Dominicanese
07-11-2015, 03:56 PM
The Virgin Islands.
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Culture:
Virgin Islander Culture reflects the various peoples that have inhabited the present-day U.S. Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands throughout history. Although the territories are politically separate, they maintain close cultural ties.
Like much of the English speaking Caribbean, Virgin Islands culture is syncretic, deriving chiefly from West African, European and American influences. Though the Danish controlled the present-day U.S. Virgin Islands for many years, the very dominant language has been an English-based Creole since the 19th century, and the islands remain much more receptive to English-language popular culture than any other. The Dutch, the French and the Danish also contributed elements to the islands’ culture, as have immigrants from the Arab world, India, and other Caribbean islands. The largest influences on modern Virgin Islander culture, however, comes from both the European colonists and the Africans enslaved to work in canefields from the 17th to the mid-19th century. These African slaves brought with them traditions from across a wide swathe of Africa, including what is now Nigeria, Senegal, both Congos, Gambia and Ghana.
Virgin Islands culture continues to undergo creolization, the result of inter-Caribbean migration and cultural contact with other islands in the region, as well as the United States. Migration has altered the social landscape of both countries to the extent that in the British Virgin Islands, half of the population is of foreign (mostly Caribbean) origin and in the U.S. Virgin Islands, most native-born residents can trace their ancestry to other Caribbean islands.
Cuisine:
Traditional food tends to be spicy and hearty. Many of the foods are imported due to an acquired taste for foreign foods. Local farmers grow fruits and vegetables along with the rearing of animals. Their goods are sold in local open-air markets, while supermarkets tend to carry only imported foods. Upscale restaurants often cater to tourists, serving a combination of North American dishes with tropical twists as well as local cuisine. An example of this is the addition of mango and Caribbean spices to salmon, a non-tropical fish.
Dishes
Fungi (pronounced foon-gee) is a main staple of the traditional Virgin Islands diet. It consists of cornmeal that has been boiled and cooked to a thick consistency along with okra. Fungi is usually eaten with boiled fish or saltfish. They also eat boiled mash plantains or green bananas and it is known as crushed plantains or crushed bananas locally.
http://www.amaliacafe.com/images/headerGallery/Amalia_Cafe_Restaurant_St_Thomas_USVI_11.jpg
Callaloo (sometimes spelled kallaloo) is a soup made from callaloo bush/leaf, often substituted with spinach. It consists of various meats and okra, and is boiled to a thick stew consistency.
http://www.worldwidewebawards.net/Food/images/Virgin_Islands_Callaloo.jpg
http://gaytraveler.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/st-croix-travel-14-food.jpg
Because of inter-Caribbean migration, many foods from other Caribbean countries have been adopted into the Virgin Islands culinary culture. For example, a popular dish is roti, of Indo-Trinidadian origin, which consists of curried vegetables and meat wrapped in a paper-thin dough.
Music:
The music of the Virgin Islands reflects long-standing West Indian cultural ties to the island nations to the south, the islands' African heritage and European colonial history, as well as recent North American influences. Though the United States Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands are politically separate, they maintain close cultural ties. From its neighbors, the Virgin Islands has imported various pan-Caribbean genres of music, including calypso from Trinidad and reggae from Jamaica.
The major indigenous form of music is the scratch band (also called fungi band in the British Virgin Islands), which use improvised instruments like gourds and washboards to make a kind of music called quelbe. A Virgin Island folk song called cariso is also popular, as well as St. Thomas' bamboula. The quadrille is the traditional folk dance of the islands, and include varieties like St. Croix's Imperial Quadrille and St. Thomas' Flat German Quadrille. The Heritage Dancers are a respected dance troupe that perform traditional folk dances from the Virgin Islands and beyond.
