Not unusual, try to be born in Japan or China or get born white in Africa. I mean Africa is a great country but these problems have been artificially injected globally to cause wars.
The levels of disrespect and outright ignorance in the questions and statements in the interview was appalling. It's a good thing he kept his composure.
If he was raised in Jamaica he is Jamaican! Not sure why that's hard to wrap your mind around! And obviously the Jamaican culture has influenced him throughout the greater part of his life!
That comment from minute 1.38 just blow my mind. So he rather look at a paper then his hole life. So you weren't born there, I don't see how's that relevant as you can get nationality by other way and then "call" you whatever you want because you have the nationality. People just focus on things that are irrelevant for no reason to the point that everyone just keeps looking to the next one and try to criticize. Just live and let live, he's Jamaican end of conversation lool.
Look at it another way, Lennox Lewis was raised in Canada but we say he's british, Harry was raised in Jamaica we don't say he's british, see the difference?
Real talk Pamela. I was raised in jamaica for my entire life. From 3 months old. Lived the country life. Went to school all my life there etc. And it's not until I came to the UK to live didni ever have someone put argument to me regarding being jamaican or not 🤣
Intellectually stupid conversations are cringe af to me.... dude is Jamaican...its simple as that. How embarrassing is it in 2021 that this dialog has to exist? Smh
White Yardie gave really intelligent responses to extremely condescending and borderline disrespectful questions. "Why do you *think* you're Jamaican?" "When did you *decide* that you're Jamaican?" Props to White Yardie for even having the patience to deal with that.
@TR please help me understand where they are coming from. I was born and raised in Jamaica, Mandeville Manchester to be exact. I grew up with every race of people in my little town, so I don't get where they are coming from with all this ignorance and prejudice...so please, help me see because it makes no sense.
@@prislaem3838Exactly they were just being ignorant I also lived in st Elizabeth and just like u saw many different races from Southfield to Ginger Hill my own family is in the spectrum they should have done some kind of research before asking such ridiculous questions 🙄🙄
@@goodintention3900 how can u understand where they’re coming from? It’s hypocritical Wouldn’t they call themselves black British? Same way he’s white jamaican?
That "When did you decide to be Jamaican" is such an insult. If he said to the guy "when did you decide to be British" then all hell breaks loose. If they actually go Jamaica one day they might see its not just black people there. Big Up Yardie. Held himself respectfully when nobody would've blamed him for getting riled up
@@aidygooner of course. White Yardie will remember sky juice, and will know the national anthem. I doubt anybody on the panel knows either of those things… shame on them
The one dude asking him "when" he decided to be Jamaican is ridiculous. Man was raised there and grew up there. Also Jamaican is a nationality not a race. Confusing how that's so hard for some to understand.
“He’s doing it from a sense of appreciation and love” Damn they still never got the point. He’s doing it because he’s literally fucking Jamaican. It’s not a choice.
Being asked by strangers if you have a passport to prove you belong to a people is so degrading and dehumanizing. This pissed me off to watch. Boy never even claimed to be black or anything.
I may be wrong here, given that I'm a white guy from Wales, but it seems to me that this is a case of a group of black British people who like to think of themselves as Jamaican, quickly realising that they're more culturally British and that ethnicity does not define nationality. I think this white Jamaican guy turning up makes them feel uncomfortable about their own identity and lack of connection to a heritage they have claimed all their life. Because, correct me if I'm wrong, but Jamaica has a lot of white, Indian, Chinese etc. minority groups. The vast majority of the population is black of course, but it's a multi-ethnic society like most of the Caribbean.
Indeed, if Jamaicans HAD to be Black then would it be fair to say British and Americans had to be white? Are these people thick or what. Stoking up division and getting paid to do it.
He is Jamaican. End of. The underlying tone of conversation is they simply can’t get over the colour of his skin. If this was a young black man who was born, raised and educated in the UK with Jamaican parents, this wouldn’t be a discussion. This man is Jamaican. The end.
Well at the end of the day it is a discussion and I think he could have done a little better to explain the title of the video which is Jamaics is a country with it's own culture it's not a race and he being primarily born and bred there is a Jamaican he didn't choose the culture or country he grew up in. Another thing the panelist seems to be very ignorant of is that their are white Jamaicans and Asian Jamaicans it's a multi cultural island just like many Caribbean countries. I am also confused as to why the panelist would think he chosed to be a Jamican probaby he didn't know his backstory but I am positive a short profile would have been given. Why weren't there actual cultural appropriators on the show. You cant appropriate a culture that you grew up in.
