@@yvonnekinch6943 there are tons of Bajans who were born abroad with British, American and Canadian passports. He was raised Bajan.

Chris is so sweet.

Bajsian

Haha! Thank you 😊

Thank you!

Love this feedback! I’m glad your children will get to experience your home. Enjoy!

It depends on the location in Barbados. They are white people all about but at your age, either their "servants" did the shopping or it was delivered to their homes. They only visited the town if they had to. Home deliveries was always a big thing in Barbados from back in the 60's maybe earlier. I grew up with white people living all around me and in my school.

Interesting.

There were many more mixed race people decades ago, but they have immigrated to Canada, England & the US for opportunities, schooling & work.

Thank you Ty!

Same!

Glad I could help!

Thank you so much! ☺️

Thank you

Hope you have the best time!

I'll ask Chris if he can share more with you :) Thanks for watching Milly!

Hi there! Thanks so much for watching! Yes we have a Facebook page. If you search “ The Chinese Association of Barbados” you can see a bit about what we do. Also feel free to add me on Facebook as well “facebook.com/christopher.lee.7946281“

I feel like the Asians here are a very close knit community like the other races. 94 percent of Barbados is black about 3 mixed, 2 white and 1 is just categorised as other. They'll probably make themselves known to you at some point.....

I think all the communities are close knit, even Black communities. Integration doesn’t seem like it’s something that comes naturally for any of the various ethnicities, but I think that’s more so a human thing rather than an ethnicity thing.

Thanks for watching Cheriann! I’m on LinkedIn, you can send me a message there and we’ll see what we can make happen 😊

He doesn’t! I’ll try to convince him to start one. 😊

Thanks for commenting! Yes, it was mostly the black locals who assumed I was a foreigner. White and other bajans weren’t as interactive.

Thanks for your feedback Loraine!

aka bimshire

@@yvonnekinch6943 Give a comparison. Colonialism has long been dead and gone but the Britishness remains. Open your eyes

Hi Terris 🙋🏾‍♀️ Liberian visitors don’t need a visa to visit. You can stay for up to 90 days as a tourist.

Terris Weamie not many libraries here the Oistins branch has been closed for some years!! No visa

Hi, thank you! Nah, I don’t live in Barbados anymore

@@jamierocke oh what a pity

Bringing a pet shouldn’t be an issue. I would say the challenge would be finding an apartment that allows pets in the interim while you find a home to purchase. For some reason apartments aren’t very pet friendly, so make sure to make this know to the rental agent or check for “pet friendliness” on the listing. Good luck!

@@jamierocke Thanks for confirming...!!! I have contacted many of the condo/apartment/house estate agents (for long-term rentals in my price range) and they seem seriously resistant to pets --- even after I offered a substantial pet deposit.

I’m sorry that it’s been difficult. Hopefully you find somewhere soon. Depending on where you’d be open to live, and if you’ll have transportation, there are many affordable full homes on the East and South Coast. That way you’ll have a yard and be able to have a pet. Try www.cariblist.com.

What's the process for relocation

Hey! This is the only platform I have... not on FB, Insta Snap, etc.

So only Black Bajans are allowed to talk about life in Barbados?

And that depends on class does it not?

@@jamierocke No of course not anyone can talk about Barbados😄

I don’t even understand why she this Asian man,he is not atypical Bajan… he wasn’t even born-in Barbados.. wrong message.

Making friends can be easy if you join social groups. Because of Covid it’s kind of hard, but there are still organizations and groups that organize events like hikes, charity drives, movie limes etc. check out whatsoninbarbados.com. A lot of groups post their activities there. Good luck!

Hi there. So I’m Caribbean Chinese . There has been a Chinese community in the region since the 1800s. The Caribbean is a melting pot of people and cultures. If you come you will see.

@@chineygallis you said you were born in CANADA SO YOU ARE CANADIAN RIGHT.

Yes there is a Asian community in Trinidad but not bim

However welcome to my country we are happy to have you and do enjoy your stay you are a guest and all visitors are welcome to Barbados .

@@zolakhadijah7634 In many commonwealth countries (former British colonies) "dual" citizenship and multi-nationalism exists. So taking Chris as an example, He was born in Canada making him a Canadian national by birth. However, one of his parents is a Barbadian national. Barbados' law on nationality provides that if one of your parents or grandparents is Barbadian you can be considered a Barbadian national even though you are born outside of Barbados. In that regard Chris is Canadian by birth and Barbadian by descent. Using the example of another young lady who i heard of, she has 4 or 5 nationalities. This lady was born in the UK to a Barbadian mother and Jamaican father (Jamaica's law on nationality mirrors that of Barbados) this young lady had 3 nationalites at birth; British cuz she was born in England and Jamaincan and Barbadian because of her parents. Then while still a toddler the family moved to the USA and she gained US citizenship by naturalization. Finally (I stand corrected) but i think when i met her she was married and thus gained her 5th nationality through marriage. In all the young lady is the holder of 5 passports. Finally I would add that in the Caribbean identity is defined in 3 ways; national identity, cultural identity and ethnic identity. Using American hopeful for VP of the USA, Kamala Harris, Kamala's national identity is American because she was born in the USA (I am not sure if she applied for Jamaican citizenship but as her father is Jamaican she could if she wanted to), her cultural identity is Indian because she was by and large raised by her East Indian mother as opposed to being raised with her Jamaican father and finally ethnically she is a mixture of Est Indian (from her mother's side) and African and European (from her Jamaican father's side). The prescence of many different people's groups in the Caribbean means that we look at the concepts of nationality and identity a bit differently that other countries in the world. I hope I helped.