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Why is the Caribbean region a good place to examine the effect of Creolization?

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Creolization is a demographic and cultural process by means of which a certain population, with preexisting characteristics, is subjected to the influence of migratory currents from different parts of the world, from which populations come that, due to their quantity, end up modifying the conditions of the pre-existing population, generating an ethnocultural mixture that gives rise to a totally different national identity, which results from said mixture and interrelation.

In this sense, the Caribbean is one of the regions where creolization has had the greatest effects: in principle, the native nations that were there have received a clear influence from the European powers that conquered their territories, to which later the huge number of African slaves that they took to their colonies. Subsequently, new migratory currents, mainly from Asia, reached certain parts of the Caribbean, generating in the region a mixture that today means that their nations have their own ethnic and cultural components, derived from the interrelation between the cultures that settled in the region.

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