Afro-Caribbean and Chinese Caribbeans

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Afro-Caribbean and Chinese Caribbeans

Afro-Caribbean vs. Chinese Caribbeans

Afro-Caribbean, a term not used by West Indians themselves but first coined by Americans in the late 1960s, describes Caribbean people who trace at least some of their ancestry to West Africa in the period since Christopher Columbus' arrival in the region in 1492. Chinese Caribbeans (sometimes Sino-Caribbean) are people of Han Chinese ethnic origin living in the Caribbean.

Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

Afro-Caribbean and Caribbean · Caribbean and Chinese Caribbeans · See more »

Diaspora

A diaspora (/daɪˈæspərə/) is a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic locale.

Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora · Chinese Caribbeans and Diaspora · See more »

Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

Afro-Caribbean and Dutch language · Chinese Caribbeans and Dutch language · See more »

English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

Afro-Caribbean and English language · Chinese Caribbeans and English language · See more »

French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

Afro-Caribbean and French language · Chinese Caribbeans and French language · See more »

Guyanese Creole

Guyanese Creole (Creolese by its speakers, or simply Guyanese) is an English-based creole language spoken by people in Guyana.

Afro-Caribbean and Guyanese Creole · Chinese Caribbeans and Guyanese Creole · See more »

Jamaican Patois

Jamaican Patois, known locally as Patois (Patwa or Patwah) and called Jamaican Creole by linguists, is an English-based creole language with West African influences (a majority of loan words of Akan origin) spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora; it is spoken by the majority of Jamaicans as a native language.

Afro-Caribbean and Jamaican Patois · Chinese Caribbeans and Jamaican Patois · See more »

Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

Afro-Caribbean and Portuguese language · Chinese Caribbeans and Portuguese language · See more »

Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

Afro-Caribbean and Spanish language · Chinese Caribbeans and Spanish language · See more »