The Strange Demographics of Suriname 

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I realy love when people talk about my country suriname love from suriname🇸🇷🇸🇷

Thank you for covering my country! I'm happy to see Suriname becoming more known. Videos like these really make me appreciate my country more, eventhough the country's in crisis. ❤

It's not weird! It is different from many other countries yes, but not weird!! Greetings from Suriname 🇸🇷

My first 4 years I lived in Marienburg, Suriname, although I can’t remember much it is still in my heart and the people and country are always giving me a smile.

Thanks for making this it, actually learned a lot from it 👍

as a Surinamese I can confirm that this video is 99% accurrate (the way you said sranantongo was funny AF LMAO)

Waw! Thank you very much! This really means a lot. Love and greetings from Suriname 🤗🇸🇷

Very happy too see a video about out country. Although my country isn't doing good at the moment but i am a proud Surinamese netizen. I love my country so Thank you so much. I really appreciate it ❣️. Greetings from Suriname

Solid video! Just a small comment on your pronunciation, Dutch is basically said like "dodge", but without drawing out the vowel as much. You make it sound more like Deutsch, which is the German word for "German". Not the same.

I like this video. I only noticed that you skipped an explanation for so little indigenous people. It is the same as in all the Americas; they were the locals and murdered by the Europeans for colonisation.

@ 04:31 ---> SURINAMESE TOLORANCE: Two beautiful buildings next to each other adorn the Keizerstraat in Paramaribo. One is a mosque of the Ahmadiya movement, the other is a synagogue. The distance between the two buildings is no greater than sixty meters. A wall of only one and a half meters high forms the boundary. From the first floor, the Muslims pray with their heads towards the synagogue. There are no security measures at the entrance to the Jewish place of worship. One cannot recall an incident with the Jewish neighbours. Probably nowhere in the world are a mosque and a synagogue so right next to each other and the mutual relationships are so positive.

Great video, keep em coming!

So proud to be a Surinamese🇸🇷

"The Demographic effects of European Colonialism"

I can relate to Suriname so much since I'm a product of different languages and cultures around the globe.

I love my Indian Suriname family in law :) Can't wait to visit one day with them

I'm also from suriname. This is the first time that there's a documentary. Love my country.

"Suriname's demographics sound like a GeographyNow!'s April Fool's episode" !? LoL ^-^ !

As a former inhabitant of Suriname, I find the demographic of Suriname and South Africa share a similar trait. Both countries have had their demographics influenced by the Dutch and the British.

Love this video about my birth country , beautiful and many tnx for sharing

Surinam would be completely different if there was no Bouterse. I felt ashamed when this murderer became president. And he's still walking free.

Hallo suriname ik ben van suriname wat een mooie geschiedenis van suriname en het is leerrrijk.

I would love to know more about this unique country, wonderful documentary.

Watching this from Suriname

Grantangi fu a video disie!! (thanks for this video in Sranang)

Thankyou for this video

I miss Suriname, I'm from there as well. But now I am in USA, Beach VA. Wish there were some cool Suriname ppl here my age lol 30

I live in Suriname

I live in Suriname i am a mix of ondo Suriname creol and almost al of my ancestors are from Suriname and if you want i can teach you how to speak our language

Nice video, but the borders are not correct!

Thanks for the the information about my country. Mix race 🏎 every where.

This country is my native birth land!! Such an sweet country to live, nice weather, deliciouse fruit and food ..all cultures (from India, Java/ Indonesië, China, Africa, and the mixed culture the Creolen , the real natives, the Indians with red skin, and the Dutch people people...all live together as one nation!!! No jelousy or nasty Neighbours...but all changed ..when one person became President (after Surinam was Ondependant from Holland). His name Desi Bouterse, changed the whole LIFE of a lot of Surinam people....hè killed some very highstandard Surinam people, very intelligent people...His milletaries took those people from their homes or at their work...and let them all executed without an trial!!! Murder by first degree...So a lot of intelligent high standard people were affraid that the same execution would happend to them...so they fled to the Motherland Holland, or to the USA, Canada, Australië...or to the Antillen..Aruba, French Guyana and Brasil! This president changed the life of so many many many Surinam people...i hope hè looked himself in the mirror and relalized what an MONSTER HE WAS!! Judgementsdau is waiting for him!!!! He live sn LIFE as an king ...but the day when hè closed his eyes for ever...his Master is waiting for him....and no one is going to hear him...no one...only his Master!!!By doing evil...means ..he sold his soul to the master of Evil!!! And what is from the Master of Evil hè never let go.....what is from God...God never let go.. So rewards and judgement comes Upstairs in the Universum!!!!!!

