Do Caribbean black people act different from American black people

[OvOxO]

I don't think OP is serious , but as a Caribbean black man with AA family, speaking first hand drastically different depending on the island. Similar in others such as UsVIs. Culture and status quo totally different. Internet influence has warped the scenarios a lot and there's a lot of stuff accepted here now that wasn't when I was a kid.

 

[BigMan]

Yeah I just don't like these mfs always shytting on other black ppl. We all the same with different cultural variants.

I'm tryna prevent a dumb argument in this thread

 

[Grano-Grano]

I'm tryna prevent a dumb argument in this thread

Word, I rather learn from all my Africans. I see Blacks in the Western hemisphere as Africans. You guys are the extension of the continent. idgaf what nobody says.

 

[MikeyC]

Didn't nikkas say you were a Cac?

They did. And they were wrong.

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

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Like do u they act like us
Have our issues etc

They say Caribbean black woman are more nice educated don't have kids out of Wedlock look to get married etc

 

[K.O.N.Y]

20 years ago i would have agreed with this statement , but ever since Hip Hop became the predomiant pop culture genre of the western hemisphere

Explain what you mean by this without getting schooled in the process

 

[bouncy]

Damn, I remember this argument happening in 1987, its 2016 and shyt is still happening, and it aint starting with Black Americans.

I hate to say it, but a lot of west indians, latins, and Africans, are giving off a low self esteem vibe. I don't understand how you can live here for years, do damn near the same shyt we do, and still think you are better or that much different?

I give up with nikkas man. If it were Jamaicans in Jamaica asking this, I understand, but you been living here since 5 yrs old, and you still think you're different?

Yall need to get up under mommy, and grandma, titties so you can think for yourself. You don't want to be isolated around over 46,000,000 black people talking that "I'm better then you" shyt, and you are only around 5,000,000 strong, yet you are doing a lot of the same bullshyt because if shyt keep going like it is, you are on your own, and people WILL remember the bullshyt you said about them.

Remember a few years ago when I said white supremacists will use immigration as an excuse to shyt on immigrants, while getting blacks to help them, and I got laughed at. Donald Trump did exactly that

Don't think this won't extend to foreign blacks, so I think it would be smart to not let the ego, and lies go to your head, or it won't be pretty

 

[CASHAPP]

...BlacK Ameicans are more woke and have more pride in their race and it isnt even close.

I find far too many Caribbean Blacks love their nationality more over their own damn race....and that isn't an opinion...everyone in here know that is FACT

Its cool to have national pride in the country you rep....but so often its like they cringe their teeth to say they are Black.

im willing to bet everyone in this thread who knows a caribbean or a caribbean family...instead of talking about these 2 cases that happened with the police....they are complaining about the riots only

right?

look at all the jamaicans who clowned michael jackson and now there is an epidemic of skin bleacing going on..

just no pride in being black at all

whens the last time you heard a caribbean black say "im black and im proud"? They always gotta use the Pharell angle of "I'm a new type of Black"

 

[bouncy]

...BlacK Ameicans are more woke and have more pride in their race and it isnt even close.

I find far too many Caribbean Blacks love their nationality more over their own damn race....and that isn't an opinion...everyone in here know that is FACT

Its cool to have national pride in the country you rep....but so often its like they cringe their teeth to say they are Black.

Not Jamaicans. Really the only time I heard the "i aint black" shyt was from latins, and blacks on the internet. shyt was crazy to me. Growing up in Brooklyn around mostly west indians, they always praised being black, just the bougie kind. Even though they was in the hood

The sad thing about black latins is they will be the first people to get kicked out or banned from coming to the states. Dominicans will be the first being that they have strong ties to the drug game. Before people get mad at me, AGAIN, this isn't how I feel, I'm just good at studying how the system moves. They can't get Puerto Ricans, but Dominicans will make up for that. After that, they will go for other Caribbean blacks . They tried to do it in the mid to late 80's by using the high crime rate the dreads helped raise, but black americans stopped that. They did prevent a lot of Haitians from coming, but again black americans complained how wrong it was, which is why I think its foul for them to look down on us as a whole. Especially when they do crime just like we do, and they contribute to society just like we do.

