White Caribbean or European Caribbean is the term for people who are born in the

Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...

whose ancestors are from

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or people who emigrated to the Caribbean from Europe and had acquired citizenship in their respective Caribbean countries. White Caribbeans include: * Béké * White Bahamians *

White Barbadians White Barbadians or European Barbadians are Barbadian citizens or residents of European descent. The majority of European Barbadians are descended from English, Portuguese, and Scottish settlers and Irish indentured servants and settlers, wh ...

White Bermudians White Bermudians or Bermudians of European descent, are Bermudians whose ancestry lies within the continent of Europe, most notably the British Isles and Portugal. According to the 2016 census Bermudian’s who identify as white was 19,466 or 3 ...

* White Dominicans (Dominica) * White Dominicans (Dominican Republic) * White Guyanese **

Portuguese Guyanese A Portuguese Guyanese is a Guyanese whose ancestors came from Portugal or a Portuguese who has Guyanese citizenship. Demographics People of Portuguese descent were mainly introduced to Guyana as indentured laborers to make up for the exodus of ...

White Haitians White Haitians (french: link=no, Blancs haïtiens, ; Haitian Creole: ''blan ayisyen''), also known as Euro-Haitians, are Haitians of predominant or full European descent. History European conquest and colonization The presence of whites in Hait ...

French Haitians French Haitians, also called Franco-Haitians are citizens of Haiti of full or partial French ancestry. The term is sometimes also applied to Haitians who migrated to France in the 20th and 21st century and who have acquired French citizenship, ...

German Haitians German Haitians are Haitians of German descent or Germans with Haitian citizenship. History The earliest known German settlement in Saint-Domingue was in Bombardopolis, south of the Môle-Saint-Nicolas. About a thousand Germans came to Bombar ...

** Italian Haitians **

Polish Haitians Polish Haitians ( ht, Poloné or ''La Pologne'') are Haitian people of Polish ancestry dating to the early 19th century; a few may be Poles of more recent native birth who have gained Haitian citizenship. Cazale, a small village in the hills a ...

White Jamaicans White Jamaicans also known as European-Jamaicans are Jamaican people whose ancestry lies within the continent of Europe, most notably Great Britain and Ireland. There are also communities of people who are descendants of people who arrived from ...

** German Jamaicans ** Irish Jamaicans **

Scottish Jamaicans Scottish Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Scottish descent. Scottish Jamaicans include those of European and mixed African and Asian ancestry with Scottish ancestors and date back to the earliest period of post-Spanish, European colonisation. An early ...

** Spanish Jamaicans *

White Kittitians and Nevisians White Kittitians and Nevisians are people of Saint Kitts and Nevis of European descent. Approximately 2.2% of the population of Saint Kitts and Nevis is European as of 2001. History The first Europeans to visit the islands were the Spanish. A s ...

White Puerto Ricans White Puerto Ricans () are Puerto Ricans who self-identify as "white", typically due to predominant European ancestry. The term "white Puerto Rican", as well as that of "colored Puerto Rican", was coined by the United States Department of Defens ...

White Surinamese White Surinamese or European Surinamese are Surinamese people whose ancestry lies within the continent of Europe. As of 2013, people of solely European descent are a small minority in Suriname, accounting for only 5,700 people or 1% of the coun ...

Dutch Surinamese Dutch Surinamese ( nl, Boeroes) are Surinamese people of Dutch descent. Dutch migrant settlers in search of a better life started arriving in Suriname in the 19th century with the ''boeroes'', poor farmers arriving from the Dutch provinces of ...

Portuguese Surinamese Portuguese Surinamese people are Surinamese citizens of Portuguese ancestry. History In 1853, the first Portuguese people arrived from the Portuguese island of Madeira, having been sponsored by a coalition of planters and by the colonial gove ...

White Trinidadians and Tobagonians White Trinidadians and Tobagonians (sometimes Euro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians or local-whites) are Trinidadians of European descent. However, while the term White Trinidadian is used to refer collectively to all Caucasians who are Trinidadian, ...

** Portuguese Trinidadians and Tobagonians

History

The first Europeans to arrive in the Caribbean were

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who discovered

Hispaniola Hispaniola (, also ; es, La Española; Latin and french: Hispaniola; ht, Ispayola; tnq, Ayiti or Quisqueya) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and th ...

. Many white people in the Caribbean owned

Afro-Caribbean Afro-Caribbean people or African Caribbean are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Sub-Saharan Africa. The majority of the modern African-Caribbeans descend from Africans taken as slaves to colonial Caribbean via the ...

slaves. Many whites came to the Caribbean during the colonial era.

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History

See also

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