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White Jamaicans are Jamaican people whose ancestry lies within the continent of Europe, most notably Great Britain and Ireland. [2] There are also communities of people who are descendants of people who arrived from Spain [3], Germany [4] [5], Portugal [3] [6], France [6] [7] and to a lesser extent the Netherlands [8] [5] and other West European countries.
The naming customs of Hispanic America are similar to the Spanish naming customs practiced in Spain, with some modifications to the surname rules.Many Hispanophones in the countries of Spanish-speaking America have two given names, plus like in Spain, a paternal surname (primer apellido or apellido paterno) and a maternal surname (segundo apellido or apellido materno).
White Caribbean or European Caribbean is the term for people who are born in the Caribbean whose ancestors are from Europe or people who emigrated to the Caribbean from Europe and had acquired citizenship in their respective Caribbean countries. White Caribbean people include:
Lewis Hutchinson, Scottish immigrant to Jamaica; owned a castle; one of Jamaica's first known serial killers; Colin Powell, American general, of Scottish Jamaican parentage [3] [4] Mary Seacole, nurse during the Crimean War; her father was a Scottish soldier; Gil Heron, Jamaican football player; Gil Scott-Heron, late American soul and jazz poet
Wealth or economic power in Jamaica is disproportionately held by the White Jamaicans, Chinese Jamaicans and the Afro-European (or locally called the Brown Man or Browning Class) - i.e. despite being a minority group(s) (less than 25% of the country's population) controls most of the country's wealth. [20] [21]
Irish diaspora, White Jamaican Irish people in Jamaica or Irish Jamaicans , are Jamaican citizens whose ancestors originated from Ireland . If counted separately, Irish people would be the second-largest reported ethnic group in Jamaica, after Afro-Jamaicans .
The original Indentured labourers arriving in Jamaica during the mid to late 19th century mostly did not have surnames back in India. Once arriving in Jamaica, in order to assimilate easier into Jamaican society, they often took Anglo/British originated family names due to those being the majority in the country.
The Caribbean island nation of Jamaica was a British colony between 1655 and 1962. More than 300 years of British rule changed the face of the island considerably (having previously been under Spanish rule, which depopulated the indigenous Arawak and Taino communities [6]) – and 92.1% of Jamaicans are descended from sub-Saharan Africans who were brought over during the Atlantic slave trade. [6]