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Question:I found out that in the 1600s my family came from Jamaica to the USA, the parents were born in England and the children were born and raised in Jamaica (one was to become my
distant grandfather) and came to the USA when they were much older, again I know that they lived a long time ago, and they were white people too, but can I say I am an American of partial Jamaican ancestry?
I know I asked a similar question, but I want to know if I can claim it as part of me.
Someone said I should say I'm Carib-American.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I found out that in the 1600s my family came from Jamaica to the USA, the parents were born in England and the children were born and raised in Jamaica (one was to become my
distant grandfather) and came to the USA when they were much older, again I know that they lived a long time ago, and they were white people too, but can I say I am an American of partial Jamaican ancestry?
I know I asked a similar question, but I want to know if I can claim it as part of me.
Someone said I should say I'm Carib-American.

your ancestors were English who settled in Jamaica prior to moving onto the US. There are a lot of us that have those ancestors. Mine settled in the Bahamas before making it onto North Carolina.

Personally I never would describe myself as a Caribbean-American because of that connection. That would be like listing out all the countries and States my family settled in before me.

well im a carib-english even though my Jamacian is much closer both my parents are but i was born in england. I am also partly red indian and i say it proudly so yeah called urself a carib-american

Whatever makes you happy bro ...................

If you are an American citizen, your nationality is American and nothing else unless you have dual citizenship.

Your ancestral heritage might be a number of things. Ancestral heritage and nationality are not the same thing.

All Americans, except those that politically correct people call Native Americans, ancestral heritage comes from some place else.

To keep mine straight, I call my pre revolutionary ancestors colonials and my post revolutionary ancestors immigrants.

If I were you, I would say, I am an American of English ancestry by way of Jamaica.