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Caribbean Music The genre of Caribbean Music encompasses a diverse variety of musical styles and traditions from islands that are located in the Caribbean Sea. The styles range anywhere from traditional folk genres such as the Puerto Rican aguinaldo and Jamaican mento to more contemporary music such as salsa and reggae. In many aspects‚ it is more common to see a marked diversity than a marked unity in Carribean music. A few generalizations can be made‚ however. Most music of this region
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There are 4 million Caribbean Americans in the United States. The most widely practiced religions in the Caribbean are Voodoo in Haiti‚ Santeria in Cuba and obeah in Jamaica. Their religion is very important and take the seriously in the Caribbean Culture. There are four dominant language‚ Spanish‚ French‚ English and Dutch. Food is considered family tradition and it is very important in Caribbean culture. People spend many days to prepare food. An African influence Caribbean dish‚ is Callaloo‚ combines
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Chad Sparks ETH/125 Nancy Beale Hispanic Groups Living in the United States Mexicans‚ Puerto Ricans‚ Cubans and Dominicans living in the United States The Hispanic population grew in every region of the United States between 2000 and 2010‚ and most significantly in the South and Midwest. About three-quarters of the Hispanic population living in the United States are reported as Mexican‚ Puerto Rican or Cuban origin in the 2010 Census. Mexican Americans are the largest Hispanic group living
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have the Neo-African religions. These developed historically within the context of the slavery and preserved a fair amount of African religions traditions‚ which have combined with Roman Catholic beliefs and practices. They include Vodou in Haiti; Santeria in Cuba‚ the Dominican Republic‚ and Puerto Rico; and can Domble and Macumba in Brazil. The second category includes the ancestral religions that have preserved fewer African traditions and derive from various forms various forms of Protestantism
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Cited: Chesi‚ Gert. Voodoo: Africa ’s Secret Power. Austria: Perlinger‚ 1980. Print. Hurbon‚ Laënnec. Voodoo: Truth and Fantasy. London: Thames and Hudson‚ 1995. Print. Fernández-Olmos‚ Margarite‚ and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo. New York: New York UP‚ 2003. Print. Laguerre‚ Michel S. Voodoo and Politics in Haiti. New York: St. Martin ’s‚ 1989. Print.
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History of Witchcraft Little was it known for us people living in the 21st Century that witchcraft has a vast and long history. Witches were hated and avoided at. They have been accused of casting evil spells for which they have faced trials that condemned them their deaths. In the Middle Ages to the 1700’s‚ in accordance with buzzle.com‚ in which they have stated in their website‚ “Starting from around 700 A.D.‚ this practice [witchcraft] was viewed more and more as heresy‚ or the rejection of
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The Commonality and Differences of the Hispanic Culture in the United States Hispanics represent a variety of cultures from Mexico‚ the Caribbean Islands‚ Central and South America. Of the many Hispanic cultures now living in the United States‚ four will be used to examine the political‚ linguistic‚ religious‚ and socio-economic behavior of Hispanics. Mexican-Americans: Mexican-Americans have either had families that have lived within the United States for over 400 years‚ some
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INTRODUCTION The Yoruba religion is the religious belief and practice of the Yoruba people both in Africa (chiefly in Nigeria and Benin Republic)‚ and in the Americas. It has influenced and given birth to several Afro-American religions such as Santeria in Cuba and Candomble in Brazil. Though specific numbers are unknown‚ it is possibly the largest African born religion in the world. Though claims are made for an ultimately Egyptian/African origin to Judaism‚ Judaism was finalized as the religion of the Hebrew
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ultural Bound Syndromes Culture-bound syndrome The term culture-bound syndrome was included in the fourth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2000) which also includes a list of the most common culture-bound conditions (DSM-IV: Appendix I). Included in DSM-IV-TR (4th.ed) the term cultural-bound syndrome denotes recurrent‚ locality-specific patterns of abnormal behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked
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