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	Indo-Trinidadian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trinidadians who are descended from the indigenous people of the region are known as Caribs or Amerindians.
		The Bhojpuri-Hindi, Urdu and Tamil languages of their ancestors have largely been lost, although a number of these words have entered the Trinidadian vernacular.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indo-Trinidadian (406 words)

	Indians in new worlds
		Trinidadian politics has continuously been dominated by blacks since the 1950s, and Trinidadian national identity is closely linked with cultural institutions associated with the blacks.
		The dougla, in Trinidadian discourse, is a person with one black and one Indian parent; the cultural dougla would thus be a person whose identity encompasses aspects of cultural Indianness as well as cultural blackness.
		In the Trinidadian context, this takes on the form of Indian revitalisation because the dominant cultural idioms are associated with blacks, and because Trinidadian nationalist symbolism, unlike the Mauritian "pluralist" nationalism, is associated with the blacks (see Eriksen 1991a, 1991b).
	folk.uio.no /geirthe/Indians.html (7899 words)

	Kevin Baldeosingh - My Secret Identity
		"Trinidadian" refers only to what is indigenous to our society, from steelband to doubles, soca to chutney, Carnival to Hosay, wining to steupsing - in other words, cultural items that have evolved from ancestral traits to become definably Trini.
		Thus, every person who was born and bred in Trinidad must be primarily Trinidadian, no matter how self-consciously they try to be modified by ancestral harking.
		Whatever is purely African, Indian, European, Chinese, Syrian or whatever is, by definition, not Trinidadian.
	www.caribscape.com /baldeosingh/ethnic/sober/2000/identity.html (779 words)

	Tuesday
		Even so, Afro-Trinidadians have more readily seen themselves as Trinidadian than many Indos, especially Hindus.
		To assume that the average Trinidadian’s easy-going ways makes him or her immune to racism (outside party politics) is to embrace a dangerous naiveté.
		And, although Indian food has been part of mainstream Trinidadian cuisine for over four decades now, it is only in relatively recent times that Indian music has emerged as an indigenous form which draws on both its ancestral and local roots.
	www.newsday.co.tt /stories.php?article_id=26754 (501 words)

	Afro-Trinidadian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Both Afro- and Indo- prefixes do not sufficiently describe ethnicity in the Caribbean, much less in cosmopolitan Trinidad and Tobago, due to the recent date of historic arrival of most of its citizens and the constant changes and influences happening on both os the Islands.
		Unofficially, the language spoken is a dialect of English called Trinidadian Creole English among Afros and the other Ethnic groups.
		The second largest (although their numbers are a distant second) number of Afro Trinidadians follow Islam, with more of them following Sunni Islam and the rest Shia Islam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afro-Trinidadian (464 words)

	Patrick Manning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His party mainly draws on the support of Trinidadians of African origin.
		He is the leader of the People's National Movement, which won 20 of the 36 seats in the parliamentary elections of October 2002.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Patrick_Manning (124 words)

	Liming in Trinidad, The Art of Doing Nothing - Thomas Hylland Eriksen
		Whenever Trinidadians talk of their "national culture" or something supposedly "typically Trinidadian", they would never have in mind the Indo-Trinidadian villages scattered among the sugarfields of Caroni, or the remote fishing villages up north, or even the economically important oilfields in the south-west.
		In black urban Trinidadian society, it is common to contrast values of respectability with values of reputation; discipline and obedience are contrasted with individual idiosyncracy; the careerism in the labour market is contrasted with the egalitarian practices of the rumshop; frugality is contrasted with hedonistic joy, and so on.
		A shared value in male, urban Trinidadian culture is the notion that too much pressure is an evil to be avoided; in other words, that it is virtuous and pleasant for an individual to be in charge of one's own life to the extent that nobody takes decisions on one's behalf.
	www.skettel.com /liming (6963 words)

