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Hey, your'e from Trinidad? Great! I'm glad another West Indian is on the forum. I gettin' ready to whine!

One problem I've had with Indo-Trinidadians, is ignorance and prejudice. I'm from Jamaica, and my mum is East Indian, but my father is Black. Whenever I go to West Indian shows, or my local temple, I get stares and offensive comments.

Also, I know a Trinidadian when I see one. Especially the teenagers, most are built small, with dark brown skin, long, bushy, wavy hair, majority of the time with red dye.

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well I think that Sharma is a caste name (north indian) and Choudary seems to be Bengali (I'm sure Meena will jump in here) and it appears to have a similar connotation to "Khan" - "Sir" kind of thing and is not a caste name.

In Kerala it is common to have 2 initials then the first name. The first initial is the "house" name (the one you would be interested in if arranging marriages) the next one is the father's name and the last is the man's first name. In our community (syrian christian) it is normal for girls to use their first name followed by their father's first name. But once you meet another malayali they would ask for the name of your "house". The house name often connotes place or profession. E.g. "Malayil" (the last name of the director of Bharatham) means "in the mountains".

I believe that in Nayar families, they take the mother's name since they are matrilineal.

It's usually the "house" name that's really long. When they immigrate to Canada, some Malayalis will drop the house name and just use the father's name. So for example, you see lots of "Thomas Joseph"'s in Toronto.

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Hey, your'e from Trinidad? Great! I'm glad another West Indian is on the forum. I gettin' ready to whine!

One problem I've had with Indo-Trinidadians, is ignorance and prejudice. I'm from Jamaica, and my mum is East Indian, but my father is Black. Whenever I go to West Indian shows, or my local temple, I get stares and offensive comments.

Also, I know a Trinidadian when I see one. Especially the teenagers, most are built small, with dark brown skin, long, bushy, wavy hair, majority of the time with red dye.

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I'm guessing you just met some really bad Trinidadians...we're not all like that, trust me. I apologize on their behalf

But as for the looks part thats such a generalization. For me, anyone I meet can't tell that I'm from Trinidad. But then again I'm not very Trini so that could be it.

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wut i've found about east indian last names is that most of the names begin with ram or if the name in india end which a u ex sukhu the reverse name in the caribbean would be sookoo sukhoo,sookhoo adding double oo at the end and that in Jamaica you can't find a person with the plain name Singh they usually have something before singh ex mohansingh coomarsingh..and names like bhagwadin as an indian would have it;s bhagwadeen..but being dat im "east Indian" which i refer myself as Caribbean no indo in front just caribbean that we have been mixed down the line cause if u look at it we don't look like asian indians at all

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Aishwarya's family originate from the South Indian state of Karnataka, hailing from the city of Mangalore in the Konkan/Coorg region.

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