Born and raised in Jamaica, he's Jamaican. Imagine telling someone born and raised in the UK that there not British. I love how Jamaican people have stood up for this man. Much love to Jamaica.
He wasn't born in Jamaica. He said that his mother few out to Britain to be born in a British hospital. The point of contention is that he's white and was born in Britain, as if that somehow negates the fact that he was raised in Jamaica since before his first tooth, never mind first words.
I think a double standard exists in society (not saying you guys here). They had like a panel of people passing judgment on this guy…. Now just imagine if he was Asian, born in China, came to Britain at 3 months old, spoke Cantonese as well as English, and there was a panel of white British people being asked “is he REALLY British?” (How would that end?) 🔥 See the double standard?
Y’all say that but then almost all the wealth in the island are held by non blacks and not black Jamaican descendants of slavery. Thus the colorist, bleaching, and classism. Stop capping!!
@@hello_04 who’s capping? You telling me that the Indians who came in 1845 weren’t indentured slaves? Look elsewhere. Who owns the businesses? Who owns the hotels here? Who owns the banks here? Who built the super highway! Who gave away the bauxite mining rights? Who gave away the shipping lanes? The Government pardy! You have business here? You live here? Maypen is where I’m from, everyone here hungry! When you want to start that nonsense look at the political system. Come to me with this foolishness. About capping!! Furthermore what did I say that had nothing to do with Jamaican is a culture?
@@gopium1976 and “indentured” servant is a whoooole different animal that be property in chattel slavery, or a descendant of chattel slavery. We’re not talking about voluntary servitude as an indentured servant to pay off debt, pay for the opportunity to leave ones country for chance at greater opportunities latter. The wealthy Scottish and British land owners (of which my white Scottish wealthy great grandfather was one) still maintain those holdings today. As do the generational wealth and greater opportunities allowed indentured servants once their time contracted was over vs actual property (Black Slaves sold into this by slave traders for profit in Africa to Europeans). You surely do NOT see a plethora of Black owned gold and fine jewelry stores which are primarily owned by Indians. The Chinese own most everything else in the free market of business, and the whites still are holding onto the wealth and land assets they acquired on the backs of black slaves. The gaslighting of acting like the majority population of Black descendants of Jamaican slavery have the same assets and businesses and access to capital that people who were not considered and treated property and denied opportunities as such is supreme gaslighting. That’s why you have Jamaicans bleaching and singing about Brownins to separate themselves from their surroundings. Yes the government is corrupt...but the government itself has had mostly non Black heads. This whole out of one many front is a lie to pretend the blatant colorism and classism and asset building opportunities aren’t distributed largely along racial lines. You say that to assuage yourself from reality.
Yuh see it. If he looked "black", noone would be questioning him and talking about "appropriation." It just goes to show how much ignorance is still out there about Jamaica. He handled himself well though. Proud of him.
My jaw dropped to the floor when the host said, "Clapping for the white man" with such lofty arrogance. The ignorance of the presenters in this programme is truly embarrassing and disgraceful. He should not have to defend his culture to people who clearly have no knowledge of their culture. Could you imagine a Black man being questioned by ignorant white presenters about being English and when the programme ends the presenters say, "Clapping for the Black man"? This is absolutely shocking and stomach turning.
They need to delete this show smh. Pure ignorance. Its amazed me that a mixed race girl said it as well, doesn't she have white uncles,l and cousins, or even dad depending on who was white out of her parents.
Fuck me as a black man who follow Yardie for years this is disgusting! My people are great people but sometimes we can be shallow and ignorant... Just look at how we treat each other sometimes!! Yardie is an ALLY to the people and bridges gaps we cannot! This whole mentality of ALL white is bad is exactly like the mad racists who dont accept black people! Yes as a whole the black community is distrusting of culture appropriation but if you cant feel the Love and Oneness of Yardie then you need to check their prejudice and humanity levels. Stay Blessed Yardie u are loved!
