Why Is Jamaica Full Of English & Spanish Names?

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SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
History of Jamaica: jis.gov.jm/info...
Jamaica: www.etymonline...
Jamaica Parish Profiles: jis.gov.jm/info...
Spanish Colonisation of Jamaica: jamaicathecolo...
Spanish Settlements in Jamaica: caribya.com/jam...
Jamaican Slavery and Revolution: blog.soton.ac....
British Colonisation of Jamaica: jamaicathecolo...
Kingston Jamaica: www.blackpast.o...
The History of the Parishes of Jamaica: old.jamaica-gle...
Jamaican Independence: jis.gov.jm/info...
Names of Jamaica from the National Library of Jamaica: nlj.gov.jm/plac...
PRONUNCIATION SOURCES
Arawakan: forvo.com/sear...
Montego Bay: forvo.com/word...
Chorreras: forvo.com/sear...
PHOTO SOURCES
Beaches of Jamaica: Fritz Rudolf Loewa
Ocho Rios: Patricia Edwards
Kingston, Jamaica: NASA
Kingston Upon Thames: Brian Gillman
Kingston Upon Hull: calflier001
Montego Bay: Trevor Cameron
Cornwall: Phil Williams
Palace Theater: Matt May
Montego Bay: Grahampurse
Spanish Town: Not Home
Christopher Columbus: Sebastiano del Piombo
Sevilla del siglo: Alonso Sánchez Coello
Dunns River Falls: Don Ramey Logan
Sugar: Editor at Large
Falmouth Jamaica: Adolphe Duperly
Falmouth England: EvaK
Mile Gully Mountain: Nigel20
Manchester: Parrot of Doom
Thief in the Night Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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@NameExplain 6 лет назад

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@marusik9863 6 лет назад

Name Explain Nice video! Notice me senpai

@jahangirkhizer6289 6 лет назад

Wow!!

@NameExplain 6 лет назад

Noticed!

@cianmcguire5647 6 лет назад

Also Irish!

@xavier4503 6 лет назад

Thank you for pronouncing Caribbean right, as a Trinidadian hearing Europeans and Americans pronounce it wrong makes me want to die inside

@OutWestC 4 года назад

Shout out to my Taino's across the Caribbean ❤🇯🇲🇵🇷🇧🇸🇨🇺🇩🇴🇭🇹🇰🇳🇱🇨🇹🇹

@QueenLucifer777 3 года назад

Jamaica

@itsmecaldo 3 года назад

yuhhhh

@Omar-cw5gg 3 года назад

Why did you add the flag of the Republic of the Congo🇨🇬 lmao

@QueenLucifer777 3 года назад

Arawak West Indian in the Building

@karwan6385 3 года назад

Rip Taino

@ekn_38 6 лет назад

Before I watch the video lemme guess: It was a Spanish colony which the British took over

@mr.dr.genius6997 6 лет назад

Ekn _38 Most of British colonies were stolen from other European countries.

@jedtattum9996 6 лет назад

yup, we stole things from others that they had stolen from the locals.

@ekn_38 6 лет назад

hasan kamran Yep^^

@nutriapeluda 6 лет назад

Codex history is written by the victors but I agree don't let a good anglo circklejerk go to waste

@captaindak5119 6 лет назад

Ekn _38 In 1655. They tried to take Hispaniola but they failed so they took Jamaica which wasn't as heavily defended.

@marromorrison 6 лет назад

I’m not proud of my Nation’s history nor it’s current state;but it’s home regardless, and I love it with all my heart 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 #proudjamaican

@roacheorvilroache594 6 лет назад

Marrow Morrison same

@jaydontv8016 6 лет назад

Marrow Morrison real talk bro

@alyssaforsty1069 6 лет назад

Marrow Morrison I'm not Jamaican I'm African-American but I've lived in Jamaica for like forever . This is our land and our motto is "OUT OF MANY ONE PEOPLE " . This is the island of the 7 greatest heroes in history . This is the land which reggae originated from. This is the land where the slaves work day and night from dusk to dawn. This our proud and free Jamaican Nation

@onwilson2 6 лет назад

I am proud of my nation's history (Jamacia). it was born out of struggle, passion and faith. No nation worth its salt ever came about by snowflakes.

@Infinite8blue 6 лет назад

The is nothing to be ashamed of, you should be angry that our Africans ancestors were so primitive that fragile white men was able to conquered and have everything taken from them

@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 6 лет назад

The british made it simple "Just lets name it: Spanishtown"

@nastawkram9043 6 лет назад

Saguntum-Iberian-Greek Konstantinopoli they like, FUCK it. 😂😂👍

@BritishJamaican777 6 лет назад

It was called Spanish Town because the Spanish had it as the Capital city of the island. When the British took over, they moved the capital to Kingston on the east coast and changed most of the names or made them sound english, scottish, irish or welsh. All the inhabitants past and present have Uk surnames as a result, similar to blacks in the Us who were former slaves

@alexzander1839 6 лет назад

BritishJamaican777, Kingston didn't become the capital until 1872. I think that also the same year that the mongoose was imported to Jamaica to eliminate snakes from the cane fields. That is 217 years after the British took control of Jamaica.

