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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 👌🏿🇯🇲🇨🇦❤️

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.”

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.

I’m a Jamaican living in Portugal too if you ever decide to do a Part 2 🇯🇲

@MarcosAgostinho2

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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!

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.

@yvonettedavidson2569

3 жыл бұрын

big up Xaver for such great research. Good on good on you You make , me proud man.

This was one of the best interviews for "Jamaican Living In..." I learned a lot.

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.

@rachealwright919

3 жыл бұрын

why people don't want to come back to Jamaica to live they lookin for peace Hi m Lord have mercy on Jamaica

@henrymurray5899

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@loveispower2997

3 жыл бұрын

@@rachealwright919 she don't want to live in Jamaica because she don't want to live with black people she is European

@therealgodessisis

3 жыл бұрын

@@rachealwright919 hundreds of Brits (my mother and father amongst them) return to JA every year.

I'm a Jamaican who is now living in Spain and I love it, no regrets.

Oh how “ I needed to get out of America “ resonated in my soul! Exactly where I am.

@nicolataylor536

3 жыл бұрын

Me too😀

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.

@temprmj1

3 жыл бұрын

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?

@Ogeroigres

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

This is my favourite episode. Portugal is a place I have deep desire to visit and spend some extended time when I retire.

Great interview with Anna. She has such a lovely personality and very talented.

This was insightful, refreshing and so inspiring. Portuguese next country I’ll be visiting. Thank you

Wonderful interview ❤. I can't believe I just found this channel. I plan on retiring in Portugal. Absolutely beautiful country with a fantastic culture.

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. 😂😂

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!!!

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.

@sn4tx

3 жыл бұрын

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.

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 🙏🏽

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.

@BeHonestNow

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Thanks for the idea 👍

We are one big irie family. Jamaicans are everywhere.

Another great conversation. Love this.

I so want to move Lisbon .. I absolutely loved it there. I see myself living there or Amsterdam...

@user-qc8vj3vp9v

3 жыл бұрын

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.🤗

@racquellaughtravellive

3 жыл бұрын

That's the only downside to Amsterdam. But everything else is good. I just love the diversity

@roxannemcintosh342

3 жыл бұрын

I would love to visit too and Amsterdam as well would be my dream city to visit!!!

@nicolataylor536

3 жыл бұрын

This show have inspire me so much...to move out of the USA

Love you Anna. Enjoyed the interview. Very enlightening.

I love this interview. ❤❤ keep dem coming.

Ms. Richards, you have hit the nail right on the head. Blessings.

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 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🌍

The Jewish and Portuguese aspects to your guest's ancestry is fascinating, thank you.

I couldn’t help but smile at this interview. Continued blessings Anna👍🏽👍🏽

Portugal my place.

Another great interview.....love these conversations. Visiting different countries and learning the diverse cultures....love it. Great channel Xavier!

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.

@juanacastillo1772

6 ай бұрын

You're nationality might be different but you're genetics might be similar, most Hispanic are mixed with African, native American and European etc

@AdrenaWest787

6 ай бұрын

@@juanacastillo1772 , exactly . 💯

Thanks Anna for sharing. Thinking of Portugal

👩🏽‍💻👩🏽‍💻So kool! Great interview. Obrigada

Well God put eden our hearts but she's making a little one here in the meantime good love it.

I really enjoyed this interview I would love to visit Portugal!!!!

I’m so proud of you cousin Anna

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.

Thank you for sharing. I stumbled on you channel. Very interesting. I've learned a lot. You both have wonderful personality.

Purtugal is beautiful, and they have good salt 🐟

@fernaodias2591

3 жыл бұрын

Flor do sal..... Algarve

@simonelavigne8618

2 жыл бұрын

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

Would love to learn more about living in Portugal heard it's quite affordable also.

@caribbeanraised6084

3 жыл бұрын

Really

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.

@kjr6372

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, while there, it felt like I was in Jamaica, but for the language and some cobblestone streets.

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!!

@vernastawhyte9047

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@richieredw2142

3 жыл бұрын

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

@suzannethomas5274

3 жыл бұрын

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!

@craiggarrickfr4fgz877

3 жыл бұрын

It is lovely there

@luissantos5611

3 жыл бұрын

@@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!

Is that Morant Bay St Thomas Jamaica, nice place that's my home town 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Bathsheba was Uriah's wife, who then became King David's wife. Elizabeth was the wife of Zechariah.

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.

