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Also, I realize I didn't really talk about the "Guiana" regions located in Brazil in Venezuela, but their cultures and people don't really have much in common with the other "Guianas."
David Bocanegra people in guyana who are indians come from india, my dad was half south asian and british from guyana. his mother was from India. so it is india masaman is referring to not amazon native americans
My great great grandparents are from India. My grandparents and parents were born in Suriname. My parents moved to the Netherlands and that's where I was born. You have no idea how many times i had to explain Suriname. Only to hear "So you're not indian?" 😩
+Monisha Hizmetci If we took an African elephant to India and it gave birth, what would the baby elephant be called? An "Indian elephant"? How about if we took a Bengal tiger to Africa and it gave birth to cubs. What would we call the cubs? "African cubs"?
Indian blood is too thick and strong. Regardless of how many generations born outside India, deep inside they will be Indian or they will be confused with their identity.
We are not Indians, Because our nationality is not Indian. We are Hindustani. And hindustani live allround the world. Because our fore parents came from the indus valley called hindu, en everybody who are related with this called hindustani. But by birth we are, americans, dutch, belgian, etc
I'm from South Africa. I have no blood connection to Guyana but have always been interested in peoples history around the world. Great presentation, very informative thanks
From indigenous American to African American /Kurimeo Ahau . With Tyler Perry opening up his new studios in Atlanta 400 acre second largest America. I hope he could tell the true history of the world. I can only hope. Ashera star goddess has very good information about the upcoming 5G technology. And how it will affect different people biology. There's a 3-minute news segment about South America having the highest UV strong sunlight in the world. There are advising the people to wear sunscreen. My question is if you are the original people. And come from that area of the world shouldn't your body be adapted to that strong sunlight by now? So why are you wearing sunscreen? RU-vid CCTV news. Parts of South America being bombarded by strong sunlight.
Hi, I'm also from SA. Watch Drew Binsky videos if you're interested in different people, countries and their cultures. You'll enjoy them. They have taught me a lot
Thanks man. The Guyanas are pretty underrated as no one knows about them. So whenever a surinamees/dutch person like myself sees someone talking about our little countries we cant help but feel excited
ALOT OF PEOPLE DONT BELIEVE IM JAMAICAN BECAUSE PEOPLE DONT KNOW INDIANS, WHITES, CHINESE, ARABS, SYRIANS, SPANISH, AND MORE ARE FROM JAMAICA...... WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO DO A VIDEO ON THAT
He was on no more than telling out a university assignment to us all. What the man says will highly suggest that it is fact. When what he is reading as the sources, gives him sentencing and paragraphs without the words might, could or possibly. No, all cohesion does is make an individual sound academic which he does superbly. Also, he comes across coherent, yet others may argue that the use of English language amongst Americans never sounds as coherent as a non academic schooler from England. For example, the part in this video where he presents the pie chart data about population of Africa India and others; however, cohesive - a non academic English child could in my reckoning sound more coherent like with 'the flocking Indians rule over there'. Once again American accents take away a little coherency of English languages. Only a little mind you he is still heard. I listen back to my English and sound like a gay kid looking at his own backside arching for please please sir I want some more or whatever Oliver said in his moment. I does think like in the case of Mauritius, that in the West books like remembering the world started in the 19th century when slavery was abolished. When we all know the world is still less than 200 years old from 1837. My guess is Europeans knew how advanced they felt about themselves and really in their hearts knew despite colonialism that they were never turning Africa into European beliefs without slaves. Ask scholars why they don't talk about what African did in the 8th 9th and 10th century. It is the fact they still no nothing other than what Africa has told them themselves so historically absent. You may even believe an African that says his blood came from an animal. When all he meant is the spirit his meat on his plate can present. Either way, if the Holy Ghost sounds like a he one minute then a she the next, are we to think angels or God? Spoken language sometimes is as bogus as written language, my girlfriend writes a text to tell me folk off it isn't real in my eyes it is anger she says with her own mouth she likes tyresse am I still to take her seriously if she likes somebody more than tyresse?
Bethebest 1 I dare you to revise a sentence he said when you go to sleep. My guess is you remember nothing he said. And know more about a guy who says, I was like 5 foot 8 without any clue that it was a bloke named grimey. Or perhaps I am talking to myself again of the way mr cohesive masaman did not repeat himself once in my sleep. In contrast to the big man who I don't go near, yet the coherent nature of fierce lyrics repeat there...kids rucksack in my sleep but only minimal pieces of the pie chart. Why some switch off and others stay tuned.
