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The history of the Caribbean reveals the significant role the region played in the colonial struggles of the European powers since the 15th century. ... Genocide, slavery, immigration and rivalry between world powers have given Caribbean history an impact disproportionate to the size of this small region.
Our Caribbean is very rich in history. It has not always been an easy history based on peace, unity and happiness, it has actually   been a nightmare for some our forefathers, especially for the Africans and East Indians during the time of colonialism. However, our Caribbean has grown a lot from colonialism to now. Our Caribbean has become Independant, we are responsible for ourselves. We manage our oun affairs and we have moved up in the social and economic world. Many great leaders have emerged from our lands, some of them include Dr. Eric Williams, Trinidad and Tobago first Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, Jamaica's first woman Prime Minister who broke that barrier of gender. Other influencial people may include, Cricketer Garfield Sobers from Barbados, Brian Lara, The Mighty Sparrow from Grenada, Bob Marley, whose music is famous around the world, Janelle Commissiong the first black Miss Universe and the list can go on and on.

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these were the early inhabitants around 7000 yrs ago. it was believed through research, it says that they travelled from their main land to the Caribbean by rafts they built. they were typically gatherers and collectors of food as well as hunters. it was theorised that the cause of their relocation was due to large game becoming extinct as they culture was big game hunting.

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they got this names from the British people who called them this to simplify their mission to explore the Caribbean. When they were attacked by the natives, they called them Caribs and when they were submissive they called them Arawak. this is however false as they were not 2 separate races but only one, the Neo-Indians.

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these are the earli peoples and civilization. They got their name based on their hunting ad gathering skills . they also contained their own settlement where they had heard of animals and gardens full of fruits and berries for foods. they life a life that sustained large groups of people and lived for a long life span. this helped them in diversification of their culture and civilisation through out.

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This is the police of acquiring full partial political control over a county, occupying it with settlers and exploiting it. our Caribbean island went through this during the 1400s when Christopher Columbus rediscovered the island. During these periods many countries went into European Colonisation.

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within the Caribbean, they are many different definition for what the Caribbean identity is. these different definitions all boils down to the different cultures, beliefs, qualities and religions of the geographical region of the country in the Caribbean. Among Trinidad for example, we are divided by race and ethnicity, however within the country everyone shares the same common history of slavery or indentureship.
Identity as Caribbean people is still disrupted from the colonialism that occurred. Identity is also not fixed, as it depends on the personal choices an the society within the persons lives. identity also consist on how persons sees themselves and the world around them. A bad tendency of Caribbean people, is that they segregate themselves and others into racial and ethnic groups which was used back in colonialism.
Globalization have been shown to impact the Caribbean identity in terms of our culture, politics and religion. However we still maintain many aspects of our identity such as our dialect as we speak in creoles, celebrations of our musics and celebration like soca. Also practices brought such as religions from our ancestors.

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Civilization is the stage of human social development and organization which is considered most advanced. Civilizations are not better or worse but mearly different from each other. In 1492, when Christopher Columbus rediscovered the Caribbean, he believed the natives to be uncivilized however; the natives were already civilized in their own manner, just not to the Eurocentric standards. Even though their form of civilization wasn’t like the Europeans, the Neo-Indians were fully functional. They were literate and had already mastered the art of Animal Husbandry and Crop Cultivation. They were also developed in the sexual division of labour and had among them skilled craftsmen and other occupations other than hunting and farming. They were a progressive and functional people in their own native way.

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Revisionism refers to the re-telling or the re-interpretation of the past. We cannot rethink ideas or the past in the instance, without a sound reason or will. Proper and intensive research must be done first in order to justify the rethinking. History as we know it was written mainly from a Eurocentric and androcentric perspective. It was told according to the perception of these men in history and how a situation was viewed in their eyes. Be that as it may, since history was based on men’s perception, history may or may not be true or accurate to what had really occurred. The story of the Neo Indians therefore may have a lot of loop holes in them and this is where revisionism comes in, it’s the quest to understand the past by using factual artefacts such as pottery, culture, etc.