White Yardie, we KNOW you are really Jamaican. 🇯🇲. No justification needed. This interview is an insult to all Jamaicans. We know our culture, our heritage and the diversities of our people! That's the national motto! These British or British Jamaican or Black British, whatever they classify as, are just rude and even a little snobbish. Especially, that guy and the lady who had the audacity to say, 'clap for the white man'. Very distasteful how they treated you during this interview. You did very well! God bless 🙌🏽
The interview run me the wrong way. I didn't like how they to talk him as my Jamaican brother at all. if you don't grow up in the culture u can't question him like that. he is our people end of story.
Black Americans and Black British people have been told for a couple of decades now that they can't be racist. And as a result this sort of thing is now very common. Whereas immigrants from the caribbean and sub saharan Africa in the U.K, and USA often actually point out to them, that they are being racist, and then are called race traitors etc.
@@thepubquiz3198 I don't know what planet you live on but I'm American black and I get called "racist" "separatist", "in favor of segregation" all the time by Latinos, whites and Asians because I vociferously say we need to build our own independent social and cultural institutions.
Proper response would have been "When did you decide u were British?" I'm not saying that they are not British, it's just a direct comparison of saying that this guy is not Jamaican.
This chick..."he's doing it out of a sense of appreciation?" After all of the discussion she still doesn't get it. He's NOT doing it out of a sense of appreciation, he's doing it because that's what he was born unto.. It's his culture too.
She treats him like he's an imitator and doesn't actually belong, she's ignorantly telling him that his identity is false. White Yardie handled it a lot better than I would've. I don't know if the word "calm" would've been in my vocabulary.
It was like all his explaining was in vain because they still didnt get it. No sah, I definitely wouldn't have had the patience WY had. I know its helpful to educate but we can only lead the horse to the water, cya mek it drink. Me? Woulda give up.
Bruh how hard is it really to understand this man’s background and how he relates to a specific culture. He’s not up here saying he identifies as a black man he’s clearly saying he’s Jamaican. Let the man breathe in peace.
Literally why is this even a conversation lmao. My mum is Jamaican she was born and raised there but if you genetically look at her background it’s Indian descent. Culture is different than race. If these people follow their own logic why are we not asking them to prove if they’re British -.-
As a Jamaican... I can tell you just because of his accent he's Jamaican.. being born here, being raised here... MAKES YOU JAMAICAN. The Jamaican Motto literally tells you that no matter what you look like we are all the same... "Out of Many, One People"
this motto was made by colonalism and so we can open arms to the chinesse and others .... in china do they accept us, in europe do they accept us.... we should prioritize ourselves first...as you can see in jamiacan now, all the ports bought by the chinesse... the grocery market byy korean and chinesse.... they come in and take over due to lack laws ... this out of many people motto.... the watch you like a hawk when a woman try to purchase a weave....although. i am for only natural hair...the point ...the locals should be the priority... He is born in jamaica but he isnt jamaican...he is european same with the china man....
It's not just words, either. People there really think this way. That's how they live. So, British/Indian/Chinese-ethnic Caribbeans have to deal with the culture shock of people telling them they're not from there. Makes them think that Americans and British people are just stupid, lol.
I had a born and raised Jamaican boss who was white and immigrated to Canada. He had the accent like this guy. He 100% considered himself Jamaican but he turned heads when he spoke to people all the time.
@@RazPerignon say that to them and even your own race will turn on you so don't say to much my g whites are soppy fools alot of blacks laugh about it all because whites don't stick up for theirselfs and let them riot smashing their own community up how tf that work? Lol surely that makes your community put another step down by them actions?? Idk or they are right, maybe they are right building mud huts in africa 30miles walk away from the nearest water source?? Haha, hate on the white but who was the 1st and last slave trader? Who sold their own people to the whites? But its all the whites fault cause they took over but built schools,colleges, homes ect,talking south Africa, but nah whites felt sorry gave back the land now who's starving cause there's no white farmers?
It’s not basically, it is the same it’s racism in the most clear form. Questioning a white dude because he’s not black enough to be Jamaican 😂 he should have said when did you decide you’re English and turned it back in the guy
I am a born and raised Trinidadian 🇹🇹 and I accept White Yardie is a Jamaican🇯🇲. He live and grow in Jamaica and that is all he knew. He didn't choose to be Jamaican. That is what he IS. "Out of many, One People." Race is NOT Culture. This panel did no research what so ever and then looked to insult the man by saying " We clapping the white man!🙄" at the end! Yall just came across as ignorant, uninformed and clueless. ❌❌
He doesn’t simply “appreciate” Jamaican culture, he just IS Jamaican, period. It’s just that simple. He was raised there in that culture, therefore that HIS culture.
