Geography Now! TRINIDAD and TOBAGO
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Waz di scene? Our FINAL Caribbean Nation. WOW. This episode is going to be "Trin-tense" yet "Trin-credible" Thanks to all the Trini Geograpeeps that helped out in this episode including guest host MASON! Enjoy this new episode, #TrinidadAndTobago!
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Fun fact: Back in 2006 germany (my home country) hosted the football world cup and Trinidad and Tobago qualified for this world cup. All national teams had their hotels in different parts of germany and Trinidad and Tobago staid in a hotel in a small city where 25k people live called Rotenburg (Wümme) which is near Hamburg. My home city. We were so proud that they staid in our small city and the whole city was going crazy..everyone had Trinidad Flag and waited for them in front of the hotel and all that. I collected football sticker back then and asked the player of Trinidad for their autographs. I still have all the stickers here with all autographs of the players and coaches of Trinidad and Tobago back then. :)
Greetings to all Trinis out there! 🇩🇪🤝🏽🇹🇹
Thank you for your story, and of course your hospitality!
My dad flew to Germany to support Trinidad in the World Cup so he must have been around there too!! Love hearing that we gave you a good impression it was a very joyful time for our country as well!🇹🇹
I remember watching a news reel about that back in 2006!!! The residents really made the team feel like home
Our first and only time at the World Cup. Absolute scenes when we qualified.
My parents went to Germany for the world cup. They still talk about how loving and welcoming the German people were to them. We intend to make a trip with the whole family as my parents made some very close friends in Germany. Also, to carry some of our local rum over there that my dad talked up to his German hosts.
Bless up man! Much love.
Not to mention the first black woman to win the Miss Universe pageant came from Trinidad and Tobago. Janelle Commissiong. Also Wendy Fitzwilliam also won in 1998. My country has so much history to fit into this segment
As well as a miss world Giselle Laronde.
And in the famous ppl segment, Nicki Minaj, Dwight York and a couple others with trini roots wasn't mentioned.
@@javedmohammed1197 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
I going to mention the same thing good looking out.
@@javedmohammed1197 i forgot about Dwight Yorke
Trinidad ha ah lot ah potential buh we rel stchupid sometimes
I am a Trinidadian living in the US for the past 15 years. One thing I know for certain is that our twin island Republic can teach the world religions tolerance. It's one of the few places in the world that Christians go to mosque, Hindus marry Muslims, muslim kids go to catholic schoosl. We respect one another. Inter racial marriages and kids are everywhere. Our country is a RAINBOW!!!!!!
yeah one of things I love ❤ about T&T
I met a Trinidadian that had a Muslim mom and a Christian father and converted to Islam later on. She was beautiful
So true. Very proud how they love and respect each others religión and culture.
My mother is a catholic Christian and my father is muslim
@@nunyabusinessbish4905 That's normal it's when the girl isn't Muslim
Nice episode. Oh also, while I'm not from Trinidad and Tobago, there is one fact about the country I know which could have been mentionned somewhere in the episode (maybe in the food segment) : the country actually made quite a big contribution to the cocktail scene by creating a quite common ingredient, the Angostura bitters.
What a great contribution, you’re absolutely right! Love from 🇹🇹 🥰
@Benjmin Scaiola you are spot on!
Yep!!!🇹🇹
Whenever steelpan or Angostura Bitters are mentioned on international TV (e.g. an episode of the Big Bang Theory) we really do feel proud 🇹🇹
Angostura 😊
Never would have imagined that when I found this channel 7 years ago that I’d actually be in the Trinidad and Tobago episode but here we are!! Happy I was able to contribute and happy to see that Barbs kept the giant flag I gave him when he visited
Love your segment Laura.Trini2DeBone🇹🇹
Well done
Great work!
Your country seems beautiful, and I hope they gain back it’s créalo, all love from a Haitian 🇭🇹
Well done on your segment and representing our country!
As a Dutch who lived for a year in Trinidad, They do have the best KFC.
Ahhh thank youuuuu lol we do!!! 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹❤😂😂😅
If you haven't tried it, you need to try Jamaican KFC
Sad but true
@@frank1729 jamaican kfc nothing
Facts 💯
Trinidad is a super diverse island. We have African,English, Spanish,French, Venezuela,Indian,Chinese and smaller extent, Portuguese and Syrian influence with a significant Grenadian family ties. You can be in one village where they speak Spanish and a next where they still speak kreyol! We produce and listen to Spanish language Parang Christmas music, Towns with Spanish, French, indigenous and English names. There are Christian, Muslims, Hindu, Rastafarian etc.
Best island in the world 🌍🇹🇹🔥💯
Agreed, Trini here with Grenadian parents, Bajan, Vince and Lucian great grandparents with black and white ancestry from Louisiana, Haiti… Luv my background
meh agree wit yuh being trinidad is d best cuz when yuh have yuh friends it makes liming and carnival so much better
Facts 👏🏾💯 Mikael S600
I've been told I'm appropriating culture by African Americans while practicing my own culture lol
@@beyourself2444 wow, you's the ultimate callaloo
Greetings to Trinidad & Tobago, Love from Indonesia! 🇹🇹 🇮🇩
Big up bruddah, love right back at you
I'm from Barbados (right next-door). An important thing I think you failed to mention is Ms. Trinidad and Tobago Janelle "Penny" Commissiong was the 1st black woman to ever win Ms. Universe in 1977. TnT also won Ms. Universe again in 1998 with Wendy Fitzwilliam.
