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Reply to "None of us who were born in Guyana are ‘Indians’ or ‘Africans’- Charles Sugrim"

Zed posted:.

What are the universals of Afro Caribbean creole culture, for this uneducated old man? This seems convoluted to me. So for those of us who have lived many years in Canada, are we now viewed as having Canadian Afro Caribbean creole culture. .

I am unaware that any one defined you (if you are Indo Caribbean) as being Afro Caribbean.

I am fully aware that white Canadians are extremely aware of what Afro Caribbean culture is.  They have no problem in identifying their culture (mainly evolving out of the British Isles) and seeing it as distinct from  that which they see from immigrants from the Caribbean.

An Indian looking at an Indo Caribbean person will also be fully aware of the differences that exist between these two groups of Indian derived peoples. In fact they even have separate terminologies for people born in North America of DIRECT Indian parentage (NRI) from those whose connections to India are more distant, and whose cultures have imbued so many other influences that it is now only tangentially Indian. 

That India of Modi has no space for "Hindus" who eat beef roti without even thinking of it.  Or who can be seen frequenting Pizza Hut and not being concerned that pork products aren't segregated from other food items.

How many Indo Guyanese can fluently speak any language of India.  And I mean daily conversations covering a full gamut of topics.

And my understanding of Canadian identity is that it recognizes cultural, religious and ethnic diversity but that does NOT take away from being a Canadian. So some one whose grandparents came from Guyana is a Canadian first and whatever ethnic identity they select second.

FM
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