A lovely interview. Learnt a great deal. Dr Careem is simply outstanding, very articulate, brilliant historian, and a lovely human being. I have met him at the Malay Club. Unlike other youngsters of his age, he is committed to serving his country, and promoting diversity through his researches, and writings. The Malay community is immensely proud of him.
BeautifuIy Explained....I Am A Sri Lankan Burgher Half Portuguese Half Dutch....My Mum's Entire Family Are Portuguese And My Dad's Entire Family Are Dutch..... Thank You So Much For Sharing.... Appreciate.... With Love And Gratitude.....🫶💫🫶💫🫶💫....
Pleasantly surprised at the wealth of knowledge about Dutch and Portuguese Burghers in Sri Lanka. Very eloquent, never at a loss for words. Very listenable.
WOWWW. Amazing, Dr Careem. I have watched all your episodes, and you are a walking, talking encyclopedia. You are also "very POSH", prim and proper, and love the way you speak. I keep saying this, you shouldn't care about these negative comments and dislikes. You are doing a great service to Sri Lanka, by promoting religious and ethnic harmony, by raising awareness on various communities in our nation.
As a Sri Lankan buddhist living in kandy, we don't know much about Burgher community , I saw handsome boys and beautiful girls are singing. It is very beautiful seeing. Really if they are sri Lankans I am very happy about it.
These information and long history should be in your history book. This would have helped the community to embrace and respect each other. Even the bread you eat is Portugal origin. History and past is so important in the development of society.
I am a Portuguese burgher. A conqueror. my grandmother used to speak Portuguese to her brother. They lived in Halsdorf then moved to hendala. Our family still exists. We are not gone. Yes very cheerful 😂. Grandmother name Almaida Grandfather name de Souza
My Name Perera At Air Lanka we had a Portuguese Capt George Lipez He has told him Mom I am going to 🇱🇰to work His Mom clue less Lopez it’s Ceylon Oh that’s our Counry go A Grand Guy Bumped to him in Colombo He Took to Lunch At Cinamon Lake Grilled Trevally Fish Champaign etc Once I went to Singapore on Duty Traval He ordered a limousines for me to Hotel I said Crew Van enough No It’s for you He went to Namibia as the Director Gen of their DCA When the PM of Piortugal Mario Suarez visited 🇮🇳 India he wrote to a Portugese news paper as to why he did not visit 🇱🇰uo set as there so many things in 🇱🇰Portuguese Heritage in 🇱🇰 Showed me the paper cutting Brazilian piloted at Gulf Air called Perera A Portuguese Name we have Silvas Fernando’s Dalpadathu ex my wife’s Grand Mom Carholuck churches Negombo city 22 Big ❤️🩹Chuches. Vatican of 🇱🇰 At FIFA I support Portugal 🇵🇹 and Brazil 🇧🇷 All ways🙌🇱🇰
Dr. Careem's research is excellent. I am an electrical engineering professor with a doctorate in my field and have been a prof for 38 years, History happens to be a passion of mine. All what he expounded on is true!. Some uneducated idiots have made derogatory comments about his background and knowledge.."Errare humanum est ignoscere divina" is what I tell them and advise Dr. Careem to ignore these negative comments. Continue to do what your doing Dr. Careem. I applaud your efforts and enjoy your discourse on our fascinating history. God bless you . Prof John Balachandra California, USA
@@satipy im sorry for say this madam god will punish your prothugese ancestors because thery distroy sri lanka and our sinhalese buddhist ancestors . 🙏🥺🥺😞
A very good program on colonial history, not just about the descendants of Portuguese in Sri Lanka. Deducting from his knowledge about the origin of certain terminology that is in use today, Zameer Kareem has done some good work on studying the colonial history of Sri Lanka. Thank you.
