The Caribbean subbin

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The American
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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. Extraregional societies, countries
outside the Caribbean region,
impact the Caribbeans
consumption patterns in various

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.

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.

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, R&B, 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

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