Oiii our beloved neighbs and that's soooo true! Would have been great to mention this! ❤🇹🇹🇧🇧
I think there's so much to touch on the segment can only do so much , people just need to come down here man, ley we mash up de place .
Wow I didn’t even know about Janelle! I always heard about Wendy Fitzwilliam. Thank You for this!
We also won Ms World in 1986 ... Giselle La Ronde
Something unrelated but also interesting , the Queens Park Savannah in Port of Spain Trinidad is the largest roundabout in the world
Beauty pageants (Ms World and Ms Universe are different companies) but Jamaica won Ms World in the 1960s, before Trinidad won Ms Universe in the 1970s.
We love people of Trinidad and Tobago…They have good sense of humour…Dwayne Bravo and many other West Indies cricketers are very popular in India! 🇮🇳 ❤️ 🇹🇹
Yh cause of robin singh
🇹🇹🤞🏾🇮🇳jai hind!!!
We love you guys!
Doe forget Pollard boy
Am trini :D
I love how all Trini speaks.... They have this fun and relaxed vibe whenever they speak.
Thank you 🙂 where are you from?
So glad Brian Lara was mentioned! As an Aussie, I fear and love that man 😂 So good
lol ok cool
Legend of Cricket!!!
I've been a subscriber to GN since the Belize episode and I waited YEARS for T&T, my home country. It was me and my friends who did the music segment and we wanted it to be as professional as possible. I think we did a great job.
Definitely the best music segment so far.
It was the amazing, great job!!
Great job
Definitely did a great job Brandon! Represent!
Nice job!
As a Haitian I was shocked hearing Trinidadians patois. I understood everything I hope that it stays around forever 🇭🇹 🇹🇹
Yeah. Native French speakers can understand our patois pretty well. It sounds odd and some of the words aren't "proper french", but it's easily understandable for the most part.
There's another patois called coco payol. It's spanish patois but its dead or almost dead.
indeed it was used regularly well over a centaury ago until it was forced out of society by a former British governor 😢
but there are Patios words we use in our everyday chatter which many Trini's don't realize so it didn't fully die out ✌️
Yes we used Creole names for most fruits and animals in Trini.
I grew up in Saint Lucia 🇱🇨 which is really close and even I didn’t know they spoke patois until very late in life.
It's very rare now.....
I always had an interest to Trinidad and Tobago without knowing many things. Now, I can confidently say that I became more obsessed with it. Much love from Greece!
🇬🇷❤️🇹🇹
Finally reach home bai Trini to d bone
Much love to you as well, I've met some Greek people in Canada and they were very nice people
Hello Greece, thank you for the new testament
Trinidad welcomes you.
You failed to mention that Trinidad is the only place in the World where Angostura Aromatic Bitters are made. Also some of the best rums in the World are distilled, aged & bottled here.
I always enjoy videos about these small island countries, also Trinidad and Tobago is among my favorites
Hi happy earth
Yo big fan
Yo big fan
Happy Earth! What are you doing here?
Happy Earth, I agree
Love my Trini Brothers and Sisters.
Always a great connection when I meet Trinis in the US.
Hugs from PR 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Thank you❤🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
Much love to my Trini people! Love from Barbados !!🇧🇧 🇧🇧🇧🇧
And yes I love Barbados 🇧🇧 my husband is bajan we were there about a month ago beautiful country and people one love.🇹🇹
The fact that this video is 31 minutes 12 seconds shows how diverse this country is🇹🇹 yet so many things weren't covered.
So cool to see how India's history with the British reflects itself in places like Trinidad and Tobago, Fiji, Guyana, etc. Love the way Trinis talk, sounds super cool! Best wishes from India 🇮🇳
Don't forget Mauritius, where am From
@@divijdomah6285 Oh yeah man! Mauritius too :D
There are a few hundred thousand Indians in Jamaica and about 60,000 in guadeloupe
Best wishes right back at you from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
Sad that most Indians haven't heard of or know anything about of most of these countries
Haitian person here. I know plenty of trinis but did not know much about them and the demographics. I remember one day i was speaking Kreyol and my Trini friend responded back. I was SHOOK!!! That is when I did some research and learned that a lot Tobagodians also spoke a Kreyol.
I just came from spending 3 weeks in Jamaica. I agree about the love we share as Caribbean nationals, while musing about thieving from each other.
There is another criulo we speak in Guinea-Bissau.
I'm a proud Trinidadian 🇹🇹 and so happy to see this video, thanks for this 💕🤗
As a Bajan, I would agree, Trinidad does have the best KFC in the Caribbean... of the entire Trinidad hands down. Have the most Public holidays thanks to it's Population diversity.
I'm from Mexico, and a lot of people forget mine (at least only geographically) is also a Caribbean country, like Trinidad and Tobago.
That's because our state of Quintana Roo (where Cancún and Riviera Maya are located) has its coastline in the Caribbean Sea, but our Mexican culture, food and people are exclusively hispanic and North American.
I love how Trinidad and Tobago is an incredibly diverse and beautiful country! You have beautiful beaches, coral reefs, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, volcanoes, swamps and green forests just in the two main islands of your country!
