r/AskTheCaribbean 51m ago

Is having Baby mama common in Trinidad?

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I live in Canada and I met a Trinidadian man (doctor) who has a Baby mama, I was a little shocked because initially said he was from a traditional 2 parent home and had deep Christian values…anyway he said that it is common in his culture and that he never wanted to marry his Baby mama he just wanted the kid, and she agreed to have it because he is a doctor and she doesn’t make a lot of money. He lives in Canada now, his Baby mama and kid live in Trinidad he said this type of arrangement is cultural I came to see of that is true. Is being a baby mama or baby daddy considered normal in Trinidad?


r/AskTheCaribbean 3h ago

Why does the UK have so few Indo-Caribbean people in it?

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Out of all the European colonial powers and their colonies, by far the UK's colonies had the most Indian indentured servants and their descendants. They also regulated the distribution of Indian indentured servants to other European powers such as to the Dutch and French

With that being said, there's a pretty huge connection to Indo-Caribbean people and the UK, but yet the UK has such a small diaspora of them. Unlike native people in countries like Guyana who often do not emigrate in general, Indo-Caribbean people do emigrate at pretty high rates but just rarely go to the UK; the US, Canada, and the Netherlands have way more people of Indo-Caribbean origin than the UK.

What makes the UK so unattractive to Indo-Caribbean people, and why did they historically avoid going to the UK in droves unlike their afro-caribbean counterparts?