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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== The West Indies ===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== The West Indies ===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[West Indies]] is a melting pot of a wide variety of races and ethnic groups. The population is a distinct blend of people of majority [[West Africa<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|West African</del>]] ancestry. These Africans arrived in the West Indies during the [[Atlantic slave trade|Trans Atlantic Slave Trade]] in the 16th century, but due to living conditions being inadequate for many, the West Indies as a whole imported around half of all slaves arriving from West and Central Africa. However there is a significant minority of people of East Asian, Middle Eastern, European]] and especially South Asian descent, who outnumber Sub-Saharan descended people in certain places such as on the island of Trinidad in [[Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad & Tobago]] and in [[Guyana]]. [[Indo-Caribbeans|South Asians]] arrived as indentured servants when slavery was widely abolished across the West Indies during the 1800s. However the population of South Asians mostly reside in the English speaking parts of the West Indies, as the British at the time were in control of India ( [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]] ). [[White Caribbeans|Europeans]] in the West Indies mostly descend from the original European colonialists and plantation owners, who decided to settle in the area. As with most of the New World, The West Indies are also home to many [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Amerindians]] such as the [[Taíno|Taino]] and [[Kalinago]]. Though these communities on their own have all but been wiped out, there exists groups of people who live in the interior of the West Indies many islands, who are descended of African slaves who ran away into the interior of the islands they were on. These Africans met up with the local natives and created unique cultures such as the [[Maroons]] and the [[Garifuna]]. The Garifuna were originally from [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and The Grenadines]], however the British shipped the majority of them to [[Roatán|Roatan]], an island near [[Honduras]]. Due to the West Indies region being carved up by many different European powers (namely British, French, Spanish and Dutch), some regions may have a more distinct culture than its surrounding regions. E.g. [[Haiti]] being a nation of mostly West African descent, which was previously a French colony, that speaks a french based [[Haitian Creole]], shares the island of [[Hispaniola]] with the [[Dominican Republic]], which has more in common with [[Cuba]] and [[Puerto Rico]], which all speak Spanish, and were all original colonised by the Spanish. The same goes for [[Jamaica]], which despite being in the [[Greater Antilles|Greater Antillies]], has more in common with the English speaking countries of the [[Lesser Antilles]], [[The Bahamas]], [[Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad & Tobago]], [[Belize]] and Guyana due to the British having a higher Historical presence in those regions. The West Indies in fact has the 3rd largest [[African diaspora|African Diaspora]] outside of Africa after the [[United States]] and [[Brazil]].<ref>Walton Look Lai, ''Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918'' (2004) [https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/1783/indentured-labor-caribbean-sugar online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511001751/https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/1783/indentured-labor-caribbean-sugar |date=2023-05-11 }}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[West Indies]] is a melting pot of a wide variety of races and ethnic groups. The population is a distinct blend of people of majority [[West Africa]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">n </ins>ancestry. These Africans arrived in the West Indies during the [[Atlantic slave trade|Trans Atlantic Slave Trade]] in the 16th century, but due to living conditions being inadequate for many, the West Indies as a whole imported around half of all slaves arriving from West and Central Africa. However<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>there is a significant minority of people of East Asian, Middle Eastern, European]] and especially South Asian descent, who outnumber Sub-Saharan descended people in certain places such as on the island of Trinidad in [[Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad & Tobago]] and in [[Guyana]]. [[Indo-Caribbeans|South Asians]] arrived as indentured servants when slavery was widely abolished across the West Indies during the 1800s. However the population of South Asians mostly reside in the English speaking parts of the West Indies, as the British at the time were in control of India ( [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]] ). [[White Caribbeans|Europeans]] in the West Indies mostly descend from the original European colonialists and plantation owners, who decided to settle in the area. As with most of the New World, The West Indies are also home to many [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Amerindians]] such as the [[Taíno|Taino]] and [[Kalinago]]. Though these communities on their own have all but been wiped out, there exists groups of people who live in the interior of the West Indies many islands, who are descended of African slaves who ran away into the interior of the islands they were on. These Africans met up with the local natives and created unique cultures such as the [[Maroons]] and the [[Garifuna]]. The Garifuna were originally from [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and The Grenadines]], however the British shipped the majority of them to [[Roatán|Roatan]], an island near [[Honduras]]. Due to the West Indies region being carved up by many different European powers (namely British, French, Spanish and Dutch), some regions may have a more distinct culture than its surrounding regions. E.g. [[Haiti]] being a nation of mostly West African descent, which was previously a French colony, that speaks a french based [[Haitian Creole]], shares the island of [[Hispaniola]] with the [[Dominican Republic]], which has more in common with [[Cuba]] and [[Puerto Rico]], which all speak Spanish, and were all original colonised by the Spanish. The same goes for [[Jamaica]], which despite being in the [[Greater Antilles|Greater Antillies]], has more in common with the English speaking countries of the [[Lesser Antilles]], [[The Bahamas]], [[Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad & Tobago]], [[Belize]] and Guyana due to the British having a higher Historical presence in those regions. The West Indies in fact has the 3rd largest [[African diaspora|African Diaspora]] outside of Africa after the [[United States]] and [[Brazil]].<ref>Walton Look Lai, ''Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918'' (2004) [https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/1783/indentured-labor-caribbean-sugar online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511001751/https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/1783/indentured-labor-caribbean-sugar |date=2023-05-11 }}</ref></div></td></tr>
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