I guess I don't know what a native Jamaican looks like
the original indigenous peoples of Jamaica, (the Carib Indians, ...although they were not really Indians. Columbus called every non european he encountered Indians because he didn't want Queen Isabella to know he had failed to circumnavigate the globe, and perhaps cut off his funding, so everyone got slapped with the label Indians) are very pale skinned, an ever so slight creamy buttery tan, with the most amazing grey teal jewel like eyes. They are a unique teal grey shade unlike any other colour. The only time I ever see it, sure as heck, they come up jamaican. I've even won money on it 3x's. There are times when some of us will be sitting around discussing and sharing our cultures & ancestral traditions with others, ...and there'll always be the one guy or gal who says I betcha in a million years you'd never guess what I am, ...even offer to place a wager. When I say Jamaican everyone else erupts in laughter, ...until the guy confirms "She's right".
It's all in the eyes. I don't know if it's a specific gene or what, ...but everytime I encounter those eyes, ...it's a native Jamaican.
most people think all Jamicans are Black, but the truth is, we are a mixture of so many races. there were a lot of people's who throughout the years have ventured to the island to profit from the slave trade. Chinese, Syrian, French, Spanish, British, Welsh, Dutch etc., etc., National motto "OUT OF MANY ONE PEOPLE". All throughout the Caribbean... Jamica, Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbadoes, the indigenous inhabitants were creamy light skinned like French Polynesians. The countries only became predominantly black because of all the African slave imported there. The natives were not strong enough to withstand either the European diseases, or the back breaking harsh conditions of slavery. put the two together, and it was a recipe for genocide. Slavery was never a profitable venture throughout the world because the slaves kept dying off, ...until they encountered the African slave, who not only survived, but fought back, and refused to capitulate to his/her circumstances. Those that could not be tamed and turned into docile little slaves, were dumped in jamaica, ...thus forever changing the racial demographics of the caribbean.
...The End.