RE: You Know You're from Suriname If.......? 🌴 Laughing with Stereotypes

This sounds like Jamaican stereotypes as well lol! I guess it runs in the Caribbean and South America. Jamaicans are notorious for being late. I’ll be there in 5 means 1hr later or more. Living here in Japan it was a rude awakening. Everything is on time to the max. The worst thing is when you realize this but then you doing business with other Jamaicans and have appointments with people from other countries and I show yo early and we waiting on the other Jamaicans.

Food, same , Jamaicans don’t play wit the food, no plate needed. Eat straight from the pot. One thing I always respected about people from the country or the inner city in Jamaica, no matter how little they had thym et shared it, right out the same plate and fork. Not the upper class.

Party, man Jamaica is hurting bad right now with the curfews, party everyday in every corner. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jamaica goes into civil unrest because they can’t party 😂.

That video is a nice vibe, Suriname has a nice mix of people. That would be uptown here.

I had that same culture shock when I was on vacation in Amsterdam. We we're going to the theater and my aunt was like "we have to leave home 2 hours before it starts". I didn't understand at all, as she is also from Suriname. 😅 But everything there is punctual. And it seems that if your late to a theater piece, they just close the doors on you.

I get that. No matter how little someone has here, when they throw a birthday party, even if it's not the fanciest or most expensive food, they make sure you can eat 3 times or more if you want to. Plus you get to take some home.

Yeah, too bad that party won't be happening this year. For the first time since I was born, the city streets will be empty on december 31st. Or maybe not, people surprise me each day.