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1
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Training professionals for the benefit of developed countries

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Brain drain

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Potential of returnees to contribute to the social and economic development of a home country

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Brain gain

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Huge gap between gross income and total tourist dollars that remain in the Caribbean

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Capital leakage

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Represents former English colonies, proposed regional industrialization plan and the development of Caribbean bank

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CARICOM Caribbean Community and Common Market

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Economic flight of Caribbean people across the world

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Caribbean diaspora

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Blending of African, European and some Amerindian cultural elements into the unique cultural systems found in the Caribbean

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Creolization

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Duty free and tax exempt industrial parks for foreign corporations

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Free trade zone

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Workers contracted to labor on estates for a set period of time

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Indentured labor

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Run away slave that spreads culture along the Atlantic

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Maroon

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U.S. Directly and indirectly asserted its control over a region

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Neocolonialism

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Designates a cultural region that extends from midway up the coast of Brazil through the guianas and the Caribbean into the southeastern U.S.

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Plantation America

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All countries with access to the Caribbean Sea

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Rimland

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The forced removal of Africans from their native area

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African diaspora

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What countries are in the rimland of the Caribbean?

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Includes Balize and Guianas, Carribean coast of Central and South America

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Why hasn’t the Caribbean Sea supported large commercial fishing operations?

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There are not enough of one kind of fish

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At what wind speed does a tropical disturbance become a hurricane?

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74 MPH

17
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What area of the Caribbean is the most biologically diverse ecosystem of the marine world?

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Coral reefs

18
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In which Caribbean country did the 2005 Hurricane Dennis have the most devastating effect?

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Cuba

19
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According to your text, how did European colonialists in the Caribbean view forests?

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Unproductive

20
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In which part of the Caribbean is the forest cover largely intact?

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Puerto Rico

21
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How much of its original forest cover has Haiti lost?

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97%

22
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On which island of the Caribbean did HIV/AIDS first appear?

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Haiti

23
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What is the approximate population of the Caribbean?

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44 million

24
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Which Caribbean countries have the lowest rates of natural increase in the region?

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Cuba and Puerto Rico

25
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Which U.S. city has become the destination of choice for Cubans migrating to the United States?

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Miami Florida

26
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What is the Caribbean diaspora?

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The economic flight of the Caribbean people across the globe

27
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Maroon societies were composed of which group of people?

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Groups of runaway slaves

28
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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)?

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Often from South, Southeast and east Asia

29
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From which country did the indentured workers who migrated to Guyana and Trinidad come?

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India

30
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What well-known form of music is most closely associated with the Caribbean?

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Reggea, calypso, meringue, rumba, zouk, steel drums

31
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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?

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Monroe doctrine

32
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Which American president was responsible for the construction of the Panama Canal?

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Theodore Roosevelt

33
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What was the name of the initiative designed to launch rapid industrialization in Puerto Rico?

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Operation Bootstrap

34
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Historically, what crop has been the most important one in the Caribbean?

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Sugar Cane

35
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The rise of offshore banking in the Caribbean is most closely associated with ________, which began this industry in the 1920’s.

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Bahamas

36
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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.

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Bahamas

37
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What factor has prevented Caribbean countries from reaping the full benefits of their extensive investment in education?

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Most leave the Caribbean, brain drain

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