Can’t lie I feel it stems from an inferiority complex. British people with Jamaican heritage who don’t know as much about their homeland as this white guy (like Zeze said) so they try and discredit him. I can’t lie I used to think he was just “playing a Jamaican” but after hearing his story I get he’s just being himself in the way and environment he was raised
@@lorrinimes9008 I don't know because this is my first time seeing them and I don't know their history and past recorded episodes. Do you think they would have a show if they knew the difference
When people say “black people cant be racist” show them this video. As a Caribbean man myself, I have to deal with this on a constant basis. You are the ambassador of our islands, not only Jamaica. Our islands accept, educate and raise everyone as their own. You handled this interview with grace
Your post does not make any sense here. So many people misconstrue the term racism and it needs to stop. Racism is essentially belittling, demeaning and showing hate towards one's race. Yes black people can be racist, but these black people were clearly not racist. How common is it for a white person to be both heavily immersed in Jamaican culture and communicate in a Jamaican accent? These people were really curious, hence why they asked questions to be better educated. We as a society should be able to ask questions rather than assume and dispel fraudulent information about others.
First and foremost the definition of racism, according to Oxford: “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.” Anyway, go to the 0:40 and listen to where the man questions his authenticity. Jamaica, like any other island, is a melting pot. For a person to question that, according toOxford the definition- is racism. He’s a minority in Jamaica and they’re pressing him with prejudice allegations based on his skin tone. You’re solidifying my comment by saying, “Yes, black people can be racist.” You can’t say my post doesn’t make sense and then agree with me. Racism isn’t exclusive to any particular group… Look at Dominicans and Haitians right now. You’re right, they should ask questions WITHOUT involving prejudices based on skin color.
“When did you decide to be Jamaican???” “To call yourself Jamaican is interesting…..” Where do they get these idiots from? Seriously these people are ignorant and unintelligent. “Is he cultural appropriating?” What? White Yardie is white. There is nuff white Jamaicans in Jamaica. Fact! People need to educate themselves. If you are educated from young and raised in a system of a particular country then thats what you know. I’m saddened and mad that you had to go through with that.
That's exactly what I'm saying. I'm flabbergasted. Dude in that Grey button up needs to realize Jamaica is a country just like America is a country. Which means if you lived their your whole life and you were raised there you are from that country.
Imagine if a white person asked HIM when he decided he was British. Oh wait, you don't have to imagine, because white racists ask that to black people all the time yet somehow this idiot didn't suss that parallel
He grew up in Jamaica so he is jamaican. Anyone that finds that hard to understand has some racial issues in their head that they need to resolve. This guy is Jamaican and no real Jamaican or rasta man will ever deny that, its just these 2nd and 3rd gens that find it hard to understand that skin colour doesnt mean a damn thing.
I'm a 2nd gen and i completely understand the difference between, nationality, ethnicity and race. These individuals regardless of their heritage are just extremely uneducated and ignorant. I feel so sad that people might think all black British people of Jamaican descent think this way. Such awful representation for us. Most people aren't this ignorant, it's a shame they have a platform to do this to people like white yardie. The only people they embarrassed are themselves. They think all three, Nationality, Ethnicity and Race are the same thing. White yardie is Jamaican in nationality not Ethnic background and he never claimed to be anything he wasn't, any ethnicity can be of Jamaican nationality, it all just depends on where you grow up. Race plays no part in your nationality or the culture you grow up in. Seems they only know how to identify with Jamaica through their race and not through the actual culture itself which i find sad because the culture extends far beyond race and real Jamaicans know that.
@@thinkinyblinko6666 A mouse grew up in the stable. He knows stable culture pretty well. Then he goes to the city where he meets horses that grew up in the city even though their parents are from the stable. Those city horses don't know shit about stable culture but question the mouse about it. City horses are know confused because they think they should now better than mouse, but they don't. They have never been in a stable before. See how that logic works when you take all the emotion out?
