Talk:Women in Trinidad and Tobago

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The two sections that I would like to address are the notable women and the etiquette sections. The summaries were more generalized statements and did give a lot of in depth information to how those to categories contribute to the life and success of the women. I found some books and articles that can give further information on the two topics.

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I moved my article and its four pieces to this page as part of a class projectJTHicks (talk) 01:57, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

These are some sources to start to get more information about the women from this region. Thomasonmariah (talk) 00:09, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

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Beginning of the page is biased

The beginning of the page seems to be more about women in Trinidad and Tobago of African heritage. To start off with, the picture is of women in Trinidad and Tobago of African descent and not a picture of the multi-cultural women of Trinidad and Tobago like Indians, Mixed people, and Chinese and the picture is of women attending an African unite meeting, which has nothing do with the topic of the page. Why not put pictures of women of different ethnicities who play an important role in Trinidadian society, for example like Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Paula-Mae Weekes, Nicki Minaj, Valene Maharaj, or Anya Ayoung-Chee. Then to start off with in the second paragraph it literally starts off talking about Afro-Trinidadian, not Trinidadian women, but Afro-Trinidadian women. That piece does not belong in the beginning at all. If anything stick it in a section about the experience of women of different races in Trinidad and Tobago and then have a section about the experience and role of women of the African, Indian, Chinese, other races, and mixed race. The third paragraph then goes on to talk about Nigeria and Ghana as the closest allies and closest cultural beacon to Trinidad and Tobago. First of all, I don’t know what kind a of untrue source that was put, but Nigeria and Ghana are surely not T&T’s closest allies and are not T&T’s closest cultural beacon. If anything India and the United Kingdom would be our closest cultural beacon and then Nigeria and Ghana because number one Indians the largest ethnic group and their culture is widespread throughout the country and for example why it’s not Nigeria or Ghana is that if you do a simple Google search of Indian movies in T&T you will get a list of articles about it and there is even a book written about the impact of Indian movies in T&T, but if you Google Nigerian or West African movies in Trinidad and Tobago not much comes up maybe a few website, clearly not the impacts of Indian movies in T&T. Then UK would also be our other closest cultural beacon because of T&T’s official language is English, T&T was a colony of the UK, and we have adopted many of their customs and manerisms. And then after India and UK it would be Nigeria and Ghana.

Commons has a c:Category:People of Trinidad and Tobago. If you find a picture there that better depicts the lemma, feel free to change it. Given the ethnic diversity of T&T it would not help though to simply put up a picture of Indian-Trinbagonian women. Another possibility would be to take a matching picture yourself and upload it to Commons. Kind regards, Grueslayer 06:00, 9 May 2018 (UTC)