	Post Report
		Trinidadian society is a vibrant and unique mixture of races and national origins, with the two largest groups being of African and of Indian descent.
		Trinidadians are generally friendly, and Americans are welcomed at the many fetes that occur throughout the year.
		Trinidadian women are generally smartly dressed no matter what dress is specified by the invitation.
	foia.state.gov /MMS/postrpt/print_pr_View_All.asp?cntryID=147§ion=&print=true&c_ID=&p_id=&s_ID= (14439 words)

	Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Both the PDP and the POPPG had achieved electoral support by appealing to the Indo-Trinidadian and Afro-Trinidadian working classes, but the rise of the PNM split the Afro-Trinidadians away from the POPPG.
		By appealing to Sanatanist Hindus on religious and racial grounds, the DLP was able to entrench itself among Hindu Trinidadians, but the race-based appeal of the 1961 election campaign alienated the non-Indian middle class elements.
		The centrist wing was led by Vernon Jamadar, the radical wing by Stephen Maharaj and the conservative wing by Lionel Seukaran and Ashford Sinanan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Labour_Party_(Trinidad_and_Tobago) (2287 words)

	Encyclopedia: Afro-Trinidadian
		It is imporant to note that both Afro- and Indo- prefixes/appelations do not sufficiently describe ethnicity in the Caribbean, much less in cosmopolitan Trinidad and Tobago, due to the recent date of historic arrival of most of its citizens.
		Some members of the Afro-, Indo- and other communities also refer to them as "creoles", both colloquially and pejoratively,even though the term strictly descibes those who are of both Afro-Caribbean and French European descent.
		These people were brought here in the latter half of the 18th century.In the earlier part of the 19th century a smattering of these Afro-Trinidadians were also free slaves directly from the African continent, South America(especially Brazil) and from the Southern United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Afro_Trinidadian (449 words)

	Manas: The Indian Diaspora, At Home in Trinidad
		But it is the prevalence of "curry" in Trinidadian food that impresses, and in most respects Indo-Trinidadian food bears an astonishing similarity to certain varieties of Indian food.
		Though many Afro-Trinidadians will not admit it, even their own main meals are now predominantly Indian in origin, for alongside callooloo there is curried goat, and roti is easily the most popular food in Trinidad.
		Tandoori cooking remains unknown among Indians in Trinidad and the Caribbean, and curry is made with a curry powder, rather than by mixing a curry paste.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/Diaspora/athome.html (752 words)

	AAS Abstracts: South Asia Session 151
		Indo Trinidadians have been struggling for nearly 150 years with the negotiation of their identities in the poly ethnic environment of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
		One subtle and non discursive method by which Indo Trinidadians give voice to their social selves is through the medium of ritual, both private and public.
		Through looking at the emerging rhetorics that surround the performative milieu of Indo Trinidadians, I wish to show how the trope of tradition is used to justify certain public displays that meet opposition from other sectors of Trinidadian society.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1995abst/southasi/sases151.htm (1628 words)

	Indo-Trinidadian
		Trinidadians que la pendiente de la gente indígena de la región se conoce como caribs o Amerindians.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/in/IndoTrinidadian.htm (104 words)

	Shani Mootoo
		In the Upside-downness of the World as it Unfolds, an Indo-Trinidadian narrator encounters two white women who patronise Indian restaurants and temples, and sprinkle their conversation with Hindi words.
		Trinidadian Indians are far removed in time from India, and as the narrator notes, their culture retains little that is "authentically" Indian.
		In contrast, they fawn over her girlfriend, whom she notes, in the dialect of Trinidadian English, is "pretty fuh so" because she "so femme dat she redundant".
	www.emory.edu /ENGLISH/Bahri/Motoo.html (1304 words)

