Jamaica and Its New Experience

The country that I chose to conduct a culture analysis on is Jamaica. Jamaica is a third world country located in North America and the 3rd largest island in the Caribbean Sea. There is a 2.5 million population, which equally divided between urban and rural areas. The country runs approximately 146 miles long and varies between 21- 52 miles wide. The climate is tropical and its main tourist attraction is their beautiful beaches. The capital of Jamaica is Kingston, which has a population of more than 645,000. Kingston is the chief port of Jamaica and is along the southeastern coast of the island. It is covered by the “Blue Mountains”, which is thickly covered which tree ferns. The Blue Mountains experiences an average of 200 inches of rain annually, resulting in topsoil erosion and an abundance of streams. Peasants nurture coffee, usually grown on large plantations, in the valleys of the mountains. It is amongst the most expensive coffees in the world and is exported mainly to Japan.

After visiting the country of Jamaica this past summer, I realized how dissimilar some countries can be from the United States. Jamaica was not unlike the United States in a terrible way, but the disparities made me additionally interested in researching about the beautiful and culture-rich country of Jamaica. Even though the majority of facts about the history and culture of the United States and Jamaica are dissimilar, I was surprised to come across some similarities among these two countries.

One day waking up thinking this was a normal day at my birth home, Jamaica, I walked to my grandparents’ house, stayed there for a couple of hours, then I saw this pretty, shiny, new Nissan Altima pulled up, and stopped. Moments later a tall dark-skinned guy stepped out the vehicle, fixed his hat, and walked to the door. When the doors open he burst into tears and said to me, “Hey son”, at first my siblings and I was in shock because we have not seen our father since 2004, I did not know what he looked like until I saw pictures of me and him together. Later that night we party and have fun together. The next morning, he drove in and we took pictures, then, we went to dunns-river falls, also we went and eat.

The island of Jamaica is very rich in culture and has many historic turnabouts throughout the years. The country has a rich and complex history including being the first country to have Arawak and Taino Indians settle there.

In tenth grade I was enrolled in conformation class at my parish church. This was the first time I had really started getting involved with my Church parish. The big event everyone was talking about for the upcoming summer was the mission trip to Jamaica. My first thoughts about this trip were to stay away from it. I found myself not wanting to get involved with a huge event like this. Leaving the United States is something that I have never done before. A whole week away from home is something that scared me at the time. I kept it in the back of my head throughout the year and the time came to make my decision. The decision I made would, without me realizing it, change my life forever. My trip to Jamaica would teach me just how blessed I am.

I chose Jamaican Jews because there are few Jews living in Jamaica today but hundreds of years ago their were many Jews living there and many of Jews that live in Canada today, have ancestors leading back to Jamaica. Today the estimated total population of Jews living in Jamaica is between 200-424,000. This essay will discuss the pull factors that influenced Jewish immigration to Jamaica, how they organized and the push factors that caused them to leave from the time the first Jews came to Jamaica in 1494-1655 until today.

My story takes place in Montego Bay, Jamaica the time is at midnight. It is a very beautiful island. It is south of the Caribbean island Cuba. The island has nice, quiet beaches. The food is very good and spicy. They have goats walking on the streets of the island. It also is the third largest island in the Caribbean it has pretty blue mountains and the people are really nice. Jamaica is a very pretty tropical island. The houses on the island are nice and pretty on top of the mountains. It has nice sunshine in the morning and afternoon and they have nice rain forests too. You feel a good cold breeze on the sandy beaches on the island if you walk closer to the blue water coming up on your legs and feet. Jamaica has a rich island culture.

After four years living with my father, my mother decided to move her and me to America. This was due to the conflict present within the family, which details are unknown to me because of my age, as well as to ensure a beneficial education, leading to vast opportunities for her children and allow my mother to return to college to receive her bachelor’s and master’s degree. During the months after our departure, my father stayed in contact through weekly phone calls. After my sister’s birth, we returned to Jamaica. Again, after a shorter time period, we returned to America as the problems had risen again. Succeeding the time of our final departure from Jamaica, contact from my father has dwindled to an occasional text message on mine, or my sister’s birthday each year. In July of 2009, after months of preparation, my father came to stay with us for one week and then returned to Jamaica. Since July of 2009, I have had no physical/facial interaction with my noncustodial parent and the contact that I do receive is through passed along messages from my Aunts who travel from America to Jamaica. My mother has raised three kids: my sister, myself, and my brother; without paternal nor federal aid.

When I think of an important place that has had the most impact on me, it would be Jamaica. This is my happy place, where I feel safe and loved. Everyone has a smile on their face and is full of joy, even though most of them do not have much. Three words come to mind when I think of Jamaica: children, church, and contentment.

Jamaicans have seen some bad days but are always looking forward to the good ones.

Change is good, whether it’s a new job, relationship or home, change can inspire you to a new high. We are often crippled by the fear of change, can I, do it? The fear of I doesn’t know if I will succeed. The state of change helps us to grow and move further and to achieve optimal dreams, to accomplish this, one must embrace and invite change. I am an immigrant from the island of Jamaica, who migrated to the United States over 17 years ago. I still have the Jamaican accent, which I try to mask sometimes, but proudly use it when necessary. As an immigrant from the tropical island of Jamaica, I believe that hard work will produce success. If you set your mind to it you will achieve your goals.

Jamaica is a country that has a rich literary history that has been muchly improved by Great britain but although Jamaica has managed a relationship with Britain, the British colonizers had been ultimately detrimental to the native people already living there. Jamaica was founded by Christopher Columbus in the late 1400's and was eventually taken over by Spain in the mid 16th century (”Jamaica.”). Spain believed in using Jamaica for farming and used the natives as slaves. The Spanish treated the natives so poorly that the natives died soon after Spain got there in the Taino genocide(“The History of Jamaica.”). This shows how Spain did not see the natives as people but as animals. The original people of Jamaica

Columbus discovered Jamaica on May 5, 1494, one year after he heard of the existence of the island. However, the true history of Jamaica begins with the African-Jamaican people who came to the island twenty years after the English took control from the Spaniards. The history of Jamaica can be broken up into different time periods, which were defined by watershed moments or events. Jamaican history begins with the establishment of the native islanders called the Tainos who inhabited the island for hundreds of years before the discoveries of Columbus. (JNHT 1)

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