And the people are a mix of all the cultures that were brought and came to the Caribbean with the european settlers, making the culture extremely diverse.
For me it is curious and even strange that both of our countries were Spanish colonies (that's why your country has many places with names in Spanish), and even its capital has the name of our former colonizing power, Spain, but because you were a British colony and thanks to the Anglo-Saxon influence the UK brought, now Trinidadian culture is a mixture of the Anglo-Saxon with the Caribbean, and its main language is English.
Well, I send all Trinidadians a warm hug and all my love from Mexico!
One day I will visit your beautiful country!
Yes Mexico is apart of the Caribbean as well 👍
After the British took the island from Spain a lot of our Hispanic heritage died out, but there's still a Spanish influence in our culture, food and music especially around Christmas time ✌️👍🇹🇹🇲🇽
One day I want to visit your beautiful country too! As a trini, I can say, yes we would welcome you happily!
@@nigelkhan5331 Yeah, I know the hispanic culture almost disappeared (except some traditions, as you mentioned), but now I think it's kind of returning since many Venezuelans and other Hispanic Americans are migrating to T&T.
Thanks for recognizing Mexico is also a Caribbean country, a fact we're proud of!
@@ariban You (and all Trinis) will be welcome here too!!!
Mexico Quintana roo is beautiful
I fricking LOVED how they did the musical segment. We should have more of this from now on
Agreed! The musical segment was so well done 👏
yeah very professional
Very well done!
Oh my goodness it's the amount of love in the comments from different countries to Trinidad and Tobago I didn't know we where so watched and loved Thank you for all the love and come visit anytime 💗💗💗💗🎉🎉🎉🎉
I would love to visit Trinidad once in my lifetime. Love from India🇮🇳
Big up Trinidad 🇹🇹 from Jamaica 🇯🇲.
Stop it and guh pick up a book and read bout why Trinidad evny Jamaican and start move wid a more with more pride ya Jamaican because uno don’t know what jamaica is in the UK USA Cananda Japan Ghana Jamaican culture is worshiped and loved so appreciated ah just we stupid and frighten fi other people Trinidad looks down on us them are Caribbean weather American Indians we have no ties always kill up uno self like we a neighbor guh support eh Haitian dem and Dominicans where we are more like them true me go school in America why me knowledgeable but mi want share it with you look up why trnid evny us
@@javonwatkins6924 bro keep quiet, u chatting 💩
@@javonwatkins6924 You should be banned. You bring nothing but negativity to the comments. I don't know why you're here. Blocked.
@@kaydenpat and yuh fi stfu yuh deh love people who badmind us. Move fi yuh bloodclaat from yah suh
@@javonwatkins6924 we never envy third world countries! Jamaicans move to Trinidad we never move to Jamaica unless we are buying up your airport or airline 🤣🤣🤣 by the way with all the fame Jamaica has why do many of y'all don't wanna live there?? And do you still pay $1000 for a loaf of bread 🍞 🤣🤣🤣 get you economic game up b4 you come fou us🇹🇹💯💪🏾💪🏾
Fun facts:
1. The word "mako" or "maco" means to eavesdrop and is pretty indicative of the nosy culture. 😅
2. AppleJ and Lat Chiu sour cherries are must tries. Actually some of the best snacks, hands down.
3. Extempo music is a type of improv calypso that's really fun. It's almost a sort of rap.
4. TT schools have some of the most holidays/days off in the Caribbean.
5. "Down the islands" is a phrase used when going to the small scattered islands off the NW tip of Trinidad.
And the word "bacchanal" is used when a major drama takes place
@@virgondust5562 bacchanal isn't a local Trinidadian word btw. It had Latin origins dating back to the 16th century
@@Kai-li5kj it is still a word that is commonly used by the local population which is what I was implying.
DDI : Down De Islands
The citation reads: “But of all (the kings of Ethiopia) Ganges was most famous, who with his Ethiopian army passed into Asia and conquered all as far as the River Ganges to which he left that name, being before called Chliaros.”
Also, I love how present *actual* multi-cultural/racial, multi-lingual, beautiful accent-having, and physically gorgeous Trinbagonians there are in this video. I'm not Trini, but some of my favorite people on the planet now and this video honestly made my day.
As a proud Trinibagonian, thank you for this episode! Most ppl don’t know how amazing and rich our history is. Big up allyuh! 🇹🇹🇹🇹
who else loves that trinidad & jamaica fusion shirt 🇹🇹 🇯🇲
now all I need is a Trini Guyanese fusion shirt
@@Nightwing-ey2om omg you’re right
Not me
My favorite “adopted” Aunty is from Trinidad and Tobago. Phyllis is an adorable person, formidable cook and very fun to be with. She is stricken now by a terminal disease and I would like to ask you for a prayer for her deliverance!
Prayer going up for Aunt Phyllis.
Prayed for her deliverance. God u be glorified in her healing 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Always a treat getting to learn about countries that don't get as much attention. T&T seems like such a vibe.
There’s actually a revision to the “caribs and arawaks” history. Culturally the first peoples were the tainos and kalinagos
11:35 That's definitely the "proper" name for Tobago's national bird, but it's locally called the "COCRICO". I can assure you most of us don't know the international name lol. I've been waiting for this episode since Chile or Cuba 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
That's true! When he said it I was like whaaa who da?? 🤣🤣
What were the errors?
