Research Paper On Jamaican Culture

Jamaicans and their Funny Culture
Jamaica is one of the most beautiful Islands in the world. This place is filled with joy love and music. A Jamaican culture is the most beautiful thing anyone could ever think of. Jamaicans have so much joy and spirit with them, they also makes you laugh whenever you’re feeling down. However, everyone has their own ethnicity, culture and personal backgrounds, these cultural backgrounds defines who you are as a person. This can also define why people do what they do and what makes them do it. Nevertheless Jamaica is different from most Caribbeans, the reason why is because they have so many cultural activities including, dancing, acting, singing, playing cricket. Jamaicans believe in the birth of Jesus, they
Whenever a Jamaican is at church they can’t help themselves, they sometimes get up grab a handkerchief or a piece of cloth and spin it around in the air. The type of dancing Jamaicans do at church is different from their regular dance, this type of dancing is the Holy Spirit dance. They would get up shout Hallelujah, clap their hands and move their feet. Sometimes when the gospel music starts playing they sing along and pray to Jesus because that’s who they are. At an early age Jamaicans was taught to go to church every Sunday and respect God and what he has done for us, from that time until now Jamaicans have being going to church all their lives. Referring back to the first paragraph, “I said that the type of food that they cook is different and I should know because I moved here a year and a half ago.” Well every part of that sentence is extremely true, the one part that gets me in the mood is the food part. It is a part of a Jamaican culture to go to church, worship God and come home and eat
The first food that is really interesting is a Jamaican ackee and saltfish. Ackee and Saltfish is Jamaica’s national dish, this specific food is like a side. Ackee and saltfish can be cooked with a lot of things, but mainly with fried or boiled dumplings. Fried dumplings is literally, flour, water and salt frying in a lot of oil. Everyone knows what a saltfish is, but what you don’t know is what an Ackee is. An Ackee is basically a fruit. According to wikipedia.com, “Ackee was imported in Jamaica from West Africa, on a slave ship.” Ackee is from a tree called ackee tree, this tree can grow up to 8 or 10 ft even taller than that. Another type of fruit in Jamaica that is eaten with Ackee and saltfish is Breadfruit. No, breadfruit is not bread that transforms into a fruit, you might be surprised about the amount of people asked me if breadfruit is a bread transformed into fruit. Bread isn’t transformer, it can’t just transformed into a fruit. Anyhow, breadfruit is a fruit that grows on tree, sometimes this fruit is circular or round. According to ntbg.org, “Breadfruit is said to be the healthiest food in Jamaica, the breadfruit leaf can help to lower blood pressure and reduce asthma attack.” Now I’ve lived in