	Van der Veer
		Steven Vertovec, in the next chapter, also writes about Trinidad, but his focus is on the larger Indo-Trinidadian community, the Hindus, who he compares with Hindus in Britain.
		The differing role of class among Indos and Afros is also brought into the analysis, which nicely brings out some of the intricacies and dilemmas created at the intersection between different criteria for belonging and identity.
		The latter, few in number and often considered "inauthentic" for being converts and not "rooted", have accordingly re-fashioned their origin myth by pointing to the fact that many of the African slaves brought to Trinidad were Muslims.
	folk.uio.no /geirthe/Vanderveer.html (932 words)

	callaloo.cfm
		Yet, most Indo-Trinidadians will emphatically insist on their Trinidadian identity.
		My book explores why Indian and Trinidadian identities have historically developed as mutually exclusive identities, and the strategies through which Indo-Trinidadian cultural activists attempt to redefine Trinidadian national identity to include Indian elements.
		Trinidadians often use the local West Indian dish "callaloo" as a metaphor for the nation.
	www.asiasource.org /society/callaloo.cfm (1992 words)

	TT: A nation of strangers
		The Indo Trinidadian's "pluck" derives from jingoism, which the Afro Trinidadian unfortunately lacks at this point in time.
		Ironically, our Indo counterparts who seem to be more vocal, have benefited the most from the largesse, emanating from our oil/gas boom.
		It is for us to embellish our unique identity of "same-ness," as Trinidadians and endeavour to obliterate our "petty differences" — all in the name of peace, harmony and prosperity.
	www.trinidadandtobagonews.com /forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/880 (624 words)

	Jahajee Desi
		“I am Indo- Trinidadian and am from Central Trinidad where most of these kidnappings have been taking place and it also scares me to think that my family are possibly targets because most of them have business and the government is doing nothing about it, the police themselves have hands in it.
		Trinidadians living abroad have spoken out openly about their fear of visiting their home country, their concerns about the safety of relatives, and their disgust at out of control crime and kidnapping.
		This is because, for reasons of culture and the immigrant ethos, Indo groups often place a higher value on educational attainment.
	www.jahajeedesi.com /index.php?page=ccdsj (3126 words)

	&prd=fline&
		Indo-Trinidadians are an integral part of the island society and Arrival Day, commemorating the day the sailing ship Fatel Rozak sailed into Port of Spain harbour in May 1845, is a national holiday.
		A Trinidadian observer said: "Elections are a nine-day wonder, and all kind of ghosts are exorcised during elections." Cricket, calypso and carnivals are the three national interests in Trinidad, and perhaps it is time to go back to them instead of potentially divisive politics.
		Social melding has taken place over the years and Trinidadian society is now a mix of African and Indian influences.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20021122001305600.htm&date=fl1923/&prd=fline& (1521 words)

	Singh - THE INDO-TRINIDADIAN FAMILY IN TRANSITION
		Under rural farming conditions, Indo-Trinidadian social structure was reconstituted along lines remarkably similar to village life in India, and it supposedly exhibited the same kind of functional integration, for instance, in the relationship between caste and marriage, agriculture and family organization, inheritance patterns, and paternal authority (Nevadomsky, 1982:111).
		The post-indenture period and its attendant social, economic, and political developments brought with it some radical transformations in Trinidadian society that impacted strongly on the social structure of the Indo-Trinidadian family.
		These assumptions may have been true during the initial entry into Trinidadian society, but contemporary Indo-Trinidadian family organization does not lend itself to phenomena such as child marriages, or the perpetuation of caste endogamy through marriage.
	www.saxakali.com /indocarib/sojourner4.htm (5714 words)

	PrinterFriendly page - Betraying a People's Trust
		Ashamed to have been partly responsible for foisting him on the country, ashamed of being Indo-Trinidadian ("look a t'iefing Indian dey!"), ashamed of being Trinidadian, period.
		Today, in the face of overwhelming evidence that he presides over a gang of bandits, a few of them inside his Cabinet, but mostly outsiders who are even more powerful than his ministers, I feel ashamed.
	www.triniview.com /selfnews/printnews.cgi?newsid997022609,8993,.shtml (107 words)

	GENUINE APPRECIATION VERSUS TOLERANCE OF CULTURE
		Caroni represents the world of the Indo Trinidadian and Laventille the world of the Afro Trinidadian.
		Basdeo Panday had his moment of enlightenment when he discovered the worlds of the Afro and Indo Trinidadian.
		This is what he said in travelling to Laventille in 1989: "As I drove up these hills, I began to experience something which was unbelievable.
	www.landofsixpeoples.com /news401/nc403294.htm (811 words)

