Haitian Appreciation Thread

[BigMan]

I figures DRs would be the exception.

I think you can gauge cultures from the large ethnic enclaves that exist here. In the tri state alone.....you have perhaps the largest group of DRs outside of DR (Washington Heights)*....one of the largest groups of Haitians outside of Haiti (Flatbush area and parts of Brooklyn) and THE largest group of Costa Ricans outside of CR(Bound Brook,NJ). I've been to all three spots....and if you walked around just recodring audio in the main strips..you could convince people that you are in any of those home countries.

Little Haiti in Miami....for all intents and purposes might as well be Haiti....you could shoot VIDEO there and convince people that it's Haiti.and there's no food you could order that they wouldn't have.

I said in the Taco Bell thread about Cubans in Hialeah...what I'm sayin here....when an immigrant group has the numbers and makes up a majority of a certain area in America, you get a truer sense of what that culture/society is about...the good and the bad.


*Havent been to the Heights in years.....it was all DR back then, at least.

My old stomping grounds shoutout to my ticos

 

[Malik1time]

my parents been telling since i was a kid to buy property in Haiti
might actually do it
maybe a vacation house

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Little Haiti in Brooklyn has work to do. Haitians need to spice the place up like Little Haiti in Miami.

Seems like Haitians in Flatbush only care for their houses and job while Nostrand Ave looks like dark, gloomy and filled with nothing but Haitian barbershops and restaurants.

Gotta put some art on those buildings, add more nice looking nightlife Spots and cultural events out there.


shyt I’m studying chef creole menu since his ass don’t want to open up a chef creole in nyc. Not that chef creole is fully Haitian food anyway lol

 

[UberEatsDriver]

@Dip you have Haitian blood?

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I’m Haitian American. Yankee to the core. A Haitian women had to get me to be into Kompa and I’m still not into it. The food and the history is what I fukk with.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I find it weird that Haitians culture is embraced in Cuba while Cubans in America look down on Haitians.

It’s not weird to me. The white Cubans were in America long before Haitians and the way Haitians entered and the way the media spoke on them probably played a part. Plus as always when a new group enters a territory another group there already will look down on them.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

how well do other Antillean Creole speakers understand Haitian Creole?

also whats a good app to learn it? been thinking of trying to learn Creole or French in addition to Spanish

If I’m not mistaken St Lucians understand Haitians pretty well. Haitians do not understand St Lucians that well.

 

[BigMan]

@Dip you have Haitian blood?

My grandmother is Haitian

 

[AB Ziggy]

I’m Haitian American. Yankee to the core. A Haitian women had to get me to be into Kompa and I’m still not into it. The food and the history is what I fukk with.

Haitian for the good times only.

 

[Neuromancer]

Salute to Haiti for being the first in the fight.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

My grandmother is Haitian
I have relatives from Miragoâne and Port Ah Prince areas

Thought you were fully Jamaica

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Haitian for the good times only.

Oh na I always stated I’m Haitian. I never understood the Haitians who were scared to say it but then again I didn’t grow up in a Haitian area to experience the haters.

 

[BigMan]

Thought you were fully Jamaica

llol people always seem confused on what i am on this site, i'm Jamaican (black and little chinese thrown in) on my dad's side, roots from Aruba, Haiti, and Suriname (black, black, and more black) on my mom's.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

llol people always seem confused on what i am on this site, i'm Jamaican (black and little chinese thrown in) on my dad's side, roots from Aruba, Haiti, and Suriname (black, black, and more black) on my mom's.

Lol when I hear the word Suriname I don’t even think of the word black. Lol but that’s one country I need to explore and French Guyana

 

[BigMan]

Lol when I hear the word Suriname I don’t even think of the word black. Lol but that’s one country I need to explore and French Guyana

Suriname is like Guyana but even more diverse because of the Javanese and Maroons population there
French Guyana has a lot of whites too