Ri. 🇬🇩

Fifteen Kalinago chiefs walked into a meeting with the British and French empires in 1660 and walked out with both sides agreeing the island was theirs. Their descendants still live there today. You just watched some of them dance. The Kalinago are the only native group in the Eastern Caribbean still around from before Columbus. Almost every other native group in the region was wiped out by European disease, slavery, displacement, or war. The Kalinago survived because they made Dominica too expensive to conquer. They had the land on their side. Dominica is mountainous and wild, full of dense rainforest. Kalinago warriors raided European ships and ambushed anyone who tried to land on the coast. After nearly two centuries of failed invasions, both empires finally gave up. They signed a treaty making Dominica officially Kalinago land. That deal lasted more than a hundred years. When Britain finally took the island in 1763, the Kalinago kept the rough east coast. They are still there. In 1903, Britain officially marked out the 3,700-acre territory, roughly six square miles. About 3,000 Kalinago live there today in eight small villages. The whole area runs by Kalinago rules. The land is shared and can only be sold to someone of Kalinago descent. Every five years, the Kalinago vote for their own chief and a six-member council to run the territory. Police based in Salybia keep order. They send their own representative to Dominica's parliament. Two Kalinago women lead Dominica today. Sylvanie Burton became the country's first female and first Kalinago president in October 2023. A year later, Anette Sanford was sworn in as the first female Kalinago chief in almost 400 years. The Kalinago's main traditional dance group is called Karifuna. The traditions they keep alive survived Spanish ships, French plantations, British soldiers, and Hurricane Maria, the 2017 storm that ripped the roof off almost every house in the territory.

The fact that Alkaline started Gyal Good like that is actually quite alarming. I’ve never actually given it thought until now.

@Reenie___ Yeaaa exactly.

@ChendGolden This is how certain communities in London own multiple properties . They’ll buy the property next door and knock through walls. Everyone gets a corner. Community living of this kind can benefit everyone if done right.

I “moved out” at 27 after investing in property with family to raise capital and I’d move right back to be financially free. I’m not competing with the internet. You people are forever watching the next man.

Brooooooooooo

Anyway meme watch Speed’s stream. I been saying I wanna go to Guadeloupe and Martinique.

Zoe knows what to do to get people talking about her again. I’ve deeped her game.

Exactly. You give them wings now they’re brave.

where zoe does even get money to pay for the internet she does use to spew chupidness eh boy??? first vagrant in history to have unlimited data steups🫩🫩

Nah this Zoe creature irritates me every time I see her face. Be quiet man.

Also why does she peer down at the camera like that. Like there’s a stiff piece of metal in her neck back. Kmt.

Why do white people like to insert themselves. They r don’t need to consider this scenario because it’s wholly irrelevant. Is it cause there’s another content creator about to take up the shine in JA, or?

But many of those cultures exist within the UK. Lots of extended families make it work and it doesn’t impact their social development. Theres a lot to be said about how we view the idea of ‘living at home’ and the individualistic mindset that’s encouraged here.

@Reenie___ Also I think it’s something about outgrowing the house itself. Maybe if we banded together like other cultures and pooled resources we could afford a larger home for us all. And still spread living costs. Jus a thought 🤷🏽‍♀️

@ChendGolden These ppl love to chat poop. It’s expensive out here. Stay at your mother or father’s house if you can. Invest in it so you can spread the costs and share the wealth. If my parents didn’t drive me mad when we are under the same roof I’d move back in a heartbeat.

People have learned a few psychological buzzwords on social media,like "gaslighting," "narcissist," "boundaries," and "toxic", and now they use them to run away from normal human conflict. Sometimes your partner isn't a "toxic narcissist violating your boundaries"; sometimes they are just annoyed, having a bad day, and you are actually the one who was wrong. We have weaponized therapy language to ensure we never have to apologize or compromise.

I just don’t like how hormones impact your mood. Why can’t they just do what they need to do and leave your temperament alone.

I’m gonna leave that job.

The more I engage with capitalism, the more and more disdain I have. The rush to show and prove your independence and struggle (because in this economy, you will) is abysmal. Get me out man.

What about intergenerational cultures? Where it’s the norm for people to ‘live at home’? Are they developmentally and socially inept too?

I’m not surprised. If I’m honest i see it as pretty much the same as giving babies box juice. But I know I’m alone with that one so lemme just scroll.