Editing Barbados (section)

=== Ethnicity  ===
[[File:Bridgetown 049.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.9|People shopping in the capital Bridgetown]]
Close to 90% of all Barbadians (also known colloquially as "Bajan") are of [[Afro-Caribbean]] ancestry ("[[Afro-Barbadian|Afro-Bajans]]") and mixed ancestry. The remainder of the population includes groups of Europeans ("Anglo-Bajans" / "Euro-Bajans") mainly from the United Kingdom, Portugal, Ireland, Germany, and Italy.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} Other European groups consisted of the French, Austrians, Spaniards, and Russians. Asians, predominantly from Hong Kong and India (both Hindu and Muslim) make up less than 1% of the population.
Other groups in Barbados include people from the United States and Canada. Barbadians who return after years of residence in the United States and children born in America to Bajan parents are called "Bajan Yankees", a term considered derogatory by some.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Byfield, Judith Ann-Marie |author2=Denzer, LaRay |author3=Morrison, Anthea |title=Gendering the African diaspora: women, culture, and historical change in the Caribbean and Nigerian hinterland |url={{GBurl|C6_aWWN5aoUC |pg=PA39}} |year=2010 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-22153-7 |pages=39–}}</ref> Generally, Bajans recognise and accept all "children of the island" as Bajans, and refer to each other as such.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

The biggest communities outside the Afro-Caribbean community are:

# The [[Indo-Guyanese]], an important part of the economy due to the increase of immigrants from partner country{{clarify|date=October 2021}} [[Guyana]]. There are reports of a growing [[Indians in Barbados|Indo-Bajans]] diaspora originating from Guyana and India starting around 1990. Predominantly from southern India, they are growing in size but are smaller than the equivalent communities in Trinidad and Guyana.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/09/060906_guyaneseinbdos.shtml |title=BBCCaribbean.com &#124; Are Guyanese welcome in Barbados? |first=Bertram |last=Niles| publisher= British Broadcasting Corporation (Caribbean Bureau)|date=7 September 2006|access-date=8 July 2016 |archive-date=11 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911063819/http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/09/060906_guyaneseinbdos.shtml |url-status=live}}.</ref><ref name="Encylopedia Britannica- Barbados"/> The Muslim Barbadians of Indian origin are largely of [[Gujarat]]i ancestry. Many small businesses in Barbados are run and operated by Muslim-Indian Bajans.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Amadou Mahtar M'Bow |author2=M. Ali Kettani |title=Islam and Muslims in the American Continent |url={{GBurl|_d_XAAAAMAAJ}} |year=2001 |publisher=Center of Historical, Economical and Social Studies}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Rhoda Reddock |title=Ethnic minorities in Caribbean society |url={{GBurl|RaIMAQAAMAAJ}} |year=1996 |publisher=I.S.E.R., The University of the West Indies |isbn=978-976-618-024-9}}</ref>
# Euro-Bajans (5% of the population)<ref name="cia">[https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/barbados/ Barbados] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123091149/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/barbados/ |date=23 January 2021 }} CIA World Factbook</ref> have settled in Barbados since the 17th century, originating from England, Ireland, Portugal, and Scotland. In 1643, there were 37,200 whites in Barbados (86% of the population).<ref>Watson, Karl (17 February 2011) [https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/barbados_01.shtml "Slavery and Economy in Barbados"], BBC | History. {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212022845/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/barbados_01.shtml |date=12 February 2012 }}, BBC.</ref> More commonly they are known as "[[White Barbadian|White Bajans]]". Euro-Bajans introduced folk music, such as [[Irish music]] and Highland music, and certain place names, such as "Scotland District", a hilly region in the parish of St. Andrew. Among White Barbadians there exists an underclass known as [[Redlegs]] comprising followers of the [[James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth|Duke of Monmouth]] after his defeat at the [[Battle of Sedgemoor]], as well as the descendants of [[Irish people|Irish]] indentured labourers and prisoners imported to the island.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rodgers, Nini |title=The Irish in the Caribbean 1641–1837: An Overview |journal=Irish Migration Studies in Latin America |volume=5 |issue=3 |date=November 2007 |pages=145–156 |url=http://www.irlandeses.org/0711rodgers2.htm |access-date=15 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119044057/http://www.irlandeses.org/0711rodgers2.htm |archive-date=19 November 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> Many additionally moved on to become the earliest settlers of modern-day [[Province of Carolina|North]] and [[Colonial period of South Carolina|South Carolina]] in the United States. Today the Redlegs number only around 400.<ref>{{cite news |date=19 December 2009 |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2009/0117/1232059655355.html |title=Remnants of an indentured people |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |quote="Today, behind the facade of a lush green, rural setting, the descendants of those transported still remain – a poor, white population of around 400 known as the Red Legs." |access-date=23 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022184928/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2009/0117/1232059655355.html |archive-date=22 October 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>
# Chinese-Barbadians are a small portion of Barbados's wider Asian population.<ref name="Encylopedia Britannica- Barbados"/> Chinese food and culture is becoming part of everyday Bajan culture.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}
# Lebanese and Syrians form the island's [[Arab]] Barbadian community.<ref name="Encylopedia Britannica- Barbados"/>
# [[Jews]] arrived in Barbados just after the first settlers in 1627. Bridgetown is the home of [[Nidhe Israel Synagogue]], one of the oldest Jewish synagogues in the Americas, dating from 1654, though the current structure was erected in 1833, replacing one ruined by the hurricane of 1831.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewish-history.com/occident/volume2/sep1844/barbadoes.html |title=Jews in Barbadoes |website=jewish-history.com |access-date=26 July 2017 |archive-date=25 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025185350/http://www.jewish-history.com/occident/volume2/sep1844/barbadoes.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Tombstones in the neighbouring cemetery date from the 1630s. Now under the care of the Barbados National Trust,<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://barbadosnationaltrust.com/about/ |access-date=28 June 2024 |website=Barbados National Trust |language=en-US}}</ref> the site was deserted in 1929 but was saved and restored by the Jewish community beginning in 1986.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}
# In the 17th century, [[Romani people]] were sent from the United Kingdom to work as slaves in the plantations in Barbados.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/features/feature-roma-and-gypsy-slavery |title=Feature – Roma and Gypsy Slavery |website=Travellers Times|date=24 February 2017 |access-date=1 September 2020 |archive-date=27 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027211246/https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/features/feature-roma-and-gypsy-slavery |url-status=live }}</ref>