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I did a little poll on the two most popular suggestions on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the slight majority on all platforms said they wanted me to do a fil A week on the Caribbean explained.

So here we go, the Caribbean.

Now culturally speaking, most of these places are very similar, like they'll celebrate their own version of Carnival.

We all love seafood and play their variation of reggae, soccer and calypso music.

They all have, like the sexiest black people or Creole black people on the planet anyway.

On the technical side, the Caribbean is made of thousands of islands, islands and reefs divided into 34 island entities, 13 of which are fully sovereign nation states, and the rest are overseas regions, territories, dependencies and common walls or autonomous constituencies that belong to the UK, France, Netherlands, the USA, Venezuela and Colombia.

Generally, if it had to be categorically placed, the Caribbean is considered part of North America, although sometimes others will say it's just kind of its own thing.

The island chains are shaped like a hook engulfing the Caribbean Sea, which is on the Caribbean plate.

And off these islands, there are three main island chains the Lucayan Archipelago, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles.

In this video, we'll first go through the fully sovereign states, and then they did tendencies and territories given minds.

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Thank You Dollar Shave Club, Antigua and Barbuda, one of the four Twin Island countries.

It's kind of like the quieter, rich getaway island area famous further black pineapple.

Forget bird sanctuary.

They have 365 beaches, one for every day of the year.

Most of the 93,000 people live on Antigua Island, and only about 2000 livres on Barb Uda, the flat, marshy island.

They also legally owned Redonda Island, which has nothing but birds in a small, unnamed gecko species on it.

The Bahamas named after the Spanish word Baha Mar, meaning shallow sea.

This was the first place Christopher Columbus discovered on his voyage to the New World.

Long story short because of its location.

It's kind of like the Hawaii of the East Coast.

Is it pretty much we're Americans anywhere east of the Mississippi like to go on vacation when they want a tropical island experience.

There's so many cruise ships that go here to me, tourist sites like underwater caves, pink sand beaches, fortresses, native Taino sites.

There's even an island with swimming pigs that come up to you and ask for food.

Barbados.

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You still haven't gotten back to me.

Barbados is basically the oddball of the Caribbean.

For one, it's not even located on the trench line, and for some reason it's just about 100 miles east of their neighbors, which means they're outside of the hurricane zone, and they rarely get affected.

It was also the only island to have been briefly colonized by the Portuguese, but then they just kind of abandoned it, known as the Bay.

John People.

They're one of the richest nations in the Caribbean, known for their month long crop over festival.

They love eating, flying fish and cou cou washed down with Mount Gay rum.

Pretty good stuff.

I've tried it crack and will always be my number one, though.

But Barbados, you're doing it right.

Cuba, the largest and most populous of the Caribbean nations, but not the most populous island that belongs to Hispaniola, the name of the island shared with Haiti and Dominican Republic.

Cuba is, of course, a Spanish speaking Caribbean nation considered part of Latin America.

We all know about the revolution, that Shaka Vera stuff and how the Marxist Leninist Communist Party has ruled since the sixties, which led to the tension during the Cuban missile crisis.

Clearly it was resolved by the X Men.

No, but seriously, Cuba sticks out much in that they were pretty much isolated for a long time and kind of kept things to themselves.

There was a lot of tension against the U.

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Although awkwardly, the U.

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Still kind of kept Guantanamo Bay.

Aside from all that, though, they have lots of resource is and culture I mean, you can still find the sunset Rio ritual is being performed by boxing in baseball are huge out here.

They love doing the mambo cha cha and bolero and Roomba Dominika, the quiet bookworm girl, youngest sister of the Caribbean.

Dominica is probably the most well kept island in the Caribbean, nature wise, and the government deliberately discourages mass tourism to maintain the beauty.

Lots of rare animal species found your, including the national animal that Cicero parrots found on the flag.

Known for their purple feathers.

This is a volcanic island, and it is still growing through the geothermal activity.

They have the second largest hot spring in the world boiling lake, and they have Champagne Beach, with bubbles coming out of the ground.

Dominique also has one of the highest centenarian populations per capita on the planet, many states because of the healthy diet and happy, carefree atmosphere.

Dominican Republic Dominicans have quite a reputation.

First off, they share the island with Haiti, and together the island as a whole has over 20 million people, about twice that of Cuba.

The Dominican Republic is, of course, a Spanish speaking Latin American country.

Yet for a long time, there was a lot of tension between them and the French and Haiti.

Haiti even took over for a time, and lots of crazy things happen.

For what it's worth, gold Dominicans are definitely known for being some of the best baseball players in the world.

They, along with Chile, are the fastest talkers in the Spanish speaking world, and many people have trouble understanding them.

And there's always like this weird rivalry they have with Puerto Rico.

And, like everything, food, dance, sports.

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Let's be real.

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For what it's worth, though, the majority of the people in the D R are either black or mixed with black, making it the blackest of all the Latin American countries.

What else they love?

Moran Gay Chat on the phone goes until stones.

But don't tell that to the Puerto Ricans.

Grenada, The Spice Island, Grenada is known for two things being the world's second largest producer of nutmeg after Indonesia, producing about 20% of the world's supply.

Not bad for one small little island.

Even put it on their flag, and the other one is the operation Agent fury invasion in the eighties, which was criticized internationally.