Awesome! According to the explanation, my late grandfather should be a Portuguese burgher. His name is Cassian de Silva. He was a great artist and a musician. He used to drink a lot and had done a tattoo of rosary on my grandmother's hand, 🤔
Kudos to News First for hosting this brilliant series. Dr Careem is awesome but should speak a bit slower so we can get all the wealth of information into our heads 😊 the host must listen to Dr Careem instead of asking random unrelated questions in the middle of a very interesting comment and completely disrupting the trend of thought which I find most irritating . He obviously has a set of prepared questions and butts in with them in a very annoying manner . It is indeed heartening to know we still have people of the caliber of Dr Careem who continue to remain here!
The Burger community in Ceylon there after Sri Lanka were a happy go lucky community . My friend Dougie Bulner lived in Colombo till last week but moved to Australia a week ago . The ONLY reason he lived in SL was his wife was Singhalese . Good luck to you Dougie ! .
I saw Dr Careem's programme on the Malays of Sri Lanka about three weeks ago, and now I've seen this. Quite fascinating, and I think these programmes have been brilliantly produced. I'm now wondering what other programmes will follow from here. Last year I read his article on the Afghans of Sri Lanka, but there are the books that Dr Careem has written, and there is another comment in which it transpires that Ms Agnes Thambynayagam has also written a book ten years ago. All of this has come as a pleasant surprise to me, and it is good that we are stimulated into re-thinking about our past.
Very interesting interview. My paternal grandfather and his sister used to speak Portugese Creole to each other. I do hope something is done to eleviate the social conditions of these families and to help retain their language and culture. Dr Careem you are very knowledgeable, but I do wish you could speak slower - I think you wanted to get your views across as soon as possible and this made you speak fast - as most of us Sri Lankans do :)
Hi!! I am portuguese and I would like to know more about your culture in Sri Lanka. In fact I am very interested in that. I know a portuguese writer that wrote a wonderful book about these portuguese origin ethnicities and he is struggling for some decades now to bring this subject to the portuguese government. In fact i decided to join him in this matter. But am still starting to know you all more. Thank you.
@@satipy The Portuguese origin ethnicities in the island are actually an extreme minority. Many of the people with Portuguese names in the Island are actually converts who just took names.
Os governos português e brasileiro deviam promover a nossa língua em Sri Lanka e Málaca. Pode me dizer o nome do escritor e do livro? Fiquei interessado.@@satipy
My Great great Grandfather was a British Naval Officer and he married my GG Grand Mother who was from a Tamil Noble family, Their son who was my great grandmas brother was a Royal Engineer who worked in Singapore and also fought the Japanese in the liberation of Singapore!
I am a Burger with very mixed heritage. European and Sri Lakan. My family immigrated to Canada in the 60's. I am still here so is my sister and brother. We are not gone! Perhaps forgotten in Sri Lanka.
I am sorry to say this but the interviewer seems inept. He keeps asking questions for which the answers had already been given. He seems to be following a script without listening to the answers. This is a pattern in all his interviews with the professor in this series. The series itself is extremely informative thanks to the professor’s obviously profound knowledge of the subject matter. Unfortunately the interviewer keeps muddying the water at every turn making the professor repeat himself unnecessarily to clarify the interviewer’s lack of attention.
Great interview, very informative and Dr Careem is a fount of knowledge. I love his accent, he has a typical Pashtu-fluent-English speaker accent with a British undertone, and he is very eloquent, and I don't understand why do people want him to speak slow. He is someone of Afghan, North Indian and Indonesian ancestry, and the languages in the region are spoken fast, hence i guess, is the reason why some people find it difficult to comprehend.
I don’t know where you’re getting all this afghan and Indian none sense from but he has a very typical Sri Lankan accent, which is pretty different from Afghan and indian
what a niec interview ,, i got more facts about sri llanka .. ending my name also de silva ,, great job ...................................... from Montréal
Jeeez…. I was born Sri Lanka, now in Oz since 1971 (at 13yo) even knew a bit of our minority history but Dr. Careem blew me away with his in-depth knowledge of minorities on the island pearl/ discretion a tad too fast, of course. He is a tremendous asset to his (and can I say our) culture. Dr. Careem - you’re gold.
