Bob marley is half british/jamaican?

Question

his father was from england, and was white so alot of jamaican see him as misked race.... i found out at bob marley muesulium,, the nine mile house in jamaica....he is a great guy and i like the place ......any thoughts on knowing bob is part of our culture aswell.

Answer 1

Bob Marley experienced no form of British Culture.... many people in Jamaica are mixed but that does not mean that wherever the other race originated from had any effect on their socialization. Bob Marley grew up in a poor community and lived in the ghetto for a significant portion of his life. He never behaved British so no credit can be taken from the UK side, as his dad was not from there, he was like an expat... not a big deal, though.

Answer 2

actually his father was a white Jamaican he was a british citizen but thats because england ruled jam at that time, bob marley is mullato/mixed he was never black even though he prided himself as black but if you know his history he faced racism in his youth growing up in jam.

Answer 3

OK

All I know, he's the best rastaman that ever lived.

Answer 4

Yeah, it's pretty well known that Bob Marley was mixed race. Someone said earlier that you can tell because he was light-skinned and because of his hair... My father is as light as Bob Marley was and has long dreads, same colour and probably the same texture. He resembles Bob Marley quite a lot in terms of facial features too but my father is not mixed race, he is black. You cannot always tell a person's race by their appearance.

The museum is wicked though, I went years ago. There's a lotta history and his family have maintained his space well. The Devon House Ice-cream parlour is wicked too!!

Answer 5

you can tell he's so light and by his hair .

Answer 6

Jamaica did not gain independence until 1962, so Bob Marley (born in JA in 1945) was technically a British subject. That is the beginning and end of his cultural relationship with Britain. Sorry.

BTW, practically everyone in Jamaica is of mixed race. It was ground zero for the slave trade to the Americas (85% of all slaves bound for the Americas passed thru JA), and many Europeans moved there when it was a British colony. Still, almost all of us identify as black, no matter what the skin color or hair type. (My mother looks "white," my dad is very black, and I'm about Bob's color.) Everyone's mixed, and nobody cares.

Answer 7

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