If someone were to ask you......

[kia027]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I get that question all the time. Or &quot;which country yu from?&quot; </div></div>

What is your response? St Mary, Portland, St Catherine....

[Q3210]

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St. Ann......then the bewildered look....No....
Then I say, &quot;Yu nuh aks which country mi from&quot;

[kia027]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">St. Ann......then the bewildered look....No....
Then I say, &quot;Yu nuh aks which country mi from&quot; </div></div>

[Q3210]

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If I say St Elizabeth, they think I am nearer to the truth.

[Rivers]

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when my grandmother get asked
where she is from she usually
reply both parents how about
yuself that cracks me
the hell up ...then she say
these people so fool because
when she used to say jamaica
they would go I didn't know they
had people looking like you
from jamaica

[R_C]

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So Wendy, I guess you don't subscribe to &quot;Jamaican&quot; referring to a state of mind then ?

[Wendy]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: R_C</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So Wendy, I guess you don't subscribe to &quot;Jamaican&quot; referring to a state of mind then ? </div></div>

You can have that state of mind all you want ..

If I ask you where you are from and you say &quot;Jamaica&quot; I am going to then ask where in Jamaica are you from.. I am expecting the response to be some parish ...not

.. eerrrrr I am really from Atlanta but my peeps are from St James.

[sistactry]

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wendy, loosen up, and low de ppl dem,

if anybody ask my dawta where she from, she we say jamaica,

but if u ask her where she born, she we say NY

[Wendy]

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**kiss teet** If my daughta eva tell peopl seh shi <span style="font-weight: bold">from </span> Jamaica.. I beat har to sickness .Is nat dere shi come fram.


Where yuh<span style="font-weight: bold"> fram </span>is where yuh <span style="font-weight: bold">barn an grow -</span> -- or if yuh neva barn dere, atleast grow deh most a yuh life...en a story. Anyting odda dan dat is a &quot;wanabee&quot; yaadie.

If you have one parent from Trinidad and the other from Jamaica and yuh born a Brooklyn.. where are you from in that scenario?

[sistactry]

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it really bringle u ehhh,

u galang yaaa,

[Wendy]

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LOL... Yes if mi can beat mi own pickney ova it ..yes it get mi bringle

People mus be proud a dem birt nation an leave it at dat.

[j-kid]

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Kia, how yuh like mek trouble soh?

Wen mi feel mischievious, mi tell dem mi from planet earth, otherwise mi is ah bawn Jacan!

Yes, an den dem sey, but yuh noh sound Jamaican? Den mi respond, yuh can blame mi step-mon fi di contradiction an refinement.



<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kia</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I get that question all the time. Or &quot;which country yu from?&quot; </div></div>

What is your response? St Mary, Portland, St Catherine....
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[kia027]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: WeNdY_PeNdY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">**

If you have one parent from Trinidad and the other from Jamaica and yuh born a Brooklyn.. where are you from in that scenario?
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u bawn in the US of Jamaican &amp; Trinidadian parentage

If smaddy born in the US from Jamaican parents and grew in Jamaica so wah dat mek dem?

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[kia027]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: J kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Kia, how yuh like mek trouble soh?

Wen mi feel mischievious, mi tell dem mi from planet earth, otherwise mi is ah bawn Jacan!

Yes, an den dem sey, but yuh noh sound Jamaican? Den mi respond, yuh can blame mi step-mon fi di contradiction an refinement.



<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kia</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I get that question all the time. Or &quot;which country yu from?&quot; </div></div>

What is your response? St Mary, Portland, St Catherine....
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@ JKid
a chrue seh Q clear mek people tink seh im come fram somewhere offa de island man

[Skelly]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: R_C</div><div class="ubbcode-body">....&quot;where are you from&quot; how do you answer ? Is 'home' your current address ? Where you were born ? Where you grew up ? Where your ancestors were from ?

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depends...if I meet people who jus waan fass inna mi business I tell dem weh mi currently live. If dem delve more mi tell dem NY cah a deh so mi fuss settle wen mi come abroad..if dem genuinely interested in learning bout me I tell dem Jamaica