@tabitha1821 5 лет назад

They probably settled it over a cup of 🍵

@krishmarX 4 года назад

That's where I live lol

@winnyjstew 4 года назад

insane how jamaica could have been a spanish speaking country

@neeciiw7840 11 месяцев назад

I always says this it’s so crazy 🤔

@GanzotheSecond 10 месяцев назад

Or the Dominican Republic as an English speaking country

@PrioryCampion 5 месяцев назад

That’s why Spanish is taught at high school and secondary it’s our second language. Most Jamaican knows even one word in Spanish I tried my best to learn it.

@Afrocreolebombshelle 3 месяца назад

Spaniards was fighting for all these lands lmaoo

@Electrostatic_Fusion 2 месяца назад

Would be so much better

@TonytheGr8 6 лет назад

As a Jamaican I can say all is accurate here. Bigup and nuff respect #Jamaican

@annmariebusu9924 6 лет назад

Anthony Brown it was alright. This is a short video. Remember the French and Dutch stole Jamaica from Spain. They complain to the English. The English took it and kept it for themselves which Spain did not like.

@TonytheGr8 6 лет назад

Annmarie busu that's true. You have a point. :)

@kwacou4279 6 лет назад

Anthony Brown Spain brought in the 1st enslaved Africans, their descendants are known as the Maroons. Also, not all Taino /Arawaks were killed off, they intermarried with the Maroons and their DNA, can be found, especially amongst people on the south coast, St Elizabeth. I'm from Santa Cruz St . Elizabeth and I have Taino DNA. Spain & Portugal started the transatlantic slave trade. Britain didn't enter until well after and Britain was the 1st nation to end it, 1804, by Wilberforce. Slavery officially ended under the British in 1834 - 38. Spain 1492- 1886 Cuba & Brasil 1888.

@riflechess7693 5 лет назад

@DKhisa thank you family, dumb niggaz piss me off

@monisedeyah1 5 лет назад

Sooooo........the island of Jamaica is flat? 🙄

@jgee8421 6 лет назад

Chinese ans Indian labourers were also brought to Jamaica later on

@Abstract.Noir414 5 лет назад

Why though? When there were already blacks there

@danielblair6597 5 лет назад

@@Abstract.Noir414 To stop free blacks becoming economically independent hence why most of the businesses in jamaica are chinese or indian, now it's free for all thanks to andrew holmes the new prime minister.

@JD-nq3yx 5 лет назад

@@Abstract.Noir414 because slavery had ended and alot of slaves refused to go back, to working for them. So when hard times reached China and India, they were told there was oppurtunity for work and a better life in Jamaica, so they came

@lvmsoundwave2923 5 лет назад

A lot were indentured servants after slavery ended. Slavery in Jamaica ended before it did in the U.S.

@Abstract.Noir414 5 лет назад

Daniel Blair. The free for all part is that a bad thing? Also why do people push that out of many one people when all aren't equal?

@carmencampbellcampbell9473 6 лет назад

Christopher Colombus didn't discovery Jamaica how can you discover it when there were inhabitants there already.

@WizKickzsports 6 лет назад

Léo Mutombo fuck you

@thethrashyone 6 лет назад

What a genius comment. A discovery is marked by happening across something you previously didn't know existed. Jamaica was a discovery TO Columbus, obviously not to the natives.

@str8alphamale 5 лет назад

EXACTLY ITS CALLED " White Supremacy " Soundbites... Actually " White Inferiority " we was all taught " Eurocentric lies" Jesus christ was white ( aka Cesar Borjia) Columbus discovered America ( people was already here) Plus he never set foot in North America. They even tried to hide who the real Jews are.. The blacks that was shipped to the Caribbean, America's and Europe. The real descendants of the Ancient Israelites of the bible.

@sanookmakmak 5 лет назад

I’m crying at the grammar of the comment.

@neblitude 5 лет назад

If you consider Cuba, Hispaniola, Trinidad, Barbados, Jamaica and Dominica part of North America then yes he did set foot in it.

@dette3000 6 лет назад

I love how you did your research. 👍’s up for a well put presentation.🇯🇲#proudtobeajamaican.

@peabody1976 6 лет назад

Favourite name from Spanish: Oracabessa (Oracabeza originally, "golden head"), where my great-uncle lived. My great-grandfather came from Falmouth!

@bl00dhoney 6 лет назад

Corey Reid one of my favourites too. And a beautiful village. Falmouth ain't bad either but the cruise ships spoil the view!

@kwacou4279 6 лет назад

Spanish brought in the first slaves, some of they're descendants are referred to as the Maroons, The Jamaican flag is designed after the Scottish flag, the colours being different. Not all traces of the Taino/ Arawak are gone. Many people on the South Coast retain Taino DNA in there blood lines. I'm Jamaican (Santa Cruz/South coast) and have some indigenous DNA in my genealogy.

@johnmaclagan2263 5 лет назад

@Beverley Hohn Chang The Scottish Elite owned 30% of the tobacco plantations not Scotland FACT. They did it to benefit themselves not the people of Scotland. Don't be blaming the scottish working class for slavery. Who owned the other 70 % of plantations ?

@darkerkyo 5 лет назад

Do you think there would be any of those natives in Saint Catherine or Saint Elizabeth? Both my parents hail from those two parish's.

@Lilly-ud6qs 5 лет назад

Yep.My family are from Westmoreland and St Elizabeth and we still have Taino blood.It's a myth that all the indigenous in Jamaica were wiped out.

