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Established in 1958, by the British Caribbean Federation Act of 1956 with the aim of inaugurating a civic consolidation among its members. The West Indies Federation comprised the ten territories. The unionized capital was located in Trinidad and Tobago. Cooperation in tertiary education was solidify and broaden during this period. The then University College of the West Indies (UCWI), which was entrenched in 1948 and opened its second campus at St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, in 1960.The association however faced several problems. These included control and legislation instituted by the British; dissent among the territories over strategy, particularly with respect to taxation and central planning; The Federation fell apart in January 1962 but its end, in many ways, must be regarded as the real beginning of what is now the Caribbean Community. CARICOM came into existence on 4 July 1973 with the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas. The purpose of CARICOM was to meet the community’s needs. It was later amended in 2002 to grant establishment of CSME. CARICOM lean on four main pedestals: economic integration; foreign policy coordination; human and social development; and security.  These pedestals derived the stated objectives of our Community. CARICOM countries are devoted. While it may be challenging in some degree to conclude the value of these collective efforts, their worth in other cases is obvious. For example, in matters concerning elections to various esteemed foreign bodies. In colonial times where there was racism, social class, educational problems and such now look where we are. CARICOM helped us as a people, a country and as a Caribbean even though were a demographically diversify.

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As children growing up, we perceive one thing because of the story books were or the stories told by our grandparents but how do we know that’s the whole or entire story? As it is passed down from generations via storytelling, they may have heard or seen different versions of various stories. We hear it over and over again and share that same thing with others until it eventually end up the only story we ever believe. We believe that the Europeans are civilized because they were superior and they live in nice houses but do we really know?

I have learned in primary and secondary school that the “caribs and Arawak’s” were not civilized. The Europeans and the people who were told about it made it the only story and that stigma remained with them. The course Caribbean civilization opened my eyes to our history. We were taught that they were known the “caribs and Arawak’s” but they are neo Indians. Back then civilization or civilized were considered townsman, governed by the constitution and legal statues of the community. The Neo Indians have been underdogs of oppression since the Europeans arrived in the fifteenth century. Most of what was known about them during that period came from ethnocentric depicts of colonizers who alluded to them as savages, cannibals and culturelessness. The display of the neo Indians is so single dimensional that the whole race is victimized by the conventional image. For example, the neo Indian films, TV shows, even sports, portray them as violent, uncivilized villains. They exploit them as doing bad thing or emphasizing certain characteristics which they misrepresent.

Artifact- https://youtu.be/ucZxKxTnwcQ

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https://youtu.be/_qpgatcbgSk

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In the Caribbean and around the world identity has and still is a problem. People struggle with identity, the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. There are many factors that hinders identity such as race, gender, sexuality and more but more in particular sexuality. Some of us sometimes get confuse with our sex a certain age. For example, homosexuality. This is now becoming more prevalent in society moreover with men. It varies. They find the same sex attractive. Same may want to do operations on their body to change their genitals. They may have the desires od the opposite sex but they are what they are. There are some disadvantages to that because the identity remains every whey hey go or what they do. For examples, jobs we select.  most homosexuals are found doing hair dressing because that the stereotype that is left by society. This may discourage a heterosexual man from perusing hair dressing because of the stigma that is left by people that “he gay that’s why he does hairdressing”

Another is transgenders. Transgender is someone who gender identity is dissimilar who has the identity of the opposite sex. they also have an issue due to having opposite genitals they may be a man and have a vagina or they may have breasts but feeling like a woman and have male sexual desires or a woman have a penis or beard she will feel like a man and her body have certain thing it goes through but she is still a woman.

We as a people can’t do anything about what society does. It happens all over the world not only the Caribbean. this is what your identity would be as a person who is either homosexual or tangential.
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https://youtu.be/E0v_idyvjco