Caribs & Arawaks

Trinidad & Tobago performer Caroline Taylor satirically investigates her Amerindian heritage, taking note of the erroneous stories and stereotypes that linger about Caribs and Arawaks in the Caribbean. From "Pack Light" at the New York International Film Festival in 2006

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• trinidad
• tobago
• theatre
• carib
• caribbean
• amerindian
• trini
• caroline
• neisha
• taylor
• performance
• pack
• light

[usfind00]

This is not the way to honor the Taino or Kalinago People. This is making fun of our culture.

[ixoratnt]

@usfind00 Not at all. This is no way makes fun of the culture. But honouring indegenous people isn't the goal here either – rather, it exposes the way that we do not understand our history, and the misinformation that consequently is passed down from generation to generation through our school systems.

[Sariyah7]

This video was very funny, but the historical info was a bit off. But the performance was gr8!

[ixoratnt]

@Sariyah7 Hi Sariyah, thanks for your comments. It's actually a satire, so intends to engage the misrepresentations of what we're taught in (Caribbean) schools with the intention of exposing them as oversimplifications & inaccurate stereotypes. But that's perhaps clearer in the context of the larger piece. Blessings!

[DaTruth2024]

Nice Video. I'm Jamaican-American and it's nice to see videos about Caribbean descended people on YouTube.

[castro198227]

I'm Garifuna. GOD BLESS THE KALINAGO and TAINO!!!!

[killamilla45]

I'm taino and carib and Hispanic. its so good to learn this history

[runtofthelitter120]

im mostly carib/hispanic/indian interesting mix

[shuttakid]

i am 18 yr old trini but i moved to u.s at 14 and my mom is indian trini and dad is african trini. although i only moved to u.s 4 years ago, i kinda forgot a lot about trini so i like watching these videos on youtube and hearing my trini ppl talk.

[supervirtuouswoman]

this is funny.

[jasdeviel]

@jazzgaara14 Well if you really want to learn more, you can start by quit calling them Arawaks because that is an insulting European term that classed the stupid, inferior people who they believed were lower than dogs. The correct term is Taino for Arawaks and Kalinago for Caribs.

[Tarastar1983]

I would say that a lot of Caribbeans are mixed with Arawak and Carib blood. Even if it has been diluted over the yrs and their familes appear black to everyone else. I am from the UK and my family are Caribbean. My grandparents were black mixed with white and Indian (from India). But I would think that further down the line we may have Arawak or Carib blood it may be possible and I wish I could find out for sure.