The startling results of Brexit, the UK's referendum about whether or not to remain part of the European Union, has left not only Britons and their fellow Europeans — but also the rest of the world — in complete shock. The June 23 vote resulted in 51.9 percent of the UK voting to leave, and 48.1 percent voting to remain. The value of the British pound nosedived after the results were revealed and there are already rumblings in Scotland — which held its own referendum two years ago to determine whether it should be independent from the rest of the United Kingdom — that it will likely stage another referendum, given that many Scots believe they've been removed from the EU against their will. Indeed, millions in Britain already want a second EU-related referendum, and there is a petition now circulating that essentially calls for a do-over, demanding that the government implement a rule requiring a new vote “if the remain or leave vote is less than 60 percent based on a turnout less than 75 percent”. The British Parliament tables issues for debate once petitions attain more than 100,000 signatures. At the time of this writing, the petition calling for a second referendum has more than 3.2 million signatures. Caribbean netizens are also concerned about the domino effect of Britain's decision on trade, as well as on revenue streams like remittances. Many of the concessions that the region enjoys with the EU trading bloc are connected to many of its territories’ membership in The British Commonwealth. Barbados-based blogger BC Pires noted: The whole world fervently followed yesterday’s referendum that decided whether Britain left or remained in the European Union, because Brexit has truly global ramifications […] To me, the whole debate really comes down to one thing: do you want to connect with others or go it alone? […] So yesterday’s vote, for me, was a vote on our own development, as a species, and a measurement of our own hope in ourselves. It delights me that Germany, the nation that twice led the world into war in the last century, is leading the global movement towards widespread, cooperative international peace. The same German state that murdered six million Jews barely 71 years ago […] voluntarily made space, last year, for a million refugees. If that isn’t the best part of us, we’ve got nothing good going for us at all. In fact, he suggested that if his own region continued to act in a similar manner to the UK, he'd be a candidate for leaving the Caribbean himself: I know this for sure: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex – what-firetrucking-ever – people are people, human beings with human rights, and they are facing the same hatred that black people have endured from the time they arrived in the New World. And if my own people – English-speaking West Indians, the bulk of whom have been treated as inhuman for the bulk of our history – cannot recognise the humanity of others, I vote to reject my people as easily as Britain rejected Europe yesterday. Fellow journalist Ira Mathur wrote on Facebook: Sad sad day. End of an era of breaking down walls, of globalisation, of multiculturalism, of state backed tolerance. Seriously those of you who voted out of fear and ethnocentrism your world became much smaller and isolated and you ruined it for everyone. For now. In solidarity with my friends who voted in: You are the best of the British and will be instrumental in turning things around. Cameron will go down in history as an idiot. From St. Kitts, Facebook user Dele Adams commented: WOW. ‪#‎Brexit‬. When the British Pound is at 3.64 to the lowly Eastern Caribbean Dollar, you KNOW you've screwed up. Do the English fear brown people that much that they're willing to tank their own economy? That says a lot. Diaspora Facebook user Lesley-Ann Noel was also concerned about the message the vote sent: Hmm, I don't know why I expected better from the UK. Disappointing. Isolation can't be the solution in 2016! Many Caribbean netizens — some of whom have strong ties to England — couldn't help but feel sidelined by the final results. On Twitter, Trinidadian artist and activist Attillah Springer wrote: Listen if they doh want me in they place no problem. Europe cold and have no mangoes. #AfricanUnion #CaribbeanUnity #downsouth — Tillahwillah (@tillahwillah) June 24, 2016 She then went a step further, saying: Haiti been warning us. Marcus Garvey been warning us. #marronage #downsouth — Tillahwillah (@tillahwillah) June 24, 2016 To Facebook user Rhoda Bharath, knowing that border control was a key issue in the Brexit debate, the paradox was clear: Britain afraid of immigrants….the ironies, boy.