Cultural Differences In The Caribbean

The distinct regions of the world have been classified by certain scholars in three particular types, each with its own characteristics and specificities. Because of our areas of study, in this essay we will exclusively concentrate our attention on two regions: one geographic (South America) and one cultural and geopolitical (Caribbean countries).
The first step we must take is identifying to which type of the three our regions of analysis correspond. In the case of South America, we can state, on one side, that it is a naively perceived region. It presents the clear features of popular recognition, as well as internal and external perception. In addition, despite large differences in culture, language or history within its area, there exists

But first, a brief historical summary of the two will provide us with useful information at the time of addressing their disparities.
Taking a look at the history of South America, we find that many of the realities engrained in the current cultural and social organization of its countries derive from the abrupt shift in their original indigenous cultures with the arrival of the Spaniards in the late fifteenth century, and the subsequent start of the colonization process. This, of course, is an event that South America very much shares with the Caribbean. Nevertheless, the outcome of the countries’ evolution in the centuries after the conquest has differed between the two.

Stretching from the nineteenth to approximately the second half of the twentieth century, the gradual process of the American colonies’ independence takes place. For the most part of the last century, the rise of military dictatorships and their subsequent fall radically determines the evolution of South American economic and social

This process started in the first place due to the existence of large quantities of petrodollars which were available to be introduced into the global financial markets. South American governments, many of them led by dictatorships at the time, proceeded to spend the majority of their loan money either on failed military missions, investing in private corporations or contributing to the corruption of their countries’ political elite. Although this is not the case anymore, we can find remnants of these failed policies in the current political landscape, especially in the way both South America and the Caribbean are externally