What’s it Like Being a Jamaican Living in Portugal?
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2025
- In this episode of “Jamaicans to the World”, Jamaicans.com founder Xavier Murphy speaks with Anne Henriques. She is a Jamaican that has lived in Portugal for 9 months. We discuss the food, culture, customs, the people, things to do, the language, music, and adjusting to living in Portugal as an expat. Xavier asks what are the must-eat foods and must-visit places in Portugal. #WeJaminate #Portugal
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Wow, so glad I stumbled onto this. Jamaican here living in Washington DC. Visited Portugal last year and I can see why she decided to leave the US and settle there. I’m planning on probably retiring to Spain because I speak the language fairly well. If it weren’t for that, Portugal would probably win out. My personal motto is “the world is your oyster, go find your pearl.”
This was insightful, refreshing and so inspiring. Portuguese next country I’ll be visiting. Thank you
This lady is beautiful on the inside and out . This is what inner beauty is it is so natural and real. It is so rare to find down to earth human beings that are so genuine. I feel her presence through her aura 👌🏿🇯🇲🇨🇦❤️
This was one of the best interviews for "Jamaican Living In..." I learned a lot.
Thanks Anna for sharing. Thinking of Portugal
I’m a Jamaican living in Portugal too if you ever decide to do a Part 2 🇯🇲
Hello, Shauntel. I'd like to contact you, if possible, so I can find about more about the Jamaican culture here in Portugal. Being a native New Yorker, I was born and raised with a daily contact with the Jamaican community in my area. I would like to rekindle that intereste in some way.
What is Jewish blood? A lot of Hebrews lived on the Island of Jamaica. They are from the tribe of Judah, and was brought to Jamaica and enslaved. Most European Jewish people are not the original Hebrew, but they are mainly Ashkenazi Jews, who were converts. Ancient Hebrews were black.
Love your channel as a proud jamaican living abroad . To see how you connect our people through out the world 🌎 we know that we are very special and unique.
big up Xaver for such great research. Good on good on you
You make , me proud man.
This is my favourite episode. Portugal is a place I have deep desire to visit and spend some extended time when I retire.
It's true Portuguese people are very welcoming and genuinely kind. Portuguese people are a mix of many bloods as well and most don't know it..I would say more than half have some African or North African DNA mixture. It's no shock they assume she's Portuguese, she looks it!
I'm a Jamaican who is now living in Spain and I love it, no regrets.
Great interview with Anna. She has such a lovely personality and very talented.
Wow another great interview with a Jamaican living in another country, its a great and interesting story about how the people of Jamaica are going to other countries around the world to see how it works and what is going blessings to my fellow Jamaicans worldwide.
why people don't want to come back to Jamaica to live they lookin for peace Hi m Lord have mercy on Jamaica
People like myself needs the reassurance that if and when we do decide to return and make Jamaica our home, we are going to be ok and not to be fearful about what may happen. The unfortunate thing is that there has been many who have returned from different places and a few has had unfortunate circumstances that have put others off but at the same time others have been able to settle down well and things are going well.
@@rachealwright919 she don't want to live in Jamaica because she don't want to live with black people she is European
@@rachealwright919 hundreds of Brits (my mother and father amongst them) return to JA every year.
Wonderful interview ❤. I can't believe I just found this channel. I plan on retiring in Portugal. Absolutely beautiful country with a fantastic culture.
Love, love, love these videos! I am a Jamaican living in the U.S. and I love to travel and I live somewhat vicariously through each person as I watch the videos.
So nice to see you Anna!!!
Oh how “ I needed to get out of America “ resonated in my soul! Exactly where I am.
Me too😀
Ms. Richards, you have hit the nail right on the head. Blessings.
24hrs ago I came across a link which list the safest countries in the World and to my SHOCK Portugal is #3. I have decided to get deep into research, any tips, tricks, experiences and knowledge of Portugal will be super welcome. Awesome Video.
Hi V. Portuguese here. Portugal been ranking high for a quite a few years, 4th and 3rd place.
Now I just want to clarify, and if you look into it again, you will realize what I’m about to say. That ranking is the Global Peace index, which reflects safety yes, but a whole lot of other things., which together puts Portugal in 3rd place. Which is still great and it’s a sure sign of peaceful and quality life.
The reason I want to clarify this is because it may induce you into a false sense of safety. I’m not saying it’s false to say Portugal is safe, I’m saying if it was exclusively a safety ranking, probably Portugal would trade places with a country like Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, and others from Northern Europe.
