Which City Has The Biggest West Indian Influence? (live, state, place)

[kev0170]

Lol I'm from Barbados and we only consider the English speaking islands West Indian.. Everybody else we consider as Caribbean people.. It's a strange but distinct difference.

[nephi215]

Originally Posted by kev0170

Lol I'm from Barbados and we only consider the English speaking islands West Indian.. Everybody else we consider as Caribbean people.. It's a strange but distinct difference.

So do you consider Hatian people Caribbean but not west Indian?

[PurpleHaze1100]

DC really?

[FloridaPirate355]

Miami and Orlando.

[PurpleHaze1100]

Miami and New York

[tcave360]

Originally Posted by bmoreboy25

DC really?

The adjacent Georgia Avenue neighborhoods such as Petworth, Brightwood Park, Park View, etc. have some West Indian influence, particularly from the Jamaicans, Haitians, Trinis, black Dominicans, etc. The old DC Carnival marched down there for a reason.

Btw, I picked New York.

[JoeTarheel]

The largest proportion of Jamaicans live in New York City which has various of other Caribbean cultural elements such as food and music. There is also a community of Jamaican Americans residing in Philadelphia, Boston, South Florida, Los Angeles, Orlando, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Cleveland, Western New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_American


The largest proportion of Haitians live in South Florida counties and cities such as New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston
Haitian American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


With increased emigration, Dominican diaspora communities have sprouted in New York metro area, New Jersey, Boston metro area, Providence, South Florida, and Philadelphia/Eastern Pennsylvania.[SIZE=2][5][/SIZE][/url]
Smaller waves of emigrants have settled in the metropolitan areas of Orlando, Tampa, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Baltimore, Columbus, Rochester, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Detroit, and New Orleans
Dominican American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[BajanYankee]

Originally Posted by nephi215

So do you consider Hatian people Caribbean but not west Indian?

It's tricky with Haitians. I'd say generally, yes, they are considered West Indians by people from the British West Indies. The Census even considers them West Indians. But they are obviously culturally different so a lot of people won't put them in that category. Haiti is geographically in the Caribbean, but it's not culturally West Indian.

I think Haiti gets a pass because the majority of its citizens are largely of West African descent. I think there's also a lot of respect (for tossing out their colonial masters) and sympathy (for being in a disastrous state) expressed towards the island by West Indians. So there's a certain connection to Haiti even though it's very different from the former British possessions.

[ThomasMatthews]

Can't understand why Miami isn't winning

[kev0170]

Originally Posted by BajanYankee

It's tricky with Haitians. I'd say generally, yes, they are considered West Indians by people from the British West Indies. The Census even considers them West Indians. But they are obviously culturally different so a lot of people won't put them in that category. Haiti is geographically in the Caribbean, but it's not culturally West Indian.

I think Haiti gets a pass because the majority of its citizens are largely of West African descent. I think there's also a lot of respect (for tossing out their colonial masters) and sympathy (for being in a disastrous state) expressed towards the island by West Indians. So there's a certain connection to Haiti even though it's very different from the former British possessions.

Exactly