@maymay5600 5 лет назад

@@Lilly-ud6qs wait wait is this true? i remember hearing some of them ran off to brazil, there are tainos left in jamaica? no-one said anything

@nd-rt7dl 4 года назад

The truth Native Americans are in the American continent which is the dream land that the Spanish were looking for.

@bl00dhoney 6 лет назад

No one gonna mention the African names? Accompong Cuffy Gully Nanny Town Annamaboe Dutty Gap Me No Sen You No Come (my fave) Mocho Also Caguay Bay is from the Taino (indigenous people of JA) language. Yallahs Liguanea Guanaboa... are other names w Taino roots and of course the name of the island itself Xamayca

@bl00dhoney 6 лет назад

LORD RIBZI my forbears

@bl00dhoney 6 лет назад

LORD RIBZI is there place called Ibo Town in Westmoreland?

@citiiblockrecords 6 лет назад

Was,Europeans carried slaves in 18_ 19 and their settlement got the name

@bl00dhoney 6 лет назад

LORD RIBZI is there still a settlement on the same site?

@Lando-kx6so 6 лет назад

3 of those are english names lol

@JemsAndDiamonds 6 лет назад

I already love this video even though I haven't watched it yet! Proud to be Jamaican!!!

@ginaglam559 6 лет назад

Jema F. Same hun but we will have people trying to tell us we are not Jamaican because they are mad and jealous of our amazing culture and they believe everything they see and hear without conducting proper research

@historyonthego 3 года назад

What you proud about? Why be proud of something you had no control off. Is good not to be ashamed of where you was born, but being proud is something else.

@victoriaieshia 4 года назад

As an adoptee I’ve been told & asked if I was Jamaican most of my life by my peers in school as well as white, Asian, and Dominican. I finally found my biological fathers side and I can finally say that I am Jamaican and African American.

@Obatala_Vibez 4 года назад

The rabbit hole goes even deeper too, all the best to you

@jamaicanbkslimaz 2 года назад

Jamaican & african american? Jamaican isn’t a race thou

@andre-bj9ym Год назад

@@jamaicanbkslimazdifferent genetic and racial admixture for each group . So using the nationality to differentiate is appropriate

@Dani-el9nf 5 месяцев назад

@@andre-bj9ymtruth

@JoelReid 6 лет назад

You should do an episode on the French names in Australia, particularly Western Australia, such as the town of Esperance and its surroundings. It is the interesting results of France's attempts to investigate a potential colony.

@JoelReid 6 лет назад

For reference... Australia has zero French settlements and and minority of French speakers, making the names very unusual in context of the culture unless you know the history of exploration.

@dadafrew3572 6 лет назад

Hi I'm from Jamaica

@GAZAMAN93X 6 лет назад

dada frew me too

@vivfoxx8809 6 лет назад

dada frew Hi! Me 2😁

@jessicamorgan5209 6 лет назад

Dada frew me too

@aldonallen1483 6 лет назад

Same 👌🏾

@SS-ci8yk 6 лет назад

Sem

@waynegreen87 6 лет назад

Great video! I would add that the first Africans brought to the island were actually brought by Spaniards. When they escaped the formed communities alongside the Tainos and were thus called Maroons. These Maroons named places like Accompong (which is Ghanaian in origin) and Namny Town(Nanny being a fierce woman leader of the Maroons).

@magnushelin007 6 лет назад

Wayne Green Interesting!

@damianfung3309 6 лет назад

Wayne Green the tainos were terrified of the maroons it's written in history

@tmd-w1552 6 лет назад

Damian Fung ur wrong.

@damianfung3309 6 лет назад

Unruly King my friend the people living at that time wrote it in the history books

@waynegreen87 6 лет назад

History is written by the victors, so interpretation and bias may come to play.

@agentice7718 6 лет назад

greetings from Jamaica

@noneofyourbusiness1553 6 лет назад

Jamaica is anything but flat, it has lots of hills and mountains 😂😂

@apeman9238 2 года назад

Like their women

@citiiblockrecords 6 лет назад

I live in savanna-la-mar☺ proud moment

@GAZAMAN93X 6 лет назад

LORD RIBZI hello fellow Jamaican!!!

@nastawkram9043 6 лет назад

jevon magnus up yutie.

@Rocsavanamedia 6 лет назад

I was born there 😊 🙌🏾

@dabest133 6 лет назад

Falmouth deh bout ya

@citiiblockrecords 6 лет назад

Chop chop

@style317 6 лет назад

Hey! I’m from Jamaica. Just to note, Las Chorerras is now Ocho Rios. The original name was corrupted over time by both Spanish and English settlers

@BritishJamaican777 6 лет назад

er no. Ocho Rios is Spanish/Portugese meaning Eight Rivers.