I have a question. Are the Indo-Surinamese considered to be of the black race? And if not, what race are they considered? Thank you for educating the world on this topic! Great video✨🇸🇷

watching from Kenya

Love from Suriname 🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷❤️

my father was born in suriname, both dutch parents though

Ik wil graag Suriname bezoeken maar de vlucht is te duur. Moet ff sparen nu

I AM Suriname i Born in Suriname 🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷 i sing tis song mama na sribi crosi so mi bi leri voe dim a no di tapoe didi mama di tapoe sching look this song : sing song mama na sribi crosi

Very nice, informative and to the point. Tips for next topics: Suriname was always a rich country, but since independency from the Netherlands it became a poor and unorganized country. What is your thought about getting Suriname out of this mess, what can they do on export, on tourism, what are nearby countries to work with and why. Greetings from Suriname.

Getting Ready for the Premiere!!! 😮😮😀😀😀

All i know about Suriname was the fact that there are so many Javanese descendants live there. I mean iam Javanese and that is what people always bragging lol. I wish i could go there and enjoy their culinary and everything :))

Took DNA test and traced lots 53% of relatives here from the 1800s to 1850s

My family are from Suriname my grandfather his mother was a slave back then love my roots been to Suriname once although i didn't like it because it was so busy and i have a problem with being around a lot of people although that I still think it's really beautiful but yeah I was 12 years old when I went there and now 41 so yeah probably a lot have changed what I have heard about it from my nephew who was there for the video clip of boef.

Big up my fellow Surinamese

Don’t know why it’s weird though. Many countries in South America and the Caribbean are multi-ethnic. The only thing that’s different is that they don’t speak a Latin language like Spanish, Portuguese or French. But honestly Portuguese and French is also only in two Countries Brazil and French Guiana.

Iam a proud suriname my country my proud my mother land brave land to me loved no drugs no war no fight only lobie ❤

Dutch be like in 1975: Ok guys we are leaving, goodluck with Suriname!

Thankyou for this video and your intrest. But what i miss is ...about the original people of this country. Its most important to let the world know that Native people are the original inhabitants of this country. First they try to take and use these people for slaves. Just like The USA wants to forget about the original people of America ,The Natives . You still got difrend tribes in Amerika but also in Suriname....they are still there.

The map in these video and all map you see in video or geography are wrong maps of the country of Suriname. The surface of the country Suriname is larger. Guyana has occupied part of the Surinamese territory in the southwest and pretends to own it. In the southeast, France/French Guiana says the portion is theirs.

Note that javanese muslim are syncretism between buddhism, hinduism, and old javanese folks religion,

The only thing for me is that the afro surinamese, javanese ect…is not a term we use. You are What you are and we live in Suriname. Other then that tell on tell All.

Please more... 🙂

Where the real Surinamers , the native People no africans

My mother is surinamese and a black (creole), indian, indigenous and Chinese. So2 types of indian

In suriname in de supermarkt you will always see chinese In other country people of the country sell things in supermarkt butt in suriname if you go in a supermarkt you will se chinese selling product maybe some times like people open their small stores like the indian from india Chinese stay in suriname to selling things to make money 😇 I KNOW THAT SURINAMESE DOLLAR IS BEAUTYFULL SO PRERTTY🥰🥰

Indian origin Suriname is 37 percent now

What next vid gon be?

The whole carebean and the latin geographic thing is a myth Brasil has the large african decendants and dutch colonial islands like curacou and the surrounding islands there are close with the dutch colony and the culture like a Suriname that has the dutch language as its national language and the population has dutch habits. Surinam food is a melting pot of African Hindustani, indonesia and Chinese, which is seen as the most popular food in the Netherlands. Suriname is just a latin country given the estuary which makes the whole latin geographic thing a weird thing

I am from Suriname

Aint no surinamese people singing the so called dutch version... 😩🤣the dutches british and irish people have make a great mess of our country... and therfore the country of the NATIVE people from north to south🧐

Hold up I'm from suriname amd I never knew winti is a religion 😟

Jolly good chap thus video will be thy amazing 💂💂‍♂️🇬🇧💂💂‍♂️💷

That's the wrong map of Suriname

Almost all of Muhammad Qasim’s dreams are in accord with current circumstances and connect events. Qasim is not a geo-political expert, not a historian, not someone who likes to read books about world political news, but his dreams are so true.

Why he did'nt mention the native indian the first they are the one they that lived there first hé only mention the one that brought there...

Lol im from suriname 🇸🇷

I love my country lets go Suriname

April's fools? WTH, there is nothing weird about being different from neighboring countries.

Greetings from Indonesia......

That's were I live 💜💜🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷

Im from suriname🇸🇷🇸🇷

Partially Restored Plantation Frederiksdorp along the Commewijne River ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X1TN9YxBaoc.html

Love my countryyyy🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷

interesting

Nice and informative! What I missed was the large emigration of the population between 1970 when independence was becoming clear, and 1985 during the turmoil afterwards, almost half the population left to the Netherlands, with big change in the demographics as result. Certain groups within the population tended more to leave than others.

