Cultural And Social, Social And Cultural Identity In The Caribbean

According to Peter Prevos, cultural identity is the concept of people labelling themselves as members of particular social groups-such as nationality, social class, subculture, ethnicity, gender and employment (Prevos, 2004). Although changes in cultures are ongoing and inevitable, globalization has facilitated greater transfer of ideas from all areas of the world causing rapid changes in cultures. For example, continuous evolution in technology, medicine, international relations, travel and cultural transmission. These innovations, which are the basis of globalization, have penetrated and affected every possible aspect of Caribbean life, so that it is almost impossible to imagine life without them. In the Caribbean, its positive aspects include a basic flow of information and easier access to more resources. As a result, the identity and economy of small islands have been negatively affected by globalization.

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The racial and ethnic makeup of the Caribbean people is unstable. Meaning that new immigrants from Asia and Latin America have added a large measure of cultural and phenotypic diversity to the Caribbean population. Moreover, the boundaries between racial and ethnic groups are becoming blurred by high rates of intermarriage and the growing number of persons with mixed ancestry (Lee and Bean, 2004). Ethnic and racial succession, fostered particularly by the plantation system, has produced some societies whose ethnic groupings are also largely distinct physically and whose behaviors may differ along ethnic, as well as class