@style317 6 лет назад

BritishJamaican777 yeah I know and that’s obvious, but the reason why the name came about is because Las Chorerras became corrupted over time. there aren’t actually eight rivers in the area, but there are waterfalls, which is what las Chorerras means

@ginaglam559 6 лет назад

Great knowledge

@BritishJamaican777 6 лет назад

I understand that, and waterfalls turn into rivers, which are less dangerous and more useful to the inhabitants. The geography to the early colonizers would have been very different to what it is now, nearly 600 years later, so back then, they would have named it the way they saw it. So if they called it Eight Rivers, it's more than likely it was because there were Eight Rivers/Ocho Rios, especially as it was a local natural landmark. Rivers are also seen before their source, the waterfall, hence the name change from 'the waterfalls' to Eight Rivers/Ocho Rios, which the waterfalls had branched off from. Since then, earthquakes and re-routing of rivers, filling them in to build on has occurred, shifting the topography of the landscape and natural waterways, meaning that what was once there and gave meaning to an ancient place name, is sadly no longer there which means the descendants then believe that a 'corruption' of language has happened and given the name a different meaning to the past name/names. peace

@lucasjardimsena 5 лет назад

@@BritishJamaican777 Ocho Rios isn't Eight Rivers in Portuguese, that's Oito Rios

@kennethMblake 3 года назад

Thanks for this post. I am of Jamaican Descent (Canadian born), and did not know most of what you presented. I appreciate your work. Cheers.

@matgame2 6 лет назад

There were actually already slaves here when the British came. IIRC the Portuguese controlled the slave trade at the time and brought slaves here and other places in the Caribbean for Spain before Britain took over.

@parfner666 6 лет назад

Yeah mon and the first slaves escaped from the Spanish and started the Maroon society in the mtns

@9thwonderboy 6 лет назад

I showed this video to a Jamaican friend of mine....she couldn’t believe it! But she knew most of the places.

@phillipalexandermusic 6 лет назад

Hanover in the West is a German name!

@DJFRASSMAD 6 лет назад

THATS A FACT!!!

@UltraEgoPutin1048 6 лет назад

Right German influence the best part to jamaica,

@BritishJamaican777 6 лет назад

You are right. The UK royal family are of German descent and the names in the island were in tribute or honour to them, one of them being the now extinct House of Hannover in the UK Royal family. After slavery was abolished, a large group of Germans went to Jamaica as endentured workers and formed their own town named Seaford in the Parish of St Catherine (google it). Others went to Jamaica, such as Irish, Indian, Lebanese, Chinese for the same reasons after slavery and are in the minority. :-)

@damianfung3309 6 лет назад

BritishJamaican777 people came directly from Germany to jamaica

@UltraEgoPutin1048 6 лет назад

Real talk damian we had real germans, not the fake bastards from the uk

4 года назад

the video fails to say that the Jamaica name arose because the Spaniards formerly used the X (xaymaica) as if it were a "Spanish J" .. as well as in Spanish the word Mexico is written México or México or Texas = Tejas ... the British later adopted a version of the Spanish name Xamaica = Jamaica and now in Spanish the name Jamaica is also used but pronouncing differently similar to the original

@jynxie17 6 лет назад

Hi! Proud Jamaican supporter! Thanks for this!!!

@dezyd4671 6 лет назад

It's bloody raining again! I wanna go to the Middlesex in Jamaica. 😆

@Mr_Makina 4 года назад

@Don Riller then you lot can stay out of the EU

@MatthewTheWanderer 5 лет назад

I was really hoping you'd mention the resort town of Ocho Rios, which means "Eight Rivers" in Spanish. Such an odd name that needs some explaining!

@vuittonnash171 6 лет назад

As a 🇯🇲🇯🇲 Jamaican, I must say that you are on point with your explanations and facts, When the notifications come in from Name Explained.... just tell the world to wait a bit and watch, 😂👍🏾👍🏾

@jack2719 6 лет назад

4:14 Europeans didn't capture the slaves. At that time in Africa, among tribes at war with each other, one tribe would capture and in effect enslave the other. They would then be taken to the shore where Europeans would buy the captured tribe for slaves as Europeans wouldn't go inland on Africa to avoid catching things like malaria.

@leighjones5258 4 года назад

Im from new Zealand. I just found out i have an ancestors born in black river Jamaica. Id love to come and visit and meet long lost relatives. Any sims or tennants? Hit me up!

@AriJWeiss 6 лет назад

Hey dude great vid, but the double l’s in Spanish, such as in “Sevilla” or “Villa.” Are pronounces as ‘y’. So those words would basically be pronounced as “Seveeya” and “Veeya.” There are different pronunciations around the world such as more of a soft ‘j’ sound mixed with a ‘y’ sound. But it’s definitely not “Savila”

@nelsonnavarrouk 5 лет назад

Thank you for investigating and reporting on this in an honest and accurate way!

@BudderB0y2222 5 лет назад

As an American, we love our Jamaican brothers

@jrgenius5098 3 года назад

We love you too

@samanthasmith2910 6 лет назад

Ohhh.... Jamaican here. Love this video.

@GAZAMAN93X 6 лет назад

Samantha Smith same

@itsmeblank4028 6 лет назад

I'm from Jamaica 🇯🇲

@briandawsonii4451 5 лет назад

Love my Jamaican brothers 🇱🇨🇺🇸

@jimgreen9059 6 лет назад

Villa de la Vega actually means "Village of the Plain", or "Village of the fertile lowland".

@ljm8636 5 лет назад

I'm from dela vega city in Spanish town

@ptejohnson2 6 лет назад

Columbus didn't find shit you can't discover a place if people live there. The tianos found Jamaica cuz they live there. I am a Jamaican who thinks this.

