Simple question....
Do you guys (Dominicans) consider yourselves "West Indian"
Simple question....
Do you guys (Dominicans) consider yourselves "West Indian"
What do you mean?Query so far you are three persons in one.
What do you mean?
As In the following 2 posts are mine???
You've got to be kidding.West Indians is generally a term referring to Indian people from India, who relocated to the Carribean. For example, you will find that many people in Trinidad & Guyana who trace their roots back to India. There are lots of Indian people in St. Maarten, Jamaica, etc. Though I have yet to meet one in the DR!
An archipelago between southeast North America and northern South America, separating the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean and including the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahama Islands. The original inhabitants were Caribs and Arawaks. Several of the islands were sighted and explored by Columbus during his voyages of 1492?1504. The first permanent European settlement was made by the Spanish on Hispaniola in 1496. During the colonial period the English, French, and Dutch also laid claim to various islands, and the United States acquired Puerto Rico and part of the Virgin Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In Cuba and the DR, people speak Spanish, so are not likely to use an English term.Rocky, It has everything to do with India. FInd yourself a Trini or Guyanese friend with Indian roots, and they will call themselves West Indian. But funny, nobody in Cuba, Haiti, or the DR calls themselves West Indian, regardless of the fact there may have been Aboriginal Indians there.
You may not be talking about the West Indies Islands, but everybody else here is.I'm not talking about the West Indies islands, I'm talking about West Indians, and East Indians. Yah, Columbus made a mistake in calling them Indians, but if you go to any multi-cultural city, and you find Trini's and Guyanese, or Indo Jamaicans, they call themselves West Indians to differentiate between East Indians.
You would think that you would know what you are talking about, but how can you deny dictionnary definitions of the words?I think I would know, I am Indo Canadian and have family in Trinidad.
West Indians is generally a term referring to Indian people from India, who relocated to the Carribean. For example, you will find that many people in Trinidad & Guyana who trace their roots back to India. There are lots of Indian people in St. Maarten, Jamaica, etc. Though I have yet to meet one in the DR!
Many others may not know that once slavery was abolished in the islands in the 1830s the colonialists looked to India, China and other countries in which to bring indentured labour to the Caribbean...The islands were known as the West Indies long before that.
In fact most Indians do not understand the term West Indian - they think that means the western regions of India - like Goa!
That said, it doesn't mean that the meaning can't change to refer to the folks that have true Indian background.
It was the most boring class in high school :bored: ... not sure whether the OP's question was answered ???Simple question....
Do you guys (Dominicans) consider yourselves "West Indian"