Jamaican Australian is an Australian person who is from or has ancestral ties to Jamaica.
According to the 2006 Australian census, 786 Australians were born in Jamaica while 1,774 claimed Jamaican ancestry, either alone or with another ancestry.
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“When a Jamaican is born of a black woman and some English or Scotsman, the black mother is literally and figuratively kept out of sight as far as possible, but no one is allowed to forget that white father, however questionable the circumstances of birth.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
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