@@chivymendoza no, we were just saying that even though that was the proper name used for the bird locally we only know it as the Cocrico
I didn't know where he get de name from😂
0:01 Intro
1:41 Political Geography :
2:03 Population And Landmass
2:12 Closest Country
2:33 Patos Island
2:39 Islands Count
2:45 Region
3:02 Airport
3:07 Bussiest Port
3:21 Road
4:01 Country That Colonize Tobago Island
4:17 Place Name
4:48 West Indies Federation
5:03 Almost Became 11th Provinces In Canada
5:12 Site In Trinidad And Tobago
5:56 Religious Building
6:11 Theme Parks
6:21 The "Magnifiscent 7"
6:38 Physical Geography :
6:52 Country Location
7:00 Tectonic Plate
7:08 El Pillar Fault
7:11 Northern Range
7:14 Tallest Peak
7:19 River
7:29 Hilly Range
7:36 Wet Land
7:42 Tobago
7:59 Climate
8:15 Earthquake
8:29 Geothermal
8:33 Mud Volcano
8:39 Natural Asphalt
8:59 Oil And Petroleum
9:15 Noah Intro
9:25 Trinidad And Tobago Resource Map
9:39 Petrotrin
9:52 Industry, Infrastructure And Economy
10:47 Nature
11:03 Wildlife
12:27 Food (Skip To 13:08)
13:08 Food
14:39 Demographics :
14:44 Titles
15:24 Demographics Graph
15:56 Currency, Type Of Plug And Drive Side
16:25 Back To The People
16:31 History
17:17 White Trini In Trinidad And Tobago
17:58 Trini Joke
18:22 Language
20:18 Religion
20:31 Idk (Comment If You Know What They Talking About)
21:15 Controversies
21:56 Sports Part With Art
23:23 Carnival
23:53 Random Hannah
24:01 Culture
25:52 Music
28:17 Friendzone
Watch This Video Till End
20:31 how trinis act around each other
@@LUCAS420BLZ thx
thank u.
I love Trinidad and toboga from the Netherlands. 🇳🇱🤝🇹🇹
When I lived in Trini I visited Curacao. When you think about it Trinidad is actually really quite to the netherlands. I love curacao architecture.
Never asked for your love. Move on
This was the BEST video of the whole Geography Now multi multi multi year series! The production value has made a huge leap forward! Loved the music segment with locals explaining music genres in-depth 🇹🇹 🙌
Can’t believe the Trinidad & Tobago episode is finally here after waiting so long. Apart from a few small errors, you guys totally nailed it. From the bottom of my heart, thank you Barbs & the rest of the GN team for doing such a splendid job highlighting my country T&T 🇹🇹!
Are there East Indian singers in Trinidad as well?
@@gmailuser3134 Yes. Many. Too numerous to mention, though some of the older more famous Chutney singers include the late Sundar Popo, late Sonny Mann, Drupatee Ramgoonai, Rikki Jai, Rasika Dindial, Heeralal Rampartap, the late Sam Boodram, Boodram Holass, the late Anand Yankaran, Omardath Maharaj and many more. The younger singers don’t sing too much traditional chutney music, but more of a mix of Bollywood & popular secular songs fused with soca & chutney rhythms. They include Raymond Ramnarine, Ravi B, Kris Persad (KI), Artie Butkoon, Anil Bheem, Nesha Bissambhar, Sally Sagram, Kenneth Salick, Reshma Ramlal, Adesh Samaroo, GI Beharry and many, many more.
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@@gmailuser3134 yes
@@adeshnarinesingh7712 why has Hinduism decreased there? INDIAN population is 35% but hindus are only 20% !
You see how much time he mention MANNERS.....it is very important in T&T some people will not acknowledge you until you say Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening. If you visit, please remember this, it will make your experience so much better.
You know being a Trini watching this in Trinidad 🇹🇹 I actually rolled my eyes and was like what do they really know BUUTTTTT from actually watching the video I must say........Alyh did a great job 👏 much thanks and appreciation for show casing my country so well 💯 You just gained a like share and subscribe
Our daughter is half trini & half jamaican. Definitely the best lil Caribbean mix up 💕
Worst mix
@@zidane8452 bitter jamaican, what's new 🥱
very interesting learning about trinidad and tobago.. i just noticed that their accent is kinda similar to ilonggo-speaking filipinos. love from 🇵🇭
There's actually a large Filipino community on island (around 1500 plus Filipinos)
@@dkiss01 wow
@@damnit9651 Many of them are nurses (stereotypical but true for Overseas Filipino workers), pharmacists & a few doctors too I think
Great my crush is also from the philippines🇵🇭 and said she can't wait to visit me and my country when she gets older
I watch and I'm fascinated by Philipino CZcams channels and constantly see the many similarities between their country and ours. The culture,foods and family ties as well as their relaxed way of life is so Trini! Hoping to visit one day!
Ayeeee!! Love T&T so much. Best dancers in the world too. I loved my trip there. Something that I heard a Trini say was "Trini is small in size but big in vibes" and I think that's so true.
The way Trinidad has my heart...I can't explain. Signed, a Bahamian.