To give you a better image let’s take this situation as example, let’s say you are in McDonald’s with your laptop and you go to the restroom. If you in South Korea or Japan , you will come back and still find your laptop there. In Portugal nahh girl. It’s gone. It’s not “safe” to leave those items unattended, or in sight. Very hard to be mugged at gunpoint in Portugal but pickpocketing is a thing. Also compared to other countries, Portuguese roads (driving) are very dangerous. Every year lots of die. Also compare this to any of those other countries i mentioned, and Portugal would be ranked low.
Now. Let’s consider something else, the political situation. South Korean, Japan have certain political fragility amongst them and other Asian neighboring countries. That’s creates instability. And ballistic missiles flying over people. Or let’s take other European countries which have active military forces in other places. Like Middle East. Terrorist attacks in home countries. Instability. Fear.
Portugal doesn’t have that. It’s safe. It’s peaceful.
That’s what it means that rank. Don’t think you gonna be in Portugal, door unlocked, laptop on restaurant table, travel bag left in train station, phone forgotten somewhere. And nothing gonna happen. It will eventually if you push your luck too much.
Regardless Portugal is nice, and depending on where people come from, it may not be as safe as in your home country, or it may very well be safest place on earth you ever visited.
Very nice interview 👍. Portugal is a nice place, beautiful views. They keep the streets very clean. If I go back I will visit Lisbon. Anna was a very informative guest. So true about Jamaicans being the expert on everything. 😂😂
I lived in The Azores for 2 years and those were some of my best years living abroad. The people were wonderful, the make me felt at home.
That's interesting! Is it a tropical climate. As an outsider there doesn't appear to be that much to do there to make me want to stay more than a month. For someone who's livelihood depends on a solid internet connection, how good is the infrastructure?
@@temprmj1 The Azores are not tropical, the weather is very mild, never too cold and never too hot. Rains a lot. The infrastructure has European standards.
Another great conversation. Love this.
Love you Anna. Enjoyed the interview. Very enlightening.
Can you please do a follow up on how your guest, Anne Henriques is doing in Portugal, and if her hospitality business abroad is thriving in spite of the pandemic? My daughter & I would love to plan a trip there when it’s advisable by CDC/W.H.O. Thank you 🙏🏽
I couldn’t help but smile at this interview. Continued blessings Anna👍🏽👍🏽
I so want to move Lisbon .. I absolutely loved it there. I see myself living there or Amsterdam...
I would live in Lisbon any day over Amsterdam - don't get me wrong as I love Amsterdam - but they don't have the yearly sunshine, which I NEED - the food and beaches like Portugal.🤗
That's the only downside to Amsterdam. But everything else is good. I just love the diversity
I would love to visit too and Amsterdam as well would be my dream city to visit!!!
This show have inspire me so much...to move out of the USA
What we do to stop the chickens from eating the eggs, is put three or four golf balls in the nest and when they realize it's too hard they'll stop.
Interesting. Thanks for the idea 👍
I love this interview. ❤❤ keep dem coming.
I really enjoyed this interview I would love to visit Portugal!!!!
I am surprised you don't know that you can find chiken curry in Portugal, you can buy the curry powder anda spycies at any shop ... portuguese gastronomy is diverse since we have a great influence from Índia, China, African countries... I love a good curry , chiken or vegetarian is always delicious.
Enjoying this interview🌍
Another great interview.....love these conversations. Visiting different countries and learning the diverse cultures....love it. Great channel Xavier!
I think she need to explore Portugal more. Because as a chef that has traveled more the 150 countries. I have not found so much variety as Portugal.
From all Africa roots. From south America roots. From India roots. From China and Malaysia
Jamaican carry is not different from Angolan or Mozambique and there's plenty all over
I’m so proud of you cousin Anna
Nice! Want to visit, very interesting and informative 👍
I love this interview with Anna, it was very interesting. I love her personality. I’d love to tour her little farm and garden.
Well God put eden our hearts but she's making a little one here in the meantime good love it.
👩🏽💻👩🏽💻So kool! Great interview. Obrigada
Anna you're amazing, great interview
Would love to learn more about living in Portugal heard it's quite affordable also.
Really
Thank you for sharing. I stumbled on you channel. Very interesting. I've learned a lot. You both have wonderful personality.
I visited Portugal few years ago and fell in love with the place in a lot ways some parts reminded me of JA. And if I had to emigrate to another country in Europe it would definitely be Portugal it’s a beautiful place.
Yeah, while there, it felt like I was in Jamaica, but for the language and some cobblestone streets.
We are one big irie family. Jamaicans are everywhere.
