Suriname

I'm part of this called the Chinese Caribbean Scholarship Network.

So it's a network of scholars, artists, writers, creatives, community members from around the world, England, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad, Jamaica, Cuba, all over the world.

When you hear people share stories, you meet people From Jamaica, who have family in Trinidad, you hear similar surnames, or whose family would have been in Trinidad or Guyana at some point, or Cuba at some point.

And you realize that although a Chinese family may have settled in one space, they have still established or maintained contacts in other spaces.

And there we were able to see people doing some really amazing work on preserving these histories and sitting with the culture and all these things.

So we had writers, we had creators, artists, scholars, and so forth.

So I think that even there as a resource, you could find some really interesting people from Suriname, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad.

And what I appreciated about that too, it de-centered the typical islands or countries that we'd hear, right? The Trinidad, the Jamaica, the Guyana, Cuba.

It's great that they and it makes sense that they would have a fast track to the quarterfinals, but it also robs them of an opportunity to play competitive games.

And, you know, against a Suriname in what would be a last 16 setup, I think could go a long way in preparing the team better.

And, you know, we don't have to look very far.

Look at the women's side and see this dramatic gap and lack of competitive games that really has set the team back and robbed them of opportunity to develop.

North Amazonid.

Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname.

Dominant type of the rainforest north of the Amazon River to the Caribbean.

Dang it.

But actually, I want to start this journey by placing you in one of my most cherished memories, a discovery of the grotesque miracle that is life through a nature program.

Let me introduce you to the life cycle of the Suriname toad, as I did.

So, okay, it's autumn.

You're me, you trudge up a steep driveway, you retrieve the spare key from the spider-infested garage, unlock the basement door, and try not to be afraid of the empty house.

Listen.

Number four on our list of the most extreme births is one tough model.

The Suriname Toad, native to the rainforests of South America, has one hell of a skincare routine.

Unlike other amphibians, the Suriname Toad doesn't lay her eggs.

It is a well-known fact, as I hope to show, that in those days, anything in Holland connected with money lending, but especially with stocks and shares and speculation, was characteristically Jewish.

We are strengthened in this conclusion through knowing that most of the business in mortgage banking was carried on with the colony of Suriname.

Of the 100 million golden of mortgage deeds already mentioned, 60 million worth was from Suriname, Now Suriname, as we noted above, was the Jewish colony par excellence.

The possibility that the credit relationship at that time between Suriname and the motherland was maintained by other than Jewish houses is well nigh excluded.

So much for the sources regarding the Jewish share in the development of modern credit instruments.

The sum total is not much.

And then finally, we have the Netherlands.

Who is the best and worst in the Netherlands? We have the worst offenders being- Who is out raping the opponent? Well, it's weird because I think their data's off because it starts with like, I think Antillan and Aruba, Aruba, like is that the Caribbean? Then Suriname, which is also South America, Morocco, which I guess would fall into North Africa and the other graphs.

I'll figure out what this first word is here.

Yeah, Antillan and Aruba.

We'll see how all that plays out.

But we're really looking to hear what our host has to say to you or our guests is about to say on not only the Brazilian elections, but just Venezuela, Argentina, Guyana, Suriname, just all of Latin America and South America, how things are changing quite rapidly there.

So with that, Maren, we'll hand it back to you.

Yeah, that's great.

They want to organize one.

And of course, it's difficult to send somebody from Suriname to KL four times, you know.

So you just want to do it one shot.

But so we actually sacrifice convenience.