It’s amazing how culturally diverse and mixed the culture of each island invaded by Spain was. Most people don’t know the history of the explorations of the Spaniards. Each Island was mixed with African, Spanish and Native American/ Indigenous people creating a richer and culturally diverse place. The amalgamation of these cultures has created a great expansion on Spanish food all over, especially in America. Now more stores and restaurants offer Spanish cuisine or Spanish dishes on their menus. Businesses like Goya have had great expansion on consumers because now others use their products to season and cook food. Even at festivals in local cities and towns the Hispanic community displays their culture with games, Music, and lots of food. Giving non-Hispanics a taste of their everyday life and this allows them to embrace another culture and see how congruent they are to Hispanics. The amazing thing about Spanish culture is how it has made its mark on popular culture without losing any of its originality.
Although most would say the exploration of the Spaniards was very fallacious and misconstrued, their ability to use what they knew and add their own influences to other places across the globe helped with the expansion of the Spanish culture and lead to mixture of other cultures creating more delectable food. All of the foods made in the Caribbean are filled now with flavor by the use of herbs and seasonings to create more savory dishes. Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans are correlated in more ways than one. The influence that Spain and their conquest of removing slaves from Africa and scattering them among the indigenous had on islands allowed the cultures to fuse together to create its own. This is why the food that we eat is similar in taste, we all were derived from Africans or Indians. Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans are definitely obtain homogeneous customs and together have greatly influenced popular culture.
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This blog is completely true. I also feel like not enough people know about the many similarities between Blacks and Latinos. We're all very similar because of where we come from, especially those who live in the Caribbean. I'm glad that the similarities between the foods was pointed out also.
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