@@nesepo right? This mouse and stable shit makes no sense. If a mouse grows up in a stable it will be a mouse with a stable as his home. If a white person grows up in Jamaica he will be a white person with Jamaica as his home. Can you Imagine if some Yankee told this people he's actually British and they are not because of his and their ancestry?
Being a mixed race individual from the UK (Barbados an British) these interviewers are treating the white yardie like the racist British people would treat us, he's white and from Jamaica, exactly the same as us being black and from Britain, this is giving me racist vibes
Agree. I was flawed when they called him "white man" at the end. Would that fly the other way around?? And I don't get why they're questioning him in the slightest if he grew up there...
Jamaica's motto “Out of Many, One People” shows that Jamaicans are. indeed one. No matter what race, class, religion, age or gender, we are all. Jamaicans!
The way you responded to ignorance is more than commendable 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. Love that. The hosts maybe need to do research about Jamaica. My parents are black and Jamaicans and my mother cooked Chinese food since I was a child. She said a Chinese friend, who was Jamaican, taught her how to cook chinese food in Jamaica. I cook it to this day. Talk about missed opportunity to educate themselves and wider audience about Jamaica and the diversity of Jamaican people.
And the last woman "he's clearly doing it [appropriation] out of a sense of love" - nah, he's not doing 'it' at all. He grew up in Jamaica, went to school, made friends whatever. Ridiculous.
That's what's so infuriating about this interview. The man literally says he was raised in Jamaica from the time that he was a baby. Yet these interviewers think it's some kind of self-identification on his part. He should have asked them when they started identifying as British, given that they're all black yet grew up in England.
Yeah they seemed to take his statement that he wasn’t born in Jamaica and ran with it like that somehow that doesn’t make him Jamaican I wasn’t born in PR, but I was born to Puerto Rican parents, raised in a Puerto Rican family, and grew up, well, Puerto Rican lmao. We went back to the island every year to see family. I lived mostly on the mainland so my experiences are different from my cousins that never left the island, so I know I don’t know 100% everything when it comes to living there long term, but that’s what empathy and solidarity is for. And no one on the island has ever questioned me being Puerto Rican 😂 the idea is absurd Like, I can somewhat understand the British Jamaicans discomfort because they probably, as 2nd and 3rd gens, feel a connection to Jamaica and DO have heritage, and then this man is breaking their own sense of identity and worldview. But to question someone RAISED there? “When did you decide to identify” bruh he lived there is whole life. See him as “adopted” into jamaican culture if you have to (even if it’s not the right way to think) but dude is Jamaican straight up
dem fool fool eh, thank God mi Jamaican cause mi cannot understand how other people can't grasp that people come in different colors but from the same nation 😂😂 no sah, dem mek me feel extra brite
I guess that’s why you have neighborhoods in Jamaica where dark can’t live, you’re losing your beaches to the pales and Asians, and everyone else thrives in Jamaica except you lmao you guys can’t be trusted.
The ignorance of these people is offending my sensibilities. That man had the nerve to ask "when did you decide to be Jamaican". 🤦🏾♀️ Yardie you betta than me, cause I woulda let loose some bad word on these fools.
But then people would be calling him racist. He did the right thing by politely answering their stupid questions and showing them up as being ignoramuses.
He wasn't born in Jamaica, that's why they asked him that. He clearly said that his mother gave birth to him in a different country, then he went back to Jamaica. Some people identify with the country they are born in more than the country they grew up in, for some it's equal and for some the country they grew up in is their entire identity
The fact that in 2021 people are still not able to grasp the difference between ETHNICITY. And NATIONALITY is honestly mind blowing. Stop making jamaica an ethnicity there is a difference. Big up to you for conducting yourself in a professional manner 🤝
exactly, condescending and downright rude. That bloke was talking down to him, he was lucky he didn't get licked around the face with a backhand. The bloke was so arrogant and had an upper class attitude
nuttin bout dis was woke, dis sum straight 'sleep talkin'. Dem should learn to do research before openin dem mouth. Dis a 2 min or less explanation. Him raised in a Jamaica, he Jamaican, full stop.
