and Racial
The ignorance of these people is offending my sensibilities. That man had the nerve to ask "when did you decide to be Jamaican". 🤦🏾♀️ Yardie you betta than me, cause I woulda let loose some bad word on these fools.
😂😂😂 some Jamaican bad wode would anna ring in a them ears long time.
But then people would be calling him racist. He did the right thing by politely answering their stupid questions and showing them up as being ignoramuses.
@nuttysophia 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yea i love how the british interviewers think they understand being Jamaican more than the guy raised in Jamaica 😂
If that dude tells me he's Jamaican i'm not gonna doubt him, dude's accent is strong
The most astonishing thing here is that when it comes to the immigrants in Britain these exact same people would say it's deeply racist to question their Britishness.
This panel was uneducated about the Jamaican culture & they were very disrespectful to White Yardie...dem need fih apologize
Brite & Outta Ahda...🇯🇲
Jamaicans in England need to let the panel know how dem feel
Several of these people are mad disrespectful, refusing to address him as a Jamaican, only as someone "identifying" as one.
Shameful.
My cousin was born in England, but my aunt brought him to Jamaica at 22 months. No one ever questioned whether he was Jamaican; in fact no one would even know he was born in England unless he told them. My point is yes there are white Jamaicans, and no need badgering anyone who identifies as such. In fact in Jamaica we’re all Jamaicans (Black, White , or Asian). 😊
that is so true yes he is white skinned but he was brought up raised in Jamaica. He is a Jamaican. I am a Jamaican heritage but born and bred British so I am more whiter than him even though my skin is darker. This man is 100% Jamaican n i love everything about who he is and what he represents nuff luv big up white Yardie
This part of the interview enraged me. HES JAMAICAN we have black British people trying to question that. You go Jamaica and I would chop of my own arm if they don’t call you English Boi!
Dat mi seh English bwoy🤨
Facts
Guh mash weh dem bumbo
So you’ve got a man that’s not Jamaican asking him when did he decide to be Jamaican ….. why was he even there?
This was a crazy interview. Obviously these people don't realize Jamaican people come in all different colors. WTH, man! That dude saying "if the community embraces you" Omg someone needs to box his head.😂
Love your patience man. God bless
Bomboclaat! This is one “woke” interview. Pure ignorance . You don’t need anyone’s validation. Just continue to be you . You make us laugh. Big up!
exactly, condescending and downright rude. That bloke was talking down to him, he was lucky he didn't get licked around the face with a backhand. The bloke was so arrogant and had an upper class attitude
nuttin bout dis was woke, dis sum straight 'sleep talkin'. Dem should learn to do research before openin dem mouth. Dis a 2 min or less explanation. Him raised in a Jamaica, he Jamaican, full stop.
Yeah man
This is the problem with woke culture, woke culture is literally segregation done by our people
Exactly. I'm so confused lol just looking for a reason to be mad. I'm I'm embarrassed for them. Just disgusting how they acted.
“When did you decide you were Jamaican?” WTF? Bredda he was born and raised jamaican. What kind of question is that???
“When did you decide you were Jamaican” how fucking rude is that question. How would that dude like if it he said “when did you decide you were British”.
He grew up in Jamaica, from three months of age, and he has a Jamaican passport. His WHOLE life has been based in Jamaica, he's not putting on an accent or pretending to be Jamaican he's legit! So what makes it so difficult for this panel to understand? If an American is born overseas to American parents, due to them being on holiday for example, that person would still consider themselves to be American without a doubt.
That last line "clap for the white man, clap your cheeks for the white man" was out of order. Good for you White Yardie for keeping your composure 👌🏾
it was so cringe🥴
I didn't make it to the end... this interview was so cringe I had to stop watching
That was unnecessary , disrespectful and of poor taste tbh in no way funny
She so damn annoying 🙄
racism goes both ways proof!
Well done mate. You conducted yourself better than I would in that situation. These idiots are struggling with their identity and don't understand the distinction between heritage, nationality and culture. You're a wise man. These guys are fools.
So true and almost as if they are jealous of him for possessing more roots and culture than their black selves. They should embrace his authenticity.
@@1nilu1 🤣🤣🤣🙄
You black?
@@1nilu1 what a weird comment.
As others have pointed out, imagine four white people questioning a black person about being British if they had grown up here.
"When did you decide you were Jamaican" is a crazy question lol
As a Jamaican this man one of us. No questions asked. Great answer btw
I think a lot of second or third generation immigrants struggle with identity issues (understandably). I think that’s why these people are so threatened by the fact that a white guy is more Jamaican than them. They don’t feel British enough and they don’t feel Jamaican enough so having a white guy be more Jamaican than them is triggering their identity issues. That especially seems to be the case with the guy who asks when he ‘decided he was Jamaican.’
Quite frankly if you’re second or third generation you need to assimilate to the country you’re living in. Period. There’s no debate or room for debate about that. If you’re missing your “roots” that much then go back to them. Nobody forcing them to be in white nations.
Spot on! Identity crisis
maybe they should stop caliaming they're british, a mouse born in a horse stable is not a horse
Yeah, all I see is 1 white Jamaican and 3 black Brits
@@Commander23c to be fair, it's not just a black/latino thing. There are like 6th generation Italian-Americans whose whole personality is being Italian, but they don't know anything about the culture, even worse, those Scandinavian Viking larpers.