A fascinating video - so interesting and informative. I am a mix of cultures, with 50% of me descending from the Dutch, and possibly British. My Grandparents surnames were De Hoot and Lewis. I love the historical facts in relation to names and food in particular. Mount Lavinia - who knew? No bread in Sri Lanka before the Portuguese.!! Ironically, our son is now with a lovely Portuguese girl, so our family may come full circle.
I knew a Olavo Vagus a Goan Indian from Tanzania 🇹🇿 who used to work with us In 🇴🇲 Oman He used to Count in Portuguese to Do Load Sheets and AC Mandatory Document He Lived a Grand Life 👍
Muito bom vídeo. Aprendi muito sobre a colonização portuguesa e holandesa no Sri Lanka. Bom saber também sobre seus descendentes "burguer". Em Português temos a palavra Burguês, que significa representante da burguesia. Hoje a palavra é usada também com outros significados, como por exemplo para representar uma elite.
Highly informative. I've read that the name "kaffir" is in fact Arabic and refers to what the black/African slaves were called by Arab slave traders who are said to have frequented the island for fresh water and supplies. Some managed to escape their captors it is said and that is how they came to be in then Ceylon. Wondering if Dr. Careem could shed some light on the veracity of this information.
When talking about famous Burghers of Sri Lanka "Mr.Carl Muller, a son of a CGR engine driver is the author of "The Jam Fruit Tree", "Yakada Yaka" and "Once Upon a Tender Time". These books, published by Penguin are a trilogy of a railway family of the Burgher community (Ceylonese of European descent, of which the CGR employed hundreds in years gone by) that are hilarious and a mixture of fiction and fact which the author aptly calls "faction". An insight into our railway life from the 1930s to the 50s can be delightfully experienced by reading these classics which form a masterpiece. have to be mentioned". Taken from an article By Vinodh Wickremeratne and Kanishka D. Perera Titled The Railways of Sri Lanka (Ceylon).
Yesterday i have added something. Other than that below staff members worked with me of the hoteliers in Sri Lanka. Surnames are Hatch, Koolmayer, Adams, White, Bolsing, de Zilva, Ludowyke, Randolph, Carolene, Jensen, Collins, Decker, Willie, Arnolda have attached to me from 1986 to 2010.
I am portuguese and I became very interested about these "Empire Forgotten Children". This is the title of a impressive book, written by a portuguese writer that is fighting for years, for the full "recognition" of Burghers ethnicity, by portuguese government. About the full awareness of you all. I decided to join that fight too. So I would like to know more about it, for a start. Thank you.
Can I clarify the term Marranos. If you search websites in Portugal you find Marranos means Pigs in Portuguese. It was used to call the Shepardic Jews that had been brought to work in different jobs by the Romans. If they didn't convert to Catholicism they were called this insulting term. These Jewish Portuguese moved to Brazil, Eastern America, England and Goa. Eventually, travelling to Sri Lanka escaping the Inquisition in Goa. Their history must not be confused with the nuevos Christianos who were converted Hebrews to Catholicism.
Very nice to meet you and also I am Portuguese I was born in sri lankan but my father was born in kerala india now my father is not alive mother sri lankan tamil i am also eager to join Portuguese association how to join
Kumar David Yes indeed a lovely interview. I wish prof Careem would speak just a little bit slower for the benefit of the slow witted such as this writer. Actually the name of Maitland's lover was Lavina Aponso
Former Memeber of Parliament, Pilot & Racing Champion J.P. Obeysekara’s one of the ancestors was a Portuguese Military officer, who declined to evacuate when Dutch were advancing, instead preferred to be with his Sinhalese wife. He is stated to have coined a surname adding a part of his wife’s surname and became Obeysekara.
May I suggest that this top historian Mr. Careem, be entrusted to write the proper, factual history of Ceylon whereby when we can put the mythical and wierd mahawamsa to rest. Excellent knowledge and communication young Careem.
