Black people were treated horribly in the US for hundreds of years, and looked down upon as "less than human", and even though MOST of that is behind us now, plenty of the animosity and attitudes and resentment still lingers (and we can understand that). Even the process of giving blacks their freedom was handled very poorly due to the fears of whites, and that has left even more scars. It was wrong, horribly wrong, but it happened in the past and nothing we can do today can change that past.
But black people from outside the US don't have that baggage, and don't see white people with the same suspicion. They haven't been told their whole lives about how they shouldn't trust white people, or that they should feel inferior or superior to them, or they should look up to or down upon them. And most of them don't "act ghetto" or glorify ghetto culture, as many blacks in the US do.
That makes it easier for them to relate to a typical middle-class "white" person, and vice versa, and that means those black women will be easier to find attractive, on average.
I love Caribbean women. nothing like them in this world. and that soca music and spicy food and the accent will drive any man insane
u have ghetto Caribbean girls too but only a few loud mouth ones
I want to marry a Caribbean girl
hmmm that's interesting.i do think that people think islanders are more relaxed, down to earth and friendlier rather then people in metropols like LA and NYC. But I would assume they think that about everyone and not just black women. I think the media, especially American realty shows, portraits black woman as bitchy, jealous and loves drama. So maybe people think most black women in the states are like that cause they have afew in every show but the ones from other countries has a different mentality.
OMG I am from Jamaica. I still live here too and I get that all the time. I don't understand it either, maybe it is because racism isn't here much and everyone just hang with each other. you will come to the Caribbean and see a white guy, a black guy and a Chinese guy sitting under a tree playing dominoes. Just look at Carnival, no one cares about race here.
Good to see another Caribbean person on here
I have many guyanese guy friends. And I currently have one trini friend who I haven't seen in a while...also another really close girlfriend I had from the d.r.
Anyway, there are so cool. I am so cool as well I have a lot of the same culture with them... so they are awesome to me.
I wish I knew more non Americans.
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When you're in Europe -Holland and the UK excepted- most people will suppose you're African (sub Saharian) black, rather than American or Carribean and that's quite different.
The difference isn't your skin, it's your mind , your upbringing.
Colour is only skin deep. From Wikipedia:
The human skin is the outer covering of the body. In humans, it is the largest organ of the integumentary system. most of it is between 2–3 mm (0.10 inch) thick. The amount and distribution of melanin pigment in the epidermis is the main reason for variation in skin color.
Thus beyond those 0.10 inch we're ALL THE SAME.
Culture and education make all the difference.
It can be a VERY big difference: I wouldn't like to be "white trash" or "whyte trash" ( link )
Typical American black women are loud, ghetto, have kids by several men, bad attitudes and weave, and jacked up priorities. Whenever I meet a black woman who is mostly together and polite she is almost NEVER American. If American black women presented themselves better this insulting trend of bashing them wouldn't happen
** statement from an American black woman
I'm half Caribbean (Guyanese) and half African American.
My Caribbean side of the family tends to like white Americans, my African American side either tolerates them or does not like them at all.
Caribbeans haven't been in America long enough to understand the racial history between blacks and whites so they have a softer outlook to it. I notice people are coming down on AAs pretty hard (as usual) but fail to mention that whites aren't innocent either. Many of them have disrespectful attitudes to black people, but black Americans tend not to take their sh*t and whites don't like that. They like their minorities non threatening and docile.
It is not a black or white thing. The typical (not all) American woman is spoiled and does not have her priorities in order and of course many men are idiots too. Caribbean women are gorgeous and might not be as hard to deal with as American. I dated a Jamaican woman but she was Americanized and very difficult, stubborn and was a bad mother. You look great by the way.
caribbean people in general are different than other people. especially people that have lived there a long time
Not to me... I'm from South Florida. Caribbean and South American girls are a large portion of the American girls that live here. That trini accent is definitely something different though. =P
Well, I do love the British accents of black girls, just hearing them melts me lol.
No, they like to believe they are because like most people with African ancestry, they tend to have some form of self hate. Culturally guys may think it's different, but we all look the same.
Yes. They don't have an entitlement mentality or view their men as feckless recreational vehicles.
I have noticed a difference personality wise.
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