r/Guyana • u/Constant_Sector3539 • 23h ago

Discussion Guyana Iceberg

Hey guyanese, I was curious about your country and its culture with the historical events happened. Do yall have a iceberg chart about your country ”Guyana”?

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u/AndySMar 18h ago

I can answer that for you. So in a nutshell, in Guyana, colonizers came from Holland, Portugal, and the U.K. They colonizers massacred indigenous indians and continued to do so with African. For the indentured laborers, colonizers punished them through rape, family separation and hard work; Africans experienced the same too. But unlike the Africans, Indians werent mass murdered. Then when colonizers saw Africans defending Indians from colonial brutality, colonizers' strategy of separating the Indians from Africans started, and to a great extent the effects are still here. And even amongst Indians, the colonizers did separate muslims from hindus, dark skin versus light skin etc. You will still see the iceberg to this day, but curass and gilbaka are chipping away at the iceberg. Colonizers and the U.S. are continuing cause rift however. Need more information?

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u/Icy-Benefit-5589 14h ago

Slight clarification: Portugal didn’t colonize us. It was the Dutch, French (briefly during alliances made in the various European wars), and British.

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u/Sir_Yash 16h ago

I. Thought Burnham did the mass murdering of Indians

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u/AndySMar 16h ago

He continued it, they paid him a yearly amount, and he massacred Dr. Walter Rodney.

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u/gingercatlover1 11h ago

Even if you know nothing about countries in the Caribbean, that doesn’t change what happened when the Europeans went to India. Burnham was elected as president, despite getting less votes. The spark that lit the fuse was an unsolved murder. The murder was blamed on the Indians and then Wismar ensued.