This interviewer/moderator should have done some in-depth research on this important subject. He is horribly ignorant of early Ceylonese history and not remotely qualified to interview Dr. Careem.
Venham todos pro Brasil precisamos de imigrantes temos milhões de postos de trabalho e temos muita água limpa e muita comida todos são bem-vindos no Brasil 🇧🇷❤
Dr Kareem is excellent but he needs to learn how to do a interview as well. He was just talking all he knows without breathing ..and not letting other person to question him .
A lovely interview. Learnt a great deal. Dr Careem is simply outstanding, very articulate, brilliant historian, and a lovely human being. I have met him at the Malay Club. Unlike other youngsters of his age, he is committed to serving his country, and promoting diversity through his researches, and writings. The Malay community is immensely proud of him.
BeautifuIy Explained....I Am A Sri Lankan Burgher Half Portuguese Half Dutch....My Mum's Entire Family Are Portuguese And My Dad's Entire Family Are Dutch..... Thank You So Much For Sharing.... Appreciate.... With Love And Gratitude.....🫶💫🫶💫🫶💫....
පරම්පරාවම හොදට පුක දිලා නෙද
ola amigo, boa sorte para essa vida. obrigado por gostar da cultura portuguesa
I am angle wing sister .& dont u there insult our culture .did u know about ur history ???? . With ur message i can guess ur culture . 😮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
@@SERGIO-cr6uyif u can't read the comment properly .please dont insult .i dont know why u people behavior like this ?
Pleasantly surprised at the wealth of knowledge about Dutch and Portuguese Burghers in Sri Lanka. Very eloquent, never at a loss for words. Very listenable.
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I am from Goa - which is in India since Dec 1961 -
A nice heritage many around the world will appreciate
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Good wishes to Senhor Dr Careem
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ViVa Goa 😊
Goa was a part of India even before Europe existed!
WOWWW. Amazing, Dr Careem. I have watched all your episodes, and you are a walking, talking encyclopedia. You are also "very POSH", prim and proper, and love the way you speak. I keep saying this, you shouldn't care about these negative comments and dislikes. You are doing a great service to Sri Lanka, by promoting religious and ethnic harmony, by raising awareness on various communities in our nation.
True
As a portuguese, I find this very interesting. Few of us know about these settlements in Sri Lanka.
"Tissera " which country origin sirname ?
Yeah same here
Os governos português e brasileiro deviam promover a nossa língua em Seri Lanca e Málaca.
Yeah these people are slaves they used to do slavery here 😂
@@rjmh3968නැ නැ ඔනෙ නැ මෙකෙ ඉන්නවනම් සිංහලෙන් කතා කරපන් කලවං පින්නයා 😂
As a Sri Lankan buddhist living in kandy, we don't know much about Burgher community , I saw handsome boys and beautiful girls are singing. It is very beautiful seeing. Really if they are sri Lankans I am very happy about it.
These information and long history should be in your history book. This would have helped the community to embrace and respect each other. Even the bread you eat is Portugal origin. History and past is so important in the development of society.
They are mixed not portuguese
What amazing talent the deep knowledge without looking at any notes and no pauses to even think so fluent
Very true it's amazing
ජේවීපීකාරයෝ වගේ. ගැම්ම
I am a Portuguese burgher. A conqueror. my grandmother used to speak Portuguese to her brother.
They lived in Halsdorf then moved to hendala.
Our family still exists. We are not gone.
Yes very cheerful 😂.
Grandmother name Almaida
Grandfather name de Souza
Querida Sabrina, A big brotherly hug and a hug of true friendship are on their way to you. With love from Lisbon, Portugal.
