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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.
In prior censuses and in 1940, enumerators were instructed to list Mexican Americans as white, perhaps because some of them were of white background (mainly Spanish), many others mixed white and Native American and some of them Native American. [23] The supplemental American Indian questionnaire was back, but in abbreviated form.
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]
American families of Jamaican ancestry (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "American people of Jamaican descent" The following 113 pages are in this category, out of 113 total.
In recent years, many Jamaicans have left New York City for its suburbs, and large Jamaican communities have also formed in many other major cities like Philadelphia (including Delaware and other parts of eastern Pennsylvania), Baltimore, Washington D.C./Central Maryland, Atlanta, Boston, Western NY State (Buffalo and Rochester) and Cleveland.
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It must have been lost as a result of foreign influences brought into Albania by the invaders. [ citation needed ] - ak ( Polish , Ukrainian , Belarusian , Croatian , Slovenian , Slovak , Montenegrin , Sorbian ) See -ák for its Slovak meaning.
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.