Thank you
❤❤, signed a Trini😊
This was great. Enjoyed every minute of highlighting my country.
Other notable things about Trinidad and Tobago: the first black Miss Universe Janelle Penny Commissiong in 1977; we celebrate each other's religious holidays (all public holidays), Divali, Eid and Christmas; colour television was invented in Santa Cruz, Trinidad by Scottish inventor John Movie Baird. And just recently in June 2022, the first black woman to win a daytime Emmy award is Trinbagonian. Other notable Trinbagonians: Tony winner Heather Headley, Winston Duke (from Black Panther), Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
This seriously brought a tear to my eye and was worth the five year wait. It was perfect. ❤️
This episode was amazing:
KFC: in the South side of Trinidad it’s really amazing (Port of Spain not much)
Indicator: I got my driver’s license there and in the test you must use the hand signals, which a more important than the indicator.😅
I know the time is short but I wished had an Indian trini in the episode as the indian culture is really strong as well.
Trinidad has a lot of Holidays.
The food segment I wish they spoke about Oil Down(nice food cooked inside the breadfruit. It’s my favorite dish.
Their public transportation is really good and cheap.
I lived there for 3 years and they were amazing.
independence Square POS KFC still sells the most KFC for a outlet in in whole world and open 24/7
South trinidad don't bring in those numbers so what yuh saying don't make sense
Trinidad and tobago also has a thriving motor sport culture and racing heritage in both drag and rally racing as well as off roading and boat racing with annual events.
What I also want to say is Trinbago Dialect is so diverse that different regions of the country have their own twang and sound patterns and Tobago dialect is very foreign to Trinidad as well. Most people in Scarborough for instance would speak like Trinis but as you go deeper in Tobago the dialect and delivery of the phonics changes and is a bit accented. Despite of this we can clearly understand what the other is saying even the White Trinis. And Indo and Afro dialects the two most dominant ones have very interesting differences. Yeah we just have it all down here.
I remember my pals from San Juan had a slower more relaxed accent than friends from barrackpore and Erin who kinda speak like in a rush and like quarrelling like. (Btw both my san juan friends and my south friends were indotrinidadians) had black friends from SanF'do, Pos and Enterprise ( they all had their own kiks when ever they speak) Trinidad is truly an amazing place with amazing characters of human beings.
@@AliAli-uk9nh yes it is agreed and oddly enough we can understand all like even if someone speaks fast we'd already know and understand what they said
@@markhargreaves1069 Lol I speak so fast that even some of the other Trinis have trouble keeping up with what I say. Now imagine that despite that my mother speaks faster than me
@@virgondust5562 😂 that's the very interesting thing about our dialect. I and all have problems keeping up with fast talkers. I would understand but the delivery sometimes does be so quick I might miss stuff.
@@markhargreaves1069 bai i feel my talking speed is that of an amercan dialect sped up to 1.75-2
I love how Barbs gives a voice to people who are live in/are from the countries he's showcasing.
Lots of love❤ to Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹 from India🇮🇳.
This video was a great representation of Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 well done I love it❤️🥺
When I heard they playing the steelpan at the end, I thought "Wow, that's the sound of the Caribbean". I didn't know that sound came from that instrument.
yup😄we invented it btw
Yea and it was the only instrument invented in the 20th century in Trinidad and Tobago and is our national instrument
Made me think of "Under the Sea", ngl.
They messed up on the friend zone part Grenada 🇬🇩 is the best friend of 🇹🇹
I am surprised myself , i feel they said Jamaica because the cohoste is half Jamaican ,but if they are honest ,the closest and most friendly country to Trinidad ,is Grenada .
There are a lot of Grenadians that settled in Trinidad for a long time and Trinidad have a big influence on Grenada .
In Tobaga where am from there is a lot of people with Grenadian roots .
@@shelbourneking7068 after Hurricane Ivan in 2004 then Prime Minister the late Patrick Manning sent over a team of people from all sectors and I brought them around the destroyed capital, WASA, T&TEC, Credit Unions, Telecoms, Banks etc....and never to a man and woman all had Grenadian roots....I have no idea where they got that Jamaican thing from....
Grenada has a closer relationship/similarity to st vincent and the grenadines than trinidad. Both JA and trini are largest anglaphone islands, “trendsetters” in regard of music JA starting reggae and dancehall and trini soca calypso which they both have influenced the other islands to use their music styles, both are very patriotic competition like with curry goat like nigeria and ghana with jollof 😂, both have large african/indian influence
@@Kd-ul6eo Jamaica and trinidad is not no Ghana and Nigeria of the Caribbean. Big difference one love each other and the other dont
-Petrotrin doesn't exist hasn't existed for a few years is Paria /Heritage
- C3 is not in cross crossing
- PAH RI AH not Pah rye ah
- Beaches don't always sell bake and shark
- That is El Tuche Mountain
- Dat dude is not a "red man"
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He’s brown and Chutney music = Trash
I wasn't expecting much but holy cow this country is gorgeous! This definitely goes on my bucket list.
So glad we got a Trini-Jamaican mix in the video. My cousins are the same (uncle married a Trini). The food combos are always on point.
It seems the guy featured doesn't understand the difference between race and nationality.