Being a Jamaican doesn’t mean that you have to be black. Jamaica is made up of different ethnicities, as our motto says”Out of Many, One People”. He’s not showing an appreciation like a tourist….. it is who he is………a Jamaican. 🇯🇲
I could not have said it better. living and growing in Jamaica you do not question if you are Jamaican or not your just being you.. I think this interview shows the interviewer's ignorance.
Shoot I'm not even Jamaican and I agree with and get everything you are saying. The Carribean islands all together are a melting pot of different races and culture. There are white, Asians, blacks, and natives. So it's very ignorant for the panel to tell white Yardie that he's not Jamaican just because he's not black
And this goes for any country not just Jamaica Iam from Scotland and have friends who came over from different countries when they were young grew up here and consider themselves scottish as they are !
This panel was uneducated about the Jamaican culture & they were very disrespectful to White Yardie...dem need fih apologize Brite & Outta Ahda...🇯🇲 Jamaicans in England need to let the panel know how dem feel
I think a lot of British blacks are not aware there are other races that thrive and identify as Jamaican. 'Out of many, one people.' AND unlike the British they do not go to Jamaica and try and influence the culture to be more like them. They embrace Jamaican culture. Great interview
Wow. As a black man I got to say that this was one of the most ignorant things I've seen in a while. Looks like to me there's these groups of people who just need people to stay divided.
Real born Jamaicans know this! That's why we have the saying out of many one people!! These black British people don't have fucking sense! Hence why so much Jamaicans are angered in the comment section
I think a lot of second or third generation immigrants struggle with identity issues (understandably). I think that’s why these people are so threatened by the fact that a white guy is more Jamaican than them. They don’t feel British enough and they don’t feel Jamaican enough so having a white guy be more Jamaican than them is triggering their identity issues. That especially seems to be the case with the guy who asks when he ‘decided he was Jamaican.’
Quite frankly if you’re second or third generation you need to assimilate to the country you’re living in. Period. There’s no debate or room for debate about that. If you’re missing your “roots” that much then go back to them. Nobody forcing them to be in white nations.
@@Commander23c to be fair, it's not just a black/latino thing. There are like 6th generation Italian-Americans whose whole personality is being Italian, but they don't know anything about the culture, even worse, those Scandinavian Viking larpers. I once was talking to a white American and he told me "I really care about family, you know, I'm Lithuanian". He meant one of his grandma's was Lithuanian, never been there, didn't know the history, didn't speak the language, like wtf?? Also, what nationality does not care about family?
Well done mate. You conducted yourself better than I would in that situation. These idiots are struggling with their identity and don't understand the distinction between heritage, nationality and culture. You're a wise man. These guys are fools.
This part of the interview enraged me. HES JAMAICAN we have black British people trying to question that. You go Jamaica and I would chop of my own arm if they don’t call you English Boi!
The fact the first guy who’s probably lived in England his whole life has the cheek to sit and question you on weather your Jamaican or not is a piss take
My kids grandmother is Puerto Rican but pale as they get, she's scared to be around American non-whites besides her husband who is dark because of shit like this, she's been attacked in Tampa for being a "white woman acting Hispanic" by these nut jobs, she was born and raised in Puerto Rico as was her mother and her mothers mother and doesn't even speak English well.
And have the gall to say, people may think you are more jamaican than me. Bitch the man is Jamaican. He is more jamaican than you in everyway. He would be your guide and telling you about His country if you decide to visit because that is what you would be doing. Visiting.
I thought it was just me, but These questions were full of ignorance & AUDACITY!! I’m sorry that he had to sit through that… 😢 He held himself & represented well though! ❤❤❤❤ #OneLove
This interview is full of ignorance and rudeness! They missed an opportunity to explore and learn! White Yardy is Jamaican. Wth They need to APOLOGISE!! This interview could have gone left. Clap for the white man🙈 wow!😡 the girl in red needs an attitude check! I could go on but! I am mad as hell.
This is honestly some of the most embarrassing shit I've had to experience before. I apologize for the unexcusable condescending and disrespectful way some of these ignorant individuals were addressing you. I know I shouldn't feel represented by any of them based on the simple fact that we share black skin but I still would like to say that this whole panel was some unnecessary shit. I know what it feel like to be treated like a novelty and I have learned to take it it stride. I rarely get to see it from this perspective though and it is infuriating
great response though, cuz. Glad to see people talking sense. I'm a brown man and have met numerous white skinned folk raised in India. To question their culture, purely because I'm of brown skin, would be a downright insult.