Clarissa Murphy Nice try? He still made legitimate points. Having bad english cause it might be your second language doesn't delegitimize what you have to say
Michele-Very biased FAKE PRESENTATION...THEY HAVE LIED TO ALL OF US FOR CENTURIES THAT ALL BLACK PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS CAME ON SLAVE SHIPS...THE REAL TEACHERS OF HISTORY SAY OTHERWISE-ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wDg0QSO7GoA.html
You did nice research, I am a white Dutch guy, My parents still live in Suriname it was awesome growing up their between all the cultures. I went to traditional Indian weddings, when to mosques with my Muslim friends just to wait until they where done praying, went hunting with Maroons, learned fishing tricks from my native american friends etc etc... A very diverse country where ethnicity does not play a role. Ohh so different is this in Europe where I live now. Muslims keep to them selves, minorities don't integrate, there is so much division between cultures.
Suriname sounds like a multicultural bliss! You are so right about the division among minorities in Europe! :( I'm a Sri Lankan Tamil from London and totally want people in EU to be like in Suriname!!! :)
I've always like these countries (especially Suriname) since they are the "odd ones" in South America. Being latino, I always wanted to learn about them and how they developed an unique society which is multicultural and intriguing. I have always loved to see people from there, so diverse, so interesting. What shocks me is the fact that some people in South America think that the Guyanas are islands in the Caribbean and are surprised to learn these nations are located in mainland (even some people do not refer to it as Suriname but as Dutch Guyana still and some are not sure whether French Guyana is independent or not). In cultural terms we are different and for example in football none of the "Guyanas" are part of CONMEBOL (South American confederation) but they play in the CONCACAF (North Central American and the Caribbean). That situation is similar in other sports (baskeyball, voulleyball etc.) When it comes to South American athletics championships the Latino South America and Guyanas compete together as well as in the South American Games. Love this video and I want to learn more from them
Tutubem/como vai? I am from Suriname 🇸🇷 and yes we are very diverse. I have Brasilians in my family and i am proud of it, i am Surinamese of indian descent.
Fun fact, in Saramacca there are serveral Marron tribes that can fluently communicate with people from Ghana. This was once put to the test by a Surinamese Journalist who went to Ghana and took a Ghanese guest with him to one of these villages. The village eldest could speak with the Ghanese man and understand one another.
My grandparents are from Guyana. Everyone always curious of my ethnicity as people assume I'm black but I have some strong Asian and native american facial features. I guess I should take a dna test lol
very random but i'm mixed as well and my parents are form guyana. as a mixed person from guyana do you feel the need to choose a side based on your looks? i mean obviously we acknowledge our mix but do you identify stronger with one side oer the other?
Guyanese here and learning about my culture. Now it makes sense why I have no idea what my genetic make up is because we’re such a melting out of cultures! 🇬🇾
@@ideepakbabu surinam(actually :surinen) was an native indian tribe leaving here,so when the europeans came they named the country after them so yes its native american
Thank you for making this video.i learned so much about the history of Guyana. I was born and raised in Canada but both my father and mother are from Guyana. Growing up in the 90's and trying to explain that I am of Portuguese, Indian, Chinese decent was a nightmare. No one could not u understand how that could be possible.
I hear ya. My parents are from Suriname, and I am of African, Indian, Indonesian, and European descent. Explaining that is a nightmare for me as well. People accused me of lying, but it is pretty spot on. I recently did a DNA test and it came back as 43% African, 35% Asian (India, Indonesia, and West Asia), 20% European,and 2% Native American. Random mix, but it happens.
SuperMsk28 my mother is from Suriname as well & trying to explain how I had an uncle who was 1/2 Chinese and 1/2 Portuguese was a nightmare! I am brown skin with what some ppl would call “keen” features here in the States, lol. Needless to say I got bullied a lot as a child because I was so different. Our family trees in these countries are very diverse to say the least. Lol 😂
Suriname the only caribean country were the east indians and indonesians still maintains the language an cultures,o yeah and shout out also to my creole,maroons,native- americans,chinese,jewish and mixed people there
in English sure.. but this is not a English or US colony... it is a dutch one and there the E is not silent... I live in the netherlands and have had Suriname friends ever since I was a wee child... it is said as SU.REE.NAA.MUH
My parents are from British Guyana, and I am a proud American. Both of my parents are mixed race, my mom is Native American (South Amer-Indian) Chinese and African, and my dad is East Indian, white and some black. A lot of Guyanese people are multiracial just like me and my family.