@blackout8450 6 лет назад

Exactly bro

@lucasjardimsena 5 лет назад

@Mulatre Star no, the first European to discover America was Leif Erikson

@rodrigomejia953 5 лет назад

Lucas Pereira Yeah, and he settled in Canada for a few years and came back home, no one cared about viking’s discoveries because not even the vikings cared much about it, but colombus and the spaniards did.

@ericktwelve11 3 года назад

Tainos??? You mean the Arawaks...right???

@rufusrimmer9849 6 лет назад

when talking about twickenham, surely the stadium is the most iconic thing there?

@yourfavouritescepticx8969 5 лет назад

That’s crazy I came across this video because I was born in Jamaica and my name is Shakeera Davis 😂. English and Spanish at the same time. I’m exposing myself but I don’t have anything to hide.

@timothymclean 6 лет назад

Because em-wait, you already made that reference. Yeah, that line from CGP Grey explains a lot of world history. But you already brought it up, so I'll bring up one from Lindsay Ellis: "The legacy of colonialism is baked into every facet of every culture on the planet."

@mlovecraftr 6 лет назад

@shawnchinnery663 6 лет назад

Asia invented the empire, the Europeans perfected it. Don’t be jealous of others.

@thethrashyone 6 лет назад

And as we all know, Lindsay "try to bash out a police cruiser's window while intoxicated" Ellis is the be-all end-all of all discussion on colonialism.

@mayena 2 года назад

3:37-3:58 I read a travel guide of Jamaica mentioned on their historical section Jamaica only was conquered by the British after their failure, led by a armed garrison of Oliver Cromwell, of caputuring the Spanish colony of the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo (1493-1821) where they were repulsed by a smaller Spanish militia. 4:07-4:29 there is still a strong element of West African heritage in Jamaica, especially in the dance, dialect, foodways, music, speech patterns, spirituality mainly particularly from the Akan people (Fante and Twi).

@BritishJamaican777 6 лет назад

danielle g.: I have checked out certain words through Google Translate (GT). I am not sure how 'Las Chorerras' became 'waterfall', but it doesnt mean waterfall in any language I have checked, that is; Spanish, Portuguese or Italian, those being the closest Latin-Romano languages of Europe. Las Chorerras is Spanish, which translated to English means 'the Cholera, (you may want to research it for yourself :-)) a deadly disease brought to the Caribbean from Europe, and is a bacterial infection causing fever, vomiting and diarrhoea/running belly. So I guess a 'waterfall' but from underneath you! Eng. eight = Spn. ocho/Por. Otio. Eng. river = Spn. Rio/Por. Rio. = Ocho Rios. My hunch is that the colonizers drank the water from these rivers, and because their immune systems were not used to the natural bacteria in them, which the Natives would have natural immunity from, when the foreigners drank the water and developed The Cholera or Las Chorerras as the Spanish called it, *that* is how the slang name came about, (the same way the disease Ebola is named after the Ebola river where the disease was first recorded in modern times). The name Eight Rivers/Ocho Rios *was* first while they were new to the land and having a great time, but when the disease broke out and they started to die, in anger and dispair, called it Las Chorerras, maybe as a warning to other Europeans to come. But no, there was no name corruption at any time. Us Jamaicans have a very 'romanticized' view of the Spanish/Portuguese, saying that they were 'kinder' and 'less harsh/brutal' than the English, but the facts are the Spanish were just as brutal if not more so than the English, so we try to sanitize what the Spanish said/did to fit with that narrative. Please note; to anyone reading this and are current Spanish/Portugese/Italian/Iberian, we know you are not like your ancestors, so dont be offended by these historical facts.

@trulyalt 6 лет назад

I'm Jamaican but I live in Canada still proud to be Jamaican🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

@timmaz24s 6 лет назад

great video i enjoy it. can you do Trinidad and Tobago. its very interesting since we alot of Spanish, Amerindian, french and English names

@bobjonas6328 6 лет назад

Can you do more Caribbean island names

@haatpraat2993 5 лет назад

Unfortunately, most of the names in Jamaica are actually from Scotland. Scottish people eagerly jumped into all of levels of meting out atrocities to black people on the island of Jamaica from captains of slave ships to slave plantation owners. Even the Jamaican flag was designed by a Scotsman to look like the Scottish flag. I believe Jamaica should at the very least change its national flag, i.e. keep the colours, change the design.

@ProdbyNKA 3 года назад

I'm jamaican and my mom's side is scottish (kerr,Spence)

@acharich 2 года назад

Oh wow..

@HarcusCGTV 2 года назад

Clearly you seem to be unaware that the island was a slave colony for Scots and Irish too. The English kept Scottish slaves there from uprisings and the Covenanters. You might want t reassess you are facts there. As for the Flag, its because of the Parrish of St Andrews, but clearly you are trying to shoehorn a rhetoric thats just not true.

@drrd4127 2 года назад

Why didn't the Africans go home after they were set free and give the land back to the Locals instead of colonising the Island.

@haatpraat2993 2 года назад

@@drrd4127 By that time 'home' was Jamaica. If you are literally imprisoned in a place for 155 years, you don't know any other place to go. Also, by then the Scots and English had wiped out the native inhabitants. What the Nazis did during WW2 is well documented and rightly condemned, but in terms of the people killed, lives destroyed the British in the Caribbean were far worse.