It’s been brought to my attention that the borders of Suriname are different than what was shown on the first map of the video depending on the perspective. Not being very familiar with the country before researching Suriname, I mistakenly used US based maps only, to include Google Earth which showed the borders from US perspective since this is where I’m based. This was my mistake and will double check border disputes when researching countries in the future.

You gotta love all the delicious foods Suriname has to offer! 👍

Suriname has one of the best cuisines in the world.

I'm from suriname and i don't see enough videos about my country so this makes my heart happy. Please make more❤🇸🇷

This is my county! Thank you for making this video. Love this. ❤️🇸🇷

I grew up with my best friend, a Javanese Surinamese guy since we were about 11 or so, when we were 21, we visited his family there and all I can say is I never wanted to leave. I came there battling depression and I cam back reborn, its rich with history and lots and lots of kind people. Every country has it's downsides ofcourse, so it's definitely not paradise, but its very close

geweldig eindelijk om eindelijk een video te zin vn suriname

Thank you for your very nice work on geography overall, your interest in our country and for mentioning curiosities such as our national language Sranan Tongo. We find ourselves, as Surinamese South Americans, located on a strategic platform which connects Europe and the Americas. Please note your depiction of Suriname on 0.10 seconds shows wrong contours. The correct map can be found contacting our official Planning department, Gonini website, or agricultural research institute CELOS. It is very unfortunate that lots of wrong versions of our map are floating around on the internet until today.

Thank yoou so much for making this video. I'm overjoyed to see Suriname gets more recognition. People need to see the beauty of all the different ethnicities and how they live together in Suriname. I was born and raised in Suriname as an Indonesian but now I'm going to college in Indonesia. Can't wait to go back after I graduate.. oh how I miss Suriname (especially the food!!) ❤

I beg to talk, different about slavery ? It was with hard Afro labor (slavery) on which Suriname was started in 1615, and for 90% build and founded on. With 250 years Afro labor(slavery) build and founded Suriname; really out of the virgin tropical jungle and swamp. The blueprint was created by the colonial Dutch administration. 400,000 Afro forefathers were lost, in a timespan, when the world population was

Aku wong Jowo Indonesia. salam kanggo sedulurku wong Jowo neng Suriname. Aku pengen dolan neng Suriname... moga aku bisa neng Suriname... salam seduluran soko Yogyakarta

Some addition. 1 july 1863 was the 'offiial' date of abolishment of slavery in Surinam. In reality former slaves were forced to keep on working on plantations for a period of 10 years, be it on a conrract. These 10 years are called 'Periode van Staatstoezicht'. More and more Surinamese living in the Netherlands are considering 1 july 1873 as the real year of actual abolisment of slavery. Also the lives of the migrants on a contract from Asia were difficult, as it was quite common for plantation owners to not stick to their part of the workingcontracts. Creole AfroSurinamese are mixed with not only Indiginous and European, but also with Asians (Chinese, Javanese, Hindostani), Portugese Jewish (Sefardim), German Jewish (Ashkenazi), Maroons, Boeroes . The same is more and more the reality nowadays for other, not AfroSurinamese groups.

I expected the Chinese percentage to be much higher because when I was in NL I noticed that all their Chinese restaurants were actually “Surinaams” Chinese Restaurants so I thought they must have been pretty influential on the culture.

There’s nothing ‘weird’ about the demographics of Suriname. This is just how things happened during colonial times. In some parts of the world people may see this as ‘weird’ if you are not used to see these kind of demographics in certain places. But for me, a Dutchie of Indian-Surinamese descent, it makes perfect sense. As for most people with with connections to / basic knowledge of Suriname. Good video btw 👍🏽

Thank you for sharing this about my country. Beautiful to hear and see it from other peoples eyes.

The demographic is almost as "weird" as the rest of the countries in the Caribean South America and the rest of the world that was brutalized, pillaged, robbed empty etc. etc. by the "traders" and "explorers".😩😩😩

I'm glad to have stumbled across this video. I'm a proud Surinamese with Indonesian roots. Thank you 🙋‍♀️

My birthplace is now a well know country to visit by Americans and other

Love the fact people get to know my country more❤💪

What are some other interesting topics about Suriname you would like me to research and make a video about?

Another point that was not mentioned: Suriname was the ‘consolation prize’ for the Brits taking over Dutch possessions in North America, i.e. New York. The country wasn’t considered valuable at the time. Until the discovery of bauxite.

I am from Suriname 🇸🇷 and i am a hindu

🇸🇷❤️hakka Chinese!

Different type of black people in suriname creolen Saramakaners aukaners