Sunday, February 21, 2016

Peter Roberts. The Roots of Caribbean Identity: Language, Race and Ecology.

                                          Three quotes:

(1)The identity of any human can be specified by using, singly or in combination, many different universal criteria, e.g. sex, age, religion.

- I agree with Peter Robert that sex, age, religion and universal criteria is a way of identity. Also I think that  identity has to do with the formation of the individual makes of himself. The individual learn about his environment, this implies that he learn about the custom and culture around him. everybody have different ages, religious but if we live in a demographic place, we going to develop features from other. We going to learn of the way of act of  other. Also we can also learn to have the same preferences.

(2)Language therefore establishes bonds between all communities of human beings but at the same time set up barriers between communities. Human beings, however, are not restricted to use of a single language and cross barriers.

- The language barriers mostly occur when you visit a city that does not speak the same language as your source. Many people try to defend themselves, but the pronunciation is not the same, fluency and other aspects are different. It is also possible that even speak the same language, words have different meanings. In Puerto Rico all speak the Spanish language, but in different cities use different words to refer to something that means the same thing. For this reason, each community has its own language and its own rules.


(3)Sameness among human beings is commonly judged under certain basic categories-how people look, how they sound, where they were born and bred and how they behave.

-Many times people judge other by color, by their expressions and the place were born. There are many criticisms made according to their behavior and their environment. I think this is discrimination. Not because a person is high, he will be good at sports. Each person is different and has a different way of behaving.




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