My Name Perera
At Air Lanka we had a Portuguese Capt
George Lipez He has told him Mom
I am going to 🇱🇰to work
His Mom clue less
Lopez it’s Ceylon
Oh that’s our Counry go
A Grand Guy Bumped to him in Colombo
He Took to Lunch At Cinamon Lake
Grilled Trevally Fish Champaign etc
Once I went to Singapore on Duty Traval
He ordered a limousines for me to Hotel
I said Crew Van enough
No It’s for you
He went to Namibia as the Director Gen of their DCA
When the PM of Piortugal Mario Suarez visited 🇮🇳 India he wrote to a Portugese news paper as to why he did not visit 🇱🇰uo set as there so many things in 🇱🇰Portuguese
Heritage in 🇱🇰
Showed me the paper cutting
Brazilian piloted at Gulf Air called Perera
A Portuguese Name we have Silvas Fernando’s Dalpadathu ex my wife’s Grand Mom Carholuck churches
Negombo city 22 Big ❤️🩹Chuches.
Vatican of 🇱🇰
At FIFA I support Portugal 🇵🇹 and Brazil 🇧🇷
All ways🙌🇱🇰
In the East coast Putlam Kafrigha Baila Musick ❤️🩹🙌🇱🇰🇧🇷 Very popular 🇱🇰🙌
Paan Almary Ompo So many Poetugese words in 🇱🇰
I grew up in Hendala with my Dutch Burgher side of my family
More Burghers were lived around Trinco, Batti, Wattala, Dehiwala, Moratuwa, Matale.
Dr. Careem's research is excellent. I am an electrical engineering professor with a doctorate in my field and have been a prof for 38 years, History happens to be a passion of mine. All what he expounded on is true!. Some uneducated idiots have made derogatory comments about his background and knowledge.."Errare humanum est ignoscere divina" is what I tell them and advise Dr. Careem to ignore these negative comments.
Continue to do what your doing Dr. Careem. I applaud your efforts and enjoy your discourse on our fascinating history.
God bless you .
Prof John Balachandra California, USA
I am a Portuguese Burgher. If anyone in the burgher community is watching this interview , please leave a comment below.
Gladwin derrick keil @ ඔබලා සිංහල රටට කර විනාශයක් . 😡😡😡
@@janithjanith8954 racist
@@nadeekafernando-1 තොපේ බර්ගර් ජාතියම. පෘතුගීසි ලන්දේසි ඉංග්රිසි ඔය සේරම ඒකට අයිතී
I am not Burgher but I am portuguese. And I really would like to know more about you all! Thank you.
@@satipy im sorry for say this madam god will punish your prothugese ancestors because thery distroy sri lanka and our sinhalese buddhist ancestors . 🙏🥺🥺😞
A very good program on colonial history, not just about the descendants of Portuguese in Sri Lanka. Deducting from his knowledge about the origin of certain terminology that is in use today, Zameer Kareem has done some good work on studying the colonial history of Sri Lanka. Thank you.
Awesome! According to the explanation, my late grandfather should be a Portuguese burgher. His name is Cassian de Silva. He was a great artist and a musician. He used to drink a lot and had done a tattoo of rosary on my grandmother's hand, 🤔
Loved the interview, learnt a lot. Maybe I'm nitpicking, but I would love to see the interviewer not interrupting the interviewee.
Amazing description about Sri Lankan Burghers...Big thanks to Dr Careen..
Was wonderful to hear atls one media remember that we still exists...🙏🏼 excellent knowledge bro
Kudos to News First for hosting this brilliant series. Dr Careem is awesome but should speak a bit slower so we can get all the wealth of information into our heads 😊 the host must listen to Dr Careem instead of asking random unrelated questions in the middle of a very interesting comment and completely disrupting the trend of thought which I find most irritating . He obviously has a set of prepared questions and butts in with them in a very annoying manner . It is indeed heartening to know we still have people of the caliber of Dr Careem who continue to remain here!
100% agreed about the host. extremely distracting.
The Burger community in Ceylon there after Sri Lanka were a happy go lucky community . My friend Dougie Bulner lived in Colombo till last week but moved to Australia a week ago . The ONLY reason he lived in SL was his wife was Singhalese . Good luck to you Dougie ! .
