Caribbean culture Flashcards

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triangular trade is about :

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a transatlantic slave trade transported more than 10M black Africans enslaved to the American in order to work in America news ressources with the goal to exported it in Europe

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west indies islands such as Jamaica. saint Lucia Bahamas and others owe their culture to both colonisation and salvery
most of theier descendants are from Asia or Africa

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some of these islands depends mainly on tourism as major economic resources , however we can observe that each island have its own culture and history, inspired by African culture

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Caribbean people are heavenly linked to their African roots,

identity duality is a common thing: belongings to the colonists but also the enslaved without actually belong to them,

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it is called a melting pot, of both African and European culture

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identity as a white person in” a majority black “country

-> how culture identity works ?

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being and living in an environment where cultural acts or saying are made with respect and knowledge of this culture ,
in contrary it is called cultural appropriation, when someone is mimicking stereotypicals gesture of a smaller community with attention to disrespect the latter

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