“There is no single Caribbean Culture”
Caribbean is beloved for tropical climate, pristine waters, breathtaking beaches, and colorful music, food and art. The Caribbean is a favorite playground for tourists from all corner of the earth. But outsiders know little of the lives and histories of the people of the Caribbean. The history of the Caribbean is rich with romance and adventure, conquest and cruelty, and the Caribbean culture has been countered by the institutions of colonization and slavery. Nations in the Caribbean are separated by the diversities in spoken languages, economics, religions, politics, and custom adopted. There is no single Caribbean culture because cultural diversity, hybridization, and social institutions are beliefs and values that people are adapted to.
Culture is the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for symbolic thought and social learning or it also means set values, goals, attitudes, and practices that characterize an institution, organization or group. In the Caribbean society, there is a diverse of cultures meaning cultural diversity as well. Cultural diversity is the different ethnic traditions (race, language, religion, customs, and family practices found in one society or region). This term emphasizes the idea of difference, and is the wary of the problems that may result. This is the true nature of culture as culture is in a diverse entity. People do not just bear their culture but interpret and choose their actions and behaviors. It conceals something about the diversity. In the Caribbean, there are ethnicities that reinforce the idea and that all human experiences of all Caribbean people tend to be overlooked and discounted.