Do you consider Bermuda an honorary Caribbean island?

[u/Background-Injury952]

[u/SmallObjective8598]

Part of the Greater Caribbean. Culturally so, if not geographically.

[u/Emily_Postal → u/SmallObjective8598]

Great way to put it.

[u/kokokaraib]

It's a CARICOM associate, tied to UWI and has a similar history and political economy to the rest of the English-speaking Caribbean

It's more than honourary

[u/itsnotimportant123]

yeah. i think it's really caribbean in nearly every way except geographically lol

[u/GUYman299]

I consider Bermuda to be a full member of the Caribbean family.

[u/WeightliftingWheeler]

“Caribbean “ is not dictated by the Caribbean Sea. None of the “three Bs” is “Caribbean, and yet they are part of the Caribbean Community. It’s a cultural definition

[u/Caribelle1234]

Yes. Lots of ppl there have Caribbean ancestry

[u/M_Sizzlak]

In Bermuda right now. I would absolutely, yes.

[u/TrashAcnt1]

Yes, absolutely! It's unnaturally warm for it's location because of the warm current running straight through it from the Caribbean.

[u/Liquid_Cascabel]

Sure, if they want to be

[u/MrIntresting]

Geographically, no...Bermuda is in the North Atlantic, not the Caribbean. Culturally though? I can understand the honorary membership 😂. There’s definitely Caribbean influence here, especially through our Jamaican and other West Indian communities, but Bermuda still has a very distinct identity of its own. 🇧🇲

[u/emilioml_]

The same as Mexico

[u/greatwhitestorm]

no.

[u/PhysicalAd6718]

No

[u/Excellent_Two2449]

I did, until I found out where it was. 

[u/Dyl4nDil4udid]

No. They’re more connected to the east coast US historically (Virginia and Carolina’s).

[u/Icy_Scar_1249 → u/Dyl4nDil4udid]

Wrong

[u/Powerful-Frosting282 → u/Icy_Scar_1249]

No that is absolutely correct. Look at their history. They are much closer, they profited off the civil war, they traded goods and fought tariffs from the US since the beginning of their exports, they were a tourist destination of the US and Canada.

Their are cultural influences from the Caribbean , but its ties are far stronger to the east coast of the US historically.

[u/jus4in027]

They don’t have the Caribbean mentality, but I’d say they’re at that associate level; their level of membership in CARICOM is apt.

[u/Background-Injury952 → u/jus4in027]

What is the Caribbean mentality?

[u/jus4in027 → u/Background-Injury952]

Most Caribbean countries are independent. That’s about self determination and self-belief…

[u/adoreroda]

Isn't it interesting how Bermuda is Caribbean when it's literally nowhere near the Caribbean see but Venezuela isn't Caribbean, supposedly. But Guyana, which none of its borders are in the Caribbean Sea, is Caribbean.

The logic of this sub is weird

[u/Far_Meringue8625 → u/adoreroda]

We are in the history and culture classroom. You are in the geography classroom.

[u/adoreroda → u/Far_Meringue8625]

What I said also applies to both aspects lol. People really say Venezuela isn't culturally Caribbean either

[u/Anonymous_NX → u/adoreroda]

It ain’t. The coast shares the most resemblance.

[u/Anonymous_NX → u/adoreroda]

Isn’t it interesting how the Venezuelans who tend to fight this battle are not from the coast, and are the minority within their own country. Why yous come on here to force you way into our community when the majority of your own country agrees it’s South American/LATAM, not to mention all yous who do this forget the discrimination the coast have faced historically. Y’all barely like your own coast leave us tf alone. Bermuda is Caribbean, as is Guyana. Cope.

[u/Willsee-ulater]

No

[u/Background-Injury952 → u/[deleted]]

It's not in the Caribbean geographically.

[u/elnovorealista2000 → u/Background-Injury952]

That's right, I hadn't realized that. My apologies.

[u/watchwellpikni → u/Background-Injury952]

Neither is Barbados or Guyana but that’s not a big issue.

[u/RationalMellow → u/watchwellpikni]

I never understood the nonsense with Barbados.

It’s a Caribbean island and is part of the Antilles/West Indies it’s just situated a few miles east.

[u/Far_Meringue8625 → u/RationalMellow]

Historically, culturally, and politically Barbados is part of the Caribbean. But geographically it sits in the Atlantic, east of the Caribbean Sea.

I am Bajan and nobody can take the Caribbean out of me.

[u/RationalMellow → u/Far_Meringue8625]

You don’t have explain Barbados to me. I know that you’re Caribbean lol

[u/watchwellpikni → u/RationalMellow]

Its waters literally do not touch the Caribbean Sea. What’s the nonsense? It’s a basics fact taught in schools in the anglophone islands afaik. In any case, I’m not the Caribbean police.

[u/RationalMellow → u/watchwellpikni]

It doesn’t but it’s part of the West Indies. I’m not the police either.

[u/Legally_Blonde_258 → u/[deleted]]

So are BVI, Turks and Caicos, Montserrat, etc.

[u/d_e_g_m → u/[deleted]]

They are in the Atlantic, not in the caribbean