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Trinidad and Tobago is a multiethnic society in the southern Caribbean. While most discussions of race and ethnicity tend to focus on the two largest racial groups (Afro-Trinidadians and Indo-Trinidadians (who between them account for over 80% of the population), or focus on the mixed nature of the society (often using descriptors like "rainbow" or "callaloo" society), the reality of racial and ethnic identities are more complicated and complex. Census forms gives the options of African, Indian, White, Chinese, Mixed race or Other. People who identify into one of these categories usually have more specific identities within these groups. Some of these identities were more well-established in the past and have been blurred by intermarriage and integration. Others are new identities that have developed in recent decades.