How common are non-black carribean Creole English/Patois speakers and natives?

Question

For all you folks from Trinidad,Virgin Islands,Jamaica Etc. I have only been to Belize,and its normal there.And don't say Sean Paul and Yellowmon please,haha! I don't speak it,but I am not black,and some people think that it is wierd that I like to listen to raggae,dancehall,calypso,etc. in addition to salsa, merengue, and raggaeton.

Answer 1

Your choice in music would not be wierd at all if you lived in the Caribbean. People of all races there listen to that stuff. I'm not black either. I grew up in Trinidad. It is the most cosmopolitan of all the islands and race has nothing to do with music taste!

About your language question though. Patois is spoken in the islands which were once French. These would include: Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Dominica. It is a language often described as "broken French" that was spoken by the slaves once upon a time. The white landowners spoke proper French at that time. Since slavery was abolished, those lines of class have eroded away and patois is spoken to some extent by most of the people who live on those islands. The largest percentage of the population happens to be not white since the plantation workers far outnumbered the landowners.

So the answer to your question is: They are not very common at all, even in the French islands where Patois is still spoken.

Answer 2

I'm Creole, and doing re screech on it for my college and also you all must take a look at it for talents. In the fifteenth century within the Spanish and Portuguese West African Colonies and Salve buying and selling publish and to seashores of Portugal and Seville, Spain good earlier than slavery used to be headquartered within the New World. Creole as plenty of combos we nonetheless do not are aware of it all what we're real combined with, except Portuguese the primary, moment the Spaniards, then the French used to be final and of direction West Africa that is what we first began from and discovered extra Germans, Irish, Asian and the record is going on. I'm very pleased with my Native Creole Culture we nonetheless Remain Strong and Rich in Heritage and in History.

Answer 3

In Guadeloupe, French West Indies, where I am from there are a lot of White people and Indian people who speak Creole (patois) because for centuries this dialect has been developping in here. To get in touch with most African people then, people had to be acquainted with Creole.
Until now, some people think it very strange to hear someWhite people speaking Creole , which is supposed to be the language of Black people (and formerly of slaves)

Answer 4

now that is really coincidental - ive been wondering about the patios in the caribbean too - are they screened in or open air or what ??