#Trinidad And Tobago

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[sayruq]

[ghostshrimpe]

my addition to the miku trend! Miku, but she's from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 i took inspiration from an old tourism ad haha

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[zythania]

a bit late but here's trinidad and tobago limbo miku~

[fyblackwomenart]

Martin Superville -- Caribbean Queen

[folkfashion]

Trinidadian maskers, Trinidad and Tobago, by virtualexpodubai

[thepuppeteer-andthetrashmob]

thought I'd share this here, too (the link) (the tweet)

[omgthatdress]

Trinidad and Tobago!

[a-meh]

Oooooh

[forgedfromlove]

Christmas foods of Trinidad and Tobago: pastelle, sorrel, ponche de crème, black cake, Christmas rice, ham, chow-chow, hops bread, and Peardrax.

Photos by: Peter Jerette, Eat Ah Food, Off the Wheaten Path, This Bago Girl, Cooking with Ria, Foodie Nation, and Uncommon Caribbean.

[allthegeopolitics]

Trinidad and Tobago is redrawing the island’s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to remove references to European colonisation – a move lauded by many in the eastern Caribbean nation.

Explorer Christopher Columbus’s three ships – the Pinta, the Nina and the Santa Maria – will be replaced with the steelpan, a popular percussion instrument that originated on the island.

Prime Minister Keith Rowley first made the announcement on Sunday at a party convention for his governing People’s National Movement to a standing ovation, saying the changes will be made by late September.

“That should signal that we are on our way to removing the colonial vestiges that we have in our constitution,” he said. [...]

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[risarts]

Jamaican carnival miku💛💚🖤

Draw Miku in your culture trend

Carnival miku save me🥺

[bossymarmalade]

After just using the well-known Caribbean phrase "massa day done" as a tag in reference to the sun finally setting on the British Empire, I thought I'd revisit Dr. Eric Williams' famous 1961 speech decrying the appointment of a rich white man to political office as a "feather in the cap" of the party, the speech where the term was solidified in our culture as shorthand for self-determination and independence. And I couldn't stop laughing because it was exactly the way that a certain class of educated West Indian STILL talks to this very day when irritated:

This pack of benighted idiots, this band of obscurantist politicians, this unholy alliance of egregious individualists, who have nothing constructive to say, who babble week after week the same criticisms that we have lived through for five long years, who, nincompoops that they are, think that they can pick up any old book the day before a debate in the Legislative Council and can pull a fast one in the Council by leaving out the sentence or the paragraph or the pages which contradict their ignorant declamations for people like these power is all that matters.

I love this aspect of Caribbean language-ways and how we adhere to that particular era of English that came over on the boats. It's like how the specific form of Bhojpuri spoken by East Indian indentured labourers didn't develop in an Indian context but alongside/blended with other language groups in Trinidad & Tobago, and why our words for things don't scan with Hindi-speakers from the sourceland.

When I moved back to Canada from Trinidad and spoke with other Indian people, sourceland Indians, they never knew "what I was" or what I was saying when I used Trini Hindi. It was a source of embarrassment then, constantly having to explain that we from the diaspora are still Indian and also distinctly individual, but now I love it. My sister nearly physically fought some dude in a kebab shop in England over her identifying as Trini-Canadian rather than South Asian because he said she "wasn't proud of who she was".

We have to tick "South Asian" on forms because there's no space for us and any reference to Caribbean is Afro-Caribbean, but that's not really what I identify as. I'm the granddaughter of those sugar cane plantation workers who were told (in 1926!) "the less education your children have, the better". I'm the daughter of a man who grew up in the plantation barracks where the sugar employers thought it "unnecessary to provide adequate sanitary facilities for their employees, because the workers would not use them".

Massa day done. It's a powerful phrase when you're constantly decolonizing your own identity in the face of a world that isn't aware of what you are.

Massa Day Done, Sahib Day Done, Yes Suh Boss Day Done. - dr. eric williams

[factsbybriggs]

The Steelpan in UK History...

www.factsbybriggs.com

[fyblackwomenart]

Girl with a Fan by Boscoe Holder