Good video! I am Guyanese American, as both my parents are from Guyana. My father is Black, as my mother. Considering the ethnic groups in the country and the phenotypes I see in my family, I plan on taking an Ancestry DNA test to find out if I have any other mixture besides African. EDIT: Turns out I am 71% African, 23% South Asian (East Indian), and 6% European.
Indeed, it is a great video! I enjoyed it very much! My parents are from the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. I was born in the United Kingdom of Great Britain - a first generation (and only generation Brit I'm afraid) Brit, but living in the Dominion of Canada. Still have my English accent after all these years. My dad is Black and my mum is East-Indian. My dad believes his ancestors could have been from what is now Sierra Leone, in Africa. I think my mum's ancestors were from what is now known as Bihar in Northeast India, bordering Nepal. Some of my relatives on my mum's side of the family believe their ancestors were from Uttar Pradesh.
I am coming from Paris, France. My background is half Réunion island by my mother, and half Guadeloupe island, French West Indies by my father. I am currently located at SAINT LAURENT DU MARONI at the border between French Guyana and Surinam. It's an amazing place to discover.
J’ai des antécédents Réunionnais & Mauricien mais j’ai grandit au Québec. Aujourd’hui je travaille comme enseignant à Monaco 🇲🇨. J’aimerais beaucoup visiter les colonies françaises des Caraïbes.
I love living in Suriname and am very proud of my country eventhough i was born in the Netherlands. My nationality is Surinamese. 🇸🇷 the people live in peace with each other and also celebrate each other’s religious festivities
@@kerwaynewhite1444 Damn near every single one. European ethnicities, African, amerindian, east and South asian and even indonesian and all child born between these groups.
Well presented piece! I come from Suriname from African decent living in Africa. I always have to explain to people where I’m from. The Gayana’s and the richness of the different ethnic groups living together are definitely not known to many around the world. So thank you for this explanation.
I was just in Trinidad for the carnival and it was so beautiful To see people from nearly every nation on Earth partying and hanging out together. Wish the world was like that
My parents are from Guyana. it is a weird place. A good example is this. In Georgetown for example, in one black you can hear Brazilian music, down the street you can hear Trinidadian music, Jamaican Music, down the street you can hear Indian music, and up the block you will hear American hip hop. It is a weird place.
There's nothing at all weird about Guyana. It's a beautiful country and rich in all types of cultures especially African and Indian. What's weird is a person like you who thinks racial ethnic diversity and their associated music is strange/weird. In New York one may here Spanish music playing across the street, hip hop music playing on one floor in an apartment building, reggae playing on another floor or in the apartment right next door, and just around the corner you may hear people speaking in Haitian Creole. Is New York, the city that most people dream of visiting, a weird place too? Don't be foolish.
Fun fact about Suriname. There is a mosque and a synagogue standing right next to each other in Paramaribo. I believe it is the only place in the world where this can exist. Also almost everyone in Suriname can at the least understand English (for the older people) and speak it fluently (for the younger generations
Thank you Masaman 4 this wonderfull video.And even maybe the video has some (small) errors.We all know that youre not an expert.But that you make all youre video's with good intensions ❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Finally India found their missing child in West.. Past of Guyana (Indian laborers and native Guyanese) was very sad.. Britishers took advantage of the poor illiterate people.. Education is very very important for our future generations !!
These are the races in Guyana Amerindian European African Portuguese Eastindian Chinese oh and it's in the order of how they came and I happen to me mixed with all the above
I am Malaysian of Indian heritage! Due to close proximity, we still have connection to India. Majority of Indians here and Singapore are south Indians, mainly of Tamil heritage
They are all over:Mauritius,Reunion,Fiji,Trinidad and to a lesser degree in Suriname ;Durban in South Africa;small minorities in Jamaica,Belize and Uganda,Kenya etc. The new place for Indians to immigrate is Australia
There is a Dutch rapper of pure Amerindian-Surinamese descent named Tony Scott who rapped in English during the late 1980's and early 1990's. He mostly did hip house and new jack swing stuff, he wasn't bad at all. Look up "Get Into It" or "The Chief".
@Shlomo Shekelstein You’re not wrong. My DNA results revealed I am predominantly African with some Indian and Sri Lankan ancestors. I had no idea, but I’m not surprised!
Thank you for the video, I'm a afro Guyanese and I am very proud and excited to be a part of such diversity community and culture I love our uniqueness in the region and the world 🗺 🌍.
