Your cultural background may influence your everyday life in many ways.
My ancestral background stems from the arawak Indians who were the original .
inhabitants of Jamaica before the arrival of Columbus. The arawak Indians gave the island the name Xaymaca. It wasn't long before most of the arawaks were killed or died from being overworked and from European diseases. So the Spanish started importing Africans to replace them. In 1655 after the English took Jamaica from the Spaniards Indians and Chinese were brought in to help the African population work the plantations. Over the years many new people arrived from England, France, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Syria, and Nepal which produced a unique and exciting mixture of races. While most Jamaicans are of African descent, there has been much inter-marriages over the centuries. My family is also mixed with many different kinds of people most of them being Indians. My mothers father was a black man while her mother had an Hispanic/Indian background. My fathers mother was mixed with philipino and black and his father was purely Indian. .
We have a strange mixture of our exotic and often spicy foods. Our national favorite foods include ackee (from Ghana) and saltfish. Curried goat and bammy cake. An absolutely irresistible Pepper Pot soup. And very spicy jerk pork and chicken, which is a Jamaican invention that has become a worldwide favorite. At the same time, in keeping with our history, Jamaican menus are very likely to include boeuf fondue, fettucine or fried wonton something we acquired from the Italians and the Chinese my mother not only cooks Jamaican dishes, but she sometimes mixes them with the American dishes which make it all the more appealing. .
While our official language is English, most Jamaicans speak a Creole patois - a mixture of Elizabethan English and West African that's often hard to understand, In my household my parents and siblings speak the language, but I am not able to speak it because I've been here in this country for such a long time.
Jamaica The country of Jamaica has an ideal location. ... This gives Jamaica a .7% growth rate. ... Jamaica has a regressive population pyramid. ... Some 16% of this ideal work force (about 1.5 million Jamaicans) is unemployed, while Jamaica's debt continues to grow. ... Education is free to all Jamaican children. ...
The destructive nature of these policies on Jamaica is as much due to the nature of Jamaica as to the policies themselves. ... Other countries have advantages not available to Jamaica. ... In a free trade economy Jamaica is doomed to get poorer and poorer. ... Within 20 years Jamaica would be come like Hawaii. A radical solution, but probably Jamaica's only hope. ...
Jamaican's have been known to make the one of the worlds' finest coffee, "Jamaican coffee."" ... Because of trade winds, Jamaica is always balmy. ... Music and dance are very important to the Jamaicans. ... Reggae is commonly associated with Jamaica. ... Most people in Jamaica are African or Afro-European. ...
Analyze class and power distinctions in Jamaican culture? Jamaica is the third largest Caribbean Island, measuring 146 miles at its widest point. ... Jamaica and the Rastafarians suffer their fair share of oppression. Rastafarians are members of a Jamaican messianic movement dating back to the 1930s; in 1974 they were likely to number at about 20,000 in Jamaica. ... America has an IMR of 7; at the same time as Jamaica is 12. ...
Jamaica is the third largest Caribbean Island, measuring 146 miles at its widest point. ... Jamaica and the Rastafarians suffer their fair share of oppression. Rastafarians are members of a Jamaican messianic movement dating back to the 1930s; in 1974 they were likely to number at about 20,000 in Jamaica. ... Growing in Jamaica is difficult and dangerous, but urgency pays with potent pot. ... America has an IMR of 7; at the same time as Jamaica is 12. ...
In Jamaica, studies have shown that the population is affected by various health issues. ... Shortage of medical supplies and equipment in medical facilities is one of the major issue in Jamaica's health sector. ... One of the top health issues in Jamaica is various diseases arising as a result of lifestyle changes. ... These diseases have been the leading causes of death in Jamaica. ... Therefore to conclude that the major issues affecting Jamaica are been handled in an unprofessional way. ...
Analyze class and power distinctions in Jamaican culture? Jamaica is the third largest Caribbean Island, measuring 146 miles at its widest point. ... Jamaica and the Rastafarians suffer their fair share of oppression. Rastafarians are members of a Jamaican messianic movement dating back to the 1930s; in 1974 they were likely to number at about 20,000 in Jamaica. ... America has an IMR of 7; at the same time as Jamaica is 12. ...
SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN IN JAMAICA In recent years the recognition of child abuse has increased in Jamaica and throughout the Caribbean. ... A study done by Jamaica's Situational Analysis found that 60% of the cases reported entailed an unemployed single parent dependent on the same man who is abusing their child. ... In Jamaica the statistics from the Ministry of Health's annual report of 2001 showed 306 reported cases of sexual abuse of child and 40 cases of incestuous abuse. ... Whereas the discussion of sex was once avoided, because of the sexually explicit nature o...
This essay is going to examine in detail, how exactly the British Colonization of Jamaica prevented Jamaicans from developing a national cultural identity of their own. ... These two created a sort of racial distinction amongst the natives in Jamaica. ... This was how white Jamaica and black Jamaica came about. ... The social system in Jamaica created a feeling that the lighter skinned Jamaicans were dominant and visa versa for the dark skinned. ... He stresses the Jamaican's separation from the outside world. ...
