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Similarities Between My Mexican Culture And American Culture
In my Jamaican culture we have a different Thanksgiving and Christmas ceremonies/events compared to my regular American culture. In my Dominican culture we have to travel around the world visiting different family members to celebrate those holidays with my mother's side of the family. When we flew to Jamaica, I instantly noticed the cultural changes in the way they dressed and how their music was different from American music. I started to notice where my father got his traditions from. Thanksgiving there lasts for a couple days and it's nothing but unique foods and dances. Their clothing is nothing but homemade dresses and the food always had an unknown spice to it. Not one food tasted like the other in anyway. Christmas in Jamaica was a little similar to how Americans have celebrations.
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
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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

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