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Caribbean persons are always segregated according the their class and colour. culture is viewed by many as the symbolic, ideational and intangible aspects of human society. It is the values and interpretations and perspectives that distinguishes one another from each other. Race and culture also relates closely to class and colour. The Caribbean culture gives the people a sense of identity in both size and numbers as it makes them feel that they belong there which they can use to manifest and gain strength from. However it must be understood that culture identity is based on individuals perceptions of themselves and within the Caribbean, there are a diverse number of cultures as different groups of people came from different backgrounds containing their own unique customs, culture and beliefs and is passed down through generations.
Cultural artifacts is one important way in which these cultures and identity can manifest themselves. These may include dance, music, carnival, festivals, foods, languages, accents, myth and etc.

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Globalization is the process by which businesses or other organisations develop international influence or begin operating in an international trade. This can be seen from liberalised trade used in the 21 first century.
But, is it only simply about business or organizations.
it can aslo be about different persons culture and different practises and customs within individuals lives.
The Caribbean, tries to be a united nations. A key aspect that can help unify all the Caribbean countries and make them stronger is integration and regionalism.
The Caribbean must develop as a unit to be prosperous on a global market.
Globalization on the farming industry. Within the markets, you see goods like Irish potato, which is imported. this can be due to the cheaper cost of simply importing goods as compared to farmers selling it in the supermarkets.
Benefits of globalisation. Globalization has played a major part in bringing the Caribbean countries into the eyes of the world such as by festivals, and music making it more diverse. this can be seen by calypso rose, a Trinidad soca artist going coachella performing and bringing our culture to the rest of the world. This can also be seen by an article posted in Caribbean.org in 2017, the Caribbean regions saw an increase of 30.6 million international tourist arrivals into the Caribbean region. this helps with economy.
Negatives of this would be increased market competition leading to fluctuation of prices as other countries can offer the same good you are selling for a lower price due to lower production cost in other countries

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Integration within the Caribbean island is the unifying and cooperation of the united nation states to achieve stability, wealth and peace among the nations.
This however faces many problems in today society. it can be simple as other Caribbean countries not agreeing to this. This can be seen in Haiti as they fall within the geographical region and is historically a caribbean country not agreeing to this integration process.
Not only this but, caribbean countries entering the global market would be a disaster.  we ourselves have not yet become a economic as well as a political union with other caribbean countries, aswell as no unified currency system been put in place.
Efforts of integration within the caribbean has helped in the development of the caribbean countries through education and job mobility
Looking back at from the perspective of the West Indian Federation where it lasted from 1950 to 1962 where it failed because Caribbean had conflict of different interest. an example of this would be between Trinidad an Tobago and Jamaica where Dr Eric Williams thought that Trinidad and Tobago was so called better than Jamaica. this ended up shattering of the West Indian Federation. A new attempt have been made an shows allot of potential. this is the CARICOM

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My Opinion on In today’s world of globalization, do efforts at Caribbean integration still have anyrelevance for Caribbean development, or should we all aspire to be citizens of the globalvillage?

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My Opinion on In today’s world of globalization, do efforts at Caribbean integration still have anyrelevance for Caribbean development, or should we all aspire to be citizens of the globalvillage?

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To survive in this global world, we must first develop our global village more as an integrated body. this must start with changing the ways in which we must operate as a global village, become a political union to have a sense of strong stability. after this then we as a proper global village can enter the global market to minimise any negatives and maximise on all of the wealth fare and opportunities we can benefit from and doing this sustainable

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i was not to excited in doing this course as i am not good with history and never did any history courses before. allot of students also doing this course told me that this course would be easy so i was slightly excited about that but due to my surpise it was very challenging for me. however as i dived deeper into the course and learning more about where i came from an understanding all that we went through i became more interested into the course. i am slightly disappointed now that i never took an interest in history and i am glad that i did this course.