Ethnic Racial Composition:
* 76% Black & Mulatto
* 16% White
* 3% Asians and Others
Languages:
The official language of The Virgin Islands is English. However, they also speak a local dialect, known locally as dialect, it is spoken in informal situations. The Virgin Islands Dialect is of Hiberno (Southern Irish) English and British English origins with influences from African languages. The history of the dialect is practically the same as the other English dialects of the Caribbean. The slaves brought to The Virgin Islands were forced to speak English very quickly so they needed to find ways to communicate with each other and the slave masters. This led to the English dialect to receive much African pronunciations. As the Southern Irish English speakers came in large numbers as poor servants, the slaves intermarried with the Irishmen and learned to and immitated the English from their accent and added African pronunciations. So in simple terms they speak a Hiberno English with some African flavors or pronunciations and some words. But in education and in formal situations they speak a more British English dialect, locally known as "Proper English".
Religion:
Christianity is the leading religion with a large Roman Catholic contingent along with various Protestant denominations. Like many other Caribbean islands, there is a significant Rastafari presence. A small number of practicing Muslims and Jews can also be found in the islands.
Sports:
Americanization in the U.S. Virgin Islands has led to the preponderance of American sports such as baseball, American football and basketball, while sports more popular in the English-speaking Caribbean, such as cricket and football, are also played.
Americanization in sports can be seen in the British Virgin Islands, as well. For example, basketball is much more widely played than cricket, one of the most popular sports in the Anglophone Caribbean.
Although dependent territories, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands both have their own independent national sports teams and compete in regional and international athletic events. In cricket, both territories are represented by the West Indies Cricket Team.
In 2012 the United States Virgin Islands Rugby Union was founded. The union is represented by a St. Thomas team, The Privateers, in exhibition and tournament competitions. The USVI Rugby Union is poised to join [NACRA] and [IRB] in the future.
Virgin Islander videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYHsOsFWURY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC_eV9CoMv4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfQbCaVGzCk
http://paradiseintheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/us-virgin-islands.jpg
http://www.trustaff.com/Portals/_default/Skins/TruStaff/images/content-images/us_virgin_islands-big.jpg
http://octa-innovation.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Villa-British-Virgin-Islands.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg/2000px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg.png
http://www.ideasforwomen.com/graphics/travel/caribbean/virgin-islands/trunk.JPG
http://abyssecatamaran.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/brisith-virgin-island10.jpg
http://7-themes.com/data_images/out/14/6814757-virgin-islands.jpg
Culture:
Virgin Islander Culture reflects the various peoples that have inhabited the present-day U.S. Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands throughout history. Although the territories are politically separate, they maintain close cultural ties.
Like much of the English speaking Caribbean, Virgin Islands culture is syncretic, deriving chiefly from West African, European and American influences. Though the Danish controlled the present-day U.S. Virgin Islands for many years, the very dominant language has been an English-based Creole since the 19th century, and the islands remain much more receptive to English-language popular culture than any other. The Dutch, the French and the Danish also contributed elements to the islands’ culture, as have immigrants from the Arab world, India, and other Caribbean islands. The largest influences on modern Virgin Islander culture, however, comes from both the European colonists and the Africans enslaved to work in canefields from the 17th to the mid-19th century. These African slaves brought with them traditions from across a wide swathe of Africa, including what is now Nigeria, Senegal, both Congos, Gambia and Ghana.
Virgin Islands culture continues to undergo creolization, the result of inter-Caribbean migration and cultural contact with other islands in the region, as well as the United States. Migration has altered the social landscape of both countries to the extent that in the British Virgin Islands, half of the population is of foreign (mostly Caribbean) origin and in the U.S. Virgin Islands, most native-born residents can trace their ancestry to other Caribbean islands.
Cuisine:
Traditional food tends to be spicy and hearty. Many of the foods are imported due to an acquired taste for foreign foods. Local farmers grow fruits and vegetables along with the rearing of animals. Their goods are sold in local open-air markets, while supermarkets tend to carry only imported foods. Upscale restaurants often cater to tourists, serving a combination of North American dishes with tropical twists as well as local cuisine. An example of this is the addition of mango and Caribbean spices to salmon, a non-tropical fish.