Is that Morant Bay St Thomas Jamaica, nice place that's my home town 🙏🙏🙏🙏
As a person of Portuguese, mixed race jamaican heritage, this is accurate. Surnames such as Henriques, Golçovas , Mesquita and such in Jamaica, is heavily Portuguese. My grandmother on dad side is Mesquita. We look heavily Hispanic but we are jamaican.
You're nationality might be different but you're genetics might be similar, most Hispanic are mixed with African, native American and European etc
@@juanacastillo1772 , exactly . 💯
Hi Anna., you really look like a portuguese and your portuguese name (Henriques) means "filho de Henrique ". Wish you all the best here in Portugal.
She does look Portuguese she is very beautiful!!!!
wow! We hardly know a lot about this Out of Many ...its really better to leave it right deso. One Love, One Blood
Like her aura... Never been to mainland Portugal but visited Maderia which is Portuguese and the food and lifestyle is the closest I have seen to Jamaica!!
My mind and went back 400 years and I felt my African ancestors suffering from those people. Throughout the Caribbean north and south Amrica. Just ask the so call Indians. Brazil are Africa people there still being mistreated.
Been to Portugal but on the south coast Albufiera and Cabo de Vincente very nice area, but the history of the colonial times casts a dark shadow on the country
I agree! My cousins who moved there, love the place and the people. So does my family. We love to visit anywhere in Portugal. Beautiful!
It is lovely there
@@vernastawhyte9047 E agora a culpa é só dos portugueses! Estude a história dos espanhois, ingleses e a dos holandeses e depois crie uma opinião fundamentada!
Portugal my place.
I worked with a Portuguese and he was the nicest person ever - well-mannered and patient. He did not have the kind of aggression often found in Americans. He was very much the gentle person she described of the Portuguese people.
The Jewish and Portuguese aspects to your guest's ancestry is fascinating, thank you.
Lovely interview
Anna is amazing 👏 got to contact her!
I love these stories!
Bathsheba was Uriah's wife, who then became King David's wife. Elizabeth was the wife of Zechariah.
Such a great interview 👏 I have experienced what she says "in other cultures, people find my opinionated-ness, very off putting. But its harmless fun
Yea I think it's because sometimes it's offensive, or comes off that way, but we don't realise because of our cultural norms.
Thank you!
Purtugal is beautiful, and they have good salt 🐟
Flor do sal..... Algarve
I considered applying for Portuguese citizenship through that path but did not have the required documentation. I am delighted that at least one Jamaican was successful. All the best, Anna
Thank you for the video, it was very relatable! I'm a British Jamaican and I was living in Lisbon for 3 months, I'm not sure about my heritage, my family identifies as black but my mother's family name is DaCosta. Unfortunately, I had to rush back to the UK 2 days ago due to the EU reaction to the new virus strain in the UK.
I definitely noticed similarities in Jamaican and Portuguese culture such as saltfish (Bacaulhau), family culture, pastries (gizzada) and both countries take religion seriously. Portugal is beautiful and has so much to offer for tourists, my favourite is the Douro Valley region!
Yeah man we 'Jumeikanz' are experts on everiting. hahahha gud ole belly lahff Iyah! I like your stylie Anna. Respec an Mannaz Xavier!
Nice interview, thanks for sharing. Where can I find, Jamaican Oxtail w/ rice and peas as well as jerk kitchen and patties in Lisbon or nearby please? Thank you in advance.
Sounds like that should be my next move from Japan.
Wow sounds like Paradise this makes me feel like visiting Portagal when covid is over . Is she related to Mrs Avis Henriques in Jamaica .
One thing i miss is a good mango and a good slice of yellow yam and some good calloo . Jamaicans are so diverse i myself is decended from Jews my Great grandmother was a Jew .
Whenever i say that i am from Jamaica the first thing i hear is Bob Marley
Bob Marley's father was a Syrian-Jew and as a result Jews who are aware of that are claming him as been one of them. Ziggy, his son, wife is Jewish too and Chris Blackwell's (Bob's biggest promoter) mother was a Spanish Jew, thing about that.
@@kennedysingh3916 Portugal is racist against black people Facts 💯
@@loveispower2997 És um grande idiota! Sabes ?
@@luissantos5611 you looking at the wrong channel everybody speak English Fool 😂
I love this. Great Interview.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe I met Anna and her dad in Ft Lauderdale Airport back in the 2000's. I lived in Switzerland and they mentioned how they vacated in Interlaken, Switzerland, many times. As I recalled, she was living either in Japan or Australia at the time. Could that be her?