Both of my parents were born and raise in Guyana. My father is Amerindian and my mother is mixte with Black, White and Chinese. I was born and raise in French Guiana on the other hand. And now I live in France. I really appreciate your video, you did a good job and you did your research. A lot of other countries don’t really know about the Guyana’s. Thank you. Great video.
You certainly have an interesting mix. My parents are from the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. I live in the Dominion of Canada; I have visited the French Republic before. Quebec, in Canada is French speaking.
Hi, I'm from the french Carribean island Guadeloupe, and I'm half indian half black, wich is pretty common in my country. When People ask me where I come from, some of them are surprised to hear that there are indian people in the carribean. Some carribean countries are mostly populated by indian people, like in Trinidad for example...
People get surprised when they hear that there are so many Indians in the Caribbean. When they hear that so many Indian women have married African men there they get the shock of their lives.
Than you're not from Suriname but from the Netherlands with Surinam roots. How can you be from a country where you were not born and where you don't even live?
@@susantang287 I think it is rather you that have them chips/logs. The burden weighing on your back, is that of the Dutch not accepting non whites and continuously asking where you're from or where you're really from, while you are from the Netherlands. That is a fact and not something negative. The negativity is from the white Dutch, that you and and all others that see themselves as the whites imprinted them. Instead of standing up and make it clear that although you have Surinamese roots, you are from the Netherlands, you resort to the narrow mindedness of your white fellow country men. It is a fact that you have Surinamese roots, but it is also a fact that you are not from Suriname, but from the Netherlands. If yoy want to be consistent with this approach, than you are not even from Suriname, but from the country of your ancestors!
The map of Suriname is wrong, other than that, nice vid report! I am Surinamese from French, Indian (Hindustan) , Pakistani (Punjab), Nepalese, Chinese, African and Amer Indian descent.
I am from London,England but both my parents are from Guyana,South America. My mums parents are black guyanese and my dads parents are mixed guyanese(i.e grandmum is half chinese half black and my grandad is half irish half black). Great history lesson to learn about the history of my countries origins. So I have black,irish and chinese in my genes.
Yeah I know but I didnt say I wasnt black but I still have other dna mixture in me too. No human being on the planet is a pure blood anyway. At least I know where I come from and I acknowledge my guyanese heritage and also acknowledge my parents and grandparents racial make up and dna and it seems like you want me to deny it and ignore it. You must be ignorant. Dont get it twisted I am very proud of being black. If I said that I wasnt black then you will have a case for a legitimate argument.
I am brazilian and the Guyanas always seemed a fascinating place to me. Most brazilians are european+african+amerindian, with sometimes a japanese or levantine ancestry, and i wonder how would Brazil be if we had south asian in the mix like the Guyanas have.
Its not alot but There are people that are mixed with Portuguese (Madiran), black and Indian. It would be very hard to find that mix now since Most of the Portuguese population the left in the late 1960's and 1970s for the UK, Canada and other places. Could happen again if there is immigration from Brazil.
Hi, I am from Mauritius and I would surely feel like home in Guyana. People from my country have African, European and Asian ancestry. Our creole is mostly influenced by French language.
F it amazed me how people teach that black is not beautiful but yet they mixed with black people and get the black features but don't want to claim their black blood but if you got curly hair dark skin and puffy lips you get it from black people no matter what they declare you as race meet personally the darker the berry the sweeter the juice
Hey Mason! Love your videos. Just wanted to say two things. The word Coolie can be found offensive an derogatory. I know you didn't have that intention, just thought you should know. Also the word Dougla is pronounced like the English name Douglas without the s on the end. It originates from the Hindi phrase "Do Gala" meaning 2 necks which implies a biracial skin color.
My experience in Guyana was awesome and extremely hot due to its humidity and its location close by the equator. The term dougla normally refers to people of mixed backgrounds particularly Blacks and those of East Indian descent. Blacks and Indians have oftentimes had political tensions which sometimes led to physical altercations between the two groups. The literacy levels in Guyana is extremely high and Guyana is rich in gold, sugar cane, rice, and bauxite but yet because of the after effects of colonialism Guyana remains one of the poorer nations in the West Indies. I love Guyana and I wish it could begin to thrive and become a developed country off of its own resources.
Apparently they just found oil! My uncle explained that the Trinidadians are trying to move there for jobs now, so our population will increase, and if the stilts under our houses break, we can afford to repair them now! Lmfao!