@ZetaFuzzMachine 6 лет назад

Mr NameExplain, I have some information that I think you might find interesting: At minute 3:14 you mention Esquivel as a harbour. Well I live in Basque Country, Spain, in a province that's called Álava. If you stare out my living room window, you may be able to see a pointy hill with an old ruined tower called "Esquíbel"!! Cool, right? Well what if I say that there are some other interesting village names in my province? Like, for example, the town of Guebara, where a fortress used to stand high up a hill. Or mabybe the village of Bolíbar, next to a mountain range. I hope you find that interesting, as it has a lot of historical background of the people who adventured themselves... and rather unfortunately killed lots of poor natives... Sorry about that

@teovinokur9362 6 лет назад

ooh, that's nice

@247-x2i 6 лет назад

Esquibel is not a Spanish name. It is a Basque name. The Spanish version of Esquibel would be "Detrás del bosque de Tilos", very different from "Esquibel"

@ZetaFuzzMachine 6 лет назад

¿Qué?

@ZetaFuzzMachine 6 лет назад

Nik ez dakit euskara asko, baina badakit "eskibel" ez duela esan "basoan atzean"

@247-x2i 6 лет назад

Zeta Belotto Eski=tilo eta gibel=atzean. Hala ere, ez du "tiloaren atzekaldea" esan gure, "tilozko basoaren atzekaldea" baizik

@randomgamerdude98 6 лет назад

Do why the Philippines is full of Spanish names

@bl00dhoney 6 лет назад

Gi0theHer0 -American- Spanish imperialism

@geopixels6886 6 лет назад

Gi0theHer0 Spanish colonialism.

@basedpro-ua3470 6 лет назад

Because it was our colony :)

@villa7230 6 лет назад

fuck that country

@BritishJamaican777 6 лет назад

Because the Portugese and spanish colonised it and named it after a Protugese King Filip. Hence Filipines/Philipines.

@MrTHECLASSICPRO 6 лет назад

Love the channel! Keep up the good work! Can you do holland or suriname next?

@ARTexplains 6 лет назад

... are there still people in favor of Columbus Day being a thing? Because it should probably be named after somebody a little less... awful.

@coolandhip_7596 6 лет назад

ARTexplains Science and History but with out Columbus the colization of america woulnt have happened of been dalayed quite a bit

@arischisholm9493 6 лет назад

_ XxCOOLANDHIPxX _ You know the bloody vikings got to the North America before him, right? And Columbus didn’t land in what is now the USA until a few other expeditions.

@timmmahhhh 6 лет назад

Many are now calling it Indigenous People's Day instead.

@timmmahhhh 6 лет назад

Viktor Orbán You obviously need someone to explain to you that there were civilizations already here before Columbus, even though they don't comply with your literal white washed definition of a civilization.

@timmmahhhh 6 лет назад

Andrés Méndez Yes the natives here were pretty savage to each other, I agree. And if they had the same knowledge and technology would they had used it similarly against other cultures. My feeling is that the natives north of Mexico had spiritual beliefs that respected the land to where they would had either been complacent with what they had, or much more respectful of other cultures that we were of theirs. Of course to the Victor went the spoils so we'll never know for sure.

@christinamcgregor4083 6 лет назад

Where are my #1876 #Jamaican People at?

@MichaelBrown-jm6tk 5 лет назад

There are sleep they will be awake and jesus return.

@spartanclarke6604 5 лет назад

@Chezzamaine no

@audrelynberrick2321 5 лет назад

I am proud to be a Jamaican but I want the killing to be stopped.🇯🇲

@chanceDdog2009 6 лет назад

Of course Columbus discovered lands with millions of people on them already....

@WilliamGarrow 6 лет назад

Chance Whistler LMAO.

@snoopys14 6 лет назад

Chance Whistler you got any brain 🧠 cells? On your logic if you “Discover” a dead body in your garden, you never discovered it because the killer new it was there . He discovered Jamaica because no one in the west new about it

@theemojicomedian5767 6 лет назад

NPC #345667564 well how Do we discover alien life then if the bacteria was already there?

@ljm8636 5 лет назад

@@NPC-dz4px everyone calm down n stop getting y'all panties in a bunch

@Abstract.Noir414 5 лет назад

There weren't millions of people on each island though

@ninjahombrepalito1721 6 лет назад

Nice video! Hey, I have a suggestion. More animal names.

@abrahambreton4768 5 лет назад

If you want to feel proud of your Country, you first have to forget, how it was conquered and the dark deeds of the conquerors. Most important: Forget about "Motherland", for that's also past. I'm a native spanish speaker but I don't feel any pride for Spain. Same you have to do with England.

@2nd09er 6 лет назад

I saw one of the counties in "Cornwall" is named Hanover, and I know I know. There was a personal union. But I'd be very interested in the specifics? 🤔

@BritishJamaican777 6 лет назад

Good question. Hanover is one of the parishes in the county of Cornwall. The UK royal family are of German descent and during slavery, the names in the island were in tribute or honour to them, (or the Spanish Royals) one of them being the now extinct House of Hannover in the UK Royal family. After slavery was abolished, a large group of Germans went to Jamaica as endentured workers and formed their own town named Seaford in the Parish of St Catherine (google it). Others went to Jamaica, such as Irish, Indian, Lebanese, Chinese for the same reasons after slavery and are in the minority. :-)

@Jaanikins 6 лет назад

So are there no native Jamaicans left there? Just a mixture of west Africa, Spain and Britain? If so that's a real shame

@agentice7718 6 лет назад

pretty the same with all of the Caribbean islands excluding a few

@GAZAMAN93X 6 лет назад

BRITURK also Indians and Chinese. India brought us Curry and Weed!!!

