Caribbean Culture (February 25, 2021)

What is Culture?

• way of life for a group of people who share a common language, beliefs, and customs

• a short well known expression

• The spread of ideas

• a custom prohibiting or restricting a practice

What do you call culture passed down from generation to generation?

• Art

• community

• Literature

• Heritage

Three important pieces of any culture are

• language, values, and religion

• economy, population, & Literature

• natural resources, climate, & landforms

• technology, transportation, & economy

Caribbean culture is the way of life:

• Brought to the Caribbean by the Europeans

• Of Amerindians who live in the region

• Brought to the Caribbean by the East Indians

• Brought about by the blending of cultures all people who settled in the Caribbean.

What aspects of Jamaican or Caribbean Culture do you enjoy?

What is Caribbean identity?

• Is a feeling of belonging to the Caribbean region because of the things Caribbean people share.

• The location of a place given using degrees of latitude and longitude.

• The edge of an area or the edge of the map.

• Occupation and rule of one country by another.

Caribbean identity and culture is determined by? Select all that applies.

• food

• language

• religions

• dance

• music

What is culture diversity?

• Occupation and rule of one country by another.

• The variety of people of different ethnic origins religions and traditions all living and working together in our region.

• A person elected to govern or make decisions about the parish.

• The ending of slavery.

Which two ethnic groups dominated the culture of the Caribbean?

• Taino and Chinese

• African and European

• East Indians and Africans

• European and Chinese

The cultures of the Caribbean vary from one country to another depending on: .

• the history of the peoples

• their religious backgrounds

• the resources found in the environment

• who colonized them

• They have been influenced by factors such as migration, colonization, enslavement and indentureship .