The English slave trade to Jamaica |
craig
Thursday, March 17, 2016
The research i am conducting will allow me to discover how Jamaican culture came to be. So far i have discovered the slave trade route in which the slaves were transported along as well as what countries they were trading with more frequently.
The challenges i am running into are finding the cultural similarities between the Jamaican culture and other cultures. The Jamaican slave trade brought them into contact with a vast amount of different cultures. In each of these cultures they had to get accustomed to their norms as well as their beliefs.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
A little insight into Jamaica
Jamaican is a very diverse and unique culture unlike any
others in the world. The culture has influences from many places in the world.
Though predominantly black, about ninety percent, there is also one percent
Asian, four percent white, and the other five percent is mixed races.
Jamaica is
the fifth largest island in the Caribbean, Cuba being the first. Jamaica was
first settled in 1509 by Juan de Esquivel. The island is 10,999 square
kilometers, a rather large island. The population today is estimated at about
2.72 million.
The Jamaican
culture comes from a mixture of different ethnicity arriving on the island
throughout the last couple of centuries. The people arrived on the island for
many reasons, mainly through the slave trade. Regardless of how they arrived
the Jamaican people’s culture survived and still thrives today. To an outsider
the Jamaican culture may seem to be very odd and inappropriate. The Jamaican
people are also immersed in their unique music, which is a part of their unique
and vibrant culture.
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