Cultural Retention in the Caribbean Introduction The Caribbean culture is a summary of art, music, literature, and politics, culinary, and social elements that represent the Caribbean people worldwide. Historically, the Caribbean culture has been influenced by Amerindian, African, European, and Indian traditions. According to Beckles (2001), if the export of rum and sugar changed Indian, African, and European lives in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, culture remains the Caribbean’s most famous export in the 20th and 21st century. For this reason, there is no other aspect of the Caribbean’s existence that had creativity and refusal in accepting marginality, and external domination is so manifested as its cultural production. The parallel export of most talented Caribbean cultural producers to
