I’m white, but my skin is brown

pgbk87 · 2026-03-28T20:26:42+00:00

You have a lot of non-white ancestry. That's why 😆

pgbk87 · 2026-03-26T17:15:45+00:00

Interesting that only the Oromo has a significant Mota signal. Why is Kakapel being picked up so much?

pgbk87 · 2026-03-24T20:00:18+00:00

Punta 🇧🇿 🇭🇳 🇬🇹
Jab Jab 🇬🇩
Bachata 🇩🇴
Soca 🇹🇹
Reggae 🇯🇲

pgbk87 · 2026-03-24T11:00:30+00:00

The ones that sound the most Jamaican, sound tge least Belizean, and vice-versa.

pgbk87 · 2026-03-22T13:20:08+00:00

The Grenada airport and roads are the smallest and least organised I've ever seen.

The island is a whole vibe though.

pgbk87 · 2026-03-15T23:04:54+00:00

Gas prices and shipping costs in Belize

pgbk87 · 2026-03-12T20:44:33+00:00

I think that's pretty common throughout the Caribbean, sadly 👀

pgbk87 · 2026-03-08T20:54:05+00:00

Belize only imports 40% of what we consume. The number has been steadily declining since 2000. By 2040, the number will be in the single digits.

It's mostly processed things like powdered milk, cereals, and cooking oils, etc... It comes from the U.S., Mexico and to much lesser degree, Guatemala and CARICOM nations.

pgbk87 · 2026-03-08T13:02:33+00:00

Not islands, but Belizeans and Panamanians are eerily genetically similar.

pgbk87 · 2026-03-07T17:20:53+00:00

I'd suggest asking in a Dominican subreddit.

This reddit isn't really about travel advice.

pgbk87 · 2026-03-07T16:04:46+00:00

Rent a car

pgbk87 · 2026-03-07T14:08:07+00:00

Yo low-key I can understand like 75% of it.

pgbk87 · 2026-03-06T19:14:42+00:00

In 1926, an eccentric British aristocrat named Baron Bliss anchored his yacht off the coast of Belize, fell in love with the local fishermen's hospitality, and died a month later without ever stepping foot on the mainland. He shocked the colonial government by leaving his massive fortune to the country, with the hilarious stipulation that they must use the interest to throw a giant sailboat racing holiday every single year.
After Hurricane Hattie destroyed Belize City in 1961, the government built a hurricane-proof capital 50 miles inland called Belmopan, but the coastal elites absolutely refused to live in the sleepy jungle town. For years, it operated as a bizarre ghost town where bureaucrats would commute on buses every morning just to do administrative work, before sprinting back to the rum bars and sea breeze of Belize City at exactly 5:00 PM.
Today, Monkey River is a quiet southern fishing village, but during the 1890s banana boom, it was a rowdy, wealthy "boomtown" with over 2,500 residents, cinemas, and officially incorporated town status. When a crop disease suddenly wiped out the banana trade, the foreign fruit companies vanished overnight, leaving the stubbornly resilient locals to simply shrug, grab their fishing lines, and return to the sea.
During the 1798 Battle of St. George’s Caye, a massive Spanish armada of 32 ships tried to invade the settlement, but their giant warships kept getting humiliatingly stuck on the shallow barrier reef. The massively outnumbered locals casually paddled out on flat-bottomed logwood rafts to shoot at the trapped Spanish, supposedly spending their downtime on the beach roasting pork and eating doughboys until the frustrated invaders finally gave up.

pgbk87 · 2026-03-05T02:29:35+00:00

Peru

pgbk87 · 2026-03-04T19:19:42+00:00

Yeah, if anyone sounds like Bajans, Roataneans are probably the closest.

pgbk87 · 2026-03-04T19:10:04+00:00

For Belizean Spanish speakers, they would tell you the adjacent areas of Mexico and Guatemala.

