Caribbean Cultural Institutions

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CAPE 2011 “European cultural institutions continue to impact Caribbean society and culture in the independence period” To what extent do you agree with this statement? [30 marks] Cultural/Social institution represents an enduring organization or organized system of behaviourial patterns that each society develops to meet its basic needs. Social institutions provide routine patterns for dealing with predictable patterns of societal life (social life). Cultural/Social institutions include family, religion, economy, politics, education, legal system, and mass- media. Many people argue that the European cultural institutions continue to dominate the Caribbean society and culture. To support their argument they claim that since the colonization…show more content…
It is after all needless to say, that the Caribbean educational system has greatly been shaped by the European system of education. The way we spell, speak, communicate and teach others are directly fashioned off our European counterpart so much so that even now, a Caribbean individual can apply and attain a job in European countries using our educational background. However, it is important to learn how the Caribbean educational system is changing. It is evident that the aim of education in the new politically independent societies was to foster equality of opportunity, attain social mobility and engender development and modernization of economic. Nevertheless, the European educational system is still dominant in the…show more content…
Though it is evident that the Caribbean has numerous emerging nuclear patterns it is evident that other family structures are emerging in the region. Extended families which come out of Indentureship and the growing Matrifocal family are more evident in society than the nuclear family. While it is evident that European influences have shaped most of our social institution such as family, religion, education and political system, it is not significantly true that their influences are still dominant in the region. We as a dynamic group of people have gotten ourselves different internal and external factors that have changed their influences during the Post- independence
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