@claqyagami6914 6 лет назад

The Tainos were a peaceful and so were wiped out. In some of the smaller islands there are "Caribs" who survived as they were more warlike and resisted from the getgo.

@cristiano_atleti7728 6 лет назад

BRITURK yes indeed all the natives were wiped out not just in jamaica but most of the carribean as Well, mostly west Africans, chinese and, Indians live in the region now ! I'm Jamaican of west african decent

@nastawkram9043 6 лет назад

Lil 1 Ballas no MAN lot OF Indian "coolie"come from THE ssme bloodline

@F_And 6 лет назад

*NOT TODAY, COLONIZER*

@HeyLetsTalkAboutIt 5 лет назад

We have a Jamaica here in New York too. It’s a part of Queens and has a large train station.

@jonathanjohnson5216 3 года назад

🤣🤣🤣165 colli block

@the-development-scribbler Год назад

So true. It is a large commercial area and it is about a few minutes drive from Rochdale, Springfield Gardens and the JKF airport

@ljm8636 5 лет назад

I'm from dela vega city Spanish town 🇯🇲💯🔥

@jonathanjohnson5216 3 года назад

Bad place

@i_GiveFRUITS 3 года назад

I'm mixed race Jamaican and English, i live in Falmouth in Cornwall Uk..... My family live in Falmouth in Cornwall Jamaica, i always thought that was quite cool.

@steverossini 6 лет назад

Do Saint Lucia. Like this but English and French.

@Don2024yhgfjjkj 5 лет назад

Every island got spanish name my neighborhood in haiti name is san miguel de latalaya

@douglasholloran6513 6 лет назад

greetings from another Cornwall this one i live in is found in new york

@douglasbrown7612 6 лет назад

Douglas Holloran greetings person with my first name, I use to work in Cornwall on the Hudson right next to Newburgh.

@Derellrassy87 6 лет назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@jamiesimms7084 6 лет назад

What about African Slaves brought over by the Spanish? What about Seville oranges? What about Nani? What about the Maroon language? What about why they were called the Maroons? What about pronouncing or not pronouncing the letter H? What about Ocho? What about the mixed grammar of lots of languages including English and Spanish?

@bored3404 3 года назад

We don't learn Maroon language in Jamaica

@jamiesimms7084 3 года назад

@@bored3404 who said you did? What about quaco?

@bored3404 3 года назад

@@jamiesimms7084 I was just telling you I never accuse you of anything

@jamiesimms7084 3 года назад

@@bored3404 but your sentence makes no sense to the point I was making. Maroon language is already in Jamaica and is a part of Patois. Maroon language is derived from Ghanaian people.

@jamiesimms7084 3 года назад

@@bored3404 how do you say eight rivers in Spanish? What was the old name for Spanish Town?

@Uchiha507 6 лет назад

You do know a lot of the stories about the savage treatment of natives was British propaganda and propaganda from other European nations in order to try make the Spanish look bad. That being said, they definitely were enslaved and treated awfully. But I doubt the stories of them making games about decapitating them or having their dogs rip them apart

@noistune5707 6 лет назад

I go to high school in Jamaica and choose to do Caribbean History...NEVER BEEN SO SAD AND ANGRY IN MA LYPHE!

@niklashand9260 6 лет назад

I like how there was an German name in here to Hanover who rpobaly come from the German state of Hannover who now is called Niedersachsen

@BritishJamaican777 6 лет назад

@richieredw9218 6 лет назад

Hannover is not a state it´s a city in the German state of Niedersachsen, just my two cents worth!!

@megzr3103 6 лет назад

Thank you for this video!!

@professorrosenstock5026 6 лет назад

Thank you for making this.

@dannyfriar5653 5 лет назад

There's a lot of Scottish surnames in Jamaica too.

@HarcusCGTV 2 года назад

70%+ are Scottish. This guys video is just simply untrue.

@hglundahl 6 лет назад

So, if Telmarines had been Spanish Pirates, the half and half Spanish sounding names if some Telmarines would be an inversion of the Jamaican situation (Narnia being of course created in the presence of not just English people, but even English people living in London).

@whocanseemyname7238 6 лет назад

Puerto Rico?? Pls no one ever talks about us😢😢😢

@Abstract.Noir414 5 лет назад

No you talk about yourselves to everyone else

@ruthydrawsalot1979 6 лет назад

De LA Vega translates to St.Jago in English. Love this video!

@owencook9239 6 лет назад

How did Portugal get its name

@BritishJamaican777 6 лет назад

From Africans Moors who invaded it

@KD-jb9pq 5 лет назад

After the city of Porto.

@michaelwinter7136 2 года назад

Literal translation of "Port of call".....used to be a part of Spain at one time

@GFSLombardo 6 лет назад

The same reason there are English and Spanish names from Florida to California.Because both English speakers and Spanish speakers settled there.

