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Post by CCC on Mar 28, 2005 14:59:47 GMT -5
Actually most countries in and associated with the Caribbean have pretty mixed populations. The majority of the people in the Cayman Islands are a British Ilse/ African mulatto mixture, and most of the people in Martinique and French Guiana are a mixture of Amerindian and French Mulatto descent.
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Post by CCC on Mar 28, 2005 15:24:10 GMT -5
Another surprisingly mixed place is Haiti. I, like most outsiders that even know of Haiti, just knew about it being the first predominantly black republic, but upon visiting the place I was facinated and suprised to see a various amount of admixtures among the people. The elite are particularly mixed, the majority of the are the mulatto descendants of the former French slaves masters and their African slave women. Over the years however, many elite families have arranged marriages with overseas diplomates, and a large portion of the Arabic middleclass that began arriving in the early 1900s has been absorbed into the elite families. I met people that were part German, Swedish, Lebanese, and French mulatto. While the non African admixture is obviously prevelant amongst the elite, its not uncommon to see an frizzy blonde haired, blue eyed light skinned child in the shanty towns. Actually I was quite suprised at the frequency of lighter skinned people and even darker skinned people who possesed other non Sub Saharan African features like straight hair. There's even a region (Casale ) where a significant portion of the residences are the mixed race descendants of POLISH soldiers left behind during the revolution, and many of them still posses noticeable European features: like light eyes and skin, as well as wavy hair. Many of them even have Polish and Creolized Polish names and surnames. ![](http://www.fotochris.com/images/Haiti-Pape-17-potomkowie.jpg)
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Post by quartermetis on Mar 28, 2005 15:49:02 GMT -5
In Angola mixed people are called mestico and historically they've been black and portugese, but ever since the cold war there as been a significant increase of black/cuban and black russian mulattos, who are the children of the cold war soldiers and the native africans. Actually here is a sad story of the creation of unusual admixtures, apparently this is happinging all over the world where UN peace keepers are: Juliette, a Congolese woman who had a relationship with a peacekeeper, is the mother of one of an estimated hundreds of mixed-race children abandoned by U.N. workers at the end of their 6-month tours of duty, despite an official policy of no contact between U.N. peacekeepers and local women. "There is no help from the U.N.," Juliette said. "They just make women pregnant and leave. They never take care of their kids." www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread125935/pg1
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Post by tokenguy on Mar 29, 2005 7:48:54 GMT -5
I've heard that the original "Macanese" are a mixture of Chinese and Portugese. In fact thier language, religion, music, and food are a blend of both societies.
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Post by quartermetis on Mar 29, 2005 12:03:50 GMT -5
Ever want to meet someone who is part French, East Indian, Amerindian, African, and British, well then head on over to Trinidad & Tobago. They have lots of people there who are a mixture of five or six different ethnic groups.
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