How can someone be half-nationality? Better he said he is of both Trinidadian and Jamaican heritage, more than making a fool of himself, just like many children born to Caribbean parents in foreign countries(US, UK, and CANADA).
@@dewismith3059 He didn't really make a fool of himself. We all understood what he meant.
@@PHSDM104 exactly! we do know what he meant. Jeez.
@@dewismith3059 that's how Caribbean people talk
Because in the Caribbean we more so identify by nationality, not race
So he wasn't making a fool of himself
That's how we talk, I would say the same thing (since I am the same just female).
If something is unusual for you that's okay, we all have our different cultures, doesn't make something less or more intelligent.
He shouldn't be here. Barby should of gotten a real trini cause he biased af when it comes to trinidad. We Jamaicans don't claim him
I may be biased, but i really enjoy this epiosde!!! (Trini 2 d bone)
For two small Island with such a deep hostroy and so many cultural influences, you guy did a good job summarizing it all, while providing enough contexts to introduce a wider popultion to my beautiful country.
Love that to highlight that the capital is Port of Spain, I still laugh when i still my American firends that and they also ask why the bristish never chnaged it when they took over.
Also, I'm from the southern, Moruga area where most of the villiage are French named (Basse Terre, La Lune, Bois Jean Jean), where the language is so mixed, that the english dialect has words and phases from the french patios, spanish creole and hindi all spoken without you actually knowing the difference.
To explain how Trini KFC is so good, everytime i'm flying back to the US, i have to bring like a 20 peace with me for the family, aunts, and cousin up here.
You forgot to mention that Trinidad eastern coast, facing the Atlantic ocean, experience the largest migration of leather back turtles, which are endaged species.
But overall, get job, I think you really capture the complexities on the country, so Blessed!!!!
yuh dun kno!
Yes! I was surprised they didn't mention the turtle migration either. I really want to see that one day!
The citation reads: “But of all (the kings of Ethiopia) Ganges was most famous, who with his Ethiopian army passed into Asia and conquered all as far as the River Ganges to which he left that name, being before called Chliaros.”
One place that I'd like to see if I ever visit Trinidad and Tobago is Yerette, which is a hummingbird sanctuary located in the northwestern side of Trinidad called the Maracas Valley.
Another great video. Trinidad and Tobago look like beautiful islands. Didn’t know that Trinidad’s economy was that strong and the income was that high. Good to know. One love from 🇯🇲
Yes they are Caribbean’s living in America Caribbean island cause them have money and place looks like America in nice areas why them always laugh at Jamaicans when they compare island cause Jamaica has nothing compared to them
Only reason jamaica on the map because we truly have the best culture the accent patwah and music how are ppl act is what kept jamaica going you have to travel to know that Jamaica is a brand like Disney world
People in Korea and Japan knows about jamica culture they throw jamican parties etc Canada Toronto city added Jamaican word to there slang and they rep Jamaica as homage and respected as Toronto influence the UK London they speak like jamaican say the same words cause they have heavy Jamaican influence and Jamaican deh all over USA what other nation this small can have influence that heavy everywhere mi just wish said my brother and sisters from my Jamaica country could read
@@javonwatkins6924 A brand like Disney but y'all still don't wanna live there 😪 like my father use to say " jamaicans want to live every where but jamaica "
@@javonwatkins6924 Real talk! Compare to most Caribbean islands jamaica got like 86% literacy rate one of the lowest......My white Canadian 🇨🇦 boss said give a jamaican a book they will eat it.
I'm from Venezuela and for me It's incredible how Trinidad & Tobago is BARELY 11 Km away from Venezuela yet we have an almost entirely diferent culture and history. Soo much that many people here forget that T&T even exists lol
Yes you're right. I'm Venezuelan i lived in Trinidad from 2002 untill 2009 and I remember during that time people back in Venezuela didn't know Trinidad exists and it kinda used to piss me off how bad they're in geography and general knowledge lol. Now I'm 32 living in another Caribbean island also near to my homeland just across Our sweet Caribbean Sea. 🇧🇶🇻🇪
Once upon a time Trinidad and Venezuela was connected but how the earth evolves it separated the two countries but we can still see your country from the south side of Trinidad where I’m from♥️
Can you tell me the most common differences between Venezuela and T and T
@@abcgames4454 well I can say the language barrier between the two with Venezuela speaking Spanish as it’s main language and Trinidad speaking English or Trinidadian English creole.(although Spanish is taught in schools)
@@abcgames4454 also in Venezuela you’ll most likely see people that are of European descent while in Trinidad 40% of our population are of Indian descent and other 40% African descent but throughout the remaining percentages people of European descent(white people) only make up 1% of our population
Been waiting years for this! LOVE IT!
5:48 - Thats C3 Mall and not Cross Crossing. Cross Crossing is a food strip with various food trucks that come alive at night.
Few Pronunciation; Piarco Airport (Pee-Ar-Co), Matelo Beach (Mat-Lot), also Trinbago/Trinbagonian is fine not Trini-Bago
Gary, we also have our own species of Buffalo called a Buffalypso (Calypso Buffalo)
Music-wise, folks tend to forget Heather Headley and don't leave out David Rudder (he actually wrote and sang Trini to the Bone) and Super Blue
Fun fact, our National Anthem was written and composed by Patrick Castagne who is Guyanese
Well duh he's not going to pronounce everything correctly due to difference of dialect and accent.
