Exploring Haitian Voodoo: A Popular Culture Perspective

Popular culture refers to information or an event that briefly hold the interest of the public. These events and information are mostly heard or broadcasted on mass media such as radio, television, newspapers and the internet. It is one of the cultures that is easily accessible and considered much more entertaining by the greater part of the population in the world. It has helped in the enhancement of human relationships and socialization in our modern world. As a Haitian, below I try to outline some of the popular cultures I can think of.

The Haitian Voodoo: is a Haitian popular culture, it is a unique mixture of indigenous Taïno beliefs, Christianity and African religious beliefs. According to the Voodoo, it is a group of spirits known as

Similar to the Mardi Gras festival of New Orleans, the Haitian carnival features exuberant parades, live music, dancing in the streets and all night celebrations. Beside this festivity, another festival native to Haiti is Rara festival, a peasant celebration.

Olympic Games: the Olympic Games leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world’s foremost sports competition with than 200 nations participating. During this events, there were 26.5 million people worldwide who viewed in this year’s opening ceremony.

Paralympics Games: this events is a major international multi-sport event involving athletes with a range of disabilities, including impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, vision impaired, and intellectual impairment. The opening ceremony for this year’s games attracted more than two million

These events allow people get to know about them through mass media and social media. The voodoo and carnival festival attracted thousands of tourists and visitors every day and every year that allow the Haitian government to make money during these events.

All the above mentioned popular cultures can sometimes have influence on large culture. As you know, large cultures are made of subcultures that tend to influence by the popular culture every day. The popular culture is the dominant subculture shared by the majority of a society’s population (Long-Crowell, 2016). Therefore through subcultures, larger culture get to know about some ongoing popular culture which they all develop interest on find out more on mass media and social