#Caribbean

I love how limited our conceptions of race are :) I think we all need to have a big chat about the differences between race/culture/ethnicity/nationality My mom is a first
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There are questions on the 1966 ‘coup’ that I’ve only come across mumbo-jumbo attempts at answers to; they include:1. If the stated’ obj of the ‘coup’ was what it was,
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Fedor Smolov becomes the latest footballer to break quarantine, having taken a private jet from Spain to Russia to celebrate the 18th birthday of his girlfriend, Maria Yumasheva.Yumasheva is the
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Thanksgiving is a weird holiday. It’s the one part of the year besides the religious holiday season where families can be together for an extended period of time. So black
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YANNO WHAT...fuck it.https://twitter.com/enthuxiasm/status/1267482934199685120 I've dealt with racism in Disney for 26 years. This is "supposed" to be the place where we all escape from the troubles of the world, and
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THREAD: Ihave been spending some time in idyllic St. Marie's mead and surroundings. Will give my thoughts on the novels I read so far...Marple is brilliant but there is also
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1 of 30:37 years ago today, the US invaded a teeny-tiny Caribbean island, rescued a bunch of medical students, and rounded-up a group of gang members, along with their Cuban
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Starting a list of things that confused me living in Jamaica 1. Not being able to refer to a male friend as my buddy. 2. Learning that “beg you
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The writers of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (4.5 billion dollar total gross!) talked about how Disney gave them lifetime park passes...and then unilaterally revoked them one day. The
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@Alexander_Lees and co-authors are under fire for their "Parkerian shortfall in Natural history knowledge" in @AmOrnith 's journal The Auk. (Some) Scientists take offense b/c naming the shortfall after a
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thread of my favorites movies brokeback mountain (2005) the hunger games catching fire (2013) love, rosie (2014) tangled (2010) pirates of the caribbean : at world's end (2007) gifted
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It’s the fact that it’s the FIRST hit on the search for me. It’s the fact that ALL my school history books are written by West Indians for me. It’s
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UPDATE: A Gov't-contractor jet flew today from Miami to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It landed for 1h 51m, then flew on to Caracas, Venezuela. After ~3h it took off from Caracas and
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So I’m a physician and an Orthodox Christian. I went to med school in the Caribbean. Med school takes up ALL YOUR TIME, & it doesn’t matter what holiday it
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I am not exaggerating when I say this, I say this completely genuinely:I covered sports in Maine for three years, and there is no way I encountered any more than
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Before the power inevitably goes out in Nova Scotia today, I'd like to remind everyone that NS Power should be seized and brought back into public ownership. The crooks who
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