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FLYING TOGETHER: IV - JAMAICA: THE LAND WE LOVE THE MANY PEOPLE WHO CAME The Tainos, previously referred to as the Arawaks, have often been described as the earliest inhabitants of Jamaica as far as we can trace back. The Spanish presence began with the arrival of Christopher Columbus, in1494. The first Jews came to the island during the Spanish occupation of the Island, 1494-1655. These Jews came from Spain and Portugal. They fled because of the Spanish inquisition. The Africans were brought in as slaves by the traders to work in the fields The English. In 1655 the English captured the island and colonized it. The first Irish immigrants in Jamaica can be traced to the mid seventeenth century, around the time of capture of the island by the English in 1655. A significant amount of these arrivals were young male bond servants from other neighboring English territories. The Indians and the Chinese came in as indentured laborers when the slavery was abolished. The Lebanese Christians (the Syrians) came in at the wake of persecution. The year 1891 marks the first arrival of the Lebanese group in Jamaica, and one of, if not, the main cause of their departure from their native land—Lebanon, Damascus, and Bethlehem (formerly a part of Syria) — was religious persecution under Islam . 92
FLYING TOGETHER: IV - JAMAICA: THE LAND WE LOVE THE JAMAICAN PATOIS The language of the nation is English, but modified by the various tongues of the nations who contributed to the civilization of the island. We call it Pidgeon English or Patois. If you are new you will hardly understand them. Jamaican patois is a Creole — a mixture of languages — taking many of its words, and much of its grammar, from African languages as well as Portuguese, Spanish and French. Its biggest component, however, is English. While English-speakers consider Jamaican patois to be a variety of English, many Jamaicans consider their patois to be a separate language. Either way, patois-speakers generally understand standard English even if they do not speak it, and with some practice, English-speakers can understand patois as well 93
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