Caribbean Studies: Impact of Caribbean culture on extra regional politics and economies

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Caribbean Studies Impact of Caribbean culture on
extra regional politics and economies

• There are large numbers of Caribbean communities
  in larger cities of developed world

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International perspectives

• Some of these cities are New York, Toronto,
  Miami, London, Paris and Amsterdam.
• Their sizeable presence will impact strongly on
  the local and foreign politics of these host
  countries.
• The large presence of Cubans living in Florida
  provides powerful lobby to pressure the US
  government to formulate policies to undermine the
  Castro communist government

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International perspectives

• Haitian boat people
• Impact of immigration issue, used as a political
  issue
• Our people provides both skilled and unskilled
  labour that helps economic development of the
  host countries

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Impact of Caribbean cultural practices on
countries abroad

• Large presence of Caribbean nationals provides a
  cultural force
• Popularity of the Caribbean as a tourist
  destination
• Many Caribbean people travel abroad causing
  cultural assimilation adaptation by foreigners.

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Impact of Caribbean cultural practices on
countries abroad

• Cultural transmission through stage shows,
  migration and the mass media
• Impact of our national festivals
• Nottinghill carnival UK
• Labour Day in Brooklyn
• Carnival in Miami

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MUSIC

• Caribana in Toronto
• Impact and adoption of Caribbean music
• Calypso music
• Pannists or steelband men steel pan is the only
  musical instrument invented in the 20 th century

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MUSIC

• Popularity of reggae music influence of Bob
  Marley and Jimmy Cliff
• Promotion of reggae music through festivals
  local and foreign
• Many north American and Japanese kids have
  adopted aspects of Caribbean culture such as corn
  row hair styles, braiding and use of Creole
• Reggae music being incorporated into the music of
  other countries

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MUSIC

• Japanese Sayoko has made a reworking of the
  Japaese pop classic Ue O Muite Aruko ( Sukiyaki)
  as an extended CD single that includes both
  Japanse and English versions set to a reggae beat
• Good vibrations wrote a protest song Election
  Time to protest the political victory of
  President Chamorro who opposed the revoluary
  Sandinistas

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MUSIC

• In Zambia, Rastafarians and reggae artists and
  fans shaped their own Sunsplash (Reggae
  festivals) outside Lusaka every year since 1990
• In United States Reggae Grammy winner and icon
  Shaggys Boombastic, is being used by Madison
  Avenue to market its products, selling jeans for
  Levi Strauss

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MUSIC

• Reggae is generally being incorporated into other
  musical forms. One punk rock group in the USA,
  now produces crossover reggae they call Jah rock
• Reggaes popularity has so increased as part of
  the American culture that University of Vermont
  advertised a course in the Rhetoric of reggae on
  the Internet. This course became the most popular

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Caribbean culinary practices

• Caribbean is known for its culinary delights
• Generally limited influence apart from large
  concentrations of Caribbean nationals or those
  who visit the Caribbean

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Religion Rastafarianism

• Evolved as an indigenous cult
• Conceptulized during the Great Revival of the
  late 1860s
• Cult perfected in the 1930s
• Leaders such as Marcus Garvey and Alexander
  Bedward of August Town stimulated this movement
  with their belief in racial diginity

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Rastafarianism

• In 1930, Ethiopian Prince, Ras Tafari Makkonen
  was crowned as the Emperor.
• He took onto himself the title Haile Selassie
  Power of the Trinity
• Individuals such as Leonard Howell, Joseph
  Hibbert and Archibald Dunkley, independently
  developed the doctrine of the Rastafarian movement

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Rastafarianism

• The Rastafarians are a group that maintains
  social solidarity and also rejected the
  traditional norms and values of society

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Rastafarianism beliefs

• Rastafari, the late Haile Selassie I is God in
  the form of man
• They worship jah as their spiritual leader
• Africa is their spiritual home
• The Old Testament and Psalms are their sacred
  books the written word of God

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Rastafarianism cultural practices

• Non use of materialism
• Retreat from Babylon and forward to the hills of
  Zion
• They wear their hair as dreadlocks
• Smoke the holy weed
• Dress code includes wearing of knitted tams and
  sandals and the carrying of Mosess rod

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Rastafarianism

• Their colours include red, green gold and black
  are symbolic to their religion
• They eat only natural food (itals) and never eat
  meat ( deaders)
• Rastafarians form tribes and live in communes,
  each tribe has a leader or chief who possesses
  power over all the other members

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Rastafarianism

• Girls are regarded as inferior to men and exist
  only for their pleasure
• Often women are seen walking behind their men,
  never in front or beside them

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Rastafarianism impact

• Music
• Social justice
• Cutural impact conflicts
• Bob Marley
• Exodus Album of the century

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• Is Caribbean culture more popular abroad than
  within the Caribbean?

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Issues in Caribbean development

• Sustainable development
• Economic development
• Social development
• Economic growth without development

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Indicators of development

• Levels of income GDP/GNP per capita
• Productivity
• Social and economic equalization
• Modern knowledge (technology)
• Improved institutions and attitudes
• Environmental factors

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Factors that promote or hinder development

• Political ideologies( Capitalism, communism,
  socialism, marxism) popular movements ( New
  Jewel Movement in Grenada).
• Distribution of wealth resources income
  generation
• Changing class boundaries, social stratification,
  social justice, social harmony and mutual
  advantage

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Factors that hinders or promote development

• Definition of Caribbean Experience and identity
• Natural and man-made disasters
• Impact of productive sector
• Tourism contribution and challenges

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Globalisation and development

• Definition and stages
• WTO
• IMF
• WORLD BANK
• MNCs
• TECHNOLOGY
• TRADE
• IDEOLOGIES

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Impact and response to globalisation

• Industry and commerce
• Distributional sector (Supermarkets, department
  stores).
• Labour( unemployment, need for continuous
  upgrading of skills, knowledge-based world
• Technology( information, communication,
  telecommunications)

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The integration movement

• The evolution of Federation,CARIFTA,CARICOM,OECS,
  ACS
• Caribbean Community(CARICOM)
• University of the West Indies
• CXC
• WICB
• CTO
• CSME
• Regional Security System

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Contributions of sport

• Generation of income
• Health and fitness
• Educational opportunities
• Sense of Caribbean identity
• Discipline and morale
• Presence on the world scene
• Sports tourism

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Intellectual traditions

• Pan Africanism
• Negritude
• Industrialisation by invitation
• Maxism and Neo-Marxism
• Caribbean perspectives on British Capitalism
• Trends in Caribbean feminist thought
• Indigenous perspectives

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Roles and functions of the mass media