Very interesting. So happy and very proud to hear about our still alive majority.
Thank You for having this program. Loved it all the way through.
I saw Dr Careem's programme on the Malays of Sri Lanka about three weeks ago, and now I've seen this. Quite fascinating, and I think these programmes have been brilliantly produced. I'm now wondering what other programmes will follow from here.
Last year I read his article on the Afghans of Sri Lanka, but there are the books that Dr Careem has written, and there is another comment in which it transpires that Ms Agnes Thambynayagam has also written a book ten years ago. All of this has come as a pleasant surprise to me, and it is good that we are stimulated into re-thinking about our past.
Great interview and it is obvious he had spent a lot of time researching the forgotten people. I hope Dr. Kareem would speak more slowly.
My mom is portugal burger in sri lanka. There whole family is here. My great grand pa was a apothecary in colombo Mr Burnard Malcom.
Careem I loved listening to you... very eloquent..
Very intrerestjg programme. Thanks both of you
Lots of reset done dr
Great to know you a walking Encyclopaedia‼️👍👏✅
Thank you for great history lessons. 🌹🌹
Very interesting interview. My paternal grandfather and his sister used to speak Portugese Creole to each other. I do hope something is done to eleviate the social conditions of these families and to help retain their language and culture. Dr Careem you are very knowledgeable, but I do wish you could speak slower - I think you wanted to get your views across as soon as possible and this made you speak fast - as most of us Sri Lankans do :)
Hi!! I am portuguese and I would like to know more about your culture in Sri Lanka. In fact I am very interested in that. I know a portuguese writer that wrote a wonderful book about these portuguese origin ethnicities and he is struggling for some decades now to bring this subject to the portuguese government. In fact i decided to join him in this matter. But am still starting to know you all more. Thank you.
@@satipy The Portuguese origin ethnicities in the island are actually an extreme minority. Many of the people with Portuguese names in the Island are actually converts who just took names.
Os governos português e brasileiro deviam promover a nossa língua em Sri Lanka e Málaca. Pode me dizer o nome do escritor e do livro? Fiquei interessado.@@satipy
@@satipyif you want to know about our culture don't ask from them they don't know anything about our culture even though they live here
My Great great Grandfather was a British Naval Officer and he married my GG Grand Mother who was from a Tamil Noble family, Their son who was my great grandmas brother was a Royal Engineer who worked in Singapore and also fought the Japanese in the liberation of Singapore!
Thank You for all the great information!
Dr Careem bravo .you have amazing knowledge walking library .
The informations that spoken in this interview is very useful !!
I am a Burger with very mixed heritage. European and Sri Lakan. My family immigrated to Canada in the 60's. I am still here so is my sister and brother. We are not gone! Perhaps forgotten in Sri Lanka.
I am sorry to say this but the interviewer seems inept. He keeps asking questions for which the answers had already been given. He seems to be following a script without listening to the answers. This is a pattern in all his interviews with the professor in this series. The series itself is extremely informative thanks to the professor’s obviously profound knowledge of the subject matter. Unfortunately the interviewer keeps muddying the water at every turn making the professor repeat himself unnecessarily to clarify the interviewer’s lack of attention.
Beautiful explanation and intellectual stuff. Thank you.👍
Thank you so much Dr careem. If you could please arrange a sinhala program it will be useful
Very interesting
Thanks for sharing
My dearest friends Mother, Maureen Neliya Hingert was 1955 2nd Runner up in the Miss Universe... she is of Dutch Burghers
A very informative talk. Thank you!
Great interview, very informative and Dr Careem is a fount of knowledge. I love his accent, he has a typical Pashtu-fluent-English speaker accent with a British undertone, and he is very eloquent, and I don't understand why do people want him to speak slow. He is someone of Afghan, North Indian and Indonesian ancestry, and the languages in the region are spoken fast, hence i guess, is the reason why some people find it difficult to comprehend.
