Caribbean

The Caribbean is a “bevy” of multiple islands and a few large mainland boundaries that are specifically located north of South America and east of Central America. This array of small beautiful islands and mainland territories with almost each having an amazing white sand coast line is known worldwide because of its electrifying beaches, colourful and bubbly culture, which is a result of cultural integration. This, therefore, points out that the vast Caribbean societies are influenced by cultural diversity, and this fact, that gives the Caribbean its unique identity and intiment feeling with almost all other worldly cultures. The Caribbean culture blends all cultures into one. Cultural diversity refers to the convergence of a variety of ethnic groups and cultures that were “imported” in from all over the world, such as Indians, Africans, Chinese and even the Europeans both the French and the English (Guariglio 32). Slave trade in the seventeenth century, as a business, being the major contributor to this importing as Deirdre explains
          “By the early seventeenth century, the transatlantic slave trade had become a thriving business, feeding the labour demands of new British and French colonies in the Americas and Caribbean as well as those of Spain and Portugal. Sugar plantations provided the greatest impetus. Large-scale sugar-cane plantations, worked by African slave labour, had been established by the Spanish in Cuba and the Portuguese in Brazil. They were followed in the 1630s and 40s by plantations in the British Caribbean colonies of Barbados, Antigua, Nevis, Montserrat and St Kitts. Following war with Spain in 1655-58 the British acquired Jamaica and made it their primary Caribbean sugar colony.”(Shilington)
  Because of the early forced multi-culturalism in the Caribbean, many languages that were different and foreign were spoken by each group brought into the islands.
“As a result of European settlers bringing to the Caribbean area large numbers... [continues]

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