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Barbadians, more commonly known as Bajans (pronounced / ˈ b eɪ dʒ ən z / BAY-jənz), are people who are identified with the country of Barbados, by being citizens or their descendants in the Bajan diaspora. The connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural.
The Sama-Bajau include several Austronesian ethnic groups of Maritime Southeast Asia.The name collectively refers to related people who usually call themselves the Sama or Samah (formally A'a Sama, "Sama people"); [5] or are known by the exonym Bajau (/ ˈ b ɑː dʒ aʊ, ˈ b æ-/, also spelled Badjao, Bajaw, Badjau, Badjaw, Bajo or Bayao).
Barbadian (or Bajan) Americans are Americans of full or partial Barbadian heritage. The 2000 Census recorded 53,785 US residents born on the Caribbean island [ 2 ] 52,170 of whom were born to non-American parents [ 3 ] and 54,509 people who described their ethnicity as Barbadian. [ 4 ]
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There are reports of a growing Indo-Bajan diaspora originating from Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and India. Mostly from southern India and other Indian states, Indo-Bajans are growing in size but smaller than the equivalent communities in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Guyana. Hinduism is one of Barbados' growing religions.
Visayans (Visayan: mga Bisaya; Error: {}: unrecognized language tag: bisaˈjaʔ) or Visayan people are a Philippine ethnolinguistic family group or metaethnicity native to the Visayas, the southernmost islands of Luzon and a significant portion of Mindanao. They are composed of numerous distinct ethnic groups, many unrelated to each other.
BEIJING (Reuters) -The Philippines and China exchanged accusations of intentionally ramming coast guard vessels in disputed waters of the South China Sea on Saturday, the latest in an escalating ...
By the mid-1670s, there were approximately 33,000 enslaved people and 21,500 Europeans (both indentured and free). [ 8 ] Due to the increased implementation of slave codes , which created differential treatment between Africans and the European workers and ruling planter class , the island became increasingly unattractive to poor whites .