The Importance Of Tradition In Belizean Society
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Since the beginning of Belize’s existence we, as a people, have always been influenced by “outside” cultures. European culture and traditions flooded in at the start of the colony and prevailed in “British Honduras” for many decades. Slowly, but definitely surely, Western Civilization ....
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.... more sinister lurking just behind all the good Western Civilization brought with it . . . . .LOSS OF CULTURE.
During this period we lost our identity almost entirely. We became like the characters of the novel "Animal Farm" who hated the humans and all they that they did but after they chased them out and became their own masters they adapted all the same customs that the humans had had. We rejected Europe's influence because we gained independence but we welcomed it from the US.
Most, if not ....
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