Look at everything, not just the bad. A lot of them sound just like racists whites, until they get that ****** wake up call

 

[CASHAPP]

Not Jamaicans. Really the only time I heard the "i aint black" shyt was from latins, and blacks on the internet. shyt was crazy to me. Growing up in Brooklyn arou,nd mostly west indians, they always praised being black, just the bougie kind. Even though they was in the hood

The sad thing about black latins is they will be the first people to get kicked out or banned from coming to the states. Dominicans will be the first being that they have strong ties to the drug game. Before people get mad at me, AGAIN, this isn't how I feel, I'm just good at studying how the system moves. They can't get Puerto Ricans, but Dominicans will make up for that. After that, they will go for other black Caribbeans. They tried to do it in the mid to late 80's by using the high crime rate, but black americans stopped that. They did prevent a lot of Haitians from coming, but again black americans complained how wrong it was, which is why I think its foul for them to look down on us as a whole. Especially when they do crime just like we do, and they contribute to society just like we do.

Look at everything, not just the bad. A lot of them sound just like racists whites, until they get that ****** wake up call

First of all i just wanted to make it clear I dont mean all of them but more compared to Black Americans. You kind of answered your own statement though breh lol. "Even though they was in the hood" That is your answer right there. It would be a different story if they were Caribbeans in the suburbs

In the hood or low income areas of Black people people will always find some kind of solidarity with being black and going through the same shyt in the neighborhood. And there are still the ones in the hood who ARENT woke. But the ones who live in the suburb and everytime they hear the word "Black school" they think the school has terrible ratings without checking. Or actually say out loud they wanna make sure there child goes to a "white school". The biggest "we iz our own worst enemy" culprits...they know Jamaica has been real fukked up so they think Black Americans have it easy and complain too much. You are more likely to hear them call other Black people "lazy"..

You right about Dominicans...overall with the exception of the few who say they Black and know Dominican is a nationality...i would say over 70 percent do the i aint black nonsense.

Panamanians Blacks though...know they are Black and dont front. Like this chick here knows she is a Black Panamanian...didnt call herself some other shyt.

I have to say though out of all the Caribbean Blacks...Haitians have the most pride in being Black and its not even close.

 

[bouncy]

First of all i just wanted to make it clear I dont mean all of them but more compared to Black Americans. You kind of answered your own statement though breh lol. "Even though they was in the hood" That is your answer right there. It would be a different story if they were Caribbeans in the suburbs

In the hood or low income areas of Black people people will always find some kind of solidarity with being black and going through the same shyt in the neighborhood. And there are still the ones in the hood who ARENT woke. But the ones who live in the suburb and everytime they hear the word "Black school" they think the school has terrible ratings without checking. Or actually say out loud they wanna make sure there child goes to a "white school". The biggest "we iz our own worst enemy" culprits...they know Jamaica has been real fukked up so they think Black Americans have it easy and complain too much. You are more likely to hear them call other Black people "lazy"..

You right about Dominicans...overall with the exception of the few who say they Black and know Dominican is a nationality...i would say over 70 percent do the i aint black nonsense.

Panamanians Blacks though...know they are Black and dont front. Like this chick here knows she is a Black Panamanian...didnt call herself some other shyt.

I have to say though out of all the Caribbean Blacks...Haitians have the most pride in being Black and its not even close.

Yeah, I can see the ones in the suburbs doing that.

I forget that chicks name, but you sure she is Panamanian?

If she is, she must be first generation, because I thought she was just a regular l.a. porn chick.

 

[CASHAPP]

Yeah, I can see the ones in the suburbs doing that.

I forget that chicks name, but you sure she is Panamanian?

If she is, she must be first generation, because I thought she was just a regular l.a. porn chick.

Yeah Caramel the GOAT pornstar was born in Panama...

Her name is Millicent Pardo...thats a hispanic last name

obviously she grew up in LA breh but she was born in panama. she was speaking spanish in a scene with lex steele one time

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

why you doing this fam

Act like haiti's officially isn't French (only French until not too long ago)


Act like AAVE isn't a decreolization version of a previous creole

We haven't been French for over 200 something years. And majority of Haitians don't speak French.

 

[Address_Unknown]

I had a friend in college from the Bahamas who I didn't even know was from there because he would change the way he talked. One day I caught him slippin and was like where are you from??? He told me the Bahamas, and I was like why do you talk like that? He was like he plays ball with other black (American) dudes on campus and didn't want to get made fun of for his accent.

