The European rediscovery in the fifteenth century and their first interactions with the Indigenous people had a major impact upon the Indigenous people of the Caribbean. Millions of lives of the Indigenous people have been lost due to enslavement, disease and genocide from the Encomienda System. This further led to the extinction of the first people of the Caribbean. The European Settlers didn’t see this as a problem, European exploitation continued, however through the lives of Africans via slavery and East Indians via indentureship. The European culture has had a major impact on the Caribbean’s culture, via the way we think, speak and see things in society. Our colonial power has had influenced the cultures because of Racism, white supremacy, religion, colonialism etc. This influence has perpetrated the minds of the Caribbean people who have seen themselves as inferior to the whites, and generated self hate. They have conformed to the norms of the Europeans and not the norms of their island or themselves. In recent times, most of the Caribbean are seen as independent to an extent, experiencing self love, a sound and renewed mind in the direction of life and civilization. 

In recent times in the University of the West Indies, integration and communication is not solely present. This is because persons of other regional countries are not interacting with locals of the island. In UWI St. Augustine, there’s separatism between locals and immigrants in the campus. The goal of integration among students from the One UWI was not met due to the separatism among students. 

have been occurred and also expectations were merely met. Caribbean civilization has taught me how to be open minded, to understand situations and circumstances that took place in a more in depth way as possible. This course thought how important it is to know your history and the fundamental facts associated with it, in terms of having a clear idea of the Caribbean was, has been and is going to be. It gave me the understanding of the major effects and strongholds that our colonial power has on our people through our mind sets, decisions and our ability to conform to things. This course led me to have self love and to appreciate having some sort of black origins as a mixed (dougla) person of the Caribbean. Loving my history, backgrounds and cultures that make me the person. This foundation course has been challenging at some point because it was a lot to critically understand and remember, however every topic was more intriguing but also quiet difficult. my expectations were merely met, this is because this course seemed very simple because its similar to Caribbean Studies but it’s a lot more difficult and a lot to read and understand. Therefore, my expectation for myself could have been better in terms of the amount of work to be done for the completion of this course. I recommend that online lectures should be re-evaluated, live lectures should be considered for this course and also more classes should have more interacting between students and lecturers.