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Guyana
There has been racial tension between the Indo-Guyanese people and the Afro-Guyanese. A personal account of racism in Guyana comes from Dr. Kean Gibson an academic at the University of the West Indies. "Whenever I return to Barbados it takes me a couple of days to recover from the trauma of the society. Now that I am in Guyana on a more or less continuous basis, I feel that I am living in a pressure cooker, and like many Guyanese, I just want some relief from the tensions in society. The problem in the country is inequality and the consequences of it with respect to differential distribution, rights and duties (which is what racism is about)."

Coppied from Racism in South America The Indo-Guyanese group of people happen to suffer from the most racial violence. However, they are considered the countries racist groups. > They are semi-equivalent to America’s white population. Ironically, even though these populations do not get along, some of these populations marry one another. My grandmother is an Indo-Guyanese person, and my grandfather is an Afro-Guyanese person. They lead to the creation of my mother, and two aunts, even though these two groups of people are not allowed to get along with each other. This led to disapproval amongst families and discrimination against the children. In school, my mother would not fit in with the Indian Guyanese group because she was considered “too black”, nor would she fit in with the African Guyanese group because “she did not possess the traits.” Exactly where did this racial tension between these two different races stem from? This all traces back to colonial periods in Guyana. Africans were brought to Guyana as slaves, and they were put to work in sugar and cotton plantations. Indians were brought to Guyana as indentured servants and took the place of Africans that worked on plantations. Once these two groups were brought to Guyana, there happened to be more of stereotypes brought amongst these groups of people. The Africans were viewed as strong, but very lazy. The Indians were viewed as hardworking, but very greedy. These groups of people were both used as labor for British colonists, however they both had different stereotypes given to them which affected how one race viewed the other. Racial tensions in Guyana started to divide more when it came to politics. After the British has left and Guyana has been freed, the government in Guyana was completely split. When people ran for president it became more of a racial issue. Indians would favor other Indians, which were called the People’s Progressive Party (PPP). The Afro-Guyanese people would favor their own kind of people as well and became their own party called the People’s National Congress (PNC). This split happened under president Cheddy Jagan, which is why he became extremely disliked in Guyana. Ironically the airport in Guyana was named after him. Racial tensions escalated a lot more in the 1900s. Afro-Guyanese people would preach “Africa for Africans.” It did empower the Afro-Guyanese group of people; however, it did divide the country even more. The Indo-Guyanese people also began showing more pride in being Indian. The women would begin wearing Indian garb. Whenever one race would try and boost themselves, the other race would follow, turning this into a competition in Guyana. Today Guyana is extremely divided, and if you go to one group of Guyanese people, they would tend to bash the other group of Guyanese people. The only Indian group of Guyanese people that would be accepted by the Afro-Guyanese people would be the ones who converted religions and were educated. One of the biggest problems in Guyana would be mixed children. These would be children of both races, who grew up confused. It would be a predicament as to how the child would be raised. Peer review by Lester Maupoy

The first thing that I noticed is that long quote and I think you can shorten it and blend it more, add some of your own words. It is a great reading and I think you can improve it more by adding more references about the life of the people in Guyana. It is great that you incorporated your own family experience but i think you should somewhat lessen the use of "my" and first person since you are trying to be neutral. The second half of your addition is better than your first half and I think you did a great job in drafting your wikipedia entry. By the way, are you making a whole new entry or is it an addition? just wondering