@@chivymendoza that's what I'm saying. We trinis dont even pronounce half of the towns we have here correctly
I want to visit Trini so so bad. It's utterly beautiful, the people are an amazing tapestry of diversity, the food looks delicious af, the govt actually helps prevent poverty (its imperfect, I know), the whole country just looks awesome.
Where are you from?
Trinidad & Tobago warmly welcomes you
What country are you from?
Years….Y E A R S I’ve been waiting for this episode! Although I’m originally from the BVI🇻🇬 my roots trace back to Sweet T&T on my mother’s side🇹🇹. Having grown up spending my Easter and Summer holidays there and living there for 7 years, Most times I identify Trinbago as my home more than my own birthplace!
(Side note: I was in stitches when y’all referenced BVI as a tax haven!🤣🤣🤣)
From its people to its food to its music and of course, its Carnival, I can truly say, as the people often do, “GOD IS A TRINI!”
There’s no place on earth I’d rather be and Sweet, Sweet T&T🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹❤️❤️❤️
Damn, I've never seen a country with this many similarities as my country Mauritius
diversity is riches
The first time I heard about Mauritius I was taken aback. I was like "what is this Trinidad 2.0 country about."
Kind of Ironic, I thought the same, I am from Trini and my ex was from Mauritius, we said the same thing
When I studied Mauritius in linguistics I was blown away by the really similar morphology like agentive suffixes and article incorporation. I wonder if we had similar ancestry from Africa that influenced the creoles
So was the response for guyana episode from Mauritius ppl. Seems trini n guyana are similar to Mauritius from different parts of the world.
Similar to how canada n new Zealand are similar copy but different parts of the world.
That’s a lot of culture for a tiny country! Fascinating episode!
not generally known
national geographic named T&T the cultural capital of the Caribbean being its culture are so diverse
Most Bank Holidays in the English Speaking Caribbean because we recognize Divali, Eid, Emancipation Day, Indian Arrival Day, Shouter Baptist Day along with all the other secular holidays like Labor Day, and Roman Catholic holidays like Easter, Christmas etc. There are talks to add public holidays for Indigenous People, Chinese Heritage as well. We are a country that MAKES MORE SPACE TO INCLUDE EVERYONE which is what any "new" country formed through settling and immigration of diverse cultures and has no homogeneous indigenous citizens with one culture needs to do to make everyone feel like valued citizens. If your national culture is a mosaic you need to honor ALL the colors of that mosaic not just some.
I love the steel pan. Its such a unique sounding instument and it gives that famous, warm, happy carribean vibe which instantly makes you imagine laying on a Trini tropical beach.
The KFC in Trinidad is insane. Royal Castle is good too, but never go to churches. Also they forgot to mention curry crab and dumplings. If you go to store bay in Tobago, you have to try it. I'm 36 and it's the best thing I've ever eaten. Great video on my home country, ty! Hope to see the viewers in T&T soon :D
I really love learning about my fellow Caribbean nations and peoples, I know a few Trinidadians myself since a lot of them are living here and they are some of the most hospitable people you will ever meet, their food and culture is unique and I would love to go there (and actually see more than just the airport lol)
love from Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬❤🇹🇹
It’s Trini, not Trinidadian
@@chasesstuff6010 both are correct. you could say Trinis or Trinidadian or trinitobogains . Trinis is short for Trinidadian and refer to ppl in who live in Trinidad, not tobago
@@chasesstuff6010 Trini, Trinidadian, Tobogonian, Trinbagonian, all works
I living here in Trinidad, born and raised and after watching this I felt I need to visit Trinidad (lol) you guys did an amazing job hats off
🤣🤣 Leave it to a Trini to say something like this lol Trini to D Bone.
I’m MexiRican I have a Mexican dad and Puerto Rican Mom.I really enjoyed this episode and hopefully one day I can visit this beautiful country with such beautiful cultures and people❤ shot out to T&T
I want to visit Mexico as a trini ❤️
Just a side fact : Courlanders ( Dutch of Courland and Semigallia / Kurzemes un Zemgales hercogiste ) were Latvian farmers and German nobles. Thus if we would have kept the colony. Tobago would speak either German or Latvian. As many people who actually were sent Tobago were Latvians.
My Heritage is Italian and my last name is Piparo a volcano with my name Love Trinidad 🇹🇹❤️🇮🇹
Lol interesting... I had assumed this name Piparo (Trinidad) was of arawak or carib origin.
Whenever someone says something about Trinidad and Tobago, I tend to say "different island, same pride" (my family is from Jamaica). Their music is good and their roti is miles better, but our sorrel is better, and we have dancehall, so we call it even. :)
Yep. My auntie is Trini but she blends right in with us Jamaicans.
As a trini I too feel great pride toward both of our countries
same with Guyana, the three triplets
Haha yeah your Sorrell is "better".... yeah 😄 😜 😆 😉
Hey, hey, hey! No way, our sorrel is miles better than yours, proud Trini here
Love Trini Shango Baptist tradition. It's very similar to our Lucumi santera tradition on my island Cuba. We spell Shango "Chango" in Cuba. Big Nigerian Yoruba influence alive in these islands, Africa in the house🌍 🇨🇺🇹🇹
Belize central america I'm from and i have huge respect for our Caribbean friends and commonwealth nations !! Sending love to Trinidad and Tobago
I LOVE Mason's Trini phrases scattered throughout the episode. Good job fellas!
