Chapter 5 Flashcards
Training professionals for the benefit of developed countries
Brain drain
Potential of returnees to contribute to the social and economic development of a home country
Brain gain
Huge gap between gross income and total tourist dollars that remain in the Caribbean
Capital leakage
Represents former English colonies, proposed regional industrialization plan and the development of Caribbean bank
CARICOM Caribbean Community and Common Market
Economic flight of Caribbean people across the world
Caribbean diaspora
Blending of African, European and some Amerindian cultural elements into the unique cultural systems found in the Caribbean
Creolization
Duty free and tax exempt industrial parks for foreign corporations
Free trade zone
Workers contracted to labor on estates for a set period of time
Indentured labor
Run away slave that spreads culture along the Atlantic
Maroon
U.S. Directly and indirectly asserted its control over a region
Neocolonialism
Designates a cultural region that extends from midway up the coast of Brazil through the guianas and the Caribbean into the southeastern U.S.
Plantation America
All countries with access to the Caribbean Sea
Rimland
The forced removal of Africans from their native area
African diaspora
What countries are in the rimland of the Caribbean?
Includes Balize and Guianas, Carribean coast of Central and South America
Why hasn’t the Caribbean Sea supported large commercial fishing operations?
There are not enough of one kind of fish
At what wind speed does a tropical disturbance become a hurricane?
74 MPH
What area of the Caribbean is the most biologically diverse ecosystem of the marine world?
Coral reefs
In which Caribbean country did the 2005 Hurricane Dennis have the most devastating effect?
Cuba
According to your text, how did European colonialists in the Caribbean view forests?
Unproductive
In which part of the Caribbean is the forest cover largely intact?
Puerto Rico
How much of its original forest cover has Haiti lost?
97%
On which island of the Caribbean did HIV/AIDS first appear?
Haiti
What is the approximate population of the Caribbean?
44 million
Which Caribbean countries have the lowest rates of natural increase in the region?
Cuba and Puerto Rico
Which U.S. city has become the destination of choice for Cubans migrating to the United States?
Miami Florida
What is the Caribbean diaspora?
The economic flight of the Caribbean people across the globe
Maroon societies were composed of which group of people?
Groups of runaway slaves
By the middle 1800s, when most colonial governments in the Caribbean began to free slaves, they sought indentured laborers from which other world region(s)?
Often from South, Southeast and east Asia
From which country did the indentured workers who migrated to Guyana and Trinidad come?
India
What well-known form of music is most closely associated with the Caribbean?
Reggea, calypso, meringue, rumba, zouk, steel drums
What was the name of the official United States policy that held that the United States would not tolerate European military involvement in the Western Hemisphere?
Monroe doctrine
Which American president was responsible for the construction of the Panama Canal?
Theodore Roosevelt
What was the name of the initiative designed to launch rapid industrialization in Puerto Rico?
Operation Bootstrap
Historically, what crop has been the most important one in the Caribbean?
Sugar Cane
The rise of offshore banking in the Caribbean is most closely associated with ________, which began this industry in the 1920’s.
Bahamas
This city is now the largest home port for cruise lines and the second largest cruise-ship port in the world in terms of total visitors.
Bahamas
What factor has prevented Caribbean countries from reaping the full benefits of their extensive investment in education?
Most leave the Caribbean, brain drain
