‘BVIslanders do not accept us & that is the truth’- Latino Belonger
‘The BVI had some part of your whole upbringing, I don’t understand it—and maybe other people share it and maybe they don’t—why the Latino community.... do not embrace the BVI as their true home,” she questioned on the February 26, 2020, edition of the show.
Latinos not accepted by locals
According to one Latino heritage woman, Mrs Maria V. Glasco-Smith, part of the reason lies in how locals see Latinos in the culture of the VI.
“BVIslanders do not accept us, and that is the truth… maybe you do but eighty, ninety per cent of them they don’t consider us to be from here,” she said.
Mrs Glasco-Smith was born in the Dominican Republic but moved to the Virgin Islands at the age of four with parents and siblings where she had her upbringing and schooling; however, she is considered a belonger having some VI lineage.
“We are Spanish in their eyes, so yea I embrace my Spanish heritage and yes I am a proud Latina but let me say this, I am extremely proud to be a Belonger of the British Virgin Islands,” she said.
‘Belongers can be deported’ – Glasco-Smith
According to Glasco-Smith, having watched the struggles of her parents to provide for the family, she had the drive to work harder as a result of moving to the VI and she remains grateful for the opportunities the Territory provided.
“But I cannot just drop being Spanish or celebrating Santo Domingo independence… as a Belonger, you can be deported, so if something happens, guess where I have to go? Back to Santo Domingo,” she said.
Ms Christopher said it remains hurtful to hear Latinos who grow up in the VI speak about not embracing the territory, “You kind of have me a little emotional when you say BVIslanders don’t embrace Spanish people in the BVI,’ she said.
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79 Responses to “‘BVIslanders do not accept us & that is the truth’- Latino Belonger”
How about incest, lazy, faker, ungrateful and so goes in the list. Y'all mighty bvIslander.
My message to her and all of them who feel that way is to reinvent yourself. Get some Botox, a breast lift, implants, liposuction or whatever to build your self esteem because that is how you all sell your image from your country.
BVI just take it as it comes just like any other country
Smh. Ungrateful bunch
Which other country approves 1500 expats at once? Guess the number should have been 15,000; but I bet you still wouldn't be satisfied.
Who approved your entry to BVI? BVISLANDERS
Who business you work for then steal trade secrets to open your own? BVISLANDERS
Who took you at face value when you were only being nice to get Government job and crown land? BVISLANDERS
Who Husbands you tek? BVISLANDERS
Who children yours always harassing in school? BVISLANDERS
Who you harass in the workplace and shake bottle for because you jealous? BVISLANDERS
Who old people you harass for money and land? BVISLANDERS
Who been paying taxes for donkey years for the public parking you taking up to vend? BVISLANDERS
Who history you trying to rewrite to make yourself relevant? BVISLANDERS
Who invite you in feed you and cloth you when yo didn’t have a cent? BVISLANDERS
Who you aim to ensure are excluded from benefiting from a piece of the BVI pie? BVISLANDERS
Blacks are most racist for real and like you all 75% of the BVI population crying lying wolf about BVISLANDERS. Ain’t nothing like the behavior of you against BVISLANDERS when you become legal. THAT IS FACT.
A female of colour with DRHeritage .
Consider the source .
So not feeling these Latino Dom says a whole lot about DR and its folks
Perhaps if Ms Glasco Smith would elighten us about the positive contributions by those from the DR who ,regrettably, are the largest number of expats in the VI, then we could get a different slant on this issue.
I recall only murders of locals, prostitution which is illegal in the VI, trafficking,thiefing,assaultswith machetes and drunkeness and disorder, as their contributions.
But I am also a VIslander and I have a problem with lots of VIslanders. I have a problem with the lazy, incompetent, paranoid, crab-minded ones.
Caribbean legend has it that they are cursed hence their behavioural practices of men thiefing and their women sellin their pudding.
I have the same background as Shavon(spelling) and until I was 18, didn't accept my US heritage - and used it for school purposes ONLY, but if you ask me where I'm from - I say BVI, loud and proud. If you ask me how I afforded school, i was born U.S. period. All my family is from BVI, except a few who have migrated to the US over time.
Where you are born and where are you raised are two different things, and we as a people need to accept that - but I can also understand if both your parents are expatriates, you were born and raised BVI, your household will be raised with cultures of your parents unless that parent(s) also embraces the culture where they now live.
Just my thoughts.
On another note, some persons from the DR have become firm friends with Virgin Islanders - based on mutual trust and respect. Unfortunately, some have left these shores because they themselves did not want to associate with their own and be stereotyped.
That statement is not true. When did the bvi deport a belonger.? Bring proof from talking bull nonsense.
WHAT HAPPEN TO HE?
WHEY HE AT NOW?
I personally like Latinos because they are awesome in bed, could cook and could clean. They know how to make their man here happy while their husband back in home in Santo!
Our local girls here can barely cook chicken and rice, barely can put their foot up before they beg you to put it back down and as you enter their apartment you see clothes throw down all over the place. SMH
Remember some Dominicanos have claim to belongership to islands like St. Kitts, Antigua, Anguilla, Tortola and so forth. Their parents, grandparents went as young men and women to work in the sugar cane industry; most resided in San Pedro de Macoris and were called “Cocolo” by the born there Dominicanos. (How did the term “Cocolo”came about in the DR? From “Tortola”?).
Thus, along with the Haitians they suffered discrimination; they had to learn a little Spanish fast to survive (of course not the Spanish of Madrid “but it’s like wen Dey say we tawk bad.”) Their fore parents suffered in Mingo and they want to appear distinguished here now; coming from a bigger country and speaking Spanish are their forte. Many of us “no habla Espanol.“
So we know that they’re our Spanish Speaking, African brothers and sisters desperately in search of their identity and destiny, and especially when the DR government instituted measures which could restrict their Cocolo fore parents along with the Haitians from acquiring automatic citizenship for themselves and offsprings. Then it should not be the Cocolos who are harassing Haitians in Mingo; they suffer the same humiliation and persecution as the people from the other side of the same island, Hispaniola.
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