I'm also an ex Jamaican living in the US but looking abroad for where I want to spend my later years. Also looking at portugal and bali.
Why are you an ex- Jamaican. How can someone be an ex. Have you divorced yourself from Jamaica?
@@eileenwatt8283 I no longer reside in Jamaica.
@@JasonJFlippingLife clown 🤡😂
Don't go to Bali
I would love to communicate with Anna, Portugal sounds really interesting!
Im going to send you a link about moving to Portugal
@@dawnstewart9298 thanks, I would appreciate it.
@@dawnstewart9298 : May I have the link as well, I am currently researching with the same interest.
I'm also Jamaican living in Portugal
Wow!!!! Would love to visit!!!!!
@@roxannemcintosh342 come on down
I am Guyanese living here in Portugal as well.
Yes! You resemble my former coworker , Lina, who is from Portugal; she was a dedicated and a team-player in the nursing arena.
She is beautiful.. and blessed.
The Portuguese are adventurous. My family has roots in the Madeira Islands ..they immigrated to Antigua.
It was all going very well until Anna said there is no variety !! Ouch that stinging I feel in my Portuguese soul 😂. Hmm may not have the same variety as Asian gastronomy or even Jamaican for ex, but compared to most euro countries we have big variety of things. Portuguese gastronomy doesn’t focus on one or a couple of things only, like cheeses , or pastas or pizzas or fish and chips…
Our variety it’s actually one of the reasons why Portuguese food is not world wide famous. like Italian and French cuisine for example, which are worldwide renowned.
The influence Portuguese food had in other countries and other countries had in Portuguese food, makes it that it doesn’t stand out as being or having anything unique. Go from the Americas all the way to Asia, and everything in between. “Ah yes we have that dish.” “Ah Here we also have a version of that Portuguese dish but only better”.
Portuguese food is already very familiar to a lot of people from other countries, continents. So I can see how it may people feel like it doesn’t stand out or doesn’t have variety. But it does. And it does.
where did you go to get the drone image of my city? the first image that appears
We have started apples here in grenada
Portuguese pastries are super fantastic
I am Jamaican recently found out that I am 31% Portuguese, 9% British. If I can prove my DNA ancestry what are my chances? Jamaican by birth, derivative US citizen. Retired military pension
Xavier good afternoon. Your name as is written, with an X is portuguese language . In spanish would be with a J.... Javier. Have a nice day.
Is she related to Sean Paul?, thought so. Her heritage is the same as mine, Carvalho’s from Trelawny.
We might be related. I found out my grandmother was Jewish and I contacted her dad who told me we are cousins. I asked Anna to take her grandmothers' DNA before she pass. Sure enough we match as 4th cousins on The DNA test.
Carvalho = Oak
wish she had said her African heritage, instead of her mother's "slave heritage". Our African ancestors were enslaved not slaves by default.
Hi how easy is it to migrate to Portugal
We're experts directly n indirectly. We really are well rounded n adaptable to culture. We can imitate n do stuff to the T, but, we've never been to the place we learned from.
Big up morant bay St Thomas
HI MY NAME IS REBECCA HENRIQUES from the UK 🇬🇧
Henriques = Son of Henrique
She looks Portuguese but I am wondering if you looked opposite of them, would they still receive you with the grace and warmth she speaks about- and of course someone who is respectful of their culture. She doesn’t look like the typical black Jamaican which most on your show are straight up black.
I see that a famous Jamaican Jew - who was also a pirate! - was named Moses Cohen Henriques. Are you related?
My great grandmother is Portuguese and l would really like to trace her ancestry.
Greetings from Portugal. Pay a visit to Portugal to get to know the country of your ancestors. I guarantee it's worth the trip.
The chicken eating the egg is funny
Where in jamaica can u go to check out ur ancestor history??
The Registrar General’s Office, Institute of Jamaica are excellent places to start.
Portugal is a nice EU country to be in. Was planning to go there this year but their current restrictions won't allow it now.
Please help me find my aunt. Her name is Hermin Welch. We call her peggy. She is known to frequent Ochio Rio's or Clarendon.
Did u find your Aunt? Find someone from the area she lives in Jamaica?
