Are We Losing Caribbean Culture In The Diaspora? | Mahayah Lochan-Aristide | In We Blood
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2023
- In this episode, Mahayah, a mas woman who was raised in the Toronto Carnival (formerly Caribana) community discusses the importance of preserving the cullture. She challenges contemporary ideas around Carribbean identity, stressing that we're more than just wining and what popular instagram/tiktok content would have us believe.
She stresses that education around carnival and Caribbean culture doesn't start in the classroom, but in homes, and believes that the disconnect from real West Indianism has already happened in the diaspora, due to a lack of passing on cultural knowledge.
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I feel like people don't understand what they're paying for. When you make your payment your not only paying for a costume. Your paying for an experience. Your paying to uphold and represent your culture. When you get your costume. Your on the road, with your family and friends, enjoying soca music, which than gives you a reminder of who you are and where we come from. Its a different type of appreciation. People would pay HUNDREDS of dollars to sit down and go to a Taylor Swift concert because its an experience that people appreciate and value. Carnival is like a live concert that you actually get to be apart of. so essentially that Taylor Swift ticket that a person bought, has almost the same equivalence as a Carnival package, just two different cultures. At the end of the day your paying hundreds for an experience of your preference....... at least that's one of the ways to look at it.
The stormers must be the ones that don't understand the culture or find value in it. It ruins it for everyone as soon as that fence breaks down..😐
Carnival Is Life!!!❤
In the U.K. - yes! Population numbers and everything else dwindling. Our language is now called Black British slang 😢
Lol, a cuss it in season during production, ready to quit and the very next day after parade I'm planning for next year, it's the greatest love-hate relationship