My mum English my dad is half guyanese Indian and pakistani. So more Anglo Indian my brother looks very Indian whilst I look more white Italian looking.
wtf did you call yourself traitor? for that is what you are, you turned your back on your own people and went to live and work for other peoples, that's a traitor, why would you go to live in a slave camp? because your the enslaver
Sentinel Did you watch the video ? In French Guiana we doesn’t have a lot of Indian people(from India). We have 10% Native American, 25% Maroons, 30% Guianan Creole, 10% French and 25% Foreigners like(Haitian, Brazilian, Dominican, West Indies people etc...).
@@amundemusango And there we have a clear demonstration of the disconnect i spoke of, your not worthy of discourse as you obviously have no idea what your saying which leads me to question your ethnicity?, I bet your not the full 100? mixed by any chance?
Wow nice video ☺ and love to visit that region one day.. I am an Indian living in India.. I never thought there were Indians living in that region .. all those different people look so beautiful 😊
y did u put the photo of jwala gutta, indian badminton player in ur video. although she is born to a Chinese mother and an Indian father she is not Guyanese.
As a dougla guyanese person, theres some slight corrections i would like to make. 1. the term "dougla" is not applied to all mixes 2. it is only used for persons of african and indian descent 3. there are other terms of persons who are biracial such as boufiyana for persons of Amerindian and african descent 4. among the guyanese the word "cook up" is applied to persons who are multiracial (3 or more ethnic races). this is done because the meal cook up requires alot of ingredient while the individuals have alot of ethnic mixes. not a point more of a fun fact these terms have originated from the creole language spoken. and the term of dougla (once again african and indian) is also used in other islands such as Trinidad because of how common the mixture is. it was a very insightful video
Essequibo river Amazona as a Guyanese born and raised in Berbice I have heard of those terms before, in school we would refer to our mixed friends as " cook up" not being disrespectful or rude but done in a joking manner, also bufiyana is a common term used alot I'm not sure how you have never heard it before
My grandparents is from indonesia and im a javanese gurl in Suriname. Im proud of myself , people asking me wooh yr a asian tho ? 😂. Im just a ordinary javanese gurl that live in Suriname and a muslim
Yeay i love this video. I live and was born in Suriname. Suriname has become much more diverse as this video says. Do not forget The Brasilians venezuelans, colombians, people from Curaçao and every part from the world live here now. We are just one big happy melting pot.
This was a very interesting video! One of my best girlfriends is from Suriname, and seeing this video helped me understand the confluence of different groups of people that came together! Now I see how she is "black" culturally, but is also so Latina-looking, yet Indian too (Native), and speaks Dutch! I have to share this with her!
Oh boy (or girl) one of the qualities of Suriname people is that we speak more than 1 language. For most people in Suriname 5 languages are a minimum. And since we don't really have an accent we can also master many accents, it comes easy to us. Like speaking English with an Indian accent, English with an Guyanese accent or dutch with an accent of Holland.
Sorry, but what's a "Latina-looking"? Latinos are not a race, as many people think. We are a linguistic group (Spanish and Portuguese-speaking of different ethnic backgrounds). Latin Americans are a diverse group. I'm a white Latin American of Spanish, French and Italian descent and my mother tongue is Spanish.
The most brazilians don't know about Guayanas. The Brazilians miners are from the isolated village from Amazon Forest. Greed and poverty from these people are big problem in Rain florest regions. most brazilians live in Southern part of the country in urban cities and they don't have knowledge about brazilians miner in northern countries neighbours.
Trinidad is not part of South America, and is part of the Caribbean. Guyana is part of South America and it participates in South America region. Also Trinidad does not have a native population. However thanks to immigration, I'm sure plenty of natives in Venezuela and Trinidad probably have immigrated to your island.
I'm Guyanese born, migrated to Canada (Toronto) when I was 5. There is always a long conversation when people ask me where I'm from. I always say I may have Indian roots because I look Indian and my name is Indian, but I am Guyanese not Indian. I did love the video, we are diverse nation but in Toronto the diversity is 50x more. So I married a Lebanese, my future children will also have a long story as well. LOL The beauty of migration. All in all, we are one blood. I love all cultures and embrace them as I do my own.
@lisha jay woman you are not English but British right. I am Surinamese of indian discent, i dont give a shit about india. I am proud that i am a hindustani and Surinamese. If he wants to identify himself as a guyanese then leave it to him, you do not have a say about what his identity is.
