Marabou (ethnicity)
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Marabou is a term of Haiti
an origin denoting multiracial admixture. The term describes the offspring of a person of mixed race: black African/European and East Indian ancestry, born in Haiti. The East Indians arrived in Haiti from other Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, and others). Intermarriage with other Haitian communities diluted the generations of so-called "marabous" over the decades.
Today most Haitians of East Indians descent have majority African descent, and to a lesser extent European ancestry. A marabou was considered an individual with very dark skin, straight/wavy hair, and European features in contrast to a grimelle (female) or grimeau (male) who had very fair skin, kinky hair, and African features.
Haiti
Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
an origin denoting multiracial admixture. The term describes the offspring of a person of mixed race: black African/European and East Indian ancestry, born in Haiti. The East Indians arrived in Haiti from other Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, and others). Intermarriage with other Haitian communities diluted the generations of so-called "marabous" over the decades.
Today most Haitians of East Indians descent have majority African descent, and to a lesser extent European ancestry. A marabou was considered an individual with very dark skin, straight/wavy hair, and European features in contrast to a grimelle (female) or grimeau (male) who had very fair skin, kinky hair, and African features.