Coming out of C.A.P.E I always dreaded this course and now at the end of this 10 week long road, I know I am going to miss the conversations in tutorial classes, the informative lectures and the effortless nature to which I could partake in class discussions without fear of judgement or backlash. I am a big advocate for Caribbean identity, I feel like this course is vital to becoming a meaningful member of Caribbean society. Personally the largest issue was the online nature of the course, yes I appreciate the whole course unification in that I could be doing the same work as my friends in Mona and cave hill, I feel like the best course of action is to keep traditional face to face lectures until the technology is up to a higher standard, honestly the infernal nature of blackboard collaborate alone was enough to make some students never listen to any of the lectures (their loss). While a lot of the course work was just in depth explanations of what was touched upon in the C.A.P.E syllabus, the knowledge of Neo-Indians, Pre-Atlantic slave trade African presence in the Americas and even the female element of slave management, these themes will stay with me indefinitely as I pursue my higher education. Coming to the end of this course I identify even more strongly with my country and with my region and I wish all my friends who went abroad to study could have benefited from this vital course. 

Essentially the plural society theory stipulates that plural societies like mine would have major groups that exist together but do not mix. For quite long due to the religious practices and cultural practices of endogamous marriage this was true but with the prolonged exposure to one another these groups have created small links not to mention the fact that prejudice is on the decline in the more educated sectors in Trinidad we see different elements of our culture that bring all groups together, what we see is the creation and exponential increase of 

THE TIES THAT BIND