Eunice Oh Jerome 2/24/11 Essay 3 Draft 1 Influences of Dominant Cultures There are many historical stories and daily events where we can see influences of dominant cultures. When a dominant power controls a minority power‚ there can have some positive effects; however‚ most of the influences are negative. The memoir‚ When I Was Puerto Rican‚ by Esmeralda Santiago‚ is a great example of how the majority can have a variety of influences on the minority. The influences of a dominant culture on
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Tourism and Colonization in Antigua Visiting someplace new is an exciting and stimulating event. There are new places to see‚ people to meet‚ things to eat‚ and memories to be made. However‚ the typical tourist rarely takes into consideration the type of people that inhabit their selected destination from day to day. These people are often poor and never will have the opportunity to visit far-away places like the tourists who have come to experience their home have. The visitor seldom realizes
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language can be used to control the way in which people think. In many of our schools today‚ there is a fear of lack of control‚ which is sometimes associated with the Creole vernacular. When we talk about “good English”‚ many of us associate this phrase with Standard English. We assume that Standard English is correct and Creole or any other language variety is broken and incorrect. This view is wholly incorrect‚ since we need to understand that there is simply not one Standard English. What we
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opined that culture is referred to “whatever traditions‚ beliefs‚ customs‚ and creative activities characterize a given community.” Every group has its own specific culture‚ its own way of seeing‚ doing and making its own traditions. Jonkunnu is a Jamaican traditional dance of African origin. Cheryl Ryman postulated that Jonkonnu linked music and dance‚ mime and symbols as the earliest traditional dance form of African descent. It is performed at Christmas time and a strong feature of the dance is
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demonstrate Louise Bennett’s view that Jamaican women are liberated and share the same level of respect as men‚ who used to be regarded as superior. No matter their races or social classes‚ Jamaican women rise from discriminated groups to be the heads of households and successful leaders in all kinds of professions. Louise Bennett herself was actually one of these rising women. Born in a rural family‚ she was a successful writer who insisted on writing in Jamaican English‚ the dialect deeply influenced
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doesn’t like. Often‚ however‚ the mother’s advice seems caustic and castigating‚ out of fear that her daughter is already well on her way to becoming a “slut.” She tells the girl‚ for example‚ not to squat while playing marbles‚ not to sing any Antiguan folk songs in Sunday school‚ and to always walk like a lady. The girl periodically interjects to protest her
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Creole cuisine takes its quality from the history of the French West Indies. Caribbean food and culture was born when the European traders brought African slaves into the region. The slaves ate mostly leftovers from their owners‚ so not unlike the slaves in the United States they had to do with what they had. This was the birth of contemporary Caribbean Cuisine. The African slaves blended the knowledge of spices and vegetables they had brought from their homeland and included them with the precious
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Slavery ended in 1838. One of the biggest negatives of such a system was racism which was found in every Caribbean society. British officials believed that people of Africans descent were inferior and what was worse perhaps these racist attitudes were after internalized by Black and Brown people that is some Africans themselves became convinced that they were inferior to Europeans. With Emancipation in 1838 slaves became free to choose the nature of their future existence. A fundamental
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different Jamaican cuisines with a Spanish twist. The location is in reach to everyone with well thought out parking for our customers. As for visibility‚ Jamalegre is in sight to the public and not in a hidden area that is out of reach‚ it is in a Plaza. The history of our restaurant will take us back to when the Spanish were a part of the Jamaicans. The overall theme of the restaurant is Jamaican- Spanish seeing that the dishes and the ambiance of the restaurant will give that Jamaican Spanish
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The Hanover Revolt of 1776 AP-HIST 1050 Dave Cousins November 21‚ 2012 The Hanover Revolt of 1776 Two documents which discuss the slave revolt in seventeen seventy-six are titled as “The Jamaican Slave Insurrection” by Richard Sheridan and “Testing the Chains” by Michael Craton. Both these documents contain these historian’s perspectives about the seventeen seventy-six slave revolt. These documents both have similarities and differences and contribute aspects with the seventeen
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