Informative Speech On Haiti

According to Samuel Lagerlof “Culture is what remains when that which has been learned is entirely forgotten” (as cited in Usunied,1996, p.94). Every single country in the world possesses his own culture no culture is more important than another. They’re just different. However, Haiti’s culture differs from the United States in three major points; Values, religion, and norms.

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I was born in a really poor place in the Caribbean called Haiti. When I was 9 years old, my family moved to the United States, because I was doing things I am not proud of. Later on, I went back to Haiti after an earthquake ravaged my homeland and left nothing, but destruction and sadness in the people’s lives. Some of my family were also still there. I called them to ask them how they were and to make sure they weren’t hurt. My family was safe and none of them died, but in some ways I was still unhappy with the look of the people, nation, and the land. It was really not a good time for me. I planned with my family to help them as much as I was able. Damage was everywhere. I was only ten or eleven years old and the earthquakes were still happening, so I couldn’t stay in Haiti for long.

(SP 1 The Haitian People feel very strongly about greetings, Men shake hands on meeting and departing, men and women kiss on the cheek when greeting, women kiss each other on the cheek. An older person might be called “aunt” or “uncle” as sign of respect even if they not related.

The placement essay made me think about all the different things between Haiti and America. How both places have different conducts. How my childhood in Haiti use to be and how now that everything changed. The way I approach it was to begin it with my childhood education and how my educational experience were different in Haiti. Then after that I wrote how after my 4th grade in Haiti was over I had received my visa to come to the US. I had to change my way of writing and the way I use to learn in Haiti. Had to take ESL classes to improve my vocabularies and be able to understand when I’m being spoken to. Because I had stayed in NC for only one year. During my 5th grade years, life wasn 't going as so. so my mother and I move to New Jersey,

There was not much to do as I grew up in Haiti. I would sit outside for hours until the sun would set, the darkness consuming the little light that once remained.  I didn’t know anything besides my house; my mom believed that our safety simply lay inside the house and anything outside was dangerous. Growing up, I didn’t have my father around because he came to the United States in order to provide for his family back home. At the age of seven both my immigration papers and my sister's were finalized, and we were able to finally be with our father. Unfortunately, our mother was not able to come with us. When we got to the airport, I hugged my mother and said goodbye.

In the wake of the devastating earthquake of 2009 and the other subsequences that rocked Haiti into complete chaos, had the Haitians in great need of help. The U.S. is only minimally involved with Haiti, but it is not our fault. Most of Haiti’s problems result from an extremely corrupt government (Aronson 1). To provide Haiti with healthcare, housing, and schooling, the U.S. needs to learn to help the Haitians alongside of their government while keeping the culture alive. Therefore, the U.S. as a whole should find a way to persuade the Haitian government to let America provide the Haitian people with the basic human needs.

In Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, many people suffer physically and mentally. Edwidge Danticat, the author of “Krik? Krak!”, uses the daily life of Haiti to describe the depression that the people feel during the day. Melancholy is defined as something that isn’t as lighthearted as someone would expect it to be. In Haiti, the definition of “Krik? Krak!”is similar to a hello.The definition of “Krik? Krak!” is used when someone is telling a story, he asks Krik? and the listeners answer Krak!, which ties to Danticat’s book because it’s a series of short stories. In the book, Krik? Krak!, a series of short stories, the author Edwidge Danticat utilizes juxtaposition to create melancholy characters that in return create the overall mood of depression throughout the book. The specific examples that best display melancholy characters creating an overall sense of depression are a mother, an undecided daughter, and a depressed father.

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