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You fit any or all of the following criteria
You don’t live in America
You don’t live in mainland Europe
You live in a place Americans may not consider a “First world country”
You mix your spellings between American and British and you don’t want to choose one or the other because that’s just annoying
Pronounce English words with an accent because that’s just how you say it in your area.
You live in or grew up in the Caribbean
You have suffered the devastation of a hurricane first-hand
You know what it’s like to not have running water and can remain calm.
You speak and/or understand Patois or Papiamentu
You grew up hearing more than one language
You know what it’s like to suffer a power-outage for several hours and people don’t start a panic in the streets.
Power outages are annoying, but they aren’t the end of the world, so you can deal.
You can’t hear Soca music without wanting to dance or sing along, whether you know the words or not.
You see people of different races every single day and no-one gives a damn
You see black people every single day and no-one gives a damn
You are a black person and no-one gives a damn
You see Indian people every single day and no-one gives a damn
You are an Indian person and no-one gives a damn
You see Asian people every single day and no-one gives a damn
You are an Asian person and no-one gives a damn
You see Kalinago people every single day and no-one gives a damn
You are a Kalinago person and no-one gives a damn
You see Spanish/Latino people every single day and no-one gives a damn
You are a Spanish/Latino person and no-one gives a damn
You see white people every now and again and you don’t give a damn
You need to wake up and be in school/Used to wake up and get to school by 7:30 AM at the latest
Have heard names like Kalisha and Shamaki and no-one gave a damn
Have heard names like Yujun and Lifen and no-one gave a damn
Have heard names like Simran and Mahesh and no-one gave a damn
Grew up seeing official documents in English and a second language
Have a non-American passport
Only know a handful of fast-food chains because the rest don’t exist where you live
Live in or are from any of the following:
St. Maarten/Saint Martin
Dominica
Santo Domingo
Trinidad and Tobago
St. Barthelemy
St. Kitts and Nevis
Anguilla
Bonaire
Curaçao
Grenada
Barbados
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Puerto Rico
Jamaica
The Bahamas
Cuba
The Turks and Caicos Islands
Cayman Islands
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Antigua and Barbuda
Montserrat
British Virgin Islands
Guadeloupe
Martinique
St. Lucia
Guyana
Suriname
French Guiana
Venezuela
Aruba
St. Eustatius
Saba
You have family in any of the previously stated places
Have never been outside of the Caribbean
Know what the Netherlands Antilles was without Google-ing it
Find lack of knowledge about the Caribbean annoying