	South Asian Diasporas
		Recent decades have seen education and political participation help the Indo-Trinidadian population to integrate into mainstream Trinidadian society.
		But there still exist exclusive ethnic enclaves in certain pockets of Trinidadian society, which was made possible by the presence of Indian women from the very beginning.
		It also made racial mixture with other groups--particularly the Afro-Trinidadians--less likely, and which often threw up situations of resistance and resentment.
	www.himalmag.com /99Dec/poonamma.htm (620 words)

	~trinidad~
		Cultural organizations strove to articulate and develop a Trinidadian literary, poetic, and artistic movement based on their historical and social experience.
		It is not only through the Carnival that a Trinidadian aesthetic was being expressed.
	members.tripod.com /~StarLitez/trin13.html (314 words)

	The Trinidad Guardian -Online Edition Ver 2.0
		The Weekly reported diligently on the activities of the Mahatma Gandhi, and his exploits in the mother country became a primary influence on the Indo Trinidadian for greater representation.
		A new book, a groundbreaking piece of scholarship, Finding a Place - Indo Trinidadian Literature just landed on my desk in time for South Asian Heritage Month.
		It recognised the existence of numerous literary societies and nurtured dozens with literary pretensions, spreading “the disease of writing.” One of its determined journalists, Seepersad Naipaul, father of the Nobel laureate, was able to move to a national publication, the first Indian to do so.
	www.guardian.co.tt /archives/2003-05-27/featurestory3.html (917 words)

	TriniView.com - Narrating the Nation: Naming the Land
		However, Cazabon was the first Trinidadian to capture the rhythmic lifestyles of Trinidad in his landscape and portraits.
		It is really surprising how uninformed even Trinidadians are regarding their own country.
		In a sketch called "Drumming," captured the Afro-Trinidadian (he called them Negroes) in all of his rhythmic beauty.
	www.triniview.com /narrating.htm (2944 words)

	trinicenter.com WINFORD JAMES Ah, Carlos Boy
		The matter of electing a deputy political leader in the UNC has turned out to be a contest between the party's boast of ethnic inclusiveness and the party's reflex of Indo dominance and control.
		And if he wins, the hardline forces of Indo dominance will see red, er, black, and will seek to destabilise the party.
		In any event, it will take a special kind of politics to redress the balance, whatever balance there was in the first place.
	www.trinicenter.com /winford/03062001.htm (466 words)

	wk9classoutlines
		His father was probably the first Indo Trinidadian fiction writer — and he was also a journalist.
		The Mystic Masseur, however, is widely seen as satirizing Ganesh and Trinidadian society by revealing the large gaps between modern and English realities and conceptions and their manifestations or adaptations in Trinidad.
		We must also consider that this is a book — a book written by a Trinidadian and about a Trinidadian.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/rosenber/lit4188fall2003/wk9classoutlines.html (3784 words)

	Bottom in de Road: Gender and Sexuality in Calypso
		The middle-class Trinidadians of the late 19th century (especially the white ones) had a great fear of “vulgarity,” although the jammette carnival was probably not a great deal more explicit than what goes on in Carnival today.
		Trinidadians harbor both a strong sense of spirituality, and a powerful urge toward sexuality.
		There are many such words in Trinidadian slang, such as “dingolay,” whose precise meaning is less important than the feeling it carries — a sort of transactional onomatopoeia.
	www.africaresource.com /proudflesh/issue3/dikobe.htm (8750 words)

	Durban, August 2000
		This fifth phase of intensified socio-economic adaptation and national integration of Trinidadian Indians was so to speak topped in the political sphere: In 1995, the Indian and Hindu Basdeo Panday became Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
		Exactly in its 150th year of presence, a member of the century-long down-trodden segment of Trinidadian society was voted to fill the most prestigious position in society.
		The so-called 'Trinidadian temples' were styled in their architectural form along Christian churches.
	www.uni-bremen.de /~mbaumann/lectures/durb-dia.htm (5022 words)

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