Chinese in Jamaica aren’t Chinese their BLACKANESE
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Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha
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This is dumb shutSome of these brehs are more Jamaican then us brehs
Island Lifestyle: These Asian Jamaicans Are Smooth & Representin' The Culture! "This Is Blackanese"
love the Jamaican culture btw I’m Jamaican don’t shoot u weirdo incel fake woke cacs pretending to be black
They're not black, they're Asian people that are Jamaican
Nationality and ethnicity/race are two different things
it's easy to spot local vs tourist
no it's not
It’s weird to ME nikka.
Jamaica is full of Indian and Chinese that came as 'indentured servants" after the abolition of slavery. The Indians came on apprenticeships and were tricked by the British into thinking they were on a short term paid contract and would return home after working off the payment for their original passage. Most of them didnt read or speak English.
The chinese came as part of a Migration out of China in the 1800s and settled in Jamaica the same way the did anywhere else and opened up businesses, laundry services and wholesale. I think this was to do with the building of the Panama canal as well which was a huge industrial undertaking at the time and apart of the indentured servitude that was introduced after the abolishment of slavery and to replace the usage of Afro Caribbean workers.
Side note: black ppl still got the shyt end of the stick because after the abolishment an apprenticeship scheme was introduced but u stiill had to work 40 hours a week for free to your intended master then after that you could do what u wanted for paid employment. Work would have been difficult to find because they would have been taken over by the newly introduced indentured sevants who were paid and would be allowed to save money which they would the use to set up businesses leaving the black ppl at a deficit.
The chinese came as part of a Migration out of China in the 1800s and settled in Jamaica the same way the did anywhere else and opened up businesses, laundry services and wholesale. I think this was to do with the building of the Panama canal as well which was a huge industrial undertaking at the time and apart of the indentured servitude that was introduced after the abolishment of slavery and to replace the usage of Afro Caribbean workers.
Side note: black ppl still got the shyt end of the stick because after the abolishment an apprenticeship scheme was introduced but u stiill had to work 40 hours a week for free to your intended master then after that you could do what u wanted for paid employment. Work would have been difficult to find because they would have been taken over by the newly introduced indentured sevants who were paid and would be allowed to save money which they would the use to set up businesses leaving the black ppl at a deficit.
Crayola Coyote
Superstar
You not lying; me and wifey stopped in Jamaica on a cruise one time, this was somewhere around 2005 or so. I was in one of the duty free shops, and I heard someone behind me talking in full, thick patois. The funny thing was, before leaving, my man at work was telling me about Chinese Jamaicans that I might see when we stopped there. I ain't believe him, hit him with the.... So while I'm in the duty free shop, I hear this conversation behind me, but I'm not paying attention to who's speaking. So at some point I'm looking for my wife, and I turn around, and there's this little Asian dude behind me with a cell phone to his ear, but he ain't talking. A couple minutes later, I turn around to look for my wife again, and this little Asian cat is spitting that full patois like I was used to hearing on Flatbush Ave back in Brooklyn. Whoever he was talking with had him aggy, so son was heavy with it. I couldn't help it, when I saw it was him, I literally looked at him with the
Son looked back and was like "whoppin"
I kept it a buck, told him I was just shocked to hear him talking the language. I told my man at work when I got back and he started dying laughing.
“whoppin?” Part
What I will also say, is that many of the Chinese and Indians treated the black ppl of Jamaica the same as the whites did at the time and the neo colonialist Chinese of 2020 do the same. During the 1800s a lot of them kept to themselves and u were banned from socializing with the blacks of the island. You did not do business with or married a black person.
It was the same with the Syrians and Jews that lived in Jamaica at the time.
It was the same with the Syrians and Jews that lived in Jamaica at the time.