Dishes
Fungi (pronounced foon-gee) is a main staple of the traditional Virgin Islands diet. It consists of cornmeal that has been boiled and cooked to a thick consistency along with okra. Fungi is usually eaten with boiled fish or saltfish. They also eat boiled mash plantains or green bananas and it is known as crushed plantains or crushed bananas locally.
http://www.amaliacafe.com/images/headerGallery/Amalia_Cafe_Restaurant_St_Thomas_USVI_11.jpg
Callaloo (sometimes spelled kallaloo) is a soup made from callaloo bush/leaf, often substituted with spinach. It consists of various meats and okra, and is boiled to a thick stew consistency.
http://www.worldwidewebawards.net/Food/images/Virgin_Islands_Callaloo.jpg
http://gaytraveler.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/st-croix-travel-14-food.jpg
Because of inter-Caribbean migration, many foods from other Caribbean countries have been adopted into the Virgin Islands culinary culture. For example, a popular dish is roti, of Indo-Trinidadian origin, which consists of curried vegetables and meat wrapped in a paper-thin dough.
Music:
The music of the Virgin Islands reflects long-standing West Indian cultural ties to the island nations to the south, the islands' African heritage and European colonial history, as well as recent North American influences. Though the United States Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands are politically separate, they maintain close cultural ties. From its neighbors, the Virgin Islands has imported various pan-Caribbean genres of music, including calypso from Trinidad and reggae from Jamaica.
The major indigenous form of music is the scratch band (also called fungi band in the British Virgin Islands), which use improvised instruments like gourds and washboards to make a kind of music called quelbe. A Virgin Island folk song called cariso is also popular, as well as St. Thomas' bamboula. The quadrille is the traditional folk dance of the islands, and include varieties like St. Croix's Imperial Quadrille and St. Thomas' Flat German Quadrille. The Heritage Dancers are a respected dance troupe that perform traditional folk dances from the Virgin Islands and beyond.
Ethnic Racial Composition:
* 76% Black & Mulatto
* 16% White
* 3% Asians and Others
Languages:
The official language of The Virgin Islands is English. However, they also speak a local dialect, known locally as dialect, it is spoken in informal situations. The Virgin Islands Dialect is of Hiberno (Southern Irish) English and British English origins with influences from African languages. The history of the dialect is practically the same as the other English dialects of the Caribbean. The slaves brought to The Virgin Islands were forced to speak English very quickly so they needed to find ways to communicate with each other and the slave masters. This led to the English dialect to receive much African pronunciations. As the Southern Irish English speakers came in large numbers as poor servants, the slaves intermarried with the Irishmen and learned to and immitated the English from their accent and added African pronunciations. So in simple terms they speak a Hiberno English with some African flavors or pronunciations and some words. But in education and in formal situations they speak a more British English dialect, locally known as "Proper English".
Religion:
Christianity is the leading religion with a large Roman Catholic contingent along with various Protestant denominations. Like many other Caribbean islands, there is a significant Rastafari presence. A small number of practicing Muslims and Jews can also be found in the islands.
Sports:
Americanization in the U.S. Virgin Islands has led to the preponderance of American sports such as baseball, American football and basketball, while sports more popular in the English-speaking Caribbean, such as cricket and football, are also played.
Americanization in sports can be seen in the British Virgin Islands, as well. For example, basketball is much more widely played than cricket, one of the most popular sports in the Anglophone Caribbean.
Although dependent territories, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands both have their own independent national sports teams and compete in regional and international athletic events. In cricket, both territories are represented by the West Indies Cricket Team.
In 2012 the United States Virgin Islands Rugby Union was founded. The union is represented by a St. Thomas team, The Privateers, in exhibition and tournament competitions. The USVI Rugby Union is poised to join [NACRA] and [IRB] in the future.
Virgin Islander videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYHsOsFWURY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC_eV9CoMv4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfQbCaVGzCk