The Garifuna Culture Analysis

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In our country we have a lot of social issues and racism still being one, we choose to look and judge a person on their appearance and how they look or their culture. Some may judge because of the language they speak and the different traditions done .In both stories it stated about the Garifuna culture. Many people to this day have judged this culture because of their ancestors andtheir beliefs. Being younger stories would always come from the older people talking about how down south they do Obeah .People looked at them differently and judged all of them for being the same in the story it talked about how they would call them Kerob it talked about how Mr. Castillo didn’t feel offended when they called him it but Teacher Castro was offended.

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