Kamau Brathwaite‚ a historian and poet was greatly inspired by a seminar held by Robert Adams in 1957‚ where he described ‘Creole culture’. Unlike Adams however‚ Brathwaitesaw Creole cultures as a process of culture change‚ rather than just a description of a Creole society. Brathwaite believed that creolization occurs at 2 levels: “ac-culturation‚ which is the yoking (by force and example‚ deriving from power/prestige) of one culture to another (in this case the enslaved/African to the European);
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Plantation Society and Creole Society There is a vast range of cultural diversity in the Caribbean today. In this paper‚ I would be discussing the similarities and differences found between the plantation society model and the Creole society model. The plantation model was developed in the late 1960’s. According to the book Mustapha (2009)‚ the plantation system played a dominant role in the economic‚ social‚ political and cultural life of the Caribbean. George Beckford (1972) saw the plantation
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Links | Dread Library Catalog | Jamaican Patois and the Power of Language in Reggae Music Stacey Herbold Introduction Creole languages are found all over the world on every continent. When two or more languages come into contact to form a new language a Creole language is born. Some type of human "upheaval" that forces people to find a way to communicate‚ without using their own languages‚ stimulates the creation of a Creole language. In the case of Creole languages in the Caribbean‚ the "upheaval"
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setting and the Creole culture of The Awakening play important roles in Edna’s transformation. Throughout The Awakening‚ we see how Edna starts to realize she wants a different life. We see how she transforms from a conservative woman and a woman devoted to her husband to a woman who wants to be alone‚ independent‚ and doesn’t want the bonds of marriage to restrict her life. Edna had modern day thoughts and wanted a modern day lifestyle all those years ago in the 19th century. The Creole culture was
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Under colonization‚ large numbers of people were able to neither to maintain their ancestral languages nor to shift to the colonial language. Instead they created new languages (pidgins and creoles) that were only partly based on the languages around them. The kind of contact that gave rise to pidgins and creoles is contrasted with the acquisition and spread of languages of power and prestige under colonialism‚ especially varieties that have come to be called ‘New Englishes’. The nineteenth century
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Upon initial consideration‚ one would presume that the United States Constitution and the Constitution of Jamaica would not be similar at all. After all‚ the United States Constitution was ratified in 1787‚ whereas the Jamaican Constitution was not ratified until 1962‚ the year Jamaica gained its independence. At first glance‚ Jamaica’s constitution appears to be most similar to that of England‚ because they both establish a parliament and share the same chief of state (Queen Elizabeth II). These
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LASCELLES CHIN ….The Journey of a Jamaican Entrepreneur Lascelles Chin is founder‚ chairman and Chief executive officer of the Lasco Group of Companies in Jamaica. The Lasco group is made up of Lasco Distributors‚ Lasco Foods Successors Ltd‚ Lasco Foods Ltd‚ Lasco Barbados Ltd‚ Lasco Financial Services Limited and Lasco Remittance Services. The range of products and services delivered by the companies is diverse. Lasco Foods Successors Ltd is responsible for the manufacturing and exporting of soy
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In Sierra Leone‚ there are many different languages‚ but only several are commonly used. Krio‚ which is an English based Creole‚ is the first language of 10% of the population‚ but it is spoken and understood by approximately 90% of the population. English‚ while the country’s official language‚ is limited to the approximately 48% of Sierra Leoneans that are literate. Another language is Mende‚ the lingua franca and main language of the southern portion of the country‚ spoken by approximately 30%
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segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa‚ involving political‚ legal‚ and economic discrimination against nonwhites. Through the music of Jamaican artist such as Peter Tosh‚ Burning Spear and Bob Marley‚ Young South Africans who were anti-apartheid found inspiration‚ motivation and influence. They used the Jamaican musical genre as a voice to their cause or theme songs to their fight. For example in 1977 Reggae Star Peter Tosh produced the song Fight Apartheid. Now I would
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I remember back in the days when we were still college students‚ she seems to never believe in her fate and keeps attempting to avoid it. Her name is Moira‚ my closest friend - who knows how to narrate humors‚ who has never submitted to fate; who knows me well and taught me the meaning of friendship. Every individual has a place to fill in the world‚ and is important‚ in some respect‚ whether she or he chooses to be so or not. Moira finds her place as a prostitute‚ although she is not satisfied
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