Asian Caribbean people

Asian Caribbeans are Caribbean people who trace their full or a partial ancestry to Asia. The majority of the modern Asian Caribbean populations were the result of indentured labourers that were brought to the colonial Caribbean after the abolition of slavery to work in mines, sugar plantations, etc. as replacements of African slaves.

Asian Caribbean people

Total population
2,500,000
Languages
Colonial Languages: English Spanish French Dutch Portuguese Asian Languages: Caribbean Hindustani Standard Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) Tamil Sindhi Gujarati Punjabi Bengali Telugu Hindi other South Asian languages Mandarin Cantonese Hakka Javanese Japanese Tagalog Thai Hmong Korean Arabic
Religion
Predominantly: Hinduism Islam Buddhism Chinese folk religions (including Confucianism and Taoism) Christianity Other Minority: Shinto Sikhism Jainism Zoroastrianism Judaism Baháʼí Kejawèn
Related ethnic groups
Asian people Asian Americans Asian Canadians British Asians Asian Africans Asian Brazilians Asian Caymanians Asian Latin Americans

People of Asian Caribbean descent are mainly South Asian and East Asian and additionally may be of other origins including South East Asian and West Asian.

Besides the colonial languages, some Asian Caribbeans where able to perserve their languages. The Asian Caribbean diaspora is also spread throughout western countries such as Canada, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom and The United States. Asian Caribbeans don't have a predominant religion and are mainly divided between religions such as Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Christianity.

Sub-Groups

• Chinese Caribbean people
• Indo-Caribbean people
• Japanese Caribbean people
• Javanese Caribbean people
• Korean Caribbean people
• Hmong Caribbean people
• Arab Caribbean people

External links

• South Asians in the Caribbean: a bibliography