The differences are not major it's just in Jamaica Christmas was always on a beach with everyone in the villages coming together singing rituals and beating on drums around a big fire and exchanging animals, beads, and necklaces. Some people from the other villages would trade clothing and sheep wool. I feel like I liked my American culture better but I appreciated my Jamaican culture even more. The first couple of times we went to Jamaica I didn't like it, because everyone had the accent and my father has the accent …show more content…
If I compare it to my Jamaican culture more things would be similar than in my American culture. In my Dominican culture we have Thanksgiving for a couple days as well but instead of all the relatives coming together at one house we have to go into a church and pray over the food and pray over the many people who cooked and helped prepare the meal. The dishes are a lot different than in America. For example, we have dishes that cannot even be pronounced and we have dishes that look nasty but taste really good. I remember this one day I had asked my mom a series of irrelevant