There Is No Such Place As The "West Indies"(Columbus Day Special)

The confusion started by one man's wrong turn at sea.

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• indies
• indians
• christopher
• columbus

[tonylove16]

When he says "think we are sippin pina coladas on the beach" i get HELLA weak. I can't believe that he meets so many people who think that slavery only happened in America. I don't think i've met anybody like that yet. However, i live in California.

So TheDreamReborn, are you saying that real West Indians are the Indigenous people who were there when Columbus came along?

[TheDreamReborn]

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. They were a new race of people. People fail to understand that. I've been told by many people that "every person in Latin America is of mixed race". When I ask them which races they could only come up with Caucasian, then they start listing Native American tribes which I always point out to them are NOT races. They rarely seem to get it though.

[NeCacaluXuxultic]

You seem to be WAY TOO INTELLIGENT to be from the Americas,,,,where are you from????

[TheDreamReborn]

Thanks. Trinidad & Tobago

[NeCacaluXuxultic]

Really!? FUCK...is the education there really good?..'cause you're intelligent........me...I am a minority in the USA..I try so hard to separate myself from the typical american idiot HAHAHA

[TheDreamReborn]

It's certainly superior to the education system in America but there is room for improvement. It's based upon the British education system. It's so sad that people know that I'm not American based on my intelligence.

I don't think the system is where most of the blame should be placed though. The kids just aren't motivated enough over here.

[Crazii3Compl3xLuV3]

If his day is celebrated, so should Hitler's.

[brennaomi]

you are thinking of this too literally....like we are not proud to be black, asian, white , or east indian, etc. We have created a union of races in the caribbean. This union has produced a unique culture shared by us, west indians. This is why it doesn't matter what our race is or what we call ourselves...

[brennaomi]

what you are saying is literally correct but people from the caribbean are west indians regardless of race....yes it is an incorrect term from the beginning but it still stands today. Caribbean or west indies---we are west indians-----if you don't like this then hey, your opinion.

[hinikunayuki]

Man fuck Christopher Columbus , he stole, not discovered.

[jmp85usa]

I see what you're saying and it's interesting but there are certain things which are indeed uniquely American like baseball. Then there are things which borrow from so many cultures that it would be hard to call it a product of any other culture except American without giving a disertation.

[jmp85usa]

Cultures never overlap? What about something like Rock and Roll which borrowed from many cultures and resulted in an amalgam which is distinct and seperate from it's progenitors? Chuck Berry invented it, borrowed from country, blues, gospel, R&B, and all of the cultures from which those styles of music were derived.

[jmp85usa]

Eventually instead of saying this is a combination of ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO and P we just say it's American. It's what we have today, it's what we have now. Sure it's a bit of a misnomer but it's easier to say American than it is to say United Statesian.

[katlass29]

@TacticusPrime We Are All Of THe HUman race but there are small distinctions between people of different races. I studied anthropology and scitist basically say that race is so complex it would be impossible to identify all the genes variations there fore saying Humans are all of one race. But you can indenitfy someone's "race" from genetics as well, so race does exist but with little mutation to the point where scientist say there are none.

And thats a theory that we are from Africa-not fact.

[pablo1079]

i know where you are coming from.. and it's very frustrating... people in the us don't give a damn about the facts-- they only want to have something to joke about over a beer and seem to be smart.-- i am though truly west indian and african, having both the arawak, portuguese, african, french, and scottish blood runing through my veins...  there is really no hate in me save the hate of not asking first.

[bigcatlife]

well explain this to the arabs who call themselves egyptian

[coffee396]

if you take any "afro-american" and take his DNA there's big chances to find European DNA.