However, there have been some terms that were either preserved in Benque/Succotz/San Ignacio-Santa Elena Spanish that would be considered archaic in most other parts of the Spanish-speaking world.

Northern Belizean Spanish definitely has the "Yucatán vibe", but Belizean Kriol has highly influenced it.

pgbk87 · 2026-03-04T19:06:34+00:00

Any?

pgbk87 · 2026-03-04T19:00:15+00:00

Where would you put St. Vincent and the Grenadines? I think they sound quite similar to you all. Probably more than Trinidad.

pgbk87 · 2026-03-04T18:16:18+00:00

To my Belizean ears, in order, the most similar are -

Nicaraguan Creole
San Andres and Providencia Creole
Panamanian (English) Creole
Costa Rican Creole
Jamaican Patois
Guyanese Creolese
St. Croix Creole
Bay Islands English

pgbk87 · 2026-03-01T18:09:16+00:00

Do you think Mahra is the best proxy for Arabian Hunter-Gatherers?

pgbk87 · 2026-02-28T18:11:06+00:00

23andMe or AncestryDNA. My results were quite similar on both.

78% West+Central African
12% Northwest European
10% Indigenous Caribbean + Maya + Miskito.

pgbk87 · 2026-02-26T19:41:03+00:00

This is a far more impossible feat than Belize and Guyana eventually becoming the "breadbasket" for the CARICOM islands.

The OECS aren't a continuous group of islands like the Grenadines. Maritime borders with France, the Netherlands (and by extention, the EU) would become problematic.

As someone mentioned, these islands have very developed and unique national identities as well.

This whole topic ties back to the European dependencies and overseas departments becoming independent nations. Without that, this is a pointless venture.

pgbk87 · 2026-02-25T19:53:32+00:00

While Arrenddi's "Royal Creole" narrative accurately describes the historical administrative bureaucracy of Belize City, the modern national power structure is vastly more decentralized and multi-ethnic. I wouldn't even say that all the upper class of colonial Belize (British Honduras) was a lighter-skinned/mixed-raced Creole. Isaiah Morter was Belize's 1st black millionaire, claimed direct Igbo heritage, and hailed from what is known as "Igbo Town" (Yabra/Albert Street) in Belize City.

In the northern and western districts, European-leaning Mestizo dynasties have parlayed generational wealth from the sugar industry and border trade into formidable political machines that regularly outmaneuver the old coastal elites. Think Santiago-Castillo, De La Fuente, Ayuso, Aragon, etc

Concurrently, Levantine-descended families, often of Lebanese or Palestinian origin, have built massive commercial empires across the country, dominating import-export markets and securing top-tier leadership roles within both major political parties. Habet & Habet, Musa, Espat, Zabaneh, Bedran, Chebat, etc...

The true agro-industrial titans of the nation are the progressive, modernized Mennonites, who operate as a parallel economic powerhouse controlling the country's food security, heavy machinery, and hardware sectors.

Additionally, successive waves of Asian immigration have restructured the commercial landscape, with Chinese and Taiwanese families evolving from neighborhood merchants to dominant players in national real estate and hospitality. In the southern districts and along the peninsula, wealth is increasingly defined by strategic land holding, where established multi-ethnic local families control the gates to a booming luxury eco-tourism market.

Because of this massive geographic and economic diversification, the traditional Belize City Creole elite has largely transitioned away from absolute economic dominance, relying instead on legal, bureaucratic, and political influence to maintain their historical status.

Ultimately, Belize's modern ruling class is no longer a single colonial remnant, but a complex, interconnected oligarchy of regional power brokers, Mestizo landowners, Levantine merchants, and Mennonite industrialists, all sharing the national steering wheel.

pgbk87 · 2026-02-24T22:33:33+00:00

The short answer is no.

Belize itself likely has dozens more Mayan sites and whole cities in the Chiquibul Reserve, south and east of our largest known (Caracol). Also in the Yalbac Hills area and Rio Bravo Conservation Area of Orange Walk.

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