What was the process of setup your business like given you live abroad. How do you management that business given you might already be working in the country you live??
Just curious, who are we thinking will be the next big artiste? We see how Popcaan is welcomed in parts of Africa, Koffee is killing it in the USA market, but who is underground and underrated these days?
-Music lover from Jamaican diaspora (PS we do need to lively up this thread!)
EDIT TO SPECIFY: I realized I was not specific enough - I wanted to know who's going to be the next run music locally (across all the sub-genres). Who will be the next that has the entire island rooting for them proudly?
Recently Amber launched a website that allows school, charities etc. to ask for funding(basically a go fund me clone). The website will allow the organisations to have money sent straight to their bank account. https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Amber_FundMe_launched_to_strengthen_charities
Seeing the website got me thinking, do members in the diaspora have sufficient channels to give to the country?
EDIT: So its clear that persons want to give back but they don't have the right channels to do so. My next question is who could we talk to in order to make this happen? There should be a Jamaican Ambassador in many countries with a large diaspora.
The interview with white yardie reignites a question I have about the diaspora. I often see individuals who are born in another country and have never been to the Caribbean lay claim to that nationality. I have seen people who can't speak patois or know any place different from Kingston claim they are Jamaicans or tell me how to spell patois words. These individuals really like to tell others that they are only black Jamaicans or Jamaicans don't do this or that but they don't know anything. Jamaicans can be black, white, Asian or Indian. It doesn't matter. If you are born in the country or raised there, then you are.
In my opinion, people whose parents are from the Caribbean but are born in America are Americans. You can't be from a country you have no actual knowledge of being Jamaican, Trini, Bajan is an experience and birthright it is not an ethnicity or race.
Black people who have Caribbean parents and live in white majority countries have an identity crisis issues because they don't feel like they are apart of the country they are born in. However, I personally don't recognize them as being "Caribbean" they from where they are from I'm sorry.
Who is a Jamaican, Trini, Bajan, Cuban or whoever to you?
I’m a white 30yo woman and a 20yo white man at my company keeps saying “wagwan” as a greeting at work. He’s a big fan of hip hop and rap music but as he’s a white person from a northern city in the UK it doesn’t sit right with me. Do I have the right to call him out on this? As far as I know he doesn’t have any ties to Jamaica or the Jamaican diaspora in the UK.
Hey so, I (lightskin Jamaican diaspora) have been in a very supportive, loving, fairly serious relationship with an Irish (white) man for almost 2 years. Because of the nature of my upbringing, Ive only just begun recognizing, and learning about my Blackness when I moved to Vancouver, Canada about 5 years ago (I’m 23). There are very few Black people here so dating a white man is just how it goes.
As far as men that Ive met, he educated on issues of structural oppression (mostly class based), colonialism (mostly Ireland as a British colony), and somewhat race (mostly pertaining to the war on drugs) which is one of the reasons I was initially very attracted to him. We have never had any issues concerning our races, and he is genuinely interested in a lot of Black culture, in particular music and activists (Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Carl Hart etc) in a way that doesn’t seem culture vulturey and there have never been any issues with him being around Black people in completely Black spaces especially considering he’s born and raised in Ireland so there were maybe only 5 PoCs in his school. From an informational and theoretical perspective, he gets it.
Anyway, over the last 6 months or so we’ve been having more frequent conversations about race and our relationship, we talked about it in the past but the nature of our conversations has developed as I have been educating myself, but thats part of my issue, I feel like he hasnt been proactive. For example, a few weeks ago I had a bit of a meltdown over my hair, it was because of other things but my hair is generally a constant source on anxiety for me. As much as he tried to be supportive, I dont think he was really able to be helpful because he didn’t understand the particularly complicated relationship between Black women and their hair. Vancouver is also VERY white, and I have limited hair skills because up until last year my hair has always been very short but I don’t think he took any of these things into consideration when he was trying to understand why my reaction seemed so “extreme”.
Example 2- We are going to a music festival in Barcelona over the summer,with a bunch of his Irish uni friends that i don’t know, but I am sure are lovely people. I was feeling some anxiety around it partially because i am not accustomed to European drug/alcohol culture and it makes me uncomfortable (not because i am anti drugs, but white people are just too messy sometimes), but also because I was pretty sure I was defi
... keep reading on reddit ➡I’m Nigerian and due to their similarities, I’ve always wondered if West African Pidgin and the African diaspora creole languages of the New World are genetically related.
I am aware that West African pidgin arose from the contact between European and West African slave traders and spread inwards between ethnic groups as a lingua franca. In fact, Baptist missionaries in Cameroon in the mid-19th century needed to learn Pidgin in order to communicate with the natives.
So how right would I be in thinking that at least a significant portion of slaves being transported to the New World already spoke Pidgin, as opposed to each Creole variety arising independently.