Excellent i am new to your channel i am loving are you from Portland
Xavier I 💕 your chat lots of info
Lovely
Its my first time on this show very inserting👍👍👍
Majority of jamaicans inherited these European names on the plantation which traces back to the slave trade
Believe it or not, I was eating currey chicken while watching. Very interesting I'm aware of our Jamaican Jewish heritage,I myself as visited our local synagogues in Kingston wear the floor is covered with sand to remind worshipers of the Spanish Inquisition. I'm taken aback by the fact that her ancesters were among the first set of Jews who came hear with Christopher Columbus, amazing, and the fact that she is welcome back to Portugal wear her family was driven from all those years takes the cake boomerang!
You got that right! It is such a shame that more Jamaicans do not know about the Jewish heritage of Jamaica. Here is how I learned that Jamaica has a rich and deep Jewish heritage: I went to a conference some years ago and was talking with the speaker, an elderly Australian man. I mentioned to him that I am from Jamaica, and talked a bit about the cricket. He then asked me if I know how our island got its name. I readily told him what every Jamaican child learns in school - 'Xaymayca', meaning 'land of wood and water'. The man immediately told me that that is not true. He said that 'Jamaica' is a bastardization of the words "Jew-Maker". That back in Columbus' time, anyone heading for Jamaica was automatically assumed to be Jewish, because sooo many Jewish people were settling there. (And if you were not Jewish, you would be 'made' one, since so many of them were there!) When I heard that, I was taken aback. What is this old Australian man talking about?, I thought. I told him out loud that I had never heard such a thing before, and that is not what Jamaicans learn in school. In any case, what he said stayed with me for days...my curiosity was piqued. I decided to do a bit of research on the good ol' Google. And THAT is when I found out how many, many of the Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition came to Jamaica with Columbus. Spanish AND Portuguese Jews, otherwise known as Sephardic Jews, or Sephardim. Check out the last names: people with names like Henriques, Carvalho, De Cordova, De Freitas, Menzies, for example...those are persons of Spanish and Portuguese descent! There was a large synagogue in Spanish Town that burned to the ground. I started finding all kinds of info about Jamaicans who are just coming into knowledge of their Jewish roots. Jewish organizations in New York and California planning trips to search out the Jewish roots in Jamaica, and other places in the Caribbean. One of the oldest synagogues in the English- speaking Caribbean is in Barbados. I found out that Jacob DeCordova, one of the founders of the major newspaper in Jamaica, The Gleaner, founded the city of Waco, Texas!! There is a monument to him there. And there is a city called DeCordova, as well as a county called DeCordova County - named after him!! Jamaicans...we are in EVRYTHING! Dallas County, TX, I understand, was named for George Mifflin Dallas, who was Vice President of the USA from 1845-1849...his father was born in Kingston, Jamaica!! (That would mean Kamala Harris is the 2nd Vice-President to have a father with Jamaican roots, and NOT the 1st one!!).
I could go on further (but I shall stop now 😜😁). All of this is soooo fascinating and interesting to me!!!
@@gracenembhard4733 You would be interested to know that I've heard the turm Jew-Maker been used by a Jewish Seventh Day Adventist pastor before, Ten minunites into the vedio on UA-cam Immanuel TV ( Jewish - Adventist / SAT NOV 26 PM Part 2) you have enliten my suspicion. I also read in an online Jewish magazine ( Tablet Magazine) another interesting story that Jews are claming Bob Marley as their own for his father was a Syrian Jew and I must add remember too his promoter Criss Blackwell mother was a Spanish Jew ! I've known about the Dallas family story as it was covered locally on Hill and Gully Ride (TVJ) and on Both Side of the Story with Dervan Malcolm (Power 106 FM) same years ago, they both did a program on the Dallas Castle in St. Thomas that use to be owned by the same Dallas familly and also stated the fact that family members still live in the area but I didn't know they were Jews but I knew about the Jewish Gleaner connection.
@@kennedysingh3916 Wait now...I only mentioned the part about the Dallas family to show that what we've always heard and known about Jamaica: "wi likkle but wi tallawah!" How we are EVERYWHERE in this world, making indelible marks wherever we turn up. So...I don't know if the Dallas family was Jewish...the research I did said they were from Scotland. Their name 'Dallas' is from 2 Gaelic words. I did hear about the Dallas Castle and was wondering where that was...now I know.
Bob Marley's father was a Syrian Jew??? That's new. Always heard that he was an English military man. Hmm. Wow...history is interesting, ee?!
@@gracenembhard4733 Yes Bob father came to Jamaica from England. I understand he served in WW1 but his service was not much to desier but it was that article by the Jewish magazine made me know and to add, his so Ziggy wife is Jewish,think about that.
I always want to move there
This is a serious interview.
I did my DNA and found that I have Ashkenazi Jewish lineage as well as Nigerian and Senigambian.