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I had fun with this.

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So basically one of my loyal readers asked the question about what I think about this whole globalization thing and if Caribbean integration still relevant in developing the Caribbean or if we as members of the Caribbean should try to be more involved in the global community to develop our Caribbean islands.So in this lil thing here i gonna tell you about my views on all of this.

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Well yuh see this is simply two or more Caribbean nations working together to gain some peace,stability and some wealth. In the Caribbean, this integration is facilitated by the Caribbean Community or CARICOM as some people would know it as. Before we had CARICOM we had organizations like the West Indies Federation and CARIFTA.

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According to Juneja, globalization is the free movement of goods, services and people across the world in a seamless and integrated manner. To me this simply means you opening up yuh country to allow people to come in and do a lil business or vice versa you could export your products to countries that can't produce these things....yuh dig?

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So like globalization nice and thing for the Caribbean especially with respect to tourism as it brings in a lot of money for the Caribbean.In fact according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization, 30.6 million tourists visited the Caribbean in 2017 bringing their money with them but this isn't my concern. My concern is that globalization is gradually making us forget our culture and identity and i'll explain why.

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In Unit 6: Caribbean Identity, Abrahim Khan defined identity as elusive and consists of your "fact of identity" and your "sense of identity". A person's national identity is the depiction of a country as a whole encompassing its culture, traditions, language and politics. Identity is also subjected to change and won't stay constant I believe that our identity has been largely influenced by the U.S. interference in the Caribbean

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So the U.S. decided in the 1880s that they didn't want to be by themself anymore and they wanna mind everybody else business and this man named Captain Alfred in the 1890s had the bright idea that for the U.S. to become powerful they needed to take control outside of America so they decided to come and trouble the poor lil people in the Caribbean and Latin America. They come here with the ideology of the manifest destiny which put them on a high horse and have them thinking they is the most superior race and government so they have to lead mankind to success. All kinda bacchanal with them. Anyways, they developed some polices and the dollar diplomacy and good neighbor policy stood out to me as facilitating globalization.

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The Dollar Diplomacy and Good Neighbor Policy 

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The Dollar Diplomacy and Good Neighbor Policy 

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According to the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Dollar Diplomacy, foreign policy created by U.S. Pres. William Howard Taft to ensure the financial stability of a region while protecting and extending U.S. commercial and financial interests there to gain influence
The Good Neighbor Policy meant the U.S. would pursue a non-interventionist approach towards Latin America and the Caribbean and no longer utilizing military force to exercise influence in the region. This allowed American businesses to play a central part in the economic life of many Latin America and Caribbean nations. Unit 6: Caribbean Identity states even though many Caribbean nations are independent now they still are subjected to U.S. policies and U.S. slangs, clothing, movies and music still have an impact on the evolution of Caribbean Identity.

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The policies by the U.S. allowed foreign businesses to enter the region allowing globalization. Nantambu(2008) stated that globalization has resulted in the Euro-American re-colonization of the Caribbean in a multiplicity of manifestations such as food, festivals, music, television,clothing and language.

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Now in Trinidad and Tobago every corner yuh turn it have some fast food restaurant whether it be pizza, burgers or KFC and all owned by foreign businesses.These restaurant have expanded through the entire Caribbean. The availability of all this fast food has changed the diet of people drastically. People are no longer interested in tanty who have her lil shop selling her home cooked local food. Now tanty have no business and have to close down. According to the Pan American Health Organization obesity is on the rise in the Caribbean.People are heavily depending on fast foods and ain't even bothering to learn to cook and important dishes that are a important  part of our culture will eventually be forgotten.

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Festivals, Music, Television and Language

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Festivals, Music, Television and Language

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So we know Caribbean people love their festivals. We have music festivals like cropover in Barbados, it have carnival in Trinidad and the rest of the region, sailing tournaments in Bahamas and rel holidays for every body and their dog. Rel thing. In my 20 years living in the Caribbean, it was a big shock to see children walking around celebrating  Halloween which originated in Ireland and is celebrated by Americans. People have also started celebrating Thanksgiving and there are parties that come to Trinidad that strictly play EDM music which is of American origin.
Widely listened to radio stations often play more American music than music created right here in the Caribbean as there is a "season" for local music.
The majority of the movies and channels watched in the Caribbean are entirely American and the only local thing we watch is the news and these days yuh can't even get children to watch the news. Another point that came across
Now we love when children could talk proper eh but then you does hear a American accent. Children have access to all these technologies due to globalization which in turn is influencing their behavior and they are trying to become more Americanized.

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Now i know this thread all over the place but i hope my readers could understand my view. Globalization has provided us with great opportunities but at what cost. Globalization in my view is modern imperialism but we have accepted all what it has to offer. The children are the future and they are the ones affected the most since they have been exposed to it from a young age. I strongly believe that Caribbean integration is still relevant in the development of the Caribbean as it is our responsibility to preserve our culture and identity and to pass it on to the next generation.
Thanks for reading :)

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