​Callaloo people.

By Michael Baiz, Octob 26, 2021 (Virtual Museum of T&T)
"If they sending Indians to India
And Africans back to Africa
Well somebody please just tell me
Where they sending poor me?
I am neither one nor the other
Six of one, half a dozen of the other
So if they sending all these people back home for true
They got to split me in two" - Mighty Dougla.
According to Wikipedia, the word 'Dougla' is derived from the Caribbean Hindustani word 'dooagla', meaning 'twoish'. I am not quite sure exactly which island the name originated from, but from what I have read it would seem that Guyana has the largest population of Douglas in the region. In case you were wondering, a Dougla is a person of mixed African and Indian ancestry.
The mixing of races is quite common in Trinidad and we frequently boast of being one of the most cosmopolitan countries in the world. Whether we be of pure or mixed racial backgrounds, we pride ourselves as being a Trini (or Trinbagonian), from one melting pot of peoples.
I remember returning to Toronto from one of my first summer vacations back home while I was away studying. On leaving the departure lounge at the airport, I went to where the taxis lined up and jumped in the back seat of one to get a lift to where I was staying at the time. After a few minutes of friendly chatter with the driver, he adjusted his rear view mirror and on seeing me he remarked in astonishment " but you're white!!!". I replied " yeah, I was born so". Poor fella, he never came across a fair skinned passenger talking like a Jamaican (in Toronto, all Caribbean people are lumped together and thought to be Jamaicans). After a bit of explanation on my part, I proudly told him that "I is ah Trini". He was amused at how I spoke and showed a genuine interest in learning more about where I came from and the culture of the people. On arriving at my apartment building on Eglinton Avenue, he asked about the ethnicity of the people to which I replied, "Boi, we is ah real callaloo people yes!". I don't think he had the faintest idea of what I meant and there was no internet for him to Google it either. Throughout my schooling in Canada, I always had to be mindful of how I spoke as my colloquialisms had a habit of sneaking into the Queen's English.
Callaloo is a tasty dish made up of a mixture of various ingredients, much like our racial mix in T&T).