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            Your cultural background may influence your everyday life in many ways.
             My ancestral background stems from the arawak Indians who were the original .
             inhabitants of Jamaica before the arrival of Columbus. The arawak Indians gave the island the name Xaymaca. It wasn't long before most of the arawaks were killed or died from being overworked and from European diseases. So the Spanish started importing Africans to replace them. In 1655 after the English took Jamaica from the Spaniards Indians and Chinese were brought in to help the African population work the plantations. Over the years many new people arrived from England, France, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Syria, and Nepal which produced a unique and exciting mixture of races. While most Jamaicans are of African descent, there has been much inter-marriages over the centuries. My family is also mixed with many different kinds of people most of them being Indians. My mothers father was a black man while her mother had an Hispanic/Indian background. My fathers mother was mixed with philipino and black and his father was purely Indian. .
             We have a strange mixture of our exotic and often spicy foods. Our national favorite foods include ackee (from Ghana) and saltfish. Curried goat and bammy cake. An absolutely irresistible Pepper Pot soup. And very spicy jerk pork and chicken, which is a Jamaican invention that has become a worldwide favorite. At the same time, in keeping with our history, Jamaican menus are very likely to include boeuf fondue, fettucine or fried wonton something we acquired from the Italians and the Chinese my mother not only cooks Jamaican dishes, but she sometimes mixes them with the American dishes which make it all the more appealing. .
             While our official language is English, most Jamaicans speak a Creole patois - a mixture of Elizabethan English and West African that's often hard to understand, In my household my parents and siblings speak the language, but I am not able to speak it because I've been here in this country for such a long time.


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