ABSTRACT
Multi-racial Commonwealth countries and communities demand respect and understanding, reflected in annual multi-faith Commonwealth Day ceremonies on the second Monday every March and in the legacy of the anti-apartheid movement. Like many parts of the transnational Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago embodies a long and relatively peaceful history of multiple communities and identities, not just African and Indian but also doubla/kalalloo, Chinese, creole, Portuguese, red, Syrian, etcetera, as well as its own multi-racial diasporas in Britain, Canada and the US which engage in diasporic tourism and investment as well as informal pressures and remittance flows for good governance. The White Dominion in the Western Hemisphere has progressed from genocide against indigenous communities to relatively enlightened/affirmative multiculturalism, especially under the Trudeau government from the late-1960s to mid-1980s. Dignity and difference are being advanced in the current century though novel forms of global governance, sometimes referred to as private or transnational governance.
