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Caribbean Cultural Identity
That Old Time Feel
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Caribbean cultural identity relates to more than immediate physical geography. I make this as a first comment because of the natural tendency that many of us have to associate culture and cultural identity with geography, even as many things that we know challenge us on this point. Of course, physical geography can be important, even dispositive for some, but it is only really one strand of what can form the ties of community. Central to my comments is this: Even as we move forward as a new collective—really, new collectives—our past is ever-present, impacting who we are, who we become, and how we identify.

I believe that we should embrace as folklore expressions of folk culture in all of its customary forms, but especially so of expressions that remind us of from whence we come. Not to say, of course, that newer forms of folkloric expression are not exciting to see, or experience; and not to say that threads from the past to the present are not visible in newer forms of folkloric expression, especially for those looking closely. Of course, even if those precise strands responsible for the feel of the past are not always identifiable, the past always seems present as part of the experience of enjoying folklore.

WHEN CHRISTINE AND BRIAN SAW EACH other that Saturday night the chemistry between them was electric, but it was not that they were seeing each other for the first time. They were both drunk on youth, drunk on music, and drunk on alcohol, all of which contributed to the shared sense of real passion in their encounter; and the hot stares that they directed each at the other across the dance floor in the sweaty, smoke-filled hall of Barry's Club was based on simple, uncomplicated lust, and neither of the two gave any thought then to more.

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