@stonefaceBRC 6 лет назад

It's really sad that there are virtually no indigenous people left in Jamaica. There are Jamaicans of Indian, and Chinese decent to name a couple, but I've really never even heard of any native Jamaicans

@janetcousins7250 6 лет назад

Xerxes The only remnants of their existence may possibly lie in the maroons, runaway, African slaves. It is believed that some level of miscegenation took place between these two groups.

@Abstract.Noir414 5 лет назад

@@janetcousins7250 Thats just speculation

@GAZAMAN93X 6 лет назад

Jamaican-American here! I used to live in Portland and West End. Lol

@ComradeDt 6 лет назад

aha now i can passive aggressively correct you on wrong stuff cuz im from jamaica lol

@andre5006 6 лет назад

I was totally gonna suggest this topic so I could be patron saint!

@heronrodriguez 6 лет назад

your spanish pronunciations are preposterously horrendous, aside from that I love your channel

@nnalan4886 6 лет назад

Héron R Reza Whatever. Spanish is a dying language, anyways.

@heronrodriguez 6 лет назад

whatever you say big guy

@janetcousins7250 6 лет назад

nn alan Spanish, a dying language with so many millions of speakers in Spain, North, South and Central America and small pockets in other regions throughout the world??

@RHLMRG4L94 5 лет назад

nn alan How? Its the 4th most spoken language in the world. Get your facts straight hombre 👌🏾

@solorock28 5 лет назад

@@RHLMRG4L94 spanish is the second, not 4th.

@niallcook2271 6 лет назад

Love the way u say England but put the Union Jack

@HarcusCGTV 2 года назад

It highlights his ignorance and English privilege really

@gyaldemcornflakes4676 5 лет назад

Did u guys know Christopher Columbus didn’t discover Jamaica , the tainos did

@ryanbranigan231 5 лет назад

Could you do a video on Ellis Island in New York, and how it literally tore immigrating families a part by changing their names. For instance my friend has a different last name from her fathers brother because her dad came over a day before his brother and they gave them different new american names.

@iSniffTeemo 6 лет назад

Philippines PLEASE

@roymartintandberg5658 6 лет назад

iSniff Teemo Yes please!

@darkmanj666 6 лет назад

BAkla

@duckymomo7935 6 лет назад

Named after King Philip... Done

@roymartintandberg5658 6 лет назад

Mi Les Shhhh

@villa7230 6 лет назад

fuck that country

@ded7806 4 года назад

Great video!! 👏🏽👏🏽

@towgenFilip 6 лет назад

The historical innacuracy in this video is outrageus! Columbus couldn't possibly have dollar signs in his eyes, they were spanish reales 😁 !

@sion8 6 лет назад

There are some that think the modern $ comes from the Spanish using the Pillars of Hercules and a banner in between them (looking like an ‹S›) on the Pieces-Of-Eight, which led to that symbol.

@towgenFilip 6 лет назад

In that case he should have 2 $ signs in each eye as each real coin had 2 pillars and 2 banners... unless ofcourse he was dreaming of earning coins the size of his head so that the distance between the pillars would match the distance between his eyes :P ...

@sion8 6 лет назад

+tow.gen.Filip Well, that's because that symbol has two versions (one and two strokes) and some typographers just assumed that they are the same sign which is why in some fonts the dollar sign has one stroke and in others two. However, the Spanish origins isn't the only hypothesis, another I have heard as well is that is a simplified ligature of ‹U› and ‹S› as in one is on top of the other, among other ideas! Also, is just one banner, actually is the same symbol as the one on the Spanish code of arms on this very video.

@user-vm4po3iq2x 6 лет назад

I am from JAMAICA! BIG UP JAMAICA🇯🇲

@shakielow 3 года назад

All of us Jamaicans speaks Spanish lowkey and don't even know

@ItsNotRealLife 5 лет назад

You showed Cornwall (Jamaica) as a beautiful beach and Cornwall (UK) as a country lane. Put up a photo of the beaches of the UK Cornwall because they're stunningly beautiful with world class surfing

@karishmakim4646 5 лет назад

I love Jamaica the way it is. But think about it for a second, if we didn't become independent we would belong to the English. Eventually slavery would end yes, but we would be using (pound) to this day. Hence, life wouldn't be so hard...financially. But screw that. we got our own music, food and accent.

@peterbristol5604 6 лет назад

Another great video brotha

@jamesmcintyre4480 6 лет назад

I am from Kingston Jamaica

@philliplyn2692 5 лет назад

Loving this one thanks for sharing this one knowledge is power there's more to the story base on what you said so far

@TheMarcosutra 6 лет назад

how can you do a video on the names of Jamaican places without mentioning a single one of hundreds of funny JAMAICAN names! All your newer content feels rushed not very informative. This video missed out so many interesting things but talked a lot about the things most people already knew.

@CraftQueenJr 6 лет назад

M T I knew none of it, and it is about how there are weird foreign names in Jamaica so...

@TheMarcosutra 6 лет назад

CraftQueenJr they’re hardly weird foreign names. And all Caribbean islands share the fact they have mixed foreign names from colonial pasts. It lacks any Jamaican-ness and any deep information about the topic of the video itself.

@douglasbrown7612 6 лет назад

How about Aracabessa.