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

Guyanese-Americans are still very racist people.

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u/Retrophoria Apr 29 '25

This is a generalization. Who are they racist to?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25

The Indo-Guyanese population of NYC, which is the largest population outside of Guyana, is filled with individuals who hold racist sentiment against people of African descent, especially Afro-Guyanese and African Americans.

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u/Retrophoria Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25

African Americans? Yeah OK. Indo Caribbeans African Americans barely have a history of competition over resource scarcity. Stop making shit up

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25

I didn’t say anything wrong or controversial.

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u/Retrophoria Apr 29 '25

I don't respect people who think stereotypically and have no data to back up claims. Im indo carib and married to a Black woman with a child. There are many other examples. Don't make your "reality" skew other people's norms of what people in our communities do. You speak divisively and with a colonizers mindset

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

You are not evidence of anything.

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u/Retrophoria Apr 30 '25

Ok I'm respectfully ending there. I hope you can one day not generalize and have an open mind. And yes I'm aware of the history of tension between various ethnic groups. But guess what? I'm choosing to do better and not replicate the bigotry of those before me. For the sake of my child who will have an example and I pray he does better than some of the instances you are alluding to

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

The question was not asking if you personally hold racist sentiments. Please reread properly before getting yourself so worked up.

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u/Retrophoria May 01 '25

Have a good day my fellow Caribbean