I once was talking to a white American and he told me "I really care about family, you know, I'm Lithuanian". He meant one of his grandma's was Lithuanian, never been there, didn't know the history, didn't speak the language, like wtf?? Also, what nationality does not care about family?
I think a lot of British blacks are not aware there are other races that thrive and identify as Jamaican.
'Out of many, one people.' AND unlike the British they do not go to Jamaica and try and influence the culture to be more like them. They embrace Jamaican culture. Great interview
Hell yeah
This. Right here. 🙏
You said it 'Out of many one people ' I rest my case he's a Jamaican.
Great response from @wyardie .
Nope its not british blacks.
Its british africans that have only been to Ja to spend 2weeks on a resort.
I’m biracial, born in a “white” country grew up in a Caribbean country. I was never really accepted but in my heart I always identify as being from that country. No one can tell me who I am.
Only people who have spent no time of consequence in the Caribbean would look at a person who isn’t black and say they can’t be from the islands. I lived in the Caribbean and I’ve met people of all shade that don’t know anything but the islands. People have to remind themselves about how the west was settled to obtain perspective in its current inhabitants. If you were raised there, that’s what gave you your identity so you are Jamaican.
Wow. As a black man I got to say that this was one of the most ignorant things I've seen in a while. Looks like to me there's these groups of people who just need people to stay divided.
Real born Jamaicans know this! That's why we have the saying out of many one people!! These black British people don't have fucking sense! Hence why so much Jamaicans are angered in the comment section
Our motto is “out of many one people “ our skin pigmentation does not define our culture only our race. It’s time the rest of the world understand that there are more to Jamaica than just what they heard on tv, read or hear from their neighbors.
Well said!
@askella A 😳 why do you think is a sell out
It was black Jamaicans that made the Jamaican culture what it is today
Stand strong YARDIE!!!
Ignorance is BLISSssssssssss
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Culture is bred into you not born with you. Much respect
"When did you decide you were Jamaican?" & "clap your cheeks for the White man" ...Da fuq?! Are these people for real?! Come through White Yardie - you answered these questions so eloquently and with intellect👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾! I hope these interviewers have learnt from you!
You’re a better person than me, White Yardie. I would not have had the patience to deal with such ignorance.
1:50 That answer instantly ends the conversation. He’s Jamaican. A race & a culture are two separate things.
"It's funny hearing you say you are Jamaican, when you just said you weren't born there. But, I guess..."
What the actual fuck.
Dude was born to Jamaican parents who went somewhere else to give birth, and come back 3 months later to live the rest of his life in Jamaica.
He's Jamaican.
Yeah, but they obviously are into those Japanese style citizenship scenarios... Like the little moustache man or something.
Joking aside, I don't know if all of this was supposed to be some sort of comedy show and this was like a thought provoking jest or something such, but if it was, they sure flopped in that delivery, because the whole segment just came across like a kkk meeting or at least what you would imagine one must be like.
Wow Yardie you handled this interview amongst ignorant people exceptionally well brudda.I don't know why its so hard for people to understand that Jamaicans come in all colors. "Out of many, One people" Its crazy that these people just wanted to try and belittle instead of actually understanding your story. While the vast majority of Jamaica is black there are Syrian-Jamaicans, Chinese-Jamaicans, Indo-Jamaicans, White Jamaicans and a whole heap of mixed up people. My family is from Jamaica and I have cousins that are white, dark, lightskinned and the whole lot. Glad you went on there showed them what it is, you're a real one and will always have my respect.
I am so confused, I wonder if the panel has seen any part of Jamaica outside the tourist cities? "When did you decide to be Jamaican?". Born to Jamaican parentage and growing up there isn't enough?
My family is Jamaican (St Ann and St Elizabeth). We have every colour of skin from white blonde and blue eyed to brown eyes and chocolate skin, all Jamaican with a lineage that has been traced back 100s of years. We are all proud of our heritage as Jamaicans.
For some panel members to equate 'blackness' to 'Jamaican' is not only reductive and harmful , but sadly also means an opportunity to educate people about the rich culture and heritage that Jamaica has was missed. Perhaps spend some time away from the resort towns and cities and see what the country is actually about. What do they think the national motto means?
Well done White Yardie. St Bess salutes you. 👏👏👏🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Thank you for sharing your comment.
British born St Lucia and even I know the Jamaican motto. This was so disgusting, that last insult, cause it was nothing less, clap your cheeks for the white man, offended me to the core.
The funny thing is the people on this panel would be the first ones to cry racism if someone said they weren’t English 🤣 but well done to the Jamaican people for defending white yardie against these racist idiots who can’t accept the fact a white man is more connected to Jamaican culture than they will ever be.
@@judyleonce6143 I cringed. It was offensive and he took it well.
@@judyleonce6143 It was more a joke on the historic implications of the adoration for the white man from my point of view . I understand if someone misunderstood why it would seem like an insult though.
Three of the most influential Jamaicans of the 20th Century ,Edward Seaga, Alexander Bustamante and Michael Manley, were of mixed/mostly white heritage and lead Jamaica from 1960's onwards for different political parties. To hear two of them speak by today's standards they'd be appropriating black culture. The conversations around race now are so counterproductive and ind numbingly stupid. He was raised in Jamaica, therefore he is Jamaican. Imagine 4 white British people questioning whether a black man born in London is 'British'. It wouldnt happen because it's stupid + some of these identity concepts are so ambiguous.
I had a white pastor born and raised in Africa and had a strong Swahili accent