Ya friend played himself. Unless he sounded like he got castrated at 5, ain't no way his Caribbean accent would be met with any derision or ridicule from his peers. I still find it shocking that alot of AA's I meet never get passports until they are old enough to drink so I know they don't come in contact with a raw accent like mine on the reg, so by default the minute they hear me speak, I'm that nikka to get to know and at times be cautious/weary about 'cause we ALL sound like Jamaicans to the uninformed. Ain't nobdy was gonna tease him on the shyts and unless he was a rural, cat raised in menial labour where book sense wasn't available, he woulda had no problem speaking standard english with his Bahamian inflections and what's not.

Now unless I'm in a place where I know I'll never be in again, I might switch it up and toss on my English accent, especially if I'm chasing trim or talking business of some sort, but all I do is just tone down my shyts and not use vernacular that's common from back home, ain't got no way you can't understand me unless you wanna be difficult. Plus, that shyt has it's perks.

Do you know the amount of women that have come up to me with grocery lists full of words or sentences they wanted me to read, all fukking 'cause they heard a brother speak and wanted to assimilate into the crew 'cause I was showing love and buying drinks? Heck, it's gotten to the point where it happens so often, especially at parties and I get cocky with the shyts like "Yeah, if you want me to recite all this shyt, I'ma need you to get comfortable, and my lap looks awfully cozy right now" The shyt works likes gangbusters.

Only downside of that shyt is that if you're gonna entertain that shyt, you gotta deal with the dudes, mainly the ones with no melanin who are gonna ambush you out of nowhere going "Duuuuude! I can't understand what WYCLEFF JJJJEEEAAAAN, is saying in this Shakira track, man. Decipher it for me, Rastaman. Bless I wid Jah mercies'n'shyt."

Sounds like he just wanted to fit in with his friends and not have to explain or defend being different and proud of it.

 

[awkwardblackgirl]

Ya friend played himself. Unless he sounded like he got castrated at 5, ain't no way his Caribbean accent would be met with any derision or ridicule from his peers. I still find it shocking that alot of AA's I meet never get passports until they are old enough to drink so I know they don't come in contact with a raw accent like mine on the reg, so by default the minute they hear me speak, I'm that nikka to get to know and at times be cautious/weary about 'cause we ALL sound like Jamaicans to the uninformed. Ain't nobdy was gonna tease him on the shyts and unless he was a rural, cat raised in menial labour where book sense wasn't available, he woulda had no problem speaking standard english with his Bahamian inflections and what's not.

Now unless I'm in a place where I know I'll never be in again, I might switch it up and toss on my English accent, especially if I'm chasing trim or talking business of some sort, but all I do is just tone down my shyts and not use vernacular that's common from back home, ain't got no way you can't understand me unless you wanna be difficult. Plus, that shyt has it's perks.

Do you know the amount of women that have come up to me with grocery lists full of words or sentences they wanted me to read, all fukking 'cause they heard a brother speak and wanted to assimilate into the crew 'cause I was showing love and buying drinks? Heck, it's gotten to the point where it happens so often, especially at parties and I get cocky with the shyts like "Yeah, if you want me to recite all this shyt, I'ma need you to get comfortable, and my lap looks awfully cozy right now" The shyt works likes gangbusters.

Only downside of that shyt is that if you're gonna entertain that shyt, you gotta deal with the dudes, mainly the ones with no melanin who are gonna ambush you out of nowhere going "Duuuuude! I can't understand what WYCLEFF JJJJEEEAAAAN, is saying in this Shakira track, man. Decipher it for me, Rastaman. Bless I wid Jah mercies'n'shyt."

Sounds like he just wanted to fit in with his friends and not have to explain or defend being different and proud of it.

I have heard quite a few Africans/Caribbean people talk about diluting their accents. I'm Nigerian American and sound hella white, and it annoys the shyt out of me when I meet a Nigerian with an accent try to whiten up their voice when they talk to me. I actually go as far as telling them to talk in their normal voice because I can't understand what they're saying. It might have a lot to do with lack of exposure to other cultures and being comfortable with themselves as opposed to feeling like they need to assimilate to be accepted.