I don’t know where you’re getting all this afghan and Indian none sense from but he has a very typical Sri Lankan accent, which is pretty different from Afghan and indian
Speechless! Never expected this.
what a niec interview ,, i got more facts about sri llanka .. ending my name also de silva ,, great job ...................................... from Montréal
Wonderful vlog. Mind blowing. I wish Dr. Careem will will write a book on this topic.
Jeeez…. I was born Sri Lanka, now in Oz since 1971 (at 13yo) even knew a bit of our minority history but Dr. Careem blew me away with his in-depth knowledge of minorities on the island pearl/ discretion a tad too fast, of course. He is a tremendous asset to his (and can I say our) culture. Dr. Careem - you’re gold.
I want to contact you , Please send me an email if you can
brilliant .... eloquent
...great
A fascinating video - so interesting and informative. I am a mix of cultures, with 50% of me descending from the Dutch, and possibly British. My Grandparents surnames were De Hoot and Lewis. I love the historical facts in relation to names and food in particular. Mount Lavinia - who knew? No bread in Sri Lanka before the Portuguese.!! Ironically, our son is now with a lovely Portuguese girl, so our family may come full circle.
Thank u 🙏 සිරස & doctor careem. Proud to be a dutch burgher my dad 's surname is (brohier ).
Wow. I love this interview. I am an American
I knew a Olavo Vagus a Goan Indian from Tanzania 🇹🇿 who used to work with us In 🇴🇲 Oman
He used to Count in Portuguese to Do Load Sheets and AC Mandatory Document
He Lived a Grand Life 👍
Muito bom vídeo. Aprendi muito sobre a colonização portuguesa e holandesa no Sri Lanka. Bom saber também sobre seus descendentes "burguer". Em Português temos a palavra Burguês, que significa representante da burguesia. Hoje a palavra é usada também com outros significados, como por exemplo para representar uma elite.
Em 2022 viviam 244 cingaleses no Brasil. Não sei quantos são burghers.
@@rjmh3968 Legal. Obrigado pela informação.
An interesting interview. Happy to know about the burghers over here . I am a burgher too.
Excellent interview.
All burghers should meet ...near the beach side ...singing ad dancing ...jolly burghers..😂😂😂❤❤
Incredibly Informative & Entertaining!!
well explained, with facts, thank you
Very nice research based revelation.thank you.i suggest you to write a book.
Fantastic👌🙏🌷👍
Dr Careem a walking talking Computer 🖥️👍
Highly informative. I've read that the name "kaffir" is in fact Arabic and refers to what the black/African slaves were called by Arab slave traders who are said to have frequented the island for fresh water and supplies. Some managed to escape their captors it is said and that is how they came to be in then Ceylon. Wondering if Dr. Careem could shed some light on the veracity of this information.
Vow!!! Excellent programme.
Sounds good, appreciation from India!
Dr kareem is a remarkable contribution.
Super stuff and thanks to both.....
Super😊
When talking about famous Burghers of Sri Lanka "Mr.Carl Muller, a son of a CGR engine driver is the author of "The Jam Fruit Tree", "Yakada Yaka" and "Once Upon a Tender Time". These books, published by Penguin are a trilogy of a railway family of the Burgher community (Ceylonese of European descent, of which the CGR employed hundreds in years gone by) that are hilarious and a mixture of fiction and fact which the author aptly calls "faction". An insight into our railway life from the 1930s to the 50s can be delightfully experienced by reading these classics which form a masterpiece. have to be mentioned". Taken from an article By Vinodh Wickremeratne and Kanishka D. Perera Titled The Railways of Sri Lanka (Ceylon).
Very interesting discussion
Yesterday i have added something. Other than that below staff members worked with me of the hoteliers in Sri Lanka. Surnames are Hatch, Koolmayer, Adams, White, Bolsing, de Zilva, Ludowyke, Randolph, Carolene, Jensen, Collins, Decker, Willie, Arnolda have attached to me from 1986 to 2010.
Absolutely educational
The Portuguese Burgeher community need to strictly speak their creole language at home and with their children. This is the only way to save dialects.