This conversation is very cringe but I wouldn’t be surprised if a couple of the panelists aren’t playing the heel to make the discussion more interesting and productive.
@@comedicsociopathy Agreed. Behavior is (mostly) not genetic. And honestly if the commentor is from the US he's probably closer genetically to many white Americans than these folks across the pond
This is why us Jamaicans will never be able to rally behind Others outside our culture. Because we dont have the racial lens others see the world through. We are literally one family here, no one grows up being taught that the are black or white here and that we should think differently of each others. We dont have racial slurs or demeaning ways to refer to each other skin cause that would be stupid because any family will be a melting pot of different ethnic background. We are just jamaicans nothing more nothing less. More while it better people just shut up if they dont understand another person culture. Man prob never one day think bout the difference between black and white until he met these bigots.
Wow Yardie you handled this interview amongst ignorant people exceptionally well brudda.I don't know why its so hard for people to understand that Jamaicans come in all colors. "Out of many, One people" Its crazy that these people just wanted to try and belittle instead of actually understanding your story. While the vast majority of Jamaica is black there are Syrian-Jamaicans, Chinese-Jamaicans, Indo-Jamaicans, White Jamaicans and a whole heap of mixed up people. My family is from Jamaica and I have cousins that are white, dark, lightskinned and the whole lot. Glad you went on there showed them what it is, you're a real one and will always have my respect.
This video really offended me. I've been to Jamaica several times and I have met other men like White Yardie. White people who were born and raised in Jamaica. I have never felt like they were any less Jamaica than the black Jamaicans. That's like saying I am not American because I have African ancestry. I felt that the panelist were rather rude. @White Yardie you don't need to explain your heritage to anyone. I respect you for coming on that panel and talking to us.
I agree. I don’t think they were rude, instead I thought they were ignorant. Clearly they are not educated on the matter in the differences between skin color and culture.
Exactly. Here in jamaica no one sees each other as black or white with a different color and mindset, we are all just jamaicans. One yard could have family members from so many different ethnicity it would boggle the mind. You can have an asian looking uncle whose daughter is Indian and brother is black and all the rest of family is white. No one grows up thinking oh my cousin is white and my sister is indian so they are different from me. They have without justification attacked one of our own and is trying to say he isnt jamaican and is acting black. Racist, Jamaican is not a color.
@@slimthickaz. Same applies to a person born in Jamaica, but raised in the US. He will have different accent and different views on things. It's not about color, it's culture. Two waay different things. These people clearly do not know the difference.
It's called colonization. Just ask the South Africans, then be "offended". White people like him will colonize a Black country, steal the resources, and monetize the culture and smile in your face while doing it.
Our motto is “out of many one people “ our skin pigmentation does not define our culture only our race. It’s time the rest of the world understand that there are more to Jamaica than just what they heard on tv, read or hear from their neighbors.
The woman in green said it, who are they to question “how Jamaican” he is? A lot of them are coming into this with the mindset of skin color. He said it appropriately too: you cannot just lump it in with “black culture.” That only allows outsiders and individuals to perceive the culture through the color of their skin. Jamaican culture isn’t Kenyan culture. It isn’t Somali or Ethiopian culture either. It’s 💯 Jamaican. Any culture is so much more than skin deep.
I am so confused, I wonder if the panel has seen any part of Jamaica outside the tourist cities? "When did you decide to be Jamaican?". Born to Jamaican parentage and growing up there isn't enough? My family is Jamaican (St Ann and St Elizabeth). We have every colour of skin from white blonde and blue eyed to brown eyes and chocolate skin, all Jamaican with a lineage that has been traced back 100s of years. We are all proud of our heritage as Jamaicans. For some panel members to equate 'blackness' to 'Jamaican' is not only reductive and harmful , but sadly also means an opportunity to educate people about the rich culture and heritage that Jamaica has was missed. Perhaps spend some time away from the resort towns and cities and see what the country is actually about. What do they think the national motto means? Well done White Yardie. St Bess salutes you. 👏👏👏🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
British born St Lucia and even I know the Jamaican motto. This was so disgusting, that last insult, cause it was nothing less, clap your cheeks for the white man, offended me to the core.
