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This group consists of :
Anjanie Ramnath
Radha Seeraj
Sangita Thackoor
Savitree Baldeo
And we will be presenting on
HYBRIDIZATION

Mulatto denotes a person with
one white parent and one black
parent, or a person of mixed
black and white ancestry.

In the terminology of British historians , enslaved
Africans and their white European overlords produced
the ethnic group called the mulattoes. A child of a
mulatto and a black person was called a sambo; a child
of a mulatto and a white person was called a quadroon
and a child of a quadroon and a white was called an
octaroon.
Continued unions of Africans coloured and whites over
serveal hundreds of years produced the continuum of
colour apparent amongst coloured and African ethnic
groups today in the Caribbean.

Mestizo is a term traditionally
used in Latin America and Spain
for people of mixed European
and Native American heritage or
descent. The term originated as a
racial category in the Caste
system that was in use during the
Spanish empire’s control of their
American colonies.
 A mestizo woman

Europeans first entered the Amerindians in the
fifteenth century, and in that violent impact
between the powerful and the powerless the
mixed race of mestizos was born. Among
Hispanic scholars in the Caribbean the term
‘mestizo’ has been used to label all people of
mixed race in the Caribbean, eg. Euro-
Amerindian mestizo, Afro-Amerindian mestizo,
Afro-European mestizo and so on.

Dougla is a word used by people of the West Indies,
especially in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. It is used to
describe people who are a product of Afro-Trinidadian and
Indo-Trinidadian descent.

 One calypsonian, the Mighty Dougla (Clatis Ali),
described the predicament of "douglas" in the
1960s:
 "If they sending Indians to India
And Africans back to Africa
Well somebody please just tell me
Where they sending poor me?
I am neither one nor the other
Six of one, half a dozen of the other
So if they sending all these people back home for
true
They got to split me in two,"

 Let us suppose they pass a law
They don't want people living here anymore
Everybody got to find they country
According to your race originally
What a confusion I would cause in de place
They might have to shoot me in space
Because they sending Indians to India
And the Negroes back to Africa
Can somebody please just tell me
Where they sending poor me
I am neither one nor the other
Six of one, half a dozen of the other
If they serious about sending back people for
true
They got to split me in two
From the time ah small ah in confusion
Ah couldn't play with no other lil children
If ah go by the Negro children to play
They say 'You little coolie now run away'
Ah go by the Indian children next door
They say 'Nowayrian, what you come here for'
Ah always by meself like ah lil monkey
Not one single child wouldn't play with me
Hear what happen to me recently
Ah going down Jogie Road walking peacefully
Some Indians and Negroes rioting
Poor me didn't know not a single thing
But as ah enter in de Odit Trace
Ah Indian man cuff me straight in meh face
Ah run by the Negroes to get rescue
'Look ah coolie!' and them start beating me
too
Some fellas having a race discussion
I jump in to give my opinion
A young fella watch me in meh face
He say, yuh shut your mouth yuh ain't got no
race
What he say to me was a real insult
But is not right to blame, is meh fadder fault
When you see half a race talking to (?)
Instead of having one race yuh know I got two

Transculturation describes the process whereby a culture
changes drastically, actually overcoming itself and translating
into something new.
The experience of slavery to newly arrived Africans and creole
Africans in the Caribbean could be described as a process of
transculturation. The Africans was able to retain elements of
language and religion that were fashioned into complete fully
functioning hybrid culture. ‘Transculturation” is thus a broad
all-encompassing term referring to whole cultures, and in the
case of slavery involves the experience , for newly arrived
Africans, of moving from being steeped in African culture to
hybrid culture.

Interculturation refers to the mixing of cultures that goes on between
groups who share a space. The groups do not necessarily give up their own
culture but participate in various ways in each other’s lives.
Trinidad and Tobago is described as a culturally plural society where the
major ethnic groups, namely Africans and Indians meet but they do not
mix. They meet in their workplaces , schools, churches and when pursuing
leisure. They form friendships and tend to appreciate certain areas of each
other’s culture. E.g. festivals and celebrations of each group are appreciated
mainly for they culinary aspects an the accompanying holidays.

Only A Jamaican...
There were three men from the Caribbean living together in
London; a Trinidadian, a Barbadian and a Jamaican who were all
starving because they didn't have money to buy food. However,
upon coming close to a posh restaurant they came up with a plan.
The Trinidadian went in first. After being seated he ordered a
three course meal with white wine. When he had finished the
meal the waiter came by with the cheque.
"But I paid you!" the Trinidadian shouted.
The waiter was very confused as he could not remember being
paid, but as he did not want to cause any trouble...he let the Trini
leave.

Five minutes later the Barbadian walked into the restaurant and
ordered a five course meal with red wine. When he was finished
eating, the waiter came by to collect the money for food.
"But I paid you!" The Barbadian shouted.
This time the manager came and had to calm down the Bajan,
and as he did not want anything to upset the other customers he
let the Bajan go.
Ten minutes later the Jamaican walked in, sat down, lit a
cigarette, and ordered the most expensive meal on the menu plus
two Red Stripe beers. After he had finished, the waiter came to
collect the money for the meal and before asking for it, the waiter
said, "Sir... I have been having a sort of problem all day and I can't
understand it. Other people like you came in earlier and ate and
they said that they paid me but I don't remember getting any
money from them, so........
Before he could finish, the Jamaican chimed in loudly "Hear mi
nuh boss, that ah fi yu problem...jus gimme mi change!"

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