Afro-Caribbean Subculture Research Paper

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FAMU as a whole is a melting pot of various black subcultures. Being from South Florida, a large amount of the black people I interact with and befriend are of the Afro-Caribbean subculture. Prior to attending FAMU, I had never tried southern fast food or food chains like, Zaxbys or Waffle House. When mentioning this to my southern friends at the university, they would look at me with shock, wondering what rock I could have been living under? While at the same time, many of them may have never heard or of had Caribbean food from restaurants like Golden Krust, Dutch Pot, and so on. Even with all that being said, I myself am not even Afro-Caribbean, but I am Nigerian. The Afro-Caribbean subculture I am immersed in outside out my house and

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