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Is this one of the Most Mixed Countries in the World?

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So I'm here at the Ishtahan Resort talking with "Sparky" a friendly local. Asking about the Garifuna. Sparky shares: The Garifuna migrated from Honduras, which is one of our neighboring countries.They came here and from there they started to migrate over in Plasencia, down that side. And then from there, we have them all over in Belize now. And then our main ancestors come from the Maya.I was reading that Belize is one of the most mixed places in the world, over 52%. We have Garifunas, Mestizos, Mayans, people from all over, Chinese, Lebanese, Philippines, Canadians. So we have people from all over.We're a little mixed country. Not everybody gets along with everybody, but we try to. Yeah.If somebody is mixed, like obviously mixed, you know, like maybe part Mayan, part black, part something else. Do people give them the hassle or does it matter? Not really anymore. It used to be, I would say, maybe when people came from Guatemala.Back then in 2010, 2015, it was a big hassle, but not anymore. It's something that we try to live with each other. Yeah.That's not a lot of time. What changed? I mean, Belizeans get mixed with Guatemalan people. Yeah.My wife, her parents were Guatemalan. Her dad was Belizean. I don't know if you noticed, but when we go to the grocery stores, like if you go to a Lebanese store, the younger ones, you'll hear them speak perfectly English or Creole.Reasons why? Because they go to school here like anybody else. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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