Some examples I could think of were:
-“You all”/ Una (Nigerian Pidgin)/ Unu (Jamaican Patois)
-“Child”/Pikin (Nigerian and Jamaican)
- Present tense marker/ Dey (Nigerian)/ De (Jamaican)
-Past tense marker/Don (Nigerian)/Done (AAVE), usually found in “(I) done been…”
-“Steal”/ Tif (Nigerian Pidgin)/ Tiif (Jamaican)
I became interested in making a gumbe (also goombay or gome) drum, but I need help understanding how to tune it.
For those who do not know what a gumbe is: A gumbe is a square drum that based on a stool or bench originating among the Maroons of Jamaica, and it is played similarly to a conga or barril. The drum was created in the form of a stool or bench following the ban of drums by the British during slavery as a disguise, and this Afro-Jamaican drum has travelled "back" to Africa beginning with the Nova Scotia Settlers in Sierra Leone, and has been adopted by several West African groups. Because of this drum's birth out of a tradition of evading slavery-era drum bans (which were also passed in the US) and the trans-Atlantic nature of this unique creation of the African diaspora, I was inspired to make oneself as an Afro-American.
Anyway, there seems to be only one tutorial on YouTube that gives a tuning process: stool or bench (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc0TuCBXe9I - tuning mechanism timestamp: 17:27-23:21). However, I don't quite understand how the T-screw he uses to push and lower (so increasing or decreasing the tension of) the inner drum frame will rise and fall without trying to spin under the tight drumhead. A written construction poster (https://insidejourneys.com/the-gumbay-drum/) from the Accompong Maroons of Jamaica on how they compose their drums do not increase the tuning method when they give the construction of the inner and outer drum frames. Could someone explain exactly how the video's mechanism is to be set up and work to me, or possibly a different way to tune it? By the way, the form of the drum I plan to make won't be like open-backed box as the particular Ghanaian one in the video, but like a four-legged stool as it traditionally is in Jamaica and Sierra Leone. I would greatly appreciate it!
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be2OJHg1lc8
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey3n8GsxCes
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mKm6ms3YbY
These are links to a contemporary TV series made about the second West Indian rebel tour of South Africa in 1983 - a controversial and fascinating era of cricketing history. It's an interesting glimpse at "normal cricket in an abnormal society", and an important part of the story of the game we all love.
Securing a West Indian side, at a time when the Windies were the terror of the cricketing world, to test against the South African talents of Pollock, Procter, and Rice was a propaganda coup for the apartheid government, which clandestinely funded the tours via 90% tax breaks for the ostensible sponsor, South African Breweries.
English, Australian, Sri Lankan, and West Indian cricketers all went, at one time or another, on "rebel" tours to the apartheid state, which was frozen out of international cricket following the D'Oliveria affair in 1968 and their disastrous tour of England in 1970, and banned for good by the Gleneagles Agreement at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 1977 at Gleneagles in Scotland:
>The member countries of the Commonwealth, embracing peoples of diverse races, colours, languages and faiths, have long recognised racial prejudice and discrimination as a dangerous sickness and an unmitigated evil and are pledged to use all their efforts to foster human dignity everywhere. At their London Meeting, Heads of Government reaffirmed that apartheid in sport, as in other fields, is an abomination and runs directly counter to the Declaration of Commonwealth Principles which they made at Singapore on 22 January 1971.
>...
>Heads of Government specially welcomed the belief, unanimously expressed at their Meeting, that in the light of their consultations and accord there were unlikely to be future sporting contacts of any significance between Commonwealth countries or their nationals and South Africa while that country continues to pursue the detestable policy of apartheid.
The English and Australian rebels were banned by their boards for 3 years each and the Sri Lankans for 25 years. But it was one thing for the likes of Kim Hughes, Graham Gooch, and Mike Gatting to go to South Africa - it was quite another for black cricketers from majority black countries, populated by the descendants of slaves and with a history of resistance to racism and colonial oppressi
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
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Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
He lost May
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
I’m moving to the Denver area in about a week and my family (all from Hawai’i/Southern California) are of course itching to visit this winter. We are a very food loving family (think big Polynesians lol) and love to try new things.
My mom especially likes to try “local” favorites and things that aren’t typically found in Hawai’i. For example in Hawai’i we have amazing Hawaiian and Asian diaspora food. My cousins in California have taken me to get the best Mexican street tacos I’ve ever had. They won’t want poke or sushi or anything that we can get fresher and better on the island.
What would be the quintessential Colorado cuisine that I’d have to take them to eat? I assume it’s something Southwest-ish with Mexican influence, like green chile? Or maybe something Native American? Local fish or game meat? I’ve most recently lived on the east coast so for example if they were visiting me there it would be Ethiopian, Jamaican, philly style cheesesteaks, etc. Open to any and all suggestions, and if you have a preferred restaurant for the cuisine you recommend I’m open to that too! I’m going to do some testing myself before they visit haha :)
ETA: no food restrictions, but my brothers GF is vegan so if there are any great vegan places that’s nice to add to my list. And while my first choice is something “Colorado” I’m open to anything that’s the opposite of what we’d see every day at home.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Weh yuh born?
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
Put it on my bill
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