@roxannemcintosh342

3 жыл бұрын

She does look Portuguese she is very beautiful!!!!

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!

I'm also Jamaican living in Portugal

@roxannemcintosh342

3 жыл бұрын

Wow!!!! Would love to visit!!!!!

@linaeloranova

3 жыл бұрын

@@roxannemcintosh342 come on down

Anna you're amazing, great interview

Nice! Want to visit, very interesting and informative 👍

She is beautiful.. and blessed.

I love this interview with Anna, it was very interesting. I love her personality. I’d love to tour her little farm and garden.

wow! We hardly know a lot about this Out of Many ...its really better to leave it right deso. One Love, One Blood

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.

Yeah man we 'Jumeikanz' are experts on everiting. hahahha gud ole belly lahff Iyah! I like your stylie Anna. Respec an Mannaz Xavier!

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

@kimberlybryan2885

3 жыл бұрын

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!

Sounds like that should be my next move from Japan.

I would love to communicate with Anna, Portugal sounds really interesting!

@dawnstewart9298

3 жыл бұрын

Im going to send you a link about moving to Portugal

@elizabethking8763

3 жыл бұрын

@@dawnstewart9298 thanks, I would appreciate it.

@vivveene

3 жыл бұрын

@@dawnstewart9298 : May I have the link as well, I am currently researching with the same interest.

Yes! You resemble my former coworker , Lina, who is from Portugal; she was a dedicated and a team-player in the nursing arena.

I love these stories!

Lovely interview

I am Guyanese living here in Portugal as well.

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

@kennedysingh3916

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@loveispower2997

3 жыл бұрын

@@kennedysingh3916 Portugal is racist against black people Facts 💯

@luissantos5611

3 жыл бұрын

​@@loveispower2997 És um grande idiota! Sabes ?

@loveispower2997

3 жыл бұрын

@@luissantos5611 you looking at the wrong channel everybody speak English Fool 😂

Anna is amazing 👏 got to contact 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.

@eileenwatt8283

3 жыл бұрын

Why are you an ex- Jamaican. How can someone be an ex. Have you divorced yourself from Jamaica?

@JasonJFlippingLife

3 жыл бұрын

@@eileenwatt8283 I no longer reside in Jamaica.

@loveispower2997

3 жыл бұрын

@@JasonJFlippingLife clown 🤡😂

@candidosantos9742

2 жыл бұрын

Don't go to Bali

wish she had said her African heritage, instead of her mother's "slave heritage". Our African ancestors were enslaved not slaves by default.

I love this. Great Interview.

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

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.

The Portuguese are adventurous. My family has roots in the Madeira Islands ..they immigrated to Antigua.

The chicken eating the egg is funny

HI MY NAME IS REBECCA HENRIQUES from the UK 🇬🇧

@lxportugal9343

3 жыл бұрын

Henriques = Son of Henrique

Hi how easy is it to migrate to Portugal

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?

Portuguese pastries are super fantastic

This is a serious interview. I did my DNA and found that I have Ashkenazi Jewish lineage as well as Nigerian and Senigambian.

We have started apples here in grenada

where did you go to get the drone image of my city? the first image that appears

I see that a famous Jamaican Jew - who was also a pirate! - was named Moses Cohen Henriques. Are you related?

Majority of jamaicans inherited these European names on the plantation which traces back to the slave trade

Big up morant bay St Thomas

Lovely

My great grandmother is Portuguese and l would really like to trace her ancestry.

@jfjbiscaia

3 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Portugal. Pay a visit to Portugal to get to know the country of your ancestors. I guarantee it's worth the trip.

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.

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.

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.

@nicolataylor536

3 жыл бұрын

Did u find your Aunt? Find someone from the area she lives in Jamaica?

Xavier I 💕 your chat lots of info

This where my mom originated

Excellent i am new to your channel i am loving are you from Portland

I subscribe to a couple who lives in Lisbon. It's call "Our rich journey"They are from the US. They are very inspirational.

@shana5300

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I follow them too. They’re great!!

Where in jamaica can u go to check out ur ancestor history??

@ianchandley

3 жыл бұрын

The Registrar General’s Office, Institute of Jamaica are excellent places to start.

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.

Well we Jamaica ns mix with all bloodlines

Is she related to Sean Paul?, thought so. Her heritage is the same as mine, Carvalho’s from Trelawny.

@eileenwatt8283

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@lxportugal9343

3 жыл бұрын

Carvalho = Oak

I love her. This is an awesome lady.