r/AskTheCaribbean • u/CompetitiveTart505S Caribbean American • Apr 28 '25

Culture Does racism between Caribbean people disappear in the diaspora

For example growing up I was never under the impression there were conflicts between Indo and Afro Caribbean people, because the Indo Caribbean people I met were all very nice and emphasized that we're all Caribbean.

I also have a Dutch friend who explained that Surinamese people seem pretty united in the Netherlands regardless of race, but this is an outsider looking in of course.

What do you guys think? Does this imply that ethnic tensions are more superficial, or is it really not that significant? Do you all have any contradictory or complementary experiences?

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '25

No. The Chinese, Indians etc are still racist overseas. They might have some familiarity due to similar background but that'll go away once they are around other Chinese Indians etc.

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u/Retrophoria Apr 29 '25

Bullshit. As an Indo-Caribbean, I want nothing to be associated with a random Indian person. I wanna hang out with my Caribbean peeps. You don't speak for me.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25

Cool. Never said it was all, but real life is real life. You know how your people can be. It's just the unfortunate truth.

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u/Retrophoria Apr 29 '25

What is real life? How many Indo Caribbean or Chinese Caribbean people have you surveyed? They are such a small # outside of the big outliers (Guyana, TNT). Even in those places, race is used as a political weapon to divide the groups