Caribbean Culture

Caribbean Culture

How has the culture of ethnic groups in the region influenced the development of Caribbean Culture

What is culture?

• Culture is they way of life of a particular group of people. It includes the way they speak, dress, cook, dance, make music worship, do business, socialise and educate the young, settle disputes and rule their country.

Which ethnic group brought each of these aspects of culture to the Cribbean?

Caribbean Culture

When different ethnic groups have come to live together and brought their own culture. People from these different groups interacted with each other and learnt about each other's ways of life . When people from different ethnic groups have children together and become a family, their cultures mix. Together these cultures have mixed to form our rich Caribbean Culture.

The Europeans who colonised the Caribbean brought their culture with them.

Culture as a Result of Colonization

• Over many centuries, many ethnic groups with different cultures have come to live in the Caribbean:

• Ameriandians: Tainos, Caribs, Mayas

• Europeans: British, Spaniards, Dutch, French, Portuguese

• Africans: From West and Central Africa, Freed Africans from Sierra Leone

• Asians: East Indians, Chinese

• Middle Eastern People: Syrians, Lebanese

Cultures of the Caribbean Varies

• The cultures of the Caribbean vary from one country to another depending on:

• the history of the peoples

• their religios backgrounds

• the resources found in the environment

• who colonized them.

• They have been influenced by factors such as migration, colonisation, enslavement and indenturship

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What is Culture?

• way of life for a group of people who share a common language, beliefs, and customs

• The spread of ideas

• a short well known expression

• a custom prohibiting or restricting a practice

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What do you call culture passed down from generation to generation?

• Art

• Literature

• community

• Heritage

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Three important pieces of any culture are

• language, values, and religion

• natural resources, climate, & landforms

• economy, population, & Literature

• technology, transportation, & economy

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Caribbean culture is the way of life:

• Brought to the Caribbean by the Europeans

• Brought to the Caribbean by the East Indians

• Of Amerindians who live in the region

• Brought about by the blending of cultures all people who settled in the Caribbean.

European influence on Caribbean Culture

The Europeans who colonised the Caribbean brought their culture with them. They tried to control the other groups as they were in power. Their culture and language dominated the others. Two countries that were ruled by Britain have English as their main language and she cooking. The people who were colonized by French and Spanish have developed different cultures. Also, the ruling group sometimes band others from practising aspects of their culture. For instance, Africans were not always allowed to practice their religion freely in Jamaica or play the drum during the period of slavery.

Freedom to Express their Culture

After emancipation, people were more able to develop creative ways of expressing their culture. Independence gave the freedom for more cultural expression.

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What aspects of Jamaican or Caribbean Culture do you enjoy/

• language

• dress

• food

• music

• worship/religion

Cultural Heritage

People pass on their culture from one generation to another. We inherit our culture. This is call or cultural heritage. In the Caribbean, many people have inherited cultures from more than one ethnic group.  our cultural heritage change as we need and meet new people and their cultures

Caribbean Identity

Your identity is made up of your characteristics, character or personality and the way you see yourself. Most of us identify as belonging to our family, school and friendship group. We also belong to our community or neighbourhood, our religious community, or ethnic group or groups, our parish and our nation. We also belong to the Caribbean.

 

Caribbean Identity

Caribbean people can be considered as one people with your own Caribbean identity. We share some common historical experiences such as slavery colonization, emancipation and independence. we see, right, Don, cough, joke or get started about these experiences. we share beliefs and culture with people from across the region. When we travel in the Caribbean, Emma Teeters on the Caribbean countries that we can identify with. African, mixed-race people, Europeans, Indians, Chinese and other.

Cultural Diversity

Our cultural diversity refers to the variety of people of different ethnic origins, religions and traditions all living and working together in our region. Diversity means variety or difference. Our diversity is both between different countries (e.g. compare Jamaica with Trinidad, Haiti or Cuba) and within each country

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The variety of people of different Origins, religion and tradition is called

• cultural mixing

• cultural diversity

• Caribbean identity

• cultural heritage

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Which two ethnic groups dominated the culture of the Caribbean?

• Taino and Chinese

• East Indians and Africans

• African and European

• European and Chinese