The funny thing is the people on this panel would be the first ones to cry racism if someone said they weren’t English 🤣 but well done to the Jamaican people for defending white yardie against these racist idiots who can’t accept the fact a white man is more connected to Jamaican culture than they will ever be.
@@judyleonce6143 It was more a joke on the historic implications of the adoration for the white man from my point of view . I understand if someone misunderstood why it would seem like an insult though.
Not technically born there, but his mom only left Jamaica to give birth in a better hospital and returned 3 months later, so that practically doesn’t count!
@@Maki-00 doesn't count in what defends? Listen, as long as he is not faking a Jamaican accent, I am all for that. He is fully engulfed into the culture. That he where he was raised.
The respect I have for this man. They asked a Jamaican “when did you decide you were Jamaican?” I was born in Ireland. I’ve spent my life in Ireland. Yet, I’ve never been asked when I decided that I was Irish. These people have had easy lives and have decided to cultivate drama to feel important.
@@sinderella23 No, but the majority of us have common sense and and follow a simple train of logic. What’s your excuse? Nationality doesn’t have anything to do with skin colour. White skinned people can be Jamaican. Black skinned people can be Irish. Get over yourself.
@@sinderella23 What does that have to do with anything? If you’re born in a country and grow up there, you are a citizen. Don’t know what’s hard to understand about that
"When did you decide you were Jamaican?" & "clap your cheeks for the White man" ...Da fuq?! Are these people for real?! Come through White Yardie - you answered these questions so eloquently and with intellect👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾! I hope these interviewers have learnt from you!
The best part of this is not the reprehensible and disrespectful questions and tone, but the comment section demonstrating that culture truly does transcend race. This man is one of us. It's refreshing to see my fellow carribean people not putting up with foolishness.
As a black man its easy sometimes to have this visceral reaction to things like this or cultural appropriation ect. Then if you sit back and think about it logically, the dude was raised in Jamaica from a baby, why wouldn't he be a Jamaican? I was born and raised in England and have had white English people tell me I'm not English, but who are they to tell me that im not? Aren't they doin the same thing right here?
@@kay-annclarke9501 True I think I expected a bit more with them being young black British people and all that. Because these same people complain when some white people call them non British, hopefully they take away something from this discussion.
White Yardie, my guy, you ARE a Jamaican, you hear. I don’t even have to tell you. We Jamaicans all know that you are a Jamaican. End of discussion. We can vouch for you all day, any day. We have white Jamaicans, Chinese Jamaicans, Native Indian Jamaicans, Indian (Asian) Jamaicans, Afro-Jamaicans. No matter the label they give us, it always ends in Jamaican. We ARE Jamaicans. And, you ARE a Jamaican my brother. Big up yuself for keeping your integrity in that discussion.
When that bredda said to him “when did you decide to be Jamaican”, I felt the raw Jamaican emerging from White Yardie an him cool it down same time. The absolute disrespect in asking a question like that.
3:20 this bit made me a bit mad because he’s NOT doing it from “appreciation” he’s not an outsider looking into Jamaican culture and appreciating it. He IS Jamaican.
@@KazukiP because liberals are the ones who oversees obsess over racial and cultural identity, especially when white people participate in areas they consider the territory of minorities. British media is heavily leftist, so it's no surprise that these hosts feel free to talk racist smack like "clap for the white man."
@@derek96720 the way the US uses political terms is very confusing. Liberal normally just means that you're in favor of a smaller government and giving people more freedom, on an economic and personal level. The people you're talking about aren't really liberal per se, they're what you would call "socially progressive"
This was absolutely toxic to watch and they need to fucking educate and think for themselves. You were so eloquent and patient, 1000/10 my guy, I'm sorry you had to go through that
this was painful to watch. Boiled down to this: 'so you grew up in Jamaica, lived there your whole life and have a Jamaican passport?', 'yes', 'so how do you justify saying you're Jamaican?'.....WHAT?!
This was one of the most ignorant interviews I've ever watched. The interviewers appear to have some Jamaican heritage so they should know better. And if not, please research the history of Jamaica. There is no excuse in this day and age for people to lack basic knowledgle about anything, much less their heritage. By the way, just check out some of the Jamaican RU-vidrs and you will see and appreciate the diversity of Jamaica 🇯🇲. On another note, White Yardie you handled yourself with grace!!
