If YOU ARE A JAMAICAN, DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE AFRICAN?

As a Jamaican person, do you feel you are from the African descent?

Before there is any misunderstanding this is just an epq project that I am conducting. I am of dual ethnicity; half Nigerian and half Jamaican. I would like to know what your views are. I do not like when Jamaicans and African countries fight each other. I feel it is not right because in my eye we are all brothers and sisters.

But why do we fight?

It is believed some Jamaican people do not like being called “Africans”: they become upset by this.
I do not mind as we are all Africans in the end.

Prior to the arrival of Columbus in 1494, Jamaica was inhabited by Arawaks, living in simple communities based on fishing, hunting, and small scale cultivation of cassava.

Spanish was traumatic, and these communities disappeared in 70-80 years. After a brief period of experimenting with indentured European labor, the British turned to large scale importation of Africans to be used as slaves on the sugar plantations.

They believe that the first generation of Jamaicans were Spaniards and Arawaks right? And that the British brought African slaves to Jamaica (who were called Hispaniola at that time ) just to work on their plantations. SO………….us Jamaicans just adapted to the country.

I would like to know…..
What your views are on this….leave your comments at the bottom of this post.
So I just want to know As a Jamaican person, do you feel you are from the African descent?

Leave your comments and say why
THANK YOU!!!!

what do you JAMAICAN bruv. I though you lot were British?????? or is that only on specific occasions.

They were Colonised by uk yes but they claim they are jamaicans as in the true jamaican. It doesnt matter really. I have got a friend who is jamaican who thinks that africans are dirty and stink all the time and she says she does not like them. By the way i am not male, i am female. lol.

Note: You used the word "bruv".

Yes.

portugal was colonized by the roman empire. nt sure they call themselves italians.

Why do you feel you are african? or do you just accept that that is your true history and that all black people are africans?

All people are Africans

Why do you feel you are african? or do you just accept that that is your true history and that all black people are africans?

This true history stuff seems a bit far away to matter really - I mean technically the human race originated in Africa so should we all say that we're African? Jamaica is an independent state and has had its own national identity for long enough that I think people are more than entitled to say that they are Jamaican, not African or anything else regardless of where their ancestors came from hundreds of years ago.

I'm not really Jamaican. However, I feel that this thread should have been worded differently.

Just like how anyone born in Britain is British, A Jamaican is anyone who was born in Jamaica. 10% of Jamaicans are not black and therefore do not feel like they are African.

If I posted a similar thread asking Brits whether they feel that they are anglo-saxon, I'm sure many of the Brits on here who have darker skin would say that they do not, considering 15% of British people are not.

So everyone else gets to identify with a country, but Jamaicans and others from the Caribbean are to identify with a continent?

Jamaicans and other sovereign states in the Caribbean have had their own identity for many many years. So much so that people will connect over their country than race.

It is also to do with culture. I'm sure you OP have noticed the cultural differences between your parents being that they are Nigerian and Jamaican.

We could also attack this from the other side, I don't see too many west Africans welcoming Caribbeans with open arms.