4:13 Well, given that Courland has a majority Latvian population and that its ruling class was German, those might've been more likely than Polish or Lithuanian
Yeah the 'History Matters' channel did a great video on this topic.
I have literally been waiting on this episode for years.. Great job on covering my home.
Definitely more informative than other videos of T&T I've seen in the past. Good job! Taught me some things I didn't know about our history as well. 👍
One thing about trini ppl is that they are very generous and willing to help. Even those without much will spare a few dollars or a few minutes to help someone in need.
One thing about Trini people, if you're lying in the road injured, ten people are going to walk around you taking video with their cell phone and nobody helping.
not all the time
T&T music is beyond awesome. regards from EGYPT 🇪🇬
Awesome? Nice joke
For me I admire Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹, for its diverse people landscape steel pan soca music. Me being a Canadian with half Trini and Jamaican ancestry.
I didn't realize how similarly diverse in people Trinidad is to Jamaica. And I learned something new about your patois. Big up T&T from 🇯🇲
@@zidane8452 go and hull yuh mc and stay out of trini people business
Ya Man DJ Bravo ,Pollard and Narine are From T&T. India loves them 🏏 🇮🇳❤🇹🇹.
A few years ago I was visiting Northern India, most of the locals I met had no idea where Trinidad was until I mentioned Lara, Pollard, Bravo and Narine. After that they couldn't stop talking about how much they loved Trini cricketers 😁. PS... I had an awesome time in India
It’s so wholesome to see Paul’s mom getting more involved in more recent episodes lol 😂
Love and support from Winnipeg, Manitoba 😁🇨🇦❤️
Always wanted and waited for a Trini episode! Finally my country! 🇹🇹🔥🇹🇹
So happy to see my country's episode after watching this channel for so many years!
Best nation yet!
Coming from someone literally called "Trinidad and Tobago".
Yuh don know🇹🇹🇹🇹
Trinidad and Tobago actually has two different patios/creole languages unique to their island and in Trinidad Indian and Afro Trinidadians speak different creole languages though there is a common creole language (Trinidad has lot of creole langauges with regional variations though they are going extinct, the French Patois that was given is a good example of one creole language spoken in Trinidad though in my 20 years since birth I have never met a anyone who spoke it I am more accustomed to Trinidadian English Creole and Trinidadian Bhojpuri creole none of my grandparents on either side spoke French Patois Creole let alone my parents doubt they could even understand it).
I have been looking forward to this episode for years and the wait was worth it.
You would have to go arima or Paramin to hear it from the older people… I wish the governement would implement it into our primary and secondary school syllabus so the language can gain back its popularity among the younger generation
@@nathanaelcudjoe4165 honestly that won't encourage young people to be interested. As a young person myself, Spanish and French was hard enough despite being useful languages in terms of facilitating communication with the wider region it wasn't enough to make me want to really learn the language or get beyond a preschool level for it either added to the fact the time needed to properly learn a language is by no means a small amount, most of my classmates at the time would of agreed and then one forgets something that they don't use or do very often happened to plenty of people I know who did well in Spanish and French (it's funny how now I am trying to learn Spanish but still can't get a hand of it). The Fact French and Spanish has large amounts of speakers lots of people who can teach it, resources, it is standardized (spelling wise) and enables communication with more people, the feasibility of making French Patois popular is small.
No matter how hard the government was to try they won't be able to get the younger generation to get very interested into French Patois to prevent it from going extinct or being a minority language (really I don't see being used much for any communication).
Let us also not forget the sociopolitical debacle that would be created from such a policy because every other language (creole or otherwise) would demand and quite frankly deserve similar treatment, for many Trinbagonians French Patois is not their language or one tied to their identity.
While allowing a language to go extinct has a great deal of moral and social consequences and would be a great cultural loss, I don't wish to see the fire and division just implementing a policy of teaching French Patois would cause on a Political level nor its spillover effects if not handled correctly it is easy for us to forget how delicate things are (I can already hear how the PNM and UNC would turn it into a racism issues and one can only guess how Tobago would react with its own historical and cultural development being different to Trinidad's), it is best for the public to deal with the issue on a local level rather than bring it to the Political arena at least something would be done and would be more by choice and not force considering we don't even have anything in our constitution for referendums public lash back would be minimal.
At the end of the day languages change and evolve and no matter what happens Trinbagonians would in the future speak a language and use terms from languages from the past.
This is the best description of MY country that I ever watch. Great detail and well put together. Well done guys.
puts a smile on my face seeing my country get some recognition
It’s wild how much of an influence Trinidad (amongst other islands) played on the rest of the Caribbean.
The French Islands sprinkled a bit on Trinidad too.
Trinidad and Tobago is my favorite Island country.
It's always nice watching something positive about your country [especially when you live abroad], & I even learned a thing or 2.
Well done Barbs and Colin Mason, this was an excellent presentation about T&T. It is great to hear the local people share in the different segments. Mason yuh represent with the slangs and the Trini vibes! Beyond some pronunciations, Barbs thanks for showcasing our country and keep adding quality educational content. Do yuh thing guy, good work. 😍