But it kind of worked out on the people of Grenada.

We're like, kind of okay with it in the end and look it up.

Grenade is also famous for their interesting jab Jab festival, in which people doused themselves in oil and wear horns and dance to a drum fueled frenzy to express freedom.

Somehow Haiti, the first black republic in the world gaining independence from France and 18 four had a revolution, and you know the rest.

This place is Syria, typically known as the Voodoo Island.

Since voodoo is still sometimes practice here in certain areas, Haiti is also the largest Francophone nation and population in the Americas.

More than Quebec is interesting, though, because they made their own Creole, the official language and use in schools written in street signs books.

It's a separate thing from French.

Some say he is one of the most unlucky countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Nonetheless, they are also one of the most colorful, indistinct in the Caribbean nations, with a plethora of trail dance, music festivals and food.

Oh, man, you gotta try Haitian food.

It's so good, Jamaica the Music Island.

We all know this guy and not too much, I can tell you that you probably don't already know the birthplace of reggae, Scott Rock steady genres that would change the face of music forever.

They produced the most music per capita out of any nation in the world.

So many famous Jamaicans, too, Not just in the music industry.

I'm sure you've heard of many of them in the case.

Jamaica has its pride yet its problems yet overall is probably one of the chilis nations in the Caribbean.

Oh, and they have the fastest runners in the world.

Now we reached the three Saints, ST Kitts and Nevis, known as the mother colony of the West Indies.

This was the first European colonized area in the Caribbean.

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Kitts and Nevis is the smallest sovereign nation in the Western Hemisphere, both in size and population, with only about 55,000 people Out of all the saints, ST Kitts and Nevis is the most English influenced one, as opposed the others which were French.

The island was formed by a volcano, and it has one of the shortest is Mrs in the world.

At the tip of state kids.

Let's see, they're also famous for the drunk monkeys.

Hundreds of years ago, they were brought over from Africa, and now they are known for taking the leftover drinks that tourists leave on the bait and they get totally drunk.

It's hilarious.

Look it up ST Lucia, known as the Helen of the West Indies because, like Helen of Troy and The Odyssey, the island was fought over between the British and French 14 times.

It's like a weird English French mixed island like even though the British got indefinite control in the 19th century, they still retain some of the French influence.

Everyone speaks both English and Lucien French Creole.

Otherwise, it's another volcanic island.

Sulphur Springs is the world's only dive in volcano.

Let's say they love green figs and selfish for a small nation.

They boast two Nobel Laureates, ST Vincent and the Grenadines.

Like ST Lucia, these islands were also fought relentlessly between the French and English.

Finally, truly verse I British.

You know the deal.

The nation is basically one big island where the majority people live.

ST Vincent, which has an active volcano and 32 smaller islets, and keys many of which are private islands owned by either cos.

Or people like Mustique Island.

It has some weird names of places on it, like gingerbread, buttercup opium and Macaroni.

Beach is one of the few Caribbean countries with Petra cliffs recording ancestry that could be found in these towns.

And finally, Trinidad and Tobago, the last of the twin island countries.

This island nation has switched between the hands of different European colonizers, more than any other island nation in the Caribbean started out Spanish.

Then it became French, British, Dutch and then, yes, even core lander, which is like a fancy ancient term for Lithuanian.

Lithuania, once under the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth, took over Tobago for a short period of time.

Compared to the other states, Trinidad has a very industrialized economy rooted in manufacturing and petroleum.

Yes, they have.

Oil and gas reserves even have a few skyscrapers built in their downtown area district.

Very diverse population wise, about 2/3 are black or mixed with black, and the majority of the rest are Indian like from India, which makes about 1/5 of population Hindu, which plays a strong role in the national festivals and holidays.

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And now we reach the overseas territories and dependencies and constituencies and so on.

For the UK, they have five islands, all of which are pretty much tax havens.

First we have Anguilla.

Yeah, that's how you pronounce it.

Named after the Spanish word for hell, because the islands are kind of shaped like an eel.

Only about 14,000 people.

And there's goats everywhere for some reason.

And Chuck Norris lived there once, Virgin Islands, this used to be a huge pirate hangout.

And today you might be able to find some buried treasure on Richard Branson named his company after this place because he loved it so much.

He spent about half the year on Nectar Island, Cayman Islands.

Supposedly, this was the birthplace of scuba diving.

Really cool turtles.

Which is where it got its name from.

And, yeah, probably the biggest tax haven island of them all.

Monster rocked this island, had a huge volcanic eruption in 1995 that effectively shut down like half of the entire island and burned down the old capital.

You can still see the old rulings today, and it's kinda interesting Turks and Caicos.

This is like Bahamas little brother that ended up staying with the UK and at one point, it almost Canada and could have been like Canada's Hawaii.

No one knows exactly how they got their name.

Something about cactus looking like a Turkish hat.

I don't know.

Yeah, they have one of the largest barrier reefs in the world, and they also play this thing called Rip Saw music with a handsaw scraped with a knife When a little extra credit.

Bermuda is not technically the Caribbean.

It's in the Atlantic, but it is a UK overseas territory, although sometimes people from you to classify themselves Caribbean and now the French islands, Guadalupe and Martinique.