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Culture sunday.

Here at lefamous.blogspot.com we are some very spiritual and cultural folks therefore we decided to come up with a blog that describe international cultures at its fullest. On this week culture sunday we have the Garifuna people of Guatemala,Belize,Nicaragua,and of course Honduras. The Garifuna, also known as the Garinagu, are direct descendants of the “Island Caribs” and a group of African slaves who escaped two ship-wrecked Spanish slave ships near St. Vincent in 1635 The Island Caribs were descendants of South American Indians known as Arawaks and another group, the Caribs, who migrated from South America to the Caribbean at a later date. Through the admixture of these cultures as well as the influence of European settlers in the Americas, the Garifuna obtained a diverse culture that incorporates African traditions of music, dance, religious rites, and ceremonies; Native American cultivation, hunting, and fishing techniques; and a French and Arawak influenced language.