I am portuguese and I became very interested about these "Empire Forgotten Children". This is the title of a impressive book, written by a portuguese writer that is fighting for years, for the full "recognition" of Burghers ethnicity, by portuguese government. About the full awareness of you all. I decided to join that fight too. So I would like to know more about it, for a start. Thank you.
It’s amazing learning about the Portuguese and their impact on earth, especially considering how tiny Portugal is as a country.
I'm a Portuguese Burgher (fathers side), I don't know why my birth certificate has mentioned Sinhalese.
කලවං කියලා දන්න බැරි නිසා වෙන්න ඇති
Same exact thing to me
Can I clarify the term Marranos. If you search websites in Portugal you find Marranos means Pigs in Portuguese. It was used to call the Shepardic Jews that had been brought to work in different jobs by the Romans. If they didn't convert to Catholicism they were called this insulting term.
These Jewish Portuguese moved to Brazil, Eastern America, England and Goa. Eventually, travelling to Sri Lanka escaping the Inquisition in Goa.
Their history must not be confused with the nuevos Christianos who were converted Hebrews to Catholicism.
In French Spanish Japanese and few more languages Pan means Bread. Dodol & Bibikkan are also of Portugese origin. Instead of Bibikkan they call Bibik.
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Great video , superb
The poor old Anglo Indians of India suffered the same fate! Their vacated status was taken up by people who hardly spoke English!
Great program but unfortunately background music used is not suitable for this program, good for a war film
Yup
Awesome
St Joseph Vaz travelled from Goa to Jaffna and Kandy in 1687
Mestizo is a term used to denote half breed and it is also used in South America
Very interesting indeed. Contact details of Portuguese Burghers association / club in Trinco area?
Hi to all Portugese Burghers from a half Dutch Burgher 👋🏼
Very interesting
Dr. Zameer Careem,
Who gave the placename 'China Bay' to Koddiyar Bay in Tricomamee and why?
Aburgher is a burgher which ever part of the country...❤
Very interesting interview but terrible distracting background music.
A lot of people from Goa got Portugese citizenship. I guess due to ancenstry.
I Lije his Company as he Loved Musick Tasty food Made for us too
He could speak Swahili too
Very popular guy
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Very nice to meet you and also I am Portuguese I was born in sri lankan but my father was born in kerala india now my father is not alive mother sri lankan tamil i am also eager to join Portuguese association how to join
My in laws were decedents of Dutch Burgers. They are the Kuens and Kelards.
Kumar David
Yes indeed a lovely interview. I wish prof Careem would speak just a little bit slower for the benefit of the slow witted such as this writer. Actually the name of Maitland's lover was Lavina Aponso
Is it true there is 100 000 Sri Lankan Portuguese burghers spread across the world as they have all left the country around the 1940s
Former Memeber of Parliament, Pilot & Racing Champion J.P. Obeysekara’s one of the ancestors was a Portuguese Military officer, who declined to evacuate when Dutch were advancing, instead preferred to be with his Sinhalese wife. He is stated to have coined a surname adding a part of his wife’s surname and became Obeysekara.
Lavinia is a Portuguese and Sinhala mixed gypsy dancer.
That is true the burghers comes from Portuguese origin.
May I suggest that this top historian Mr. Careem, be entrusted to write the proper, factual history of Ceylon whereby when we can put the mythical and wierd mahawamsa to rest.
Excellent knowledge and communication young Careem.
This interviewer/moderator should have done some in-depth research on this important subject.
He is horribly ignorant of early Ceylonese history and not remotely qualified to interview Dr. Careem.
Could u pls add his name , what an important fact
Venham todos pro Brasil precisamos de imigrantes temos milhões de postos de trabalho e temos muita água limpa e muita comida todos são bem-vindos no Brasil 🇧🇷❤
Dr Kareem is excellent but he needs to learn how to do a interview as well. He was just talking all he knows without breathing ..and not letting other person to question him .
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