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A 7 page discussion of the manner in which this broad cultural classification differs from the mainstream population in regard to their interaction with medical professionals. The author emphasizes that while there are differences, there are also similarities. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: AM2_PPcaribA.rtf
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The African/Caribbean cultural group presents interesting considerations in terms of the provision of health care. African peoples first arrived in the Caribbean in
the fifteenth century for use as slaves on sugar plantations (Mulrain, 2004). These peoples originated primarily from the West African coast. More specifically, they originated in the areas
now known as Gambia and Senegal, Sierra Leone, the Windward Coast (a region encompassing both Liberia and the Ivory Coast), the Gold Coast, the region now known as Ghana, the
Bight of Benin and the Bight of Biafra (a region encompassing the Niger Cross and Duala rivers), Central Africa (a region including Angola) and South Eastern Africa (a region including
Madagascar) (Mulrain, 2004). In short, the people who arrived in the Caribbean were incredibly diverse in terms of their religious beliefs and cultural practices. To further complicate the
situation, their five century stay in the Caribbean could not have helped by inspire significant cultural change in itself. To provide a thorough analysis of the so-called "African/Caribbean" cultural
group would required volumes of research and be outside the reach of this relatively short paper. Space limitations, in fact, require significant generalizations as to how this broad
cultural group interacts with modern medical professionals. One of the most important realizations that a medical professional can come to is that the
African/Caribbean peoples are often not that different from mainstream populations in regard to obvious factors such as dress, food choices, hygiene and the type or quantity of jewelry they might
prefer. Indeed, just as is the case for much of the worlds mainstream population, there are as many deviations in personal choices such as these as their are people.
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