The impact of extra-regional societies on Caribbean Culture and Society, with respect to Consumption Patterns.

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The impact of extra-regional societies on
Caribbean Culture and Society, with respect to
Consumption Patterns.
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Introduction

• The term society is considered to be a collection
  of people living in the same geographical area,
  while culture is the aspects of lifestyle that
  may be peculiar to a particular society.
  Extra-regional societies, countries outside the
  Caribbean region, impact the Caribbeans
  consumption patterns in various ways.

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Source of IMPACT

• Globalization is the tendency of businesses to
  transcend to other markets around the globe,
  thereby increasing the interconnectedness of
  different markets. Modes of transportation are
  modernizing and the ways of communication are
  developing. This increases a countrys ability to
  globalize. In effect, this means that the
  Caribbean market is becoming strikingly similar
  to the markets of extra-regional nations.

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International Preferential Trading Agreements

• The main agreement between the African Caribbean
  Pacific islands (ACP) and the European Union (EU)
  which is the Sugar protocol.
• ACP -African Caribbean Pacific consists of 79
  members and began in 1975.
• The EU consist of 27 members and was founded in
  1995.
• The Sugar protocol is basically a logical binding
  which controls the price and the trading of goods
  between both markets.
• The Economy Partnership Agreement (EPA) is an
  agreement made with the Caribbean in order to
  stimulate growth and eradicate poverty in the
  Caribbean.
• With these agreements the EU basically provides a
  cushion market price so that countries in the
  Caribbean countries could trade with European
  countries and have certain tax exemption. This in
  itself makes it easy for the European influence
  to infiltrate the Caribbean in aspect such as
  goods and services.

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GOODS AND SERVICES

• In history, persons in the Caribbean made a
  significant effort to produce their own goods. As
  time progressed along with the migration of
  persons from America, Europe, or more developed
  countries, the mixing of the different cultures
  have changed our thoughts of the goods we produce
  compared to the goods made abroad.
• The Caribbean people are of the opinion that
  their region is too underdeveloped for producing
  goods that can compete in quality to
  extra-regional societies.
• The Caribbeans total imports is likely to be
  more than its exports A dangerous side of the
  status quo.
• The Caribbean people now gravitate to foreign
  diapers ( Huggies, etc) instead of purchasing
  regional diapers. And that is only one product!
• Globalization has instigated the introduction of
  some foreign services such as social security,
  life insurance, and the credit card culture into
  the Caribbean society.

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Sources of Entertainment

• Forms of entertainment would include music,
  karaoke, and some other sporting activities.
• The traditional music genres of Calypso and Soca
  are not listened to by Caribbean people,
  especially the younger generation, on a regular
  basis. Thus this culture is being replaced by
  other music genres foreign to us such as Hip-Hip,
  RB, Rock and Pop just to name a few. This
  influences Caribbean culture negatively since
  adapting someone elses style of music can lead
  to cultural erasure.
• The genre of Jazz has impacted our culture
  significantly and This can be seen by certain
  Caribbean music festivals, mainly St. Lucia Jazz
  Festival.
• The regionally held Digicel Rising Star was
  influenced by the popular TV show, American Idol,
  which is held in the United States.

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What do Caribbean people eat? Local vs.
Imported.
Year 2005 2006 2007
Food and livestock from the USA US 770, 541 US 734, 813 US 897 417
Food and Livestock from other CARICOM countries US 270, 376 US 268, 060 US 296, 018

• As shown in the table above, Caribbean countries
  generally spend three times as much money
  importing food from the United States as they do
  importing food among themselves. This says a lot
  about our dependence as a developing region. It
  shows that extra-regional countries impact
  Caribbean Society by making Caribbean people feel
  dependent on outside region. The Caribbean
  culture now accepts sardine and salt fish as
  everyday conventional breakfast meals, and they
  are somewhat boycotting the idea of fungi, chana,
  ackee, fly-fish, and other Caribbean dishes.
• The information in the table shows the critical
  dependence that the Caribbean people have on
  these extra-regional and this is NOTWITHSTANDING
  our cuisine adaptations. What good is this doing
  for our economy? In the present Caribbean
  culture, pizza, hamburgers, hot dogs, ice cream,
  lasagna are prepared food products that are
  rapidly consumed and accepted by Caribbean
  Culture and society.

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Leisure Activities

• Caribbean society and culture possess
  characteristics, passed on from our ancestral
  heritage, thus traditional leisure activities
  would include games such as Worri.
• Globalization has consequentially caused
  traditional games to be replaced by other games
  such as checkers and chest which are of European
  origin.
• Tourism in the Caribbean accounts for a very high
  percentage of revenue for many territories. In
  Countries such as Antigua Barbuda, Barbados and
  Bahamas just to name a few, vacation activities
  have changed significantly thus becoming more
  modernized to compete on an international scale.
• The introduction of international sports such as
  golf and base ball, although still evolving, have
  not yet really dominated over the traditional
  sports such as Cricket and Football.
• The presence of opportunities to play Baseball in
  the United States has created an incentive for
  the young minds to aspire for.

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